A collection of puzzle games inside a fake dial-up computer
Last Call BBS puts you behind a Z5 Powerlance terminal, dialing into a bulletin board run by The Barkeep. From there you download and play eight complete games, each one a self-contained puzzle or building exercise. 20th Century Food Court has you design factories that turn out 20th-century fast food while keeping costs low and machines fast. ChipWizard™ Professional has you lay out integrated circuits from wires, transistors, and capacitors. Dungeons & Diagrams is a tile-based logic puzzle where you map out dungeons and grab the treasure, and X’BPGH: The Forbidden Path has you shaping flesh sculptures in a cursed world. STEED FORCE Hobby Studio has you assembling robot models from the anime on your screen.
Solitaire, card games, and a matching arcade game
Two of the eight games are solitaire variants. Sawayama Solitaire is a fresh take on Klondike, and Kabufuda Solitaire is a retro demake of the kabufuda card game that first appeared in Eliza, where you build matching sets of Japanese cards. The eighth game is HACK*MATCH, a tile-matching minigame that came from EXAPUNKS and was remastered here with a single player campaign. It also has local head-to-head multiplayer, with Steam Remote Play support, so a friend can join you in the match. Remote Play Together is listed for the whole package, which is how a group can share a session. The rest of the collection is singleplayer, so the natural setup for a group is passing the turn or watching someone work through a puzzle.
What to expect before you start
The whole thing is wrapped in a 1990s desktop fiction, with high-resolution pixel art and an FM-infused soundtrack, and the framing tells you the story of The Barkeep, the developers of the games, and the Sawayama Corporation, a legendary PC maker of the era. Each game has its own rules and its own pace: some are about optimizing machines and circuits, some are quiet card games, some are logic mapping. Expect to read a bit and learn a system before you get fast at it. Nothing needs installing separately or copy protection checks; the games are ready to run once you are on the board. Pick whichever one suits the mood, since the collection does not require you to play them in any order.