Helpless victim simulator doesn't make it a good Horror game. Navigating through the dark with a camera's nightvision and occasional scare jumps doesn't make it a good Horror game either. Being unarmed, helpless victim doesn't make it a good game at all. It only makes it a frustrating experience overall. Protagonist can't take a single bat in order to defend himself. Games like this need weapons, and with an atmosphere like this it could build up the tension to add more to the overall experience. Add to that limited ammo resources, and that would make things a lot more engaging. Playing game for hours with a camera in the hand is so boring. Oh, but the environment provides a plenty of the batteries specifically for the protagonist's camera model. How convenient. Games like The Suffering, The Suffering - Ties That Bind and Half-Life allow the use of weapons, and do not lose quality horror experience. Heck, The Whistleblower DLC has a ghost as the enemy, which insta-killed me. Developers should know by now that ghost that are not of solid matter should not be featured in games like these. Especially if they insta-kill the player. It is a game over. There is no win against such types of the enemies. No storyline can justify it. It totally breaks the immersion to have an enemy like that in a Horror game, where the protagonist enters experimental laboratories and similar facilites. This is not the ARPG like Titan Quest - Anniversary Edition, Grim Dawn or Torchlight, where a ghost is nothing more than another enemy type. And no, playing it with the lights switched off, being alone in a room, and with the headphones on doesn't make it any better. Avoid it. Try out The Suffering, The Suffering - Ties That Bind and Half-Life instead. Those are the real Horror games.
Helpless victim simulator doesn't make it a good Horror game. Navigating through the dark with a camera's nightvision and occasional scare jumps doesn't make it a good Horror game either. Being unarmed, helpless victim doesn't make it a good game at all. It only makes it a frustrating experience overall. Protagonist can't take a single bat in order to defend himself. Games like this need weapons, and with an atmosphere like this it could build up the tension to add more to the overall experience. Add to that limited ammo resources, and that would make things a lot more engaging. Playing game for hours with a camera in the hand is so boring. Oh, but the environment provides a plenty of the batteries specifically for the protagonist's camera model. How convenient. Games like The Suffering, The Suffering - Ties That Bind and Half-Life allow the use of weapons, and do not lose quality horror experience. Heck, The Whistleblower DLC has a ghost as the enemy, which insta-killed me. Developers should know by now that ghost that are not of solid matter should not be featured in games like these. Especially if they insta-kill the player. It is a game over. There is no win against such types of the enemies. No storyline can justify it. It totally breaks the immersion to have an enemy like that in a Horror game, where the protagonist enters experimental laboratories and similar facilites. This is not the ARPG like Titan Quest - Anniversary Edition, Grim Dawn or Torchlight, where a ghost is nothing more than another enemy type. And no, playing it with the lights switched off, being alone in a room, and with the headphones on doesn't make it any better. Avoid it. Try out The Suffering, The Suffering - Ties That Bind and Half-Life instead. Those are the real Horror games.
A quality of production of a web browser game made in standard .exe format, with a bunch of text and zero substance. If you want an Adventure and Action game with ships in 3rd person perspective, go for Windward. I would even recommend semi-finished game called Pirates Of Black Cove, over this. These two games are different regarding the theme, but at least they are more fun to play. This lovecraftian steampunk grabage ship Adventure game is not worth it.
It usually crashes at launch, has boring gameplay, the models and graphics are bad, the sound effects and soundtrack are mediocre, and the racing maps are poorly designed. Avoid it.
If you love Serious Sam, you are going to like this one. Instead of the iconic chainsaw, you wield a katana. It has RPG elements which allow you to focus on certain combat styles, and utilize and upgrade your combat moves, which are essentially tied to your katana. Each combat move has certain powers which should be used in adequate situations. For example: using area of effect strikes when surrounded by mob, using single target special attacks on powerful enemies, using energy slash attack for dealing ranged damage, etc. Other usable weapons are firearms (micro SMGs, shotgun, rocket launcher, flamethrower, etc.), and they have upgrades which add alternate firing modes to each of your weapons. The game is linear, but it has enough content to offer, especially if you are aiming to repeat the game by playing on higher difficulties, with fewer resources to plan out your build. Higher difficulties are challenging, unforgiving and a bit overdone at the times. Overall, the game is very fun experience, and the main character Lo Wang is very likable character. Definitely one of the most memorable characters in the gaming industry. One of the best Action games, and one of the best PC games overall.
One of the best strategy games, and one of the best pc games overall. Read my full review here: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198315480508/recommended/200170/
Tropico 5 has not been patched properly. Getting in touch with Kalypso staff was impossible, as they tend to avoid all means of communication with them, regardless of the platform. Because of that, I will only review the game-breaking bugs the game has: 1.) There is a game-breaking bug, which triggers the uprising, the military buildings receive the target marks above them, the crowd keeps running in the streets with the arms, but they do not have the uprisers marker above them. The military gets grouped in front of the targeted buildings prepared to defend them, but they do not attack the uprisers, because the uprisers have not been marked, and they do not attack the buildings nor the army. This makes the sandbox mode impossible to be played long term, with constitution options other than democracy, because the democracy constitution option doesn’t allow the uprisings. Thus, roleplaying a totalitarian or police state is impossible. It is not possible to build military buildings during this time, as the uprising is in progress, but it is not functional, because of the bug. 2.) After the uprising has been over, there are buildings which remain empty due to the population loss. The problem is that those buildings do not get repopulated by other people, who got into the work force, and have the wealth required to live inside of them. Instead, the player is forced to demolish those bugged buildings, and build the new ones, so the population can start moving in. It is a waste of money, a waste of time as the construction workers become occupied rebuilding the same residential buildings over and over again and it creates unnecessary traffic jams. It makes sandbox mode unplayable in the long run. 3.) Tourism cap in the game leaves lots of hotels empty. 4.) The oil refinery in the sea does not become removed sometimes once the oil deposit has been depleted, thus making the scenery uglier.
The developers have abandoned this game. It has crashes, bugs, broken mechanics and unbalanced races left over. It is like buying a pre-release game, that will never get finished.
They said they would remove, how they call it, the so called "review bombing". Even though I do not own the game on Gog, I do own it on Steam. But, they have asked for it, and I will deliver. The game is DRM paid, not the DRM free. Get it? Heh. It has the DRM, dummy. Obviously. Avoid it. Do not buy it. Here, Gog, have some.
