And it's only a dollar fitty USD? Oh wow I can't even get half a cheeseburger for that. Games--or rather more accurately, experiences and journeys--like Far: Lone Sail or Journey and other similarish titles all are completely and exactly 1010% what every one of us had actually hoped of the technological revolution to bring, rather than this dystopian drek these slop pushers, propagandists, omnipresent blanket surveillance, cheating scheming manipulating hucksters and soulless MBA major Capitalist apparatchik brainlets foisted upon us. Yes, it experiences just like this that we'd hoped for enabling to exist and popularize thanks in part to the sacrifices and Faustian bargains we'd made with the corpos such as Steam to enable small independent dev teams to accomplish their artistic vision and share it with us. No, it isn't Disco Elysium. And no, it's not XCOM2 or Planescape, and it isn't Noita, but it's something, and something which is actually memorable enough for me to include this as one of the games whose store page I check periodically because I forget if they'd ever made DLC or a follow up. In terms of the actual mechanics, think something more along the lines of Little Nightmares or Journey. It's not actually a puzzle game per se, and it isn't difficult, there are no real objectives. You're just this person, in a vast wasteland, exploring and upgrading your vehicle as a sidescroller. For something which is this simple and utterly devoid of any real gameplay mechanics or objectives--there are some, believe me it'll be possible for you to run out of fuel while setting your landship on fire--and so utterly bereft of narrative or lore in retrospect it's pretty shocking to me just how much I liked it. Put it this way, I wouldn't have paid thirty or forty quid for it, but for what it is, well personally I just think that it's marvelous. Far is a fantastic way to spend a lazy, rainy Sunday afternoon. OH WOW OKOMOTIVE ACTUALLY DID MAKE A NEW ONE woot toot. Anyways, imagine if Journey was a nice five hour singleplayer experience but with This War of Mine cross section ship management, in simplest terms. There's something to be said for simplicity and succinctness, a quality I lack. Just get it dude I mean fr what else were you spending that dollar or two on? A tiny cup of stale ground coffee with the municipal tap? I played this years ago and I still subtly smile fondly as I scroll past on me GOG library. For a solid ten, eh, granted I'll admit idk if I'd have paid ten but then again, I am very cheap and very very spoiled by the combination of nonstop Epic/GOG/steam sales and that between my backlog and the fact very few games come out I've waited for long enough to beta & bug test like the Cyberpunk/nVidia rushed fiasco, I simply don't pay for game over MSRP anymore and pretty much mentally judge it at half off anyway, so regardless for five bucks that's a YES. I mean if you are even a narkomans, what else would five euros get you, I mean really? A beer maybe? This game lasts five times longer and is ten times more enjoyable than that beer, and unlike a beer, you'll be smiling and remembering this fondly for years to come. Sometimes, you just simply want a very comfy low effort experience to coccoon yourself into, and that is this journey. You'd have to be that kind of particular person in that particular mood to truly squeeze the experience out of it however, one of those "I got a sheet stapled over my window and the Christmas lights are on and my phone is off" type of a mood. If you are the kind of person to like Journey and Little Nightmares, Noita and Outer Wilds, Rainworld and Chants of Sennar, Subnautica and Gris and Stray, then odds are you will like this game. If you find all of those particular kinds of *atmospheric* laidback chill games too boring, directionless, lacking in action or lacking in dialogue and literature and flashy lights to play, then odds are you are not going to be so into this experience. Thanks devs, for making this world just a slightly better place)
...and Brian Fargo and company finally gave it to me! It did not disappoint. Most of the people that didn't like it probably gave up in Arizona, which I'll admit the first half can become a drag sometimes. But then you push through that one stale part to get through the Mushroom Cult's canyon to continue the story elsewhere and put this way I already beat the game twice. I sometimes wished I could do ironman mode but tbh losing your highly specialized team mates can be completely crippling by late game. Really I could write a huge review but I won't and don't need to. Wasteland 2 is Fallout 3. It took me fifteen years to finally get a new Fallout game. Anyone playing the Bethesda games alone has never played Fallout, those are basically Skyrim with laser gun mods. This is the true Fallout experience, and it remains one of my top 20 or 30 games of all time. Just get it. If you have ever played Fallout 1 or Fallout 2, or you tried to but couldn't get past the QoL issues of a mid-1990s game, get this. You won't be disappointed. If ever you begin to feel stuck, trust me, push through until the map turns from brown to green. It's one of the most amazing and memorable crpg experiences I've had in decades.
Normally I'd leave lengthy reviews, it doesn't even need one--just buy it. $15 full price at retail is a scam--in our favor. This easily is a $30-40 game. I wish I got it on GOG instead of steam, but at $2.24 on sale I might buy it again for this platform anyway. Think realtime XCOM but with space ships, sorta like that. Support Tindalos, they're one of the last good Westerm studios producing high quality content that aren't greedy. This game was simply fantastic, I bought BFGA 2 immediately.
And it's on sale right now too. Seriously when's the last time you paid this much for a cup of coffee? Even right before the pandemic a small cup of coffee costs more than this game. Just get it. It's a dollar. tl;dr space roguelite that factors in landing and gravity, not too complex just a super fun chill game with a nice space exploration/survival management feel.
You know what I actually really liked this. It's a fun little indie game. Isomtric ARPG style, while a bunch of the story and lore was pretty forgettable and largely standard faire milquetoast, with a foreseeable twist at the end, it's one of the few random indie gems hidden in the rough I picked up and somehow was engaged enough to beat, iirc took me about a good 20-30 hours, idk the gameplay loops was just fun enough and casual enough I breezed through it. It's objectively a solid 4/5, high praise considering that translates to 8/10 so I'd go with good 7/10. Nothing unforseen or mindblowing about it, graphically or otherwise. It's just a really fun little game. Yes.
Man, I remember waaaay back when this game had just came out, & I was feeling kind of blown away by those "MUH GRAFIX LOOK AT MAH GRAFIKS!" fully 3D rotating graphics & gameplay. Welp. I had just tried booting this game somewhat recently but my God did this thing age poorly, I felt similarly about Vampire the Masquerade: Redemption, except that VtMR actually did have an epic soundtrack and good atmosphere; Dark Reign 2 does not. Soundtrack is entirely forgettable, as is the story & much else. Why compare this to an RPG you ask, because both released at the same time committing nearly every same sin, which is exactly what separates a truly great nostalgia game that even a kid today can play & equally feel blown away, vs. a glorified tech demo that's deservedly forgotten; this is why people still talk about Planescape & VTMB to this very day despite their (now) bad graphics, whereas I bet most yall never heard of VtM:R, & probly only ppl who'll see this review is old people like me who remembers when DR2 came out. The AI & pathing is atrocious. Bad enough I was shocked playing as a now adult that hadn't remembered it's this bad. I guess most games of that era had subpar AI & pathing but still. The main things I remembered from teenage years was how it looked great, not an epic journey like Homeworld or Planescape, no haunting melodies or classic soundtrack like Starcraft or Dawn of War--fittingly forgettable which is better than irritatingly repetitive. Kids, mark my words you're going to be able to separate chaff from future goodoldgames easily by asking if it made the same mistakes DR2 & VTMR did, being a tech demo distracting you with soulless shiny new grafix thatll age badly anyway, no soul, no epic soundtrack or story, just mindblowing grafix--for 2000. Fun meh, so why waste your time? DR2's selling points was 3D camera/gfx; aged badly in a way Starcraft didn't. Mechanics, atmosphere, soundtrack, storytelling, programming, lore > being a digital showpiece
I seldom have to do this and truly saddened I do, but there are two "recent" versions of the game as of July 2025, one from 10 years ago and one from 7 years ago, and while trying to download and install the game it hums along right up to 52% then stops downloading. I can't even get it to go back to the previous older version from a decade ago which I'd prior gotten to work on my Radeon machine but there is nothing at all I can do to get it to work with a GTX card. It simply wouldn't even work, I tried a 980m and a 780m too mind you, so idk if it just doesn't like any desktop or mobile nVidia rig or what, if this is a needing newer Vulcan issue or not, (that it shouldn't be--we're talking about a game from 2016 I was playing in the pandemic) but whatever the game itself was kinda fun when I tried it the first time like 4 years ago but would I recommend anyone pay for it? Lord no. It went from, "this game won't work on my GTX desktop or my laptop" to "I uninstalled the game and am unable to reinstall it." This is abandonware. Don't pay for it.
>fast >zombies Pick one. I feel really bad for Zoomers actually, because they really got robbed of one of the best genres. Please read: World War Z by Max Brooks. NOT the unrelated movie. This game, is absolutely clearly inspired by the pile of dog drivel that was the unrelated movie that had Brad Pit in it. Literally flailing their arms the same way. At least TLOU learned not to call them zombies, nor treat them as zombies. Like the "rage virus" wasn't zombies. Honestly they may as well just not even bother having rabid humans anymore, just call them what it is, starving people trying to steal your food and cannabilize you. The entire horror element of zombies is totally lost here, and it doesn't have to be. The brain stem is a target the size of an orange, have dismembered zombies crawling at you, a player getting increasingly nervous as he starts out cocky, the horde slowly closing in. Sorry I just see stuff like this it's a dime a dozen every time and every time it turns out terrible and not very fun, another twinstick with less action loop basically. I'm at the point of refusing to take any game or movie seriously anymore that has fast zombies in it, I can count the number of times I've seen a good zombie show/movie/game that had fast zombies and actually came out good on one hand, and sadly, all these kids are seeing the same Hollywood slop and regurgitating the slop. It's there only so a small clique of greedy Hollywood executives get a fast return on 120 minutes of film, for any kind of game it makes little sense. Honestly, they'd have been better off simply having you fighting off an alien invasion instead of calling them zombies in a lazy asset flip. "why are the NPCs running at me?" "oh uh, they're not NPCs, they're zombies" that's why Steam is filled with that shovelware
Actually this might be THE best Real Time Tactics game I have ever played, period. Stuff like Satellite Reign is great but the mechanics alone along with atmosphere is hands down the best. I still remember whining in my naivete it was "not real Fallout" oh how young me would react seeing Toddout 4 and Toddout 76. This is a fairly linear squad based tactical game with real time, partial realtime using AP, and turn based combat which you can set either way like Pathfinder Kingmaker did. The ambushes, tactics, use of stances it's just great. This was not a crpg like Fallout 1 & 2, there's some dialogue but no narrative branches and questlines, it's basically just combat and leveling up and gear. Think closer to Diablo II with machine guns and cover. Mark Morgan returns for an eerie epic haunting soundtrack, and remains every bit as atmospheric as the first two Fallout games, with a similar albeit more grim, darker sense of humour. Story is decent, but like the leveling and RPG elements it's all there as backdrop for the combat. I would easily recommend this game. If you like games like XCOM2, or if you like games like Wasteland 2 or Atom RPG or Pathfinder Kingmaker, you'd like this.
Skip the first and just play this one and yeah it's worth it. I do think they still tried way too much to humanize the characters, and thus stripped away part of the game's strength which is that these are not good people (I always wondered if Lynch was having paradoxical Xanax rage reactions like Travis the Chimp, since it'd also make sense why he was blacking out and the meds caused, not treated, his issues). I think its overall fun factor is pretty good, although they still should've spent more time emphasizing what damaged, horrible people these were to make it more fun and interesting experience than even to pretend these are like normal action hero American capecringe protagonists, and the idea that Lynch would really do all these things to avenge some gf after he murdered his own wife, rather than him simply Fing up and everything happening because they're incompetent, is a bit unbelievable. The no health bar is refreshing, odd to be able to headshot/get headshotted and get back up but whatever it'd be infuriating to play this game on any closer to realistic difficulty. Has a bit of a good Hardboiled-meets-Cloverfield aesthetic going on. I dig it. DON'T turn off motion/headbob things for this one; that's part of the point, and I do think it's a heavy aesthetic choice but it certainly works to me but ymmv. Also surprisingly intensive at 1440p in retrospect, I was surprised it made my graphics card warm iirc but obviously this old a 1050ti at 1080p is more than enough all ultra and it looks really good for how old it is. All in all, and saying this as NOT a fan of shooters and someone that hates most shooters, I'm glad I got this. A very fun game, real effort at creating art. Maybe a 4.5/5, I'm shocked I didn't hear about this game before.
