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This game is a great story with a bunch of environmental puzzles. You have the ability to shift over to the spirit world and then shift back which gives you the ability to solve many of them.

An emotional ride. Incredible story based game. Not a direct story from The Walking Dead, but a creative spin off that uses the universe to its fullest capability.

For the first 30 minutes or so I really couldn't get into it. After the story really started clicking and you could uncover what was going down it really does grab your attention. It has a unique system for discovering what happened to the crew that was on the ship before you and you can complete the whole story in about 2 hours. Great game to play if you just want something relaxed that you can blow through in one sitting.

This is a story-based walking simulator game. It was the saddest and most immersive story that I have ever played through. It was constantly ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with your head and pulling at your heart strings while you make choices that are either repairing or destroying the world around you. Early on you find that you have the ability to rewind time for a short while so you can use this ability to solve puzzles, gain options in dialogue, or save people from an untimely fate. With this element on top of the amazing writing, it was truly one to remember.

This game was like taking a beautiful hike in the mountains with some intriguing mystery and heartbreaking backstory. It is largely story driven and very relaxing when you just want to kick back, take in some of the breathtaking views, and follow along with the interactive story.

Fans of Animal Crossing, Stardew Valley, Harvest Moon, or My Time at Portia will really enjoy this sim. It is a very well made game already and I am eager to see what they add before it comes out of early access. The multi-player works great. My wife and I played all weekend with no issues.

Great idle clicking game for PC or Mobile. Worth checking out for when you just want to play something mindlessly.

This game is totally epic and being in early access it still has a ton of features that will be added. If you like games like Ark or 7 Days to Die it will be right up your alley. Crafting, building, hunting, and being a badass viking. It is a lot of fun and has been super addicting.

"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win."
-Sun Tzu, The Art of War


Today I have the pleasure of reviewing a game that I spent over 30 glorious hours with and enjoyed every bit. This was the first game that I have played in the long Shadowrun series and I feel like I couldn’t have started with a better one. When I mentioned the game to my cousin he told me that Shadowrun is actually his favorite tabletop game series as well, so there is a plethora of lore and options on how to play with this series.

My knowledge of Shadowrun as a whole is certainly very limited, but I hope to explain what made this specific game so incredible and let you in on why it can be such a blast if you are into games of this genre. The type of game as you may well know is a sort of heavily story-driven tactical RPG. That is about as right up my alley as a game can get, and if you are anything like me then that mere description is probably like music to your ears.

Well if it is, then settle in and prepare for plenty of backstories, choices to be made that affect many aspects of the game, and total customization of your own character and which characters you would prefer to allow into your circle. I went with an elf who was strong with melee and allowed many of the monster-ish creatures into my group such as the ghoul who is also a former red samurai and the vampire queen. It is funny to see how the different characters in your group and NPC’s react to your decisions to having certain other characters as a part of your squad. There was one dinner party mission where I remember the NPC’s were especially shocked to see me traveling with a ghoul.

So your character and another one who is with you from the beginning named Duncan were raised in the rough street life and had previously gone separate ways. This changes when the estranged foster father that raised the two of you goes missing under some shady circumstances. Some people who are high up on the food chain do not like that you are meddling in their business however and the two of you quickly have to revert back to your old ways of Shadowrunning, or taking on jobs that would not be considered strictly legal, while staying under the radar and trying to figure out what has become of the man who had raised you.

The battles can be very challenging and will have you logging off to consider better strategies and coming back with a fresh mind, at times. Many times you are able to just run right through the missions, but depending on the situation it can really test your wit. There are two different realms that you will usually operate between, the normal world and the matrix world that the more tech-savvy players are able to tap into. I left all of this up to Is0bel, the “Decker” character that becomes part of the crew early one, although you could surely make your own character more proficient in this skill as well.

So the deckers are basically like hackers, except they are able to physically put themselves into this matrix world and accomplish goals while defeating enemies inside of it. If the decker perishes in the matrix they will also no longer be in your party, but there are many missions where having a decker is completely essential and you will not be able to finish without one. Let’s say there are some alarms that need to be shut off, doors that need to be opened, etc. You are more than likely going to have to get your decker to hack into the matrix and find their way to the area where they can destroy the enemies blocking the way and achieve the goal. While inside they are able to fight much like a shaman in the sense that they summon allies to fight alongside them like the shamans can summon spirits, more on that in just a moment.

One skill that I really wish I would have invested more time into with the hindsight of one full playthrough under my belt is the drones that you are able to control during battle. Racter is a character whom you meet when you find your way into the houseboat that becomes your home base, he is a skilled drone operator or “rigger”, as it is called. This turns out to be a very powerful and valuable asset to have with you on the battlefield. The rigger is able to hide in the distance while maybe firing off a shot or two and his heavy-duty drone takes the fight to the competition and is able to be a threat while either up close or from a distance with ranged weapons.

Another role that comes in rather handy is the aforementioned shaman, which can be filled by the rat-carrying Gobbet (yes, she always has a rat on her shoulder), or of course yourself if you so choose. The shaman is able to summon spirits into the playing field that disappear after some period of time or after they are defeated. The spirits may not be as powerful as the other characters in your group but the more allies on the battlefield the better, there is always strength in numbers.

I felt like the mix of investigation, storytelling, and battling was just right, at least for my tastes. I have heard about some games that have so much story that it feels like you never even get to get into the tactical side of it. Luckily that was not the case here and you are left with plenty of strategical battles so that you never feel like you are getting out of the groove of it and a deep and rich story that is truly a joy to follow along and find yourself fully immersed in as you run through the streets of Hong Kong in search of your lost father figure.

If there is a character that really interests you, there is no lack of depth to how much you can get to know about them. I love how you can really dig into the characters that you want to find out more about and see what makes them tick, but you are not forced to sit through a ton of unwanted information about characters that you do not feel as strongly about. The best place to do this is when you are back at the boat and everyone is in their own individual rooms. I actually found out much more about how Is0bel became a decker and built her own huge computer from the scraps that she found over time. You are able to go through extra missions to help these characters with certain things that could be completely overlooked if you really just had no interest.


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I have had some time since the beginning of the holidays to play both Kingdom: Classic and Kingdom: New Lands. Right at 4 hours in Classic and 21 hours in New Lands, I really didn't know what to expect from them because I got them in a bundle on Steam a while back. I have gotta say this game has got me hooked. It is available for Mobile, Mac OS, Windows, Linux, Xbox, and Switch. It is honestly one of those games that I just want to own on multiple platforms now, mainly the portable ones such as Switch and Mobile. I have been playing it on my MacBook Air and it is a really great passive game to be playing while you binge out on a show or anything along those lines.

I really enjoyed both versions but Kingdom: New Lands is absolutely the definitive edition. If interested in these games there’s is no need to buy Kingdom: Classic, just skip right ahead to New Lands. The developers saw it as the best way to add all of the extra content to the base game rather than via an update. They added a whole new endgame as well as the ship which allow some you to travel to “New Lands” so it’s not just a clever name. There is a ton of things that were added and it basically is just a beefed up version of Kingdom that is less repetitive and with more to do.

Kingdom is simplicity at its finest in all aspects. The visuals are completely pixelated and 2D much like that of The Last Door series if you have ever played any of them. It is not the most stunning pixel graphics that you are going to find but definitely not the worst either. You only use three keys the entire game: left, right, and down. You play as the King or Queen who are randomly generated each time you start a new reign. You move from left to right on horseback and drop coins to the people who will become your builders, archers, farmers, and knights. You also drop coins to build your kingdom's structures, such as archer towers, walls, and the castle itself which starts out as some tents with wooden outer walls.

The objective is to build your kingdom as large as possible while staving off the monsters that attack at night. You have your Archers, Builders, Farmers, and eventually Knights. I recently found my first dog as well who's job it is to warn you of the oncoming monsters by barking from whichever side they are coming from. Other than that it just follows the King or Queen around and is just a generally good boy. Mine was snatched up by the baddies but I refuse to believe they were able to turn him into a bad boy, impossible!


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