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I've never laughed so hard while being so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ aggravated. I hate this game so much. The game offers a lot more than you'd expect, but I think it's at its best price if you can get it around $10.

This was a blast. It really felt like a true authentic 90s shooter that I had forgotten to play growing up. It hit all the nostalgic marks, and it was incredible to get to enjoy it all as a first ever play.
Shadow Warrior, Blood, Duke Nukem 3D. These are three of my absolute favorite games when I was younger. It was awesome to be able to explore these maps and uncover the secrets strewn about them.

I hope they continue to use this engine to create retro masterpieces.

Why is this free?
If this made you throw a football better it'd cost a million dollars.

This is a very very very good modern MMO that finally doesn't just follow the textbook WoW type MMO. While I enjoy this game greatly, I don't feel the need to overwhelm any readers with all sorts of mechanics. Instead I just want to mention what's good about it.
- Levels matter, but end game is not gate-kept by the need to be Max Level, levels overall make the equipment you wear more powerful. But the equipment itself is already powerful. This brings great benefit and reward to long term players that invest in their character. They will have a not-so-not-significant edge when fighting. Levels very much help, but strategy and skill trumps it.
- You are what you wear. You do not need to reroll a char every time you want to try something fresh, your single one character can become max level at everything. The skills are on the equipment, meaning you can swap out all sorts of things for different loadouts. Imagine an Assassin, wearing a plate helmet, cloth chest, and leather boots. This is what you can expect to find in Albion, where you're tweaking your character around the skills the gear offers.
- Combat is modern MOBA style. This is great. I love games like Dota but hated the toxic community. Albion let's me invest time into raising my own MOBA hero, and then offers TONS of different ways to engage in PVP combat. One of my personal favs, for the most part, PVP is drop all loot on kill. This makes it incredibly rewarding, and risky, and gives you a rush you can't find anywhere else.
- There's no quests. This doesn't bode well for some people that require direction. But if you're a self goal setting oriented player, you'll find the most amount of player agency you can find currently in an online RPG. This also means that you're not screwed out of content because you didn't complete a quest.

The only bad thing about this game is that it's a single server. It's powerful, it runs great for me. But I live very nearby to it. Players in Europe and Australia will suffer high pings that cripple active action sequences for them. Hopefully SBI finds some kind of solution for this in the future.

I recommend you definitely give it a shot, and try to play a bit longer than the first time you get lost. There's a lot to uncover here, and if you neglect to invest a bit of time, you'll find that you passed up one of the greatest competitive MMORPGs.

Path of Exile takes everything that's good about the ARPG genre and makes it better.

It's like Gnomoria but you don't get bent over.

I bought this because I like throwing money at my screen but it turned out to be an awesome deal scooping it up at its discounted release price. The game itself involves solving puzzles, but it's the tools you use to solve the puzzles that make the game such a blast. Each doll has a unique skill and most of them are hilarious, from glove slapping others in the face, to sipping tea with a mild cough.

Simple to learn, fun to play.