Recent reviews by greysondn

Poker meets solitaire with some roguelite deck building elements. It's surprisingly engaging and surprisingly good.

Being lazy is proven to be surprisingly hard work in the least idle "idle" game you will ever play.

In-jokes aside, the game is about logistics, automating those logistics, and giant bugs that don't appreciate what you're doing to the trees. If you enjoy sorting out practical, mechanical puzzles and problems, it's basically a distilled version of that as a non-stop, emerging problems-and-solutions game.

Well, I like the game, but you'll have to forgive my lack of commentary because Steam won't let me leave the comment box blank.

At this point, the failure to port extended cut features back to Steam means that not only were early players and supporters left wanting, but the game also suffers from very frustrating design. The developers were happy to take advice from us for a console port, but failed to give us the same things we asked for in our version of the game.

Play the extended cut on console. The game's atmosphere is top notch, and the extended cut fixes most the complaints anyone has about the game.

The steam version is rated "do not purchase" precisely because of the extended cut shenanigans. Devs are encouraged to reach out if they ever release the extended cut to Steam for a reversal.

You can finish it in 5 hours, 100%. Beware of seemingly invisible not signs.

It's not Retro City Rampage - it's really its own thing, in an engine similar to Retro City Rampage - but you'll have a good 20-ish hours of fun with it, I reckon.

This is the crime simulator Jack Thompson tried to warn you about. It is fun. It will not teach you anything useful about crime that you couldn't learn from a garden variety thief. Find three friends you can trust and start shooting, clowns.

First game in the veins of Harvest Moon that I could actually stand to sit down and play. Features all the farming you could want, plus a dungeon, plus fishing, plus two minigames, and tons of secrets and events to participate in.

I've gotten plenty of hours out of it anyway. Not sure what else anyone could expect me to say.

I had to talk about this game because I've played a few too many obtuse and a few too many stupid point and click adventure games. This one qualifies as "actually decent". By which I mean the developers clearly made it to be sane, not to aggravate players, and with a good awareness of scope for the game's features.

You can beat it without using a guide if you have enough patience to locate interactible objects and ponder how they interact. (This doesn't really qualify as traditional "pixel hunting" in my book; the interactibles are pretty obvious and the tasks for them are straightforward in the majority of cases.) The game has self-aware humor in terms of what genre it's in and how its puzzles are constructed. The story is reasonably decent without feeling like a drag on gameplay. The game's world will make you feel slightly ways about things - mostly how we've nearly killed ourselves, as a species, a few too many times to count.

If death, disease, war-as-motivation, and the end of mankind are hard concepts for you to handle, I would recommend staying away from this game. These are all concepts that the game interacts with in very direct, loud ways. On the flipside, you play a humble janitor who gets swept into the mix of things as he goes about his job - not someone who wants these things to exist or really even wants to deal with such matters. It certainly doesn't glorify such things - they are simply part of the narrative and part of the things the plot engages with.

It's worth paying a few bucks for, I'd reckon, and can be finished - even with watching cutscenes and struggling with puzzles - easily in three-to-four hours I'd imagine for most people familiar with the genre.