Recent reviews by Commissar Sodle

Be the Alchemist your 7-year old former self always wanted to be! Remember the days of mixing everything kept in the kitchen cupboards to make your 'special' potions? Well no need to rummage through the pantry anymore! Potion Craft is a great puzzler to find new recipes, carefully craft new concoctions and efficiently explore new magical effects. Perfect former recipes to use less ingredients and refine to find the ever more potent potion.

The game features a great array of challenges and goals to keep your progress on track. Buy rare gems or new herbs from travelling merchants that come by your shop daily and find what makes your next potion the potentially potent perfection.

The game is still in early access meaning new features are expected to be added as the game continues to be developed. So far, I have not encountered any bugs of any kind.

Really great!

Good luck!

Assemble with Care is a great little gem amidst a sea of jewels. The story of a repairwoman in a distant land, repairing other people's items, to only later connect the dots that she is indeed reparing the people themselves. A rich story, told through such a small number of items.

Great little find, good for about 1 hour of gameplay.

- Spawned a human
- Spawned a 1 ton weight

Tomato Paste

10/10

A very positive experience! A greatly enjoy strategy games and this one is certainly my all-time favorite. Both suitable for the experienced and new to the genre! DLC's are very expansive and actually add something everytime! Great game!

I have no idea why people would give this a thumbs down because it is a bit pricey. It is not a bad DLC it is super good, but just because they are salty that they did not buy the season pass early on when it was still 20 dollars means they hate every DLC because it's ''too expensive'', well reality check, we were told long before the release of the DLC's that the Season Pass would go up in price. Just because you were too late and did not buy it means that these DLC are crap. Nuka World offers so much, it is almost too much! There is just so much to do! Even in Far Harbor. And all the other workshop add-ons work as very good fillers. As a combination of all DLC they work very well! Seriously, hundreds of extra hours, awesome new story lines and Pre-War history. Bethesda, keep going just the way you are.

Personally I am a huge fan of Fallout 4 and I love the new additions by Bethesda, however the people are right, this pass is worth a maximum of about 30 Dollars, I bought it when it was still 20 Euros, which in my eyes was the best price for what you get. And sure people talk about all the 'Workshop' DLC that people could have made themselves but this content works well, without glitches and is very fun to mess around with. You DO get hours of extra gameplay and endless possibilities to actually combine the DLC's to make very fun contraptions. I definitely recommend the season pass and all its DLC, just not at this price.

Jalopy - Communist Driving Simulator

Ever wanted to know how it is to drive the finest in Soviet-Communist Automobile technology? Then Jalopy is the game for you! You have been given the deluxe Lada 601, the result of years of Aerodynamic and Fueltechnic research and development. Going from Dresden to (in the current update) Hungary in this pinnacle of Automotive technology is going to be a breeze!

Now, In all seriousness, I have played Jalopy for about 8 hours and so far these are the Pro's and Con's I have encountered in this Pre-Alpha stage of this great game.

Pro's:
- The game has an awesome Driving mechanic and has a lot of features that are usable like in a real car
- It is an original challenge to make a 1000+ KM roadtrip in a piece of junk that needs maintenance and refueling.
- The parts are easily repaired with repair kits that are purchaseable from the Gas Stations found along the route.
- For a Pre-Alpha game, I have encountered a relatively low amount of bugs which were not game-breaking. (Mostly graphical bugs)
- It has a lot of immersion and does a great job at giving that grey, communist vibe.
- The graphics are simple yet very nice. This only proves that a greay game does not need the best graphics to still be amazingly fun to play.
- A lot of replayability, everytime you replay, the route changes and new contraband spawns that can be sold to gas stations.
- The Contraband System works very well and is actually pretty competitive. Some countries have a certain ban on certain items making for example Wine more valueable in the CzhechSlovak federation than for example in the DDR. This also changes everytime you replay.
- It does not get boring, everytime you replay you get further instead of stranding on the side of the road making it small victories when you get further and eventually make it to Hungary (as far as you can go in this update).

And yes, like any game there are some Cons.

Con's:

-The first time you have to restart it is definitely a rage quit, but once you get over that you are even happy since now you can restart and have the fun all over again.
- The parts break maybe a little too fast.
- Difficult to get enough money for larger upgrades.
- Certain Items from the truck often glitch through the world when dropping them, I have lost around 4 crowbars this way and they are not common in Gas Stations. Not everyone sells them and seeing as a crowbar is the only thing that can open locked contraband, it can get frustrating.

Tips:
- Always keep gas and a tire jack with you in the trunk.
- Avoid going off the road, it ruins your tires and your car.
- Don't stop on the side of the road, other cars just run into you and YOU get the penalty.
- Always keep the Airfilter, Engine and Carburator in good state. They have the highest priority. If they are broken, your car does not run or it only goes 20 km/h and hour.

Overall this game has a high replayability which at first feels like repetitiveness, however it keeps getting more fun. Also since this is a pre-alpha, a lot more is going to be added while how it is now is already a lot of fun. Enough to be played for 8 hours. That is how long it took me to get to Hungary.

Overall Score: 8.9/10

Firewatch, a true piece of art. Sure, I can admit, I was hesitant to try the game even at the low price of 14 Euros in the summer sale. But now, I am so amazed that in just 5 hours this game has been able to make me want 20 more Firewatch games. I am still just in awe with the ending. The entire story is so vivid and the characters are so very well portrayed. You start to feel a connecton with Delilah and you start to miss her if you do not talk to her for a short while. The humor is fun as well and it is very impressive how they managed to combine intense Atmospheric Story telling with comedy and semi-horror. The story truly sucks you in and spits you out, letting you crave for more. This masterpiece will surely satisfy you, if not leave you needing a sequel. Firewatch, thanks for these 5 hours of gaming, that I shall never forget. Ever.

Factorio - Early Access

So far, I have played about 9 hours of Factorio and I can already say I am hooked. The aim is to collect as many resources as possible using automation. You can research more advanced machinery and electronics to improve your already impressive automated process of resource harvesting. A very fun and almost addicting game that is worth every cent. A definite recommendation!!

Ultra fun! Sandbox creation awesome exploration. It's worth every cent.