Recent reviews by The Gaming Archaeologist

A fun little strategy game worth the money. The combat is very strategic in a...how shall I say it...well it's like Tetris where when your army comes on the field they are in rows, you can move around only 1 unit at a time and the idea is to match a set of 3 for that unit to attack. you also get more powerful units that require two core units of the same colour then really powerful ones that require four.

The story is pretty standard with the "Oh no, we're being attacked by monsters" then it being revealed early on that there is more to it than that, but the gameplay is quite addictive. Anything with quests you get from bountys gains points in my book. There are also the puzzle challenges where you are given units to defeat the enemies units and the idea it to beat all the units in a single round action, which is harder than it sounds. I managed to do 6/8 without using a guide and it's a nice brain teaser that rewards you when you've completed it. Buy only if you like strategy.

A interesting little game I guess, not too much to say about it as I got it with a bunch of other games for cheap. The blocks constantly move around, some are trapped and others give out gems or coins, though I've yet to find out what to use them for besides scores.

I'd only recommend this if you just want a simple game with no complex story or gameplay, just something to pass the time.

Been sucked into the world of Skyrim recently. I think when I last played a elder scrolls game (marrow wind) I was more interested in other games and the story didn't have me too involved since it was such a open world, however this is quite different and they've clearly improved in many places, especially one problem I found was the old journal system, this is FAR better and steam workshop to upload mods just makes it so much better to do simple things like fix errors, better UI, optional beginnings and so on. I haven't touched many of the cosmetic mods, but this game is definitely worth the price. However I recommend getting it only if you have the free time. It's a HUGE world and there are a lot of things to do in it no matter if you choose to be a somewhat nice guy or a evil bastard.

Edit: With time, this game has aged like milk from how the company keeps reposting the same damn game over and over again that has huge worlds, but next-to-no content in this world that they boast about whilst also being filled with bugs that the far better and more competent modding community have fixed decades ago, at this point!

It seems Bethesda are great at making these empty shell of a game, but, refuse to actually put anything into this shell and get angry when others out there fill it up with their own things. To the point that they are once again attempting to do the whole "paid mods" thing that they tried to get away with last time with Fallout 4 and the creation club, however, they didn't learn their lesson from last time. Especially, as pointed out, the mods on the creation club are nowhere near as good as those for free and they were FAR too restrictive in regards to what mods added, including going on about lore and such when they violate that far too much themselves!

I've given up giving Bethesda any money or benefit of the doubt because they've shown themselves that they don't care about the games themselves, but how much they can squeeze out of you. It's especially apparent in the DLC they release often being the equivalent to mods you get for free, with some excuses.

A fun defence game where you get to kill Orcs! You unlock new traps and depending on your rating you can upgrade traps to be even more devastating. I highly recommend to anyone who wants a little fun with this game, though be very careful with the upgrades at the later levels can be really daunting.

A beautifully made clean up of the original with improved graphics, whilst keeping true to the game and adding voice acting in it too. Definitely worth a buy if you want to play the first monkey island game and you don't have Dosbox or Scummvm to play the original on.

Edit: The game was mostly made for those who had played it in the past, but I do love how they had changed certain things as not only were the graphics replaced with more cartoonish ones, but you can semi-seamlessly swap between the new ones and the only ones if you're feeling especially nostalgic without messing with DOSBox or Scummvm.

The story, for those who don't know, follows Guybrush Thweepwood who wants to become a pirate, however, he's often laughed off as not only is he a bit of a slender character with no real muscle and not intimidating features at all, but the name itself also doesn't exactly strike fear into the heart of those who come across it.

At the same time, the Pirate named LeChuck has returned from the dead! The reason being, the governor's daughter refused his advances and told him to drop dead and so he did to become the zombie pirate we all know and fear! He's returned with the power of voodoo magic to attempt to take her hand in marriage since he did exactly what she said to do, drop dead. He had also transformed his crew into a group of undead minions to assist him in his conquest.

I'd say this game is similar to borderlands in the regard that it is far more fun when you are playing with someone, but at the same time if you are interested in the survival story of a zombie apocalypse then this game will also be right up your path.

The opening I love and the lyrics are stuck in my head, even though I don't like rap that much and when getting to the character selection you get a detail on what their speciality is (american's skill is throwing, Chinese woman's skill is sharp weapons, black guy's skill is bludgeoning weapons and black girl's skill is guns.) and you get to learn about their past and who they are as they narrate their backstory to you. It also gives you a option to stop yourself if you mis-clicked and you aren't stuck with a character you didn't want to play as.

Weapons break after so many uses and different weapons are more resistant. Guns have no durability so won't break. So far I've attained mods and many other collectables over the island.

The sequel to an absolutely awesome FPS that was originally just added to the HL2 pack as a bit of a minor thing, but as since evolved greatly.

The main game is just as fun, if not more-so with the taunts by GlaDOS and the new AI that comes on scene but the two player isn't bad neither two people who have portal gun and the puzzles being far more difficult due to there being two portal guns to use in this.

A damn fun game and the single player adds a lot more with the new Gel that they put into the game too.

Edit: I played the second-player set up with my friend and it was a lot of fun, though I feel the voice chat is certainly needed for the more complex and tasks near the end, however, whilst I was playing this the voice chat would cut off when loading up the next level so I'd recommend using discord chat or whatever you feel comfortable to use as a alternative voice chat whilst playing the game.

I still listen to both the first and this game's ending songs till this day because they're very enjoyable and I love having it on my playlist to listen to when I want to chill out or when writing things like this.

A fun little strategy game with many different objectives and you can get crates that'll give you that power that might give you the edge you need to take control of the battlefield.

Edit: I found that I didn't quite enjoy this game as much as I should've but who knows. Maybe I'll give it another go, but I think the simplicity doesn't speak to me as much as far more interesting unit diversity seen in the C&C games and others made in a similar style.

Now this is a fun shooting game. You run around killing bugs that are from another world. Not story heavy, just big-assed bugs are here and it's time to kill them.

You get to upgrade your weapons and armour and have a choice of different troops to fight the aliens with be they heavy guys with massive weapons or small, light armed soldiers that can fly in the air for a set amount of time. I definitely recommend this if you just want to play a game for fun. Not managed to get into multi-player yet, but that will most likely enhance the fun. You can also revive teammates like in SR3.

Edit: Though I have still not completed this game and really need to get back to it sometime, for the moment I have far too many games in my backlog to give this a look in as of yet. I'll certainly give this an update later when I give this a real good girl and even finish it!

This game is really awesome! It blows most indie games out o the water with it's creative atmosphere. There is no reading for dialog and no voices as it is all monologued by the first man you meet in the game and it's done beautifully.

The RPG elements revolve around the bar you first build where as you go up in levels you gain slots to put in different potions that give your characters different passive/conditional boosts like 15% damage resistance, +10% max health and many others. Also you are able to upgrade your weapons from the items you pick up, each one giving your weapon a different boost like faster reload time, increased damage and you have to choose between the two, but once it's bought you can alter the upgrades to change for whatever situation you think you'll run into like increasing the spread of a blunderbuss or instead going for improved damage.

You also get a chance to go to what's known as "Who-knows-where" to fight waves of enemies to grind out xp and "cash".