Recent reviews by Siph

The factory must grow. Now in space.

Fun little Roguelite shooter that has apparently been sitting in my library for over 5 years and which I do not remember buying. Not worth the 5 bucks at all, but if it sneaks its way into some sort of bundle you buy anyway, give it a go.

The entire package; Whether you'd like to be called a virgin by Varré or feed eyeballs to Hyetta, resulting in delightfully voice acted hurling sounds, Elden Ring has to offer something for everybody!

Although the game has some really interesting core ideas, it fails to deliver the satisfaction a player would expect from Portal-esque games. I experienced a multitude of glitches, such as despawning cubes or falling through the ground myself. Additionally, once the player dies, respawning takes an infuriatingly long time, mostly due to the unbearably slow walking speed of the character. The graphics look somewhat cool. However, the dev should definitely not have opted for the max value on all lighting settings there were.

Furthermore, even though the dev attempts to slowly increase the difficulty, overall all the puzzles are way too easy, and the only real difficulty the game provides are through its inconsistent controls and mechanics, which are either not explained at all or ridiculously bad implemented (For example there is a cube that directs gravity, but the controls to rotate items are so insanely bad that a simple task of a 180° turn develops into a 20 second ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of simply trying out every axis with the mouse). The destructible walls often dont get destroyed, even though the burning propane tank is directly in front of them and sometimes physics do apparently not apply to cubes (items flying left and right, even when they're only dropped a few cm).

All in all, the game has an incredibly potent idea with its size-warping mechanic, but is so badly built that it's just not worth the 11 bucks. Provides about 2-3 hours of gameplay.

2/10

It's like Mario Kart, but instead of weird plumbers and dinos there are kitties.

10/10

It's the closest that NFS has gotten to the in my opinion undisputed NFSU2 in quite a while. The gameplay as well as the graphics are awesome, the cop chases on high heat levels challenging, and the day/night system an interesting approach to deliver both day-racing and underground scenery in one game. The story is rather short and lacks depth, but that's a negligibility that im willing to accept as it is.

9/10

You can plant and harvest stuff and do lots of agricultural chores you'd never do in real life. Once your farm has grown large enough, this game is a massive time sink with an infinite line of increasingly longer quests which ultimately leave you wondering why you're not doing anything more meaningful with your life than rightclicking imaginary veggies. Nevertheless, it's a lot of fun, it has cute graphics and a multiplayer which lets you have a peaceful conversation while doing aforementioned chores. 9/10

Played it a little. It's alright. The community is leaning a bit towards toxicity, but which competitive game nowadays doesn't have that problem...

Fun, challenging, puzzle-ish game that i, as an achievement enthusiast, enjoyed very much. I can however, not recommend this game anymore, because the developers made a achievement-spam fiesta out of it by adding in another 4900 achievements. Sad, and to me a reason to avoid buying games made by SC Jogos in the future.

This is a very good and fun game that's well worth its price

+ very diverse levels, some require fast reflexes or precise movement, others are almost puzzles
+ good music, most songs are electronic or dubstep
+ appealing visuals
+ smooth controls, both keyboard and controller work nicely
+ with it's 1$ price extremely inexpensive
+ 17 clearly defined achievements
+ trading cards

- the game is relatively short
- the levels seem a bit too easy. with a grading system (bronze, silver or gold, determined by the amount of time taken to complete the level), you would expect not to be able to complete 80% of levels on gold with your first attempt. unfortunately, that's not the case.
- if you prefer to play with controller, you need to untick the option "always on" in the "mouse in game" menu, otherwise the mouse overrides your controller input when you try to steer your spaceship

Overall a very enjoyable, albeit short game that deserves my fullest recommendations.