Recent reviews by Arcanestomper

Pretty good game. Some of the puzzles are a bit obtuse. And some of the story doesn't really have a payoff, but the ending is still good.

This was a great game. I greatly enjoyed it. All the different paths and the characterization of everyone was good. Everyone felt believable, and there were little tidbits here and there that really drove the horror home.

It has a really nice way of handling different flows through the game that makes even the save system feel like part of the eldritch nature of things. Plus there are little tidbits here and there that help push the atmosphere.

Another fantastic installment in the series. I just got done with the campaign and it's everything I wanted from a creeper game. Well other than more of it of course. In terms of gameplay this is basically an updated version of Creeper World 2. I wish it had a few more special weapons like the Bertha or the bombers from 3, but the ships are interesting and figuring out where to deploy them for best effect is strategic.

If I have one minor gripe it's that for lore nerds like me this doesn't add much to the setting that we didn't already know. Still if you played and liked the previous installments you'll like this. And if you haven't played Creeper World before it has a fairly good demo to try.

This game was great. I loved it a lot. The time loops were well executed. The humor was funny. The characters had depth and felt like they had real relationships. And you can approach it how you want to either doing long full runs looking in every nook and cranny like I did or just trying to get straight to the next story beat.

It's not short either. It felt going in like it would be a shorter game, but at the time of this writing I see that I've got 40 hours in it. And I enjoyed every minute of it.

This game is fun. It's got a neat concept and I like how the towers work. But it can be pretty difficult. If you don't recognize where enemies are coming from and building quickly it's easy to get overwhelmed. I beat the game in about 5ish hours, but there's a whole other game mode where you make custom towers, a new game+, and a level editor. So lots of replayability.

It's a neat little game. I haven't gotten very far, but it's been fun.

This game is great. The writing is good. The characters feel fleshed out. And the gameplay of buying and selling is all pretty fun. I've been playing it pretty much non stop since I got it, and I only regret that there isn't more to do.There are a few downsides. A few of the minigames are a bit tricky. And in the end game some of the things you can do get a bit grindy. But overall I say this is still a great game, and the developer is very active responding to the community and putting out patches.

I really really enjoy this setting, and I definitely want to see what happens next. However I think the game suffers from the sheer amount of options. It tries to let you do a whole bunch of different things, but it felt like there wasn't any much depth in any one part. Characters who were very important in the last game get maybe one or two showings. And so do most other things. The main meat of it is whether you support the Royal Party or the Wulfram Party, but there isn't much you can actually do there. You support one or the other, but you don't really make any kind of impact. The game goes on regardless.

I guess that kind of matches with you being a poor baron who only just joined the cortes. But well, the whole series has been following your character. You've made an impact before. And more importantly the game actually says you become quite an influential figure within your faction. You just can't really do anything with it.

In short I feel like the author tried to expand the game into a sandbox, but it still ended up feeling linear. Which is fine. The first two games were totally linear and they're great. But the first two games didn't shower you with a bunch of different options that don't end up doing much. It felt a little shallow.

Also the game introduced a stat degradation mechanic, which just annoyed me. I worked hard making a character that was smart and charming in the first two games, and now he's just becoming mediocre. I can understand the soldiering dropping, but you don't lose your intellect in your thirties.

On the whole I am just a little disappointed. It's not a bad game. I would even say it is a good game. But I was hoping for a great game after the first two. And now I'm going to have to wait who knows how long for the next one in the series.

This is a nice little game. It has great graphics, a neat story, and good gameplay. I greatly enjoyed it and have spent most of the last two days doing nothing but playing it. There are two issues that might mar your enjoyment however. The first is that spells are tied to cards which are played from a pool randomly. You get three at a time, and the way they show up kind of whenever is not really conducive to planning. The devs have stated that they did this to force you to adapt, but frankly the action is too frantic for me. I mostly spent my time dodging bullets and shooting with my main gun. With only the occasional use of spells when I recognized a good card.

The second issue is the submarine level. It moves and shoot differently than the main character does in the rest of the game. In the normal parts this is not bad. They use the constraints to make some interesting puzzles in how to defeat the enemies and clear a room. But there are two arena battles with very tight quarters that were quite frustrating.

The devs recomend using cheats if the difficulty needs adjustment. And you know what. It works. I played most of the game without cheats, but for the places where I died again and again I enabled them. And personally I found it greatly increased my enjoyment of the entire game to just not need to bang my head against a wall for hours. Now maybe the devs could have balanced the game better, and maybe they could have called them difficulty options instead of cheats, but on the whole I think they do actually make the game better. It would have been sad if I had been put off the entire game just because of a few fights that were too much.

So yeah I enjoyed the game. It was fun with and had me searching out all the secrets and hidden tidbits of lore. I wouldn't recommend it to a hardcore bullet hell player. But for someone looking for a more casual game that is just fun to blast around in it's pretty good.

This was great fun. Having to think about where to build your base and how best to both defend against enemy attacks and subvert their networks was an interesting take on the genre.

It was kind of short, but the missions almost all have some unique spin to keep them feeling different. It's not too hard on the medium difficulty. The challenge missions and final boss were difficulty spikes, but that felt appropriate.

All in all I'd play more of this if there was more to play. I'm even going back to replay some of the old levels. So definitely worth it in my opinion.