Recent reviews by Techhead7890

So rarely do you get a puzzle product that is refined, replayable, full of options, and lacking in errors or mistakes. An extremely polished piece of software and worth it for the free weeklies; if any particularly catch your fancy, the level pack DLCs are great too. (Some of the time is AFKing but... I've spent a lot of time enjoying this!)

Original, 24 mins in: There are some good games but Makaro doesn't make any sense at all due to having multiple solutions, so I'd avoid playing that one.

I've had technical issues with overheating and HDD strain across both AMD and nVidia cards. I would not buy this one, even for the campaign which is decent, looking at that part alone. WG and DC are great and should be more stable. Soulstorm is decent fun for the latest skirmish too, of course, but Dark Crusade does the "open campaign" better. Basically I would better recommend:

Winter Assault, for the story campaign that won't crash your PC
Dark Crusade, for the open campaign
Soulstorm, for the latest skirmish.

(In the following commentary, I'm assuming you know roughly about the genre of the game; it's a RPG coop squad shooter with lots of different, levellable, and upgradeable equipment to customise, and it has a lot of grinding mechanics like soft XP resets. It's hard to describe the game in a nutshell!)
The gameplay is generally pretty good. Smooth combat, excellent graphical performance and responsiveness, interesting art and decent sound, that sort of thing is very good. I think the main issues I have is that there's a general lack of polish, a few bugs and oddities here and there.

The game won't always meet your expectations and if you buy plat (premium currency as it's F2P, but only these tokens are used for the player economy), you might end up wondering why you support this developer/publisher because of the roughness around the edges. I have invested a bit (about as much as a AAA game) to smoothen out the progression, trade for equipment, and help with the XP/material grind from time to time, and I think it's mostly worth it given the time I've invested, but it does have frustrating days. You won't need to spend very much if you live in the US time zone and can easily pick up the fortnightly "gift of the lotus" events, for example, or if you make the most of the daily double credit rewards on your first mission of the day once you start pushing for progression. So it's not an insurmountable issue.

So overall as far as F2P goes, it's a solid choice and I've stuck with them for a few years. It's very moreish, you'll find yourself keep wanting to grind stuff out for ages and ages. It's complicated to progress in the game, but there's a pretty good wiki to cover the bases. So, yeah, Space Ninjas, give it a go!

The UI is awfully confusing, I have no real idea what truck is doing what orders, but around the 5 hour mark it became strangely addicting dragging around everything. I wouldn't treat it like a sim, it's definitely just an arcade puzzle, something to keep busy with. But it's interesting enough to keep around.

As much as I love the comic, I personally found there to be too much moon logic here and the game did not play as smoothly as I would have hoped. The animations are slow and janky. The voice work is great, however it was overall a let down. A shame :(

It's disappointingly shallow and doesn't save; even if it appears to be stable as a program. While it's EAcc of course, it's more like a feature demo/alpha rather than a beta. Definitely get the original "closed source" Caesar III.

I like it! Definitely get it on sale but it's an interesting story tie in with eXperia's other flash titles. As for this game, it could use some polish - more responsive objects that don't suddenly just pop up, and better "combination" text, and the corridor screen should be shrunk or made scrollable, to make travelling easier (Miss Nech is in no hurry, unless you double click an exit object!)- but it's not too bad. I give it 3 stars, but Cassandra is 5/5 best girl and queen of the Rogue's Guild!

It's a great blend of strategy and FPS mechanics for the more discerning player. I don't necessarily recommend the multiplayer license until you have some practice in the workshop training maps, but the free version is great fun and has a lot of scripts and maps and stuff available to play around with.

OTOH, if you want campaign and not just bots, it's basically better to buy HL2 instead. So yeah, pretty much only for the hardcore but the free edition is really good! PS: <russian swearing> rush b stupid!!!1!!!1

For its price, it's quite funny and interesting, but not too detailed. There's an easily accessible Walkthrough, but there's a lot of moon logic (I'm looking at you, Stream in Act 2!). Despite minor inconveniences in gameplay, the program is very solid and stable. Definitely get it while it's on sale!

I don't think it's as easy to learn and grow in OOB, as compared to Panzer Corps. Complicated spotting mechanics and punishing movement make it unintuitive. Free Tutorial is rather thin on mechanical details such as inspecting units and terrain, or movement points and building bridges.

Admittedly, I purchased the Marines campaign to start, as it was cheap -- but the Main Campaign costs $23. That's the same as PzC's included campaign, and I heartily recommend buying that instead. Also note that in OOB, the DLC is not refundable. (Both are published by Slitherine but don't expect any help from them, they're a bit... confrontational? and anyway not super customer-friendly)
As turn based strategy, it is easier to fumble through at the start, and it is more polished than PzC's dated interface. But I'd only buy OOB if you like the Pacific campaign; or are obsessed with Naval Warfare - and prefer not to play World of Microtransactionships!!