บทวิจารณ์ล่าสุดโดย WarriorDan

House on the Hill is a pretty decent horror game that, while not really terrifying at any particular time, definitely gets the spooky atmosphere right, and does just enough gameplay wise to distinguish itself from your typical walking simulator experience.

Pros:
-Pretty decent visuals and lots of attention to detail.
-The game is very well optimized with few bugs or framerate issues.
-Somewhat interesting puzzles, albeit all being fairly easy to solve.
-Combat, while not the focus of the game, is creatively handled.

Cons:
-The story is pretty bland and straightforward. Without much guessing, you can start to see the direction it's heading from very early on, although the exact details don't become clear until the end.
-The game's controls are a little odd, being almost entirely tied to the mouse, although the game doesn't make this clear.
-The game itself is fairly short, and can be played through entirely in less than 2 hours.

Full review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uELkLdlbiHE

Devolverland Expo succeeds at exactly what it intends to do: Fulfill its primary role of promoting Devolver Digital's upcoming games, in a self-aware, almost satirical way, while also offering solid enjoyable stealth and puzzle solving sections that suffice in making this game a little more than just a walking simulator. The only two major flaws present here is firstly the lack of weapon variety, with only two total weapons/devices, and secondly how overpowered and unbalanced the primary weapon is, to the point of oftentimes completely ruining the stealth aspect.

Full video review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zXzIiEov8M

Crucible is very much a mixed bag, as one can easily see indicated by its current review score average. I recently did a full-length game review video on the topic, (it's linked down below!) but here are just a few pro/con observations:

Pros:
-Each hero has their own unique playstyle and toolset, No two heroes feel even remotely identical.
-The maps are pretty decent, with lots of flanking routes, chokepoints, and areas of interest.
-The game doesn't have lootboxes! (Yet....)

Cons:
-The game is very poorly optimized. Lots of notable frame drops and framerate issues, even with Vsync on.
-The modes all feel somewhat identical.
-The cosmetic store in-game has truly lazy-looking skins.
-Why this game has 3 paid premium editions is beyond explanation.

Full game review video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R54yr0vrI_k

For a full detailed review on the game, a full video review is linked at the bottom of this post, but for those who prefer text, here's a straightforward pros and cons list. I am undicided over whether or not to recommend this game, so instead I'll just leave you my list of points, and let you decide for yourself.

Pros:
-No microtransactions in-game.
-A fair number of enjoyable communal activities and minigames.
-A well-integrated rewards system that allows players to purchase cosmetic items, and even in-game virtual living spaces which they can customize to their liking using the game's extensive (but only semi-functional) customization tools.
-Steam workshop support, allowing players to modify the appearance of their character model.

Cons:
-For a game boasting about being a virtual theme park, there isn't much to support this claim in the main hub world. Having a single theme park ride and two fair booths bordering it does not do anything to justify the claim. The developers aren't necessarily lying, but calling this game a virtual theme park is not a very accurate description.
-The game visually is nowhere near as polished as the store screenshots would have you believe.
-The optimization and framerate is absolutely dreadful at times, and even at the best of times is below expectations.
-The user interface when browsing the in-game shops is currently archaic and lackluster.
-Several of the minigames accessible from the main menu and ingame are reminiscent of low-effort unity asset flips.
-Server lag is at times a very noticeable and serious problem.
The current maximum player cap of 64 players per server is too small, given the size of the world and number of in-game activities. This results in many areas within the world feeling neglected and abandoned by the playerbase. It feels like the world was made for a few hundred concurrent players, not 64.

Full game review video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMUG4YgwDnU

Pros:
-The game visually is quite nice.
-While the game currently features only one map, the first map is gradually getting better over time, multiple new locations have been added already, with more likely to be added.
-Decent emerging balance between hunting the monster and world exploration.

Cons:
-Guns don't really feel great. You just don't have that Doom/TF2 feeling of actually delivering any meaningful impact.
-Monster AI is fairly simplistic and buggy, although it has slowly gotten somewhat better.
-A lack of a meaningful options menu
-Game optimization feels mediocre. Running this game off a cutting-edge graphics card, and I'm still noticing occasional odd instances of framerate drops and stutter.

Overall: A decent enough early build of what will hopefully, with more hotfixes and major content additions, prove to be a very entertaining game to play with friends. And unlike Bigfoot, this developer seems to be prioritizing working with the community rather than going on a massive player banning spree, so that's cool. I'm cautiously optimistic with this title.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2wwZDtZ_To
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuimoqV-JlE

Sadly this game is no longer publicly available to purchase, but I still put the effort into making a review video critiquing it. For those looking to just read the highlights, here you are:

Pros:
-Decent artstyle, especially in regards to the weapon models, particle effects, and animations.
-Intriguing MOBA-esque card based perk system.
-Fairly unique weapon unlock system. Feels very cool & retro, unlocking everything through repeated play.
-Decent enemy variety. Each enemy has different weapons and attack patterns, forcing you to adjust.

Cons:
-Movement can at times feel janky, particularly the jumping.
-Player has no real defense against enemies swarming, no knockback or area denial abilities.
-Player can often find themselves dying from no explainable source, can often feel cheap.
-The game lacks any tutorial mode, which is needed given the many unexplained rules and mechanics.

Full game review video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1bEHWhf_fA

Pros:
-Tasteful and intriguing artstyle.
-Small but functional towns.
-Combat feels fine, guns and spells oddly work well together.
-No technical performance issues as far as I've noticed.
-Dungeons are often interesting and filled with enemies.

Cons:
-Constant loading screens/loading times.
Every time you walk in/out of a building or structure,
you have to wait through fade out to black and then fade in from black transitions.
-The mostly open world is 90% empty and devoid of anything interesting.
-Most of your time ingame will be spent walking aimlessly through the desert.

I don't think this is a bad game, just a very lifeless one.
But, as this is an early access game atm, it's possible this can change over time.

Full review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPXgiKju7CM

Pros:
-Decent quality visuals (Character models, enviornmental objects, etc.
-Distinct visual tone (Getting a strong old-school Silent Hill vibe with all that mist.)
-Zombie enemies appear in a variety of forms, including child zombies, which is cool.

Cons:
-Enemies take far too many hits in order to kill.
-Objectives oftentimes are poorly explained.
(Sometimes quests require skill upgrades to complete, but won't tell you this.)
-Gameplay too often revolves around repeatedly farming the same areas for resources.
-Lackluster enemy variety.
-Controller support really only way to play the game, keyboard controls aren't great.

Full review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouEP1kxZaAI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niFBFAxgkr8

Band of Defenders is an inexplicable mess. The screenshots and videos are incredibly misleading, bordering on flagrantly false advertising.

Pros:
-At least loot boxes are free and not paid, yet they exist ingame for some reason.

Cons:
-Enemy AI is horribly broken. Enemies will run in a straight line, doing the same looping running then melee slap animations.
-The levels themselves look like low-effort asset flips taken from an asset store somewhere.
-Enemy bosses are just bullet sponges, with only a little variety between them
-The gunplay is really janky and lacks any actual quality.
-Everything else.

Pros:
-Entertaining cast of characters.
-Delightfully fun, if not very challenging, platforming puzzles.
-Well-rendered and colorful visual artstyle.
-Solid technical performance.

Cons:
-Really short game length. (35-40 mins on average.)
-The beams occasionally have a tendency to "snap" at weird angles,
and don't always register where you are aiming at.
-Lots of loading menus.

Video review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srJrndlFZMg