Recent reviews by Punished "Venom" Snake

I recommend going in blind, it's more enjoyable to experience everything for yourself the first time. Definitely better with friends, better with in-game voice chat. One of the few games where losing is just as much fun as winning.

One of the best games of the year!

Although unfinished, Valheim shows a lot of polish for the current state it's in and a lot of promise for it's future. Reasonably priced, engaging, and highly atmospheric, it is wonderful just exploring and filling out your map. There is certainly room for improvement, hopefully more things to do and more mechanics to play with and refine, but the game is reasonably priced for the current experience. Very hopeful and excited to see what more the devs come up with.

Subnautica is one of those Early Access games that has me on the fence.

On the one hand, it does a lot of things well. For example, the game's visuals are nice, and the different areas of the sea are all aesthetically appealing. There's a good deal of conveyance towards which areas are relatively harmless and which areas have giant sea-monsters that will rip you in half. In addition, I can't imagine how things would appear for the VR users, and personally I don't want to find out - the Reaper Leviathan nipped that urge in the bud. Still, the option to play the game in VR, in tandem with the already pleasant atmosphere, leaves the game with a strong recommendation from me for the visuals alone. In terms of gameplay, the game performs similarly to games like Rust or ARK, and although the crafting/upgrades system is nothing groundbreaking, it is still enjoyable and rewarding. There are certain unique aspects to the game, many of which I feel are too minuscule to even bother bringing up; however, the game does things differently enough that I feel comfortable saying that it has a personality of its own.

On the other hand, the game is in Early Access, which means that not only is it not complete, but it is still relatively unpolished. Although the game has undergone extensive changes and would appear to be updated frequently, I can't say that I've never been burned by the game due to some glitch or another. For the patient (you saints), the game's glitches and bugs are relatively harmless, and they border more on the taxing side of frustration rather than fully-fledged rage. Still, the point remains that the game could be another Early Access flop, but I'm fairly confident that it won't be. Hopefully, these issues can be ironed out, and I do believe the devs will continue to work on this project.

As it stands, Subnautica gets a mostly confident vote of approval from me, and I would recommend buying the game if it interests you (especially if it's on sale).

What could have been an amazing game has left many disappointed, and that's being a bit generous in terms of describing the negativity targeted towards this game. Unfortunately for Code}{atch, this hate is not unwarranted; the dev team has abandoned this game, and the vast majority of features promised have either never been introduced or have been horribly implemented. Despite having an alluring trailer, StarForge is an example of a bad Greenlight game designed to generate as much revenue as possible by being rushed towards a "finished" state to sucker in more people into the lie.

StarForge lives on as a landmark on how NOT to do Greenlight games, as well as just being a reminder on how not to do games in general. Shameful business practices and careless attitudes leave StarForge resting in the proverbial garbage, and I (along with many others who were blatantly lied to when purchasing this game) wouldn't be surprised if this game is eventually pulled from the Steam Store.