Recent reviews by Steffe

Astroneer.

First of all,
Go and show the developers of Astroneer some love: https://astroneer.space/

This cute little game is a fun space exploration / survival game.
You are able to play it solo or with a friend.

Positives:
- The game is just simply gorgeous, exploring the planet/s is just gorgeous and mesmerizing. The artists have used a unique colour palette that has drawn me in.
- 4 costumes to chose from when you start a game although you cannot customise what you look like; this is good enough for me.
- You have 8 slots of space in your backpack as inventory slots, this is good for early game but it can get annoying in the late game; in late game you are able to build items to help you such as storage which then you can place items.
- Different workstations do different things which can benefit you to survive easier and for longer.
- A unique idea of surviving with oxygen where 'Tethers' will help you explore the planet and explore further from your base.
- There are storms that come randomly which throw projectiles (Rocks) around which can damage and ultimately kill you.
- The developers are constantly updating the game (Bug fixes and developing the game further).
- You can morph the environment the way you want with the object you get at the beginning of the game, which can lead to cool environments been made.

Negatives:
- The game isn't very long, so the asking price is not worth it until the developers add more to the game.
- It can be buggy at times, when improving your workstations, they can branch of inside of other workstations and this can cause a lot of confusion.
- Not much to do, as when you have built all of the vehicles and workstations there is not much else to do (relating to first point).
- The only way to save is to go to your cockpit and sit in it. So there is no quick save or save button in the menus.
- Driving the vehicles is really hard and can easily got out of control.

I recommend this game because it is a beautiful game and the developers are working really hard on this game.
Although the price is a bit steep for what you get, I know 100% that the developers will in time add in enough content for the game to be worth the full price.

Kero Blaster

Starting off...
Kero Blaster is a game where you have seperate stages and you must beat them to proceed to the next stage and at the end of every stage there is a boss battle which is different and uniquely created.
You use a gun which can fire different types of ammo which can benefit in different scenarios to kill the enemies which you face within the levels.
To upgrade your health and proficiency of your weapon you must earn coins and you can do this by getting them off killing enemies or destroying the shrubery around the map. After a few upgrades of each thing the price goes pretty high so you must wait a while until you can purchase those upgrades.

Positives:
- Gives you at good range of languages to chose from giving variance in the players that can play the game.
- Straight away when the game opens, it gives you a tutorial with the controls on how to play the game which can be good as some smaller games do not do that. Furthermore, you must complete the tutorial to carry on.
- Gives you three save files which is great as you may have friends or family who want to play the game also without overwriting your content.
- The soundtrack is a retro 8-bit track, which is nostalgic to older games from the 90's.
- Gives you a good amount of features, such as new weapons; ways to shoot your weapon.
- Allows you to visit a shop to purchase upgrades for your weapon or you health which can help in the harder levels.
- Levels have cool features as 'Sticky Mud' where its harder to move and you slowly sink which slows down your movement and can be problematic for specific levels.
- Bosses can be quite difficult (Especially the Fish).
- A good range of levels for you to play through (7 Levels I believe).

Negatives:
- When shooting, you cannot change the direction of where you're facing, which can be troublesome if you're in a tight spot.
- Can be fustrating if you're a noob like me who can't beat the levels... xD

Overall, I really like this game and I would recommend anyone to get it. If you want to purchase this game for full price then be my guest, it's a great game.
But if the game is on sale then I would recommend 100% to get this as it is very fun and time consuming.

Colorspill Ball

Colorspill Ball is a game where you are given a various amount of levels and you have to complete them in a certain amount of moves.

It took me a few minutes to figure out what I had to do and how to do it.
Each level has its own unique way of finishing it but they're pretty easy if you ask me, the further you get the more complicated they get but still they are pretty easy, the way the game ups the difficulty is less moves to complete the level but it adds in things that get in the way such as a hole that instantly restarts the level or a spinner that spins on a pivot to stop any momentum you have of the ball.

Overall I can see what the game was going for as a puzzle game, but the levels are very bland and easy to complete, therefore there is no real challenge within the levels.

Positives
- The game is cheap and can take a little bit of your time.
- If you like achievements, then you can stack them up by playing this game as they have a lot of them.
- Inovative level design with objects that will imrpove the challenge in the game (Slightly)
- Gives you a startup menu giving you a good amount of resolution options for what the player wants.
- Gives you a sound on/off option which is good as they sounds can be annoying.

Negatives
- The game is way too easy, which makes the game boring.
- The spheres that are on the level further in the game are low resolution and they do not look good.
- The cannons are unpredictable as they can bounce off a pixel that you cannot see.
- As I got further into the game I could not go back and view the level choices I had once seen at the start of the game giving me no replayability (Maybe bug)
- The sound effects can get annoying pretty quickly.

Overall, this game is not good.
I can see what they wanted to do and there are other games that do it better. Props to the designer of this game and let's hope they can produce better quaility games in the future.

This game is questionable at the start...

For a start, from what I have played so far... the game is not worth 20+ British Pounds.
The voice actor you play as is awful and has no emotion in his voice what so ever.

The horror aspect is very interesting as it is more atmospheric horror and minor jumpscares. The puzzles are unique in their own way and quite tricky to figure out, so you must have a keen eye for the enviroment.
The art style suits the Cyberpunk genre, it has great visual with that ties in with the tripy atmosphere, you're bound to think "wtf"

Overall, I don't think this game is worth the price but I'd definitely recommend if you like these sort of horror games.

Before I played Witcher 3:
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It's good if you enjoy a survival zombie game. It's so fun to build yourself a mini bike and ♥♥♥♥ around...
The game itself is a lot of fun, get to build a base and protect it from the zombie horde which comes every 7 days... (gets harder ever time). A day normally lasts 50 minutes, but you can change that to be more or less.

The game is also very buggy. When you build the mini bike, you ride it, sometimes it would be level with the floor when going up a hill or even on the road... I always jump up and down on it like I'm riding a horse ...
I also went to the top of the map when I lived at the bottom and randomly died. From nothing at all? I was so pissed, I had to walk all the way which took a good 10 minutes to collect all my stuff and go back, so 20 minutes wasted because of a bug and this has happened multiple times now.

Maybe wait for a few months until these bugs are fixed? Because it can be very fustrating.
In my opinion. It is worth a buy because I have had a lot of hours out of it and it is a lot of fun!

Advantages
- Exploring the stars and all the different systems.
- Beautiful scenery ( good for screenshot ♥♥♥♥♥♥ ;).)
- Can keep you addicted for hours.
- Has a set goal ( get to the centre of the universe.)
- 18 quintillion planets, endless exploration for those users who love to explore.
- Space battles against Space pirates is fun
- When you die, you drop your loot on your body and it's marked on your HUD so you can get your items back.
- Learning the language of all the different races of aliens and then deciphering their sentences with the words you've learnt.
- Finding planets that have rare resources on and farming for hours
- Good time waster, if you want a day to go past quick, play this game.
- Easy crafting system.
- Icons when scanning are easy to get the hang of, so you know where the Zinc/Platinum is.
- Upgrade laser/suit and ship with necessary upgrades that can make your journey better.
- Naming planets and animals and other things such as plants and rocks is very entertaining although no profanity :(... But naming planets is very cool if you are clever with it.
- Scanning all the species of animals on a planet will give you a bonus of credits which can help begginers out a lot.

Disadvantages
- No real indication of what to do in the story... Not enough information to know what's going on.
- Who's atlas?
- When uploading the planets and animals ect... It can take a while as you might have a lot to upload.
- When you get to a planet that has pearls on gravition balls, the Sentinels are aggressive and they sent elite sentinels after you, which is super annoying as they don't go away and kill you a lot when farming money.
- The controls are very hard and not accurate for the mouse and keyboard when flying your ship through space and planets atmospheres.
- You need a lot of money if you want to upgrade your ship massively.
- Random drops in FPS, which means you have to find a save point and quit the game.
- When Alt+Tabbed out of the game, you're unable to re open the game. So you have to close the game down.
- When buying a ship, you could be waiting hours until you find a ship you want to buy. Although it's a cool idea to have the ships flying in from outer space, it does take a while.

In my opinion the game is amazing and worth every penny, it is a very well made game. Although there were/are a lot of bad reviews at the initial release due to the FPS being awful and not a playable game, Hello Games took action and brought an update out within a few hours fixing most of the problems, yet there are a lot of issues surrounding the game, it is playable. I am certain there will be more updates in the near future which will fix some of the bugs surrounding the game and making it much more user friendly.

What happens at the start?
Basically you start of on a random planet, could be any biome/ weather; and It looks like you crashed your ship. From here you go onto your inventory and see that your ship needs repairing and it asks you to go out and get the most basic resources to fix the ship, through this process it gets to you craft which is helpful as it can be quite stressful not understanding how to craft.
Once you've fixed your ship you can venture of into space and explore to your hearts content. But it is keen on getting you to build a Hyper drive which is very important in the game. This allows you to warp to other universes and discover a lot more in the universe... From meeting different races of aliens, go different planets/biomes to even finding moons to land on.

Aim of the game?
Well everyone should know, the main aim of the game is to get to the centre of the universe and no one knows what's there yet. That's the whole secret... Which has got met hooked since I want to know! But there is another way, you can follow Atlas, I have no clue who they are... But they give me Atlas Stones which are worth a lot. But if you are aiming to complete the game, I would keep them as they are a big part of the story.

Atlas is love, Atlas is life. Obey the Atlas, Praise be.

I have changed this review to a more serious one...

Dark souls 3 overall in my eyes is one of the best games I have ever played.
The game is extremely challenging, which is what I thrive; challenge.
I will be doing a list of Pros and Cons to give you an indication on what the game is about and hopefully sway you to experience this brilliant game for yourself.

Pros:
- Depending on if you like a challenge, then you'll love this game.
- The mechanics are much cleaner than Dark souls 1 and 2, although they could be improved.
- You get what you pay for, there are mutliple endings to this game with a big story which takes a long time to complete if you're new to the game.
- The game is gorgeous, there are many moments when you just run around to look at the scenery and the skylines this game offers.
- The bosses themselves are unique, they're all diferent and have all unique in their own way varying in challenge.
- If you are a collector, then this game is full of collectables for you to collect (Rings, Miracles, Pyromancies and Sorceries.)
- The combat system is always tactical as there can be different ways you can take down enemies or even a boss, always stays fresh.
- Great customisable characters, as you can choose the class you want to be but also what they look like which the Soulsbourne games do very well.
- The DLC 1 and 2 are brilliant, although they are short, they're worth it. The pure challenge and skill you need to beat the DLC is incredible and it will not be an easy challenge.
- Offers you a lot of variation with the classes you can do as you can go for a Magic or a Combat character.
- The speedrunning community are lovely, if you ever wanted to go into this category.

Cons:
- With it being so challenging, it may be 'too much' as you could give up with the game entierly. (git gid)
- The online play can be very annoying as if you don't have any friends who play this game it will be hard to fight off against multiple players online to beat them and get an offering.
- If you're wanting to complete covenant by getting 30 offerings it can be a chore as I grinded for multiple hours to get the drops from specific enemies. (Unless you get them from online play.)
- It can be very repetitive and boring if you keep doing the NG+ saves.

Ultimately, I think this game is a 9/10 and is definitely worth buying (Even the DLC)

One of the best in the Fallout series. Before PC I played Fallout:New Vegas constantly on the Xbox360 and already had around 60 hours and still not done everything I need to do. The game is great with many storylines and side quests to do. There are various amount of things to do on the game.
You can just go on a slaughter spree or you can be a completionist and complete every quest or you could collect everything. you could easily get over 200+ hours on this game if you did everything. Overall it is just an amazing game which I enjoy thoroughly and cannot wait until the release for Fallout 4 as I will end up playing it non stop!

Game is very addicting and spending way too much money on it :(. Favourite game by far and never going to stop playing <3