uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu fuck i still can't believe this game got made dude. you ever play a "masterpiece CRPG" (a 6/10 from 1997) and think damn man this is amazing. i wish the choices actually mattered and it wasn't misogynistic though. well WOTR is that game, you can be ~the bad guy~ without using baby coffins as IEDs and it has excellently written plotlines that either show the struggles of trying to be good in a jaded world, or the exact granite slabs used to build the stairwell to hell. also god camellie myw ief wmy wmye MY WIFE MYE WIFE MY WIFE YME WFEIFE MY WFIE

i'll be honest gamers this one actually kinda sucks because it stops being a detective story 1/3 of the way in and starts being a conspiracy story where Yagami just uses Shivers from Disco Elysium to sus out plot points without any evidence, but damn it's so well told and even though it sucks, it sucks in new and interesting ways for the franchise. combat is beautiful too; ignore crane stance and just use tiger, leapfrog like crazy, and learn to love the wall attacks. thank me later. Penumbra is an amazing song.

oughghghghghghg god i love this game. it's my dedicated timekiller, replacing like 50 roguelikes and talking to my housemate. i love to stompy stompy through the solar system doing contracts for capitalist dogs and accidentally wiping a school off the map because i brought an AC/20 and not an AC/2. soundtrack is nothing but instrumental HEALTH b-sides and i mean that as high praise. get some mods for clan mechs and pull up to a small border dispute in a timberwolf, spend 30 minutes turning capellan conscripts into lasagna sauce, enjoy dinner. bone app the tits.

I LOVE WELSH CATGIRLS SO MUCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH the last act of this game had me pointing at the screen and going "look! loooooooooooooooook!" like an MCU fan who just saw grup shitto hitting the griddy during the winter soldier's lung cancer diagnosis. amazing soundtrack, amazing party, amazing voice acting, i wish nia was real.

amazingly touching story about the benefits of putting aside one's grief and rage to build light for those who need it most. also it's like the only FF game in years to actually put any respect on the franchise's legacy, which is amazing in a time where naoki yoshida's deep-rooted shame at having made JRPGs in the past is ruining both the franchise and his MMO passion project. easily team ninja's best game, jack garland's transmasc swagger had me wowed.

thought this game was shitass poopy doodoo when it came out because i was a brainlet. came back to it literally yesterday and was stunned by an engaging, gripping story about how the evils of fascism and theocratic dominance often arise from the struggles and agonies of a damaged society that can see no way forward. something something, road to hell. also, mother nature is scarier than any monster.

i dunk on the modern XCOM games a lot of for kickstarting a trend of turn-based cover-centric games that barely understood its reference material but goddamn dude this is still a near perfect TBS, and WOTC steering the ship into RPG-lite territory was for the best. bradford is still a dilf but i miss vahlen's morally ambiguous hole.

get some mods, fine tune the experience to be sweatier/easier as you see fit. ignore the voice packs. why are there so many voice packs.

GAME OF THE YEAR EVERY FUCKING YEAR

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when i'm making dinner for someone i mouth the sounds made by firing two AC/2s, a PPC and some machine guns. nyoom.

played plenty of games that tried to adhere to marxist philosophy and failed, but builders 2 is more like an examination of rousseau's work than anyone else.

had me sobbing into a soggy bowl of special K at 3:23am when i realized the message of the game was simply that love is a prerequisite to make art, and that creation without love is utterly meaningless.

don't let the presentation fool you it's a game about being a sickass wanderer through lonely sands that chews ass and kicks bubblegum. on my current save i can fistfight robots.

guy who uses metaphor too much in his writing decides to dispense with it and make a game about how connecting with other humans matters more than anything in the world, and how it really only takes one man in a position of power saying "no" to bring about great change.

also it's the best delivery sim on the market.

most difficul colony sim i've ever played, makes frostpunk look like kingdoms & castles. proof that maybe humanity is an awful veneral disease and we should model robots on bunnies or something. made me dig out a sheet of A4 paper to plan logistics routes, so it's harder than factorio.

it's nice to boot this up, do some glorified UberEats deliveries, listen to some music and think fuck yeah brother. everything will be all right. all of this will outlive us, and will thank us for being around.

filled the Arkane shaped hole in my heart because it retains a lot of staff (and the artwork) from that company's golden age without being bad. never thought an isometric immersive sim could work, man. you play as a gilf in chapter 1.

actually dropped this quite a ways in because it's too long for its own good but honestly it's just nice to see other countries do self-indulgent philosophical open world games even if the combat is ass. hope it picks up, i'd love to talk about chinese games without being called a tencent plant.

farming sims have been stuck in stardew's shadow for fucking years and this is the first one i've played that actually feels like it's doing anything new or interesting for the genre. 1.0 in a year!

guy asks "what if the division and destiny weren't terrible live service slop?" and succeeds. amazing progression and bosses. don't give up if earth bores you.

played this in VR for the first time and understood why astronauts spend years upon years trapped in a giant metal coffin orbiting the planet. existence really is beautiful, isn't it?

hilarious that the developer hid the best realtime tactical shooter in years inside a game that looks like the shapes i see when i push my thumb against my eyelids. amazing commentary on the ways capitalism makes us numb to atrocities through repetition. most buddhist game on the market.

i get mad cynicala bout musou because i've been into this series since i was a wee yin but my god dude this game is one of the best. i wish lu lingqi was my girlfriend.

legend of grimrock if it was good.

extremely minimalist but not to its detriment, it's the most engaging tower defense game made since those fun flash ones that're now dead.

isometric mechwarrior but you can give your mech a stand that uses sound to kill people. 10/10, pirate it because one of the lead devs is a nazi.

made me rethink my stance on "games don't age" because this game's social commentary was trite and childish in 2016 and in 2023 it's so uncomfortably real that i had to put it down because it was bumming me out. doubly so in the wake of the metropolitan police's increase in assaults towards polish migrants.

first VR game to feel triple-A and proof that valve haven't lost an inch of their talent for game design, easily the best VR title on the market.

source material sucks but this is OF's most fun game and the power curve feels amazing.