In Joe Dever's Lone Wolf, you play as Lone Wolf, the Last of the Kai, Lord Protector of Sommerlund. Everything starts when you get an urgent message stating the frontier village of Rockstarn is likely about to be attacked by monsters and the enemy of the Kai. Immediately jumping on your horse and making your way there, you find you are much too late. Fight back against enemy forces, rescue the villagers, and storm the fortress of V’taag after discovering a threatening plot in this turn-based choose-your-own-adventure based off the novels!

I had fun playing Joe Dever's Lone Wolf, but I’ve come to a decision that I can’t recommend it due to the rather abrupt, nonsensical and disappointing ending as well as a few story flaws. There was romance when there shouldn’t have been, Absolutely no build up, 5 minutes before the game ends, right before the final fight. and the game ends rather abruptly after defeating the last boss. Who wasn’t even the last boss, it was the general. Coward ran away the second he saw his minion get annihilated.
One of my biggest issues is with a npc you run into early on, Leandra. Leandra seems to serve absolutely no purpose but to cause trouble everywhere she goes, and aside from needing to be constantly rescued, she has the survival instinct of a suicidal lemming. Story wise, as lord protector, you are supposed to help people and yet in order to constantly make sure Leandra doesn’t accidently off herself, you end up abandoning three villagers in Act 1, two people in Act 3, and one person in Act 4. This is incredibly disappointing for an RPG as there is literally no way to save these people, especially considering that’s your actual job.

Another annoyance of mine is how absolutely unbalanced some of the skills are. In the beginning, you pick what talents and skills you want, but some of them are used so infrequently they are essentially worthless. Having to re-roll your character in Act 3, 8-10 hours in, because the previously unneeded Sixth Sense skill Is suddenly needed twenty times doesn’t sound like a good time to me.
I heavily recommend this set up, Healing – Mindblast/Mindshield – Weaponskill – Sixth Sense.

I did not read any of the novels before playing this game, but if you have and are a fan of them, you will probably end up enjoying this more than I did.

In Sword Daughter, you play as Knight and Lady Tyrna. You and your father have hired some Caravan members to escort both of you across a mighty desert on a journey, but even with extra protection, everyone is ambushed by Orcs! You are knocked unconscious and miraculously survive thanks to a Half-Elf Warden, Gavin, who is on a journey of his own. Reluctantly joining you on your quest for vengeance, you both get in way more trouble than you could have ever anticipated.

While there are multiple endings, an awful lot of them are very similar with copy/paste dialog. The music was nothing special and the story has so many holes it might actually be swiss cheese. The absolute worst part of Sword Daughter is the romance. Tyrna and Gavin fall in love instantly and she is absolutely ready to go ahead and move in with him and get married before he finishes the first sentence.
The best ending is technically a bad ending but honestly, I was ready to burn the entire place to the ground anyway.

In Machine Made: Rebirth you play as an amnesiac Zephrim named Titania, or Tibby! After losing her memories, she awakens and is labeled as an exile for her past unknown crimes. Forced to train in order to be a scout for the Zephrim Race, she is banished to a lonely island where she makes a few discoveries and new friendships!
Uncover her memories in this 5+ hour adventure!

I didn’t really enjoy playing, the level design is pretty bad in which you are expected to interact with objects multiple times and you are never directed where to go and what’s important, leaving most people stuck in the tutorial area. The combat is a typical RPG maker combat, and other times you need to press a sequence of arrows before time runs out.
The battles are a bit confusing as well, as sometimes the noted EXP gain is incorrect. For instance, when fighting the Training robots in the beginning, it can say I gained +10 EXP, when I actually gained +20 EXP. I recommend taking advantage of this and getting to lvl 6 in the tutorial area, as the Island monsters can be a bit tough if you are not prepared.

My biggest issue is definitely the storyline, in which it never made sense to me. And in the few moments I [i]thought[/i] it did, I was quickly proven wrong. I didn’t really know what I was doing in the game and other than wandering around and interacting with random objects hoping to push the story forward, there isn’t really much to do as enemies don’t respawn.

TL;DR: Don’t.

In Orion you play as Sam, an intelligent 16-year-old boy with a knack for computers. Sam lives peacefully with his brother Louca, in Section 6 of one of the many floating cities in Earths orbit. Reoccurring nightmares, however, has made life rather difficult to deal with, and suddenly getting a strange message from an unknown person named Virgil isn’t helping at all.
“The setting sun rises as the moon weeps.”

I didn’t hate Orion but I didn’t much like it either, and while I prefer to give it a “meh” vote, that’s impossible so this review is negative on the basis that if I could have gone back in time to stop myself from getting it, I would have.
The best thing about Orion is definitely it’s art, and the voice acting honestly wasn’t too bad either. However, there are a few things I don’t like about this game.

First – you need to play eight different endings to reach the true ending.
Second – It’s hard to reach any of the endings because if you deviate from the path even once, it doesn’t count so following a guide is necessary.
Third – all of the endings are incredibly underwhelming. The true ending is as mediocre as every other.

TL; DR: If you had an hour and thirty minutes of free time and are looking for a fun/interesting Sci-fi VN to play and pass some time… it’s not this.