Story: "We must bust out of prison" game. One character is already inside, and wants to run away. Second character only arrived, but is sure they did not commit crime they were sentenced for. Which feels like typical scenario of all prison-action movies. They have their own personalities, which were written as "typical opposites" - calm and analytical vs aggressive and impulse driven. But it does not feel forced, they feel fleshy in what they do, and their actions are clearly justified by their past experiences. Game ends in a way I did not predict, and that it's strongest point for me. I did feel like literal shit during last sequence, and was like "yeah, yeah do it, I deserved it".

Gameplay: Split screen without need to sit on the same sofa. Only one player needs to own game, for both people to play. Which is neat. It is strictly co-op game, and is unplayable with only one player (AI won't control second character). Fact that screen is split in half all the time can be bit confusing though. Action-linear game, where we can do some small side activities. You can compete in throwing darts, play baseball, throw horseshoe, play music or just annoy your partner by not going towards objective. It's possible to interact with objects individually, and each character react differently. While one will open fridge and say there is nothing of value, other will open fridge, pick up beer and drink it. Talking with NPCs will result in different dialogues, depending who talk to NPC right now. It does help to flesh out characters and makes game really enjoyable. There are moments where cutscene is shared, and characters must pick what they will do. For example they enter elevator with guard inside. Try to talk your way out of it, or attack?

Graphic, music, bugs: I did not encounter any bugs in this game. Music is fitting, and graphic is fine. There are minor delays in transition from "shared cutscene" to "actual gameplay" for joining player. So while cutscene per se plays fine, then at the end I was stuck a bit on loading screen, while other character was already in-game, playing.

Story: Story revolves around events from I WW. German father of French-German newborn gets mobilization letter from German army. Kid grandpa is mobilized by French army, which results in grandfather and father serving in hostile armies. There are two extra playable characters - nurse and soldier from USA (or Canada :P). Game in accessible way shows how terrible and pointless war is. When people which were living next to each other are forced to attack one another. Game uses few of the big war events (like use of planes, tanks or combat gases) as backstory, which ties fate of playable characters.

Gameplay: Simple adventure game with bit of really easy puzzling, and bit annoying QTE (similar to guitar hero minigame). Game is made as 2D side scroller, with ability to move upwards / down to enter buildings or go down the stairs. No inventory system - our character can hold only one item at a time. We are accompanied by rescue doggo, which can perform simple commands - like bring object, or push levers.

Graphic, music, bugs: Graphic is simple but fitting into whole war-theme. Music is rather ambient, and game is bugless.

Story: Well there is no story. So not much to write here. No images showing main character past, no memories, no nothing. There is one cut scene after player collects all mementos and beat last chapter of game again. But IMO it's weak to hide only useful bit of information behind that much backtracking. Names of optional achievements points towards stages of grief, game does not hint why main character has depression.

Gameplay: Well made platformer with very easy environmental puzzles, most of them are skippable. Controls are fluid, and we unlock new abilities along the way - double jump, swimming, ability to smash things etc. But there are no metrovidania elements - it's not possible to backtrack and there is only one possible way at any time. Only after game is beaten it's possible to pick previous levels to look for collectibles.

Graphic, music, bugs: Strongest point of this game is art style, and I do think that game should not be rated based on story or puzzles. As both those elements are totally secondary. Game starts in black and white. With time we unlock colors, which fill world like water color paint fills canvas. Sound is ambient, game is bugless. This game is more of calm art experience, than story-driven or gameplay-based game.

Story: We're reincarnation of hero that trapped god-sisters long time ago. And surprisingly we must defeat them again. So nothing extraordinary or deep.

Gameplay: Our character has ability to change alignment. When we're blue we're protected against blue enemy attacks, and against red attacks when red. But at the same time we deal not much damage towards enemy of the same alignment. There are also alignment-dependent platforms and blocks, which are solid when we have the same color. This mechanic forces us to constant shifting alignment, often mid-jumps which can be challenging. Certain abilities are blocked behind story-important events. Killed enemies and pots drop down coins which can be used to extend health or energy pool.

Graphic, music, bugs: Graphic is simple, and all objects have yellow outlines. With exception for blue / red enemies or blocks / platforms. Music is hardly noticeable. Game is bugless, and only problem is that there is weird delay between pressing jump button and actual jump. Which requires bit of getting used to.

Story: Hitler was close to be defeated, so he released disease which turned all alive and dead Nazi soldiers into zombies. And they wan to rule the world! We must of course stop them. During story we visit Berlin and some other areas.

Gameplay: Game is similar to Sniper Elite with exception that there are not many glory shots, as it'd be hard to have slow-mo shots in game for 4 players (when other player gets glory shot, other see it as well). Game is quite corridor like, and there is not much incentive to roam around. There are few enemy types, but in the end they all boil down to "shot in the head till it's dead" strategy. There are no mission challenges or optional objectives. We can choose how our character will look like and our weapons at the beginning of mission. No character progression or different abilities sets though.

Graphic, music, bugs: Graphics looks fine, but it is already bit dated. Music is nothing extraordinary. And game is mostly bugless, but there can be bad ragdoll effects of objects and enemies. Plus enemy can get stuck in half-dead state somewhere on the map, which blocks further progress.

Story: We start game on an island. Follow red fox, see character in red hood that's always few steps ahead of us. Like if they want to guide us. There are paintings that show us bits of the story, we can find collectible "books" that allow us to learn more. And then game ends with twist that basically negates whole story. It's game where everyone can have different ending, and be sure their version is only proper. So meh. I don't like games with open endings, where nothing in the end is explained as part of the lore.

Gameplay: It's simple platformer with puzzles. When puzzles are fine, don't require weird logic and don't have step learning curve, platformer part is bad. Controls are wonky and sometimes not really responsive, character can have problem to understand we want to jump from the edge instead of move along it etc. On top of that camera can know better where we want to look. Which is annoying. Character can roll, but there is no gameplay-wise reason to do so (no places to crawl through or need to avoid enemies).

Graphic, music, bugs: Art style is nice, but game is poorly optimized. I did comparison last month in my GPU undervolt add-on. ME: Andromeda has way more effects and advanced graphic, and it still never drops to 20 FPS and is less GPU-heavy. RIME can work poorly on GTX 1070 from what I saw in discussion page on Steam. So yeah. You can mess up Unreal 4 game as well, and not only Unity games can be so badly made. Music is fine, fits nicely to changing game atmosphere (and have violin moments, I love violin). On top of that game is bugless, if we don't count poor optimization and random problems with platform detection.

Story: Our character is thrown away from house (or more like hotel?), as they were lazy and messy. So we're forced to find new home for ourselves. It later turns into "save the world" theme, but it's shown in not so-serious way. So it doesn't feel overly forced or pompous. We learn history of Wuppo land, and facts about creatures that live there. Nothing is overly deep though, but it doesn't need to be in this type of light game.

Gameplay: It's similar to Hollow Knight. We have backstory to push us forward, responsive controls so platforming parts feels well-made, simple boss fights that doesn't require nanoseconds accuracy. Both platforming and boss fights are way simpler in comparison to HK, which makes gameplay less stressful. There is only one annoying boss mid-game that could be designed better. There is a bit of metrovidania touch here. We find objects that are needed to progress plot - like onions to make soup. We collect a lot of objects, and can equip them to use as weapon or costume. They are tied without any restriction to any button on controller we want.

Graphic, music, bugs: Graphic is really simple, but specifically colorful and weirdly happy. Music acts well as background, characters are not voiced but use sims-like blobs / clicks when they talk. Game is bugless, I didn't find anything that would make it hard to play. Only (as I wrote earlier) one boss could be designed bit better, because it's possible to get stuck between it's body parts during the fight.

Story: It did feel like story was worse than in previous game. Maybe because I was caring about main suspect from previous game more. In this game our task is to localize double agent, who went missing while spying for other country. It later changes into task to discredit journalist, who wants to put The Nation (so our mother country) in bad light. Of course nothing is simple. People have their backstory, which explains their motives. And it's again strongest point of this game - showing that reality is not black-and-white, and it may be better idea to dig up longer to see someone's motives, instead of acting on 1st bit of info we find.

Gameplay: Just like in previous game we read internet sites, check people phones and PCs to find bits of information. After they are uploaded into Orwell (so big spying program), can lead to other bits thanks to cross-linking. We found that someone met suspect in park? Let's put park address into facebook-like site search, to find photos made there, and see who suspect met with. On top of that we have influencer tool (unlocked near end of the game), which is used to create narrative that's later send into social media. Similar to what trolls on troll farms in Russia and other countries do. It is bit scary, that something we do in game, is happening every day in real world. Where gov departments responsible for propaganda use farms, to send certain narrative into the internet, to create "reality" that's convenient for them.

Graphic, music, bugs: Apart from this "can't mark as read" bug game is bugless. Graphic is basic, but well designed and serve it's purpose well. I do think though developers could use some slider to change interface size. I did feel like a lot of space is wasted for too big buttons, instead of giving more reading / compare space. Music is really ambient, nothing exceptional or memorable.

Really nice game about mouse that must flee prison, to find his wife. Of course nothing can be simple, and we must help other characters to achieve it. Ending sets start of another game really nicely, so I will gladly play in Ghost of a Tale 2, if they will ever release it.

As for gameplay - you get experience for solved quests, which gives more health with every level. Health bar also serves as stamina bar, and is needed for running. When stamina depletes, we must stand still (or sneak around) for it to recover. And it refills only till it hits actual health level. We recover health by eating food. Some quests give ability to learn perks. Like ability to recover stamina faster, drop down without fall damage (from reasonable height), or make guard armor lighter, so we can move around faster. But I would surely not call this game an RPG. More like adventure game with very light RPG elements. And bit of sneaking at the beginning of the game.

We can find pieces of clothes, 5 in total for each set. They unlock certain perks. Like thief set gives a lot immunity towards poison, guard set allows us to walk around rat guards unnoticed. Some sets are required to complete side quests. For example - fool pirate captain that you're also pirate, to get certain item.

Start of the game (before we complete guard set) is focused on sneaking. We use chests, barrels etc to hide when guard walks by, and run to another hiding place when road is clear. Hiding places are also used as saving stations. It's not possible to save game anytime. Guards can kill us when they spot us and hit enough times with weapon. But we simply re-spawn in previous save point, so no gruesome death animations etc. And at the same time we can't attack guards. They are immortal, and all we can do is throw sticks at them to get their attention, or throw bottle on their head, to knock them down for few seconds. Weirdly it never worked for me, so I didn't use sticks or bottles at all.

Overall it's really cute game with interesting characters; without gruesome images, complicated puzzles or hard to understand mechanics. So easy 5 stars for me, I really liked it. Plus it's nice game to play with kids.

Pillars of the Earth is a game adaptation of the book series (there is also TV series). And damn, it's nice. It shows power struggle between gluttonous church and smol-ego "I'm the best" king / Earl. We're thrown between schemes of people way more influential than we are, and we must wiggle our way around them. Game is following book story, so when someone dies in book, they will die in the game as well. But in other places it does feel like we do have impact on the story, it's not telltale style "no matter what you do game will end like that, we will simply kill this characters off-screen later".

Story is shown from few characters perspective, and in some places intertwine. E.g. later in game we have small retrospection, and now-NPC says thing we said when we were controlling it. It's a nice touch. Game has well-made point&click mechanic, with easy to understand logic. So to have water in a bucket, you must use bucket on water. No super complicated and surreal or illogical solutions. (I still remember I had to use cheese on puncher machine, instead of actual punch card... to read certain sequence and open door... what?)

Graphic is nice, characters move in natural way and there is no feeling that they are "floating" above background. There is only this one small thing, as characters have only few "default poses". So you will see the same animation over and over again - like when monk says something, he will use either "open arms" or "cross hands and think" animations. But it's not enough to count it as a cons.

I liked best to play as a monk, as we can either cite bible as responses, or use more "human" approach. So instead of citing bible to answer to "why god abandoned us?!" I could pick "I don't know" option. There is also one character that refuses to talk at the beginning, and is only nodding head or grumbling :hehe:. My type of man!

I will follow Lost.FM suggestion and read books when I have time. It was not possible to fit whole books content into a game, so it focuses on most interesting aspect of church-king-Earl power struggle. But I know that books also talk about architecture and building techniques.

It starts slow and really peaceful, for a moment I even thought there are no enemies. Heh. Enemies are present, but are easy to avoid and death is not "scary". We run around, sing to animals so they follow us and help with really easy environmental puzzles. At the end of each section is "main animal" that teaches us their song. After that we don't need to rely on certain animal to move around (bird song opens flowers to give us bombs, lizard song activates flowers that allow us to jump further etc.). In order to hide from enemies character hides in grass bushes.

Nothing is said or written in this game, story is learned by observing environment and discovering monuments with images. Monuments that are most basic are visible along main roads; to find more of them some sidetracking is needed. I disliked AER for just teasing some info about world and then leaving me with pile of unanswered questions. I don't have this feeling when it comes to Fe, so I say even when in both games story is discovered in similar way, Fe does it better. It also has really nice addition - we can find helmets that allow us to see story through enemies perspective. It made story to be way more interesting.

Platformers need good controls, and this game is fine here. Camera also works properly, it doesn't move on it's own to show something important, when I want to look in other direction etc. So in short it's nice platformer with interesting background and child-friendly gameplay.

I do dislike this game. But I know some may like it, as it's not a bad game. Only game that was not made for me.

I could do barely any damage, as I picked wrong perks and abilities early on, and it's not possible to reset character. So I was able to die 3 times, trying to kill one yellow enemy, when Fnord basically just stomped through it without stopping, and it was dead. It does punish people that don't start game with guide, knowing what abilities to choose. You get books that give ability to return perk points. But I ended on 65 level (so I spend 65 points), and through whole game I get like 25 return points? So it's way too little to "fix" broken character.

Same as gems drop (they give actual abilities) is random, and you may invest time to level up gem that turns out to be useless in the end. And it's not possible to level up something fast, when you already invested a lot of time to upgrade "bad" gem from 1st to 10th level. You will start again with gem at 1st level and need to grind to upgrade it. Bonus point for selling all gems you *think* are useless, and then hoping you find them again. As it's not possible to buy many good ones at vendors

I haven't seen worse crafting system in my gaming career. Normally you have 1 - 2 currency types, you buy materials, craft things, upgrade them at blacksmiths and so like. Here you get currency items as enemy drop. And there is like 20 different kinds of it... It's main function is direct crafting. So you can use orb of alchemy to upgrade normal pair of jeans to rare quality, or orb of transmutation to upgrade other normal jeans into magical jeans. But as I wrote earlier items that drop are useless for you, so only thing to do if you're not into trading with other players (like me) is to sell them to vendors... and in return you get bunch of currency items! You want to buy something from vendor - you need specific type of currency item. Like rings can be bought with one kind, and flasks with other. You don't have enough currency items of certain kind to buy something? Exchange other currency items at vendor! But sometimes it's not possible to be done directly. When you have a lot of currency a and not enough currency d, you may have to change currency a to b, then b to c and only c can be exchanged into d. Just ugh.

Story is enough to make you leave camp and kill monsters. But not much more. You basically have to kill one or few gods in every chapter, and as fast as you kill one, another one emerges and you must yet another time save the world!

So... I can't say how combat really is, as my character was utterly borked and I couldn't kill anything reasonably fast for half of the game. As a single player from the bottom of my heart I found crafting to be bollocks (but it will be less or not at all problem for someone that likes to play with others, exchange items, gems and so like). Story was fine enough to make me playing, but flat enough I don't remember much more than go - kill god - return theme. That's why I must give it just 3 stars.

But if you like hack & slash, social aspect and don't want to pay for game - it's easy 4 stars for you and worth playing. And it will surely be better than Diablo: Immortals, even when you all have smartphones most probably :hehe:

It's how sequel to To The Moon should look like. Not the thing we get with re-used setting and ideas. We're kid in a hospital. Our mother visits us, and we begin adventure to help other patients on the floor. Through the game we get ability to find special doors that teleport us to alternate world, where we meet other-versions of patients from our floor. That way, by moving between real and magical word, we learn their story and learn how we can help them.

I obviously won't write anything more about story to not spoil it. Game is combat free - so it's perfect for kids. It would be also good medium to poke some deeper topics for older kids - depression for example. There are "enemies" in game, but are mostly stationary, and we simply must watch out to not touch them. Chests found in game contain either story objects, or gold. Gold can be spend on buying items for hospital "fun zone" as side activity, and is needed to buy few main story items.

I don't remember when I was involved enough in a game, to cry a bit when one of the stories ended. So yeah, I think it's well worth playing.

It's fine Ubisoft game, with exactly the same gameplay like in all other Ubisoft games (only non-standard thing is nicely made sea combat). I run around, unlock towers to uncover map (and shitload of pointless collectibles), and sometimes find my way to main story quest. Story is average "pirate wants to become the best pirate", and shallow like a puddle. I wanted to play in Watch Dogs, as it was also free on Uplay. But as I see that AC:1, AC:4, Far Cry 3, FC: Blood Dragon are carbon copy of each other with different guns - I will pass. And most probably won't play in another "main series" Ubisoft game ever. Because games like Child of Light or Valiant Hearts are way better than them.

If you like Ubisoft games - you will like this one as well, as it's more... of the same. If you already played in few Ubisoft games and have enough - don't look here. Naval combat may be nice, but it's not enough to turn this game into something more than.. "generic Ubisoft game".

Some ugly creature steals our ice, and we can't have drink without ice! So we go on adventure to get our ice back. It'd be start of the game summary. Turns out we're inside someone's head, and need to fight their fears in order to bring back normality (and ice). Best thing is that main character doesn't do it because of some higher goal or need to bring order. He does it because it's annoying to leave things as they are. As normally he'd gladly lay down and do nothing.

We solve simple puzzles to progress. For example - there are clouds of poisonous gas, and we need to start fans up to blow them away. It requires starting them in certain order, re-purposing batteries to turn off fans we don't need, and power up platform or other fan we need. So it's nothing demanding, but made well enough to keep me entertained. There are also time-based sequences, but thankfully they are rare.

There is hub area, and 3 routes branching from it, with boss at the end. They must be completed in certain order, as later levels are unlocked when we beat previous boss. And here comes my main problem with this game - after beating boss I'd want to go back to hub area on my own, and collect items I missed along the way. But it's not possible, game automatically kicks us to hub area. And to collect missed things, I'd need to again go all the way to the boss, and then all the way back. As you don't get "magically" teleported to hub area 2nd time. Game should ask if you want to go back to hub area, or stay on level with the boss.

Overall it's fine game, but nothing extraordinary. It does feel like nice game for kids, as puzzles aren't really complicated. But timed sequences or wonky combat in narrow areas could be frustrating for them.

It's nice parkour / exploration game. It has good combat and collectibles that do fit into setting, so I didn't feel like I'm collecting feathers in Assassin't Creed. Story is more personal than in previous game, so I didn't feel like rookie savior of the world.

But at the same time tombs are super easy and rare, upgrading equipment feels grindy (thankfully there are no microtransactions that allow players to either grind for upgrades or pay and unlock them right away). DLC (and some base game) armors look ridiculous. Half of the Season Pass content is focused on multiplayer skins, bonuses and so like. Story DLC are short and not interesting.

I paid for it (kind of xD) ~8€ so I think it was money well spent. But I wouldn't pay much more. This game has Tomb in the title. And offer no logical/puzzle or tomb part at all.

I have very vague knowledge about Warhammer universe, so most of the things that were happening in game were out of context. But apart from that it's nice slasher. Sadly there is not much more to say about this game. I will try later to play a bit in multiplayer.

I played in Doom 2003 and liked this horror atmosphere. And I thought this game will be similar. Thankfully I saw before playing that it's not horror game, but fast paced FPS. So I wasn't surprised / disappointed.

Apart from that it's nice fast paced shooter with fine plot. Nothing amazing though, just enough to justify slaughter. Many people say that music is spot-on... well I don't care much about music in games. So I can't say anything about it. But it surely wasn't not fit for this type of game. So it's fine?... I guess.

Multiplayer is nice and fast paced, level creator in MP mode is terrible and obviously created for console users. But downsides aren't big or important, so it's still really good game.

This game feels like it was designed as console sofa aRPG. Aggressive auto aim, low camera, no quest markers for 2nd player and no shared save file aren't an issue in that scenario. But it doesn't work well when we play it over the internet on PC. Story is decent to made me continue playing, there are some simple choices that influence last sequences. I wouldn't play it in solo most probably, but it's fine game to play in co-op (up to 4 players).

I have no idea how long I played, as installing unofficial patch forced me to use patcher exe file. And it means steam doesn't record gameplay time.

This game is so uneven :notlikeblob: Story is good, character creation is really detailed and without restrictions. There are few clans we can pick, and every has it's own ups and downs. Like one clan is fast and strong, but look like monsters. So they can't use streets to move around and need to use sewers. Other clan talks in rhymes due to mental problems. Another consider itself to be "high vampires" (or smth) and can't drink rats blood from sewers (and it's easiest way to refill blood meter without spending money). They differ in abilities and some stats may be locked from leveling up above certain level due to class restrictions. Like I couldn't level up my strength past x points, as I picked mix of stealth and magic class. Setting is interesting, nothing is black and white. Choices do influence a bit plot, but it's nothing like in Alpha Protocol for example.

Abilities are divided into 3 parts. Attributes (eg. strength, dexterity, charisma, appearance, perception, intelligence), abilities (eg. dodge, intimidation, firearms, stealth, security, computer). And then there are class-depended abilities (in my case seeing enemies through walls, dominance that can confuse enemies and blood magic that can shoot projectiles or cast shield). Certain feats are dependent on first 2 categories. Like hacking depends on level of intelligence and computer. Ranged depends on firearms + perception. Lock-picking on security + dexterity etc. So it feels really detailed, you don't simply add +1 to certain stat. And it's level of feat that matters in game, not attribute or ability.

There are no levels, experience points are awarded after completion of quest or certain quest part in various number (2 - 6). And can be spend directly for attributes / abilities / powers. Every level requires more experience, so 1st level of firearms costs 3p, but 2nd 6p etc. So sometimes it's better to level up attribute instead of ability to level up feat. Like buying 1st level of perception (that will also level up inspection in the process) to level up ranged combat, instead of investing more points into firearms. It does make whole system really interesting and way more "alive" than "add +1 to dexterity to get level up in lock-picking and bows"

But whole technical / gameplay side is really bad. It's clunky and not enjoyable. And not intuitive. I won't describe it, I'd need to add another 3 paragraphs here. If you're unable to play in game with bad gameplay it's not game for you. But if you're able to grit your teeth it will be worth it. For setting, character creation, non linear plot, ability to choose NPCs fate etc. Also I don't have need to replay it, but playing as different class would give different experience. For something as simple as picking Nosferatu which blocks many "easy" routes and force players to look for alternatives. Just don't pick this clan for 1st playthrough, playing as ugly vampire that's forced to use sewers only must be terrible experience for players that don't know gameplay basics and quests structure.

It's not bad point&click / adventure game. But it's also not amazing. It's just average. Our goal is to go back in time and save human race from global warming consequences. And to do so we must prevent nuclear plant in Brazilian forest from blowing up. (It's literally said to us in few first missions of gameplay, so I don't consider it to be a spoiler). There are few easy logical puzzles, running back and forth collecting items. Thankfully items aren't used in "deponia level of abstraction", so no problem to progress further. It's not a game I'd pick as my 1st pick, but it was in my backlog as last point&click game. So I decided I can give it a chance.

Simple twin stick shooter (that's still better to play with K+M). Nothing deep, just simple game where you drive around in car and kill waves of enemies. We can pick from few different cars and each has different abilities - I went for Gordon from Half-Life and was able to summon ant-aliens.

I beat this game with Fnord and really enjoyed it. Properly implemented co-op with not many bugs (more in DLC), fluid parkour, nice combat, ok story that doesn't feel forced or stupid (oh no, zombie apocalypse, go to closed city to find documents!). It would have 5 stars if game menus and UI wouldn't scream at every step console port! I will surely play in Dying Light 2 when it will drop to acceptable price.

Proper way of playing co-op:

1. Shoot explosive barrels when partner is nearby and say "sorry!" (or not, it's optional to apologize)
2. Mess up climbing and be salty they didn't do 200m jump down to horde of zombies to resurrect you
3. Turn on electric traps when they are nearby to electrocute them
4. Be actually helpful when there is big enemy nearby, as waiting for 2nd player to resurrect and run back to you to progress story is annoying
5. Laugh they messed jump and die, but be gravely offended when they laugh from you