A Confusing Walk
HIGH A cyberpunk setting mixed with HP Lovecraft.
LOW Simple, boring puzzles.
WTF I’m still not entirely sure what the story was about.
Transient Review
Tag: Iceberg Interactive
The Sojourn Review
Stay A While, Don’t Listen
HIGH The “Vivid Nightmare” level.
LOW Trying to inch along bridges while keeping an eye in view.
WTF “The more you reap the more you sow”?
Antigraviator Review
Speed Trap
HIGH The insane sense of speed and beautiful graphics.
LOW The handling, course design and traps.
WTF The tutorial automatically loads every time the game starts.
Starpoint Gemini Warlords Review
Second Star To The Right, Straight On To My Space Station
HIGH It splits the difference between Freelancer and Masters of Orion…
LOW …by building one game and grafting it onto the spine of the other.
WTF Awkward mouse and keyboard controls for a PC exclusive.
EVE Valkyrie: Warzone Review
Welcome To The More-Zone
HIGH Well-tuned dogfighting with or without VR.
LOW …but still mainly better in VR.
WTF A lack of singleplayer narrative content doesn’t help sell the EVE setting.
Inmates Review
Mystery Meat HIGH A solid-enough intro. LOW My character recoiling in terror at Roy the security guard. WTF That English translation. Yikes. I can’t find much information on Davit Andreasyan, the creator of Inmates. This appears to be his first commercial videogame, and if the credits are to be […]
Galaxy of Pen & Paper Review
Space…The Weekend Frontier
HIGH Depth in both mechanics and narrative…
LOW …But not enough to escape shallow first impressions.
WTF So they’re playing a tabletop RPG on a PC in the ’90s. How are they talking to each other?
Conarium Review
You Don’t Want to Know What the Third Eye Saw
HIGH Shoggoth chase!
LOW The developers completely failing to flag something crucial, costing me an hour of backtracking.
WTF Why is smashing walls so satisfying?
Into the Stars Review
Empty Space
HIGH The opening movie and game environment look awesome.
LOW Traveling between planets.
WTF Wait, so the human race is escaping evil aliens by moving to a planet in an area heavily patrolled by them?
Vector Thrust Review
Rolling, turning, diving!
HIGH All the combat jets anyone could ever want, all in one game.
LOW The rest of the content has a long way to go.
WTF Some of the experimental aircraft designs from the past… Wow!
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