Forgetful Dictator
Recommendation: This is a fun game that will quickly improve your knowledge of world geography and maybe teach you a little bit about countries of the world.
Review: The story conceit of the game is fun; you play an aide to a Dr. Evil-like despot who is determined to rule the world by conquering it one nation (or territory) at a time. To conquer a nation, you just need to be able to recognize it and name it; doing so enables the despot’s armies to roll in to that country and conquer it. There’s no violence portrayed in the game, and the tone is cartoony and light, constantly poking fun at the dictator and his incompetence: it’s all just a loose story framework to fold around a game of identifying nations of the world by their border outlines and location on a Mercator projection map of the world. The game starts by asking you to choose whether you wish to identify all the countries of the world, or just work on conquering a part of it: Africa, the American hemisphere, East Asia and the Pacific, Europe, or West Asia and the Middle-east. Then the game choose a random nation within that group of countries, and you are presented with the outline of a country on the world map with a Hangman-like set of blanks to fill in with the name of the country. Enter the name correctly and you’ve conquered that country! Then the game will prompt you to choose an adjacent nation to identify/conquer. You have two resources to track as you play: armies and intel. You periodically gain armies as you march across the nations, but you lose one whenever you make a serious mistake (if you get one letter wrong, the game will tell you which letter it was and give you a second chance to get it correct). If you ever run out of armies, the game ends. You use intel to fill in some random letters in the country name (again like Hangman); there’s no penalty for running out of Intel (except that you get no clues). But as you continue to play, more game mechanics are revealed:
! a rival dictator - a ridiculous tyrannosaur - starts to conquer nations in parallel with you, chests of upgrades/materiel appear in random countries.
– Real player with 10.9 hrs in game
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I’ve only played country mode so far, and bought on sale, but I’m impressed, even though the polish on this is not perfect, it feels more like a game than many educational games do, and I’ve been enjoying it more than any geography lesson I can remember (there aren’t many I can remember - not my strong subject).
There are a few different ways of revealing unknown country names (guessing letters, using up “intel” to reveal half of the letters or the remaining helf, multiple choice, and rarely you can reveal a random country). These different methods for arriving at the answer add variety and probably help with learning and recall. The zany dialogue sets a low-pressure atmosphere, although it does get repetitive after a while. Easy enough to click past, though. Being interrupted by trivia questions can be frustrating sometimes, but also breaks things up to reduce monotony, so I wouldn’t go as far as to call it a bad idea - maybe the implementation could be a bit better.
– Real player with 9.4 hrs in game
Timothy Leary’s Mind Mirror
I absolutely recommend anyone with even a slight interest in psychotherapy to try this game out, not because it’ll blow your mind or because Leary was some kind of genius, but because it’s a solid example of what I believe to be a therapy-oriented game.
Somewhere between interactive fiction and gestalt therapy (not mention the weird words and “archetypes”), this program is for all I have read basically a reproduction of Leary’s PhD thesis. It might well have been a facebook quiz if it was written two decades later! It’s not particularly avant-garde or exceptionally brilliant as far as I’m concerned, but it’s neat to play through.
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
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Fun Forbidden
Fun Forbidden is a VR steampunk-themed sandbox filled with element combinations, collectibles, and adventures. Let your mind run wild in this fantasy world and become the master inventor!
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QuizWitz
Are you having friends or family over tonight or even right now? Are you looking for something fun to do? A party game perhaps? Urge your guests to have a seat in your soft sofa with a drink and start QuizWitz to initiate the trivia fun!
QuizWitz is a party quiz game that leaves no quizzer behind. The game allows you to use your smartphone, tablet, laptop, etc as a game controller. It requires no additional installations, a webbrowser will do. Test each other’s knowledge about different categories exploring unique question types.
All questions are carefully created by our QuizWitz community, and the quizzes you will play here are a bundle of their best work. The questions range from multiple choice to point-and-click questions, while the discovery and lightning rounds will put you in the middle of the action.
What are you waiting for? Spice up your evening with a challenging game of QuizWitz.
The Typing of The Dead: Overkill
To start, I’ll answer the question I don’t see many reviews covering: Yes, this game can help you improve your typing, assuming you know your fundamentals (homerow concept, finger placement, etc.). I don’t see it going over very well if you don’t know the basics, but if you do it can be a pretty effective tool, even if it wasn’t exactly designed for this purpose.
I wasn’t a very good typist when I started. I tested myself online after my first game session and was around 18 wpm with frequent glances at the keyboard. I’ve treated playing the game like lessons, set periods on a schedule. I usually play 3 chapters a weeknight, which equals about an hour to an hour and a half long sessions. I started on the lowest difficulty and worked my way up. As I said, this game isn’t exactly designed as a teaching tool. If you suck at typing, you die a lot. I was dying as much as a dozen times a stage early on. You’ll pretty much have to ignore scoring at this point and just focus on progressing.
– Real player with 24.0 hrs in game
“WHAT THE FUNK” had to start the review with that phrase from the game it just sum’s it all up really.
OMG I really cant explain in word’s just how funny this game actually is and all the grind house reference’s are easy to see from the grainy camera and bad voice acting to the terrible script its all part of what make’s this game what it is and that put simply in one word is……….AWESOME!!
House of the Dead : Overkill - Story Trailer - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4TUFkapM_Y
– Real player with 14.4 hrs in game
Trivia Tricks
Anyone who enjoys quiz games should take a look at this game.
Positive
Different game modes (everyone against everyone, boss mode)
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Everyone against everyone: Classic game mode in which all players compete against each other
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Boss mode: All players compete against a boss (currently 2 different bosses)
Can be played online and offline
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With up to 7 other players
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If no friends are available at the moment, you can play against bots
– Real player with 60.5 hrs in game
Honestly a great trivia game
My buddy bought himself and I a copy the other day because we were in search of a fun game to play for the time being. I like trivia games so I thought it would be a bit of fun for an hour or 2 but it is a lot more addictive then thought. I can see myself playing this for many more hours to come and from here on out will be my go to trivia game. if you like trivia it is easily worth the price and you wont regret it.
Also a previous review I seen mentioned it being heavily geared towards the USA which is entirely not the case, I am from The United States and I can with certainty say it has a healthy mix and if anything its more EU then USA because most of the sports questions revolve around Soccer/EU Football but aside for those then its seems very balanced.
– Real player with 39.3 hrs in game
Frog Fractions: Game of the Decade Edition
Many of my friends may describe me as scholarly, educated, a menace to society. In all my years of education not one person, teacher, computer program, textbook, or any other form of education has compared to Frog Fractions. While I once thought I was talented in the act of mathematics, Frog Fractions proved me wrong. In a simple 4th of an hour, I have gained more knowledge than ye average scholar over a lifetime. Luckily this piece of knowledge is free to all, although it is clearly best with the ten dollar expansion, a hat for said frog. It is beyond the simple humans comprehension to describe the experience and knowledge in a four hundred page scholarly article. Please spend as much time as possible in this application, not only is it educational but a gift to humanity as a whole.
– Real player with 10.4 hrs in game
Before discovering this game, I was arrogant. What could some silly frog teach me about fractions? Of what use could this game be if my typing skills are already godlike?
How wrong I was.
Thanks to Frog Fractions, I have found a whole new level of understanding. It has unlocked the latent power of my amphibian brain. Name any fraction, and I can calculate it in my head. When I type, I type so fast my old keyboard couldn’t keep up so I had to have one custom-made. This review took me two seconds to type thanks to the skills this game has taught me.
– Real player with 4.9 hrs in game
Algebra Ridge
A fun game in the style of anime with incendiary music. Not bad for a free game at all
– Real player with 130.6 hrs in game
March 21 2021
Not quite what I was expecting. When will part two come out?
I didn’t notice or find any issues/bugs while playing this game.
Very enjoyable.
Update April 2 2021
I finished the game again. However, I couldn’t find the disk in the game that has a secret message on it. Where I thought it was I couldn’t click on it.
Other than that, I did find a possible bug. I thought it was odd when there were no screen shots in the community content section from other players that have played before. So I thought to post one or two. When I pressed the F12 button while in game to take a screen shot it wouldn’t work. I have successfully taken screen shots of other games without issues.
– Real player with 4.7 hrs in game
Summer Camp
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1682340/Plane_Accident/
At Summer Camp you can play the roles of two brothers, which makes for more varied gameplay. As the older brother, you will be the camp commander who keeps order and discipline, but also organizes fun activities for the younger campers.
As the younger brother, you will experience real summer camp adventures. You will go on hikes, solve puzzles, track wild animals and gain new skills. From time to time you will also have to take care of the camp hoodlum. A bucket of cold water on his head or a painted-on mustache should slow him down. But be careful, he might strike back. At the end of the day you will have to tame Big Foot, who might help or hinder your activities depending on his mood.
Get ready for the adventure of a lifetime.
Improve the camp and fully enjoy camp life. Collect items, put up tents, build fires, earn additional badges.
Ability to play two characters – you decide which activities you feel like doing.
Prepare for adventures in different camps: a sports camp, science camp, medical or magical camp. Fun awaits you at each of them as does the ability to earn a variety of skills and badges.
Funny gameplay, a positive storyline and lots of open space will give you a huge shot of positive energy.
High School of Memories
This game isn’t to my taste, but that’s not the source of the review. The darn thing won’t uninstall.
– Real player with 155.7 hrs in game