Sengoku Jidai: Shadow of the Shogun
Sengoku jidai is a turn based 4x4 grid style strategy game based in eastern asia and asias historical battles. Covering Japan to Korea, China and Mongolia its a true gem of a game that, get this, the developers still work on.
Lets talk about the game play:
Im going to be straight up honest, It’s not for everyone. Its like chess, with rng. Your units battle each other, based on their attack stats, armour stats, terrain and morale the computer calculates how much damage is done to the unit and if damage is done to their morale. You can also affect this based on your position which is where the game really shines.
– Real player with 216.7 hrs in game
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This game is simply incredible. I had been looking for a tabletop wargaming experience in digital format for a very long time. The direct predecessor to this game, Pike and Shot, looked very viable, but I was not interested enough in the time period and aesthetic of it to gamble $40. Something about landschneckts in frilly blouses and giant feather caps wielding impossibly long pikes just doesn’t do it for me (purely a personal preference).
But being a lifelong fan of Japanese history, and in particular the Sengoku Jidai, when this game came out I knew I had to get it. I have no regrets. It is a near-perfect digital adaptation of tabletop wargaming.
– Real player with 81.7 hrs in game
Berzerk Flashback
The game is great…but, Where is the premium content for Trap Master?
There’s also a lot of other missing games, Hell I’ll go over them,
Kick The Critter, MC2 Burning Skies, Alienocalypse, Conquerium, King’s Rider.
And there’s probably more out there!
– Real player with 80.6 hrs in game
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9/10 Ill explain why below
When I was younger Berzerker games was one of my fave creators of flash games. When I heard that they were putting out a compilation of all the games they made in one thing for steam after flashplayer was killed, I would do nothing but wait and buy it.
Low price, tons of content, all good? Well any game that had a online mode seem to be a taaaad bugged but I dont rightly care, I dident care about those ones that much
Summed up? If you liked the games back in the day you’ll love this, and for the price? Quite worth it
– Real player with 25.1 hrs in game
SNK 40th ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION
SNK 40th Anniversary Collection is a prime example of the sum being greater than its parts. Before I go on, this is the first time I played any of the arcade versions. Of the NES games back in the day, I only played Ikari Warriors I, II, and about 5 minutes of Ikari III (It was terrible then and it is terrible now).
Almost every single game in this collection borders on impossibly difficult to play. Additionally, most of these games did not age well; more than two-thirds of these games are just plain awful. Ikari Warriors I (NES & Arcade), Psycho Soldier (Arcade), Crystalis (NES), Iron Tank (NES), and to a lesser extent Athena (Arcade only) are the highlights. The rest are absolute bombs to middling at best. I really enjoyed Psycho Soldier, though. If you’re in a down mood, play this game. With its bubble gum-like voice, music, and singing, you’ll be walking on sunshine in no time…as long as you’re using the rewind feature. Which brings us to the saving grace of the SNK 40th Anniversary Collection - Rewind.
– Real player with 50.6 hrs in game
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I really can’t recommend this set. I’d like to, I love old collections. I am completely in favor of preserving games, any games, so they can be seen by anyone who wants to. I don’t even mind the fact that a lot of games in this are bad. Bad games deserve preservation too. But I do wish more games on here were good. But worse than that, the collection as a whole suffers some major issues that really set me off. The controls being the biggest problem. A lot of the games in this set used special control mechanics in the arcade. That’s all well and good for the arcade, but it did make home ports that used more general controls harder to implement. They did their best here, utilizing a twin-stick style control for a lot of their games. But it doesn’t always work as intended. And worse, there is a glitch in there somewhere where every now and then it just reads one of the joysticks being full one direction, and never resets it. So every now and then - and it happens fairly frequently to be honest - you’ll just start veering off in one direction for a while. Combine that with controls that feel sloppy to begin with, and that’s a major flaw.
– Real player with 41.2 hrs in game
Total War: SHOGUN 2
OK I’m older than the average gamer and have a history of traditional wargaming - map based and figure based games/campaigns. I find all the Total War immersive and an excellent up to date computer based version of traditional wargaming. Shogun 2 is a particular favourite as it was the first one I really started to customise with user based extensions and later my own. Today, I’m downloading it again to play it for the first time in about 3 years and can hardy wait. Programming wise, apart from a few moody extensions the game is very reliable and lock-up and crash free. It also gets a big plus for not stealing all my memory and CPU run time allowing me to multi-task with high end productivity and graphics software.
– Real player with 5367.3 hrs in game
The best Total War CA ever made. It’s all downhill from here.
– Real player with 541.1 hrs in game
A Total War Saga: FALL OF THE SAMURAI
Forewords.
I can’t believe how petty some people are. It’s a good thing that these people are only a minority and don’t represent Total War community as a whole - seeing some people raging and trying to review bomb a game over something like this is just downright sad: not even allowing comments on their spam reviews and hiding behind private accounts. “Forcing us to buy the game again! Stupid naming the game again! Prince increased!” First for the people going on about “price thieves!”, Total War Saga: Fall of the Samurai includes the DLC that originally had to be purchased separately - the price takes this into account and isn’t more expensive than previously purchasing them separately with the game. It would help if you would actually bother checking what you are going on about instead of just riding along as some sad meme: no one is forcing you to buy the game again. If you already own Fall of the Samurai you will still own it - the rebranding does not affect you. Fall of the Samurai was always a standalone game - it did not require Shogun 2 to be played, and being a standalone game set in a more constrained time period (like Thrones of Britannia) as opposed to a more open-ended experience like the mainstay Total War titles, rebranding it under the Total War Saga is actually fitting. That some people are raging like this without even knowing what they are on about is simply ridiculous. Fortunately Steam now has a system in place to disregard raging kids like this with their attempts at review bombing.
Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai is one of the best Total War games. The game has most of the positives of the base Shogun 2 game, The game looks great, performs well and has late game difficulty. Unfortunately, the game’s multiplayer can be extremely unbalanced at times. However, the game’s innovation and experimentation make up for any flaws or roughness it may have from being a stand-alone game made between major releases.
Fall of the Samurai does not look as amazing as Shogun 2, but it still looks great. The modern units look dignified but still rough in a realistic way. The old school samurai look traditional and plain, but their simplicity is oddly intimidating. The campaign map is a 19th century styled geographic map that places less emphasis on beautiful mountains and more on the great plains and seas that can be traversed by rail and steamship.
G.I. Joe: Operation Blackout
I do recommend this game, albeit with some caveats.
G.I. Joe: Operation Blackout is an old-fashioned third-person shooter with 17 missions, across which you get to play as twelve characters total (six each for the Joes and Cobra). The game is obviously a love letter to the original 80s cartoon, and given the comments the developers make in the art book, they worked with what they had and would’ve make a more robust game if given the choice. If you like G.I. Joe and don’t boot up the game expecting a triple-A title, I think you’ll have a good time.
– Real player with 17.7 hrs in game
I honestly couldn’t tell you why this game got so slammed at release. I picked it up in a Fanatical Platinum bundle and powered through the whole thing in one sitting - and it was worth every penny. Definitely a budget title, but between the self-aware humor, earnest appreciation for the IP, and damn fun action (even the vehicle sections!), Operation Blackout might actually be the first genuinely GOOD G.I. Joe game!? It basically is like if Volition’s Agents of Mayhem was a linear action game rather than a sandbox grind, and it works so much better as a result!
– Real player with 10.2 hrs in game
Private Agent
Fire as many bullets!
Private Agent" is a VR gun shooting game compatible with Oculus Rift (Oculus Quest + Oculus Link).
You can switch between various weapons and aim to conquer stage bosses.
The player is asked to destroy the criminal organization Echidna and confront the organization.
When you run out of ammunition, you can discard the entire weapon and take out a new one with the AR armory system, so there is no need to reload or perform other difficult operations.
Some weapons can be held in both hands, so you can use two pistols for a barrage or a handgun and knife for a CQC style fight.
Experience the flashy gun action with simple controls!
Warring States
must play for awesome game nights with friends (if you still have those)
– Real player with 2.6 hrs in game
The game is a turn-based strategy game. It has a very simple login screen. You can create a room and invite your friends or you can join another room. However, you will need the room code for this. When you want to join a room, you write your name, write the room code and you join. The nickname writing part is a bit bad, as far as I remember you can use 4 or 5 letters. When you join the game, you will see your soldiers after the room owner chooses a color for you. After choosing the best formation that will be advantageous against your enemy, you are ready for fight. You take turns moving your soldiers and getting them to fight with the enemy’s soldiers, entering the enemy’s territory. I have no idea how to win the game because optimization of the game is so bad that you can get low fps even on a very good computer. Although there is no difference between low quality and high quality in the game, the game may crash when you set it to high. I think these kinds of things will be fixed in the future because game has just been released, but it is wrong for them to sell dlc when the game is in a mess.
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
Shadow Tactics: Aiko’s Choice
It’s like they were short on their Q4 financials and some bean counter said, “Hey, how can get a quick cash infusion before Dec. 31?” And then someone said, “I think there’s a bit leftover on the Shadow Tactics cutting room floor we can wrap up in a bow and sell for cash grab so we can all get our Christmas bonuses.”
This DLC is just way too short. No new characters or abilities. And all the achievements are super easy. There’s no achievements for doing the missions on hard difficulty. No achievements for getting all the badges. It’s like this was all just quickly picked up off the floor and thrown together.
– Real player with 20.9 hrs in game
Not much to say here, it’s more of the brilliant Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, for which you can see my review here . It’s made in the exact same engine, so all the pros and cons of my original review stand.
The 3 short interlude missions, with no badges, allow for a more relaxed pace to deliver story and plot in. This adds character and is very welcomed. The maps are most huge and, as usual, richly detailed (except the second, which takes place on an archipelago with smaller sandy islands that tend to look mostly the same).
– Real player with 15.5 hrs in game
Historic Fighters
This was a really fun game, really enjoyed it! I love historical themes.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game