After The End: The Harvest
Originally written for early access version 0.9u3 - 29May2017
Edited for version 1.4 20Jun2018
After nearly 90 hours and having seen the game to its completion, I’m finally comfortable editing in a final review.
Pros:
–- The game’s description and screenshots are very accurate for what you’re getting here: an expansive open-universe RPG with the look and feel of an old action-adventure SNES game.
— Among the biggest selling points for After the End continues to be developer interaction. Throughout the early access period and post-release, The Sworn has consistently been available to field questions and bug reports in the forums. I very much value this!
– Real player with 86.6 hrs in game
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UPDATED REVIEW:
In a time of loot box gambling and unfulfilled promises many devs have been screwing over customers so it’s nice to see
an early access dev actually keep true to their promises and finish their game. This game has a couple of small issues, but what it does achieve is
so fun and refreshing that it is worth peoples attention.
I originally played through and finished the game during its 0.08 alpha.
It was prety different but i loved it! You can read my original review under this one.
– Real player with 60.0 hrs in game
Bloodsports.TV
Full stop, this game is D..E..D Dead. You can find some random games every now and then but there should be no expectation to join random lobbies as the game died off years ago. You should only aim to purchase this title if you have friends that will be playing with you. I do check randomly for games but they are typically locked or just a 10 wave.
That being said you should add this game to your Wishlist and grab the 5 pack bundle when it goes on Sale. I think this game is worth 25 bucks for the 5 pack and it is a steal if your group of friends like these survival wave based games. This game is best enjoyed in groups of 4 or 5 in my opinion. Three is a decent time but you won’t be pushing as hard as it is harder to cover map objectives on the harder difficulties.
– Real player with 137.4 hrs in game
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A year or so back I purchased the Fatshark Bundle for myself and a friend. At first glance all the games looked entertaining and the reviews were good. Letting the game run for cards it unlocked one achievement and in doing so dropped my overall percentage score, it is because of this that I have played this game a lot sooner than I was planning.
Before I get into the details of why you shouldn’t purchase this game let me tell you what’s good about it first. The game itself looks good and runs smoothly at 60fps. The gladiators/arena remind me of Borderlands with it’s wise cracking commentator and post apocalyptic atmosphere. It shares the same universe as Krater, so if you wish to find out more details about this world you can do so if you please. Your character’s upgrade system although improperly balanced is fairly fleshed out, allowing for a wide variety of customisation. It’s got achievements, trading cards, a cloud save, and cooperative play, all of which work perfectly.
– Real player with 123.1 hrs in game
Darksiders™
“In times of war, the law falls silent.”
~Marcus Tullius Cicero
The seventh generation of video game consoles. In my humble opinion, it was the last generation, in which console war was still a thing. I mean, seriously. Look at the world we live in now. We have Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy on Xbox, Crash Bandicoot and Forza on PC and so on. Sure, technically, the console war is still on and some titles are still available only on certain platforms, but all in all, seventh generation was the last one when it was still interesting. The last one when it was actually worth having more than one system on you. And this game? It’s taking advantage of that.
– Real player with 136.7 hrs in game
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I’d started playing this game on several occasions… the first time the game chewed me up and spit me out before the end of the first dungeon… the second time I reached the first Boss, took a hammering a few times and then took a long break… but the story and the gameplay really intruiged me, so I came back a third time and was able to stay the course this time. Despite my earlier misgivings, I had an absolute blast and thoroughly enjoyed playing Darksiders… a few people have said it is an underappreciated game, and I can understand that.
– Real player with 40.3 hrs in game
ENSLAVED™: Odyssey to the West™ Premium Edition
TL;DR version:
The very definition of an OK game, not too good, not too bad.
Everything in Enslaved is fine, from it’s story (inspired from the famous chinese novel Journey to the West) to it’s main characters, post-apocalyptic atmosphere, music score and game mechanics.
With motion capture and voice acting of the main character from veteran Andy Serkis and story writing from sci-fi talent Alex Garland, while not a must have, Enslaved remains a fun enough game to play in cold winter mornings, with nothing better to do.
– Real player with 57.8 hrs in game
There are three modes of play to choose from - I chose Normal - and I used an X-box 360 controller – mostly.
From the main menu you can choose to “Continue Journey”, which of course continues your game from the last save point. Saves are automatic; just watch for the swirling blue symbol in the bottom right corner. If you choose to continue after you’ve already finished the game, you’ll get to re-watch the game’s epilogue. You can go back and try to get all of the collectibles via “Chapter Select” (it will give you stats on the collectibles per chapter from this section), and if you’ve gone back since finishing the game, “Continue Journey” will return you to the chapter you were last working on.
– Real player with 26.1 hrs in game
METAL DOGS
Someone made a game based on the comic “We 3” and that makes me so happy 3
EDIT: If you like games that you can grind at and listen to podcasts atst, this is a great addition to that kind of game, much like Book of Demons.
– Real player with 20.6 hrs in game
Currently this game is fun for about 10-20 mins. I love the concept and almost Diablo II like gameplay in portions of it and it has potential to be quite good… but a lot of work is needed to make this a game worth $30.
I would say in the games current state it feels like a $5 game that you could spend an hour or 2 enjoying before you put it down and walk away from it forever.
Lots of issues with this game (most of which I would overlook if it was multiplayer…. but it’s not)
PROS:
- Game has potential to be an awesome game of dodging and timing attacks and customizing weapons
– Real player with 3.6 hrs in game
Adeona
Arkadia is an unrefined world set centuries after a disease has destroyed humanity. To survive humans went into hiding, banding together in the darkness to create factions all their own. Now humanity has returned to rebuild civilization with the help of their cruel and sometimes malicious gods. The wilds of Arkadia are divided between five tribes: The Noctua, Ferox, Leifield, Nil Garden, and Marmis. Each group has its own quirks, beliefs, and reasons for division but all tribes fear and worship the same technology possessing Gods.
Action Commando 2
This is more of a Neutral case than a real recommend. While this game generally falls short of expectations, it is still enjoyable, the gameplay is solid, the game itself is stable. I still had fun. Yet, read on and weigh whether it will be worth it for you.
Let’s start with the negative to balance out that this is a Recommend review.
- Very short. I beat it on normal in about 2.25 hours, and that’s with some messing around wasting time. The first game took me about 3.5. (Note: I was already used to the gameplay having played Town of Machine ((the superior of the three)), so the time difference between the Action Commando games was not due to getting more used to the style).
– Real player with 2.8 hrs in game
Action Commando 2 is extremely rushed. I wouldn’t mind “more of the same” if there was at least some attempt to make it seem like the next chapter… but there isn’t. The only area that looks different is, deceptively enough, the start so you’re lead to believe that at least the aesthetics are different. But no such luck. Very soon we’re back to the same old underground corridors that look exactly like in the previous game. Oh you like that cool background with asteroids and space ships? Well, better take a good look because that’s the only time you’ll see it! It gets so bad that the final level literally reuses areas from Town of Machine and our big payoff for finishing the game is… Nothing! I mean it, there’s not even a text at the end. You just press a button and that’s it, credits roll. Not to mention it’s even shorter than AC1. This game costs almost nothing and yet I still feel ripped off.
– Real player with 2.1 hrs in game
Obsurity
This was odd.
The developers nearly had something really interesting going but the chance was forfeited.
What was good:
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Boss Fights (not that last one though)
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General combat mechanics
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Art + Sound design
What could be improved:
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UI both in and out of menu
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Sometimes getting stuck on/behind decorative objects in levels
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Various small translation errors
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I alone experienced two bugs, one with the first key door and the other with the eyeball boss getting stuck in the wall via shield bash
– Real player with 3.1 hrs in game
Obsurity is an attempt at a (top-down?) 2D Souls-Like, and actually does the job pretty well.
• The game is fairly difficult at places, especially in the
! Obsurity portals (due to a ton of enemies), even though Atari’s power seem to be maybe too powerful, since you can literally cheese the game by being both too far for enemies to see you, and kill them at the same time.
• Other than Atari’s power, Santinel’s powers are proven to be quite useful, needed even, if you want to enjoy the game to its fullest potential.
– Real player with 3.0 hrs in game
STROLL
STROLL is a top-down dungeon crawler, set in a dystopian world. From your safe haven you will rebuild society-one stroll at a time. Explore fallen cities, deserted suburbs and eerie forests, as you look for other survivors, materials for crafting or maybe a shiny new gun.
Terra Pulse
A city in ruins… a past to be unraveled
Decades after a disaster that disabled most of the planet’s electric artifacts and turned nature against civilization, humans are trying to get back on their feet, keeping away from the cities now infested with mutated creatures. You are Lena, one of the Seiva Hunters, individuals that brave the cities of old using a mix of gunblade arts and capoeira to survive the dangers of the Pulse.
After Lena’s mother - a Master Hunter - disappears on an expedition, Lena embarks on a journey leading her to one of the only cities which no hunter has ever returned: Rio de Janeiro.
You will explore the ruins of Rio, discovering the memories of a city that holds many scars - even before the disaster - that may help unravel the mystery behind the event that changed humanity’s destiny forever: the Terra Pulse.
Features
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Explore the ruins of a futuristic Rio de Janeiro overtaken by the tropical jungle, forging your own path Metroidvania style in a Top-Down perspective.
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Slash, dash and shoot your way in a combat system inspired by Capoeira, combining your evasive habilities with fast-paced, skill-driven gunblade wielding attacks.
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Build your Basecamp, recovering lost artifacts from the old world, rescuing mysterious robotic inhabitants of the city and upgrading your equipments, creating a small bastion of humanity in the ruined city.