Police Simulator: Patrol Duty
Disclaimer: I was a closed beta tester for this game starting from October 9, 2018-June 18, 2019, so some information might be outdated. No compensation of any sort (other than a beta key) was provided to me.
Updates: I just got off of a shift after a traffic duty mission where I frisked a suspect and found a switchblade. He was arrested shortly after. Was not taking an emergency call, just doing proactive beat work. Also, the plate information for illegally parked vehicles in traffic duty show up on the PDA, but not on the computer. Also received word that others have arrested those with warrants outside of missions and calls.
– Real player with 32.1 hrs in game
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Quite an entertaining game. There is a ton of repeats with missions which can get a little boring over a longer period of time, but it’s a good thing they have Multiplayer. I’ll state the pro’s and con’s as well as what could/should be added in the future. I will state some things that may confuse people, but I will try and explain them in brackets. This is of course because I am an Officer in real life and I like to point out things that would be obvious to other officers.
Pros:
- Has a realistic form of Conduct
– Real player with 28.8 hrs in game
Dungeons 3
There are things I like and things I don’t like in this game. I have gotten and completed all the DLCs. I have also completed Dungeons 2.
I start from the things I didn’t like.
The trailer shows a nice movie - that is just an ad in the store. There are no such animations in the game. After some missions(not all) you are shown a partially animated 2d cartoon. No 3d animations like in the trailer, nothing like that in the game.
Dungeons… There were dungeons in Dungeons 2, but in Dungeons 3 there is just 1 dungeon in each of the missions. It was fun to visit and explore dungeons other than your own in Dungeons 2, nothing like that here. There are no other dungeons.
– Real player with 159.1 hrs in game
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Disclaimer: I have not played any of the earlier installments in the series, nor have I played any other dungeon sim games, so I have nothing to compare this game to.
General
In this game, you build a dungeon, create an army of evil and invade the aboveground world, called Overworld, to defeat heroes and complete various objectives, while at the same time defending your dungeon from the heroes' raids. The game has single player, co-op, and multiplayer mods, but I have only tried out the single player campaign.
– Real player with 102.1 hrs in game
Evil Genius 2: World Domination
–-{ Graphics }—
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
—{ Gameplay }—
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It’s just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don’t
—{ Audio }—
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I’m now deaf
—{ Audience }—
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☐ Adults
☐ Grandma
—{ PC Requirements }—
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☑ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
—{ Difficulty }—
– Real player with 127.3 hrs in game
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Great take on the original, but could be much better
I played the original game when it first came out. I still remember playing it as a teenager. I loved that game, I played it so many times across many years.
Even after uninstalling, if I come across it again I will play it again. That’s how good it was. It was funny, it was logical, it was quirky, it had mod support and overall entertaining.
When Evil Genius 2 came out, I was super excited to play it again as I thought it would be much better than the original but it was missing a few vital quirks that would’ve made it better.
– Real player with 120.9 hrs in game
Ring of Fire
Ring of Fire is a detective noir puzzler set in the solarpunk utopia of New London.
You play as Detective Grosvenor, a jaded, middle-aged woman hunting through the still-dark corners of the city in pursuit of a radicalised serial killer.
Using your powers of deduction you must solve the brutally gruesome murders of the Ring of Fire killer. Examine clues, interrogate key suspects, and cross-reference your findings in the police database to uncover the mystery.
SEARCH
Solve the case using text entry, meaning you can’t brute force the puzzle.
INTERVIEW
Push your suspects to the brink through branching cinematic conversations with meaningful consequences.
INVESTIGATE
Explore the 3D crime scene to examine evidence both visually and textually.
Unferat
An amazing game, the village feels alive and everyone does there own thing. the magic system is complex and a little tough to master making you feel like your not just saying words, your saying arcane spells that are easy to mess or screw up. you are not a combat mage. you are a summoner, necromancer, alchemist, warlock. the entire strategy of the game is planning. knowing how and when to strike. do you gather an army of the dead and storm the town, slowly pick them off with poisons, make the forest and roads impassable with evil trees so they slowly starve. or make a portal to hell that there own deaths will fuel. its a wonderful game that allows for a bunch of different play styles. i am waiting for more from this wonderful dev
– Real player with 66.7 hrs in game
IN A WORD: MAYBE
IN A NUTSHELL:
WHAT TO EXPECT: Dark arts simulator. Vengeance themed story. Tight game world. Focused, methodical gameplay. Plot and scheme. Repair and upgrade a remote lair as a base of operations. Gather resources to create reagents necessary for spells. Direct and indirect methods of attack. Different builds provide a little replayability. Singeplayer only.
ACHIEVEMENTS: LOOK SIMPLE w/ NO DESCRIPTIONS.
STATUS: COMPLETED. LIMITED SUPPORT.
– Real player with 18.7 hrs in game
Dracula’s Castle
Manage the castle by expanding it, then build and unlock new rooms granting new mechanics to explore. The Alchemist will allow you to equip Dracula with mystical tools, unlock the bat cave to improve Dracula’s Mist Form. The more you expand, the more your labour force can grow. You’ll need to grow your army of servants in order to accumulate enough soil to sail to England on the Demeter.
Travel Transylvania by night but watch out for Van Helsing. Stalk the towns of Transylvania, on the hunt for fresh blood, or attempt to overwhelm them to gain powerful bonuses. Feast, recruit laborers or “invite” a guest to the castle, the choice is yours. You’ll need to entrap Jonathan Harker to fulfill Dracula’s dark designs.
Grow Dracula’s power the way you want to. Dracula possesses different attributes such as Power, Cunning, Speed, Charm and Magick. Choose which ones to train and equip the right relics for your build. Build new monsters at the Alchemist’s Lab utilising recipes found in the Necronomicon! Craft or acquire new gear throughout your adventure.
Engage angry mobs, town militia and even dedicated vampire hunters in exciting tactical turn-based combat. Leverage Dracula’s powerful abilities and forms to outwit and overwhelm the enemy. The spoils of battle are yours! Hand over curios and materiel to the Castle Alchemist to craft new items and raise new monsters to join Dracula’s dark menagerie.
Follow the early plot of Bram Stoker’s masterpiece, the main goal centers around Jonathan Harker, Van Helsing and the trip to Carfax Abbey in England; but plenty needs doing in the dark corners of Transylvania. Engage in various side-quests given to you by Death and other denizens of the castle as you work on building up Dracula’s regional power.
Dungeons - The Dark Lord
What can I say about this? Hooooooooooo boy! I hate this game! I wanted to like it; I liked the first and second instalments enough, but this…
Coming off playing the first game, the best thing that was done, was getting rid of the annoying objectives in the campaign mode. Plenty of them were bugged in the first game and most of the time, they weren’t worth doing outside of getting ability and skill points. So that’s something ‘The Dark Lord’ has going for it… that said though…
Are you familiar with the saying ‘too many cooks spoil the broth’? Well, in this game, ‘too many dungeon lords spoil the dungeon’! Just something else for you to sink resources into, upgrading three dunderheads each level. You run somewhere and the others will follow; you get into a fight and the others… either stop fighting or don’t fight at all! You do have the option of controlling them individually, but the three lords, individually suck for the most part and balancing them becomes a right pain in the arse due to the overhaul of the items and the pitiful amount of soul energy you get in this game. (FYI - Soul energy is the primary currency in the game and is needed to buy gimmicks to upgrade your prestige; the higher your prestige, the more ‘useful’ the item you can buy in order to earn more soul energy down the road.)
– Real player with 47.8 hrs in game
Oh… the twistedly morbid themepark simulator is back with an expansion that continues the story where it left off…
and this time it’s a parody of “The Lord of the Rings”…and by parody I mean a very loose parody.
This time you play as the ex-girlfriend of the Underlord ready to topple his reign because that’s what Ex-Girlfriend’s do apparently… (insert Ex Girlfriend Joke here) and this time she’s employed the help of the other familiar characters who are but Parodies of others with the exceptions of the Undead Senile King and the Stubborn Minotaur.
– Real player with 36.3 hrs in game
Landlord Simulator
It is an alright game. could deffinetly be more exciting. Like if things broke on the game actually show them broken. maybe have a stove fire. a bed bug infestaion. instead of just somethings broken, and theres a red light over it. I would also like to be able to interact with characters around town, and in the houses I own. They could tell me what they need. like if rent is to high, or if it is a steal. The ability to add on things to the building to bring up rent. like a new room, a pool, a backyard. Pets. If someone wants a pet they have to pay a fee. Also my landlord is so boring. Not stlish at all. I want them to wear a fancy dress. lol! I hope you make this game better because it is really bare bones to me. My roommate told me I should get into game design. He himself has worked on video games. Thank you!
– Real player with 7.3 hrs in game
This is weirdly enjoyable if you spend a few hours with it, but the negative reviews are fairly spot on in that there’s not much of a game here. Were Valve ever to add a Neutral option to reviews Landlord Simulator would get one from me. LS really does feel like a spreadsheet in many ways, an asset flip in others…and yet I still sort of liked playing it.
Buying and renting out houses is viable if you don’t mind constantly fast-forwarding time to barely earn your initial investment back over an extended period. Stores on the other hand are money pits, depending on item pricing and staff wages you can easily rake in $100k in less than twenty minutes with one store by abusing the game time speed option.
– Real player with 5.7 hrs in game
MachiaVillain
05/26/2018: I could say I’m surprised by the negative reviews, but since it’s Steam, I’m saddly not. Let me start by saying I have as yet to experience any of the “game breaking” bugs in this “unplayable game” some other people have and I’ve got a lot more hours in than most of the negative reviewers. I suppose it’s possible I’m expectionally lucky and got the one magical copy of the game that was bug free. More likely - based on having read the complaints in the forum - those suffering major issues are due to corrupted files or compatability issues. Are their glitches? Yes, but the one’s I"ve experienced are, frankly, minor and superficial things. Stuff like doors and traps facing the wrong way when placed. In my personal experience they still work and autocorrrected themselves after the first time the’re used.
– Real player with 190.0 hrs in game
The game is good and all. Its idea and such.
Here’s the thing. It says as a released version. Unfortunately, it isn’t. It’s very much in early access.. update is slow, very slow. Devs don’t listen to its playerbase.
I don’t think it’s a bug, coz a bug in a code works “somewhat”. In this game functions don’t really work! Their way of thinking is like this. “Meh, this’ll do” or somewhere along the line.
In example..
1.Battery’s don’t work, it doesn’t really store electricity as intended.
2.Hidden wall/door(a door only for ur minions.), Heroes and victims walk on them like normal doors regardless if scared or not.
– Real player with 55.1 hrs in game
Police Stories
The Game:
It’s a cool game, with a good amount of mechanics and tactics into the gameplay.
But it’s not perfect, the game has some minor flaws in my opinion, but fortunately that don’t ruin the experience at all.
The campaign is ok, i have a lot of fun in the process of beating it, trying to arrest or eliminate the tangos on the maps and avoid civilians casualties, also using the different types of equipment and devising strategies for find which one better fits on the situation.
Every situation display is procedurally generated in this game, so you need to evolve your tatics every time you restart a game. But, note, that requires some patience, because you could fail a lot when something goes wrong on your course of action, for me at least added more into the challenge and i don’t find this annoying.
– Real player with 20.2 hrs in game
Edit: The game has been updated to have Steam Workshop, and the custom levels that people have already made do provide unique (and challenging!) level layouts that force more creative use of your equipment. While the campaign may be a bit of a breeze to work through, the devs provided players a way to provide any kind of challenge they wanted. This solved my issue of the game being too easy and short so I now consider this game a big thumbs up.
ORIGINAL REVIEW:
The game is very close to being a thumbs up, with a few glaring problems that are fixable.
– Real player with 15.3 hrs in game