FearfulPresence
I am not nearly as keen on this game as many of my friends are. I always feel like I'm trying to herd cats while managing the ship's crew.
2017
This is the only game I ever tried to 100% and I feel like that has to count for something.
Are you a pinhead? Would you like to be?
Pretty good on-ramp for pinball games in general. Nice selection of tables and most of them are good to great (not crazy about the space one, the rest are solid).
Pretty good on-ramp for pinball games in general. Nice selection of tables and most of them are good to great (not crazy about the space one, the rest are solid).
2020
People make a lot of jokes about these kinds of games, but most of them genuinely are quite good. This is another that's quite good. A lot of the later areas especially are real aesthetic treats.
This also deserves a shout out for being one of the very few semi-mainstream indie games visibly influenced by Yume Nikki. More games should take after it, in that regard.
This also deserves a shout out for being one of the very few semi-mainstream indie games visibly influenced by Yume Nikki. More games should take after it, in that regard.
2019
Excellent character creator wedded to an OK Dark Souls clone. It's good for knocking out a few afternoons but you're not going to be coming back to it much.
2004
There is no way you seriously think that anyone on Backloggd has anything meaningful to say about Half-Life 2, c'mon.
2015
Just one of those situations where I wish I got the hype. The game is solid and I like the IDEA of the game's world, but in practice playing it feels like playing most other trad. roguelikes and it doesn't have the strategic depth of many of the best ones.
2023
A gacha game is a gacha game and I don't buy the hype about this somehow being meaningfully different mechanically from any others. (And the fanbase gets obnoxious about its story differences, which I think are also overstated.) But it's good fun for a while, which is all you can ever really hope for out of these things. Plus it has a killer aesthetic.
Between this and the yet-to-be-released Reverse:1999 we're in for a good year for gacha games for weird people. I say that's a good thing.
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Between this and the yet-to-be-released Reverse:1999 we're in for a good year for gacha games for weird people. I say that's a good thing.
Also: something something Faust mommy something
2017
I have a very specific soft spot for this game because it kept me entertained the year of its release, I would be holed up at the local McDonald's on their wi-fi and playing it because we didn't have internet at home for a good few months. That said, that's more a review of my experience with the game than the game itself, which I mostly remember as a respectable stab at making an Enter The Gungeon-y kind of thing. As such things go, you could do worse.
This > Nuclear Throne, by the way.
This > Nuclear Throne, by the way.
This is the only Civ game I've played at length other than III, and I like that one better.
2021
I think this game is about how I realized I was done with deckbuilder games for a while.
2013
At its best, PoE is a decent take on the Diablo II formula. At its worst, PoE is a barely playable take on the Diablo II formula. Either way, it will mostly just make you want to go play Diablo II. Sure, that game is jankier, but it also has way more atmosphere than this does, despite the fact that this is trying so, so hard to have atmosphere.
2012
Hey do you guys remember Torchlight II? That game was okay.
2015
Play Enter The Gungeon or Monolith instead, would be my advice.
2020
It's fine. I actually don't think it's much like Slay The Spire, more like a tower defense game, and if you want one of those this is a decent one.