I was bribed with three free months of stadia by google, so I figured I'd try one of their exclusives. Maybe this was just not my type of game, but I had a hard time finding much I liked about it. The stealth didn't feel too great, the story seemed pretty thin, and the voice-acting was even a bit iffy.

Was one of the few games on stadia when they gave me three months free, and I'm glad I tried it. Never played the first one so I can't speak to upgrades or anything, but this was a super fun game. Addicting to just dig and explore, and getting to a new boss and beating it always felt like an accomplishment.

A classic. Me and my friend stayed up one night at a sleep over and were too scared to beat it, so I had to play with my sibling later. Obviously if you get stuck on a section the initial fear of the creature gives way to annoyance, but it's a horror game there's really no way to remedy that.
I was playing this years later after it had come out even, and it was still scary, mysterious, and fun to explore.

Unfortunately after having just beaten "the dark descent", I was excited to go right into this one. It felt incredibly different though, and not in a good way. The puzzles felt pretty easy, the monsters were shown pretty early so the uneasy fear of the unknown from the first game was lost, and it also felt really short.

I enjoy playing puzzle games with friends and family so I had an enjoyable time with this one. The mysteriousness of the story definitely lent itself to my intrigue, but the puzzles felt like a good challenge even just by themselves.

Another stadia game I tried on my free trial, and I was not expecting a 2d squad based tactical game. I enjoyed it a lot though, and bouncing bullets around the ship to get some sick kills made it a fun time. Challenging, but not unnecessarily so.

After enjoying two steamworld games in a row, I went for the trifecta. And to be fair I was enjoying this one until the very end. The whole game I felt like the difficulty and levels scaled along with my characters nicely, but the last level had a MASSIVE level spike I wasn't prepared for, and didn't really want to grind for since I felt so far behind where I was supposed to be. I was getting wrecked.

It is incredibly broken on the ps3, and the last level is not even beatable unless you have memorized the QTE buttons because the game doesn't register the time allowed for button presses correctly from when it's shown to when you press them, no matter how fast you go.
It did give us the "I'm going to die" meme though, so I couldn't give it 1 star.

This game is not for the faint of heart. It is seriously challenging even on normal difficulty. Granted I'm not exceptionally gifted at this genre, but I consider myself decent and I was really only able to beat it by completing it in co-op. Which having co-op is a big plus. Trying to run through levels shooting dinosaurs, demons, and aliens with a friend as fast as possible is always a good time.

This game is rough. I even got stuck when the spider mech got caught on some terrain and I had to restart that level. Performance is not ideal, but I stayed for the dinos. The end boss was honestly pretty fun, but I'm not surprised this essentially ended the franchise.

One of the great horror games I have played. Great jump scares that don't feel cheap, terrific atmosphere, and the nightvision recording is horrifying. No weapons either so this is the real deal experience. Even playing it with a dorm room full of college friends wasn't enough to not scare all of us.

I had higher hopes for this game I'm ngl. I heard it was a hidden gem so I grabbed it for cheap, and while I did generally enjoy it, some of the mechanics were pretty maddening. The story especially seemed incredibly paper thin to me, with a not very satisfying ending.

It's more max payne. More bullet time, better set pieces, deeper story. Wins all around.

As someone who wasn't going to try and bring GTA into the house, this was an answered prayer to my teenage self. Incredibly fun game with an engaging story, good characters, and fun environmental melee. Never gets old shoving someone in an AC fan.

Went from grimdark, to psychedelic, and honestly I'm not mad at it. I do feel like the storytelling was a bit lost after a very satisfying finish to max payne 2. It didn't stick with me quite as much as the old ones, but it's still a great game in it's own right, and bullet time will never ever get old.