OnlineSammie
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Mid-20s woman with a passion for gaming. I remember getting my own PC in my room at age 4 and playing games even before then. Since then a lot of time has been spent playing World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy XIV, and my favorite games as listed on my profile.
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GOTY '22
Participated in the 2022 Game of the Year Event
2 Years of Service
Being part of the Backloggd community for 2 years
Busy Day
Journaled 5+ games in a single day
On Schedule
Journaled games once a day for a week straight
Elite Gamer
Played 500+ games
Gamer
Played 250+ games
N00b
Played 100+ games
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Gained 10+ total review likes
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Become mutual friends with at least 3 others
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Gained 15+ followers
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Gained 3+ followers
Favorite Games
984
Total Games Played
093
Played in 2023
311
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This game has a really cool setting. It's a city builder with a heat management aspect, so you have to make sure your citizens (survivors) don't freeze to death in their homes or at work. It's a really cool idea and aesthetic, the problem is the game is super linear. Expect to chuck your first game up to a learning experience and losing that one, as is usual with city builders in my experience. But the game is too linear and easy so the second one is probably going to be a success, and once you've done it there's nothing else to play for. There are events in the game, sure, but they are either predetermined or I got very unlucky in getting the exact same events in the same order. I hope the sequel can do better in this regard, as this is really fun the first time through, it just doesn't have the usual aspect of replayability I expect from a city builder.
This... is not a game. I don't mean that because it's a walking simulators. There are absolutely games in that genre. I mean that because there's absolutely no progression. The basic gameplay consists of walking through a forest on an island. If you play for long enough, you may find a trigger to change the season, after which you wake up on the same island in autumn. Do it again and wake up on the same island in winter. See the pattern now? There's no end to the game, there's just the four seasons that change when you trigger them.
The reason to get a VR headset. It's got a good mix of music with even more added via DLC, and it serves as an okay workout depending on the song, too. It's a very fine game but not a 5* in and of itself. Except it has mods. Oh lord it has so many mods that make the experience so much better. All the songs you can imagine have been ported in by the community, and you can get them via an in-game or out-of-game browser. This absolutely kicks ass.