OrangeUnicorn
2019
2021
As of now, only 19.4% of the game's players have the achievement for finishing the first chapter of the game. I am not one of those players. The game's difficulty drove me off before I could enjoy some hard platforming. Maybe I need to Git Gud, but the fact that so many players have abandoned the game before finishing the first chapter speaks volumes.
2017
For a bit of context, the last time I played this game was in 2016, when it was still not fully released (I even have a bugged out Steam Achievement that doesn't exist anymore). To some people this review might be unfair because of this, but that was my experience with the game. I remember being really interested in the game's atmosphere and it evoked feelings of fear/anxiety as I struggled to survive. At one point, I encountered a deer, and the game crashed. That meant that my run was dead and I had to start from the beginning. I was not happy about that, but I started a new run, in which the same thing happened again. I closed the game after that and never opened it again. It's been a long time since then, and the game is now fully released so I should give it another try sometime, but until then, this is my experience with The Long Dark.
2014
2017
2009
I had a lot of fun playing this with my brother, although we never really finished it. I came back to it a couple of times to play it with different people each time, but none of those times were as fun and interesting as the first one. I believe the game is meant to be played and finished with the same 2 people, and playing it again with someone else will simply ruin the experience for the player.
2019
2012
2021
This review contains spoilers
I played through this whole game with a friend of mine, who is not really into gaming but wanted to have fun with this one. The game is actually really accessible to players without much experience and it was all-around fun. The only problem I have with the game is the story, which depicts two soon-to-be divorced parents of a single child being stuck in this imaginary world where they have to solve their problems and get back together in order to return to the real world. In the end, after they go through a lot of adventures together, they seem to have fallen in love again, and the game ends implying that they get back together. My friend and I really thought that this outcome was cliché and unrealistic, and that some times it's better for couples to split up.
2014
2021
This review contains spoilers
I love and I hate this game at the same time. It is a story-based deckbuilder that has a really unique style to it. When I moved on to the second act, I was pleasantly surprised with the change of the game and I kept gasping at the game, thinking "how many more twists is this going to have?". The final twist this game kept for me though was an underwhelming story that offered no closure, due to the way the developer of the game chose to present it. It was like I got half a product, an unfinished story for a finished game. I kept playing the Rogue-like mod for the game, but the bitter feeling never left.
2016
2019