Recent reviews by Adronyus

This game is horribly optimized, yet you’re asking 19€ for it. For what exactly? To make players your clowns in some unfinished show?
At this point, the demo is far better than the full game you’re selling for 19€. That’s honestly embarrassing. Selling a product that’s in a worse state than its demo should be illegal.

If you can’t make a game properly or don’t know how to optimize it, then don’t release it. We’ve been waiting many years for this game, and it ended up exactly how most people feared: a bad product. I’m extremely disappointed.
And don’t even get me started on combat. Weapons feel like they’re made of plastic, while enemies act like they’re using real ones. You can’t cut or damage anything properly, yet somehow an enemy can rip your head off with their bare hands. How does that make any sense?

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1/5 — Garbage...

They have Diddy map <3

⭐⭐☆☆☆
2/5 — Disappointing.

I’ve been waiting for months for survival mode to be added so I could finally buy the game and try it firsthand. Well, they delivered that - but the optimization is horrible. Straight-up bad, like it’s been thrown down the drain.

If the developers are planning to add more features like battles and more encounters, how exactly do they expect current optimization to handle it? Even RTX 40-series cards struggle, and that’s pretty ridiculous. Are they trying to destroy our GPUs in the process, or what is going on here? 😅

Right now, the performance issues overshadow everything else. I really hope they fix this before piling more content on top. ( if something change i will update my review ) for now save your money.

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5/5 — GOTY!

Dispatch is everything I've been wanting from a narrative-driven game, and honestly, I'm calling it now: this is my Game of the Year 2025. I have been hungry for something with the storytelling style of The Wolf Among Us, and Dispatch delivers that feeling perfectly, while bringing its own charm.

AdHoc Studio once again proves why they're one of the most respected narrative studios out there. The game is incredibly well-made, runs smoothly, and the cutscenes are really catching. The characters feel alive, full of real personality and emotion behind every line and interaction, making your choices feel meaningful from start to finish.

The whole superhero workplace comedy angle is done so well. Managing a dysfunctional team of misfit heroes, dealing with office politics, and trying to climb your way toward becoming a hero yourself is way more fun than it has any right to be. I absolutely love the Dispatch minigame-it's surprisingly addictive. The hacking minigame can be a bit tricky at times, but never in a way that feels unfair.

My only real complaint is that I wish it were longer. The roughly 10 hours of gameplay went by way too fast because I was completely pulled into the world. All in all, Dispatch is heartfelt, humorous, clever, and just a joy to play. If you love story-driven games with strong characters and real choices, this is absolutely worth your time.

⭐☆☆☆☆
1/5 — Completely disappointing.

This DLC has been a huge disappointment for me. The dog simply does not work. Almost every time I try to use it, it just spins in circles at insane speed, ignores commands, and gets stuck in a loop that only a full restart fixes. In my experience, the DLC is basically unusable.

The worst part is that this issue has been around for years. As a player, it honestly feels like the developers know about this bug but haven’t fixed it, and it makes me feel like they should be held accountable for leaving a paid product in this state. From my point of view, the store page makes the DLC look functional, but in reality it hasn’t worked properly for me at all. It feels misleading when what you’re sold is nothing like what you actually get.

☆☆☆☆☆
0/5 — Predator’s playground.

I have been playing VRChat for only a few hours, and it honestly feels like I have stumbled into the worst corners of the internet. In that short time, I have already seen just about every kind of disturbing behavior imaginable. There are people acting like predators, animal abusers, hackers, extremists, and even individuals openly talking about or doing things that cross every possible line. It is shocking how little moderation there seems to be in some public worlds.

This is not just your typical toxic online community. It is a space where dangerous people can freely interact with anyone, including minors. There is unfiltered sexual content, no real restrictions, and no proper oversight. The anonymity and freedom that make VRChat interesting also make it a breeding ground for predators and exploitative behavior.

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2/5 — Its bad.

Shadows of Doubt is perhaps one of the most frustrating game experiences of the last few years. The game seemed to be abandoned well before its 1.0 release, and the developer has done little to nothing meaningful with the game since then. Promised patches and fixes never happened, and it's obvious to anyone playing that the game was rushed, underfunded, or both.

Although it's promoted as a deep, immersive detective simulation, what you actually get is shallow, repetitive gameplay loop that offers 10–15 hours of newness tops. And then it gets ridiculously simple and predictable. Crime cases aren't puzzles – the game simply provides you with clues for most of it, or the killer leaves a literal note with his name on it. That's not detective simulation, that's lazy design.

Mechanically, it is broken. AI is totally braindead, optimization is hell, and bugs reported months/years ago are still there. It even looks like a game that a hobbyist made instead of a professional studio. ColePowered Games hasn't put much effort into repairing fundamental issues, and player feedback is usually ignored or dismissed.

The author is more interested in serving up a political agenda than in making the game better. In this purportedly dystopian corporation-run world, the addition of modern identity politics (like non-binary character descriptors) reads as forced and clashing – as if they're attempting to score social points rather than build a well-integrated world. It doesn't do anything for game and is far more the performance of virtue than intellectual worldbuilding.

And let's not forget about the suspicious amount of extremely positive reviews that just don't represent the true state of the game. Who's leaving them? Because from my experience – and from many others online on forums and Discord – this game is anything but great.

If you value your money or your time, stay away from Shadows of Doubt by a wide margin. And in good conscience, be wary of what else this developer might be producing. They've wasted an enormous amount of trust and given us an empty vessel of a game with no doubt, no depth, and no developer responsibility.

**Update 25.09**
The devs dropped another small update, just as expected. Once again, it's mostly pointless content that only a tiny group will use.
New gameplay modifiers feel useless for regular players and seem aimed at Twitch streamers to boost promotion. No challenge, no fun, no FPS fix, just bloat.

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5/5 — One of the best games you’ll ever play!

Hands down! this is one of the best games I've ever played and I've played a lot, believe me. It is not some other survival game; it is a true gem in the colony management genre. It is hardcore, ruthless, and flat-out addicting. Weakness is punished straight away, and all your choices appear to be significant. This is a game that doesn't pat you on the back, doesn't sugarcoat things, and flat-out thrives in its own cruelty.

The way the game progresses is fantastic. From early crash-landing on some random planet to building a thriving, self-sustaining colony (or desperately trying to), you'll be glued to your pawns and deeply invested in their stories. You can easily wind up spending hundreds or even thousands of hours in this game without even realizing it. And just when you think you've gotten used to it, RimWorld's sprawling DLCs come along, each of them introducing another 100+ hours of fresh gameplay and significant mechanics. They're not tacked-on additions, each of the expansions is meaty and full worth every dollar.

Gameplay is a great combination of base-construction, resource husbandry, strategic combat, and sheer anarchy. You're not just constructing walls—you're defending off raids, healing epidemics, nurse-manning nervous breakdowns, and hoping your favored deity that a mechanoid raid or random apocalypse doesn't annihilate your colony.

And it's even more wonderful because RimWorld lets you have so much freedom. Want to build a little, homey medieval hamlet? Go ahead. Want a high-tech, futuristic bunker full of AI and bionics? It's available. The game has support for deep modding, and once you've tried everything vanilla RimWorld has to offer (and it's a lot), you can go in and play total conversion mods that allow you to recreate the worlds of Warhammer 40K, Star Wars, or even World of Warcraft. Really, the only limit is your imagination.

It's not, however, without a few flaws. The UI is intimidating to a new player, and the learning curve is steep. RNG can sometimes be meaner than fun, one bad sequence of things can spiral out of control in a heartbeat. And although the systems in this game are deep, they're sometimes also a little opaque, leaving you scrambling to figure out why something didn't work. All that being said, for those who are willing to put in the effort, these flaws are part of the challenge, not a limitation.

The dev team continues to actively support the game, putting out new updates and content that continue to add shine and complexity. It's uncommon to see a game so finely tuned, supported for such an extended period, and with a community that's continually experimenting and pushing what can be done.

☆☆☆☆☆ 0/5 — Youth indoctrination, shallow gameplay

I genuinely do not even know where to start with The Sims 4. It looks on the surface like it's a life simulation game, sure, but if you actually play it, it's glaringly apparent that this is less of a game and more of a storefront an overtly monetized, watered-down, and politicized one, no less.

Yeah, technically speaking, the game itself is free to play now. Do not be deceived. It's free like a demo is free just enough to take you through the tutorial, but if you want anything remotely approaching real content, buckle up and spend hundreds of dollars. Over 100 DLCs, game packs, kits, expansions name it. Do you want pets? That's going to cost you. Seasons? More dollars. Literally basic features that were included in previous Sims games are now paywalls. It's exploitative, pure and simple.

And then there's the gameplay. Without mods, The Sims 4 is completely lifeless. It's watered-down, simplified to the point of pointlessness, and offers no challenge or depth at all. The legacy gameplay that made The Sims 2 and 3 actually fun? Forget it. Replaced with shallow, cartoony fluff and constant loading screens. The game has absolutely zero long-term objectives, no consequences, and virtually no replay value. It's a nice sandbox with no sand.

And then of course there's the other elephant in the room the militant ideological messaging of the game. The Sims 4 forces DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) down your throat so much that it is no longer simulating life, it is simulating an agenda. And the worst part? It's targeted at children. This game is PEGI 12, and yet it persists in forcing certain worldviews upon players without giving them the choice to turn them off. That is not inclusion that is indoctrination.

Worse yet, community managers and developers act like activists rather than game designers. Go ahead and attempt making a mod that removes or even downgrades DEI features, and you'll find folks attempting to shut you up or have your content erased from the net. It's not censorship, it's hostility against their own players.

At this point, The Sims 4 is less of a game and more of a cash cow wrapped in political messaging. It’s lost the charm, complexity, and creativity that made earlier entries beloved. Without mods, it's dull. With them, you’re still at risk of being targeted by the very people who make the game.

I used to enjoy The Sims series. Now I can hardly even recognize it. EA has formally killed what was once an innovative simulation franchise and recreated it as an ideological online billboard with microtransactions.

Edit : ( There’s a good chance this could change everything for the better. If Saudi Arabia obtains control of EA Games, there’s some hope they might remove this radical agenda and fix the game. I will update my review if and when that happens. )