Recent reviews by Battou

A pretty linear and story driven game, that gets you hooked early on, and knows not to overstay it's welcome. The setting and plot are very interesting, particularly for historic fiction fans. The gameplay is mostly stealth and puzzle oriented, there aren't many combat sequences, and they're mostly puzzle fights (aside from one very annoying section late in the game, which clearly shows it wasn't built for encounters with multiple enemies). Looking forward to play the sequel.

One of the best tactics games I've played in the recent years. While the campaign itself is somewhat short, there's tons of replay value... You get lots of different classes and possible builds (instead of controlling single units, you build squads of up to 9 units, and the combination of units in those squads determine how it attacks, how far it can move, etc), and you can manage traits/skills of each individual unit on the squad, so there's lots of room for optimization / minmaxing.

After the first playthrough you also unlock tons of options of customization for the new game+ campaign, from the usual stronger enemy units, to position changes on the map, different behaviour, cost changes for items and units, unit limit changes and many more. I got it on sale and it's a steal, it's definetly worth full price. Looking forward to more.

Brilliant! One of the most unique first person puzzle games I've played, and while you don't have many different ways / "abilities" to overcome them, the game does manage to change things and keep it short enough to stay fresh until the end. The narrative is also amazing, with a bit of a more reflective and optimistic message, opposed to the usual comedic nature of these games. Solid 9/10.

I cannot believe I had never heard of this mod before! It definetly needs and deserves more publicity.

It's actually better then Portal 2 in many aspects... While it doesnt't add any new mechanics to the game, it combines the existing ones to create some very challenging and creative puzzles. Overall the chambers are much harder, but it just makes it that much more satisfying when you finally figure a chamber out. The story is also very good, with interesting new characters, decent voice acting and with typical portal humour... Overall, a must play for any portal fan. If we ever get a portal 3, the team who worked on this should be in it.

I've been looking for a good city management game for a long time, and while this doesn't exactly fit the criteria, it's the most fun I've had over the last few months! Super underrated game.

I've never really liked the old TR games, despite playing them all, and only got this because of the sale... Turns out I was really impressed!

The island is beautiful, and the exploration and platforming were extremely well done. It feels a lot more like the children of Uncharted+Arkham than like the old TR games, and I feel like this was on par, if not even better, in this aspect...

Combat is pretty average and the AI enemies progression is exactly the same as you would expect from these games, but the variety of gadgets and weapon upgrade system are enough to keep it fresh for the short duration of the campaign.

Overall, great game, and I hope the series continues in this track.

Fun gameplay, beautiful visuals, great characters and amazing storytelling! So far this is probably the best release of the year.