Recent reviews by Todd "God" Howard

Little Nightmares is a short yet amazing indie/horror/puzzle game. Its atmosphere is its main strength, achieved with a combination of great sound, dark environments and indie art. The combination of these three elements provide a unique and refreshing experience. Overall Little Nightmares is a great game, a bit overpriced due to its price/length ratio but its quality justifies it.

8/10

Main Game:

We Happy Few is the mix between all the major dystopian books (except A Handmaid's Tale by Atwood). The combination of all the following books are what shaped and made this game. 1984 by Orwell, Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury, Brave New World by Huxley, A Clockwork Orange by Burgess and Animal Farm by Orwell. It draws various dystopian elements form each of these books to make a new dystopia, fueled with drugs as in Brave New World, manipulating news and controlling citizens as in 1984, ban on various books and media such as in Fahrenheit 451, forcing the player to fit in society as in A Clockwork Orange and with a really raw but funny storyline as in Animal Farm. The combination of all these dystopia elements created a really interesting game, with interesting characters, unique visuals and atmosphere, and violence which resembles (in gameplay and content) their own version of A Clockwork Orange's "ultra-violence"The open world elements are great and the sandbox, creative and survival game modes add to replayability. Overall We Happy Few is a really unique game that is a bit overpriced but delivers an amazing and disturbing experience.
8/10

DLC:

They Came From Below: Interesting and goofy story about Roger and James finding out there is a rebellion of robotic aliens below Dr. Faraday's lab. This DLC is very average and it gets boring quickly.
6/10

Lighbearer: Twisted story following Nick Lightbearer's constant struggle to uncover his past and his path to being absolved of his sins. A very good DLC with new mechanics such as the guitar and the golden discs.
7.5/10

We All Fall Down: The direct continuation of We Happy Few's main game ending. This time we play as Victoria Byng, right from the moment she freed herself from Ollie's kidnapping. This DLC is the true final ending of the game, in which Wellington Wells finally finds the bitter truth about what happened during the war due to Victoria cutting all the Joy supply to the town and destroying Hayworth Labs in the process. . The best DLC of the three, with an appropriate ending to the main game. Definitely worth it.
8.5 /10

Overall:
8/10

Death Stranding is a walking simulator with a great story, the game itself is really weird, with weird gameplay aspects and mechanics that get familiar as the game goes by. It ends up being a really nice experience with a interesting but complete main storyline and a lot of sandbox potential. The impact that other players make by building or creating tracks helps the player and its done organically so it feels real. Overall Death Stranding is a good game, its main flaws are extremely long and tedious unskippable cutscenes.
The amazing soundtrack plus with the calm exploration of amazing locations is a perfect combo.

8.5/10

After a little over 100 hours I managed to complete Valheim, killing all 5 bosses and having nothing else to do in-game (devs are working on 3 more biomes and 3 more bosses, plus extra DLC). Valheim must the most complete and enjoyable early access game on Steam right now, offering 100s of hours of content without even being 50% complete. The best way to describe playing Valheim is like playing Minecraft for the first time, the amount of items, exploration, openness and sense of urgency to discover the whole world is only comparable to the one mentioned above. It is a perfect mix of combat, exploration, visuals and gameplay that make the game excellent without even having a proper story. Overall Valheim is a true experience, completely worth its $20 price tag, its worth at least $40 in its current state, and the game has not even reached half its final form, which includes more bosses, biomes, items, building, etc etc. Playing co-op is fun but the single player experience allows for a personalized way of exploring the vast map, adapting to the players own pace. Must-buy.

9/10

Absolute garbage, worst game I have ever played. "Runs" at 180 FPS but feels like 15, pure cancer. Mechanics are trash, graphics are trash, interface is trash, I got eye cancer playing this.

0.5/10

Dear Esther is an indie walking simulator in which you travel across a small island filled with a stunning atmosphere, sound effects and caves, although the in-game music can get too loud overshadowing the rest of the game and there is no way to turn it down or off. The game is short, the narrator tells the story as you walk across the island with a strong english accent. The game is a simple short walking simulator with a sad story, nothing more and nothing less.
Completely not worth at its price, but I managed to get it for only $0.49 cents, on sales in worth it
6/10

Inertia is an indie platformer/parkour game with levels in which you need to parkour from one side to another, levels get creative, fun but most of the times extremely frustrating, sometimes they require an almost impossible jump and sometimes a few of them and you can spend 30 minutes on a single level, and 5 minutes on the next 20. The game looks great, but the gameplay is a little scuffed.
Worth for $0.49
6/10

Oxenfree is another of the many story-rich indie games like Firewatch, What Remains of Edith Finch, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, Tacoma, etc etc. Oxenfree is about a group of people who go camping at a beach when they discover a cave, in which things go horribly wrong, from possessions to flashbacks, reality starts twisting as the game takes unexpected turns in its story and gameplay, taking you along this changes when you least expect it. The story, atmosphere and voice acting is perfect, although the gameplay could see some upgrades. But by far the best part about Oxenfree is its ending, which makes the game replayable because you need to play it at least 3 times to get the best ending, which seems weird but makes sense once you finish the game.
Overall Oxenfree is great, is also really short so its not worth its $10 price tag, but if you can get it for $1 on sales like I did, its completely worth it
8/10

Only worth it for free, seems like a really inmersive sandbox but in reality it gets boring after 3 hours even when trying all possible content plus workshop content, really dissapointing, mechanics are clunky, NPCs have the worst AI i've seen, and the graphics look like a flash game

Only get it if its free, otherwise is not worth it at all

5/10

Not a fan of Gothic, slow paced, clunky and overall weird

4/10