Recent reviews by KT Lynn

I absolutely adore this game. I'm not sure if it will be nearly as fun once it's "Done," because they're always tinkering and updating, so it feels like you're playing a new game every day. The best way to describe it is a deck-builder played through the lens of a slot machine. There's all kind of different ways to build your machine and it's just the right level of difficult, so you feel awesome when you win, but know absolutely why you lost when you lose, even if it's simple RNG.

Easily worth whatever I paid for it (I don't remember).

Editing for GotY nomination achievement.

Career mode has a great pace without the engineering grind that was a part of a lot of past Nascar game career modes. I'm not one to play every Nascar games that comes out, but I've been playing here and there for 20+ years and this is already one of my favorites after only a few hours.

Hands-down one of my favorite games on Steam. It's not without it's (large) share of bugs and frustrations and I really can't explain why I love it so much, but I always come back to it.

Loved it for the hour that I played it, but I kept getting a "Fatal Disk Error" and none of the dozens of solutions I found online worked to get the game running again. I do recommend it and wish that I could get it to work, just be aware that this is an issue that is apparently long-standing.

Stardew Valley is everything anyone ever wanted from a Harvest Moon game. Reasonable, efficient controls and tools for crop farming, all of which are upgradeable. A daily stamina gauge that both gets better over time and allows you to consume grown / purchased / fished-up goods to extend your day. Combat that not only exists, but is super fun, satisfying, and rewarding. Characters that you'll actually care about and want to chat with now and then. And an overwhelming feeling of self-loathing when you put a crappy ingredient in the luau soup.

For reals, this is the best game in the genre I have ever played and I don't see it being topped for a very long time.

If I didn't already have an account from playing L4D and CS Source, I would have made one just to pay this game. It's the reason I got roped into the current steamscape. It tickles the nostalgia itch while doing something unique, cute, and fun. You play as a young girl whose father has long-since disappeared. One morning, a fairy comes to your home to collect your father's debts. She threatens to take your home if you cannot pay, but empathizes with your character and pitches the idea of turning your home into an item shop targeting the locals and travelling adventurers.

You recruit a diverse group and adventurers to plunder nearby dungeons, paying them their hiring fees in exchange for safe passage through the dungeons to monster drops, weapons, armor, and such to sell at your shop.

The story progresses and you have to earn more money every day than you earned the previous day in order to pay off your father's debts. If you fail, it's game over. If you succeed, hurray! But wait... there could be more.

WELCOME TO THE CIRCUS OF VALUE!

Even if you have zero desire, like most, to play a train simulator, you have to appreciate the work that's put into this game by both the developers and especially the community. Nearly endless content is available from short trips to cross-country marathons. Even if the only thing you know about locomotives is that they make you late for work when you get stuck at a crossing, it's worth at least fiddling around with for a bit just to support all of the time that's gone into this masterpiece.

This game is beyond good. I watched videos and listened to friends play it on Mumble for months and was never sold on it, but then a friend bought it for me and I can't stop playing it. I've never played a game that's made me want to continue to top my high score this much. The gameplay itself doesn't change at all from game to game, but you just keep playing because you want to see what will happen with each combination of items, levels, and enemies.

It is good; very good. You need it.

Would be a game that I would play almost daily if the sealed mode wasn't a cash grab and a bad cash grab at that. You can only play the sealed mode twice before you have to pay for more deck slots to start a new game. You can't delete your saves once you complete a sealed deck campaign and even if you're clever about it and delete the save from the game folder, the cards that come the sealed pools are saved to your Steam account, so you'll end up with the same cards.

It gets worse. Let's say you really love the sealed mode, which I did in my two campaigns, and you really want to play more of it. You want to play more of it so badly that you pay for more deck slots. That's great, to each their own. BUT. They limit how many deck slots you can have even after purchasing. So, even if you decide to pay to play more of a game that you already own, they won't even let you pay -more- to keep playing. At a certain point, you're completely done with Sealed. You just can't play anymore. They added a format to make money, but don't want to take your money. Fun.

Overall, the gameplay is great and what Sealed you do get to play was super fun, but the fact that a replayable game can end is just a buzzkill.