Recent reviews by Mink

Towns 2022 > Dwarf Fortress 2022 Steam Release

You get a better looking game for half the price.

I've had some more time with this game and my opinions have soured. I'm just going to rattle off issues in no particular order. For reference I play on the hardest difficulty.

The game has a shockingly low amount of weapons, each with 4 auxiliary effects, 1 is amazing, one is good, and the other two are worthless. The weapons are balanced to all do the same DPS at the same level. The problem is that all weapons have the exact same windup time for the first attack. Which means that the slow, high damage axe is always the best, because its always better to spend .25 seconds swinging the axe and rolling away than a whopping 2 seconds swinging the dagger 4 times for the exact same damage. The decision to not give weapons windup time or roll-blocking can only be described as incompetent.There really is an extremely well definable tier-list of all of the games weapon permutations, and no, you don't have control over it.


The crusades let you collect all sorts of fun resources as nodes, often as alternatives to collecting tarot cards. You'd be a fool to ever go for these after the first hour of game-play. 4 card levels will win you a run. 10 logs will save you 45 seconds. Tarot cards are the only thing you want in the combat portion of the game, and will reliably break the game. Nothing else you can choose to go for will help you besides the heart rooms, situation-ally.


Your colonists have a ton of traits. Most of them do not matter, and the ones that do seldom have an effect after the first 2 hours. Your colony becomes exponentially more work to take care off, up until a tipping point, where it becomes really, really, really easy to ignore them, and they also stop rewarding you outside of its own self contained non-game play loop. Your colonists do not do anything after you max out your sermons, and open your doors. They help with specific quests, not connected to the main game. Even looking at the colonist quests is a stupid waste of time, and they WILL give you quests that net you -5 faith for succeeding and -35 for rejecting. After this point you can give your colonists up to the demon alter to ever so slightly assist in crusades. Maybe leave a few for near passive resource generation, so you can build a lighthouse or whatever is required for some world NPC quest, and then forget about them again.

You can go fishing in this game. Fish until you get your 4 special fish fleece swap, and then never fish again. Feed your colonists early game garbage, the game doesn't exactly reward you for doing otherwise.







{old review]
Isaac if it was good + Viva Pinata if it was good.

Extremely buggy.


If you unlock Revives you will be forced to use it. Or face the consequences.

The unfettered freedom this game gives you in terms of build diversity, weapons, spells, and even overall progression makes this easily the best dark souls game in the series.

You spin the machine and you click the things and you get dopamine

Runs the same way your character does, like ♥♥♥♥

Definetely GOTY 2019, not sure when it came out but it's the best game I've played in years.

Honestly one of the best games I've ever played. Arguably better than the sequel.

Kingdom Classic is possibly the most deceptively calming game I've come across. 10/10 would reccomend.

Possibly the most optimized game in gaming history. The strenuoes detail that went into making every model in this game as low poly as possible is astounding. This game looks and runs great on 8 year old hardware.

I'd like to come out in favor of an Israeli two-state solution.