Recent reviews by SerWind

The feeling of progression is second to none. Seeing your little unga tent "gathering" grow into a proper bunga roundhouse powerhouse is truly something else. Watching the forest recede as you expand is awesome feedback and very satisfying. And that feeling when you unlock cereal domestication? Dopamine hit like nothing else. Give it a try.

Beautiful theme, atmosphere, and aesthetic. Darkwood is one of the few horror games that (still) makes me feel uneasy or uncomfortable, in a good way. I definitely recommend it.

It's important to know what you're getting into though. Survive at night, explore during the day, this is fundamentally an exploration survival crafting game, without the need for things like sleep, or eating. You gather supplies to improve your equipment or craft gear, allowing you to explore more areas to find better equipment or uncover more of the plot and background. The end goal being to escape the forest.

If that all sounds up your alley you're really in for a treat.

The fundamentals are the same but this is not Frostpunk 1: new scenarios, it's a different game entirely, and that's important to know before you get into it. Like FP1 it's absolutely captured me and I love it, growing your small little generator town into a proper city, haggling for laws, and dealing with the vast variety of factions and resources that are in the game is really fun.

There's a few areas it's a little rough around the edges: no skip prologue (this has a chapter based story mode, instead of just scenarios), no restart option in utopia mode. And one thing that really bothers me is while oil is mentioned here and there, and can be very important to the survival of your city, for all it was built up to be it's just doesn't have the presence in the game you'd expect. I'm not sure how else to explain this.

If you enjoyed FP1 I think you'll enjoy 2, it's not a guarantee, as I said they are different games, but it's likely. Do your research, it's a great game, definitely worth the pickup in my mind.

If you like city builders and puzzles, here you go my friend, you've hit jackpot.

It's important that you know this is a beautiful puzzle. It's not a "normal" city builder. Once you solve a scenario it's very likely that solution will always work.
But is it worth buying considering that?
Hell yes.

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I recommend it and I think the price it's at now is fair. Just keep it mind this is clearly like 1/3rd the game they wanted to make. It's very obvious after you beat the Warden that they wanted the game to continue but who knows what happened there.

I still got a lot of enjoyment out of it and would even consider doing more runs having beaten it as it unlocks some neat little things like oaths and what not, and there's still classes to level up to see what I can do with them. The unfortunate thing about a game like this is it will always be compared to a game like Slay the Spire. In that regard it needs a lot more cards and a lot more unlocks. Still, worth a play I think.

I'm not sure exactly what people are upset about with this game. My only major complaint is that it's missing some cool (aesthetic) things that are in Diablo Immortal, like chat emotes, and better portal animations. Other than that it plays great, feels like, at least to me, a mix of D3 and D2. I understand they released it a bit earlier than it should have been, what with no leaderboards, but now that that's in, what else is missing?

There's plenty of ways to level, but naturally it all revolves around the same gameplay mechanic, killing monsters, collecting loot, repeat. Quests, dungeons, whispers, helltides, there's a bit of variety there to keep you from getting too bored with it. The story is pretty decent, compared to Diablo 3 it's phenomenal.

There's the microtransaction store, but it's strictly for aesthetic items and nothing gameplay related, and I'm pretty sure that's what gives us a unique story quest and unique gameplay mechanic every season. Which I really appreciate.

So I guess in short I think the game looks great, plays great, and is all around pretty great, with some minor complaints that have now been satisfied or don't involve the gameplay whatsoever. Maybe I'm missing something, but if you like Diablo I think it's worth picking up.

Edit: I've allowed comments so that you can politely :) educate me on why I may be wrong.

It's actually painful for me to give this a no review. There's clearly a lot of love put into the game and there's the foundation for something truly incredibly but chapters 3/4/5/6 are just absolutely abysmal. Chapters 1 and 2 are amazing, but unfortunately the game stops being "Subnautica in space" after Chapter 2 and becomes tedium incarnate. I honestly can handle quite a bit of tedium. Like I said chapter 2 was great, and you had to go around building quite a bit to progress. But when it's just you running down a hallway, finding out you have to build something, running back to your ship, running back to that spot, putting the item on the thing to progress x20 it gets old. It gets old after the first one.

The humor is hit and miss. It got a laugh out of me here and there, but the game is going for a joke a minute when it is telling jokes.
My recommendation? Get it on sale.

It's a more fast paced XCOM. All it needed was base building and a more "roguelike" start and I would have put 800 hours into this easily. Loved it.

While I don't think it quite stacks up to Baldur's Gate 2, mechanically or plot wise, it's certainly a hellofuv an RPG that you'd be doing yourself a disservice by not playing if you're into these sorts of games. There's tons of content, especially with the White March DLC, and depending on your settings, it's a good mix of fun, challenging, and rewarding.