Recent reviews by c_h_i_c_k_e_n

Fun game, great music, cute story. The premise of having to avoid attacks from enemies while simultaneously doing cooking game esque tasks is really cool, though a little hard to make my brain multitask that way.

A lot of really cool stuff in this game.

It's an instanced, base building and crafting focused MMO-lite like Valheim, but with a non randomly generated map.

You are a vampire, which is actually integrated into the game mechanics in meaningful ways. You have to mostly stay out of the sun or take high damage after a countdown, which means going from shadow to shadow to reset it during the day (and the shadows seem to be actually cast by the physical objects and move around depending on time of day). You have a blood meter that depletes over time and is used as a resource to heal. You drain low health enemies to fully refill it and get stat bonuses based on their type and quality (so if you get a good one, there's an incentive to avoid taking damage since you will lose the bonuses if you use it all for healing and have to drink someone else's blood). If it gets low and you also have low health, you could be in a tricky situation where it's risky to fight groups of enemies, but you need to get something alone so you can drain its blood without something else killing you while channeling the ability, and you have to do it soon before hunger damage kills you.

Tech progression is gated by killing bosses, and some bosses wander around the map and you have to track them down. This creates interesting situations, like maybe another player shows up and helps, maybe the fight gets harder when NPCs in the same faction as the boss show up (or another boss), or easier if opposing faction mobs shows up and it's a 3-way fight. There are a lot of enemies wandering around more powerful than you, so you can't just solo everything. NPCs aggro and kill each other even when you aren't around, evidenced by the loot left lying around. There's a treant living outside my base that kills everything walking by and also breaks trees and rocks during fights, so I always have extra loot to pick up when I come back.

This is a fun game if you like writing, or need some supportive advice

Dota 2 is a neat game. It has a lot of interesting mechanics that interact in unexpected ways. Things progress over the course of the match to create a unique story about what happened.

This game is an achievement