Recent reviews by Wandering Astarael

Two weeks ago, if you pitched me "Vampire Survivors auto-attacker" + "Hades god-style buffs" + the aesthetics of (90s) Diablo/Loop Hero + an active dash system to keep things interesting, I'd ask what the catch was.

Addiction. The catch is addiction. Hope you have some hours! Enjoy!

The numbers go up. The more you make them go up, the faster they go. Good numbers. Well done.

This is one of my favourite variant rulesets for sudoku. As always, Mark and Simon have assembled some truly great puzzles, and their interface is the only computer interface for sudoku that I find compares to pencil and paper. Highly recommend.

If you enjoy city building games, Cities Skylines' extensive mod support makes it one of the best out there today. In my experience, it's best played with the DLC packages, which thanks to Paradox's publishing model are somewhat overpriced. I recommend against paying full price for the DLCs. Also of note, Cities Skylines is a game that requires intense amounts of RAM. If you have less than 16gb, the game is going to struggle for you (and I highly recommend more).

It's Halo. Relive the nostalgia, or experience it for you first time. Either way works.

I very much wanted this game to be good. You play as an Ultramarine, and it really does capture the W40k flavour of mowing down hundreds of weak enemy units. Unfortunately, the game is also extremely jank. The acting is hilariously stilted, the graphics are quite dated (even when running on modern machines at the highest settings), and the movement mechanics are just clunky and frustrating, particularly using keyboard and mouse. I'd recommend this to major space marine fans only.

Extra caveat: if you are running on a modern multi-core AMD processor, you need to enable legacy mode (8-core limit) in order for this game to run at all.

No Man's Sky is one of those rare games that gets better and better as time goes by. If you like exploration or survival games or space in general, I highly recommend it.

I'm very much a fan of this game. I think that the very core nature of The Witness is about how we learn through example. If you're stuck on a puzzle and feeling frustrated (like I have done on multiple occasions), go back and look through the tutorial puzzles for that section. The game always teaches you how it works in incremental steps. Always.

Portal gets the reputation as the premier non-standard space puzzle game, but Antichamber blows it away for sheer mind-bending non-euclidian strangeness. Absolutely recommended even if you don't like "puzzles" just for how crazy it'll make your mind feel.

A big disappointment, particularly compared to the first GRID. While the UI and the conceit are cool, the game is disgustingly crammed with DLC. How disgusting? The cars that "count" as DLC are DIFFERENT between the single player and online versions of the game. Also, it doesn't work with my racing wheel (a Microsoft Sidewinder Pro) which did work with the original game. Playing it with a Xbox gamepad just isn't the same.

On a possitive note, the racing *feels* very fast, and the maps are good, particularly the country road ones. So if you value feeling fast over anything else, this might be the racing game for you.