Recent reviews by Rickle Pick

Davinci would be proud

This ♥♥♥♥ got me crying,

Straight ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ weeping

While it's difficult to review a game while my hours are so few, Owlcat seems to have hit another home run.

If you're a fan of their previous titles, you will find a lot of overlap with Rogue Trader. Their deep, systems driven gameplay, and top-tier character writing still shine as brightly as ever.

New improvements upon their now recognizable house formula all largely come in the form of graphics and presentation. Character models have seen a massive improvement from their previous titles, and environmental art is absolutely gorgeous.

Growing pains are very present however. With the increased scope of the game, come many "cinematic" cutscenes. Unfortunately, while so much of the presentation here has been improved, these scenes as they are currently, are a little embarrassing to be frank. The animation sets used during these cutscenes were simply not designed to be seen from up so close, creating an end result that's more comedy than anything else.

While the amount of text can be a little overwhelming for someone new to genre, the flexibility of Owlcats roleplaying systems and dialogue trees is without parallel. This game is an easy recommend in its current state, and with so much still on the horizon in terms of already announced DLC, and Owlcat's previous commitments towards patching their previous titles, I wholeheartedly recommend Rogue Trader

A game of intense mechanical complexity, that decides to largely humanize the abstract task of of settlement management in a world plunging into the apocalypse, Six Ages manages to leverage its mechanical elements for its thematic goals. Tasked with keeping the city of Berenethtelli from falling to ruin in a dying world, players will grow their council, wage war with those whose only choice for survival is savagery, trade away anything in excess for what starves their clan the most, and sacrifice even what they cannot afford to lose to a pantheon of dying gods.

A human touch runs through every facet of the game. Council members aren't just portraits on a menu, but real people who will age and die. Their personalities create bias. Their skills can make them heroes or destitute fools. They quarrel with each other, they can grow in power and expertise, and even your most trained advisors can still fail. When faced with one of the hundreds of "choose your own adventure" segments, members of your council will be sent to resolve situations. Sometimes they will succeed, sometimes fail, get hurt, enrage fellow clans, and even sometimes be killed. They represent your heritage, and will criticize you as much as they'll try to help.

Lights Going Out is mechanically though, but that's not anything special for a strategy game. What is though, is how those mechanics build the themes of the game. The world is cracked and the sun has gone out. Life is short and cruel. Every passing year, mankind dwindles. Yet chaos simply gluts itself on our shattered bones. Hope is but another cruel irony. To dream for another day is to await nothing more than suffering. Can you keep the flame alive, or will the lights go out?

Hey, hey you. You boring ass little cuck.

You like playing RPGs don't you?

Then what the hell are you doing not playing this game? You're gonna ♥♥♥♥♥♥ love it when this game slaps you in the nuts with its brutally difficult combat, a massive retweak from its base game, Skyrim. You don't like that coomer ♥♥♥♥ though, do you? You want a game that will torture your ♥♥♥♥ and balls huh? Enderal's a cruel mistress, but don't you worry, she's not some kind of one trick Souls type skank. This total conversion won't just push your ♥♥♥♥ in, it'll leave you sitting in pool of your own tears and piss with the most climactic storytelling you've ever ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ seen. You better bet your bottom dollar that these characters are gonna be likeable ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, and the plot is gonna be chock full of intrigue, horror, and cosmic dread.


10/10 would let this game sized mod ♥♥♥♥ my wife again

Do you wanna ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Dive? Are you a big tubby piece of ♥♥♥♥? Then how about you kick rocks with my mother ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Dave?!


Dave the Diver is one of the most thoroughly pleasant games released in a year dominated with self-serious, heavy hitting AAA titles. While it's beautiful sense of style is probably the easiest thing to appreciate, what really makes this game work is a little harder to put your finger on.

Instead of having any one particular killer feature, the game shines its brightest with the ways that all of its seemingly disparate systems all interact with each other. Each of them feeds into the others in a series of deeply satisfying loops. If you're the kind of person who can easily dump hours into games like Minecraft or Stardew Valley, Dave the Diver is an easy recommend.

One Dreamer is a game about spending a lifetime waiting for your chance to say something, only to end up screaming into the void. At the same time, it's also about being happy that you were ever given the chance at all.

It's hard to review a game like this, because at its core, it feels kind of wrong to approach this game from an objective point of view. While the core mechanics of "programming" your way through this adventure feel a little light and under-baked, it's difficult to say that this has done much to really affect my view of the game. In every single moment, One Dreamer pours its heart out to you.

At its core, One Dreamer is more of an experience than a game. It's captivating, beautiful, and deeply sad all at the same time. While its ending isn't half the story as its opening, it's still nothing short of a love letter to the world of video games. If you've ever had a passing interest in making games yourself, One Dreamer so perfectly encapsulates that passion, leaving you hopelessly infected with the same kind of love that the developers themselves must feel as well.

Don't expect perfection and don't expect to consistency from this game. Expect though, a thoroughly flawed vision of a game of flawed people. It's messy and it's not terribly fun to play, but there's something undeniably human about the story of this game. In that way, parts of what makes it worse is what makes it all work, a single commitment to an idealized dream, a perfect analogue for a true "diamond in the rough" that this game is.

Stasis: Bone Totem, is a deep sea point and click adventure, and just about one of the finest damn pieces of horror fiction I've ever had the pleasure of experiencing.

This is a game that should not be spoiled, at all possible costs, so I'll leave my praises in bullet point format.

-No jump scares
-The plot winds downwards endlessly, with each act offering new and deeper takes on the core mysteries of the story
-Oppressive writing that never seemed to repeat itself even once in a given 10-16 hour playthrough
-Well written, and even charming protagonists with well paced, meaningful arcs
-Absolutely phenomenal voice acting
-A unique visual style that harkens back to the days of pre-rendered titles from the 90's, but with a modern coat of paint
-A lovecraftian take on horror. Unspeakable madness, ritualistic murder, occult worship, and fleshy horrors await.
-The game manages to be a tale about so many things without ever seeming over simplistic or pandering. Expect discussions on capitalism, religion, artificial intelligence, and more. These things can easily be a turn-off in many modern media products, but every one of them was executed so sharply that the story never turned into the same boring lecture that so many other products seem to devolve into.


The game is not without its frustrations, but the pure level of craft in this title completely outshone all of it. This game is easily an immediate recommend, and will doubtlessly be on my list for best games of the year. Please don't sleep on this one!

Game's a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ meme

The man who made this is a mad ♥♥♥♥♥♥ lad.