Recent reviews by Pax

Caves of Qud is perhaps my favorite game of all time. Qud being the first true rogue-like title I had ever played, my initial reaction after buying it on a whim and dying after a very confusing minute was "This will probably require a bit of effort to learn." It took me about two months after that first death to pick the game up again and decide to figure it out. What hooked me in and made me want to uncover what the game offered was the unique and interesting character creation menu. While new to rogue-likes I had plenty of experience in table top gaming, and the parts of the game I had figured out reminded me of my time spent with d&d. With that initial hook I then rolled character after character throwing myself into the meat grinder of Qud, learning a little more each time. I doubt I'll ever play a game that provides me a similar feeling of discovery and challenge.

Rimworld does a great job of packaging the emergent narratives and colony building gameplay found in games like Dwarf Fortress and delivers it in a more intuitive and user friendly manner. While lacking a lot of the depth of Dwarf Fortress, Rimworld can still provide lots of entertainment with it's fun science fiction setting and ideas.
To further augment the Rimworld's replayability the steam workshop offers many mods to cater to whatever scenario the player can imagine.

Pass

I have enjoyed this game for a long time, It's been great to see the story mode being worked on all this time and endless mode is a treat. If you live anywhere other than the west coast of the United States I recommend you get this game. I myself cannot bring myself to enjoy any of the new multiplayer content due to ping. To top it off, for quite a while I've been taunted with a "Coming Soon!" west coast server that even displays it ping. If only I could enjoy the tantalizing 60 ping promised by US West, until then I will continue to get my anus reamed with 200 ping.

The crafting system is convoluted. Progress is slow. Performance issues are common. I find it hillarious that as some sort of stone age savage I can learn how to make a bow and arrow and not be able to use it. Did I invent the bow by accident as some sort of ass scratcher?

Ran 2ft headfirst into my friends ship and killed myself. 10/10