Recent reviews by minus4k

A free, unrestricted completion. It's cute and all but that's not why you're here. Sometimes we want fine dining, others we want frozen pizza.

Possibly the finest collection of solitaire games you could hope to find. terrific variety and great fun.

There is no reason not to get this game, and every reason to play it.

pretty neat demo. definitely interested in the main game, as it seems like there's great room for complexity. If you like puzzle games, definitely worth checking out.

Unlike my childhood self, I have the ability to strategize.

Like my childhood self, I am not great at element TD.

Still fun tho!

edit: this is how you update reviews for nominated games.

Anyway, I'm at 454/456 achievements right now and look forward to finishing all achievements

I think it's pretty neat that, about 20 years after I was playing wc3, I can return to that fun world of playing mauls. TDs have rightfully stuck around, but mauls are fun too! ^^

Mazing as a DLC wasn't my favorite idea really, until I realized how much it adds to the game. It's definitely an expansion that warrants separate payment because of just how much work is evident in making this thing.

I am still not very good, but it doesn't matter. the DLC is neat.

It’s a neat little game. The regular updates usually are in the form of paid DLC, which isn’t quite my favorite but since they’re priced quite affordably I don’t mind it too much. In addition to paid updates, there are sporadic free updates as well as annual opportunities for the community to get their art added to a (free) pack, so that’s cool for the pixel artists!

Oh no! It's not very good.

It's a retrofuturistic alternate history walking simulator, and ♥♥♥♥ it, why not throw schizo science delusions in there for good measure.

It's so poorly optimized that it overloads my 2080 to render everything, then hide it behind poor lighting.

It rewrites Tesla's entire personality while still seemingly understanding random tidbits (e.g. love affair with a pigeon) of his life that make me wonder why exactly they chose Nikola Tesla for the story instead of literally making someone up.

I am one of the three people who actually enjoys walking simulators, so I should have like this one, right? Nope. It's bad. There is no room for exploration or problem solving. There's a bit in chapter... 3, I think, where I found the problem I needed to solve (shutting off an emergency generator) but I wasn't allowed to do it because I hadn't tried to do something else first. So it wants your brain turned off. If I'm not thinking and I can't see anything, what exactly is the point to this game? This massive ship (that's a whole other thing... like I get that we're pretending Tesla did all sorts of things in this dumb game, but maybe they should have talked to marine engineers to understand what's remotely feasible today, let alone a hundred years ago) conveniently only has environments directly related to the story, meaning that there's exactly nothing you are allowed to do that doesn't progress the story.

When I decided to just shut my brain off, it was still bad. The whirring of my GPU fans were the only comfort I had, knowing that in addition to wasting money on this game, I also got the pleasure of wasting money redlining my GPU just to 'play' a game I couldn't even see.

so I kinda like the amaze series. I don't believe that every little game needs to be earth-shattering or displays of technical greatness.

but this one sucks. Awful hitboxes, awful momentum, awful visuals, and single-pixel 'jumps' when changing direction that all add up to a gameplay experience that be largely fine in a normal (no 'untouchable' walls) amaze game but is frankly unacceptable in this one.

lmao it's bad and the most hackneyed of hackneyed storylines

Besides the frustration of the aberration effect giving me a headache, I can't help but wonder why this boring game made any of the decisions that it did. The brief invulnerability while flashing (by the way, if you're sensitive to flashing lights, avoid this game) is a neat enough concept, but because all the enemy ships enter in brief periods of invulnerability it was old hat by the time the bosses used it. None of the textures are meaningfully distinct, and all seem to do the same thing. Why am I sitting around waiting for the ships to become vulnerable to damage? Why not just start the level with all the ships on screen?

The "nishikado motion" that came about in space invaders due to hardware limitations, but made it so engaging is replaced by erratic movement patterns that... are understandable, in an effort to restore some amount of difficulty, but as a result the natural ebb and flow of space invaders gameplay is just replaced by half-hearted dodging.

The game did this weird pseudo-full screen thing, where it appears as a borderless window, but as a result of needing to click to fire, I often accidentally clicked out of the window (why hide my mouse if I can accidentally leave the screen?

Oh, by the way: if the fire rate will be anemic even if mouse clicks are delivered with the speed of a freshly-caffeinated twelve-year-old, probably just stick autofire in there, yeah? Avoid lots of the troubles of the terrible gameplay window that I ran into, and I can't imagine it would change the difficulty all that much.

The varied missile patterns are nice, but given all the other problems, I would think a free browser game makes a better substitute for this. I managed to snag a free license during a 100% off deal, but if you didn't I can't recommend buying.