Recent reviews by Sōsuke Shima

Do I even need to write a review of this game for you to know how great this is?

If you've ever played Factorio, well this is it in 3D. This game was so good that when they released it on steam, I bought it for the second time because it was the only game I played on Epic Games launcher. Yes, it was so good I bought it twice to avoid a tiny inconvenience.

Enjoy factory building games? If you don't, please leave. I don't know why you're even here. Seriously, just get out already, wrong room buddy. This isn't Assetto Corsa 2, who sent you here?

All jokes aside, I've watched and continue to watch this game grow as updates are moved along. I've been playing since update 1. I remember when trains were new. Fluids weren't even a thing! The game has grown and evolved at a very steady pace, and no update has felt rushed or lacked any quality. The developers of this game care deeply about the quality of this game and care even more about the community around their game. I cannot speak higher praises for them, they have released regular status reports on the progress of updates as they're in the works and have always been in constant communication with the player base with full honesty about the state of their work. If they're falling behind on certain features, they take the time to slow it down and give you quality updates rather than rushing out barely functioning garbage.

The game is still in early access as of the time of writing this review, and there are still bugs/performance issues to be worked out. This game requires some pretty capable graphics processing power (and looks stunning with everything turned to max), and even with you and your super gaming PC you will likely start to have crashes sooner or later if you play for 8 hours on end like me.

That is the one downside to this game. If you enjoy it, prepare to not have a life anymore. You will walk out of your room one day after having finally automated turbo motors with extreme efficiency, only to find that your wife took the kids and left 5 weeks ago for a "vacation." Then she doesn't even have the guts to tell you where she is because apparently you "don't care enough about us" and she just doesn't understand the significance of upgrading to Mk.3 miners and you just can't do that without turbomotors! Do you know how long it took me to hook up all of the world's nitrogen veins to ONE centralized distribution hub?! I don't see her having completed stage 4 of the space elevator progression!

*sigh*

Sorry, lost track of things there. But yeah, great game, you should buy it.

TL;DR
Factory go brrrr, if you like automation or factory building games, just buy this and get it over with. You will not be disappointed with the attention to detail from the developers. You may even say the quality of this game is.... Satisfactory... ha...ha...ha... Yeah I said it what are you gonna do about it?

Assetto Corsa is the place to start for sim racing, period.

Whether you're looking for a fun racing game to play or are genuinely interested in sim racing but have little to no skill, this game will make you fast. Although I would not say this game is geared towards people who just want a casual arcade game to play, I will say that I have encountered a surprisingly large number of players on public servers who can drive with a controller or keyboard/mouse better than I can with a wheel & pedal setup. Driving is very realistic, so don't expect to have arcade-like racing abilities. This means you have to drive it (almost) as realistically as you would drive any real car on a course. However, if you are interested in learning to drive fast for real, this game will teach you that. This game will make you fast both in game and in real life, and the immersion is not lost when racing on courses you've actually been to (or in my case racing on courses from Initial D that I've never been to but seem realistic).

For the price you pay, this is one of the best sim racing games out there. Yes there are other games that are more realistic in some regards, iRacing for example (which you have to pay monthly for). However for how relatively little Assetto Corsa costs (I got it on sale for cheap with DLC), you will never find another game that has as much content. I will warn you now that the base game content, while good in quality, will not blow you away. Even with all of the DLC's, there is no plethra of content to be found as is. But! There is a huge modding community around this game, and you really don't have to be a master of setting things up to get into it. Get Content Manger and everything that comes with it (just look it up on youtube theres a whole tutorial and stuff that's really comprehensive) and then your world is open to anything you want. It's basically an alternative launcher that makes modding easier, but modding this game is already so ridiculously easy if you know how to drag and drop files into folders that it isn't absolutely necessary. It's a very nice launcher though with a lot of settings, it's used by a huge majority of players, and I don't think the game is worth playing for long without it. It's also free!

The amount of free, quality content available for this game outside of the base game + DLC makes Assetto Corsa a never ending playground. You can always find new cars, join a racing series, screw around on touge servers, or just stick to singleplayer until you can beat the AI. There is so much available out there, and it's not hard to find if you have any idea of what you're looking for. This game is not limited to the most basic of circuit racing. Although dirt/rally/bikes/offroad isn't a thing in this game, the shear variety of racecars and tracks / maps that are available for download either for free or very small sums of money is what makes this game tremendous. Are you a fan of LA backroads? Someone has a server for that. Ever wanted to live out your Wangan Midnight dreams on the highways of Tokyo at night? Also a set of maps / servers for that. Or maybe you just want to see what Laguna Seca is like to drive in a Ferrari F1 car from the 90's. You can also live out your Initial D fantasies as you drift against your friends down Akina or any other touge course from the show. There is seriously no limit to how much free, community-made, quality content is available for this game with such great accessibility.

TL;DR
You will not find a better racing game for the money, and although it may have some shortcomings, the game is pretty reliable, very realistic, and all around very well sorted for what it's made to be: a sim racing game. The ease and accessibility of modding and the amount of free/cheap content available makes this game a must buy for anyone who wants to immerse themselves in whatever racing fantasies they've ever wanted to live out.

This game is absolute garbage. I like monopoly, its a fun game that really comes down to luck, and the specialty rules add some variety for those who like to play more often in groups. But here's why I hate this particular version of the game.

First, Monopoly Plus makes you log in to Uplay, which is already a downside. Uplay sucks and it makes me type in my username and password *every* time no matter how many times you click "remember me." I've never gotten any support with Uplay issues like this. It also sucks because you have to join people's games through Uplay, meaning you have to add all your friends again on Uplay. This completely defeats the purpose of buying it on steam in the first place.

Second (and much more important), having played this game often with friends in multiplayer, it crashes consistently. We've had a lot (if I had to guess, anywhere from 25-33%) of games end because in the middle of a trade, mortgage, auction, or any other small pop-up menu, whoever's turn it is can't select anything. It's analogous to the old Xbox "Red Ring of Death", as soon as someone can't select a few options, the game is over. Its random, doesn't seem to be anything to do with how fast or slow you press buttons or do certain actions, and it really sucks. It often happens just when the game is getting good, and thus is an extreme disappointment because the whole round/match ends up being for nothing for everyone. And no, there is no way to save a game midway or pickup from another point. Furthermore, I have never seen any actual updates for this game, and I doubt Ubisoft will ever bother to fix a $15 game that they didn't invent in the first place. Also worth noting here that you cannot play with AI and multiplayer at the same time, you only get bots in multiplayer if someone disconnects. Adding insult to injury, reconnecting hardly ever works (even though it seems its meant to), and playing with only 2 or 3 people total isn't nearly as much fun as a 4-6 player game.

Third and final, there really isn't any DLC or expansion to this game. Being not just Monopoly, but Monopoly PLUS you might think that you'd be able to add different themes and such. IRL, I have electronic banking and Futurama in addition to classic (haven't touched any in forever, not many friends play board games irl lol). However, all you can change in Monopoly Plus is how the center of the board looks and add a specialty rule. You would think you'd be able to buy some extra 99 cent themes or something (more like $5 themes coming from Ubisoft).

Sorry if this sounds like an absolute rage quit review, which it kind of is considering I had to give up another round tonight because it froze again. I just think that the fixes to this game would be easy considering how simple of a game it is. This isn't an open world adventure game with hundreds of quests, its monopoly. Yet, somehow this game seems to be seriously lacking in terms of being able to maintain its basic operations.

TL:DR
This game isn't worth $15 because in multiplayer it often crashes/freezes the game with no way to save throughout and there's not many game play options or any way to change theme.

This is one of the simplest games I've ever played and I liked it for that reason. I think the purpose of it is no so much to truely be a game, but more of an experiment to see how people would react to a certain circumstance in which they have to react. It has some of the basic mechanics of the original fallout games, however far more simple. Moirai is only about a 5 minute game and it's free, so it's worth a few minutes of you're time.