Recent reviews by Newt

Discover what happened to your sister on this alien ocean planet. At some point. But first, your underwater base absolutely needs an office, kitchen, bedroom, hydroponics room, storage area, and moon pool.

Buy for the fighting, stay for the politics.

Full communism now.

Left 4 Dead in space with dwarves, bugs and a bit of Minecraft. Loving it co-op. Plenty of progression to busy yourself with. Lots of little tactics and tricks to figure out. It's a fun game.

Transport Tycoon meets Starship Troopers.

Things in Cities Skylines like being able to divide your city into districts, put down pedestrian pathways, curve and elevate roads, and name just about anything, really allows you be creative and build a city with some character.

I'm really enjoying the game. It's a great simulation, it has great mod support, and, it's reasonably cheap. It's similar to SimCity in all the right places, yet is still different enough that it feels fresh and interesting. I heartily recommend it.

It's a great Batman story and it's a great game. I don't know why I ignored it for so long.

The combat feels like some cinematic beat em up. I initially found it a bit simple, but it gets more and more varied as the game goes on and by the end you feel like a total badass Batman as you beat the crap out of hordes of Arkham inmates.

The longer you can dish out punishment without taking a hit yourself, the more XP and rewards you get. The result are fights that feel not just satisfying, but seriously fun as well. Though stealth is also a viable and encouraged option too.

Being Batman, there's a ton of gadgets you use to advance through the game and solve Riddler puzzles that are scattered like completionist crack all over the city. These puzzles break up the combat in a nice way, and together with the side-missions, form a great open world.

The devs not only seem very up on their Batman mythology, they also managed to get the actors from The Animated Series to lend their voices to the game. The result is an experience that feels right, feels like a Batman game should, and is thoroughly addictive.

It's called DLC, but this really is a proper Expansion Pack in all but name. The new island of Solstheim, as a tiny chunk of Morrowind province, felt like a genuinely unique and interesting place to explore.

As someone that has only enjoyed brief forays into TES III, exploring the island and seeing giant toadstools tower over me and Netches float about was really cool. I imagine a Morrowind veteran may find the nostalgia levels of this expansion possibly seizure inducing.

The main quest line was a lot of fun too and even the side quests are really well made. There’s tons of new stuff to slay, craft and explore in general. There’s even a plane of Oblivion to wander.

If you enjoy The Elder Scrolls as a series, feel like getting back into Skyrim and have yet to play this, I couldn't recommend it any more highly.

tl/dr: game is good.

After days of trying and failing I'd finally managed it, I'd launched a probe at the gas giant Jool and managed to intersect with its orbit at just the right moment.

As the probe approached the distant, soon to be overbearing world, I knew I had to slow down if I wanted to successfully enter orbit.

With limited fuel available there was only one option, enter the planet's atmosphere at just the right depth and use resulting drag to loose some momentum.

I had no idea of the composition of the atmosphere, I had to make a guess. Too deep, and the probe would surely fall to its doom in the planet's interior. Too high and the resulting slingshot effect would plunge the probe into deep space.

I altered my approach and set the probe on a new heading that looked good enough. As the heat of re-entry began to envelop the probe, I held my breath, glued my eyes to the apoapsis reading and hoped.

The bold green of the Joolian sky began to give way to the black of space. I exhaled and checked the probe's heading. My risky manoeuvre had, by chance, put it on an encounter with one of Jool's many moons. My exploration of this system had just begun.

Kerbal Space Program is about trying, failing and occasionally succeeding. Each time you accomplish some new feat, you feel with it a sense of elation and more than a smidge of pride.

Build rockets, conquer physics and do science. Space travel is extremely challenging, no game has ever provided me with a clearer illustration of this fact than Kerbal Space Program.