Recent reviews by radiocaf

Genuinely cannot recommend this game enough, I got it as part of a Humble Bundle and it quickly became my favourite game,

It is a really good game, it's so detailed and really fun to play. I've learned a lot from it. I love that it includes products from certain manufacturers too, which is a great addition and makes it easier to find brands you recognize. Personally I get overwhelmed with remembering model numbers and stuff but I manage.

I'd love to see a notes system introduced, sometimes I'll be waiting on delivery for parts for several machines, and by the time they get delivered, I've forgotten what part goes in what machine (mainly a problem when several machines all need, say, a graphics card) so it ends up being a trial and error thing. It would also be good for tracking what's been done on a system, what hidden objectives you think are needed on that machine, etc. A lot of the time I'm running backwards and forwards to my emails to see any hidden objectives, and it kind of gets annoying to have to keep doing that.

I'd also love to see less jobs that are based on getting a certain score on 3DMark. It was fun at first but after so many it gets tedious. I've had a few times where I've upgraded the GPU, retested, and then I see that the CPU score is the lowest so I upgrade the CPU thinking that's the problem, when I'd already solved the problem the first time around. On that note, it's annoying waiting for a benchmark to finish. It's great for immersion, but when you're benchmarking a lot of systems, practically every single one you accept, it gets to be a bit of an annoyance.

It would be good to see prices the customer will pay in your inventory. I've shied away from storing too much in my inventory because I usually have to go to my PC to open the shop to see the price of things to make sure I don't blow the customer's budget. So if I'm going to the shop anyway, I might as well just order the part I'm looking at the price of.

Overall you won't be disappointed with this game, I'm having a blast with it.

I never played Rollcage, have never heard of it, but after playing this game at a convention, I had to get it.

The rush of high speed, high adrenaline racing with the added risk of being blown off the course at any moment by one of the various imaginative weapons in the game is unparalleled. When you land a hit yourself you feel powerful and unstoppable.

I can't recommend this game enough! I had to nominate it for the "Most Fun with a Machine" Steam Award in the 2018 Steam Awards.

A truly fantastic loading screen simulator with a great little mini-game tacked on that follows three protagonists committing crime.

12 minutes is my record of loading screen, what's your's?

Usually, Walking Simulators are not my thing, I hate the pacing of them, it takes forever to get anywhere.

But not Firewatch. I mean, it takes time to get anywhere in Firewatch, but the narrative is so gripping that the time flies. The game is short, and many people have complained about that, but in this case it's all about quality over quantity. I certainly enjoyed my time with this game and would have happily paid full price for it (I got it during a Steam Sale.)

The graphics are amazing, I was playing on Ultra settings, and my GTX 780M was able to keep up. I love how you can get your photos that you take on the camera you find in game developed and delivered to your home, and I gotta admit, it's highly tempting.

I didn't find many times where I was stuck with where to go or what to do, the only issue I had was with the map. I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, part of the immersion is using a map you have to pull out and zoom in on, but I'm no Christopher Columbus so I was regularly going the wrong way and struggling to get my bearings because I couldn't see a permanent map that rotated with my character, which is the norm in gaming nowadays but would break the experience in a game such as Firewatch.

I would definitely recommend this game. I probably wouldn't play it again, now I've experienced it all and gained all the achievements, but I loved every second of it, and this is coming from a guy who hates Walking Simulators.

I bought it for the articles.

Don't buy this game expecting a long, story driven experience. This is not that sort of game. I played 41 minutes and have completed it, achievements and all.

You are tasked with pooping on everything you can below you, with a to-do list, aptly named the "to-poo" list, of targets to achieve. That's it. You start with 5 poops and as you complete tasks on your "to-poo" list, you unlock more poops, more targets, and a special ability to help rain stinky devastation upon your unsuspecting, long necked, targets.

That's it. That's the game.

For anyone who cares, the achievements are easy, the game is easy, and for the low low price of (at time of writing) 79p, it's a nice little time waster.

I wouldn't say it's addictive, or that I will go back to play it again (the game offers you the option to reset your saved data so you can complete your "to-poo" list over and over), but I enjoyed my 41 minutes with it, and can happily recommend whoever is reading this buy a copy for themselves.

Not a full simulator in any way, but it has increased my general knowledge of cars.

It's a fun game to play when you want to relax and unwind, or just when you need to pass a half hour, here and there. But once you have completed a fair few "missions" you can find the game to be repetitive (especially if you're like me and take all four wheels and track rods off just to change an air filter (it takes a lot of wrench work!)) However I'm not bored of this game after 4 hours, but I do wish it had some achievements.

Should a sequel be released, I'd hope for more ways to fix the cars, as in this iteration, although you can do a lot of work on the cars, you can't change anything in the interior of the vehicle, and you can't work deep within the engine. You can change belts and starters and gearboxes; but pistons and manifolds are out of reach, sealed in the engine block. Maybe add some cosmetic work too? Someone brings their car to you because they want a dent removed, or it repainted? That'll be fun! Maybe even work on your own car/garage with the money you earn?

So to summarise, it's a fun game, even more fun than I expected from a game called "Car Mechanic Simulator 2014", but in the next one I'd like to see a lot more jobs and mission variation.