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Heat signature is easily my favorite tactical stealth/action game.
You can pause any moment and take as long as you want to come up with an elaborate plan. More often than not, you'll misstep and that's when the real fun begins. Luckily, you have a diverse set of tools to help you get out of the situation you just put yourself in so precariously,
And the way the missions in the game are structured, you are gently nudged to try new approaches all the time. Or just when I think I finally found my favorite approach to any mission, I find myself in a pickle and try some disastrous idea out of desperation - and that idea becomes my favorite new trick.
10 / 10, nearly endless replayability, this game kept surprising me for about 50 hours and I'm still not sure I've seen it all.
Bonus points if you can get your friends to play daily missions and compare your approaches - it's some of the best fun you can have.

I expected this game to be full of stealth and action. And it was, but it felt like playing a puzzle game most of the time.
It's also fairly short, but that's a good thing for me, I'm an old man now, can't spend dozens of hours on every game I play.
The writing is superb, great sense of humor, not dissimilar to their later game Heat Signature.
Strongly recommend.

This DLC is so good it could have been its own game.

Room customization was pretty solid in the base game, but now the possibilities to decorate your place are endless. I love seeing what people come up with in multiplayer.

You have a list of short descriptions for tasks, and completing them unlocks more stickers and even more challenges. Some tasks require combining stickers in creative ways, while for the others you have to do different things that I won't spoil here.
It's an addictive cycle, I found it hard to stop.

I expected them to be just a cosmetic addition, but they turned out to be really helpful!

- Hey dude, check this out.
- Where?
- *turns on glowing particles and moves a cursor to leave the trail to the place of interest*

Also worth mentioning, different cursor effects are not just different particles, they each have a unique behavior: the butterflies scatter away; the paw prints follow the direction of your movement correctly as if your mouse was leaving them, and so on.

The devs have been releasing free updates for this free game for years now, and I'm a big believer in supporting passionate people doing good work.

The only problem I have with this DLC is that I haven't been doing any real puzzling since its release, I'm too distracted by the stickers!

Get stuck in a time loop like a responsible adult.

Beat Hazard 1 and 2 are still some of the best music-driven games out there.
Beat Hazard 3 is very similar in gameplay (which is good), but with new fancy graphics.
The biggest change (for me at least) is the addiotion of Galaxies, which add a whole new level to exploration of your music library (or library of your music streaming service). Albums are stars, tracks are planets, go conquer them!

Original review:
This is like Ghostrunner but actually good.

Update:
Ok, I have beaten the game, and it is nothing like Ghostrunner.

Severed Steel is a fast-paced shooter that encourages you to move all the time. To this end they use three clever design choices (probably more, but I'm no game design scientist):
1) You can't reload weapons. Out of ammo? Better get close to a baddie and grab his gun (yes, you can punch them and grab their guns mid-air SUPERHOT-style. You can also just grab holstered weapons).
2) You can turn on slo-mo. It's limited, but when you parkour, it isn't. If you find yourself surrounded or pinned down, it's often better to move instead of hiding in some hole.
3) Killing enemies replenishes your health and slo-mo. This too encourages you to play aggressively, especially when on low health.
All of this is very well implemented and tied together, feels great.

A story beautifully told. Make no mistake, if you're gonna play this game, you're gonna play it for the story.
The gameplay is pretty simple and includes walking around, talking to characters and solving puzzles (most of which are quite easy). You might also find the game somewhat slow in the beginning - don't worry, it gets better.
The story is a bitter-sweet emotional roller coaster with great use of symbolism, metaphor and foreshadowing.
The world built with beautiful pixel art is inhabited by a cast of unique characters who offer some weird and funny dialogue.
And a special shout-out to the soundtrack, which is very good indeed (this game's developer's first breakthrough was writing the soundtrack for Plants vs Zombies, she knows what she's doing).

This game is perfect if you just want to chill and have some absent-minded fun.
If you want to, you can learn the rules of creating various structures (of which there aren't many) and create big elaborate builds (have a look at the community screenshots, these folks know what they are doing!)
But for me it's just chill absent-minded fun.
Plop plop!

This is the most fun I've had in quite a while. I can't even put my finger on what makes this game so great, it's just smooth and crisp and chill and gives me some really good vibes.
This game aims to give you a jigging experience as realistic as possible: you move puzzle pieces around freely, there's no hidden grid, you can lose some pieces in the sink if you're so inclined. Think Tabletop Simulator, but with jigsaw puzzles.
There's also something you wouldn't expect from a puzzle game: you can decorate your house kinda Sims-style. Then you put your completed puzzles on the walls. That's nice!
Full disclosure: the devs are my best friends ever. I still believe in my ability to be (somewhat) objective about the game.

I played this game on a free weekend and it was in plain English.
Then I bought it and it switched to Russian. It doesn't have an option to change language.
That's not how free weekends work, Ubisoft, you don't give people a taste of one thing and then sell another, thank you very much.