Recent reviews by RichSC21

Fantastic. One of the best "doom clones" out there. Well paced, interesting and varied missions, and only occasionally frustrating level design.
One of the few games where lobbing grenades feels GREAT, and absolutely nothing hits like a supercharged stormtrooper blaster.
Really nice that they pulled an old demo level from the archives too! Fascinating to see how the level design was adapted over time into the finished game. Worth jumping into the vault and playing that first if you've played this game before before jumping into the remaster.

If Nightdive end up tidying up Jedi Knight/Mysteries of the Sith, sign me the heck up.

Huge fan of T2 back on the ol' N64, but never played this as it never got to my rental store. Hearing about it, it sounded amazing - human enemies, more cinematic storytelling, more bosses, bigger levels, crazier weapons - but twenty years later, I feel like it just wasn't worth the wait. On paper, the scope of T3 is a lot bigger than its predecessor, but it falls short on nearly everything.

A positive review and credit, as ever, to Nightdive on their work their work on this excellent port, but T2 and its remake remain is the pinnacle of the series for me, this is potentially only really worth it for die hard fans only.

do _not_ spend 9 hours farming concord proofs from the silver knights, it's not worth it, don't do it, you've got too much to live for

It's not often you get to describe a game which involves stalking and ritually sacrificing strangers as an absolute *delight*, but Life Eater absolutely is. The game play loop sees you manage your time as efficiently as possible to plot out the lives of ordinary strangers in stark and sometimes horrific detail, unpicking specific details to allow you to sucessfully perform a harrowing ritual to the demanding, dark god Zimforth and hold back the end of the world for another year.
This is all juxtaposed against a (surprisingly) beautifully illustrated narrative with standout performances by both Jarret Griffis and Xalavier Nelson Jr as the two leads - the glimmer of time spent with them in the cutscenes adds a wealth of humanity and heartbreak to the whole experience.

The main campaign runs for about three hours, but assuming that the promised endless mode adds some more procedural puzzling and allows us to delve further and deeper into the lives of truly awful, or tragically innocent victims, this game will be an absolute winner.

I can't cook up any comparisons, there are no other games quite like this.
I just can't wait to see what the Strange Scaffold team come up with next!

Simply one of the best shooters I've played. Roguelike Doom Eternal with some great weapons and a kick ass soundtrack.
The co-op is absolutely sublime.

Bought at launch and was disappointed.

v2.0 launched and all of a sudden my regret is melting away. Optimisations have made the game miles more stable, rockets feel and control a lot better, and there's an actual "game" now! With tonnes of bad dad jokes!
Genuinely delighted that Intercept have kept ploughing on and got this update out. Can't wait to see what they do next.

creeping up on you, it's this year's new "this game is actually crack"

"i've got a bad feeling about this" the game

A cosy monotone trip back into an awkward online adolescence of the early 00s, genuinely wonderful.

I bought this game on day one and immediately hated it. The gameplay loop is punishing and frustrating.

I came back to it and completed it three years later and feel like it's stuck with me longer than most games, the gameplay, design and plot are just so phenomenally evocative in ways that I can't explain.
The gameplay is supposed to be punishing and frustrating, and after you learn to be patient and take advantage of adapting your playstyle each loop, you can push the odds in your favour and it becomes very rewarding.

It's the kind of game you finish and immediately go looking for a 4 hour youtube video essay about, but this game is apparently too niche to have flagged up on the radars of those kinds of folks.
PS. If you're reading this and you're the kind of youtuber who makes 4 hour long video essays, have I got a game for you.