Recent reviews by tilanus

Don't let the low cost and minimalistic look fool you: ISLANDERS has great game design! The controls and core mechanics are very easy to understand for everyone, non-gamers included. You can - like me - spend endless hours in ISLANDERS just enjoying its audiovisual beauty but you can equally go full try-hard optimizing building placements to squeeze out all the bonus points. And the best part is that these playstyles are non-exclusive to each other. This still allows you to come up with your own story for all the highly profitable towns and villages you errected. In many other city builders the most profitable compositions are usually not very nice to look at, but ISLANDERS succeeds in that part through smart balancing. I'm highly recommending this lovely and addictive city island builder!

I've played that game for months and probably even almost a year now and I consider it the better Diablo. In fact, PoE is in a more than obvious way a Diablo clone. You'll find lots of similarities with Diablo II like the char classes, several skills, some level design and lots of other familiarities such as crafting equipment, saving stuff for the chest, story fragmentation into 4 acts or enemy types. While additionally looking like a polished 3d version of Diablo II the game is clearly capable of pointing out own USPs.
There's that giant skill tree that's (in spite of the starting points) the same for all chars and allows rather unique skilling of each char type. In fact the design and starting point in skill tree is pretty much the only significant difference between the chars.

There's no money, but you're being paid with equipment that depends on your offers. Your characters share the same chest. PoE also comes with an admittedly quite complex, but still enriching skill system: Skills can be attached to any sort equipment via slot (differentiated by color) and these are only limited to statistical values (level, intelligence, agility, strength, etc.) and weapon types, but can be used by ALL character classes the same way. I can only recommend PoE if you're not satisfied with D3 or haven't bought/didn't want to buy it. But even if you did, you might check out this game since this game handles quite a few things differently without ever losing that good ol' hack'n'slash feeling that we loved so much about D2. :)