Recent reviews by Visaru

Beautifully written adventure that takes you across a harsh but warm world of people making beautiful little lives in the scrap left at the edge of the universe. Control your own ship, hire crew, keep yourself alive and your ship fueled as you travel across the belt, taking on odd jobs and dealing with your identity as an artificial person. There's no combat -- this is a game about resource management, about forming connections with people, about spending days putting in the work to earn your place in a community. There aren't enough games like this.

I wish I understood as much about family, love, revolutions, and storytelling as the creators of this game do... this is some of the best writing I've experienced, they make relationships and patterns resonate across generations and worlds. It's elegant, beautiful, disturbing, tearjerking, as specifically about Hong Kong as it is about a future with aliens and clones.

There is not much gameplay -- it is storytelling told through strange interactive environments, evocative camera angles, and some of the most grounded believable voice acting I've ever heard. Highly highly recommend.

As good as you could imagine a D&D video game being -- a huge world that never feels overwhelming in the way open world games do, a consistent ruleset that allows you to approach the story from any angle, and incredibly detailed rooms, chests, characters, and enemies. Feels both new and fresh and fiercely loyal to the original games. Some of my favorite characters in any game too.

Although the ending was far more cryptic and unsatisfying than I was hoping, I enjoyed the fishing sim part and always find these kind of time/inventory management games fun. Very easy once you get a few upgrades, got some good spooky water horror.

Although it starts slow, the final levels of Cocoon have some great mind-warping puzzling and the game is full of incredible cryptic imagery throughout.

You can play a complicated intense 8 hour board game in just a few hours with the power of digital technology

Imagine Stardew Valley except instead of inheriting a farm you lost your job and have to live in a homeless encampment. A great little bite sized game that uses a great sense of humor to talk about a terrible situation.

Iconic sci-fi, some of the most fun compelling characters in any video game, some of the most epic high stakes action you imagine. I mean, it's a classic for a reason

Absolutely gorgeous visuals which brilliantly update old top down pixel art game-maps. It is very well designed and the controls are excellent, but it's just not a game for me; I don't like the punishingly-difficult willfully unintuitive old-school design philosophy that it is built around.

Almost every enemy I encounter in Tunic is likely to kill me, which wouldn't be a problem if I didn't respawn so far way. I spend most of my gameplay sessions racing across the map, dodging enemies to get back to the location I was last exploring. Just figuring out where I am supposed to be going next is very very hard; maybe this area I am killing myself trying to get to isn't even important to explore! Even the mechanics are meant to be obscure, but the game still does a pretty good job at teaching those to you in a smooth intuitive way.

Tunic belongs in a genre with the very old Zelda games, where you had to explore and fight through the same area over and over again because the technology didn't have the capability to make a very large map. I don't have the talent or the desire to fight every enemy over and over again, and I don't have the time or desire to canvass the entire map over and over again to figure out how to progress in the game. I kept having to look up walkthroughs and turn the game to no-fail mode in order to progress, and at that point I just wasn't having fun any more, because I didn't feel like I was even playing the game.

This game is very well made, and if the genre's what you're into, Tunic is absolutely the best you will find! But despite the cute graphics, it is for a pretty hardcore audience.

What makes Roadwarden stand out is how real it feels. It cares about the details; how you set up camp that night, how you clean off after your fight in the mud, and where you tie up your horse. It takes place in a fantasy world that feels grounded and well researched, with little details like describing the break medieval Europeans would take in the middle of their sleep, or how dangerous soft surfaces are for horses to walk over. The rhythm of taking care of your resources and getting home before dark is really fun if you like travel management. The characters and quests are compelling, the art and music is gorgeous and evocative, and it feels like playing an incredibly grounded game of solo D&D. Highly highly recommend if you like rpgs.