Recent reviews by The Selfish Meme

Fun survivor game. I'm fairly new to the genre, so can't really compare. But it has a lot of content (about 40 classes, lots of weapons and items, upgradable stats). Short fast-paced waves don't let you get bored.

Special thanks for the ability to interrupt a run and resume later (2 other survivor games I've played don't allow that).

The only thing I think is missing is some meta upgrades which carry over to all future runs. But it's fun without it, too.

Pretty addictive. I like unlocking and upgrading stuff in games, and this one is all about it. Also has many familiar things from the original DRG.

This should be called Ubisoft's Greed because 1) it's not about assassins 2) the game includes mechanics from a free2play MMO, only the game wasn't free in the first place.

The main problem here is that the game was designed to take more time than it should to justify the existence of in-game purchases. They sell gear, crafting materials, XP boosts and even maps of in-game stuff (aren't they free usually?).

Your character levels up quite fast, and so do your enemies. To make your weapons and armor useful you have to constantly upgrade them, and for that you need enormous amonuts of crafting materials and money. So you have to farm them A LOT, and looting containers and dead enemies is the main thing you will think about throughout the game.

Another huge issue is timed quests. It's really weird to see those in a single-player AAA PC game, gives you a mobile game vibe. The quests are boring, the time to complete them is limited so the devs are trying to make you to play the game more often and probably decide to purchase in-game stuff at some point (not my case). What enrages me is that the quests are also bugged, so they can randomly disappear right in the middle of your game even if the time hasn't expired yet. Just says 'X is no longer available'. Why? Zeus knows.

Fights are ok. There's a bunch of abilities both for melee fights and archery, as well as stealth abilities if you want to sneak up on people and cut them down. The map is unnecessarily huge, though, so it will take many hours to complete every location. Gets boring before you can complete all that.

Bounties is a really annoying mechanic. When you commit a crime, you will often get a bounty even if you kill the only witness right away or there wasn't one in the first place. Then an overpowered mercenary arrives faster then modern police would and tries to kill you. What annoys me even more is that mercenaries can hunt you in broad daylight and it's considered legal, but if some NPC gives you a bounty on someone and you kill that person, it's illegal and a bounty is placed on you.

The region control thing might be fun at first, but in fact it's just endless flip-flop to make the game even longer. You can capture a region for Sparta then start wiping them out right away and capture it for Athens. It all seems pointless.

Parkour was casualised to the point that you can climb any wall or mountain without having to think for a second. I remember times when reaching a sync point in an AC game was a little puzzle where you had to figure out a way to climb to the top of a really huge building. Here you just come to the sync point, look up and climb. No satisfaction in that.

I will probably finish the game since I've already paid for it, but I'm definetily not buying any more recent Ubisoft games. They are too focused on sucking money from gamers, even if they have to kill a great game in the process.

Odyssey could have been fun if they removed generic timed quests, shrinked the map to a quarter of it's current size but made it rich and full of events. Instead you have lots of land and sea but most of it is empty and boring. And what's not empty is filled with similar repetitive stuff.

Fun puzzle game, not too hard to finish but still satisfactory to find an angle which allows you to proceed in a puzzle.

It's a very old game. The graphics are obviously outdated, but that's not the main problem.

I didn't like the single player campaign because it's quite short and linear. You don't get to use your imagination, your commanders or colleagues always tell you where to go, who to shoot in which order, etc.

There is no tutorial on how to shoot in expert mode where you have to consider wind and bullet drop without a red dot showing where the shot will land, so you'll have to just practice on your own.

Multiplayer is very boring, I don't like camping games where you have to just sit quite most of the time or you will get killed by some camper.

I like getting 100% achievements in games, and the idea to include multiplayer achievements is not good. Farming 100 kills and 25 round wins is a chore even if you have someone helping you, not to mention real games (which surprisingly still exist).

If you like sniper games, try SGW3, Contracts (haven't played that, but should be better) or Sniper Elite Series.

It's not a bad game, but in Steam's binary system I have to choose 'not recommended' because I didn't enjoy this enough to recommend.

I liked other games from Matthew Brown much more (all Hexcells and SquareCells). This one didn't really hook me. As one of the reviewers stated, CrossCells leans a bit more to 'work side' rather than 'entertaiment side'. You can solve everything without guessing, but it takes a significant effort. You have to have a really good memory or maybe take notes during the game.

Anyway, if you like puzzle games, you might enjoy this. But I'd recommend HexCells and SquareCells over this.

Fun casual game. The drawings are very detailed, the 'mouth sounds' are hillarious, and the puzzles are sometimes frustrating but totally doable. I think the difficulty is just right, if it was easier it wouldn't be a puzzle game.

I managed to find everything without using any guides, you just need to roam around the map enough and then all the clues make sense.

I love the board game and play it often both digitally and on a table.

However, this implementation is quite terrible. Online games often freeze or disconnect, so people have to rejoin 2-3 times in a match. Often you even lose your turn somehow when you are supposed to be the first player.

Bots play dumb even on hard difficulty, so it's not a challenge.

Some Steam achievements are bugged and do not unlock.

Also the game lacks most of the addons: Colonies, Venus and Turmoil.

Cannot recommend buying a game which:
1) requires manual fix to make mouse work in-game
2) crashes randomly (yesterday it crashed after an hour of taking snapshots in San Fierro)
3) has to be played with 24 frames per second limiter, otherwise has multiple bugs (cannot dive, player dies when picking up stuff during burglaries or after jumping, cannot turn on the sirens on emergency cars...)

I won't deny that I've enjoyed the game for some time and I'll probably play some more after this review. However, it's definitely not a 'civ killer' and does not deserve my recommendation.

The game gives a distinct impression of a beta released into public for the price of a finished game. The forums are full of ideas on how to improve certain aspects of the game and it doesn't look like that any of them will be adressed. There are also some bugs, especially concerning Steam achievements (they unlock when they shouldn't and vice versa).

Gameplay-wise, waging wars here is highly unrewarding due to the strange 'war support' system. It's similar to EU IV, but here it's pretty much broken. Sometimes it takes 3-4 wars (in which you fully destroy someone's armies and occupy their cities) to finish off a player. It's not a fun challenge, it's just a waste of time.

And while in peace, you get spammed with numerous notifications which are more intrusive than in Civ and most of them are pretty useless.

There are significant differencies from Civ and that's what makes the game somewhat attractive for a time. But I'm close to a point where I'm just fed up with it, so it's not something to play for years.