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While I played just an hour, I can safely say that Brighter Shores is what RuneScape 3 would have been if Andrew Gower stayed with Jagex and I mean that in the best way possible. It's a relaxing grind in a silly world in which you can lose yourself for hours upon hours while watching numbers go up.

It is still in early access and it's going to change and get bigger and bigger and, no doubts about that, better. The question you should ask yourself is this. Am I OK with this being just a chill game which I play and enjoy the great music, nice and simple visuals, silly humour and grind four hours upon hours or do I want this to be a replacement for RuneScape?

If you chose the second option, then I'm afraid you won't find that here, but if you chose the first one, Brighter Shores will welcome you in its warm and comforting hug and will never let you go! I recommend you to at least try it and see if you like it!

Oh, and... Andrew Gower? Thank you man! Thank you! You rock!

Who needs a win, when you can make that bastard that broke your continent lose?

In all seriousness, RISK: Global Domination is a nice updated version of a classic and beloved board game. It's a f2p title, but the model was recently updated to be even more generous to free players and if you have patience and nerves of steel, you can buy permanent premium with free premium currency you get every day (but it will take a long time, so don't count on it if you want to play seriously). There are a lot of maps and options to make the rules just how you like them and the game even has an android version which you can play, keeping the progress from PC version. All in all, except the aesthetics that might be unappealing to some due to how much they resemble a cartoon and the usual drawback of stress which comes with any competitive game, this is the best Risk PC adaptation we ever got and it's being constantly updated and upgraded by a loving team of developers from Australia (if I'm not mistaken).

All in all, if you love Risk, support these guys, buy premium and enjoy :D

Team Fortress 2 is basically simulation of children playing war outside. It's wacky, it's fun and it's timeless.

However, the game is in extremely sorry state. I have never witnessed this level of infestation with bots in any multiplayer game. What will happen for most of the time is you will queue for the game and start playing and often a bot called HEXATRONIC will join the game. If you have sensible people in the game, they will promptly votekick the bot and you can continue playing in peace until it returns. If there are not enough players to votekick it, the bot will multiply and you will have numerous HEXATRONIC bot players in the game which you cannot ban because they will vote against that. They play as snipers and autoaim oneshot you while looking at the sky. They also blast songs full volume with voice chat. It's disgusting and I don't understand how somebody has a heart to destroy such a warm and fun game for so much people.

Valve, please, do something! Your customers deserve better! This game has an amazing and loving community that loves it's game and wants to play it! Please! Help us help you! Do something about this!

Look, I spent my childhood on f2p MMORPG-s, so my standards are really not high. Give me mobs to grind, a functioning economy, a basic combat system and I'm good. DK Online looks decent, animations are beautiful and the enemy design doesn't have the right to look as good as it does and it really feels comfy in that design of old f2p MMORPG-s.

However... In 10+ years of playing MMO-s, I have never played a game that is so pay to win like DK Online. Why do I say that? Every item in the game has weight. Once a bar in your inventory indicating total weight you are carrying goes over 50%, your automatic HP and MP regeneration stops completely. When it comes near 100% you can't even attack. Now take into account that your equipment which you currently have equipped doesn't magically disappear from your inventory when you equip it and it still fills that bar I talked about and so do the quest items. Add a potion and item or two and you don't have regeneration of HP and MP and are forced to buy potions. So what (you say foolishly), buy the potions. You can't... The drop rate of money is so low that the highest amount of money I got from a mob till I reached level 10 is one coin per kill. This system exists on purpose. And that purpose is not to make the game more fun or realistic. It's here by design, so you spend money on the game. This system alone made me stop playing.

And of course, cash shop sells items that boost regeneration from as low as 1$ a piece! And the whole cash shop sells power from stat boosting to regeneration boosting in forms of pets and buffs and whatnot. Developers made a separate server where they give you rewards for playing the game which try to ease the pay to win elements, but that is not a solution. You made the problem. You make the solution. Remove pay to win from your game. But I know you won't. Because it's making you money. So have it your way...

Avoid this... It's an OK game at best ruined by monstrous pay to win that is somehow worse than bloody League of Angels series...

"DreamScapes Dimensions" is MMORPG in Pre-Alpha developed by a single developer. Despite watching the video from Josh, I tried to give this game a try, because I find it charming despite it's obvious jank and shortcomings + all the negative reviews by people who never wrote a line of code in their life made me both sad and mad at the same time.

Despite all of my good will, I could hardly play "DreamScapes Dimensions". Why? Because the developer decided that he wants an extra challenge. The fact that he's making an MMORPG by himself was not difficult enough, so he's also making it in Unity, an engine notorious for it's performance issues.

All jokes aside, the loading is extremely slow, the ping is very high (probably due to server hosting location) and my FPS never went above 30 and I moved at a snail's pace often stopping completely due to game loading stuff in. The graphics are what they are (many will tell you they are ugly), but I still find them charming for some reason. After about 10+ minutes of trying to play the game, I managed to complete 2-3 quests before the game crashed on me.

Do you want to know the saddest part? There is a work of love and passion in this mess of a code. You can see it in the world design and game design in general. Yeah, it's basic, but the game's sole developer is trying his best to make the best game he can. I wanted and still want to play this game, despite it being bad, because it provides you with a simple RPG experience that doesn't require a lot from you and it's miles better than trying to play Everquest alone.

So here is my advice. What you have here is a simple little RPG with some harvesting and crafting systems. You have procedural dungeons and you have a functioning combat and quest system. Everything is basic, but worse games have been sold for money. There is a niche part of gaming community which likes games like Everquest and RuneScape because of the grind they provide. Even if you finish this game after 30 years of development and make it perfect, nobody in their right mind will play this. Instead, make this game playable offline. Remove all the "online part" of the code and all multiplayer aspects. You will boost the game's performance, you will save the cost of hosting a server and you will let more people who see your love and passion experience this game and enjoy some time grinding and questing at the same time. I know you have dreams. It's not bad to have them. I just think it would be a shame if you let your work be for nothing when people could enjoy it.

Please consider doing what I said. I will gladly return to the game and play if you decide to do it. And so will many others who like old dungeon crawlers. I am leaving a positive review to cheer you up. There are people who would like to play your game, whatever negative reviews are making you to believe. Help them play and enjoy your game!

Have a good one!

I installed this with full knowledge of what this game is, knowledge coming both from my own experience of this Chinese game series and from Josh's video. I just wanted to watch numbers go up a bit and treat this as an idle RPG game.

After 20 minutes of playing both my eyes and ears are bleeding from all sorts of audio and visual effects and from the sheer abundance of stuff I had to witness. My brain just tried to comprehend everything that's happening, but just couldn't.

League of Angels - Heaven's Fury is a Chinese browser RPG. You know that type, the one with auto-pathing where you just watch the game play itself, featuring dozens of upgrade systems which are just ways for you to spend money on the game. Now, imagine that, but with 3D models, a story thematically based on Greek mythology and focus on angelic beings. The game literally plays itself, you are showered with experience, levels, rewards, system upon system and item upon item. I tried to follow what's going on, but to no avail. At one point you will just be pressing the buttons to progress further, but since there is no difficulty/gameplay to speak of (you could theoretically play the game yourself, but there's no point), progression doesn't matter and you just don't care. Other players say that the game really starts at level 300 when you hit a progression wall where I guess you need to either pay or do daily grinds, but I struggle to find a reason why would someone do either of those two options.

League of Angels - Heaven's Fury is a dumb time waster that you keep open on the side while you are doing something else with sounds turned off, treating it as an idle game, but even then it's inferior to basic stuff you can find at Google Play. And don't even think about spending money on this, because the game will skin you alive for every cent you have.

If you main this game, you are a tougher man than me, but that's not saying much and it's the only positive thing you could tell yourself at that point, so if that makes you fall asleep peacefully, no need to thank me, I serve with pride!

Vegas Infinite by PokerStars guide:
Step 1: Install the game
Step 2: Click play
Step 3: The game opens extremely slowly and then asks you to allow the game to record your audio
Step 4: Click no
Step 5: Watch in confusion and with dislike how the game closes
Step 6: Click play again
Step 7: Accept the audio recording, hoping there's an option to mute yourself
Step 8: Click the option to play the game when given the option between creating an account, logging in or just playing
Step 9: Get a message that you were banned because of violating the terms
Step 10: The message changes to tell you they are monitoring your voice chat
Step 11: The game becomes unresponsive/reacts slow, so you have to stop it by using Steam Client
Step 12: Right click on the game title on the game list in your library
Step 13: Hover over the manage option
Step 14: Click on uninstall option that appears
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"Lost Lands: Mahjong" is one of those games which mixes casual game genres like match 3 and hidden object with MMO like quests where you play and grind levels to gain items to turn them in for quests. It has microtransactions and energy system, but they don't give you that much. They mostly speed up the progress and help you with mahjong sections, but mahjong sections are not that hard and the whole progression is reasonably paced. Don't rush it, play it from time to time to spend energy and you will be OK. It also seems that the studio reused assets from their other games for this one, since they have whole "Lost Lands" series of hidden object games, and then they have this version with mahjong for online play and one with hidden objects as well. But that doesn't affect you as a player, it's just something I noticed. It's also worth mentioning that this game is not (as far as I am aware) getting new content, but there is enough to satisfy your itch for casual gaming. All in all, I do recommend this game, just have in mind what you are getting yourself into and that you will not be able to play as long as you want in one sitting without paying money for energy.

In terms of Counter Strike clones, there are far worse games on offering than Zula on the market. It's gun play is good, it's hit detection is decent and it's net code is serviceable. However, as almost all Counter Strike clones, Zula has currencies which you earn by playing the game and by paying and you use it to buy weapons and skins. Is it probably possible to buy overpowered weapon for money? Absolutely! So, why would you play a game like this when CS:GO is free and better than ever before? Prime... Valve removed the option for free players to earn drops and therefore you can't earn ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ anymore. In Zula I think you can grind out some skins with currency. So, decide for yourself. The game really isn't as bad as many make it to be, but it isn't a masterpiece either. Could be a good time eater if you don't have anything smarter to do.

Look and feel of the game:
First things first, this has nothing to do with Torchlight. It's futuristic fantasy anime story where group of heroes are called Torchlight. I am not saying that matters a lot since previous games didn't have very unique story or art style, but it was generic fantasy and it worked. Here it's one of the most unimaginative aesthetics I have seen in a long time. Everything looks so boring and generic, but in a bad way. Like it's washed out. UI is clean but also looks boring. Nothing here will excite you to play this game.
Story:
Anyway, after you chose your hero, you are thrown in a short tutorial where you learn basics of the game while some voice is spewing nonsense that is supposed to be deep. After that you are thrown right into the anime story where you the game expects you to feel connected to characters you just met. You get a thick anime waifu to follow you and while she looks like she breaks rocks with her hands, she sounds like one of those female characters in anime who are supposed to be cute and naive. It's irritating. Story is as generic as it gets, some evil guys do evil stuff and attack good guys, kill evil guys. Not that different from previous games, but much worse because you are constantly bombarded with exposition of characters you don't care for, contrary to previous games where outside of taking quests from NPC-s you were free to kill and loot to your heart's content.
Combat:
I picked a dwarf commander for my hero. He is a summoner who summons robots to fight for him. Despite that, he can equip weapons in his hands, but in half an hour I played I couldn't for the love of me figure out how to do a basic attack. Clicking on enemies didn't do anything, pressing d (button for interaction) also didn't do a lot. Combat in general feels mediocre. Stuff happens, enemies die. but there is no feedback, none of that amazing death animations like in Diablo 1 or 2 or meaty sound effects. Here stuff just dies. I think skill system can be fun, but I see no point when basic feel of the combat is so mehh...
Loot:
I am sorry to say that bread and butter of these games, loot, is just boring. After half an hour I just didn't care anymore. It was generic and uninspired and I couldn't care less what I was picking up.
Conclusion:
I will maybe give this game some more time if I manage to make myself, but even half an hour of playing this felt like a chore. Yesterday I tried to play Eternium, another ARPG ported from mobile. It's old and clunky, but it's made with tons of more passion than this generic entry in the genre. Even if we ignore the monetization, I can't recommend this one. Hell, even Diablo Immortal, which is just a light version of Diablo 3, has better feeling combat than this. Try it if you want. It's not the worst thing ever, it's just so uninspired that I don't even know why it exists, other than to try and suck as much money out of you as possible...