Recent reviews by Alesayr

It has its flaws and missed opportunities (the factions are all reskins with the only difference being the commanders is one), but overall this is a fun game with a campaign that can keep you entertained for a long time.

The game is actually relatively fun to play. Unfortunately it is deader than dead. There are no players. For a purely multiplayer game, that's a good reason not to spend your money on this

I liked the cultural aspect of this game but otherwise this game just doesn't have much meat on the bones. You have to eat and drink distressingly often, and the rest of the game is just fetch quests. The whole game is just preparing to leave your village. What would be the tutorial area in a normal game is the entire game here unfortunately

Beckett has potential, and it's use of collage and multimedia is genuinely very innovative but is unfortunately it's attempts at literary nihilism come off more like a pretentious first year lit student who just discovered Nietzsche than something truly literary. It's far too in your face and doesn't let implications sit with you, but rather shoves it under your nose. In the options the game tells you that you don't have to play it. By about halfway through the game I was ready to agree.

I almost never pay full price for games. Why bother when you can get them on sale regularly and they're usually a much better value proposition that way? So believe me when I say that Tametsi is an absolute bargain even at full price. When they say over 40 hours of gameplay, that's a very very conservative number. I'm 40 hours in and only about 75% of the way through the main puzzles and there's still another 50 or so bonus puzzles I haven't even unlocked yet once I finish with that. The puzzling is interesting and doesn't get too stale. Even after finishing more than 80 puzzles I'm still discovering new logical techniques that make the next puzzle achievable.

The game requires self discipline. Beyond the sad sound of blowing up a mine there's not much impact from hitting a mine, so the game would become incredibly easy if you don't restart and go for that 100%.

But for anyone who loves minesweeper style puzzles, this is one of the best offerings out there. Maybe not *quite* as polished as the Hexcells series in some ways but a lot grander in scope and with more challenging puzzles for sure.

Honestly this game is terrible. It's got great ambition but zero execution. It fails at nearly every step, although it has one or two redeeming features.

It's split into several different stages, where you progress from a tiny pond critter with little more than eyes and a mouth, through to running a space empire ala stellaris. Unfortunately most of these stages feel more like minigames than anything else, and not engaging minigames either.


The first stage, the cell stage, is the best. It's like an itch.io amoeba style game except you can add evolutionary parts like spikes or electric buzzers or fins for faster turning etc. It's actually pretty fun, although again you can find similar games for free in your browser.

Once you've gobbled enough plant or meat chunks you leave the water and grow legs, moving onto the next stage. In the creature stage you evolve your critter by either socialising with other species or eating them. Combat is absolutely crap, and socialising is a match the critter minigame that is charming for about 5 minutes and then gets really tedious. The one redeeming feature of this stage is that designing a critter is great. I don't love the art style but you've got a lot of freedom to make your creature look like whatever you want. 500 eyeballs? A bird with one leg? Some crocodile thing? An eldritch monstrosity? All viable. The creature creator is excellent. It's just a pity there's nothing fun to DO with your creatures.


Afterwards you have the tribal stage, which is even more tedious than the creature stage but also has like zero charm, the civilisation phase, which is like if someone tried to recreate civ based on a game of Telephone with no background in game design, and the space phase, which is basically Stellaris except terrible. That space stage is also 80% of your playtime.


This game is worth maybe a dollar, the cell stage is fun and you'll enjoy creating your own perfect creature.

For $30, or even $5? You're being ripped off.

While it shows its age and has many crashes (most can be fixed by changing the resolution), Medieval is still a great total war game and well worth playing. It's different enough from modern total war that you can definitely get a unique experience out of it. Unfortunately there are so many crashes that I can't recommend it as a vanilla game. Some of the great mods for the game deal with the crashes well, I'd still recommend the modded game.

Age of Empires DE is exactly what it says on the tin. If you're nostalgic for the oldschool AOE 1 of your younger days this delivers that nearly perfectly. It's pretty, it's AoE, it's what you're paying for.

Word of warning though. The RTS genre advanced a long long way since AOE 1 came out. This might be a case of be careful what you wish for. AOE1's pathfinding was and is shocking. The addition of reseedable farms and idle villager buttons is a helpful concession to modern sensibilities but even prettied up AOE 1 is a bit samey and no longer a shining example of the genre. There are far better RTS games out there.

If you're okay with that, go ahead and grab the game. But it does need that buyer beware disclaimer.

It's been 8 years and it's still an ugly mess of an alpha build. It's never leaving early access. Steer clear

Surprisingly not low quality waifu trash.

For a free anime game by an indie developer this is very good. It has some issues (Claude is very annoying, characters sometimes lean a little too far into cliche anime girl tropes, battle balance is... punishing), but overall solid execution brings this up to being a very positive experience. Despite the mentioned overdose of anime tropes at times the game pulls off a serious story with moral challenges fairly well, had me rooting for most of the main cast, and left me with a few situations where I had to question what my best option was. Battles were fun, although the sheer number of enemies the game throws at you means it's pretty damn challenging on the default difficulty.

This game is worth paying money for but it's free, so there's really no excuse not to give it a go.

Ava is clearly best girl.