Recent reviews by Cheeze Wizard

It was surely a massive undertaking to make a paid expansion that can stand out among the sea of completely free modpacks and overhauls you can download in your client. But they somehow did it.

They didn't doing it by upping the complexity compared to modpacks or time required, but by making new interesting challenges with unique gameplay mechanics that extend beyond simply more complicated production chains.

You will find your factories on each planet to take completely different forms from one another. The hazards and mechanics of each planet are unique and interesting, and more importantly, doable without needing to be a factorio expert. Modpacks are made by Factorio junkies for other Junkies when they get bored with the base game, and as such have a much higher skill floor, often requiring uses of logistics and such that are otherwise optional in the base game. Space Age actually feels like it is something meant to be beaten by a more casual demographic, not in a bad way. The megabase potential is even stronger, but just to get to the win screen, if you can beat the base game (now easier thanks to the much improved map generation that released in the 2.0 update that came day and date with the DLC), you can beat Space Age, and if you enjoy Factorio, you will enjoy Space Age.

Don't bother waiting for a sale, it isn't going to come, buy it already.

"See that mountain? You can pave it."

Build a factory, unlock stuff, rebuild the factory cause it wasn't good enough the first time, accept that your factories will never be as good as the ones you see on the internet, create a nightmare factory all the way to the oil techs, consider giving up cause oil can't be freestyled nearly as easily, figure out how trains work, pave over the world, AFK for hours for the space elevator, discover nuclear, don't build it properly, nuclear meltdown, entire factory is irradiated, hundred hours of gameplay ruined in minutes, start a new save cause you aren't willing to fix your mess, rinse and repeat.

It's a fantastic game, made even better by the mountain of additions and improvements in the 1.0 update. This game is also a time vampire, so be warned.

Dear Poncle.
When you price your DLC in the range of a 20 oz. soda at the gas station. and the value of the DLC itself and the base game deserves twice the price as your charging at the least. I don't think a sale is needed. But you do you.

DLC is good btw. Go buy it.

This game dodging all of the anti-consumer practices that companies have adopted over the years for a good majority (although not all) AAA titles is to be commended. But ignoring that this game is just really really good so far.

I have been playing it co-op for a few hours and we are having a blast. This is a very well polished, well designed experience that is fun and looks good to boot. Your npc party members are all interesting and (at least so far) very well written. The writing and scenario in general also just feels like a well written DnD campaign in everything from the scenario to the characters and dialogue. From a gameplay sense this is honestly the closest there has ever been to a true video game version of DnD. It's no secret that the original CRPGs in the west strived to replicate that dynamic, and strategic tabletop experience and I would say this game has done that well enough to have finally achieved the ultimate but seemingly unobtainable goal that these CRPGs share. This is worth your time and money and then some. The quality and passion behind this product is so admirable that I would honestly ask for those looking to buy to not wait for a sale and get it at full price unless their financial situation makes it practically impossible to do so. This game in both it's depth and scope would honestly justify a $100 price tag let alone the $60 it retails at.

I had concerns about this remake. A lot of concerns. I was worried about it being fairly short and just going through the motions without adding anything interesting and just making the pacing worse. Well boy was I wrong. Not only is the story honestly better overall this time around, but the gameplay too.

If you played through the original RE4, take a moment to play through the demo. At least for me, it really captured that pure sense of panic that the village did my first time going through it all those years ago.

Clocked in 17 hours on my first play through on Hardcore. Strong Recommendation!

The premise is simple and concise, yet in a market full of games that follow checklists to stuff as many time wasting mechanics as possible, it is refreshing. In a world where retro collectibles and increasingly regular products are largely restricted to online shopping websites, the retrowave memories of walking through a shopping mall are refreshing. The game could use some polish though. If text upon starting a new game that said "Look down to see your shopping list" was added than that would make strides in improving the NPE.

Great Immersive Shooter with Survival Horror elements. Sometimes it is just straight up a survival horror game and make you piss your pants. Everyone who played this knows what I'm talking about.

This is what a "remake" should be. On a Rail is thankfully streamlined (although an uncut version exists on the workshop due to this games great mod support). Xen is essentially fully redesigned and reimagined, and most importantly actually fun. This game holds up both as a standalone title and as a remake of the original half life. Highly recommended.

Only a 15 gig download which is small considering the size of the rest of the game. Anything with the power of a GTX 1070 or better and atleast 8 gigs of VRAM should be able to handle this without slowdown. Getting locked 60fps at max settings with this enabled at 4k on a 3070 TI.

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The price is deceptive. When you look at any other game that is priced as low as this one outside of a sale, you would expect shovel-ware trash. This is a really good game tho.

When you look at games that manage to squeeze the maximum amount of playtime out of their playerbases, they are always games that are built from the ground up to pace dopamine in such a way that as soon as the previous hit completely fades, a new one is delivered. Games like World of Warcraft, Factorio, and Civilization V are notorious for this. But never have I seen a game before this one refine this process to such a minimalistic level in terms of game design. Play sessions are neatly cordoned by the 30 minute time limit for runs, making a quick game before work easy, a steady stream of achievements, new weapons, and new characters means you always have a new goal to strive towards or new character/item to try out. The game is very easy to run according to my potato friends (although I couldn't comment personally considering my rig is quite overkill for this game). And most of all, the premise of unleashing a bullet hell upon swarms of enemies is a pure dopamine hit.

I regret getting the game at this price for the sole fact that I assume the price will be raised a bit once the creator is done with the game and I missed the oppurtunity to give them more money then. The OST is quite good, perhaps if the devs released it for $5-$10 as a dlc once the game releases from early access then I could show support even more. I like games like this and simply want to vote more with my wallet than I've already done.