Recent reviews by LemonLyman

Telltale never would have gone bankrupt if they kept making these

It's kind of incredible how Bethesda made insane amount of money from this game just to completely ignore basic stability and performance issues, then push a massive update that does nothing except now the game crashes during the pre-war intro scene

This is one of the best and most insane detective games I've ever played and I absolutely love it and I've been weird about it for MONTHS please play it

I've made a couple solid attempts to enjoy playing Tabletop Simulator, including gifting copies to friends so we can play together. Unfortunately, it's a hard sell both as a singleplayer experience (there's already a bunch of way better Solitaire games out there) and as a multiplayer experience, as the UI and controls need some time to wrap your head around and making several people learn the same controls is even harder than just learning it on your own. I wasn't bothered by any of this, and I was happy that the money I had spent on the game was being used to fund a tabletop experience that others could enjoy, even if I wasn't partaking.

What compels me to write a negative review today ties into the multiplayer experience-- the game's moderators have begun kicking LGBT players from the game's chat features, simply for mentioning that they are LGBT. When asked about their policy, representatives for the company simply replied that "fetishes and politics" were not considered appropriate topics for the game's chat. Gay and trans people exist, and their existence is not political. Blocking their access to community features absolutely is.

Literally every single person I know who plays tabletop games is LGBT, and Berserk Games has made a sandbox for tabletop games that is technically sophisticated, open-ended, and fundamentally unsafe for those same people to use. I think that its problems are fixable, if Berserk Games makes an honest effort to do so, but in its current state Tabletop Simulator is impossible to recommend. Avoid.

i just want my work husband to be proud of me

(I completed a playthrough on Game Pass before purchasing on Steam to support the developer, hence the low hours as of this review)

My pitch for Eastshade is this: Do you remember a couple hours into your first Skyrim playthrough, when you looked up at the sky and noticed the planets above you and realized that this world was so beautiful, both so similar and so profoundly different than yours, that you needed to take in as much of it as you could? Eastshade is built around those moments. It's a short game if you just follow the questlines, but it's jam packed with places to just.. wander, and experience, and maybe paint.

Its quests and characters are *somewhat* fun (they're all fetch quests, largely given by fun, off-beat characters you only talk to for that quest) but they're mostly an excuse to get you exploring Eastshade, which is the whole point of the game, and for good reason.

This is an easy recommend, and I hope the developer keeps making games in this style!

This game is a masterpiece.
It does not work on modern systems.
Do not buy it.

Much has been said about how broken the required Rockstar Social Club is, so I won't retread that, but as of today the game pauses on its own roughly every five minutes and crashes on cutscenes. When you restart the game after a crash, you'll find that it's lost all your progress that session, including any stage advancements.

If it is patched, it may again be worth your time and money, but not until then.

This is the Half-Life VR game we've wanted for years. Every bit as beautiful and terrifying as it felt back in 2007 (and before). There are a couple hiccups with gunplay (which *feel* patchable, if the devs take a look at H3VR and similar games) and a couple compromises to make it a more accessible VR shooter than it really needed to be, but none end up truly detracting from the game at the end of the day. If you have a VR setup, you must play this. If you don't have a VR setup but are even mildly interested in Half-Life, you must get a VR setup and play this.

The best RTS. Better than Age of Empires II, no exaggeration. You can't build walls to defend yourself, but the national border/attrition damage/economic radius mechanics actually make you much MORE invested in properly managing your territory and protecting it from encroachment. Plus, resources are gathered at a consistent rate and do not deplete over the course of the game, which again encourages you to build strategically from the jump rather than chase resources across the mid and endgames like in AOE.

The singleplayer campaign is played through a series of Civilization-style Conquer The World campaigns, which drop you into the RTS when you attack someone or are attacked. It works *okay*, but the turn-based section isn't deep or satisfying enough to be that fun, and given that you reaally should be attacking once per turn it's hard not to think of the global map as just something to get through quickly between battles.

Deprecation of GFWL breaks save function. Game no longer playable on modern computers. Avoid unless you REALLY like playing the tutorial missions over and over again