Senaste recensioner av Vaughn Demont

TL;DR It's 3D Stardew Valley, YMMV.

First, if you prefer playing with a controller, make sure it's 1st party. If it's not, stick to KB+M. 3rd party peripherals will make this game crash a LOT.
That being said, MTaP is a fun turn-off-your-brain sort of game. Start your day, pick up a commission, work on it all day, or all weekend, and gather resources, build tools, make money, etc. There are time limits on jobs and some quests, but the deadlines are easily manageable and give the player plenty of time to get stuff done and goof around with hobbies or throw a day or two away on ruin diving to find the last f-ing piece of a toy soldier. The Wikis are updated with everything needed, but you can play without them.
Combat is simplistic, much in the manner of Stardew, with choices between ranged, melee or CQC, with prep done before hand for healing and stamina items. Plenty of dungeons to farm and delve, projects to finish, or just pay the Civil Corps to do it for you.
Like Stardew, it depends on its personality, and has the same cute charm of SV, with the same "learn favorite gifts and buy/farm your way to BFF-hood", though the commissions and friend networks are a welcome tweak on the social aspects of these kinds of games. The story will give you as much as you're willing to dig into it, so completionists will be more rewarded than speedrunners.
That being said, MTaP can be, like some reviews have said, *slow*, as story missions will require items that need rare materials that only rarely spawn, or need special farm seeds to make feasible but still burn 2-4 weeks of game time. It still shows there are parts that never made it out of EA, and the voice work is scattershot, but good when it's actually heard.
A few narrative threads are left open, implying that DLC/Expansion will be on the way, and the story itself did more than SV's "Let's take down WalMart"-esque storyline. It still needs a little more work and content patching, but definitely worth the price given the time you can get out of it.

At first glance, PLAYNE is a glorified meditation timer.
And it is.
But even though some might decry it as "gamifying" meditation, it's a way to remind people to sit down for 5-20 minutes a day and meditate. As far as the benefits are concerned, PLAYNE pushes the "silence the mind, be in the moment" school of meditation so YMMV, but anything to help develop a healthy habit is good.
The graphics could use a little work (Just a gray circle for the duration, really?), and the text could use some proofreading, but seeing as it's in Early Access, you have to believe it can only improve from here.

Most sandbox games are a slog, and the Ubisoft model is no different. The Farcry series peaked with 2 and 3, and 4 could still be fun, with the story being interesting, given some illusion of choice (though "choice" has never been a part of Farcry).
FC5 was going to be different, new, shiny, more features, more co-op, more options. Instead we got a mute protagonist, a bunch of clothes behind a paywall, same-old-same-old gameplay, and the most railroaded plot I've ever been through in a AAA title. FC5 turned into a job, and even trying to push through the story missions to get it all over with left the story wanting. I ended up just watching the ending on Youtube, and then wishing I hadn't played more than 2 hours to get my money back, and grateful I didn't waste money on the Season Pass.

1. Put on some techno-jazz fusion.
2. Asking a partner, friend, or SO questions about the nature of being and morality.
3. No matter their answer, subtly make them feel guilty, while assuring them that you'll take their answers into consideration.
4. Ask them what they'd like for dinner. Give several choices.
5. No matter what they choose, reveal you already made dinner, that it's what you wanted, and you didn't make any for them.
6. Inform them that none of their previous answers mattered, because you already made all the decisions for them anyway.
7. If they complain, end the evening and insist from then on that it never happened.
8. Pat yourself on the back for appreciating nihilism and fatalism on a college freshman level.

There. You just played The Red Strings Club. Spend your $15 on one of these instead:
Neuromancer – William Gibson
Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
The Stars My Destination – Alfred Bester
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Phillip K. ♥♥♥♥
Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology – ed. by Bruce Sterling
Ghost in the Shell – Masamune Shirow
Altered Carbon – Richard K. Morgan
Trouble and Her Friends – Melissa Scott

A cute, fun, and quick action-RPG that you can finish in a day, sure, but you likely won't put it down during that day. New Game+ and Mew Game with modifiers extend playability, but still worth the price. Easy with a controller and easy to learn. A nice gateway game for getting people into games like Binding of Isaac where speed and dodging are as vital as gear. :)

UPDATE:
Thanks entirely to helpful peeps on Steam discussion boards, and zero help from Ubi, here's the fix if you're still getting "C-1-200" variants on Win 10.

1. Right-click Start button
2. Search
3. Type "cmd"
4. Right-click "Command Prompt"
5. Click "Run as administrator"
6. In the command window, type "netsh winsock reset"
7. Restart System
8. Play The Division w/o that friggin' error for the first time in 13 months.

The Division itself? Great game, better with friends, fun to solo, the Dark Zone's still full of trolls. :)

Fun start, but the mid and endgame smack of artificial lengthening and needless grinding to pack on 10-20 hours of just beating up scarecrows at the Farm and scavenging enough gold for better weapons and survivability for final boss runs. You can really tell there were previously microtransactions and balance wasn't retuned once the P2W was justly taken out.

Updated Post-Arizona:
On launch this had a lot of problems: psychic police, bad map scaling, and an "any day now" promise on the Arizona DLC. A few months, a lot of patches, and the Arizona DLC later, it's feeling like the Euro Truck Simulator 2: America Edition that was originally intended.
That being said, if you're going to play it, go right into the public beta and download plenty of mods. If you're driving with a controller/keyboard mix, it won't blend as well as ETS2 did, but it's easy enough to pick up and customize to your liking.
The primary issue is still the map scaling, making a drive across in Phoenix, AZ a 46 mile trip and exit ramps that are 6 miles long according to your GPS. They've promised updates and rescales in recent news, but, as with Arizona previously was, it's "any day now".
Still, with all the support, however slow it might be, and the free updates and DLC, I'll still recommend it based on it's potential. After all, ETS2 wasn't all that solid in the beginning either.

An ever-growing world in one of the most Zen games on Steam. ETS2 provides a deep mod community, fan-run multiplayer servers, dev support of not only real EU radio stations, but also fan-run stations as well. While other devs move onto new projects, SCS is still coiming out with new DLC, new areas, new trucks, and constantly updating their engine with the aid of trucker manufacturers and actual truckers to make ETS2 as accurate as possible. Best played with a wheel (be sure to google some of the custom cabinets players have built just for a game that sells cheap every Steam sale), but an analog/Steam/360/XB1/PS4 controller will do. Not recommended for the keyboard/mouse crowd.
Also recommended: TruckersFM and Real Radio XS Manchester for driving music. :)

Easy to use, easy to learn, and really puts your expenses and spending habits in stark relief, which is the first step to changing them for the better. YNAB can put you on the road to the Promised Land of paying this month's bills with last month's money, as long as you can actually FOLLOW your budget.

And no, there's no "Steam Sale" category in expenses, but luckily YNAB lets you create your own. :)