Recent reviews by frizzlefry

brew yourself a pot of coffee and secure a couple grams of colombian marching powder and embark on the most obsessive, ridiculous, autistic (a compliment in every sense of the word) world generation engine / management game / RPG ever created. The steam release is fantastic and I think worth the money. Although I prefer ASCII, the integrated tileset is great and the new UI with full mouse support is amazing. This 'game' is incredible if you are willing to take some time to understand it.

Rewriting my original review now that I've sunk around 200 hours into this game. Would I still recommend it? Hell to the yes. If you are fan of rally / driving games in general, there's probably not much my words will do to change your decision on whether or not to buy this game. But if you aren't super into racing games, and you get the opportunity to grab the GOTY version of this game for 9 bucks like I did, you will absolutely not regret your purchase.
Is it frustrating? Yes
Will you spend literal hours on one stage because of one corner that you just can't nail down at first? Yes
Will you be inclined to give up at points? Probably, however --
Is this one of the most rewarding learning curves I have ever experienced in a video game? Absolutely.

This game has me staying up all night and getting in a little nap from 7am-8am like I'm 12 years old again. That's probably one of the highest compliments I could ever offer a video game.
Yes, highly recommended.

Who would've guessed that the studio famous for Rome: Total War would also make one of the best survival horror games ever? This game is incredibly well made, and while it really only does one thing (stealth-based survival), it does it extremely well. You really get the 'vibe' that everyone involved on this project wanted to make a really good game that evokes the atmosphere of the FIRST Alien film [1979], and not the more commonly-referenced Aliens [1986], and it does that perfectly. This cost them mass-market appeal in the long run, to fans of Ridley Scott's amazing psychological horror film, this is so obviously a labor of love. This game has one of the best aesthetic designs and some of the best lighting I've ever seen, even in 2021. The visual design of Alien was always my favorite sci-fi aesthetic, and this game captures it so damn well. Old school cassette-based terminals beep and whir all around you and their curved CRT screens flicker and pop casting their light (which is all calculated in real-time, by the way! This was like 6 years before the ray tracing buzz!) across spooky, derelict rooms. This is not an action game - it is the opposite of a power fantasy - played on high difficulties (recommended), the xenomorph will make you its ♥♥♥♥♥ over and over. The campaign does go on a while and retraces areas several times, but my encounters with the Alien never stopped feeling tense, a testament to the design of this game.
Anyway, if anyone actually reads this, yes, I highly recommend this game. It's awesome

PROTIP/P.S. -turn the gamma a few notches below where you would usually put it, and use your GPU's downscaling feature to render this game above your native - works way better than anti-aliasing, and this game's engine is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥ optimized you can easily pull 60 fps on an overclocked graphics card from 2017 at 4K and above. This game's engine is actually incredible and I don't know why it isn't talked about more. It uses radiosity, a type of real-time lighting algorithm that gives similar visual results to ray tracing, but requires no special hardware and ran excellent on a wide range of hardware even when it launched in 2014. Pretty much any computer with a dedicated GPU built after 2016 can run this game completely maxed at high resolutions at a consistent 60 frames per second. And it is still one of the best-looking games out there. Insane

I got this game and a sheet of acid at the start of quarantine in 2020. Now I have post-traumatic stress disorder
Highly Recommended

This game is awesome. I don't write a lot of reviews but I'm hoping maybe someone will see this and give it a try. I have played the old freeware version for a while, and recently bought it on steam to get the "official" tileset and updates. The breadth and (quite literally) depth to this game is ridiculous. It's kind of hard to describe, but imagine a cross between Nethack, CDDA, Dwarf Fortress, and Elder Scrolls III Morrowind. The map itself is massive -- you will probably spend your first few hours constantly dying in the starting areas; but as you begin to get better and make it further each time (it's a roguelike, so if you aren't a little ♥♥♥♥♥, you will play it with permadeath enabled), you realize how huge it is. And it's fully persistently simulated as well, so you can literally fast travel to one corner of the map, dig down a few strata, and then dig a tunnel all the way to the other corner of the world map. This would probably take you a week if not longer, but you can still do it, which illustrates what makes this game awesome. It encourages you to try and break it in the most ludicrous ways i.e. :
- stuff is too expensive at the alchemist? Why not buy a love injector off of him, then stab him with it, causing him to fall helplessly in love with you, and then just making him give you everything he owns for free?
- ended up with a companion that has better stats or mutations than you? Why not just pour cloning draught (that you got for free from your alchemist simp) on him, and when he undergoes fission and an identical clone of him pops off of him like a budding cell, why not just psychically dominate the clone, kill your old self (thus trapping your consciousness in the body of the clone of your companion), and rampage around the world with your identical twin?
I could go on and on. And the atmosphere to this game is incredible. The soundtrack is super sick, crazy avant-garde new music type ♥♥♥♥ mixed with perversions of more classical fantasy-type themes. All of the item and creature descriptions, flavor text, etc, paint this crazy, psychedelic sci-fi fantasy picture that is very unique and will definitely suck you in if you like to read. The whole game is just one awesome mental audio-visual experience. In closing: if you're like me, and as you've gotten older have become more picky about games and it's harder to find ones that capture your attention, then I can not recommend this one enough.

10\10 for me at least. Absolutely fantastic classic FPS from the masters themselves. This game is an audiovisual experience. The soundtrack, the relentless action and the amazing graphics and sound FX all come together for a methed-out gory shoot 'em the ♥♥♥♥ up frenzy. Definitely play this if you enjoy things that are fun.

This game is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ awesome