Recent reviews by D3matt

This game is a delightfully unique take on the factory building game where the focus is less on building huge, spawling production lines and more on setting up your own automation to achieve things. Rather than dedicated buildings for various tasks and belts to move things around, everything is done through bots (and buildings, which are just bots that can't move) with various modules attached and some automation set up to tell them what to do. The basic built-in behaviors are enough to get you going, but if you want to get fancy you can program everything in the game using a drag-and-drop programming language to create custom behaviors. There are lots of unique challenges to solve with this approach that make it a refreshing and fun addition to the factory building genre!

The devs really seem to care and the game is already way more polished than it was when I tried it during Next Fest. The tutorial still needs some work but it's miles better than it was before, and there have been a lot of UI improvements as well.

The gameplay is a bit shallow and repetitive, but I still enjoy it playing it. It's fun to go out on the upper deck and watch the spectacle unfold around you, and it's fun to play with a friend and have a bit of light roleplay to immerse yourself in the game. Would recommend!

Hello, people of the future! Wondering if YouTube VR is still ♥♥♥♥? Well wonder no more, because I'm here to tell you!

Yes, it's still ♥♥♥♥. The different sections of video don't line up, or even face the right direction. Even if the video was stitched together right, you wouldn't be able to enjoy it because the awful UI would randomly pop up when you look ahead. None of the UI icons work, so you just guess which box does what. It's extremely unclear when watching a video which button, if any, you're pointing to. I've seen children make better programs.

Wurm is the last survivor of the old-school sandbox MMOs. No game has the history and longevity that Wurm has. Every single thing you see in this game was built by players, going back many years. You can make your mark on the world, and with a little attention it will still be there years from now. Without attention, it will eventually decay back into dust... But even then, you've left your mark on history. There's an Archaeology mechanic that lets you dig up remnants of long-forgotten villages. Make no mistake, Wurm is not a game for instant gratification. It's not an amusement park MMO. It is deep, it is complicated, and it is time consuming. If you're in Wurm, you're in for the long haul, and in that regard, nothing tops it.

Eco is a game that focuses on a different aspect than most sandbox building games. With a deep system for creating governments and a focus on cooperation, Eco creates far more player-to-player interaction than other games and creates points of conflict that force players to resolve things in non-violent ways (since there is no combat in the game). It's a fresh breath of fresh air in an otherwise sale genre.

The devs are passionate and provide frequent progress updates that never fail to re-ignite my interest in the game, even if the actual updates themselves sometimes take a while to arrive. I have high hopes for the long-term prospects of this game.

Prime time on a Saturday and there are 10 players online. There's 1 active room, and with no team shuffling it's basically always a stomp. There's no meaningful singleplayer content (after all, it's a multiplayer shooter). Better hope you like the few other players online, because that's all you've got!

If there were more players, it might be worthwhile, but as it stands just go buy Onward or Pavlov or Zero Caliber and give this game a pass.

12 years later, still the best RTS game ever. Nothing else even comes close to Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance's scale. Smoothly zooming from strategic view of the entire map all the down to the scale of individual units just never gets old. The campaign is pretty good, but multiplayer is where it's at. 8 players, all the way up to 16 players with Forged Alliance Forever, hundreds of units each with diverse army compositions to adapt to the changing flow of battle, leading up to epic experimental units crushing your opponents. The visuals are still quite impressive, if a bit dated, and just watching the armies clash is a certain kind of fun all its own.

The order queueing system and other innovations like ferry orders, build templates, coordinated attack, among other things, make ordering units around a breeze, freeing the player up to focus on the battle as a whole and take in the entire scale of the game. The different approach to economy, using a continuous flow of resources in and out rather than instant spending, requires careful planning but also allows cool things like reclaiming your opponent's dead army as you push, and feeding the resources into the nuke or experimental unit that will be their eventual demise.

There's really nothing quite like this game. Don't let its age fool you, it's still one of the best RTS games ever made with thousands of players every day on the unofficial Forged Alliance Forever community. Likewise, ignore the "only" 43 hours I've got on Steam. I've probably spent thousands of hours on this game since it came out and I don't see myself stopping any time soon. I just keep coming back to it, no other game scratches the itch for massive scale RTS battles like Supreme Commander.

This game does not work with any AMD 5700 or 5700 XT graphics cards, it crashes as soon as you try and enter a multiplayer game. This has been a widely reported issue for at least 6 months, with barely any acknowledgement from the developers. I'm refunding this game to go buy from a developer that actually cares.

Factorio is a masterfully crafted game that's perfect for people who like to bury themselves in designing elaborate mechanisms for hours on end.

UPDATE November 2022: I wrote this review in 2019 and this game is still by far the most polished game in my library. The game knows exactly what it wants to be and accomplishes that perfectly. The work that has gone into just the UI alone on this game is nothing short of a work of art.

Movement and gunplay feels pretty good, honestly better than Quake Champions, but the game is utterly and completely dead. I was dropped into a match losing 1 to 8 against a single other player, who left after I went 2 out of 3 with him. Won a match to timeout (took like 5 minutes including an "overtime" which made no sense considering the enemy had no players!), then lost the match to the bot getting the drop on me with a rocket launcher. Seems like it could be fun but I don't see how I could possibly play this when there's nobody to play against.