Recent reviews by FoolPhilosopher

Highly recommended and that's all I can really say.

Very fun, but horrible UI and massive gamebreaking bugs that don't seem to be addressed with any sort of speed.

Absolutely fantastic game with so much love and detail.

This game is a really pure gameplay experience. It plays almost like a worker placement board game that you're playing on high speed (or potentially no speed, since you can pause at will to carefully plan your placements. I was enthralled enough to play through the whole thing in one day in a few sittings, so it definitely has an addictive quality. And I really like the theming. For a game like this, you only really need to give me a little bit of story flavor to make it fun, and in these areas WitchHand delivers perfectly.

That being said, my recommend is very shaky. I feel like the game's back eighth is abysmal. By the time the game presents the climax to you, your machine is gigantic enough to start to lose fun to manage. Close to the end of the game, I had the resources to solve the problems the game was throwing at me, but individually managing them was boring and difficult. There were automatic tools to assign workers and fighters and resources to the places I needed them to, but they would either assign them inefficiently or complete them so quickly that I would have to constantly pause just to prevent them from making 40 of something that I would only need 5 of. And beyond that, the game extends itself in MAJOR ways that are completely egregious to me. If it's meant to be a special challenge, then it doesn't really have the ceremony for it, and if it's meant to be part of the main story, then I see no need to yank me around back and forth.

Additionally, presenting me with a "this is the end" prompt and a challenge to undertake, and then proceeding after that challenge with a completely different one was an awful decision. I sold most of my automated stuff because I thought we were at the end, and I wanted to complete it as fast as possible. To then 180 and push me to get back into the old methodologies was very shocking, and I almost wanted to quit just because I didn't feel like rebuilding everything I'd been doing for the past 8 hours.

So take it as that. It's a very fun game with a few very strange decisions.

I cannot recommend this game enough. It is fantastically designed from start to end, it has humor, wit, heart, every positive kind of experience I can expect from a game. I cannot go into detail because this is the kind of thing that you absolutely need to experience yourself.

This game is one part addicting, one part lovable characters, two parts interesting and evolving gameplay, and it was a perfect brew. 5/5 stars.

This game is so fantastic I lack the words to describe it. It's a work of art, it's very unique and strange, and it's well worth the price and the time.

I felt compelled to write this after seeing the reviews were "very positive" instead of "overwhelmingly positive", because that's what it deserves.

The game is very fun. I love it. It's well made for strategic thinking and has a lot of different ways to play. The theming is interesting, the lore is fun, the characters have a lot of personality. Nearly everything about the game itself is great.

But I don't recommend it, for the same reason all the other people don't recommend it. The online is awful. The local version is awful. The game is just not functional, and the devs have abandoned it. They do the absolute minimum to keep up a facade that they're still doing things, they'll occasionally say "here's an event, now you get different dice!" but these dice have been in the game since the beginning. It's nothing new, just recycling whats old. I've played this game since the very beginning, and beyond characters (which admittedly they've done a great job with) there have been very little improvements.

On top of that, the community is awful. If you play online, expect to be 3v1d or 2v1d. The "avoid group" function doesn't work, because people can just queue at the same time, and there's no punishment for dodging. On top of that, even if you do get a true 1v1v1v1 game, the chances of nobody disconnecting or the server breaking is practically zero. And when someone disconnects, it has a high chance of breaking the game. Someone else disconnected in one of my games, and I could no longer move. I could do everything else, it was just no longer possible for me to move. I went and started filing out the bug report, and then the bug report crashed. I could write an email to the devs with the information and logs, but what's the point if they clearly don't care? And even beyond the horrible bugs and terrible infrastructure, it's nearly impossible to find a match unless you are playing on a weekend in the evening.

I've played this game for 140 hours, it's a fun game. But the bots are too easy and finding a normal match is nearly impossible. It breaks my heart to say it, but this game is not worth your money or your attention.

This is the best puzzle game ever made.

I think a good puzzle needs to be JUST past what you understand; you should have to reach out a little and find an understanding you didn't have coming in. Puzzle games feel good when you have to spend a second turning the gears in your head until it clicks. Baba is You is PERFECTLY designed for this. Many levels required me to sit blankly staring at the level taking it in one piece at a time and processing how they interact, and I absolutely loved it. This game will have you riding the roller coaster of "I am so dumb" to "I am so smart" and back again with every new puzzle.

Beyond the magnificent puzzles, the game is adorable, has a subtle sense of humor, and is paced to perfection. 1000% worth your time and money.

I really wanted to like this game. It has strong theming, good art, a lot of humor and liveliness to the game. But the game is just not fun. The randomness is very rarely meaningful, and your choices are limited. It's not like Slay the Spire or Enter the Gungeon where a run can turn out all sorts of different ways. In 95% of your runs they will be exactly the same. Same starting equipment, meager variety in choices.

Most of the time I win in this game it was because I was dealt one of the good pieces of equipment. Most of the times I lose it was because I wasn't dealt one of the good pieces. In neither scenario did I feel like I contributed anything of note. I know that that's the whole gimmick of games based around randomness, but in other similar games it feels like you're gauging your chances and making informed decisions. I feel like Dicey Dungeon offers very little of that. The best move is normally blatantly obvious, and it doesn't really feel strategic.