Recent reviews by Gaelas

This game is really fun, but the best part, the most inspiring part, the most DEMOCRATIC part is the GLORIOUS COMMUNITY!

For the love of Liberty, we dive together or not at all!

I loved this game, and at about 8 hours long, it is great for a couple days of low stress puzzle solving.

Dungeons 4 is another solid entry in a franchise that I've spent way too many late nights in.
The hammy pop-culture references are back and surprisingly up-to-date, and the dungeon building and units have never looked better.

This is a strong entry in the city-building survival genre.

The resource scarcity aspect is fairly light in the normal difficulty, but the optimizing is fun and there is a good amount of depth in making sure each sector of your station has the resources it needs.
The text-based storytelling in the science missions is probably the best part of the game, and for that matter, the different events in the story are interesting and varied.

The voice acting is a little hit or miss, and the sound design could use some new tracks and stronger sound effects. The music is appropriately spacey, and the lack of sfx when doing the VOHLE (warp) jump is at once accurate and disconcerting.
I wish there was an option to play music constantly, as there were several moments when I was basically sitting in silence where some ambient music would've been appreciated.

I strongly recommend IXION to anyone who likes games such as Frostpunk or Surviving Mars.

This was a great little puzzle game. The time rewind mechanic is a clever bit of innovation.
The characters, and especially the voice acting made this game the phenomenal standout it is.

I enjoyed almost all of the puzzles, and some of the twists made for a welcome change of pace. I especially like how some puzzles make you feel like you figured it out, only to find some roadblock near the end of your plan that renders the whole thing unworkable.
My only gripe is that the introduction of new puzzle elements becomes kinda samey by the mid game.

No Man's Sky has been a game that I keep coming back to over and over again. Despite all the rage and disappointment upon release, I have enjoyed every update to the game that Hello Games has released and I have happily recommended this game to all of my friends each time I hop back in for yet another adventure.

This game has a lot of potential, unfortunately there are a few major issues that made me stop playing just a couple hours in:

1) Everything moves soooo slowly.
It takes over a second to swing a hammer or a pickaxe, so playing feels like an actual chore.
You can't run or jump. There is slowly walking, or crouch movement at the same speed.
If you run out of money before you can gather all the parts for a new sword, don’t worry! Someone will come to your door and ask you to sharpen their sword, which will net you a bit of coin. Unfortunately, I do mean a BIT. I didn’t get more than 45 coins, which would be ok if the cheapest ingot didn’t cost 80 coins.

2) Everything is finicky.
You have to hit the edge of the ingot to straighten out the form of your sword, but sometimes hitting the center of the ingot causes both the top and bottom sections to even out, and sometimes it doesn't.
Putting pommels and crossguards and such in the little storage bin is incredibly sloppy. If you could simply click the box with an item in your hand and the game handled placing and sorting the item, then this feature (that is meant to solve some headaches of inventory management) would stop creating MORE headaches.
If you clip the edge of an item with another item you can send it flying across the room, and it may or may not clip through the wall and become unrecoverable.

3) This game is still buggy.
There are buttons in the menu to "Fix Position" and "Find Last Sword" and while fixing position works, it seems that the find last sword button doesn't work. I was walking upstairs with a new sword that I had used all my money buying parts for, and I accidentally clicked the hotkey to switch to tongs, this caused my brand new sword to disappear and become unrecoverable.
I clipped an ore in the mine with a torch, and the ore went flying into the rock face, no great loss since it was copper, but it could be disastrous if you got some titan ore or a rare item from the mine that you were relying on.

Ultimately, I got this game from a Humble Bundle, so I might check back in for a future update, but it is currently not in a state I can recommend anyone spends money on unless you’re looking for a game to sink a very long time into.

Great game with a complex toolkit.

In this game you play as a novice hacker that came across the last words and custom hacking system of a top hacker, and in the course of the game you progress through missions in several hacker communities, fight off a rival, and complete an mostly self-guided mission to get revenge for the veteran hacker.
Throughout the course of gameplay, you find several new tools to help expand your access to diverse systems, and by the end of the game you are flinging around more than half a dozen different tools to crack into tightly locked servers.

Going into this game, I was apprehensive about the possible real world knowledge you might need, but I can happily report that this game stands alone, and if you have any experience with puzzle games, then this will be a good use of similar skills.

I appreciated the difficulty of several hacks, and i found the almost open-ended progression of the last couple of hours to be a refreshing challenge of navigation and memory.

I haven't replayed the campaign, and I haven't tried the Labyrinth or Multiplayer modes, but I'd highly recommend this game for a quick weekend of unique puzzles.

This was too much fun. I THINK I did everything, but with The Stanley parable, you just never know...