Recent reviews by Hopesedge

Great game, pretty much the perfect game for it's genre. Certainly one of the most well optimised and well made games I've ever played. I've made it a rule for myself that I don't look up any builds / layouts online as I feel that would pull away from a lot of the challenge, I would recommend the same for anyone who likes the 'how will I make this' aspect, but if you don't want to have to spend ~10 minutes thinking about how you're going to make something when you research it then you can just use the blueprint system.

It's the dwarf fortress of factory games, with a touch of combat to keep you on your toes (if you like that, otherwise you can prevent the bugs from creating new nests when starting the game, so once you clear them from an area they're gone from there for good). There's a lot of settings for creating a more personalised experience or to mitigate aspects you don't like as much. The developers have done an excellent job and have created a masterpiece of it's genre.

Also there's an expansion to look forward to, and if it's anything like the base game it'll also be an absolute banger.

One of those casual "running in the background" style games where you play a bit here and there, but with the time gating getting longer and longer with my progress I mostly lost interest at a certain point, it's good for a free game, worth checking out, but there's little gratification down the line. If the game weren't free then I wouldn't recommend it, but with the sheer quality differences among free games I'd say this is middle of the road, it's got the same downsides as most.

A nice, touching little game, I didn't expect to enjoy it, and depite it only lasting a few minutes I'm glad I experienced it. It's worth a try to anyone curious.

Really solid Total War game, lots of fun things to try out and plenty of high quality mods, it even runs quite well compared to Rome: Total War. The theme is a lot later than that of Rome, so if you like things like Phallax and skirmishers then you may not enjoy this as much, since those units are a lot rarer (medieval period had plate armor nullifying many strategies). If you're a fan of Total War style games then I recommend getting into Medieval 2, it's really good.

I've played RimWorld for easily over 1000 hours aside from the 160+ hours on record for my account, I really should have reviewed it sooner since I've played it so long, but I never got around to it, so this'll include my experience in the game, what's good and bad, and everything you'd likely need to know before getting it.

To jump to my conclusion: This game is fantastic if you like build a colony from the ground up, it's very interactive and you'll always have something to do, be it planning a new room for your base, building up defenses, creating a more reliable food source or even raiding enemy factions. At first it's very daunting as there is a lot to get used to, but each new discovery comes with a new way to experience the game, your story is always your own and it'll never be the same as before, lending this game to nigh-infinite replayability, and that's not even considering mods which are abundant, relatively easy to make yourself and very active. The developers constantly revise and improve aspects of the game improving it more and more as time passes, even your own ideas may be implemented if they're good additions to the game. The community is one of the best I've seen, where people joke around, share their playthroughs and wacky happenings whilst generally having a good time. I recommend this game if you like strategy, tackling positive/negative turn of events, planning things, and sandbox style survival games. If you're still on the fence for buying the game, watch a 'lets play' video and see madness that can occur, check out all the mods that are available and imagine the possibilities, it really is a great game.

Art 8/10: The art style is quite minimalistic, at first it may be a turn-off but the style works well with the gameplay, with the attention you need to pay to so many things on screen it's good that the textures aren't complex, as it'd strain your eyes, whereas this style is soft on the eyes and doesn't impede the gameplay, things represent what they're meant to be, and it's surprisingly easy to get immersed into the game with the simplistic graphics.

Story 10/10: This game is both heart breaking and hilarious, there is no set story, so things can go in any direction, you could have a trader caravan arrive to sell items just as a raid occurs, causing a massively shoot out between two major groups just outside your base, after which you can mop up all their valuables and turn their corpses into meals and skin, maybe for that human leather hat you've always wanted. Perhaps you start brewing beer only to have one of your pets drink some and get addicted to alcohol. Story is incredibly well done in this game, and with how fun it can be I'm surprised lots of other games don't use the same style.

Sound 6/10: The sound is basic like the art, the sounds work for their intended purposes, there's nothing spectacular to talk about nor is there anything unique, the sound it has is right, but it's not something the game is well known for and isn't made to contribute a lot to the game.

Gameplay 8/10: There are different types of games so I'll elaborate, for the style of game this is (a sci-fi colony sim) I'd say the gameplay is near perfect, and it can be perfected to a player's liking with mods, a lot of features from popular mods are incorporated into the game over time so the base game's gameplay will get even better over time. Things are placed using the UI at the bottom of the screen, and your colonists with build them if they have the resources, they can get the resources from your setting up of work orders (like cutting down trees, mining rocks, butchering animals, harvesting plants and various other ways). It's almost like you're the architect of a colony, telling them what needs to be done and when it needs to be done, it's quite nice as luck is a big factor, but foresight allows you to somewhat control your luck, and mitigate disaster, there's little that's more satisfying than diverting misfortune with a well thought out plan.

Mods 9/10: Mods are very good for this game, some change the game entirely (like changing the space-cowboy style theme to that of Lord of the Rings, Medieval, WW2 era and many others), whilst others change / add to the games features and tools, allowing for you to adjust anything you don't like into something you do like, and the modding community is quite active, if there's a good idea for a mod then it's likely already made, If you choose to buy it then I recommend trying the base game without mods first, as whilst they add a lot to the game, they also take away from the main theme, playing it without mods will help you understand the fundamentals a lot quicker.

Overall 9/10: The features individually would make the game an 8.2/10, but how they come together makes it a 9/10 for me, since RimWorld is the best game of it's type, I've looked long and hard for other games like it, and Prison Architect is the only game similar, but to me it doesn't have the random glory that RimWorld has. RimWorld is certainly worth £30, hell it's worth £50+ to me since I've got so much entertainment out of it, other games you may play for 200, maybe 300 hours, but this is one of those games which you can sink months into, and games like that are worth buying.

Thanks for reading my review if you did, I don't often write reviews but this game is just so good that I can't help but share my opinion.

This is one of those games that was revolutionary at the time of it's inception, but EA were said to have killed to company that made it forever leaving the game in a state of bugs and potential. This being the case I would still say this game is worth getting, as not only does it have unique, rich gameplay but also a bunch of otherwise hard to find attributes in games (such as create & share, evolution among creations, having the ability to spread the genes of your species accross the universe and choosing which path you follow (economist, war or social)).

Overall a unique, fun experience.

Imagine an online Minecraft where dying isn't so much an inconvenience as much as it is the most annoying thing that you could have happen. Not only is this game brutal but it can also be really fun with friends, this game can be played solo but you are a lot more likely to fail horribly to a group of 3+ people, so if you want to suceed then make friends in the game or have your friends irl get the game too to help you otherwise you will probably have a very hard and unforgiving time.

A fun little game to play with your friends or alone, something you can hop on for 10 minutes and have fun with really easily. Only downside is that the controls via keyboard & mouse are substantially worse then useing a PS/Xbox/PC Handheld controller, so if you get this game I'd recommend getting one or using one of them instead.

So much nostalgia in this game for me, I recommend that anyone who likes RTS' should get this game, unlike newer games that use 3D models this game uses flat, still images making it look quite marvelous in terms of detail, the sound effects are nice and the scenario making is also fun.

The biggest problem with this game is it's stability, online games can be riddled with lag early on in games making a good start hard to do, but past that little hiccup I see a great game for both base-building & war!

This was the first Dark Souls games that I've ever played, and boy was it good. I've been struggling to find a game that wasn't really easy and a joke recently but this was a great purchase, not only did it have it's challenging moments but it also had a surprisingly good amount of content, I'm very likely to buy DLC for DS3 if/once any is released as this game really was enjoyable.