Recent reviews by Hugprud

A masterfully crafted work of art, with a heartfelt story and clever game mechanics!

Metro Exodus still suffers from long standing game breaking bugs, two years after its initial release. Don't support that.

Great game.
Runs perfectly on my Intel 2600K and GTX 780.
Looks like they really sorted out the performance issues.

Not a particularly fun game, but it has clever puzzles and stunning visual art. It has a "Where's Waldo" feel to it, only with insects, plants and pollen instead. For the games asking price it's worth a look. The games main problem is the incredibly slow gameplay which can be very frustrasting while collecting things, as you need to go back and forth all the time. When it comes to this aspect, pollen is your enemy. I am pretty sure the developer of this game has pollen allergy.

+ Visually stunning
+ Relaxing, much due to the music
+ Easy 100% achievements

- Very slow gameplay
- The gameplay is sometimes a bit unresponsive
- Brutal last puzzle

Overall good game with an entertaining combat system, not far from what you get in the Batman Arkham series. It delivers an open world with a somewhat boring and repatative terrain, but what can you expect - it's Mordor. The game doesn't offer much variety as you will be fighting uruks for the most part of the game, which gets a bit boring at times. The game offers something new that I've never seen in a game before - the hierarchy and nemesis system. This absolutely gives the enemies of the game more depth, but even though there are unlimited enemies, there are only a limited amount of personalities which concludes in yet a repetative aspect of the game. The story is decent, but lacks the depth it could have had, it's a bit of a clichè. The implemented skill and ability progressions are OK, but also lacks some depth.


+ Fun and smooth gameplay
+ OK graphics
+ Good voice acting
+ Very good combat system
+ Decent story
+ Stealth
+ Hierarchy and nemesis system

- Repetative gameplay
- Repetative scenario
- Bad textures at close
- Little replay value
- Boring and repetative side quests and challenges

An unbalanced and poorly executed game. I find it peculiar that the publishers decided to not longer include the game in the Gothic franchise years after its original release by removing the "Gothic 4" title enterily from the Steam store page. It is not completely un-entertaining, but it lacks many of the aspects that makes a good RPG, if not game. It says a lot about the attention to detail when the faces of "key" NPCs are very noticeably duplicated.

+ Apealing graphics, at least in 2010
+ Makes you enjoy better RPGs more
+ Hilarious voice acting

- Hilarious voice acting
- Weapons and armor system
- Fighting mechanics
- Severly unbalanced difficulty (if not patched)
- Overall poorly executed

After finishing most of the quests the game and all the expansions has to offer, as well as collecting every single achievement of the game, I can with great certainty give my full recommendation! It is without doubt a masterpiece which has come very close to perfection. I am not able to think of any aspects of the game that is not well executed. My definitive game of the year 2015, and probably the best gaming experience I have ever had!

+ Diverse and well written quests
+ Beautiful landscapes and graphics
+ Great voice acting
+ Amazing soundtrack
+ One of the best fighting mechanics I've ever encountered in an RPG
+ Top quality expansion packs
+ Nearly flawless port
+ Great developer support
+ Everything else

- Not the most memorable main story, but by all means a good and entertaining one (the main game)
- Not a particularly challenging game, I therefore advise you to play on a higher difficulty, preferrably "death march"