Recent reviews by Static

Coming from Hell Let Loose, Squad 44 is the freshest breath of air I could've experienced. I was initially a bit off-put by the price tag despite loving Squad.

But after one game that instantly dissolved away. Squad 44 is so much better than Hell Let Loose its crazy its not talked about. Most of the players in Hell Let Loose (the majority of each team) will be utterly awful, they won't communicate, listen to orders, look at the map, ect. In Squad 44 that is the total opposite, almost every single player is cohesive in their unit, they listen, they pay attention, they put a bit of effort into making the game fun on both sides.

Logistics in Squad 44 is simplified compared to Squad, but compared to the joke that is logistics in Hell Let Loose its refreshing. Hell Let Loose almost intentionally chose to keep logistics almost irrelevant to the outcome of the game, because they know that their players wouldn't be able to handle any simple side tasks required to actually win. You can totally ignore every element of logistics in Hell Let Loose and the outcome of any game is barely changed.

The gun-play feels better, the performance is substantially better, the movement is more flexible, the classes are more varied and impactful. If you find yourself annoyed at how most Hell Let Loose games end up, Squad 44 is probably the game your supposed to be playing.

Honestly - the game isn't that good. It is very punishing and can feel very un-fun.

The graphics are great, the idea is fantastic. But the execution leaves a whole lot to be desired. The developers continue to take away features which made Dark and Darker feel so special in the first place.

The game is not in a great state, but it has the potential to be amazing.

The worst part? Because of how the developers did their 'free to play' to upgraded model you cannot get a refund.

It's okay - but absolutely not worth $90.

If you can get it for $20, then totally.

It's like role-playing cabin in the woods. The world still ends in misery and chaos.

I'm actually going to not recommend buying Dragons Dogma 2. I'm not even considering the micro-transactions or game performance, this review is purely based on the content within the game.

Dragons Dogma 2 is short. Like insanely short, the entire game on a blind first run, exploring everything (if you aren't just wasting time fighting things for no reason) is less than 25 hours.

I probably spent more time in Limgrave in Elden Ring than all of Dragons Dogma 2. Every act of The Witcher 3 has more content than all of this game, hell Blood and Wine is longer and has more enemies than all of Dragons Dogma 2!

And this game has no substantial fast travel, horses, or infinite stamina out of combat, it artificially extends the time you're in the game as much as possible, and it's still super short!

This RPG is not worth the full price, if you can't get it for $30 or less you're wasting your money. I have no idea how such a short RPG took 12 years to make.

This is a really cool, unique game which I can see myself playing for a long time. Hopefully we get even more Super Destroyer content and the illuminate faction. Even different classes of ships in the future would be cool.

An extremely well crafted, truly next gen RPG.

This is my equal first best turn based game, alongside XCOM 2: WOTC. And it's 40K to boot! I love so much about this game, the style, the brutal animations, slow-mo, and bolters, it's fantastic. As well as no percentage chance bs, just pure tactical action.

I love how fluid it all feels despite being grid based, everything feels snappy and satisfying. I love the skill trees and getting war-gear, and levelling up my grey knights into demigods.

It's a shame the DLC isn't better, I wish so much I could just purchase them and expand the game and my enjoyment for it. However at this point I feel only Execution Force is worth it, Duty Eternal just isn't quite there unfortunately.

An awesome, atmospheric Alien game: a really satisfying addition to the universe.

People seem to be confusing pressure and resource management with bad balancing. The game is really well made and really well paced, aside from ice and iron all the resources you collect end up getting added permanently to the station, progression is additive, and you should be dismantling and moving things around as resources become available.

The game can be compared to Frostpunk, just like you can lose a game of Frostpunk you can lose a game of Ixion, although Ixion lets you restart the chapter you're in if you really mess up.

The pressure the game puts on you has been obviously very, *very* carefully designed, and asking the developers to change the balance of their game because you're making mistakes and wasting time is dumb, it's not meant to be Cities Skylines in space but allot of people are buying the game thinking that for some reason.