Recent reviews by Slowriffs

In my opinion, this is the best Age of Wonders game since Shadow Magic.

I enjoyed 3 but it tended to get tedious and I could never finish a map. Planetfall brought some innovations to the formula and added a lot of mechanics and fleshed out the combat but this for me didn't work, it ended up extremely tedious and I just couldn't enjoy it.

AoW 4 manages to make the whole process efficient while not losing depth. Combat is snappy, exploration feels great.

Highly recommended for longtime fans of the series.

Best 4X game I have played in years. Somehow old world manages to fuse Crusader Kings style events with traditional 4X gameplay while also greatly reducing the lategame tedium that plagues most similar titles.

Survival mode is fun but honestly I don't know why they even bother making campaigns like this, and to be honest a lot of modern RTS games make this mistake.

It's like they're trying to teach the game to toddlers, it's so boring and mundane, I had to quit the campaign at mission 2 because I just couldn't anymore. Just go straight to survival, the game really isn't very complicated.

The ARPG I've always wanted. It takes lessons from other games in adjacent genres that have appeared through the years. The controls are reminiscent of Hades, the combat takes a lot of cues from the "hard but fair" approach seen in soulslikes. At the moment the game is in early access, and naturally not everything is fully balanced and there certainly are numerical tweaks required at the least but I have full confidence in the team that they will get there!

FOR THE EMPEROR!

A classic well written mature RPG, in the grim dark 40K setting with actual grim dark storytelling. As Owlcat doesn't operate on super high budgets the graphics aren't great and not even half of the game is voice acted, but on the other hand the art direction and dialogue is both excellent.

Fantastic game, would vent rioting rabble into the vacuum of space again.

Extremely addictive autobattler, probably the best one on the market right now!

It's pretty good!

I wasn't too sold during early access but coming back after the full release the game improved at ton.

It's a pretty unique mix of RTS and 4X mechanics, with a lot of diplomacy and alternate win conditions. There's a lot of complex mechanics and resources that need to be balanced out against one another.

The northgard DNA is very present but upscaled into a big game with large armies and politics.

As of writing this game is being plagued by server issues which significantly impacts online play, but as I am sure it will be fixed eventually it won't be affecting my rating (also I often play at different hours than your usual 20-something as I'm a little older so it just doesn't impact me as much either...)

The game is great, it's complex enough to allow for a wide variety of playstyles yet you don't need a phd in statistics to understand how certain game mechanics actually work like in PoE. Highly recommended if you're a fan of the genre, so much better than diablo 4.