Recent reviews by dasper

Game is constantly locking up and crashing and with how long the autosave points are between these God awful cut scenes and unskippable dialogue makes this brutal. Edit: A week later and still intermittent lock ups 5-20 min into playing with no rhyme or reason found yet.

Early 2025 update made the game unplayable on Steam Deck, on any Linux OS, or on Windows if it is a non-administrator user. This makes it impossible for my kids to play on their standard user account or devices that have parental controls. Even before this the game felt just as predatory towards children as Roblox.

Sadly their new update makes it impossible for me to even try and give it another chance.

I have had significantly more fun with Last Epoch than I have had in the first few weeks of this games launch. I am hoping it will get better with time but many skills and builds are just not viable and the ones that are revolve around the same few skills. If I wanted a game with the illusion of options while only having a single meta build that everyone is going to copy of the internet then I will just play D4.

Was hoping this game is one my kids can play like Overwatch but without needing to attach a cell phone. Was excited to load it on their Steam Decks, it installed fine but it kicks you out of any match the moment it starts. From what I read this is Easy Anti-Cheat not configured properly in the game and it should be a day or two fix but it has not been done. Even Overwatch plays well on the Steam Deck but not all my kids have cell phones yet. This would have been an easy win as a F2P game that the whole family could enjoy if it just worked on the Steam Deck.

Think Mass Effect but fantasy instead of si-fi and no consequence for morality choices in dialog. Wife is a Harry Potter fan so she was playing it on her account. Ended up looking so much fun to play I bought a copy as well. Thoroughly enjoyable RPG with a decent story to follow even if you know little to nothing about the world of Hogwarts.

Like other overly convoluted games, it is only fun once you learn all the quirks and you only learn them after hundreds of hours of playtime. The sunken cost fallacy then keeps players going. Stills are learned not by playing but time passing so much of the game is artificially gate-kept with no real content to help pass the time.

The "fun" things players do in game is almost exclusively PVP content that mostly involves camping at a warp gate for 10 min to 6 vs 1 an unsuspecting victim or some other asymmetrical combat that rarely involves skill. With no real safe zones to leisurely play in, Eve is packed with some of the most tenacious and hard core gankers of any game and rewards deep pocketed whales that can spend real money to help build and equip new ships. PVE content, while technically exists, is mostly still within the PVP world with the exception of Abyssal instances that have steep penalties for failure (loss of ship and all items carried in). The missions/quests have very little depth and only about a dozen scripts so no real lore or story to help compel you forward. The game mechanics, while fun at its core, are designed to just be a money sink where items, ships, and materials, are just consumed and destroyed to help promote spending more real world money to replace what is lost.

Although the game is labeled free to play, the free tier of the game is severely limited on what you can equip and what you can fly which inevitably limits what you can do which is primarily limited to PVP which promotes the money sink by losing ships and items that you cannot afford to replace by the artificial limitations put in to promote you paying the monthly free or converting real money into in-game money.

What keeps me playing? Sunken cost fallacy. I love being a healer in groups and I can in here. I own so much already in the game, have all these skills, and know how to waste time in the game so I habitually fall into this rather than looking for other, better, games that I could be happier playing.

In summary; what could be a fun game is lost in game mechanics intending for you to spend real money in a deceitful pay to win business model. A brand new player can get the monthly subscription and drop $1000 on top of that on day one to learn "skills" that others have taken years to acquire and buy practically any ship in the game without truly earning it.

Incredibly fun automation game! Start off dropped kind of in the deep end with little knowledge or documentation but do not let that fool you; it wants to show how much work it would be to do everything yourself and encourage you to script EVERYTHING. Use simple scripts to solve problems, figure out what you could have done better, then try it again.

I have never been able to explain to non software developers why I can spend 40+ hours working on code then when I come home try to decide if I want to play games or work on a side project. Now I have a game to show people why my job is like solving crosswords or sudoku puzzles. If this game inspires you to learn to code, you can get a similar looking editor by downloading Sublime Text or Visual Studio Code with the Monokai theme. Stick with JavaScript like this or look at Python for another scripting language or Go (golang in search engines) for compiled ones.

Incredible story driven puzzle game. A great mix between playing the main protagonist and playing a God game.

Never been able to open the game; crashes.

Played a character up to the mid 30s. Game has horrible UI and event systems which leaves me not knowing what is really going on in the game. Annoying to run into mobs with zero health and no indication on why they are not dying. Skill tree is overly complex.