Recent reviews by Davemonkey

I love this game. As a deck builder dueler it is solid and among best in class, and the campaign modes are fine. You can duel both in realtime and async and it is the async that I have sunc the most time into. I typically have 20+ games running at once and the 48 hour turn limit is usually more than enough to make sure you can run your games out to completion.
I would love to see a more transparent PvP ranking and reward system, but it is a nice to have.
It will penny and dime you with expansions, but if you have ever had price shock on the complete Star Realms experience, consider this as an alternative and you can get in while the game is still relatively young.

Faithfully adapts and enhances the board game experience in almost every way (sadly, no brbs will erupt from your monitor and fly around your home VR glasses or none). The asyc, 72 hour mode is a wonderful way to lazily play multiple games of Wingspan at a time. Every brb you lay down includes the factoid text from the bottom of the card read to you by a pleasant sounding American woman, and I look forward to hearing every one when I play my brbs.

Added a new take on the way you exp[and and build your city in 4X games.

A decent deck builder in the vein of Ascension with the added mechanic of directly attacking your opponent. The community is small but I can usually get a game. No emoting or direct comms in game which can be a little annoying at times (even a good game would be nice). The 4 factions all play differently but you will mix and match as you play. There is a good mechanic to ensure that evenly matched games don't drag with a certain play this card and win play. Well worth picking up cheap but core set is starting to feel stale.

After the Pompey patch this game is at a great point. Should have been like this at launch but now a great basis for a Paradox experience. Love it.

Still going strong. I return to CK2 in cycles and flip from my favourites (Byzantium, the Italian Normans, VIKINGS!!!!) to odd little corners (currently playing a JAde Dragon Campain as the Xia.

This game continues to keep me engaged, despite its age, and each piece of new content, each new system just helps make new and interesting stories. Yes, I can't wait for CK3, but CK2 is still damn fine.

Another fine outing from Telltale. TftB feels like a Borderlands game without being a Borderlands game (which I'm pretty bored with) and all of a sudden it was fun to be in this madcap world again.
The characters are well realised and the shift in perspective that comes from having two main characters serves the story and the characters well. The sense of relationships moving and shifting as events occur is as sharp as any of Telltale's other games of this ilk and if you like good writing and good characters, play the game.
On a special note the shift in UI design when you move characters is well done and I always felt like I knew where I was.

A one trick pony of a poor joke game. Pretty disapointed with Valve in offering this rubbish. The 'joke' is the inability to control the one hand you are given with any competence and the rewards are low. Not worth your time. This technical experiment should have been kept internal to Valve or offered up for free.

Such a wonderful, understated and beautiful game. Well worth your time and money. A must buy and play!

Short, but so, so good. Laden with story and more high of the ideas that made Infinite so wonderful.