Recent reviews by jan6

awesome sandbox, if you have the time and will to make it fun, there are introductory quests, but beyond that, it's all up to you to make the game fun, which mainly comes from either the player-run economy (even all shops are player-run, not to mention production of most items) (either crafting or gathering, or trying to use the fluctuating price to trade a profit), conquering the open world dungeons and enemies, safe pvp (1v1 or group-v-group, safe as you don't lose items), and that's just in the small-ish (compared to the wildlands) royal island, you can also venture into the much larger wildlands, where pvp is always on and you can try to claim your bit of land, or buy your own island (if you have premium, which can be earned through in-game currency, ATM it's a bit over 8 million silver or so, for 1 month, which might seem impossibly big when starting out, but it's actually quite doable once you get more skilled, it's not needed to play the game, just gives a bit of bonuses, such as returning some crafting ingredients when crafting, or adding a couple bonus items when gathering)
given it's player-run, you can also have fun with that, such as partying up to beat more difficult challenges, or doing errands, such as delivering items, or even participating in larger scale guild raids/wars

if you have friends, it'll probably be best to play with them, together, when partied up, loot (at least silver) gets divided up automatically, and for e.g. gathering, one of you could transport the items while others keep filling up on resources, for much more effectiveness (also, keep an eye on item durability! otherwise you might find yourself suddenly overencumbered to the point of slow-motion shuffling around, VERY slowly (and items degrade significantly when you die, so git gud and don't die))

it does a great job letting you feel at least a little bit like Holmes, although there are points where it seems just bruteforce (I had to look up a guide for which specific entry of the archive I needed for a case)...
I *REALLY* like how there's really no "right" and "wrong" way, if you want, you can stop at the first conclusion, or you could see each case through to the end, and even at the very end of each case you usually have at least 2 possible variants, though sometimes they don't change the end result (in one case the bad person dies either with, or without your approval for example)

it's pretty fun overall, tho the paid unlockables are very annoying... but you can definitely play without buying stuff, at the cost of less everything...
such as "oh hey, you got an utility belt, such a shame you didn't buy the utility belt addon so you can't use it" or the unlockable lootbox-capsules, where you get a ton of capsules, but you cannot do anything with them unless you buy keys for them...
there doesn't appear to be any way to aquire the "premium points" in any way other than real money, sadly

the normal robocraft is pretty good!

but EasyAntiCheat is trash... it literally bluescreened my computer when I tried to play the Royale... it's literally the first windows bsod I've EVER had... and the cause was EasyAntiCheat.sys...

great game with very customizeable character

just normal sabotage game, before "among us" became popular

cool game, allows for quite some different strategies...or lack thereof...
it's possible to build a couple different ships and basically spam your way to victory, or play strategically, or try to keep enemy at bay while collecting enough money to spawn your massive mothership that annihilates everything

awesome, that's all there is to say...
especially if you use external tools for final touches.

it's an awesome lil engine, you can even use C and C++ if you really want (through some hoops)

it's nice and able to run on old-ish machines