Recent reviews by Atlas

My favorite of all of the souls-like genre. This is a GOTY for me when it released. The world is so massive and filled with so many unique places to explore and items to collect.
10/10!

Easily top 5 games and top RPG I have ever played. Amazing story telling, environment is rich with detail, characters provide the best/most realistic and natural dialogue.

So easy to get immersed in one of the most incredible worlds in video gaming.

The most realistic zombie apocalypse simulator to exist!

Amazing co-op game! Super fun and enjoyable maps and objectives.

One of the most addictive perfected game play-loop factory design games in existence.

Do not be intimidated - if you are thinking of trying the game do the demo and check it out. You will be addicted in no time! :)

Easily one of the best Automation/Factory/Exploration simulators/builders out there!
Incredible game design with constant goals, upgrades, improvements, etc. all to improve your factories, quality of life, movement, building, and more so it never feels stale. It has one of the most satisfying game play loops out of this type of game.
Multiplayer is another awesome bonus and future addition of mods will create basically endless replayability!

One of the best games you could possibly own, all for the low price of $5.

This is simply one of those games you start playing and a week later you haven't eaten or showered, your wife is gone with the kids, and you kinda don't really care.

Jokes aside (not really please come back Shelby)... the game is the BEST $5 YOU CAN SPEND. It is a labor of LOVE and the developers have earned the right to say they have made one of the best and most addicting titles in gaming history.

TL,DR: THIS GAME IS CRACK!!!

Incredibly addicting rogue-lite card game where you are competing against increasing "blinds" (basically
scores) round after round with stores in between. That is the gist of it, but the complexities are endless.

The game heavily rewards experimentation, learning the mechanics on a deeper level, and working to unlock a full collection of cards. The difficulties scale fast and it gets incredibly difficult with a pretty high skill (or should I say strategic luck-based) ceiling.

That is to say the game is awesome for casual players as well and EASILY the best rogue-lite I have every played! There is also a huge variety of ways to play with over a dozen different decks, 150+ jokers ALONE, and so much more!

Lord help me get to gold stake.... then beat it.... someday....

I AM EVEN MORE UPSET, THEY NERFED MY FAVORITE WEAPON, THE FLAMETHROWER. STOP NERFING!!!!!!! BUFF INSTEAD!!!!!

MY CURRENT REVIEW:

WE WILL FIGHT FOR OUR BRETHREN, WE DIVE TOGETHER OR NOT AT ALL!

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MY OLD REVIEW:

Helldiver's 2 is a MASTERPIECE in Co-Op PvE. Easily the best live service game I have ever played with amazing and hilarious themes, gameplay, and ACTION!

You can tell the game is an absolute labor of love and deserves all the praise it gets.

FOR DEMOCRACY!

The Long Dark is one of the most incredibly immersive, unforgiving, and rewarding survival games of all time.

Brief Summary:
This game is all about you vs. environment. Threats include, but are not limited to:
- Freezing temperatures and frostbite
- Sprains, lacerations, stomach parasites, food poisoning
- Starvation, dehydration
- Fatigue, exhaustion

In most games, eating, drinking, and other needs can get rather annoying. In the long dark, these are your daily GOALS, and navigating an unforgiving hellscape of the Canadian wilderness is a daily struggle to maintain yourself, your gear, your condition, etc.

How the health functions:
There is one main "health" bar, which is your overall "condition"
This can fall when certain needs are not met, injuries are sustained without proper medication, or maybe you are just freezing your ass off in a blizzard.
To recover condition, you will need to make sure all needs are at least partially met, and you can slowly recover. Learning to maintain your condition which is directly affected by these other needs is the crux of this game, and what all of the other challenge and reward will revolve around, and depend upon.

Pros
- Incredibly Immersive
- Scaling and customize-able difficulty (Can change MANY aspects to suit your liking, can be relaxed and easy to impossible)
- Unique and interesting (and sometimes incredibly difficult) preset challenges
- Extremely well made and massive maps, each area unique in its own way which completely affects gameplay
- Interesting and fun achievements which become their own challenges
- Long-term goals across games to unlock "perma-perks" you can select for each new sandbox
- Unlimited and varying replay-ability and it's easy to come up with and self-impose your own challnges (for examples, only survive off fish for a month, use only natural medications from nature, cross the entire map with no bedroll, etc.)
- Decently frequent updates with an amazing design team who are passionate about their game.
- A butt load of fun!

Cons:
- Some deaths and events leading to it can feel unfair
- For completionists, some badges are unobtainable, more of an OCD issue
- One main achievement is wonky to complete (still have not been able to get it to work)
- Need sound on always to hear for wolves/bears/moose if aggression enabled, very easy to die without audio

For the record, I have not played story yet! I will update review afterwards. all of my hours are from sandbox

Conclusions:
If you are on the fence, absolutely buy it and try it out, it is totally worth the money at full price!!!