Recent reviews by BotlCap

A super simple and relaxing idle management game. Make sure you have enough supplies for the day, pick a location, buy your upgrades, then start.

I put a little over 1 hour into the game before I got soft-locked and had to restart. I only had a couple upgrades left to buy, anyway. After day 20 or so, money becomes meaningless, as you make money far more quickly than you can spend it. Also, even though it's a very simple game, it's missing explanations as to how mechanics work, like yakuza, stress, etc.

I have a rule where I need to get at least 1 hour of play per dollar spent on a game to make it worth it. I got a little over 1 hour, and I spent $6. The game needs more content, upgrades, and balancing before I can say it's worth the price.

Also fix the soft lock. I started the event where I stay in one place for more than 1 day to reduce yakuza presence, but I started it during a limited 3-day event. I figured if I set my yakuza event for 3 days, it would line up perfectly with the limited event, but instead, it just made it where I cannot start the next day or select another location.

Doesn't need a review. Timeless classic, need get.

While maintaining a charming simplicity, Rocket League is one of the most re-playable games I own, having steadily played it over the past few years. It's appealing to all ages and skill groups, and can entertain you for as little as 5 minutes, to well over hours on end.

Rocket League quickly became my go-to game when nothing else sounded fun. Most people I introduce to this game think I'm crazy for enjoying a "soccer game where you play as cars with rocket boost," but everyone who has given it a chance has usually thoroughly enjoyed it. It's a concept that isn't exactly new, but has definitely been perfected by Psyonix.

I don't review many games, but when one has carved so much time out of my life, I feel it necessary.

Onto the bad stuff:

Honestly, there's not much to say here. The matchmaking system is far from perfect. You often get matched with the same exact team you just played against, defeating the purpose of rotating competition, but it doesn't happen but maybe 20% of the time. It's easily avoided by simply leaving after each match and restarting your search.

The servers are also a bit unreliable. They are quite quick at getting you into a game, but regardless of your upload/download and ping, you may experience some serious rubber-banding that comes from seemingly nowhere. That being said, the servers aren't much better or worse than most other dedicated-server games.

Overall: 9/10

Rocket League is a fantastic, well-polished game with huge replay value, which is the BIGGEST trait for a game to have, at least for me. No matter how into gaming you are, Rocket League is a safe choice for a lot of fun. Highly recommended.

Slime Rancher is a fun, casual game that, while easily being quite addicting, won't consume your life. While there isn't much content out for the game, what is available is quite entertaining. Even though it is early access, the graphics and mechanics are very solid, and gameplay feels very fluid. I believe a more solid story wouldn't hurt, however the game is still fine without it. Along the lines of the game's very limited amount of content, I haven't seen a single content update release, since I bought it a few months ago. The bug fixes are vaguely regular, but content patches seem very rare, and not very often. Overall, I would recommend this game to my friends, and look very forward to new content. All things considered, including the young state of this early access title, and mostly due to its lack of actual game content and rate of updates, I would give it a ^^ 6.5/10 ^^