Recent reviews by Lemmy-Drill-Mauster

A huge, open world to explore, lots of travel, free slaves, get a posse together, find a place to build a base.
Get your teeth kicked in, become a better (or bitter) person because of it.
You literally can make your own story, or let a wacky story unfold in a direction you can't possibly predict.
It's as if someone decided to throw in a bit of Fallout, Land of the Lost, The Warriors, Dune, Lord of the Rings, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, Mad Max, Lawrence of Arabia, put them in a blender and voila: This frickin' beast of a game.

It's addictive. Too addictive. I should kick my friend in the pants for getting me into this game.

The most beautiful game I've played in a long time.

I never thought the idea of unpacking items and placing them neatly in the appropriate nooks and crannies could be so enjoyable, yet here I am.
It's almost as fun as unpacking boxes after a fresh move in real-life, except not as exciting or stressful.
This is definitely a game for the more OCD kind of person.
Good times. :)

Where else can you find a game that blends so many different types of games into one?
Do you like open worlders? You got it! Love tower defense game? Bam, there ya go. You enjoy crafting and building your own home base to how YOU want it to look and how it functions? They gotcha covered.
Do ya want to take a nice leisurely stroll through this post-apocalyptic world, or prefer the constant on-edge battle for your life at every moment while still trying to build up your fortress for the oncoming horde of undead? Yer golden.
Ya got a wide range of settings to customize how you wanna play. Hell, even horde night can happen once every 28 in game days if you like, so it can be playing 28 Days to Die. (That sounds familiar...)
There's no save option, but it does save your game. All you have to do is just exit out and it will bring you back exactly where you signed off. Nothing lost. Convenient.
My only nitpick would be the option for an optional story to be worked in to the game, but it's not imperative. Get together with some friends in a multi and create your own story in this vast wilderness of the undead.
Have fun, get out there and head shot some zombies, then kick back at the end of a hard day and tend your potato garden.

Come on. It's a gasoline service station simulator. How can this possibly be any fun?


*Six hours later...* Oh, snap! I can hire some help! Get to it, son! That gas ain't gonna pump itself!

Are you tired of all the loud, hard-hitting, gore splattery gun fire with demon guts? Tired of taking down waves of slobbering aliens with your bombs and throwing battle axes? Do you just wanna kick back, pop open a cream soda and relax with a cute little story?
If you're looking for a zen kind of experience with adorable spirit animals, soft, lilting music and interesting backstories, then I think you'll enjoy Cozy Grove.
You play as a Spirit Scout given the task to stay on this wooded island and aid the spirit animals who inhabit the woods. The spirits give you various little jobs here and there, which earn the animals' trust. The more tasks you complete the more the spirit critters they open up to you, as well as open up new areas to explore on the island.
It's got everything an eager Spirit Scout needs: cooking, fishing, collecting, planting, buying pet birds to give you company, even a relatively expansive wardrobe!
The game is just that: Cute, Warm and Cozy. :)

First and foremost the art is just beautiful; it's simple in design, but complex with its lights and darks. It hearkens back to the styles of European comics as well as the dark, yet whimsical styling of Dr. Seuss.

The music made for the game is quite fitting as it reflects what the character, left to his lonesome devices, is feeling. The notes are strong and gut-punching in some scenes, much more subtle in others, but also manage to maintain that eerie tone throughout the story.

Playing The Longing almost feels like living in a well-illustrated children's book that moves.
I'm only in the first few days of this beautiful isolation, slow, pondering, yet I'm patiently waiting to see what new places open up for me.

Word of warning: if you're an introvert, this game may feel like home, but if you're a soul who hates to be alone with their own thoughts, you may identify too well with the character of the story.

VCD? More like OCD!
For real, guys, if you're a clean freak in real life and love playing video games (co-op or not), then why not combine the two and have yourself a messy blast?
The mess can be a little overwhelming, but if you're thorough enough, you can unravel the various stories of what transpired before the huge bloody mess you are tasked to clean. Kinda makes ya wanna keep goin...

Viscera Cleanup Detail. An OCD person's dream come true...

...or their worst nightmare...

I'm a little late with this review, but here goes:

Never would you think processing immigrants at an Eastern bloc border would be so engaging, but Papers, Please would prove you wrong.

There is a story here; the further along you go in your career the crazier and more overwhelming the attention to detail becomes. You can't stop pushing forward. You are constantly, relentlessly being set up to fail, yet you press on embracing the detail-laden madness.

The music, the sounds, the very dark, referential humor, the pixel art style and cold, brutal narrative of this fictional Eastern bloc setting sucks you in as your delightfully tortured psyche braces for the inevitable citation slip with each processed immigrant.

If you want an engaging story-driven game that will force you to pay attention to detail, make tough decisions affecting the outcome, as well as giving you some guilty chuckles, then Papers. Please will likely be up your alley.

Glory to Arstotzka!

To put it simply: the game is, as the old expression goes, like a huge breath of fresh air.
It is difficult to describe, but if you had liken it to something else, it would be akin to a mixture of different creative minds coming together; Phillip K. D_ick meets Harlan Ellison meets Chris Nolan meets Wes Anderson meets FIlm Noir meets Fallout meets graphic novels meets oil painters... you get the idea.
I have recently started playing this game, and I feel as if I'm reading an engaging novel in the form of a moving painting, and what's even better, I, the player, am a direct participant in how the story unfolds.
There is one aspect of the game with which new players may have difficulty, and that is the slightly cryptic word choices the game designers decided to utilize, but I think you will come to find the wording in this game as an integral part of the world.
If you are an open-world RPG-gamer, who also enjoys deeply fleshed out characters and story, then this game is right up your alley,
I truly believe video games can be works of art, and Disco Elysium proves it can be done.