Recent reviews by Gradient Dissent

RTX 5090, 9800x3d, 96gb ram. Crashes every 5 minutes, totally unplayable.

Incredible soundtrack and visual design. Entertaining action, nearly an art piece.

Awesome game and a bargain at its price. Fun roguelike shooter with good replay value.

A really charming slice of life story told through a unique medium. Artsy and contemplative. In the spirit of "Gone Home" and similar unique narratives. Loved this title and would recommend! Don't read too many spoilers.

A game made with love! Fun arcade gameplay, fun base building. All the stuff I wish I could have done in Supreme Commander with turtling up combined with a fun campaign. Super stable, no crashes, fun combat.

Crashes repeatedly in the Updaam location during the night party and I can no longer progress in the game. Many other people are seeing the same issue. Game is broken.

The game gets in its own way. The controls are ham fisted and frustrating. Interesting ideas but insists on making mundane things really tedious, wasting your time. The game mistakes tedious and repetitive micromanagement of your hands and inventory as depth and difficulty. The developers could have a big hit if they could keep the depth but reduce the over dependency on pointlessly complex controls.

Astroneers is like an automatic transmission.
Space Engineers is like driving a manual transmission.
Stationeers is like someone decided that what a racing simulator game needs is for you to manually select with a mouse which fingers you want to remove from the steering wheel, click the fingers you want to keep on, then click foot up down left right for gas. Oh, and all the AI drivers are just driving normally. It feels like "Getting over it" in space.

It mostly adds tedium to the genre.

It says I played for 20 hours-- it took 20 hours to download, about 20 minutes to load to get into a game, then about 20 seconds for the game to freeze and crash to desktop.

This game is amazing and confusing at the same time. It's brilliant for any chess or time travel fan. It's exactly what it says on the tin.

I played a board where I thought I surely checkmated the opposing king. The king escaped into another dimension. Then the CPU sent a bishop as a timecop to assassinate my queen. This will happen to you.

Wow. It's hotline miami meets roguelike. This game is amazing. Wish there were more unlocks but otherwise fantastic.