Recent reviews by Monk

Great game encompassing most of the core 5e rules, and with mods you get even more classes and races.

Solid point and click game, with items carrying through to future levels. It's a very nice touch, and I only wish there was more content. I recommend buying the DLC and supporting the devs that way. It took me way too long to notice, but you can zoom and press on the objects at the bottom for tips!

---{ Rating }---
8 / 10

---{ PC Requirements }---
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Audience }---
☑ Beginner
☐ Casual Gamer
☐ Normal Gamer
☐ Expert

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Great
☑ Good
☐ Okay
☐ Bad

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Great
☑ Fun
☐ Challenging
☐ Generic
☐ Frustrating

---{ Difficulty }---
☑ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☑ Only if you care about leaderboards / achievements
☑ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Normal
☐ Too much grind

---{ Story }---
☑ No Story
☐ Bad / Generic
☐ Some lore
☐ Good
☐ Fantastic

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Really short (0 - 3 hours)
☑ Short (4 - 8 hours)
☐ Few hours (10 - 20 hours) [if you focus on the main story]
☐ Many hours (20 - 40)
☐ Long (40 - 60 hours) [if you complete everything]
☐ Very Long (61 - 100 hours)
☐ Extremely Long (101+ hours)

---{ Replayability }---
☐ It's a one-time experience
☐ Only for achievements
☑ If you wait a few months / years
☐ Definitely
☐ Infinitely replayable

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ Lots of bugs
☐ Bugs destroy the game

---{ Price }---
☑ Full price
☐ Wait for Sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ You could also just burn your money

Fun VN where you "rescue" the pricess. It's a relatively short game, with the emphasis on replaying to unlock the many endings. If you just want a single, or a few, successful playthroughs, I recommend you buy it on sale.

---{ Rating }---
8 / 10

---{ PC Requirements }---
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Audience }---
☑ Beginner
☐ Casual Gamer
☐ Normal Gamer
☐ Expert

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Great
☑ Good
☐ Okay
☐ Bad

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Great
☑ Fun
☐ Challenging
☐ Generic
☐ Frustrating

---{ Difficulty }---
☑ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☑ Only if you care about leaderboards / achievements
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Normal
☐ Too much grind

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Bad / Generic
☐ Some lore
☐ Good
☑ Fantastic

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Really short (0 - 3 hours)
☑ Short (4 - 8 hours)
☐ Few hours (10 - 20 hours) [if you focus on the main story]
☐ Many hours (20 - 40)
☐ Long (40 - 60 hours) [if you complete everything]
☐ Very Long (61 - 100 hours)
☐ Extremely Long (101+ hours)

---{ Replayability }---
☐ It's a one-time experience
☑ Only for achievements
☑ If you wait a few months / years
☐ Definitely
☐ Infinitely replayable

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ Lots of bugs
☐ Bugs destroy the game

---{ Price }---
☑ Full price
☑ Wait for Sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ You could also just burn your money

Fun VN with solid translations.

Boxes:
☑ ticked
☐ empty

---{ Rating }---
8 / 10

---{ PC Requirements }---
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Audience }---
☑ Beginner
☐ Casual Gamer
☐ Normal Gamer
☐ Expert

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Great
☑ Good
☐ Okay
☐ Bad

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Great
☑ Fun
☐ Challenging
☐ Generic
☐ Frustrating

---{ Difficulty }---
☑ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☑ Only if you care about leaderboards / achievements
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Normal
☐ Too much grind

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Bad / Generic
☑ Some lore
☐ Good
☐ Fantastic

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Really short (0 - 3 hours)
☐ Short (4 - 8 hours)
☑ Few hours (10 - 20 hours) [if you focus on the main story]
☐ Many hours (20 - 40)
☐ Long (40 - 60 hours) [if you complete everything]
☐ Very Long (61 - 100 hours)
☐ Extremely Long (101+ hours)

---{ Replayability }---
☐ It's a one-time experience
☑ Only for achievements
☑ If you wait a few months / years
☐ Definitely
☐ Infinitely replayable

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ Lots of bugs
☐ Bugs destroy the game

---{ Price }---
☑ Full price
☐ Wait for Sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ You could also just burn your money

Fun little side-scroller shooter that has Steam remote play together.

Boxes:
☑ ticked
☐ empty

---{ Rating }---
7 / 10

---{ PC Requirements }---
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Audience }---
☑ Beginner
☐ Casual Gamer
☐ Normal Gamer
☐ Expert

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Great
☑ Good
☐ Okay
☐ Bad

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Great
☑ Fun
☐ Challenging
☐ Generic
☐ Frustrating

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☑ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☑ Only if you care about leaderboards / achievements
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Normal
☐ Too much grind

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☑ Bad / Generic
☐ Some lore
☐ Good
☐ Fantastic

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Really short (0 - 3 hours)
☐ Short (4 - 8 hours)
☑ Few hours (10 - 20 hours) [if you focus on the main story]
☐ Many hours (20 - 40)
☐ Long (40 - 60 hours) [if you complete everything]
☐ Very Long (61 - 100 hours)
☐ Extremely Long (101+ hours)

---{ Replayability }---
☐ It's a one-time experience
☑ Only for achievements
☑ If you wait a few months / years
☐ Definitely
☐ Infinitely replayable

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ Lots of bugs
☐ Bugs destroy the game

---{ Price }---
☐ Full price
☑ Wait for Sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ You could also just burn your money

Extremely fun survivors-like game, with a tonne of playable characters, mini-games, and several maps. I am hesitant to call this a Vampire Survivors clone, because honestly this is so, so much better. Characters can be obtained in a gatcha style purchase, where gold can be earned by looting them in the game, or through the mini-games. This is a fan-made game, which is based on real life VTubers (streamers). What's more, it's free! Shocking. It constantly gets updates, and feedback is heard by developers. I highly recommend playing it.

---{ Rating }---
10 / 10

---{ PC Requirements }---
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Audience }---
☑ Beginner
☑ Casual Gamer
☑ Normal Gamer
☐ Expert

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Great
☐ Good
☐ Okay
☐ Bad

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Great
☑ Fun
☑ Challenging
☐ Generic
☐ Frustrating

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if you care about leaderboards
☑ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Normal
☐ Too much grind

---{ Story }---
☑ No Story
☐ Bad / Generic
☐ Some lore
☐ Good
☐ Fantastic

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Really short (0 - 3 hours)
☐ Short (4 - 8 hours)
☐ Few hours (10 - 20 hours) [if you focus on the main story]
☑ Many hours (20 - 40)
☑ Long (40 - 60 hours) [if you complete everything]
☑ Very Long (61 - 100 hours)
☑ Extremely Long (101+ hours)

---{ Replayability }---
☐ It's a one-time experience
☐ Only for achievements
☐ If you wait a few months / years
☐ Definitely
☑ Infinitely replayable

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ Lots of bugs
☐ Bugs destroy the game

Solid roguelite deckbuilder, with visual novel elements. It's fun, not too short, and there are lots of VN scenes to collect. It's quite cheap, so I can safely say you can buy it outside of sales.

Town
Your main base is a town, where you can manage your deck, find a shop to purchase cards and gems, a crafter to combine your gems, and the dungeon. The dungeon is where you do your runs, and deaths will bring you back to town. Your cards, gems, and money will be carried over through runs.

The Dungeon
Exploration is done through fixed dungeon-style levels, with randomly generated nodes. These are separated into two types: the main campaign levels, and side-mission style ones - for farming money and gems. In a run, you have your regular monsters, mutated monsters, elites, a single miniboss, and the main boss. Outside of combat events, you have campfires, treasure rooms, and "random events"; essential scenes for the VN. Nodes will offer artifacts (items with effects), or a temporary card upgrade that lasts for the current run. There is always a campfire before the miniboss, where you can recover all your cards, and optionally heal 50% health, but lose one level in all your halos - a mechanic I will explain later. There is a hot spring before the end boss, where you can choose from various bottles of milk - a temporary effect for the boss battle. It will last for the first few turns, and either: increases damage; regenerates health; or generates armour.

Cards
Cards have several mechanics, such as energy costs per card, gem slots, and a unique discard mechanic. Gem-wise, there are stat gems, and ability gems. Cards have a limted number of ability slots - three, and a variable number of gem slots. The effects on a card can have levels (stars), which can be upgraded by slotting in a gem. Gems can have levels, which grant more stars, either uprading an existing effect, or granting you a full six-star effect. A selection of cards and gems can be purchased from the shop, once unlocked by completing campaign levels. Gems can also be looted in a run, or as a reward for completing a run - this is where farming the side missions come in.

Unique Mechanics
In a battle, there is no hand limit - you start with your deck. Decks are quite small for this reason. Once you've used up all your cards, you need to force rest, where you will need to choose a card to discard - once a card is chosen, you will recover the rest of your deck. A discarded card is lost in the current run, until recovered by encountering a rest site. You can choose to empty your hand early, which is called a normal rest. A card may have a discard effect, which may be permanent through the run (called halos), or a temporary one for the battle. Halos can be stacked a certain number of times, and persist across encounters in a run. Very few cards have halos, so you may want to consider upgrading them, either through gems, or as an encounter reward. One strategy is to discarding your hand often, to max out your halos, then recover the card at a rest site. This scales better towards the end, but in later levels, some bosses can decrease, or completely remove your halos - so bare this in mind.

---{ Rating }---
8 / 10

---{ PC Requirements }---
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Audience }---
☐ Beginner
☑ Casual Gamer
☑ Normal Gamer
☐ Expert

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Great
☑ Good
☐ Okay
☐ Bad

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Great
☑ Fun
☑ Challenging
☐ Generic
☐ Frustrating

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if you care about leaderboards / achievements
☑ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Normal
☐ Too much grind

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☑ Bad / Generic
☐ Some lore
☐ Good
☐ Fantastic

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Really short (0 - 3 hours)
☐ Short (4 - 8 hours)
☑ Few hours (10 - 20 hours) [if you focus on the main story]
☐ Many hours (20 - 40)
☐ Long (40 - 60 hours) [if you complete everything]
☐ Very Long (61 - 100 hours)
☐ Extremely Long (101+ hours)

---{ Replayability }---
☐ It's a one-time experience
☑ Only for achievements
☑ If you wait a few months / years
☐ Definitely
☐ Infinitely replayable

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ Lots of bugs
☐ Bugs destroy the game

---{ Price }---
☑ Full price
☐ Wait for Sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ You could also just burn your money

I just got the game and overnight there was the PSN announcement - why do I need a PSN account when I don't even have a Playstation? That made me frustrated; Sony is being Sony. It's a fun game though. You can tell the game was designed for consoles because there are some questionable UX and UI decisions like how matchmaking is done (it's very unclear), navigating menus etc. Annoying, but not too game breaking. Disconnections though, that's a problem. I've found every now and again I get disconnected and I don't get any rewards, and my time is wasted. That said, there's a good amount of variety in terms of strategems (think of them like skills / items), and mission maps can have a lot of things in them. The equipment system is a bit weird though, you have to earn them through the battlepass, so it takes a while to get them.

Edit: Sony has reversed their decision! A win for gamers!
Edit 2: They've stopped nerfing things and started buffing; the game is a lot more fun now, and I look forward to more updates

Quite literally an interactive cutscene game for the most part. No real stealth in the "stealth" mechanics, some guns and basic gun fights, no real puzzles or anything, just keep walking forward and press E. I also really hate the boat on the river scene, it's so finicky. Overall, an okay game. Nothing special, if you want a chill game to play with a friend, it might be worth buying. Definitely wait for a sale, it's not worth full price.

---{ Rating }---
5 / 10

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Audience }---
☑ Beginner
☐ Casual Gamer
☐ Normal Gamer
☐ Expert

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Great
☐ Good
☑ Okay
☐ Bad

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Great
☐ Fun
☐ Challenging
☑ Generic
☐ Frustrating

---{ Difficulty }---
☑ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if you care about leaderboards
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Normal
☐ Too much grind

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☑ Bad / Generic
☐ Some lore
☐ Good
☐ Fantastic

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Really short (0 - 3 hours)
☑ Short (4 - 8 hours)
☐ Few hours (10 - 20 hours) [if you focus on the main story]
☐ Many hours (20 - 40)
☐ Long (40 - 60 hours) [if you complete everything]
☐ Very Long (61 - 100 hours)
☐ Extremely Long (101+ hours)

---{ Replayability }---
☐ It's a one-time experience
☑ Only for achievements
☐ If you wait a few months / years
☐ Definitely
☐ Infinitely replayable

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ Lots of bugs
☐ Bugs destroy the game

---{ Price }---
☐ Full price
☑ Wait for Sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ You could also just burn your money

!!! NAUSEA WARNING !!!

I played what I believe is the tutorial level and whilst it was fun it gave me severe nausea and headache. If you're sensitive to motion sickness, I highly discourage you from playing