Recent reviews by Brakus

Terra Invicta has hooked me more than any other game in recent years. It's refreshing to have a new grand strategy game that is truly different.

Most impressive Total War game at launch that Creative Assembly has ever released! The improvements to diplomacy and characters are impressive and tie in well to the other systems. There are still some minor issues and I hope they keep improving the gaming in the right way.

Already the best space 4x game and it keeps getting better! I'm enjoying the new 2.0 patch quite a bit with the new strategy and tactics it allows. From the starting requiring more attention in how you expand to the end game battles around massive space stations almost everything feels improved. There are a few bugs added in the update but I imagine they will be fixed quickly in a 2.0.1 update.

No rebind keys within the game made it unplayable for me.

I really enjoyed the hours I put into 7 Days to Die recently playing with my brother and solo. I did not run into any major bugs although the performance, graphics, and limited features definitely are early access. Although I would say the game is worth buying and playing now. The next patch whose ETA is unknown but I'm hoping is soon looks very promising.

The randomness of the game regarding what you find scavenging and the map means this game has a lot more replayability in the early game compared to other early access survival games I have played. The biggest negative aspect of the game is how quickly you can reach the "end game" since harder zombies and more complicated mechanics are yet to be added. Instead of playing the same game save for a long time I'm eagar to restart after the new patch comes out.

If you do plan to play multiplayer with specific friends look into having someone run a "dedicated" server even on the same PC as their client. The performance will still be a lot better than running the quick multiplayer servers if it's a good PC. It just requires a cfg file change, forwarding the right ports, and running the batch file to start up the server. I would than play with my brother and shut down the server when we are done with that session.

Very promising game so far especially given the alpha status although it will always only appeal to a minority of players. I have had no techincal issues after playing 4+ rounds and it runs great on my high end system. There will always be the issue that it requires a good squad and leader to be fun but when that lines up there are no other games like it.

Hopefully they can make the animations a little smoother along with improving client and server performance to lead to 50v50 servers.

Great game and just different enough from Civ games while still having the basics right.