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Oh yes, Rimworld a game where you'll be constantly being annoyed, angry, sad and thinking about your colonists.

This game is so much fun, despite slow and boring start. But that's almost in every game, right? Well if you find base game boring, you don't need to worry, game contains workshop. Full of thousands of mods, textures, weapons, charecters, worlds and even more other things that'll embellish your game experience. Game is huge and provides so many possibilities and features. Every new game you start is always different, beacuse everything is randomly generated. Now, let's get to real review.

REVIEW
In this game you'll be controlling group of people ( called colonists ) which got stranded on "unknown" planet or you'll be leading natives or even some clan. At the beggining you can chose skills of your colonists, of course not that easily, all of the skills are being randomized together with traits and appearence ( There is a mod so you can manually change them), you just have to keep randomizing them until you get those you like. Every colonist have it's own background story, who they are, who they were, what are they feelings, thoughts and health condition. Also your colonist can be hurt - mentally and physicly, this have a compact on their performance and sometimes they can even die from them - physicly due to blood loss or mentally due to mourning ( examples ).

After that, you can chose your starting location on the planet but every tile has different environmental conditions - mountains, rivers, deserts, forests, plains and more. Every one of them have it's own bonuses such as: with river you can build watermill and make electricity, mountains have more minerals, forests provide more wood and animals...( and this goes on )

Goal in this game is to survive and get from point A to point B. Precisly from your starting location, to point on a map where is an old space ship with which you can take off the planet and get back to your homeworld ( I never succeded, so this is what i think ).

In order to survive you'll have to build a place where you can live, scavange fallen asteroids and piceces of spaceships, mining minerals ( ores ) to build better defences and upgrade your home, chopping wood for firewood, hunting animals so you can feed your people, also making guns to repel enemy raids and saving others so you can persuade them to join your colony. Everything is against you in this game, and there will be many different situations to take care of, so you'll have to adapt to them in order to survive and take every possible advantage you can.
( For more info about the game i recommend you to read description of the game )

Should this be in the main game?
Many people are saying that all the features this DLC adds to a game should be in a base game. I agree with them, but... they probably doesn't realise how big this game is and what possibilities it offers and what can be added. I'm saying that if you wanted all of these features added at once in the game, the development would take a lot of time, money and effort. If you wanted to buy the game at full price ( 40 € all DLCs in base game), the company would lose so much money they wouldn't make other title or anything at all, even the development would move the release a few years. And if price was high enough to compensate all the time, money and effort, noone would buy a game at this price.
Just my opinion, pls don't hurt me for it. :(
If this DLC is expensive for you, just wait for it to be in SALE. Nothing you can do about it.

REVIEW
This DLC is mostly focused on Eastern europe, precisly on 3 nations in Eastern Europe and 1 nation on Balkan - Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia. Adding historicly accurate people such as generals and leaders, also adding new sound effects to armies when you select them - they'll speak in their language. To these four nations have been added mew focus trees, decisions and events, giving you choices to walk the path of freedom, supremacy or conquest.

FOCUS TREEs
As Czechoslovakia you can create a new factions and inviting other close nations to join you and resist German pressure.
As Hungary you can restore Austria-Hungary and restore what was lost in WW1 or approach Czechoslovak alliance and join them or proclaim Greater Hungary and conquer your neighbors.
As Romania you can conquer Balkan, renew Romanian-Polish alliance and chose your king to abdicate or let him stay and have him under control.
Well, Yugoslavia doesn't have interesting focus tree so I recommend you to look at it on the internet.

NEW FEATURES
New features are added such as Equipment License with wich you can "buy" technology from other nations and use them in you war-machine ( Weapons, tanks, planes and ships ).

Subjects
Fascist countries get new subject levels like Reichskommissariat, with access to licenses, industry and strategic resources. The instated governments are held in an iron grip, making it harder for them to break free. ( Copied from official steam website, description about content - Expansion for HoI4: Death or Dishonor) I didn't know how to explain it.

Personaly this DLC doesn't offer much things to the game and for this price it shouldn't even exist. If the price was lower, about 5 € ( from 10€ to max. 5€ ) or at best free, people would be happier and would't hate it that much. I am not denying what I wrote at the beginning, it's just how I see it from development perspective. Don't hate me, thanks. :)

Should this be in the main game?
Many people are saying that all the features this DLC adds to a game should be in a base game. I agree with them, but... they probably doesn't realise how big this game is and what possibilities it offers and what can be added. I'm saying that if you wanted all of these features added at once in the game, the development would take a lot of time, money and effort. If you wanted to buy the game at full price ( 40 € all DLCs in base game), the company would lose so much money they wouldn't make other title or anything at all, even the development would move the release a few years. And if price was high enough to compensate all the time, money and effort, noone would buy a game at this price.
Just my opinion, pls don't hurt me for it. :(
If this DLC is expensive for you, just wait for it to be in SALE. Nothing you can do about it.

Review
This DLC adds new, decisions, events and FOCUS TREEs to subjects of Great Britain - Australia, Canada, New Zealand, British Raj ( India ), South Africa. In these Focus trees you can chose between two paths, you can stay in Commonwealth and be loyal to Britain or you can break free from Commonwealth and stood up against British as Communists or Fascists at the head of state. As communists, take arms and start revolution against imperialist oppressiors who took everything from the people, make them pay and liberate other nations from them or try peaceful approach. Same can be achieved as Fascists, but your "liberation" will look more like conquering, for "greater good".

AUTONOMY SYSTEM
Of course there are other features to this DLC than just focus trees. One of them is AUTONOMY SYSTEM which determies how far are you or your subjects/puppets from being free or integrated into your master. This can be influenced with focuses in focus trees, events, trading ( if you are exporting to master, it goes up ) or your war participation also increases your autonomy ( higher, the better ).

LEND-LEASE
This feature allows you to request equipment from other nations or even send it to them when they have desperately little of it. You can help other nations in defensive and aggresive wars if you need those nations to survive or get stronger.

TECHNOLOGY SHARING
When you are subject to other nation you get bonuses in research tree so you can very quickly catch up to your master. But only to what they researched and how far, meaning that if you researched further you won't get any bonuses in that section.

SPEARHEAD
This new feature adds new order to your army. With this order your army will try to push to end of line as fast as possible and with great strengh, but with that your army will get some negative bonuses such as low organization, when fighting,heavy casulties, strength and supplies will run out very fast. Good for encircling enemies or pushing through bad defensive lines.

LAND BATTLE LOG
History of your battles, if you won or lost how many casulties you took or were inflicted to your enemy, how much of equipment were lost during the battle and overall performance of your army.

This game hurts, and pretty much. In just 50 minutes this game made me so angry I almost threw my gamepad over my room and before that I almost crushed it into oblivion ( what a great times ).
Have you ever played any hard game to beat? Well, this game is hard but not on the same level as Dark souls ( you can roll in this game ♥ ). For me it's difficult, but others may laugh at this difficulity. Of course, it depends on an individual.

It's 2D game with just one goal... to anger you. No tutorial no intro, none help, immediately puts you into action and you have only one life. Got killed by peasent with pitchfork beacuse you were too slow to block his attack? Who cares, it's your fault so get back to start and GIT GUT.

Game has different types of enemies - peasents with pitchfork, animals, armored knights with good equipment and even bosses, etc. Simply, everything is against you. Almost every attack can be blocked, except animals that would run you over even in IRL. But there is an advantage. Everything is scripted and nothing is randomly generated, that's good thing. More times you die, you can better memorise every action they do, counter them and make some progress.

Gameplay is fun, at the beginning you might get upset but longer you play, better it gets. You'll be happy with every enemy killed without losing health. Every succesful block you did and how far you got.

Gameplay is repetitive - move foward, block enemy's attack, kill him in one swing, move foward, do a roll back, block enemy's attack and again kill him in one swing ( except mini bosses and bosses). Simple mechanics, nothing difficult. When you beat the game you get the option to start game again but with a slight difference. You can start game with NG and/or NG+. So that makes up to 3 playthroughs, I guess.

Game has 2 different mode types:
1 - Story mode → linear gameplay, must finish all levels
2 - Endless fighter mode → fighting waves of enemies, get highest score possible

Graphics.. it's beatiful. The background, animations, all the detailes and soundtrack, when all put together it makes this a great Artwork. I love 2D games beacuse they're "simple" but so beatiful, with it's own charm.

Soundtrack is also nice, relaxing with medieval theme. Nothing special, just a music that fits the medieval scene and 2D music.

You can play with keyboard or gamepad. But I recommend you to play with gamepad.

This game is just beautiful, graphicly and technicly. Are you a mechanic, someone who studied automobile school or just some guy who loves cars? Ever dreamed about your own car? Now you can make it, and only just with this game.

Game is in Early access and that means some things are missing. But don't worry Developers are planning to add many new features to improve your ingame experience and even with that your own experiences.

In this game you'll be designing your own car, or you can just design some that already exist. It sounds very easy at first ( as I thought ) but reality is often different. When I saw this game I was like - I just chose some car and add only engine which i'll change to my liking... Well, I was very naive. It is a lot more complicated.

You'll be making your dream car from scratch. Just chose any bodywork you want from '45 to '20, small or big it is just up to you. And then your work can start. Chosing different materials, constructing engine to fit in your car with different parameters - bigger, smaller, more fuel capacity, size of cylinders, fuel type, type of material, colour of bodywork, what kind of wheel to use, how wide should they be, or even whole suspension, just everything that has anything to do with cars. There is really so much to talk about, and I'll try to get most of it.

This game is full of graphs, statistics and numbers. In these things you can see, how good is car running. How long it will take from 0-100 km/h, how loud it'll be, if it's more suitable for racing than everyday family usage, if it's brakes are weak or how much time it'll take to build the car or just engine. Everything can be changed. Some of those statistics will show you what's wrong with your car or what to improve so it can it work properly. Mostly your "playthrough" will depend on these graphs and statistics.

It might sound complex to design your car. But don't let that idea discourage you from buying this game. In reality it is very easy to learn how to make things right. This game taught me more about cars. Most of your time will be probably spent on designing engine.

Engine type can be chosed from 4: Inline, V 60°, V 90° and Boxer.
Inline 3, 4, 5, 6, V6, 8, 10, 12, 16, Boxer 4, 6.
Car bodywork from years: 1945 to 2020.

Detail in this game is mostly put into engine - of course who wouldn't like to have nice looking and sounding engine? Also visualization is beatiful as you can see everything that moves in the engine.

As I said, game is in Early Access and lack some features. Such as not big variety of fixtures, grills, and more. But this game features workshop which means that modders can make this game even better by themselves. Not enough bumpers? Just look into workshop and you'll find something!

Game at this state features only 4 modes:
1 - Tutorials
2 - Light campaign
3 - Challenges
4 - Sandbox
In the future, developers will definetly add more modes such as full campaign and MULTIPLAYER!!! In MP you might be able to build car with your up to seven friends ( if I'm not mistaken ) or compet with them. There will be a lot of things to look forward to.

Game also features Market. There you'll put your car and see in which category it belongs, how many are sold and how good it's beig sold, if it meets requirements to be able be put on road and that even in other countries.

When you are done with your car and want to try it, export it to BeamNG.drive ( this game cost 24 € = 26 $ ). There you can chose track or map where to try it on. When exporting your car all it's parameters are accurately moved with it. So with your experience you can say - okay brakes are too strong, and then you can go back to Automation and change it. Simply put - Everything is possible in this game, just use your imagination, experience, passion, love and combine it all together into your car.

Do you think your nation was pathetic in WW2 era? Why not change that and put you into charge of nation you want to lead? Awake the will of the people and unite them. Build strong industry, build an army make a lot of weaponary and conquer other nations. Fight in aggresive or defensive wars for the sake of your nation or world itself.
Will you be able to face dangers of many kinds? Such as politics, bad economy, lack of resources, weak army or your own people?

Lead your nation with iron will, passion, love and most importantly with brain ( xddd ), just don't go against Soviet Union as Tannu Tuva or Luxembourg.

Now let's get to review.

But before that. First of all I must point out that this game was made by Paradox Interactive. That means that you should expect a lot of DLCs that are expensive and take most of your money. Let's just hope price of 'em won't get to price of EU IV DLCs ( about 212 € = 236 $ ). I don't want to discourage you from buying this game. I just want you to be mentally prepared. I might write reviews on DLCs seperately, meaning that is not going to be here.

Now let's get to review. For real.

In this game you'll be "leading" a nation you chose to. But personally I don't recommend you to play smaller or unimportant nations just beacuse there's "no" FOCUS TREE - You can play them, everything is possible in this game → Read comment of Spaceracer. ( We will get to Focus trees later, don't worry ). If you want to have fun by totally demolishing other nations then you should be playing the main nations such as: Germany, Soviet Union, Japan, Italy, UK, USA or France. ( Recommended nations in base game - NO DLC ) But who am I to tell you who to play.

As you lead your nation there will be things to think of. If you want to conquer the world or save it, you must build an army. You won't be fighting war just on the Ground but also in the Air and on the Sea.

If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.
Bernard Law Montgomery

As Montgomery said you must combine all your forces together to win the war. Without Air support your units will be demolished by repeated Air raids, factories destroyed and MANPOWER will run out pretty quickly. And this also applies to Naval warfare. Without air support over your ships, they will be sunk very soon even if they have some Anti Air defence, they won't last long. So what am I saying is: BE PREPARED for everything.

As I mentioned at the beginning of the review FOCUS TREE. What is that? - you might ask. So let's sit down and let me tell you a story. ( Not really xddd ). Well every MAIN nation has it's own and original focus tree, and minor nations "share" same one focus tree that includes very basics. In that tree you are repeatidly clicking on buttons that do stuff. Exciting, right? Well it doesn't sound cool, I know, but truth is that it's so satisfying you'll be demanding more buttons . Through the focus tree you'll be choosing the path which your nation will take. Being Democratic, Communist, Fascist or Neutral. Every party has it's own pros and cons. Such as Fascist can declare war on everyone and Democratic can only on those which increased WORLD TENSION. Also expanding your Factories, Nation and increasing strength of your Nation is necessary - that can also be done in focus tree. Not enough material to produce weapons? Try TRADING with other nations.

Throughout the game, you MUST research technologies that help you to win wars and give you bonuses to production, war-machine and Doctrines. Germany is best with Mobile warfare doctrine, Soviet union Mass assault doctrine and France Grand battleplan doctrine. But choice is yours.

WORLD TENSION that is something that is increased whenever a nation declares war on an other. The higher, the shorter time it takes to do a war goal and declare war. Also some nations can change world tension through national focus tree.

MANPOWER this number determise how many people can be enlisted into your army.

So I am asking you, are you prepared and able to lead your country to the difficult times? To the times where people died in millions? Will you be strong enough to think about how many people died because of you?

If you are tired of mining ore and blocks in minecraft but still want to mine, this game is JUST FOR U!!

In this game you and your LOVELY dwarf friends ( no offense ) will be mining pretty shiny ores and defending against hordes of wierd spiders in RANDOMLY GENERATED CAVES ( if i am not mistaken, i forget things very easily xddd ) . But not just ordinary spiders - there are different types of them. From small and quick to FCKING BIG , slow and dangerous, also some of them can shot at you → good luck finding them without a light.

You can play up to 3 players ( inlcuding you 4 ) in co-op or you can play by yourself if you have no friends ( Just like me PepeHands ) . You can chose from 4 classes - Gunner, Scout, Driller and Engineer. Every class have it's own pros and cons, it's just up to you who is good for your playstyle. As you play the game you level up your class and upgrade weapons with ores you mined in the caves. Yes you heard right, you can UPGRADE WEAPONS isn't that cool?! Tell me what's more cool than playing as a dwarft on unknown planet in the caves with upgraded weapons and while mining ores, fighting hoards of wierd spiders!?!?! Answer is, NO there isn't. But let's get back to review.

But that's not all. You can chose to what Mission you want to go . As enemies have their types also a Missions have them - YAY. You can chose difficulty ( called Hazard from 1 to 5 ):
1 - Low Risk
2 - Challenging
3 - Dangerous
4 - Extreme
5 - Lethal
I think i don't need to explain them. I recommend playing on Hazard 3 ( solo mode ). But of course it's up to you. I almost forgot ( xddd ), TYPES OF MISSIONS - YEEEEEESSSS. You are not just going to mine some ore and killing enemies while mining.

Choosing from 4 types:
Killing targets
Collecting eggs ( from spider nests )
Collecting RARE ore
Salvaging "MULES" - cute "robot" that is making cute beeping sounds and following you around ( Just like R2D2 or BB8).

There is also length and complexity of the Mission. Well what can i say... I guess you know what does this mean but still, I'll explain it just beacuse I know some people who wouldn't get it :). Well Length determines how big and long cave will be. Complexity determines how twisted cave is, number of side ways, more blocked paths and well... it's easy to get lost ( I got lost for about 30 minutes - don't be like me thx).

If you have friends that own this game tell them you want to try it. Or grab this game when it's on SALE. I recommend you to play with friends, that makes it a lot more fun than just playing alone - Yeah, this isn't linear deep story game.

Good luck & have fun, my fellow Dwarfs.