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One of the main reasons for this is the meticulously crafted open world that features the right balance of dense city spaces, wide open roads, and dirt roads along with verticality in the form of canyon trails and jumps. The map is a perfect playground for the game's different event classes, such as racing, off-roading, drifting, drag, as well as cop chases. The events are well-routed and diverse, but can feel overly scripted at times, especially the cop chases which are sprints along predetermined routes.

Racing gives you an adrenaline rush and offers a great sense of speed. The vehicle roster, performance upgrade system, and visual customisation are mediocre, but the cars look and sound good. Handling is satisfying and accessible, and varies by vehicle class.

The story is bearable for a Need For Speed game and winning events does give you a feeling of accomplishment. The plot is not grounded in reality, but that's alright for an arcade racing game that was inspired by the Fast & Furious movies. Progression is formulaic and straightforward. The dialogue, however, is more often than not, very cringe worthy — unsurprising for a Need For Speed game.

If you enjoy arcade racing, then Need for Speed Payback is worth checking out.

No matter how fast I drive, I can't outrun my crippling depression

Little Nightmares presents itself in the form of a 2.5D platformer with distinct elements of stealth, survival and uncertainty.

With little need for dialogue, Little Nightmares successfully tells a horrific story worthy of empathy and acclamation. The ghoulish lore sets the tone for top-notch gameplay right from the opening moments through the DLC expansions, which tell an interleaving tale of their own.

The eerie art style and sound have been masterfully crafted to seamlessly immerse the player inside The Maw – an underwater vessel inhabited by corrupted souls looking for their next meal. The environments instil the fear factor organically.

The gameplay is comparable to that of INSIDE, but with relatively simpler environmental puzzles and refreshing mechanics. The game is rather short and plays optimally with a controller.

Overall, Little Nightmares is definitely worthy of recommendation. I would suggest getting the Complete Edition that comprises the game and the Secrets of The Maw Expansion Pass which would get you the story DLC and would support the brilliant minds over at Tarsier Studios.
As a whole, Little Nightmares is up there sharing the throne with INSIDE, and is a genre-defining experience in itself.

Psebay is an absolutely gorgeous take on the moto trial genre with vibrant levels that are fast and frustrating fun.

PROS:

Runs great: Psebay is a smartphone game that's well ported to PC with a neat and clean UI with controller support.

Graphics: The game's art style is visually pleasing with its atmospheric ambience, right from the swaying grass to that pretty depth of field.

Good physics: The game's mechanics are great. The Gravity Shift element is what sets this game apart.

Design: The levels are well planned with emphasis on timing your movement and shifting your weight rather than simply driving fast. Patience is key in the later, more complex levels.

Steam Workshop support: Play levels created by other players and share your own.

CONS:

Nothing really. Maybe, the name?

(I've experienced a bug that sometimes disables leaning with the controller. It resumes working with a quick restart)

VERDICT:

Psebay is one of those hidden indie gems on Steam that no one has or will ever hear of.
The game is fun for casual play, and for its price, Psebay seems to be worth checking out!

After being an Early Access game for over 4 years, Rust has finally got its first stable release.
However, instead of optimising the videogame to work on cheaper and more hardware, or even the damn developer-prescribed hardware, the geniuses behind the videogame have decided to change the system requirements altogether.
They want you to have an "AMD FX-9590 or better" CPU to run Rust. Hold on, let me give you some perspective–
Far Cry 5 (2018) needs an FX-6300, Assassin's Creed Origins (2017) needs an FX-6350 and Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2017) needs an FX-6350. Things look better in the GPU department, though. Yeah, I get it, it's a CPU-intensive game, but really? You need an i7-4690K to run this game without dropping frames at all?
I should also point out that the game takes FOREVER to load.


Rust is a game about survival and crafting. You must hunt, eat and build a shelter, while working with the community or against it. That's all. And that's more than enough for a lot of people and that's cool.
But finding co-operative players to build and survive with is getting harder and harder. Finding friends in Rust is a matter of luck. If you do, you'll probably have a good time, but if not, chances are you won't get anywhere in this game without being aimlessly killed by some random dude. Rust servers aren't exactly the best servers in the world either.
The community may be toxic for the most part, but I don't want to hold the videogame and its developers accountable for it.
Is Rust a risk you're willing to take?

I bought Superflight to play it in-between other games.

Now I play other games in-between Superflight.

Reasons not to buy this game:

• Poor optimisation: On low settings, this game gave me 25 fps, while AAA titles from 2014 give me 60 on ultra
  
• No dedicated servers: Clicking Play gives you two options: Join or Host a game. So you can join a game hosted by a Russian's Potato PC, or you can become that Russian with your Potato PC. I get that the game's cheap and it's a "prelude" so they couldn't have official servers.
  
• Quality gameplay IGN 11/10: All you have to do is run around a map that looks that it was designed in 2005 with the help of your clunky controls and spam Mouse 1 on some moving dinosaurs which always happen to be on the other side of the ****ing map.
  
• Visuals: You can't expect much for the price, but the graphics are pretty basic and hardly keep with the screenshots in the Steam Store.
  
• Developer(s): I can't say much about this, but the dev was called out for "mistreating" the employees and copying game design from other sources, but that's nunna my biness.

Well, at this point, you're better off looking someplace else, like maybe Primal Carnage or something. How does this game have so many downloads lol

Not worth it.