Recent reviews by BinarySplit

There's a plenty of good in this game, but also quite a bit of bad. Unfortunately, as a completely linear adventure game, the overall enjoyment is easily ruined by repeatedly hitting dead ends. And Corrosion certainly tries to trip you up in a variety of ways! You'll need to pixel-hunt, need to keep trying different variations on the same solution, need to keep re-checking the environment for changes, try to combine every inventory item with every other inventory item, etc. And to top it all off, when you finally feel like you're getting the hang of it, the puzzles stop and the game switches to story exposition mode, bombarding you with 10s of pages of diaries in various hard-to-read handwriting fonts.

It's frustrating because there were plenty of good parts - the storytelling was great until near the end and most of the puzzles were pretty fun - but after the leap of logic needed to solve one of the first few puzzles I just didn't have confidence this game was playing by reasonable rules and I kept the walkthrough open.

It was only 14 minutes long, but it's free so I'll cut it some slack. Great puzzle design - everything had enough difficulty to feel rewarding, but nothing was obtuse. I hope these devs make more!

Overall pretty fun, and recommended if you've already played most of the other escape room games on Steam.

It's not at the same level as the top-tier games (House of DaVinci, Eyes of Ara, etc.), but it has fun and well designed puzzles, respects your time, has a satisfying conclusion, and is well priced for its level of content.

I got to room 6 and by that point the awful FPS had given me motion sickness so I just gave up and refunded. I can comfortably play games like Cyberpunk 2077 and Death Stranding with this GPU, I don't understand why Seven Doors' bland, polygonated dirt walls brought my GPU to it's knees, but I draw the line at games that make me feel unwell.

The first two rooms show some promise, but they're over within minutes. Rooms 3-6 are either not puzzles at all or are the kind of puzzles that require more trial and error than lateral thinking.

As a fan of escape room games, I really enjoyed Escapeworld Dilemma. The puzzle design was fantastic and most of it was unlike anything I had seen in other games.

However, it needs a warning: there's no tutorial, no learning curve, etc. it just throws you immediately into hard puzzles. I needed quite a few hints (the dev actively helps on the forums) before I got into the right mindset to find the solutions myself. That said, I appreciate it - it didn't hold my hand and now I'm a better puzzle solver as a result.

Amazing old-school FPS. The level design is like Duke3D on drugs, and the gunplay feels like Rainbow Six (the original). It's so much fun, I hope there's more.

Ignore my playtime, I watched the excellent Let's Play by Sobata92 and enjoyed it so much I came here to buy the game and support the dev.

I love the Axolotls! I can't really comment on the story without spoiling the mystery and deep use of metaphors, but the character development was what had me hooked until the end. Their interactions, the way they learn and grow from each other, and learn to cope with the many many things that go wrong, was an absolute delight to read.

The depiction of health issues in the game was incredibly well done. As someone who has dealt with long-term illness, it really resonated with me and I felt like I had been seen for the first time in any video game I've played.

Overall, I loved it, but if you're like me and the idea of 9 hours of reading is too daunting, I really recommend Sobata92's Let's Play, as the voice acting makes it a lot easier to watch. Just remember to buy the game if you enjoyed it.

Compared to other AAA games, Death Stranding is a masterpiece. It's a Kojima game, so expect unbelievably high production values - hours of cutscenes, beautiful graphics, great music and ambiance. It's really well optimized for PC as well - probably the prettiest game my GTX 970 has ever been able to render at 1440p. If you still enjoy AAA games and just want something that will keep you happy for 40-60 hours, I 100% recommend Death Stranding.

However, if you're already used to games with smaller budgets, which sacrifice polish for gameplay and take bigger risks, or if you're just really picky about how you spend your money, then honestly it doesn't break free from the AAA curse - it feels like it's padded to fit the price and time expectations of an AAA game, and it often sacrifices interactivity and gameplay for being cinematic and these things are pretty annoying if you've already experienced games that aren't trying to fit the high-budget mold. There are many smaller games that could add up to being much more worthy of your time/energy/money. For less than the price of Death Stranding you could instead buy e.g. Undertale, Outer Wilds, and a Dark Souls game and you'd have an overall more fun and memorable experience.

Basically, it's worth playing if you've already played everything else. It's good, but it's not life-changingly good, and at such a high price there are quite a few smaller games that you should give priority to.

Yogurt Commercial 3 is truly a hidden gem. It's criminal that it has had so little attention. It's hilarious. I couldn't stop playing until I finished it. I recommend it even at full price.

I really like the premise. There's a lot that could be fun here. The execution of this game ruins it though.

Main problem: The game revolves around trial and error - but failure is too punishing, and retrying things is too slow. You try something, make a mistake, and it's basically unrecoverable - either you have to restart the day, or miss out on this playthrough. You'll be restarting the day often, and every time re-doing several minutes of busywork before you can make another attempt at whatever you were doing.

Second problem: a lot of stuff isn't obvious and you'll miss a lot or be unable to figure stuff out. You'll probably need to read forums/guides to actually progress. Hardly anything has any in-game hints to direct you to where to find it. I never even managed to get fishing or gardening to work, or figure out where to use half the items.

Lastly: it's full of bugs. Characters get frozen ALL THE TIME. Multiple times per playthrough. Inventory items will occasionally just disappear, characters will be stuck in "butterfly mode", or unable to talk to you. Sometimes they'll teleport on the minimap. Sometimes they'll instantly notice a dead body even though they have no line-of-sight.

Hopefully Lakeview Valley 2 is better, because this would have been really fun if the game design was more forgiving.