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This is one of those Total War games that you can skip if the setting does nothing for you. If this period is your thing, then this is totally worth the asking price. The modding community has elevated this game to a height Creative Assembly just couldn't do.

It's Overwatch 1 without the baggage of Overwatch 2.

Hades II is the long-awaited sequel to one of the best rogue-like games ever made. I bought the second one at the start of the Early Access period purely on the merits on the original, and I have not been disappointed.

Everything that made the original good is back. The combat is snappy, the weapons feel good, and the enemy variety is far greater than the original. It's a story-heavy game much like its predecessor, but the quality of the writing and the performances by the voice actor is just as good as it always was. The huge variety of modifiers makes every run feel fresh, and you can make all kinds of wacky builds to help you fight your way through the Underworld and beyond.

The only thing I don't like is the main menu music.

This DLC it launched is simply not worth the asking price. The legend system is very undercooked and has limited usability on top of the buffs disappearing too quickly to merit the time investment. Diseases can largely be ignored and feel somewhat divorced from the rest of the gameplay, and the legitimacy system does not add any significant mechanics to the game.

Best to let this one slide until a patch reworks the central mechanics introduced with this DLC, or until it goes on sale for 50% off.

Easy to understand, tense, and plain fun all balled up in a fast-paced game show format with completely destructible environments.

This game is okay.

More of a mixture between a chose your own adventure book and a simplified 2D Euro Truck Simulator, Sunliess Skies builds on the world of the Fallen London browser game by mostly being more of the same. This is not a bad thing, because the universe the game's (and its predecessor Sunless Sea) greatest strengths lie in the disgustingly weird writing, its vivid description of the setting's inhabitants breaking up the monotony of driving from place to place.

The game features combat which relies more on your kit than your skill or reflexes, so don't go in expecting a hardcore survival game. The meat and potatoes of this game is in its story and characters, and the wonderfully macabre art style with beautiful hand-drawn assets. If you like extra slow paced games and don't mind reading a lot you will have a good time with this game.

The Crusader Kings franchise is quite popular in the strategy community, and for good reason. The second game saw support for over a decade, which meant that the game has managed to develop itself into something that is wholly unique. Many grand strategy games cast you as a faceless leader of a nation, with much of the gameplay centered around expanding your borders and making sure you don't end up on the business end of a far larger empire's greed.

CK3 has all of this in spades, but what truly sets it apart from many of its contemporaries is the characters that take center stage in nearly every facet of the gameplay. No longer are you playing the concept of government. Instead, you play as the head of your bloodline, tasked with making sure your dynasty survives the middle ages. This means you'll be the head of your very own eugenics program where you carefully breed yourself (and your offspring) with other families in order to get the best traits, alliances, and prestige. The many random events, as well as a heavy focus on RPG elements that allow for some immersive emergent gameplay.

Take part in the Viking raids on England. Unify Africa. Conquer Rome. Murder the pope. Marry your pestilence-ridden daughter to your liege so he dies of some easily preventable disease so you can use the ensuing power vacuum to get yourself a few of his titles. Turn Jerusalem Norse.

This game is absolutely brilliant even at 1.0, with a host of systems to keep you entertained for longer than almost any other game, provided you can stomach the learning curve. Luckily, CK3 has a way better tutorial than CK2 ever had.

If you liked 2 or would like a strategy game that is more about people and less about borders, this is the game for you.

Death Stranding is a very weird mix of a Western art house film with an anime plot. You play Sam Porter Bridges, a Porter working for the Bridges corporation. As a porter, your job is to reconnect a post-apocalyptic American wasteland to the Chiral network, a vague mystical version of the internet. How do you do this? By delivering pizzas, magazines and a variety of materials to the people that need them.

The central gameplay loop is definied by constant scanning terrain, inventory and weight management, and watching some of the best actors play out a nonsense script. If this does not sound appealing to you then maybe this will: there is no other game out there that does what Death Stranding does. It's gameplay is unique, and the social features that place structures built by other players into your world is utterly enjoyable, especially when those structures pop up when you desperately need them.

TL;DR: this game is weird and the narrative is completely up its own ass, but it's so unique that it's worth sinking a few hours into.

This is an awesome bit of software that allows you to set videos as your wallpaper. It does exactly what you want it to do, and the workshop integration means that you have a near endless amount of moving wallpapers. I'm never going back to static wallpapers.