Recent reviews by Gavin

For me, it's a far inferior version of Rusty's Retirement.

The song on deck is pretty cool in a sort of "binaural beats for zoomer vibes giving main character energy" way but there's not much else going on here. Avant Garde indeed.

Kind of stupid fun but it still has game breaking bugs in it (returns counter soft-locks) so can't really recommend.

Look, I love Crate, I will give them all the money I have to get more Grim Dawn and not begrudge it but all these colony games are just so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ slow and boring. Endless hours on 3x speed to get out of the first tech tier, pointless random event setbacks you can't really control (villager got bit by a wolf and has rabies, wait until a baby grows up or for an immigration event to replace them), a tech tree that just sort of ticks up automatically with time. You need more logs to turn into planks. Wait for that.

I put like ~20 hours into Foundation which is markedly better, even with scads of issues. I think that's just me done with these small scale colony builders. There's just not enough going on.

God he's just so good, folks.

It's got that sort of endearing stupid Vampire Survivors ethos but it's much more strategic and satisfying now that it's a sort-of dungeon crawler roguelike that you can break and get OP relatively easily. Just incredible Steam Deck Gameing.

remember the day when the president of america tweeted out a threat of genocide at a country with whom he started a war by bombing a school for girls, twice? And I saw that on the website owned by the "alleged" drug addict and (like the president) fellow paedophile. Anyway, I logged off and spent some time colouring in picross grids to buy furniture for a little cartoon rat. Would recommend! Beats knowing what's going on at this terminally stupid time.

I dunno, it's a big budget high effort interactive Where's Waldo, which is both it's strength and weakness. You could do worse!

It's not BAD bad but it's not as good as Planet Coaster. The camera is very shonky and there's this annoying fixation on hiding your employees from the guests. Then, as with all of this stuff, the gameplay becomes "whack it to 3x speed and watch tinktonks while the game autoplays until you win."

I've never really been able to get into beat em ups where your defensive options are just a combo of stunlocking, aoe (to stunlock more enemies) or figuring out what attack/move has which i-frame length. The second boss in particular confirmed that this is very much one of those beat em ups.

What if Pokemon was a third person PvE hero shooter? It'd be pretty good, apparently. Game needs a few months of extra polish (lack of voice acting, sound and music level balancing, hit boxes and detection, some UI stuff like having to click one machine to change your pokemon and then another machine to evolve it) but feels like there's a very solid core here!