Recent reviews by Kalmorph

Great game, with very indepth systems! Never managed to make a big base, but I'l always coming back to it every once in a while.

UmaMusume Pretty Derby is a roguelike racing game with visual novel mechanics and very indepth gameplay loop.
In just a few words, players are Coaches (or trainers) that help Umas (horse-girls) to achieve their dreams on their racing carrers. Each run consist of you training an Uma for 3 years, with several objectives you have to accomplish during their carrer. Once finished, these Umas become Veterans where is used in other game activies such as PvP, game events, inheritance (or easier seen as "breeding"), and more.

The game also has peak character development. All characters are based in real life horses, with very well writen emotional stories, bringing much more depth to these Umas. For example, Gold Ship and Haru Urara are both horses (still alive, but retired) that has very unique personalities similar to their real life counterpart. Other more historical horses like Silence Suzuka and Rice Shower has very emotional stories that ressonate strongly in both the game and the anime. Don't matter how you look at this, there will be a Uma you will eventually like.

Downsides is probably the very high power creep and being somewhat reliant to double gacha pulls (having to pull both horses and cards). I hate double gachas, but this game is so good that I can just turning a blind eye to it.

With modded Rimworld as my usual choice to play colony sims, I wasn't expecting this game to be THIS good. Two things really took me by surprise which was graphics and some game mechanics. The game doesn't rely on events to dictate the pace of the game like Rimworld or Dwarf Fortress, surviving alone has enough amount of elements that brings difficulty and depth to keep you engaged. Personally, I also loved containers, it is fit in the perfect spot, not too simple nor too complex, and the graphical sprites that shows differently for each thing you put on them, it is top notch and often underated. Lights ingame also cast shadows on everything, be it terrain, creatures or objects, it's just gorgeous to see it!

if you're looking for a Colony Sim that's more focused on your building, planning and managing and less involved in event randomness, this game will be your next favorite!

This is the best detective game I ever played in my life.
The only bad thing of this game is that I can't play it again ):

Please like the review if you want devs to add dogs and cats! This is a must!

Very cool app, reminds me of The Clipper from back then. Always thought that the concept was neat and this one has a potential to break the barrier of "it's cute, but it bothers me while doing things". I think that's the greatest issue with apps like that is the gradual adaptation to have something chillin on your monitor, sometimes get in front of things here and there. Eventually, people just close it down cause it's "bothering" them.

This one hit me different, first I could resize the model and make it smaller, so instead this getting in my way from time to time, it just standed there and I forgot about it. I only reminded it was on with the animation transition, which is something very rough and need some work.

Now why I think they should add a Cat or a Dog (preferably free), is to increase the hit audience (not just japonese/waifu culture) and further show the app's potential! The free models are there to show people what the app does, and if they like, they can buy things out, but not everyone is an anime fan, and casual pets are the safest option to go for.

Abandonware.

No way this got to 1.0 release in this state?
Apart from the Kidnapping, there is literally nothing different from when I played 6 months ago. It's lacking A TON, not to mention the bugs.
Also, personally, the lack of actual social interactions is so frustrating; every conversation reply is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ RNG. That's beyond me.

It's a fun experience, for sure. Tried it with a friend, just two of us, and we got some funny moments recorded. No issues with hosting, easy to join and no headaches at all.
Regardless of the smart move to gift the game to everyone on 1st April, the game is a stable purchase for whoever missed the opportunity and is looking to buy, it has enough content to suffice the price.
The game can improve a lot still, it will quickly get repetitive and bore players out, like a server-list for better server browsing, different creatures, different type of maps, etc.

BattleBit is a massive multiplayer war shooting game, ranging from servers of 32x32, 64x64 and 128x128, consisting of arcade-like features from Battlefield and realistic/simulation features from Squad. The game has very friendly hardware requirements with low-poly graphics, enough for low-end PC's to handle the game just fine.

Another standing feature is mostly all buildings are destructible. You can go for C4's or rocket launchers to destroy walls and floors from a building. This can be a fun on some extend, but the game also has some exploits regarding this feature that makes it a bit annoying to deal with (eg camping high-floors in buildings and demolishing all stairs acessible to these floors, making it very hard to dispute if inside an claimable territory/point. Another issue is the amount of available ammunition for Engineers, ranging from 2 to 4 rockets per user, being 1 rocket more than enough to bring down a wall. This turns actions as getting cover on highly disputed buildings is a suicidal move.

The main arcade-like features from the game shines on being a fast-paced action with fast movements and strong ballistics, similar to Modern Warfare. In counterpart, the realistic and simulation-like of features are long reloading animations, with choices between tactical and drop reloads that varies in reload-time, tons of weapons with different aspects to it (close-range, mid-range, penetration focuses, etc), that also varies from lots of available attachments.

The community is divided in opinions regarding the mix in design choices; some people think that having both realistic and arcade features is a "best-of-two-worlds", while some think that the game lacks an identity. Although the fast-paced action is fun, the lack of strategy need makes it very chaotic, mainly when playing in servers with 256 players, that lots of them are just blindly rushing towards enemies with no plan or strategy in mind. Having these though can be effective in the short-run, but the fast respawn and features such as being able to respawn on squad-mates instead of just control points makes it very hard to make a big difference, mainly in control point disputes.

And to finish my review, I should warn the difference between official servers and community servers; both of them count towards your level and game progression that unlocking new weapons, gadgets, armor options, secondary weapons, etc. Official servers are hosted by the devs while community servers are hosted by third-parties, and supported by the devs. As downside, community servers usually have a big clan influence, where as already brought as issues before, clans can lead to mass-report users and cause them to receive temporary-bans to their account until an official moderator reviews their case. Although clans are also known to play in groups in official servers, they are far from majority in these cases.

The game is worth the price, with tons of qualities and some flaws. The game isn't perfect, but the discrepancy between qualities and flaws are big with way more qualities than issues. You will definity get hours and hours of fun for just a couple minutes of stress with some users exploits, unbalanced bazookas, high-level nerds that doesn't sleep, etc.

ECO is a great game with tons of features for a very robust player-driven multiplayer experience. Economy and diplomacy is carefully featured with freedom, yet balanced for everyone.

ECO is meant to be played with multiplayer. Even if you have a good amount of friends that can join together to play, ECO will only give you the whole experience if you and all your friends join an pre-existing server instead of creating a new one. That's because friends playing alongside each other will always circunvent the player-driven economy and diplomacy to help each other, which prevents the game from showing all the potential it has.

The game features professions that locks players to play on a specific role. Although this may sound limited, again, ECO is meant to be player with ton of other players. You're meant to produce something in mass and use it to engage with commerce and trade.

Downsides of ECO is the demanding hardware requirements, specifically on RAM. Systems with less than 8GB of RAM will have a ton of issues to play it. GPU's may not impact too much since the game can be tweaked a lot graphically.

If you ever had this feeling of playing Minecraft, but focused on building, diplomacy, economy and these sort of stuff, ECO is the dream-sort of game.