Recent reviews by patrollin with tolin

Very much recommend -- I think this would be enjoyable for anybody but if you're a fan of RTS/Strategy games this is absolutely a must-buy. I've only got in 16 hours as of the time of this review but I'm still unlocking new content and discovering new things and I feel like I've only scratched the surface so far.

I've been a longtime lover of city builders but tend to go towards one with low stakes. Your more chill, laid-back games, even choosing sandboxes if available. Against the Storm is not laid back or chill, and even lacking combat it has managed to be tense and, at times, challenging.

The roguelike format pairs unexpectedly well with city builder mechanics -- in a vacuum I probably would've thought that Deckbuilding roguelite citybuilder is another lame trend chasing game, but ATS really delivers a unique experience that is unlike any other games I've played in the genre.

The fact that you don't stick with a single settlement for a long period of time gives you tons of opportunities to experiment, to try different strategies and lets you regularly try new biomes.

The overall aesthetic of the game is amazing as well -- to obnoxiously flex my vocabulary, I am absolutely a pluviophile. Adore it whenever it rains, sleep with rain sound at night, take showers with rain sound playing on bluetooth speakers which is just downright redundant! The rain theme is really neat and unlike anything I've seen personally, and it has a number of impacts on gameplay, from being able to use collected rain to power machines to affecting the resolve of your settlers and more. The lore seems really interesting, despite knowing very little of it.

This game deserves to win awards, and I hope to see that it does! It looks like they're still planning on adding content to the game too, and maybe we'll get lucky and get expansions or DLC to expand this game even more.

Play this damn game already, you won't regret it!

As of the time of writing, I'm only 5-something hours in and even after some progression, I can see there is a lot I haven't unlocked or played with yet. I have no qualms about saying that this is a Good Game, without a shadow of a doubt. This game is also a great fit for the steam deck!

The closest comparison is, of course, vampire survivors, but I find it to be a lot more engaging than VS, personally -- I had trouble getting into vampire survivors even after watching my husband 100% that game. The fact that you have spell scrolls and various other ways to directly interact that aren't present in VS makes it more immediately engaging, and the feel of progress after each run is perfectly fine-tuned to keep me coming back for more.

This game is also in EA, so who knows what else they plan on adding in, it feels very much complete as is, and I've certainly seen people call much less "complete".

For this kind of price point, it's a damn no-brainer if you've enjoyed anything similar. It's good.

When I first started this game felt very janky and unintuitive (and it still kind of is) the controls click after a while and it stops feeling like random flailing and you start actually doing what you mean to do, including parrying, ripostes, clever feints and fakeouts and dodging attacks. I'm enjoying using a halberd, but it's still awfully difficult to handle shield users. Something like a kick would be nice for dealing with jerks that get up close and personal.

If you like melee combat games you'll probably be into this

I first got this when I very first got VR a couple years ago, and the sandbox is fun for tinkering around in a little bit (especially with mods) but since they've added the dungeon mode I've been hooked, something really fun about exploring the dungeon even after you're familiar with all of the parts. Went from feeling like a tech demo toy that's fun for 20 minute bursts to feeling like a proper game, and there's still a lot this team wants to add. Really looking forward to it.

This game has its flaws but it is still a stellar CRPG that got me really interested in the pathfinder universe, moreso than kingmaker did (which I'm totally going to replay now). Not that long ago the days of BG/IWD would've been seen as the golden age of CRPGs but I think we're entering that golden age now with all of these smaller studios releasing games like divinity, pillars of eternity, these pathfinder games and even the re-emergence of BG3.

It has a few bugs that show up after act 1 but I haven't run into anything terribly game breaking, the worst being sosiel deciding to paint in combat and turn-based occasionally breaking and requiring a reload. Annoying, but nothing that detracted from the overall experience. Stuff that will likely be fixed in upcoming patches.

The story seems like its got its share of replayability, as I'm definitely interested in trying out other mythic paths and seeing how the story turns out, as well as grabbing a few of the companions I didn't get on my first (walkthrough-free) playthrough.

Act 3 in the midnight isles is very neat, and the way they express the sort of multidimensional way the city folds in on itself is a very cool, if occasionally irksome mechanic to actually deal with. So far I feel like they could've done more with act 3 than they did, maybe involving your crusader army, but the switch from commander of a huge military force to a small party navigating around a hellish city is still a fun change.

I'm definitely crossing my fingers for more pathfinder from owlcat, because I have thoroughly enjoyed everything they've done with it so far.

Only just started android saga but quite fun. one of those games that can be fairly repetitive but is still enjoyable due to solid gameplay mechanics. (but the next time a side quests wants me to grab 10 apples I am going to actually scream) Fairly good retelling of the story but it glosses over enough that if you haven't watched/read it before it probably won't grab you, definitely meant for people who have already seen it

This isn't normally my type of game, or so I thought. Witch it is incredibly underappreciated, this is the first game to make me scream irl for at least 10 years - it can be tense and even frustrating but I keep coming back. I wouldn't have expected a game about hide and seek to be this GOOD. It has cosmetics/RNG crafting but it seems like the only MTX is for seasonal stuff and not crafting materials, and the seasonal stuff can be specifically crafted anyway, so it isn't trying to manipulate more money out of you with gambling mechanics.

This game has a decent population but it's an actual shame this game doesn't have a ton more players. Please get it, even if you're not sure - it's insanely entertaining especially if you play with friends

This game is not perfect by any means - it has its share of (relatively minor) bugs and annoyances, the occasional unbalanced fight, but I feel pretty remorseful for avoiding it as long as I did due to the mixed reviews. It's a great CRPG with interesting writing and lots of game to play (i'm MAYBE half way thru after 40 hours, which is a breath of fresh air as more and more non-procedurally-generated or non-sandbox games get shorter and shorter storylines - i'm looking at you, fallen order) and one of the pitifully small number of video games set in the pathfinder universe. If you like games like baldur's gate or icewind dale, there are no gripes that should be big enough to keep you from liking this one, too. It feels like a lot of love for the setting and the genre was put into this game and the great parts massively outweigh its shortcomings, at least in my eyes

As a disclaimer I'm not a star wars fan so this is coming from the perspective of somebody who just likes action/adventure games - this game is fun, the visuals are decent (the characters are especially good tho), the combat and gameplay is dark souls-like albeit way more forgiving but this suffers from the "being too short" problem, I got a total of 15 hours out of it including piddling around collecting parts, hanging out in menus while doing other stuff and sittin thru the long cutscenes. If you cut all of that out, you got maybe 10-12 hours of actual gameplay, maybe a couple more if you go out of your way to collect every chest and secret. It's not even that I'm aching for more storylines involving richboy, mad TV lady, the witch and the goblin but I feel shafted getting thrown back to the menu after completing the storyline this quickly. It doesn't need to be some massive sprawling open world game with 10,000 unimportant side quests, but it has a serious lack of meat to it if I can run thru it so quickly.

tl;dr I recommend this game if you like the genre but wait a couple years for it to get down to about $15 because it's way too short. i bet a shiny penny they'll release a sequel, though!

Right now it says that I have about 100 hours - I would estimate it's closer to 40-50 because the launcher likes to stay open in the background. But there are plenty of games where 40-50 hours would have you at the finish line (or NG+), but in E:D I'm still a beginner for sure - and that's fantastic. I've never been into the "flight simulator"-type games, a genre which I feel elite would loosely apply, but even economic point A to point B missions and the basic level of combat competency I've acquired have managed to get me invested enough to buy a joystick+throttle. You oughta give this game a shot, it's well worth it