Recent reviews by Dutch

Pixelpunk XCOM-esque with resources to loot and a meta game to manage in the safe rooms. No save scumming so you gotta play smart and roll with the punches. Enemy types join the game in a random order so your next playthrough might see snipers long before shotgunners. Achievements aren't just epeen in this - they unlock actually useful abilities to spend upgrade points on. Runs great on Steam Deck. Devs care about a quality experience. Fairly priced at ~$11 this is a rock-solid purchase. I don't praise games like this unless I really feel it's worth it.

Creative, immersive, awesome soundtrack, and most importantly fun. If you're in to games like Metro, Fallout, Bioshock, or S.T.A.L.K.E.R. then you'd love this.

This is what Blood 2 should have been. The mood, the sights, the sounds, the music, it's all there. And it's made by just 1 talented developer.

One of two things is probably going to happen. You're either going to be upset that you spent $20 to give yourself a headache. Or you're going to get oddly hooked and have a great time as your Steam friends look on in wonder at wtf you are playing.

Huge guts, great game, do recommend.

I finished 100% of achievements on max difficulty in around 13 hours. So it's not that long but I'd honestly recommend it at the right price. The easiest way I can think of to explain it would be Fallout 4 with terminators but there's no settlement building, no VATS, and it's only partially-open-world. You can tell the devs are fans and they treated the IP well. There's no cash-grab DLC or puddy micro-transactions. I appreciate what they made and am glad to support them.

There's a lot to like about Far Cry: New Dawn. As you progress, you build and upgrade a settlement that provides you with various bonuses and access to better gear and vehicles. You can also go on adventures to key locations in other parts of the country to steal valuable resources from the enemy forces. Some of them are genuinely creative like the overgrown theme park in a Louisiana swamp .

But then you come upon stuff like this ( Micro-transaction currency shot. ) You can buy Far Cry credits with real money and then use them to purchase pretty much everything in the game including resources, ability points, weapons, and customization options. You can do just fine without paying real money but there's times when you can obviously see yourself being steered toward the convenience of what the micro-transactions offer. Right out the gate, you're missing abilities that lock you out from acquiring resources behind locked doors, or up on top of grapple points, or inside of safes, etc. The alternative is to either backtrack or grind out ability points before moving forward. Some of the abilities can be upgraded an infinite number of times. Guns and vehicles that can be purchased with micro-transactions are often a lot cooler than their counterparts. You can still acquire them through regular means but they cost about 33% more.

One of the other things that bugs me is the deemphasis on stealth. The enemy strongholds aren't properly designed with stealth in mind at all. Or they realized that there's not much they can sell you if you're using stealth options so instead they sort of deter it. You also have to farm the same stronghold 3 times or more to truly complete it because they award huge amounts of ethanol which is critically-required to build your base among other things. I can't help but feel like this artificially lengthens the game.


Ethanol is pretty much the only thing you can't buy with real money but it would have certainly crossed a line if you could. I just never think farming anything or grinding in a single-player game is ever a good thing. You can't however entirely avoid it in this game because the resource requirements ramp up considerably as you gain access to legendary weapons and vehicles. Beyond that, once you gain access to legendary weapons, you spend even more resources to upgrade them past their base stats.


I'd recommend waiting for a sale but it's definitely a solid purchase if you do decide to pick it up.

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