Recent reviews by Jexel

I just started playing it but I can already tell its a fun game. Everything from Roller Coaster Tycoon plus more! I love it!

Not as long as I would like, but still enjoyable although the end feels rushed. Combat is much improved over The Stick of Truth with a great variety of classes and moves. I hope the DLC adds a lot more content.

INSIDE plays like LIMBO except it takes place in a dystopian world that reminds me a lot of Half-Life 2. There are times where you feel utterly alone exploring abandoned farms, deep underwater buildings or giant walled beaches. Other times you’re sneaking past people, machines and robots with only peeks at a continuing civilization.

Buy this game if you love great atmosphere, a slowly revealed world and medium difficulty puzzles. Its definitely a premium experience clocking in at only 3-4 hours of play time but I would say it earns the asking price. Its my favorite game of 2016.

Its Terraria except you issue orders to a small group of dwarves rather than directly controlling a single character. Combat involves just marking targets and watching your dwarves do the work. You can directly control a dwarf but I only found myself doing this in specific building situations where the AI was inefficient.

Pros:
- Fun and fairly simple building sim with just the right amount of recipes and crafting materials.
- Randomly generated worlds with lots of things to discover underground.
- Great way to lose track of time.

Cons:
- Dumb AI, often getting themselves killed
- Earning all of the recipes takes longer than I would like
- The invasions (large swarms of enemies) come too often
- There are only a few options for defending your base

This game is a fun little time sink that doesn't make you think too hard.

Tower defense at its best. Being able to place your towers in such a way that it forces the baddies to take longer paths is extremely enjoyable and challenging.

Key features:

- Block baddies just as they're getting near your cores, forcing them to re-route.
- Bounce a train of baddies back and forth between two paths by repeatedly opening one and blocking the other.
- Unspent money earns interest so if you build just the towers you need, you'll have even more money later on.
- Create "kill zones" with your most powerful towers + slowing towers + bonus money towers to maximize efficiency.
- Cool story with some great DLC (The Portal cross-over DLC is top notch)
- Alternate modes/achievements will keep you playing for a long time

This isn't a game, its an interactive choose-your-own-adventure book with a fairly uninteresting story and boring scenery. The narrator often takes far too long to get his point across. I often found myself standing around waiting for him to finish babbling. The game is self-aware, which was neat for the first 10 minutes but the narrator spends the ENTIRE game on this topic. The game never moves beyond this concept and the few story elements that are present are in no way resolved.

Fun point and click adventure game with well done voice acting and music. Even for only half a game though 4 hours is too short. Hopefully part 2 is longer.