Recent reviews by arrowmaker

Inventive hex puzzler, still coming up with new ideas

Daily word puzzles that don't become a chore.

Best yet in the series, am already eagerly awaiting another. Can be polished off in one evening, which is good because it's difficult to stop once you've started.

Despite some inconsistent design ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, this is worth playing if you like this sort of thing.

The development rate you can manage during a career season catches you up to the front way too fast, and it's really difficult to have an online race without at least one homicidal idiot, but the satisfaction of nailing a lap in the difficult-to-drive and stupid-fast cars is hard to beat.

I finished this game two weeks ago and have been trying to decide since whether I could recommend it or not.
It's good looking, it plays well, there are no annoying bugs or ridiculously imbalanced sections, the pacing is sublime, and the story is excellent.
In fact, the story is told so effectively that it almost made me not want to play it. There are times when it is genuinely unpleasant - but then, that's kind of the point. This isn't an easy subject matter to tackle, and it's only right it should be a struggle.
Ultimately, something that's clearly been made with this much love and good intention, and is very much a work of art, just has to be worth playing. I hope this game inspires other developers to similar levels of bravery and skill.

Excellent, inventive short stories. They can be played one at a time but they're best played in one sitting, like binging a boxset. More of this sort of thing please!

A strange beast. Not much action, but not a full-on "walking simulator" as it MINOR SPOILER forces you into combat a couple of times. The mechanics and some of the objectives are not particularly well explained. The achievements are random and virtually impossible to find without a guide. I'm not sorry I played it, and the atmosphere will stick in the memory, but I can't really recommend it.

The writing in this in not just great by game standards, but great by the standards of any other art form you wish to place it against. Stories like this, told this well, are rare indeed. This is a game that deserves to transcend it's genre, it's that good. Cannot recommend it highly enough.

It's amazing. I don't know how else to sell a game that it's best not to anything about before you start. It's a bargain even at full price.