Recent reviews by » eNj

Great multiplayer FPS.
After a couple of Quick Play rounds player could think that this is just a chaotic game, but hop
into Ranked Tournament. It's a completely different game where you have to play carefully and co-op with your team.

So far I enjoy the game very much, it is packed with content already in the base, what was in CS1 of paid DLC (trams, parks, etc.)

Do not be fooled by the images. If you do not have a NASA computer, so you will have to slightly lower the quality, but the developer is working on optimization.

For me, recommendations.

It's a great mix of Anno and Transport Tycoon. You have to supply your city(ies) that you build with goods and industries with workers from those cities. It feels like a game about optimization. Graphics are sweet, music gets annoying soon, but I do enjoy the gameplay a lot!

I need to give this game more time to reach end-game content, but right now I'm pretty satisfied.

Just don't expect a classic Transport Tycoon game, this game is more of a puzzle and “big factory” optimization game. And with new industries and resources get unlocked, your network can become a big mess, so be prepared for it and optimize and optimize! 😉

It's not an easy recommendation.

The game is excellently made, polished, the controls are perfect, looks and sounds good, with a bit of humour, etc. Technically, a perfect job done on the day of release.

But I have a bit of a problem with gameplay. Throughout the game you unlock the characters as you see fit, as well as visiting the islands with missions in any order. That sounds like a great idea, but unfortunately it brings a fundamental problem - all the missions are done in a sort of "more versatile" way so that they can be accomplished with any squad you choose. So after a few missions, you actually feel like you're doing the same thing, in similar locations and there's a story going on in the background.

Age of Wonders 4 is a revelation these days, especially with Paradox as the publisher.

And why? Because we were delivered a complete game loaded with content. No part screams at the player, "Wait, this part is not finished yet, but you'll buy it as DLC later, don't worry."

And the release was (almost) without problems - someone had problems with the game crashing, but I didn't have any. And the developer released a hotfix quite quickly.

Race customization, magic mixing, absolutely awesome. You can create a standard race of raiding orcs or high elves, or you can go completely crazy and conquer the world with hobbits riding spiders who control hordes of undead. The combination is endless.
The games have a brisk pace, no boredom in the mid-game, no clicking away and waiting for something to build.

It reminds me an awful lot of good old Heroes 3. Plus city expansion.
The game looks fantastic, plays itself, a complete and unmatched fantasy 4X bomb.

I can't recommend enough!

I just can't recommend Victoria 3.

I haven't played Victoria 2, so no one can say I'm biased and compare these two games.

The developers promised an economic-political simulation. Yes, it simulates something, but the player doesn't have that much control over it. The game is terribly lacking in clarity.

You're building production buildings, factories and farms like crazy, but I'd like to see how many of my production buildings want resources. I'd like to see them on a map. To be able to see whole production chains with demand/supply. Nothing like that, you've got a list of commodities on the market and two arbitrary numbers - sell and buy orders on the market. Even Europa Universalis 2 (!!!) had a more interesting trading mechanic.
The same with population, its unemployment, etc.You won't find any of it simply together. Everything is hidden behind various menus and several clicks, if at all.

The same politics. Elections or no elections, parties in government or in opposition, you can push through almost any law. They'll debate it for years, they'll pop up events, but eventually you push it through. Even in a democracy, where you have a higher percentage of the opposition (this in itself is strange) and where the opposition is against such a law.

And war, that's also a theme. Assigning troops to the front lines is fine, but you have absolutely no idea why there's a battle on a given front that only one of your generals is involved in, while the other two are still stinking at the front doing nothing.

Victoria 3 is such a dreadfully boring game. The information given by the game is completely useless, and what you really need to find out is nowhere to be found. And if so, in five clicks.

It makes me feel like the developers were trying to make a complex simulation so simple that it could be played on consoles. If they were trying to make it accessible to the masses, they really didn't succeed.

I enjoyed getting to know the various mechanics in the EU and CK games (yes, I like CK3 too), getting into the game. And that's why I knew it would take longer for a person to get into Victoria 3 when they didn't even have experience with the previous one. But the game throws meaningless sticks under the feet of a bunch of arbitrary terms and numbers that are hard to put into context.

Last FIFA I played was FIFA 2002. Since that time I tried a couple of PES season and they was OK.
9,59 €? Well, why not...
Ball feels really nice, it's not completely glued to player's foot. Also, shooting feels real.
But I rather play with teams that are not top. Everyone plays PSG with Mbapé. All star players are way too OP with unrealistic moves... well, the moves are ok, but it shouldn't be possible to do them all the match in all the situations, even under a huge pressure. I get it... when you buy them or find them in a loot deck, you need to "have an advantage". But that's stupid.
Other than that great game for your rage :D
And EA, fix friendly matches with your friends!

I can definitely recommend WARNO. Great graphics, 80's soundtrack, the game runs smooth.
If you are familiar with previous Wargames and/or Steel Division, you will feel like home.

But be aware! It's in Early Access, so there's not that much content, but Eugen (developer) releases updates pretty offten, so I'm betting that WARNO will dethrone Wargame: Red Dragon soon.

Also, they need to work on a balancing a little more. There is an obvious clash between realism and arcade. It's still a game, it's RTS, and Redfor (Warsaw Pact) units are a bit weaker in almost all the stats. So, you have to be more cunning to win with your Redfor deck ;)

Ignore my play time, I have a lot of hours outside Steam.
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The game is absolutely worth the price.
Each nation has its differences which are not just cosmetic, but their play style differs a lot. But at the end it always depends on you and your heir, how you "groom" him/her.
Game combines great things of older Civilization games (especially Civ 4) and event system with characters with their stats like in Crusader Kings.
Relatively robust event system, all the relations with your family, other noble families, heads of religions, governors, spies, ambassadors, other nations and tribes, great combat system and empire management cause that in Old World there are almost never "empty turns" where you just wait for something to be finished like in other similar games. On the contrary the most precious resource are "Orders" (which allows you to do all the stuff from moving and building with your worker to promoting your archers) and you will find out that you could do more in every single turn, but you are out of Orders. It brings planning to another level, especially in wars, where you need to divide your orders to empire management and waging the war.

Great tycoon sandbox.
If you loved Transport Tycoon (Deluxe) you will love this game. Not finished yet, but already full of content.
I hope that AI oponents are planned. Multiplayer is great, but you can't rely on your friends and synchronize the time with them :D