Recent reviews by Mongenfish

This is not so much a game, but rather a theatrical rendition that one clicks to advance. The experience is a little like the 'ding'-and-turn-the-page type books from when I was a child. The subject matter, well it is Lovecraft, so certainly no childish matter. The artwork is masterful, the narrator effective and the immersive programming team did a smashing job. This Dagon product is true to the script, and the pausing is actually helpful to folk new to Lovecraft, as well as his style of robust English. Thank you very much, I shall share it several times with loved ones who I wish to inflict a nightmarish whisper.

Dota2 is an enjoyable puzzle of action and choices that is decidedly more fun with friends.

I realize that, other than pay to win, this is a "free" game. With that in mind, the price is right. The number of hours I allegedly played are at least 50% waiting to connect, and getting disconnected as soon as I get in. "Your authentication for instance transfer was invalid" and "An unexpected error occurred" have been my most frequent encounters. I hope the developers fix their problems, but for now, I am frustrated and disappointed by what was hoped to be a platform to play with others and share a dungeon crawl experience. Powop!

Thanks for 30 seconds of watching some guys get out of a truck and then "You're missing the action..." I don't know if the authors fixed something, but now the commands work, and I can pan to the action and the game is playable. I find the combination of action and humor fine, and I now consider Guns Up a friendly little game for a good waste of an hour.

First battle was interesting enough to try a second.
Game prompts my to buy another ship to get started, and then says I can't.
Game over.

A lot of potential, yet unrealized.

First, thanks to the support team that recently corrected the technical issue. The game now loads and plays on my machine. Glad to see the developers are paying attention. The closing poll is also a good sign that they care, and I will check back later to see if things get better.

Ship control is still really sluggish; feels like flying an anvil with a hairdryer. 1st person view / first person view is clunky. If you just want a space battle, I'd recommend play Star Conflict (which has its problems, but delivers a more satisfying battle experience).

Never got to the bigger narrative the game offers.

Mildly amusing, thouroughly disappointing.

I know you get what you pay for, and I was cautious about trying this free game. Bethesda has brought some good things, and my son and I enjoyed the Fallout franchise, and thought this worth an experiment. The concept of managing the shelter is appealing, and some of the mechanics, bells and whistles are entertaining.

Unfortunately, the game play is poor. For example, one of the basic functions is moving dwellers to different locations. Doing so should be easy with a drag and drop of the mouse. Not so! About half of the drops are ineffective, or the dweller runs off to a random location. Even when your mouse is centered in the target room and the gold corners light up to confirm you're hovering your mouse over the right area, flip a coin and maybe your dweller will go there. F.S. dwellers excel in blind stupidity either walking past foes or hyper-focusing on the number of workers allowed per area while ignoring the blaring red alert that they're under attack.

After nominal progress lead to modest satsifaction, the game fell South fast. Conflict with raiding criters could be an entertaining challenge. The result: eventually I quit after wating 12 hours I'm not getting back since the revenue generated by the survivors was not enough to revive the fallen.
I'm going to go read a book

4/5 **** Thumbs up and thanks to Pyrosaur for the recommendation. This amusingly fun-filled game harkons back to the old table top pencil and paper Dungeons and Dragons system of the 1970's. There's even a running gag between the host and his older brother. Others have fairly observed Card Hunter to be a combination of D&D and Magic (cards). I suppose you could spend as much time as you like on deck tuning, but unlike Magic, Card Hunter doesn't require that to be competitive or enjoyable. This system connects assets, like a weapon, armor, etc., to a subsetn (3 - 8 ish) of cards that become available in the respective characters deck. During play you draw and play certain cards. Random events are resolved based on the cards, many have a d6 check built in. For example, an armor card may give 2 protection if you roll 4 or more. Unlike Magic, there aren't suits or colors to worry over. Card selection is relatively simple and as a player you are free to escape your mind and enjoy. I recommend you do so!

If you like the Sid Meier's Civ franchise, getting used to a few of the changes in V might give you pause. If you played and liked Civ 3, you will have mixed feelings about Civ 5. The one unit per tile rule makes planing your battles more important. Upgrades and downloadable add-ons promote a lot of customization and feel. I've not had a good multiplayer experience but the re-playability in single player mode is excellent, and the available variety almost makes up for that. Like all of the Civ products, the developers have tried to pack a lot of detail in, which can make the game painfully slow, particularly in the last quarter or so of turns. In all, I'm very pleased and enjoy this game: 4 of 5 stars.