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Horribly unbalanced, janky graphics, bland levels, performance issues, grind heavy unlocks, no controller support in menus, and character designs from the Cartoon Network 2009 CGI series "The Garfield Show" not the classic 80's Garfield designs. 
You're better off buying the 2019 remake, Garfield Kart: Furious Racing, which is essentially the same game, but good. Only buy this if you want to see the original game's differences for yourself or if you like bad meme games. You can pick it up on sale for less than a dollar.

Somehow I stumbled upon this game one day on Steam and decided to check it out. I was immediately intrigued seeing as it was heavily inspired by the classic Army Men games developed by 3DO, which were huge games of my childhood. Since 3DO went bankrupt a long time ago it has left a large void in me longing for more plastic army men games and I’ve gotta say this game does a dang good job filling that void. From what I know Attack on Toys is developed by a single person that started as a school project in 2018 with years of work turning it into an Early Access Indie game.

Gameplay
Gameplay-wise its a mix of Sarge’s Heroes and Army Men RTS. This is actually a dream game genre of mine, a mix of shooter AND strategy. Commanding units and building bases in an RTS style while also getting into the midst of the action yourself and leading the charge. The shooter aspect is relatively simple as you take direct control your own plastic soldier. Through playing you can earn Plastic as a reward used to customize weapon loadouts, abilities, hats, and you can even create your own squad of NPCs to take into battle. You can unlock new units as squad members through Medals. Medals are hidden in maps as collectibles and others are earned through completing map objectives. Then there is the whole RTS system of the game where you can build your own bases, create units varying from soldiers, stationary installments such as turrets and mortars, vehicles, tanks, helicopters, and even airplanes. Best part is you can manually enter and take control of ALL the vehicles and base installments. Making units and buildings all require one resource, Plastic. You can get plastic through plastic factories or off dead units. In-game plastic is different from “reward plastic” which is granted at the end of a battle and used to upgrade your character. The game is predominately 3rd person, but there is a 1st person aiming mode. You can access a map screen at any time during a battle to view the battlefield and issue commands to your units. Not a lot to tweak when it comes to graphics, but the game does run on Unity engine and gotta say it looks pretty darn nice at times and majority of the time it runs very smoothly (sometimes gets slow when you got a lot of units and chaotic stuff happening, but not often.)

Game Modes
There are a few game modes to choose from when playing. Before you begin there is a simple Training Boot Camp to get you setup and familiar with how the game works.

First mode is Skirmish; your standard battle royale. Number of players is dependent on the maps such as a 1 vs 1 and a couple of 4 person free-for-alls. Simple goal, destroy the enemy’s HQ to win.

Second mode is Invasion (one of my favorites); the typical horde/ survival mode. You build a base, setup defenses, see how many waves you can survive against the enemy army. An alternate version is Terror Invasion where you fight zombies and bugs instead of the standard plastic armies.

Third game mode is Conquest! All plastic colored nations duke it out in an 8 person battle royale. The more territory you control, more kills you get, more plastic you get, all helps in earning points. I believe first to a certain amount of points wins. Only two maps, but one in particular is huge, basically an entire house to explore. Fun game mode, but can be very long. Also worth noting, you can save during any game mode and return to it later, but reloading saves won’t grant Reward Plastic for buying upgrades for your profile (a little unfair for the longer gamemodes, but I assume its in place to not exploit reward plastic.)

Map Editor/ Toy-Box Mode
Another thing this game features is a built in map editor aptly called “Toy-Box” mode! The map editor lets you create your own custom maps and the possibilities feel limitless. You can create full custom rooms, outdoor spaces, anything really with hundreds of items that you can place to create fully unique experiences for your map. Kitchens, bathrooms, bedrooms, living rooms, yards, diorama setups, you name it you can make it. You can design around any game mode you want, Skirmish, Invasion, or even Conquest. There’s so much you can do with this editor. And if you aren’t the creating type you can easily download people’s creations on the Steam Workshop or Mod DB page to play in your own game.

Multiplayer
Multiplayer, which is by far my favorite thing to do in this game, but sadly it needs some work. Multiplayer mode has its own supported game modes like co-op Invasion/ Terror Invasion, PVP Skirmish, and even a co-op Boot Camp. The creator did note that Multiplayer is something they’re not currently working on. While the current state is playable, it is LAN only. Online play is not supported and can only be done with 3rd party tools like Hamachi. Personally I have only played LAN, so I cannot vouch for Hamachi, I only theorize it could potentially work. In my experiences when playing Invasion Multiplayer sometimes battles can get pretty hectic with a lot of units on screen and that can cause network lag and disconnects to the guests. Host is typically fine, so the guest can just rejoin. Only when rejoining the guests play data for that session is reset, so you lose all current resources. Not a huge deal, but can be a drag to lose a lot of plastic I’ve been saving up through waves. I find it better to keep my resources spent rather than horde it in case of disconnects. Another interesting thing I’ve discovered, while not officially supported, every game mode you play solo is technically a LAN game. I found out when I saw my brother’s Conquest game show up when I searched LAN games. You can join a friend on Conquest mode or any single-player game mode, but be aware of glitches when doing so and only the host will get rewards and the guest will get nothing. Probably since those are made as single-player game modes. Also ToyBox maps do not work in Multiplayer either, I tried, but the custom map data won’t load for the guest regardless if they have the same map downloaded.

Final Thoughts
While it does have some “early access” quirkiness to it here and there and I will say it has some balancing issues for gameplay (Skirmish matches can go on forever), its definitely worth checking out if you were ever a fan of 3DO's Army Men games. From playing the game I can easily tell a lot of work and love was put into this game. As a big Army Men fan myself I can safely say this game checks so many boxes on my list of things I liked about the 3DO games. It’s one of those situations where you can tell it’s a game “made BY fans, FOR fans” and I love that!

Out of everything this game offers, my favorite by far is playing Invasion over LAN with my brother. There’s a lot of fun to be had building bases and fortifying defenses against wave after wave of enemies.

Fun quirky puzzle game about demon girls. 😘😈
+ PLUS It's FREE! (for the CheapyD's out there.)
You can even skip the puzzles if you just want to see the story.
Great if your brain is too shriveled up from disuse to play a puzzle game.

Classic masterpiece of a game. Played many hours of this game back on the original Xbox in my childhood. Highly recommend it for anyone interested in RPG/ Action games. It also has a unique sense of lovely British humor.

I actually counted down the days on my calendar for this game's launch and I even skipped-school the day after it's release just to play this game. My friends would ask me the following day, "Why weren't you at school yesterday?" I replied saying, "Fallout: New Vegas came out, why were you at school?"

Fallout 4 is fun, but it pales in comparison to this phenomenal masterpiece of a game.

Masterful remaster of a N64 classic!

Mostly all improvements to the gameplay, controls, and hardware from the original N64 version. Also it looks visually fanastic on PC in comparison to the N64.

Only dislike I really had that there were minor changes to some of the levels due to balancing issues. That's only a small gripe I had and as it turns out you can download the original N64 levels on the game's Workshop. For people like myself who would hide in the wall during the T-Rex battle.

I love all The Sims games, but Sims 3 always stands out to me as my personal favorite. I've spent countless hours in this game before I even had it on Steam to keep track of play time (I can't really begin to fathom the hours spent in it outside of Steam.) I never cared for the plain boring sims EA gives in the base game. I got my fun from creating all my favorite characters from video games, anime, movies, tv shows, etc, and watching them all live in the same town like some sorta huge messed up fanfiction. If things ever got stale, I would just change up my current household, make new sims, or even change neighborhoods for a new start. With all DLC (not gonna talk about the prices) it adds a lot of new features to explore in your Sims game from seasons to pets and supernaturals and even time travel! Also this game being open-world compared to TS2 and TS4 really make it unique to the other Sims games. Though being open-world created a lot of routing issues and lag, the trade-off is worth it in my opinion. It really made the whole world feel alive when the sims in your game are always constantly doing something.

Only con I can say about the game is to be wary if playing it on a stronger PC without using an FPS limiter because the game will burn up your GPU (and possibly destroy it altogether) due to outdated optimization for newer GPUs.