Recent reviews by BinarySplit

An absolute masterpiece. Similar to Anodyne, Undertale is an RPG with some puzzle and action elements, with an elaborate metagame to explore. I've played through Undertale 3 times now and every time I found enough new content to make it worthwhile each time. The characters are very well written and with every playthrough you learn new things about them.

Awesome two-player fun. If you have a couple game pads and a partner that is willing to try a co-op game with you, I highly recommend this!

Have you ever played an RTS where you get really immersed in building the perfect base, but every new level throws away your hard work and forces you to start again from scratch? Big Pharma is like a distilled version of that.

It has 35 levels, all of which start you near the bottom of the tech tree. Pretty much every level will start the same - 10-20 minutes of building low-level supply chains, trying to get a profit while you wait for research to unlock. To make matters worse, building the supply chains is actually really tedious as you have to jump through the menus to research each stage of the process before you build it. You're constantly fighting to make a profit, and many of the levels have time limits.

Don't let my high playtime fool you - I was afk for a lot of that. Big Pharma is only good for about 3 hours. After that, there's just too much tedium and not enough fun.

D4 is a very well made adventure game. I still have no idea what is going on, but the characters are great, the story is intriguing and the gameplay keeps me coming back for more. Even when not on sale at $15, it's worth the price.

I normally think saying "badly optimized" is a bit of a cop out for people who expect to be able to run Ultra settings at 144FPS, but I've got to make an exception here. My current GPU is 5x faster than the one that got me 60FPS in Rage, yet in Wolfenstein: The New Order, entering new areas will frequently cause my FPS to dip below 15, even on low graphics settings!

Besides that, the FPS gameplay is quite uninspired. Guns have awful accuracy, there are frequent cutscenes that interrupt gameplay, and levels are pretty linear.

For its price, it's an absolute bargain. Cradle has a very interesting and unique sci-fi story. The environments have an absolutely spectacular level of detail, providing you with more (optional) information about the setting than you'll be able to digest in one sitting. And while there are only a few characters, they have enough variety and character development to keep you engaged.

There are a few annoyances in Cradle that you should be aware of: The FOV is quite low and not configurable, mouse input has a weird smoothing applied to it and the first hour of the game is spent in a cramped indoor environment. If you get motion sickness easily from games, the first hour of gameplay will be pretty bad for you. Not as bad as Deus Ex: Human Revolution, but still noticeably bad. After you leave the indoor environment, it becomes a lot easier to deal with.

This game is about 4 hours long, but it has a satisfying ending and doesn't drag out any longer than it should. I'd say it's worth every penny.

I recommend you check back on this game when it's released. If you like exploration-driven adventure games, this one has potential. At the moment it feels like it's a bit low on content, but at the current rate it will likely be quite an interesting game when it's finally released.

You start off as a teenager packing their things and saying goodbye to their family house, about to leave for college. Depending on what you do and what you pack determines where your life takes you (you end up on one of several different "maps" for the second round of exploration). Where you explore and what you interact with determines how the rest of your character's life pans out.

It's less than an hour long per playthrough, but it's fun going back and trying different things to take your character through a different path in life.

In the game's current Early Access state (15 July 2015), it seems like all of the different life paths are implemented but it's still lacking enough detail to make some of the exploration parts interesting. I enjoyed my first two playthroughs of it, but there were some boring bits that I hope will be fixed.

I have trouble explaining why I like Boo Bunny Plague. The gameplay is repetitive and unsatisfying, but the cutscenes are hilarious. Normally I hate cutscenes, but in BBP they were actually worth watching.

The only explanation I can give for why it's so fun is that the pacing is great - it's an experience that hooks you from the beginning, entertains you for 3 hours then lets you go before it overstays its welcome. It's worth every cent.

Fun for the first 5 hours, but beyond that point it's mostly just a frustrating slog - build a town, figure out that you forgot to do something and it has doomed everybody, watch them all die, then start again from scratch, over and over until you learn how to keep these lemmings from killing themselves.

The most frustrating part by far is your citizens' obsession with firewood - it's so easy to run out of it, and if you do run out, it sends you into a death spiral. People start buring coal instead, which means you're no longer able to make Steel Tools, then everybody's productivity gets cut in half because there's a shortage of tools, then a bunch of people die from starvation, but because there are now so many empty houses, the survivors breed like rabbits and your city is flooded with hungry children that can't work.

The worst part is that there's no way to stop them from switching to coal. People will starve without the slightest objection even if they're currently tending an orchard full of fruit, but if they get a little cold, they'll happily destroy your entire supply chain and doom your civilization just for a few extra minutes of warmth.

It took me 30 minutes to get the game to stop crashing on startup. The tech support forum is also full of people complaining about having trouble getting it to run.

Having to deal with this sort of BS from a game of this calibre and price is unacceptable. Avoid this game if you value your time.