Recent reviews by Gordon✪Gekko

Astroneer "Happy Pride LBTQ Rainbow Event"



This DEI rainbow stuff has not the slightest to do with a science-fiction builder game.

UPDATE:
I AM CURRENTLY DETERMINED TO FIND OUT HOW THE GAME WORKS. I UPDATE MY REVIEW LATER.


UNFINISHED ABANDONWARE - DON'T BUY

2020: people said, it has no tutorial because the game is still in development.
Now 2024: And the game still has NO TUTORIAL and NO HINTS of what you can do or how you do wathever you can do ...

You begin the game and you have absolutely no idea what to do. All you have is the vague promise of the sell page video that somehow you should be able to build factories.


Google results:

discussion from 2020 says: Game is abandonware from the start
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1112790/discussions/0/2266943550299486737/

discusion from 2021 says: It's abandonware
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1112790/discussions/0/3199243752760587654/

(Review text hidden)

Horrible!

I press all buttons on my keyboard, I click with my mouse everywhere on the screen: nothing happens. Only ESC works, it stops the game.

I know what this AlgoBot has to do, he must press a button. But he simply doesn't do it. You can press keys, drag and drop, click, double-click, scream, bang your head in the wall ... AlgoBot isn't impressed and does not press that button.

The game has no tutorial, it explains nothing except "algobot must press that key". But AlgoBot obvioulsy doesnt want. Restarting the game, because maybe there was a missed hint, not possible.

My best guess: I need a controller to play that game. Or a VR-set? Mouse and keyboard is obviously not working.

Devs and studio clearly fail in explaining anything!


Steam: "Do you recommend this game?" - Me: "Stay away from this scam and save your money and nervs. F*ck this!".

The game might be good, but the forum is very toxic, trolls dwelling there and every question I asked got a few toxic answers. I'm not going back.

The steering is total sh*t. They clearly made this game for consoles, NOT for PC.

It's a pity because otherwise the game would be really cool from setting and story. But it's unplayable ...

To move I must hold middle mouse button or press a key permanently in addition to WASD, hand gets cramped, and the view is rotating strange and weird.

Hands down, was the last time I bought a game with "full controller support". I should have understood that as a warning that this game is NOT made for keyboard and mouse.

AbandonWare.

It's a ported game from smartphones and it's NOT WORKING with Windows 11

Resolution can't be adjusted and the game crashs every two minutes (!)

Steam does NOT refund.

Indulge in that: Steam is selling AbandonWare which isn't working with Windows 11 and not refunding (!)

It's a obtrusive hustler game with a constant harrassment asking for money. After you clicked again and again and again that you don't want to "accelerate points" it just asks you again and again and again and again ...

Ceasless blinking yellow arrow. Many meaningless cutscenes. Never stopping to ask for money.

People wrote the game used to be different.
Now Computer Lunch (Studio and Publisher) stand for crooked, intrusive crap!

Don't buy.

AI: Red and all the Achievment Clicker and Printer were a lot faster and less problematic.

AI: Black makes Steam unresponsible. It is not only very slow it is also faulty, it stops or steam.exe crashes and the counter starts at every restart anew. It's the only achievement game that doesn't work. Now I reinstalled it and try anew. Till I reach the last achieved position of achievments hours will pass ...

Every of the above mentioned achievement games works much better.


Edit: After reinstallation Steams gets again very slow and sometimes unresponsive. Normally this starts to happen when the achievements stream in. But in this case the achievements are hours away till I reach my last position and already Steam gets unresponsive.

I don't like to write bad revies but a review should be honest and help others to make a choice:

TL;DR:

• The start of Starfield did EVERYTHING wrong.
  
• The underwhelming graphics were disapointing.
  
• A fat warning from Steam would have been nice: Ported from Xbox to PC (!)

First impressions first: The visual settings are insufficiently explained, it is not clear what to choose. Then the visuals: One look at the first blurry character and I knew that it's made for consoles and ported to PC. I was very disappointed.

Then the gameplay when you start: No tutorial at all and you are forced to choose some skills and therefore forfeit a multitude of them before the game even really starts, before you have the slightest idea what you will do in the game, what will be useful and what will be obsolete. But right at the game start you have to make these decisions which will influence the next 100 or 1000 or 10'000 hours. This is a total turnoff for me.

The whole game start itself is very badly designed. No tutorial as mentioned and then I was left alone with a hint that I should find a helmet - which I didn't.

I refuse to use Google to find out where it is. After one hour of searching I broke up. The game might be good if you find your way into it. But after one hour I was done with it and find no motivation to tornment myself more.

Other games you just start and they are fun from the first minute on. They explain what to do with either a tutorial or it is obvious, and so you just play and you have fun and you find out what you like, and don't like, and then you skill up what you like.