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Elden Ring is a open world game based on the gameplay of Souls games. Playing as a custom character, you'll be thrown inside an huge world full of mysteries and dangerous enemies.With an action gameplay and using mostly white weapons and magic, you'll have to explore the map, upgrade your character, survive and find and kill all bosses, all with little to no guidance from the game.Every fight and every enemy could be quite challenging, and dying and repeating over and over the same fight or dungeon is something that's supposed to happen pretty often. Anyway, any death is usually caused by some recognizable mistake and repetition after repetition the player will understand how to avoid them and succeed. The difficult can be annoying and frustating for some player, but at the same time, it's also what makes the game very satisfying. There is no difficulty setting, but the game gives to the player several tools that make the game easier, like evocations, buffs etc. and learning how to use them will make the game easier for non-hardcore **** open world is probably the most amazing feature of the game, it's huge and full of things to do, of places to explore and of secrets to uncover. The curiosity to see what's in the next area will probably never abandon you, since the world is very varied and interesting. Personally, after exploring the first area and the first legacy dungeon, I was really excited to explore the rest of the game and see what was there, and I must say I was not disappointed (except maybe for the last region).Does this game also have flaws? Yes, absolutely: the gameplay is repetitive, just explore the dungeons and kill enemies. The plot is obscure and can be understood only by reading it from the internet. Sometimes you won't know where to go, or why go somewhere. The side quests can be completed only reading a guide because they're few and not explained at all (talk with a character, now go in this specific place that you already explored and have no reason to go to again, and talk with him again to continue the quest). Most of the dungeons will give you rewards that you don't need (usually weapons that you cannot use with your build) and the most you'll play the game, the most you'll see reused content: same style of dungeons in each region, reused bosses or minibosses, a dragon in each region, etc. This content is still enjoyable but at same point you'll notice you aren't anymore encountering anything new. The worst offender is the last region of the game, which is pretty empty compared to the others, and I believe don't have a single unique enemy.Despite all this flaws, I believe the game is still a 10. The size, the cure of many details, the neat gameplay, the beautifulness of the game world, the fascinating atmosphere and the difficult but fair challenge make this game a masterpiece. Maybe it's not for everyone, but if you know you like this kind of games, Elden Ring is without a doubt one of the best games you can play.

What remains of Edith Finch is a pretty walking simulator that tells the story of the Finch family. Impersonate Edith, coming back to your empty family house after several years, explore it, and learn its secrets. You'll discover what happened to your relatives, and you'll be able to make your own reasoning behind the story of this family. The game is artistically well done, the house is interesting and the story flows smoothly. By visiting the house, you'll unlock several separate game section which will tell you the story of one of your relatives. These sections are imaginative and always different, so you will be entertained and you won't know what to expect next. The game is completely linear and there is no difficulty, you just need to walk and follow the story. It takes around two hours to be ended and don't really have any replayability, unless you want to go for achievements, which will add one hour at the most. While the plot is interesting, it's just a little, dark and cryptic story around a family that will certainly make you think, but I feel that it isn't so deep and don't convey any particular message. I played this game for "free" through the Playstation Extra subscription, and I was positevely entertained for the short time needed to play it, but I wouldn't be so happy about it if I had to pay real money, so I believe that whoever is interested in playing this needs to consider that it's super short and that you mostly watch the game and move in a linear path, but in case you are still interested, you will probably enjoy the experience!

The Forgotten City is an investigative adventure set up in a ancient roman city. Controlling your character in a first person view, you'll have to explore the city, its houses, temples and surroundings, talking with all the citizens in order to understand who's going to break the Golden Rule ("treat others as you want to be treated"), a rule which has been set up literally by a god, and whose breach will turn every person in the city into a golden statue. Luckily, during your investigation you'll have a useful gimmick at your disposal: every time the rule is breached and the apocalypse starts, the city major will open a time portal that will take you at the start of the day. Repeating the day several times, talking with everyone, and trying, loop after loop, different outcomes, you'll eventually understand what's happening in the city, and will be able to reach one of the available endings. The formula is simple, and works well. The "time loop" mechanic opens to a lot of investigative possibilities, trying the same dialogue more times or using your previous knowledge to influence the events of the current loop. The city is not huge, but you will need to explore it fully in order to learn all its secrets and understand what's happening, and the historical details that it contains are very interesting. Learning about it and discovering its secrets are very satisfying activities and will keep you entertained until you'll understand what's happening. The game isn't also free from defects: even if the city is built very well, graphics are not the best for this time, and characters really lack any animation other than walking or speaking, the game is pretty short (I think maximum 10 hours to see and do everything) and, despite the complete freedom in what to do, and the four different endings, the game events are mostly linear and will require to be "solved" in a specific way in order to progress the plot. Speaking of the plot, and without giving any spoiler, it is pretty cool but there is some pretty big hole in it. In conclusion, The Forgotten City is a good investigative adventure, that suffers a lot from being developed by a small team (simple graphics/animation, short story, plot holes), but at the same time uses a great formula and deliver a fascinating story and a satisfying investigative gameplay, for the time that it lasts. Definitely suggested if you like adventures, mysteries and/or the ancient romans!

Kona is an indie adventure game set up in northen Canada. You're a private investigator and are called in a little settlement in order to investigate vandalism towards the general store. Except that when you arrive, the city is empty, the general store manager has been killed and a snow storm is happening. In a first person view, you'll need to drive your car and explore all the town places (mostly houses), read documents and observe the environments, in order to understand what happened in the community. While doing this, you're also required to manage three indicators (heat, stress and health) in order to not die; luckily, this survival aspect is never annoying and just requires you to start a fire every time you arrive at a new place, and collect all the objects in order to have enough medikits in the rare cases your health is bad. You'll also encounter a few puzzle during the exploration, but they're pretty easy and sporadic. Exploring the city is interesting, and the atmosphere that is created by driving the car in the middle of the storm, listening to evocative music from the car radio, is truly great. The mystery will fascinate you but due to the shortness of the game, you'll quickly realize what happened, and in my opinion the ending feels a bit rushed and disappointing. In conclusion, Kona is a little adventure that has a truly great atmosphere and an amazing exploration, but is pretty short, very easy and ends a bit too abruptly, so I can't suggest it with ease, but if you like exploration/mystery games, can be okay for the time it lasts.

Spiritfarer is a pretty game about managing a ship and exploring an otherworldy world. During your travels, you'll collect resources, expand your ship and welcome passengers into your boat. They will give you tasks and by helping them you'll progress into the story. The game plays like a 2D platformer and your time will be divided between your ship, whose design depends on how you placed the buildings, and exploring the various islands that populate the archipelago map. The platforming and action parts are pretty easy (you cannot fail) and the biggest challenge is given by the exploration. The first part of the game is the strongest, with the novelty of exploring the sea and gathering new resources, building new things on your boat and greeting new passengers. After midgame, this formula becomes a bit stale, and you keep repeating the same tasks over and over in order to advance the story a bit, but you never get anything really "new". All the things that you unlock in the late game, are basically just more advanced versions of what you had since that point. At this point, all the gathering of resources and traveling from island to island becomes a chore in order to build everything you need and progress. The game plot is about being the new Charon, ferrying souls from this world to the next one. All your passengers will be anthropomorphic animals, but they were real people before dying, and during the time they spend on your ship you'll learn about their stories, and their reflections on life based on their experience. This has been the least interesting part of the game for me, since many times the dialogs were just very slow and boring, and I didn't find any interest about these people lifes. In summary, Spiritfarer is a nice game, very relaxing to play and fun for most of the time, that will become repetitive after a while. But if you like its formula, it will grant you several hours of fun.

Great investigation game. Each level you will be presented with a scenario, and by exploring it you'll collect words to be used to complete a sentence that explains what happened. In order to do this, you need to watch everything carefully and make several logical deductions. Being able to solve each level is really satisfying and fun. Almost every level can be solved without looking at the previous ones, but all together they tell a story that you need to understand in order to finish the last chapters. The game is short and can be ended in few hours, but fun for the time it lasts.

Return of the Obra Dinn is a very original investigation game. It's set on an abandoned ship where the protagonist has to investigate what happened to the 60 people that were on board. You can do this by exploring the ship in a first-person view; during your exploration, you'll stumble accross many corpse, and every time you find one, your special power will let you listen to the last seconds of life of that person, and, after that, you'll be able to see and explore the surroundings of a static scene representing their istant of death. Starting with an almost blank book containing the ship map, some drawing of the entire crew, the list of people on board and little else, you cannot talk with anyone, examine object or read documents, and just looking at the scenes you'll have to notice a lot of details and make a lot of connections in order to understand who is who and what happened to them. Sometimes this process is very difficult and makes you feel lost, but with attention is possible to identify several characters, and excluding them from the people list will help identifying the remaining ones. The process is fun, the game will confirm your choices every time you get 3 of them correct, and when it happens it's extremely satisfying. The game has also flaws, it's short and not replayable, its graphics is stylish but sometimes confusing (and surely not the best you can find), the little area explorable and the lack of any interactivity with the environment let you wonder the potential that a similar game would have, if it wasn't a low budget production. In conclusion, Return of the Obra Dinn is a great investigation game, with an original and clever structure that will give you something fresh to play and a lot of satisfaction for completing it. It's not perfect and won't last long, but if you're curious to undersand how a ship with 60 people can disappear for 5 years, and then be found without a single person alive on board... well, you won't regret playing it!

Great game. It was the first Yakuza game for me, but I'm a JRPGs fan so I knew I should give this a try. I wasn't disappointed at all. Graphics are good. Yeah maybe not the absolute best for newer generation of console, but whatever: the setting is realistic and really well done, you'll really feel like you're exploring a japanese city and I believe there aren't two building that are the same, exploring and looking at the details is amazing and fun. Characters animation are good too. The game is really stilysh and full of funny stuff. The combat looks super cool and it's pretty quick, although it is very simple and after some time it gets a bit repetitive. Especially the characters customization is not the best, with a lot of useless skills, or skills that are too similar between them. Jobs are interesting but it's difficult and grindy to unlock them all, so I stuck with the best ones for each character and only leveled those. The plot is very good. Maybe a bit over the top, but is full of twists and it really drags you towards all the game, because you'll want to know why certain things happened, the ending and the resolution of everything is satisfying. The characters are interesting, maybe not too deep but they are ok and a good company. Sub quests are nothing special and not too difficult, mostly you'll need to fetch something or kill some enemy, but what make you want to do them are the silly little stories that they have behind, that are always interesting and fun. The game is full of mini games, and while I didn't play all of them, they're not necessary at all to finish the game, so you can choose to play those that you prefer. Grinding them all to get 100% would be a boring activity but I didn't feel the need to do that. I was a bit disappointed by the two additional areas that open up later in the game, they don't add much to the gameplay and are simple containers for a few shops or other minigames (similar to those in the main area) so I was excited to explore them, but didn't find them very interesting in the end. Overall, I consider this one of the best JRPGs that I played lately, it has some flaws but does well so much more things, the setting is very original for a JRPG so that's some fresh air for fans of the genre. If you like the genre just get this game and you won't be disappointed.

The worst game of the serie. Short, easy, with zero original idea, horrible graphics and a very bad plot that relies on continuous nostalgia moments and ends in the worst way possible. A few time the humour made me laugh, that's the most positive thing I can say. Only play it if you are a huge fan of Guybrush, but expect to be disappointed.

Mediocre videogame. Really repetitive and with an uninteresting plot. I rate the game 6 since it has a good graphic and a nice setting (albeit very generic), there is a lot to do, to read and a lot of activities to carry out. Anyway, the rating cannot be more than this because it also has some serious flaws. Combat is average, it looks cool and is fun to control the characters and kills enemies... but it has no depth at all and is very repetitive. When your characters grow they just become stronger and new abilities don't change the way you use them or add anything interesting. Enemies are HP sponges, it's not fun to fight a wolf for 5 minutes, even less when it's the 10th wolf of the area. Story is ridicolous. So much plot holes and cliche. The setting is a planet that has been invaded by an advanced alien civilization; they enslaved everyone and divided the planet into 5 reigns. In the first few hours of the game you go from being a slave to liberate 1/5 of the world by simply entering the "king" room and killing him. After you kill him every other invader simply goes away despite them being there for 300 years and being technologically on another level compared to those who rebelled. You repeat this other 4 times and free the whole world. The story becomes very convoluted by the end but it's not really well explained and remains very disappointing. Dialogues are boring and they happen too often and are too long, characters lack personality and aren't really interesting. Subquests are boring and mostly consist of "kill this special enemy with 10000000000HP", or just fetch this item. I didn't play any other "Tales of..." game so if you're into the serie you probably know what you're getting into, but I don't recommend this game to anyone that isn't a super fan of anime and JRPGs with real time combat. And even in that case, you could dislike the game.

Adventure game in which you have to solve six different cases by exploring certain ambients, collecting evidence and talking with people. The gameplay is slow and favours exploration and observation (except a some skippable minigame and rare QTE events there is no action at all), searching the environments to find every clue, than combining them in a specific menu in order to make deductions and eventually solve the crime. The cases are interesting enough that this structure works well, motivating the player to keep playing in order to understand what happened. The main pro of the game is undoubtedly its graphics: I'm playing this 2014 game in 2021, and while obviously it's not on the same level of the newest games, it's still very good and realistic, the environments are detailed and a joy to explore: some london alley, a big plant exhibition, train stations in the countryside are just some of the ambients recreated fully in details, from furnitures full of objects to billboards hanging on the walls that can be read. The game has also flaws, mostly because it's too railroaded: the player can only interact with highlighted objects and Sherlock will be the one solving the cases, since apart from the exploration there is not much to do, and all the deductions will basically be made automatically once the clues are collected. The only choice given to the player is the final one, to decide who is responsible to the crime and what happens to them, and since there is only one right solution for each case, the choice is limited to pick the wrong or the correct culprit. Another problem is in the structure of the cases: each one will have several suspects, and there'll be a motive and a possibility for each of them to commit the crime, and while it's possible to use logical reasoning to decide who is most likely to be the correct one, there is no way to single out the culprit with 100% certainty. I feel this works better in literature than in a game. Another little issue is with the clunky commands, but this can be solved by switching to first person view, that in my opinion works way better and is also better for looking at the details of the environment while exploring. To conclude, Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments is a good investigation game, not devoid of flaws, it doesn't give too much agency to the player, but it's very nice to see and play, and tells interesting cases. If you're fan of the genre and think you can stand its railroaded nature, this is a must play.

Text game where every turn you have to choose the fate of certain characters (life or death) after reading a very brief presentation of them. It has a nice style, and at the beginning it's interesting to go ahead and see what happens, but after playing a bit several issue with the gameplay become evident: the game is too repetitive (read, decide, get paid, restart next day), and it's not very clear how you're influencing the world or which long term consequences you caused. It's short and after playing it once I didn't feel the need to replay it. I suggest it only to people that like this kind of game and that are very curious to try it, considering its low price you might find the cost/fun ratio appropriate.

The score refers to the entire serie, single games score would be one point lower, but all together they gain value. Classic point and click games with very little innovation. The pixel graphic is nice, the story is good and the setting is fascinating. Gameplay is very simple, a few puzzles are a bit obscure and you don't receive many hints about them. Starting from the second game you can also use the second character, and while what you can do is limited, it's a nice addition. The games last few hours (except maybe for the last one) after which there is no replayability. You'll be entertained by them but it only makes sense to play them in a row since the plot is connected. Suggested only to the fan of the genre, play the first one and decide if you want to know what happens next.

The score refers to the entire serie, single games score would be one point lower, but all together they gain value. Classic point and click games with very little innovation. The pixel graphic is nice, the story is good and the setting is fascinating. Gameplay is very simple, a few puzzles are a bit obscure and you don't receive many hints about them. Starting from the second game you can also use the second character, and while what you can do is limited, it's a nice addition. The games last few hours (except maybe for the last one) after which there is no replayability. You'll be entertained by them but it only makes sense to play them in a row since the plot is connected. Suggested only to the fan of the genre, play the first one and decide if you want to know what happens next.

The score refers to the entire serie, single games score would be one point lower, but all together they gain value. Classic point and click games with very little innovation. The pixel graphic is nice, the story is good and the setting is fascinating. Gameplay is very simple, a few puzzles are a bit obscure and you don't receive many hints about them. Starting from the second game you can also use the second character, and while what you can do is limited, it's a nice addition. The games last few hours (except maybe for the last one) after which there is no replayability. You'll be entertained by them but it only makes sense to play them in a row since the plot is connected. Suggested only to the fan of the genre, play the first one and decide if you want to know what happens next.

The score refers to the entire serie, single games score would be one point lower, but all together they gain value. Classic point and click games with very little innovation. The pixel graphic is nice, the story is good and the setting is fascinating. Gameplay is very simple, a few puzzles are a bit obscure and you don't receive many hints about them. Starting from the second game you can also use the second character, and while what you can do is limited, it's a nice addition. The games last few hours (except maybe for the last one) after which there is no replayability. You'll be entertained by them but it only makes sense to play them in a row since the plot is connected. Suggested only to the fan of the genre, play the first one and decide if you want to know what happens next.

The score refers to the entire serie, single games score would be one point lower, but all together they gain value. Classic point and click games with very little innovation. The pixel graphic is nice, the story is good and the setting is fascinating. Gameplay is very simple, a few puzzles are a bit obscure and you don't receive many hints about them. Starting from the second game you can also use the second character, and while what you can do is limited, it's a nice addition. The games last few hours (except maybe for the last one) after which there is no replayability. You'll be entertained by them but it only makes sense to play them in a row since the plot is connected. Suggested only to the fan of the genre, play the first one and decide if you want to know what happens next.

A great deck building game that isn't just a card game, with a creepy atmosphere and a story to unfold. Rules are simple, but there are enough cards and upgrades that the game will be interesting for a while. Matches are short and quick so you'll want to play another one, then another one, then another one. Winning is not too difficult, especially after unlocking the best objects (like many similar games, you'll just need to do a run with some OP combo), but you'll be glad that you didn't get stuck too long, since you'll be intrigued by the mysteries around this game and want to know what happens next. The first part of the game is the best one, and the ending is a bit disappointing since it let you wish there was more content. It also doesn't have that much replayability once you know how to unlock everything and which are the best strategies, but if you like card games the first run with this game will be awesome. Highly recommended to any person that likes the genre.

Text game where you are a doctor in a war setting, and every turn you need to decide who refuse and who treat on the limited number of beds available. In order to decide you can read the character sheet and ask the central office for some information, but you have a limited amount of info you can ask every turn. The structure is very simple and it repeats with no variation until the end, and while there is definitely some reasoning to do in order to decide who to treat, and several different outcomes can be obtained, it's difficult to understand how your choices affected the story or if you did the right thing; there is something that you can read after every chapter, but it's honestly cryptic and boring, and I couldn't bother to read it for every patient. The game can be finished in two hours, you can replay it in order to take different decisions but I didn't feel to do it due to the reasons explained above. The "base" of this game looks good, but it's too simple and repetitive, so it's not really satisfying at the end. Anyway, the game is sold at a very low price, so if you like reading games and are curious, it might be worth a try if you are aware of its flaws and shortness.

Classical point-and-click adventure, interesting plot and setting with some nice idea in it, althought it doesn't do anything particularly original or brilliant.. You're Vera, a detective investigating on some murders that happened in Nordsund, a city in a post-apocalyptic world. Progressing with the investigation is fun, but the ending is not entirely satisfying and feels a bit trite. The city could feel a bit more lively, since there isn't much people to talk or to see. The core of the game is that of a classic point-and-click but you'll also have special abilities that you can use, a nice difference from the majority of similar games where you can only interact with the environment in a single way. There are 6 abilities, and while some of them are fixed, you'll develop the others depending on your playstyle. This could give some replay value to the title, but it's actually a really shallow mechanic that won't change much in your game: the "different playstyles" are just different answers that you can give in the dialogues and the different skills are just slightly different ways to complete the same puzzles. Puzzles are generally simple, but a few of them made me resort to a walkthrough since the game didn't really give any hint about how to solve them. WOAM is a good but short and classic game, don't expect a masterpiece, but if know you like this kind of games, you'll find a valid title to spend a few days on.

Orwell is a "reading game" in which you are a government agent and spy to certain people in order to prevent their crimes. You play the game by using Orwell, a software that lets you visit websites, spy on conversations or inside the computers of the people. Checking this things, you'll find pieces of information related to your suspects, and dragging the text representing the information to the other side of the screen will insert the info into the characters sheet. Filling the sheets as much as possible should be your goal, and by doing that the game will progress. What's disappointing is the feeling of lack of choice that is present from the start to the end. You're guided in the game by an "helper", a guy that does not have direct access to Orwell. He will tell you what to do all the time, the pages to read will appear to you one by one and you'll have zero agency on what to read and what not. Until you submit the right information, no new data will appear, and when you will, only one or a few new pages/conversations will be available to read. The guy pop-up (that looks like a tutorial but stays until the end of the game) will appear almost everytime you submit some new info, most of the time just to make some useless and annoying comment. The only way to make impactful decisions goes against what is explained by the tutorial guy at the start: you're required to collect as much as true information as possible about the suspects, but sometimes the right choice in order to influence the game is to hide them, that's counterintuitive. It's somewhat interesting to understand what happened and who's really the bad one (probably the only thing that made me finish the game), but if I decide to play a game about spying on people, it's really annoying that since the first chapter the game revolves around the concept that spying on people is bad and that my (limited) choice is about being a good Orwell agent or sabotage it. So it feels a bit forced and too obvious. Special mention to the italian translation: while it's said to be amateurish and not official, it is so so so bad that I wonder how can that come as default. Many words are just typed wrongly (and they become different words), entire phrases don't make sense, one page is in Finnish (at least I guess that was Finnish) and often the characters nicknames are translated differently depending on the page. Horrible. Is there also some good to this game? Well, a bit: the interface is neat and while limited, it's nice to jump on the various screens and collect information, reading inside the characters documents or private conversation is fun, and let you wish you had more freedom in doing that. I don't advice spending much money on this game, but if you're curious to see how it plays grab it on sale and you might spend a few hours investigating for Orwell, but you'll end up disappointed by the game structure, that seems interesting and full of potential, but end up being just an almost 100% linear reading game in which you just click on the info waiting to see what will happen next.

Unavowed is a very charming point-and-click adventure. It has a great plot, likeable characters and an interesting setting, but its gameplay is somewhat limited and very simple. The game plays very classic, you click on the screen and your character will talk with people, interact with objects or pick them up. You can combine the objects later, use them on something, or give them to someone, with the goal of progressing in the story. The game is divided into several chapters in which you visit certain neighbourhoods and try to solve some mystery that happened there. The most peculiar mechanic is given by your companions, every time you explore a new place, you bring with you two of them, and their skills will help you in discovering the truth. This structure is interesting but also the main limitation to the game: each location is completely standalone and once arrived you cannot leave it, you bring there no object, thus you'll find everything you need to solve the chapter right in the location, and this means that you'll have very limited options, and probably end up trying to combine the 2-3 objects in your inventory with everything in order to progress. Another thing that don't help is that there is no button or way to highlight the interactable objects, so the game feels a bit like a pixel hunt sometimes. Companions are fine, but once arrived in a place you cannot change them, and you start chapters with no idea on what kind of help you'll need, so you'll simply end up always bringing your favourites or trying all of them without any particular strategy. Luckily you can end every chapter with any combination of characters. To summarize, Unavowed is a short but stylish adventure that can be enjoyed especially for its plot and setting, and is recommended to the fan of the genre, but don't expect a masterpiece from it.