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Endzone: A World Apart is a satisfying post-apocalyptic city builder that strikes a good balance between challenge and accessibility. The resource management keeps you on your toes without becoming overwhelming, and the gradual complexity feels well-paced.What sets it apart from similar titles is the narrative thread running through the gameplay — working towards building the beacon gives you a sense of purpose beyond just keeping your settlement alive. Exploration adds variety, and the skill trees provide enough depth to make progression feel rewarding.A solid, enjoyable entry in the genre that doesn't overstay it's welcome.

Text far too small to play game, and no option to to increase size. Even changing screen resolutions didnt help much and led to buttons being off screen so unplayable.

Love the idea of this game - survive a shipwreck, gather resources and craft items and improve your skill tree. Also an interesting story line to follow. However the resource management is too challenging - got to the second island and realised that I needed to build a brand new base (or make repeated trips back to the first) which is a chore so gave up.

It had a lot of promise with interesting trade mechanics and battles. However the convoy system and AI trading often didnt work well and had too many options to configure leading to very inefficient systems meaning the best way to make money is to manually and repeatedly go from town to town buying and selling. After a while this grind became to repetitive so gave up.

Great narrative story and acting/voices. However as others have written, game lacks any challenge such as combat or puzzles.

Excellent game - incredible story line building on the strengths of the first game. Fantastic character development and plots and twists throughout with loads of side quests to keep you entertained for hours.

This game had promise - develop a gas station from the ground up. Sadly too much repitition in tasks make the gameplay tedious so gave up after 5 hrs in.

Great story line and actors in this gripping first person shooter. Enjoyed the twists in time.

Played for an hour and a half. I enjoyed the fast pace action and premise of upgrades to improve your future runs. However the action is repetitive and once you die and restart you follow through the same bosses and rooms albeit slightly better armed. However the repetitive grind is why I've rated it 5/10 - needs more variety.

Jurassic World Evolution 2 is a big step up from the first game. It follows the storylines of the films and features Jeff Goldblum’s narration, which is always a pleasure to listen to. The gameplay feels more engaging, with a greater focus on balancing the park’s economy alongside dinosaur development. Unfortunately, the campaign doesn’t make full use of the game’s potential—battling dinosaurs or experimenting with genetic modification is never truly required, which leaves those mechanics feeling underused. Still, it’s an enjoyable experience, and I had a good 15 hours playing through all the campaign scenarios.

Awesome. Great graphics and gameplay. Awesome story and character development. In addition side missions didnt seem repetitive and allowed further exploration of the world. Very much enjoyed it all.

Amazing graphics and deep story and character development in a lovely rendered open world as you can expect from FF games. Sadly the combat mechanics are mediocre and the open world side quests are repetitive and offer little challenge and sadly don't progress the story. Additionally a lot of the items obtained in the course of the game seem to have little use. Could have been so much more engaging.

Started off very well as a 1st person shooter survival RPG. Having to scavenge resources in space, build tools, explore spaceships and build your base was an excellent premise. However chapter 4 involving excessive amounts of backtracking and searching was simply tedious. The developers even hinted at a fast-travel yet failed to include it as part of their humour. Well gave up after spending 45mins backtracking through the same spaceships and would not advise buying this game to anyone.

Simple easy controls and a capturing story with peaceful music and play style makes this a lovely game to pass some time.

Played on PC through Amazon Games. Simple easy fun little puzzle game involving robots whom are abducted. The story is limited and the puzzles are relatively easy but lovely visuals and intuitive controls mean its a relaxing game to pass 10hrs or so.

Very enjoyable - spent 40hrs to complete main quest line. A survival builder based in the post apocalyptic world. Requires resource management and farming as well as research (tech trees) and exploration all in a third person view. Good story line to accompany and gave me a sense of achievement when completed.

Enjoyable factory simulator where you assign elves to create toys. Good economics and graphics. Thouroughly enjoyed. Only wish there was a greater story line to it and further milestones and development of the game.

I loved Theme Hospital and also 2-point. Whilst I agree this game is much more realistic its enjoyment is lost in to much detail as well as frustratingly poor graphics, difficulty in placing objects and getting some objects to work (the hospital bed wont function without a bedside cabinet). In addition in manual mode there are an excessive number of tests on offer with no ability to rapidly choose common tests first. Quit after 10 hrs of play.

Sim building game where you build a park for dinosaurs based on the movie. The graphics are lovely and there is a lot of variety of dinosaurs. In addition there are some management needs to sort such as welfare of the dinosaurs and your guests as well as managing the cash flow. Played for about 10 hours and at first was an interesting challenge. However after a while it becomes repetitive as getting and researching new dinosaurs needs expeditions which is a lot of mouse clicking and their behaviours aren't dis-similar enough to warrant my interest. Managing cash also becomes very easy after the initial hurdles of the island. Needs a little more depth and challenge to this game.

I found kentucy route zero boring and tedious. I pushed myself to play for 2 hrs in light of the positive reviews but starting ACT 2 and being made to ride an elevator up and down several times to simply find an address without any real story or character development became far too monotonous for my liking (and i endeavour to always finish games I start). i had to give up on this one.

Journey Down chapter 2 continues the story of Bwana. Simple click and point RPG with good character development and plot line development. Albeit a little easy to complete, I finished this chapter in 2.5hrs but enjoyed the story and the process. Have downloaded part 3 and looking forward to finishing off the series.

Great story line for those who like sci-fi. Excellent third person shooter gameplay and character development + plot twists. Didn't use the voice commands and controls took some getting used to but very enjoyable game. I do hope they make a sequel.

The game started well with a promising story line and interesting combat gameplay. However within an hour I found the combat scenes repetitive + load times for each battle excessively long so abandoned the game. Shame - had a lot of promise.

I was a huge fan of syndicate when it was released in '93 and this brought a similar type of gameplay. Control 4 characters, kill, steal make money and use to upgrade weapons and armour whilst taking out an evil corporate opponent. Gameplay is a little repetitive but I still thoroughly enjoyed it.

Good gameplay. Easy to master controls and wide range of difficulty settings. However lacks any depth. Could have done with anything like cutscenes, story, levelling up of players etc to keep interest as after a couple of matches the game becomes repetitive.

Excellent open world space shooter/exploration game. Easy controls, addictive upgrade system and good story line with a great rock soundtrack made this a very enjoyable 20 hrs of play.

Starbound started with a lot of promise - interesting story and free reign crafting. However as mentioned by other reviews - the crafting doesnt add a lot to the story or progress in the game and the infinite number of worlds becomes annoying when you are trying to remember where things are stored/found. I played about 20 hrs worth and realised I hadn't gotten very far so abandoned the game.

Interesting game with well thought out story and character progression. Acting somewhat cheesy but for an indy enjoyable play.

Horrible! Took forever to get through the prologue, then gameplay was terrible and I finally gave up after 10 mins due to a bug where I got stuck when an NPC moved into my path and would not move out leaving me trapped.

Idea behind the game is excellent - survival, resource management, upgrades based on scavenging and leading / managing a team who you need to keep alive. A perfect combination for a gamer like myself. However implementation was poor - too many bugs, such that I was unable to complete one of the main quests (and could not obtain a vehicle - snowmobile), and no fast travel system resulting in hours of simply walking in the snow before being able to do anything. Sad really.

Great story and narrative along with lovely graphics which create a deep sense of the post apocalyptic world monkey and trip live in. However game play is simplistic and unidirectional as you are led the whole way through it. There is no room for exploration and the upgrade system is not used well at all as the game can be easily completed without using any upgrades.

A real masterpiece ****. Great graphics, fantastic player development (both of the main character and the NPCs), and wonderful story and a huge immersive world to explore. Thoroughly enjoyed and awaiting the sequel with anticipation.

Interesting gameplay and good graphics and fun but relatively simple puzzles. However it misses a trick as the story could have been developed so much more.

This game had a lot of potential. The intro scenes were excellent and the player control and graphics are good + gameplay entertaining. However after about 20 mins it becomes far too challenging to continue. Need to spend a significant amount of time leveling up before you can make it further which is annoying so I simply gave up.

Project highrise is a sim tower game. The concept behind the game is interesting - build your tower and cater for your tenants whether they be office workers, residential or shops, and manage the infrastructure. However the graphics were mediocre for a game created in 2017. Additionally the game suffers in that income only comes in at midnight rather than in real time, meaning that often you are sitting waiting for the day to complete to get more money to build a little bit more. This is a frustration that ruined the game for me.

I never played the original but enjoyed this game. Good graphics and interesting story and cutscenes. However felt the jumping and physics of the game were very challenging making it frustrating. Also it was only until halfway through the game that I realised how to actually save the creatures, and by then half had been lost.

Played on PC and thoroughly enjoyed. Great story line that advances the Desmond story further. Also fantastic graphics and recreation of early Boston and New York. The free roaming feature of the franchise is also continued to good effect, and with the added bonus of developing your homestead and now naval missions as well.

This is an interactive story more than a 'game' but thoroughly enjoyable. The storyline is well developed and the interactive nature means you need to piece together that story which can be done at your leisure. Graphics and interaction with the environment is good as well. In total I took about 5 hours to complete the game.

I played Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights and loved them both. Pillars of Eternity, whilst being of a similar genre, was too heavy on the story (with excessive amounts of reading), but very unoriginal and unchallenging in its gameplay. I played for a good 40 hours as I am the type of person who like to finish anything I start, but in this case simply had to give up as the gameplay simply had nothing more to offer.

The original diablo was a whole new style of gameplay for me and set the scene for all future point and click attack style games. Incredible story line as well.

Fantastic story line graphics and narrative. Definitely an enjoyable game. However personal preference made me sad that the game franchise has moved away from the underwater world of the original 2 as they were fantastic.

Incredible. Builds on the story and gameplay of the original and adds to the incredible story. Graphics are even upgraded. What a franchise!

I loved the original X:COM Terror from the deep. This game has a similar feel and style of gameplay which is great. The story line is interesting and the graphics fluid. However the time limits placed on missions is frustrating making it difficult to hunker down and defend certain spots as you often need to stay on the move to complete the objective. A mixture of mission types would have been better.

Not really a game, but a interactive horror story. Unfortunately the progress is unilateral with no choice/decisions as to how the game progresses. Spend most of your time opening doors and trying to work out what has changed. After about 15 mins it becomes repetitive and uninteresting.