Recent reviews by Ideal Theory

While the vanilla story is almost non-existant, this was basically the godfather of all looter shooters for good reason, gameplay wise it is a very fun FPS with lots of goofy characters and dialogue, plus the DLC content has always been amazing in the Borderlands franchise and that does not miss here (except for the Mad Moxxi DLC)!

I would aim for the Enhanced version if you plan on playing BL1 just for general quality of life changes but this does give you the full nostalgia throwback!

Classic, 8/10

The music, the art, the sounds, the animations, the smooth gameplay and lovable, emotional characters, holy hell this is a good game!

It's all about exploring the beautiful world and unveiling what the story is and how you interpret it. I can't give this enough credit, this is a game everyone should try. 10/10, masterpiece

Not the greatest, but a slightly fun idle game! As most go, the beginning is way more fun and then becomes a drag and waiting game. I wish it wasn't as grindy but I am happy that it encouraged active play at least for a while.

I got it for under $1 so it was a good deal for a few hours of fun, 7/10

This game deserves all the praise it is getting as it has everything you need for a cute, fun, relaxing game! The art style is fantastic and beautifully crafted. The assets to design your stickers are wide and far so you have so many options to be creative! I love the little stories you encounter through your customers and that drives you to create stickers with their requests in mind, although I do wish this could somehow continue after completing all their stories so you keep getting fun little stories. My only complaint is I wish there was a bit more music variety, the track that plays nonstop is catchy but maybe 1 or 2 more tracks would help it blend better!

The biggest perk I found was simply, being able to save your stickers to your actual computer! Like I said, I love the art style and you become proud of what you make so being able to bring it outside of the game is a great touch.

Blissfully excellent, 9.5/10

Not a long game, but a good, short free game! Absolutely nothing to complain about except I want more and would pay for more!

Absolutely worth the time, 10/10

Came back to finally 100% this many years later and was surprised how much I enjoyed jumping back in! The world is the right size for an open world and the nemesis system is freshly unique allowing for an awesome, random lore-building moments that makes your playthrough unique to you!

I like that captains and warchiefs have different strengths and weaknesses making intel important and keeping the gameplay fresh as you can't use the same tactics everytime! The actual combat can get overwhelming if you let too many enemies group or if too many 'leaders' happen to be in the same area. The DLCs are actually fantastic and give new flares and combat systems.

Will give you hours of great fun, 8/10

As a simulator game, its fairly fun and decently fleshed out! The mechs are intriguing and detailed and taking them apart, repairing/replacing parts, and putting it all back together is exciting! What the game needed was just more things to do aside from basically taking jobs and doing the same old tasks. After a while the repetitiveness of the game hits like a truck and you realize there is nothing else to discover or do. I wish there was more to do with your own mechs that you buy and refurbish besides send them on useless missions every 30 minutes.

You may enjoy it for a while but it loses its magic eventually, ESPECIALLY if you go for all the achievements. 6/10

It's absolutely INSANE how smoothly this runs, how perfect the controls seem to be, and how it can be so balanced and challenging. The fact that it's considered 'early access' confuses me because it seems like its runs at max efficiency already. The roadmap appears to just add more content which I think it needs, just the finer details and this is a game for the ages.

Edit: Fire & Magic update - Now the game runs better, looks better, quality of life updates, few more achievements and two awesome new weapons. Score remains at perfection.

Edit: Variety Update Part 1 - another solid edition, more stage variety, probably too many 'waves' IMO, but more weapons, new GAME MODES is insanely sick, and just the look of everything has increased tenfold! Beautiful update again!

Utterly perfect, 10/10.

I love the unique gameplay of having to change colors on the fly to solve puzzles and really makes you think hard on some levels! The story was not amazing, not awful, just average. It's a fairly quick game so it stays its welcome just enough to leave you satisfied! I wasn't a huge fan of the art style, felt a bit lackluster and generic. Also I hated that in order to go back and finish finding the collectibles, I had to go through the ENTIRE color level from the start, I beat these levels already so doing them again is just tedious, wish I could've selected specific levels.

Above average puzzle game! 7.5/10

I was honestly so happy to see that Lara Croft shows emotions and is not some lifeless, cold-blooded protagonist. She cries, she gets angry, confused, terrified, and her character development is amazing because she overcomes all of that to save her friends. It's not a switch either, she continues to go through those emotions throughout the game and has to continuously get back on her feet and push forward until she saves everyone that she can.

The story is phenomenal and it has a good amount of collectibles to find and skill/weapon upgrades to achieve. The multiplayer is basically dead and not even that good to begin with so just ignore that. It was my first Tomb Raider game and I couldn't say more good things about it, 9.5/10