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Do you ever say to yourself, "Man, these cool avant guarde experiences like Journey and A Way Out are really neat, but where are my cool little avant guarde city builders?" Frostpunk is the answer. It's exactly what it says on the label. Main campaign is short, but challenging enough that I'd imagine it would take most players at least a couple of runs to crack the code. Amount of content on offer, like most of these experiences, is sparse for the price. Don't flinch -- it's worth it.

The Good: It's BattleTech: The tabletop miniatures game faithfully translated to a modern, 3D turn based strategy game. All of the fun, none of the critical hit tables, dice or complicated rules. Good price point for features on offer.

The Bad: Longish loading times. They get better the longer the game has been running.

The Ugly: Terrain textures look like somebody threw up peanut butter all over theese planets. Porrly optimized with lots of frame drops and jankiness. Stayed stable for me tho.

One of the finest video games ever made. Come for the shooty-shooty gun-bros. Stay to experince 'Apocalypse Now' in Dubai.

Good Guy DRG: 3 times more content than Sea of Thieves -- still in early access.

Gorgeous and feature rich, this is a great game dragged down by terribly designed quests. If you're exceedingly patient, feel free to ignore this review. On the other hand, if you don't like wandering around wondering what to do or where to go to complete quests, avoid this game at all costs.

Holy crap, there's an actual game here! After ages of being pretty boring, buggy and unplayable, I was able to play for about 6 hours straight the other day with no hiccups, crashes or incomplete buildings. I was rewarded with a rich town builder that, while still missing some key features, is surprisingly deep. As a Kickstarter backer, this is a huge relief: most Early Access projects don't get nearly this far, especially in the town builder/management genre (example: Gnomoria).

Furthermore, the team responsible for the game, Radiant, was recently acquired by Riot (makers of League of Legends). The team here is dead set on getting this project right from day one. Even though development has been slow, updates have been solid and have steadily built on themselves to create a game that is finally beginning to take definitive shape as a fun and unique take on the Dwarf Fortress genre.

Keep an eye on this one, DF fans. It's going places.

Fun game, but it's taking way too long for the developers to push updates. What is here is remarkably fun for a survival game, but, like any survival game, it gets old quickly. If you like survival games and aren't afraid of buying a game that will probably never be finished, I'd say go for it.

Wait for 1.0, which will be along shortly before the corona of the dying sun reaches earth's atmosphere.

I'd rather be playing Alien: Isolation.

Edit: People complained, so I added more nuanced discussion of my reasoning in the comments. :)

A love letter to Descent. Exellently done with smooth, tight controls and a bangin' chiptune ambient soundtrack, its a rewarding roguelike that demands cautious exploration, ammo conservation and deft mastery of the controls to dismantle the rogue bots and get to the reactor at the end of each level. Levels are a good length and an intentionally blocky texture theme combined with brain-meltingly awesome lighting system makes playing them enjoyable and nostalgic.

Despite these accolades, Sublevel Zero needs work in a few minor areas. Specifically, there's no thief bot, and there's a major lack of variety with regards to hull upgrades. There are no energy recharge stations (which was the primary benefit of generally weaker energy weapons). An autolevel control would be nice instead of hiding it in the menu and having it be always on or off. Also an irritating omission: complete lack of D-pad controls for the menu/UI system. It would also be nice if there were a way to recycle useless junk for nanites. There are also no secret doors or areas, which is a disappointment (or are there?!?). Finally, I know that this is a single player game. But come ON guys. Let's release a multiplayer DLC for this. It's practically begging for it.

As an interesting side note, the game also accomplishes the hilarious feat of demonstrating exactly how terribly designed Descent's levels were, as the random generation engine in this game routinely churns out better levels than Descent did.

All in all, aside from a few minor blemishes and missed opportunities, this game is a perfect translation of Descent into a roguelike format. If you're a fan of these types of games, Sublevel Zero simply shouldn't be missed. I think this might also appeal to you if you enjoy flight sims or first person shooters. Some people just wanna run around with a gun, but if floating around a zero-g envrionment shooting endless hordes of robots with ever-more-powerful weapons sounds fun to you, I encourage you to give Sublevel Zero a try.

A straight, simple HD update of one of the greatest adventure games of all time.