Recent reviews by Blu Macaw

The spiritual succesor of battlefield heroes. It's not the same, it couldn't and won't be, but it's close enough. It's as close you can get without infringing copyright and it's like 95% the same game. There are some issues, servers are right now player driven meaning there's always some lag, you may find 1 cheater every 40 games or so, some things are just clunky and not as polished. But these are minor hiccups that will be fixed over time, this isn't even released yet, it's a paytest. And what kind of great playtest you have to have to have a consistent playerbase at every hour of the day and night? People are also really chill.

Very fun game. Loved the demo and full game is just as fun.

A cozy a game about being a conductor. You travel around, keep care of your passangers, decorate your train, ran errands for people, it's doing all those things quite alright. What you see in the trailer is pretty much what you are getting in the game. On top of that there is an overarching story, I think, it could be just a long tutorial quest for all I know so far. You could try to compare it to Stardew Valley, but it's more like Animal Crossing, it's cozy and slow and fun, but it's not as in-depth.

That being said, this has twice the price tag of Stardew Valley and isn't on the same level of polish or depth. I was pretty set on buying this game which is why I bought it, but to me, even taking inflation under account, this is at least 1/3rd too pricy for what seems fair.

If I have to find one thing that actually annoys me, there's an awesome pinwheel you can just spin around and it despawned for me so now I don't have it and I am sad. I loved this little thing in demo and now I lost it on my main save file and I don't want to restart to get it again (and maybe lose it again out of no fault of my own, just despawned after moving train cars around)

Still from cozy games that have been coming out in recent years I think this one is the best. Aside from some minor issues like this pinwheel, it feels like a finished game, at least as far as I can see right now. So I'd say go for it and buy it, but be careful as price doesn't translate to depth. If you want depth and never treied Stardew, try Stardew.

Gameplay wise this is actually pretty fun. There's nothing "new" in this game I'd say, at last not in the demo which doesn't include almost anything from the trailer, which is fair. But it's still fun nontheless.

What I do think is a huge issue for this game is whole audiovosial layer. Everything feels so sluggish and wooden and without impact. Buildings and units look fine, environment is a bit too bland, but every time something attacks it feels too quiet, not flashy enough and without enough feedback for the player that it happened. Still I think this could be resolved realtively fast as those are multiple, but minor, changes rather than a need for a complete overhaul.

Personally I'd give neutral review, but I can't, so I am leaning towards positive.

Great game. Very engaging non-repetitive roguelite about defending your kingdom against other themed kings. All factions are playable and all can be your enemy. I love that the enemy we fight is also who we draw our units and buildings from. It's all about finding a strategy that works for you, for instance I love green archers, slowest unit in the game with highest damage. But what if we buff their speed like 100 times? Not slowest anymore and still deadly.

It's not all that great, some buffs don't stack, for instance farm gives +1 unit each turn yet it's secretly capped and very low at that. Why? I don't know. I hope game will lean heavier into this aspect of overbuffing instead of trying to balance it for no reason. The game gets progressively more difficult the further you go so you do need those buffs. And there are plenty of other cool strategies you can discover and try.

Another concern is that the upgrades we will be able to get between runs don't seem interesting. More money, more starting tiles etc. it's all just a simple buff, not a game changer. Something like, pick one enemy king to fight against or select your starting deck would be way better upgrades.

It's also impossible to talk about this game without talking about the other demo that became popular along this title during steam next. The King is watching provides a similar but slightly different approach to the same main theme, defending your kingdom against enemies. Both games are great and I plan to get both, as should you, especially considering both devs/companies partnered to make a cheaper bundle (I think release dates may collide though and we won't get both as a bundle when 9 Kings releases in April) Still The King is Watching has a vastly superior art candy and probably way more potential for engaging gameplay considering what we can see in the main menu of both games, so keep that in mind if you want to limit yourself to one game.

This is children drawing bases on a sheet of paper and growing armies and fighting each other in primary school turned into a video game. That's the simplest and most true way to describe how this game feels like.

On top of that it seems to be a really good roguelite and I am saying this as someone who generally does not like roguelites, even the supposedly good ones like Hades or Isaac. It does seem to have some really heavy RNG that can kill run early on, more than in those other roguelites, but it's not that bad. Everything else seems polished, good looking and ready for more updates and for all I care it could release like that and I would have bought it right now.

This game is a hidden gem. 10/10

I was sceptical and waited until it went on 85% sale, because graphics don't look good on the first glance and it doesn't seem like a long game to complete. But...

Turns out I was pretty damn wrong. Game turned out to be an amazing fresh experience with mechnics I couldn't even imagine could exist, it's simple yet very emergent. As an avid fan of the anime and manga I really enjoyed playing this and aside from some clunkiness it's a pretty good representation of this world. It's easier than the real experience would be, but somehow this makes gameplay extremely fun and non-repetetive, like I could go down the same path for 12th time and it's still fun and cool.

So your goals range from going deeper to see some creatures, fighting them, retriving lost gear, helping people and there's a story that both uses part of the source material and then builds atop of it with your own character and dare I say it's really amazing somehow. While doing so you must upgrade your gear, collect food and avoid dangers of the abyss. You'd expect this to be an open world game, yet if we have to box it, it's actually a semi-linear rougelite, but more than that it's its own genre completely, it's this unique and everything here has a purpose. And just like in the source material, it all looks cute and all untill you die, plenty of gore, explicit content, hell there's Bondwerd here, you know what he does.

Now I won't lie, the graphics may have grown on me and in spite of AI not being too good sometimes, other times it turned out to be pretty competetive. I have been surprised at each step of the game.

After 9 hours I have only completed Riko's story which is a tutorial ending at end of layer 2. And in the main mode I only now reached 2nd layer. The game has 5 layers, so not all of them, but I've got to say I love what I am seeing right now and I can't wait to see what's deeper and how they represented it. I think it's a great, fresh purchase for both people who know and don't know the source material. All the negative reviews I read have a point about this not being a perfect game, it's a B class production, but don't be alarmed, it's a really solid game and the only downside is that we were robbed out of this being a higher budge production. Gameplay wise, outside of some clunky AI or some animations, it's really no worse than an AAA game from a respected studio.


It's deffnitely worth a buy, but I completely respect anyone who would buy it only at a discount. Still don't be me, it's worth at least half a price.

I have no clue how this game has good reviews.

To put this short, tags are misleading, game feels like mmo Stardew Velley copycat looking like fortnite and it just doesn't click. It tries to be 3 things at the same time and thus fails at being consistent and good at anything. It doesn't feel like trailers or pictures and gameplay is incredibly wooden and boring. If someone likes fortnite aesthetics and wants to play life sim in an mmo style, sure, but otherwise I just recommend getting a better game like Stardew Valley or Dinkum or even Kynseed. Anything but this.

Ho boy....

It's a demo, sure, but the game is set to release next year according to Steam store and that does not reckon good. This feels like an internel version where everything is still being tested, that's ok, if things looked like they lead somewhere, but they don't, everything is slow, everything is kinda plain and boring, there's nothing to do with dragons so far and I don't know whose idea was to release this as a demo. Everything can change, this could become a really good and desirable popular game one day, not in 2025 though, I don't think I have ever seen a dmo that's so far from release.

Other than the idea itself, nothing here is really good. Maybe the map and some static art pieces.

It’s a GREAT game, but I wouldn’t say necessarily better than original. Still very much worth buying.

Gameplay loop is less about defeating frost and more about dealing with political factions, map exploration and multiple colonies. Yes all that district building and resource gathering and tech tree stuff is here, BUT the meat of the game is political system, buying people off, promising them stuff, stealing their money by force, slowly radicalising yourself untill you convince yourself prisons, propaganda and martial law are a necessity. This replaced the old law system and is very engaging, It’s perfect, though in many ways more flexible, which makes problem solving somewhat easier at times, but game can still humble you.

Frostpunk 2 is set 30 years after the original and it delivers amazing experience in gameplay, audiovisually and in endless mode. It’s remarkably stable even before release date with only minor hiccups. With 3 major dlcs to come, the game will only get substantially better. I wholeheartedly recommend it at the current price tag, though be mindful main story takes around 10 hours tops.

A really solid game that takes me back to when AAA titles were actually good. What this can offer is a pretty unique setting, with simple, but enjoyable mechanics, some of which we are familiar with very well, some of which we aren't. The charm of the game is the driving force behind it, it certainly has that what's over next hill feel. But don't get wrong idea, at times it's cluncky, it shows its age, it does suffer some faults of typical AAA games like bad facial expersssion or wooden movement, but other times it excels at those things.

Seeing how all modern AAA games look like I totally recommend it for anyone who never owned playstation and wants to play it on PC. It's just a good game, deffnitely from upper shelf, but it isn't some hidden masterpiece or anything even though maybe in the day it was.