Recent reviews by gdog

Crack isn't this addictive

A really great entry into the tower defence genre.
Really cool levels and dynamic boss battles set this above other td games.
Lots of replay value. Im 37 hours in and not even half done with it yet.
I much prefer this style of td, that lets you place you defences where you want.

9/10

Ooo a fresh pie.
Save me a slice.
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ITS ENOUGH SLICES

Banana, fruit of the genus Musa, of the family Musaceae, one of the most important fruit crops of the world. The banana is grown in the tropics, and, though it is most widely consumed in those regions, it is valued worldwide for its flavour, nutritional value, and availability throughout the year. Cavendish, or dessert, bananas are most commonly eaten fresh, though they may be fried or mashed and chilled in pies or puddings. They may also be used to flavour muffins, cakes, or breads. Cooking varieties, or plantains, are starchy rather than sweet and are grown extensively as a staple food source in tropical regions; they are cooked when ripe or immature. A ripe fruit contains as much as 22 percent of carbohydrate and is high in dietary fibre, potassium, manganese, and vitamins B6 and C.

Bananas are thought to have been first domesticated in Southeast Asia, and their consumption is mentioned in early Greek, Latin, and Arab writings; Alexander the Great saw bananas on an expedition to India. Shortly after the discovery of America, bananas were taken from the Canary Islands to the New World, where they were first established in Hispaniola and soon spread to other islands and the mainland. Cultivation increased until bananas became a staple foodstuff in many regions, and in the 19th century they began to appear in the markets of the United States. Although Cavendish bananas are by far the most-common variety imported by nontropical countries, plantain varieties account for about 85 percent of all banana cultivation worldwide.

Ah chips, here we mult again.

GOTY and it isn't even close, DISH!

Coin Pusher World has been a fantastic addition to my stream.
It's great both for me, and my chat.
I play a lot of games on my streams and some of the games I do play have lots of downtime.
Coin Pusher World fills the gaps in between games, slow periods on stream or when I'm going on a coffee run.
It's also great to play fullscreen with chat as a main source of entertainment.
Super simple concept, executed perfectly.
Easy to explain to new chatters. !all drops coins. If coins or prizes fall off the end in your typically 75 coin turn you profit.
Points are awarded for coins and certain prizes. Points can be tracked on a global leaderboard or a local leaderboard , the latter which you get to choose how often to reset.
10% of points earned on a turn will net you tickets. These tickets can be spent on a plethora of coins skins which can be unlocked via coin pusher worlds website.
There's also a bunch of mini games too, which you can play which drop as prizes, these include plinko, replay, slots, ice powerups, mirrorballs. All are a bunch of fun and add a lot of variety to the experience.
My chat absolutely love it. I have had regular chatters, chat more. I had new chatters stop by and show off their coins.
I had people who didnt chat very much start engaging with the stream more. Its been a super posititve experience all round for my community.
Now I mentioned the website with the coin skins, they do a great job over there.
The devs also are super involved with the community. They run a really active discord and have stopped by my streams a bunch of times. They even gave away a few exclusive coin skins to some of my chatters.
The game is also getting a ton of updates these include QOL fixes and larger scale updates with new minigames and new mechanics being added.
Coin Pusher World has become a staple of my stream. So much so, I have made some custom coin skins which my twitch subs and follows can use. This came at a small fee, but with how active and friendly the developer has been and how addicting coin pusher world is, I didn't mind at all throwing a few bucks to the dev for a custom coin skin.
If you stream and want something for your chatters to do inbetween games or during downtime CPW is a perfect fit. Its also great for Just Chatting streams.

9/10 !ALL

I own 223 Tower Defence games on steam.
This is easily in the top 10.
Don't let the minimalist art style stray you, there is a ton of depth here.
TD Worlds is an almost perfect mix of TD and Rougelike.
Tons of replayability and incremental power gain from each run.

If you like TDs this is a no-brainer. Buy It Now!

I've had a lot of fun with Blacksmith Legends so far.
It's a little bit of a slow burn, which is good as it introduces each of the game's mechanics to you at a nice pace.
You begin by inheriting a Blacksmith from your parents.
Initial quests consist of crafting various common tools for people in and around the city.
By doing this you unlock new crafting recipes and workshop upgrades.
There's a ton of mechanics running under the hood. Morale, Working Speed and Crafting Quality are the 3 main stats you need to keep an eye on. You can improve some of these by training which cost a small weekly fee, allowing shorter work days and more frequent breaks, which increases morale, which in turn increases work speed/crafting quality.
The early quests walk you through this stuff by requiring items of a certain minimum crafting quality.
Later on you unlock the ability to hire a hero from the tavern. You are then able to sent them out on quests on the world map. These consist of bandit encounters, which features a nice short and sweet card mini-game (these can be skipped after the initial time you do these if you wish). You also can explore the map. Mines and ore deposits can be found from these explorations. After a new ore is found by the hero it then can be ordered through the markets to smelt or craft with.
After some initial quests where you had to craft certain items, you are then asked to start selling items on the market.
Depending on the quality of your items, demand and how recently you sold an items of that type will determine the value when selling. Selling can all be automated with the overseer, I'll come to that shortly. You can also sell items individually, which was useful.
A nice mechanic with the hero is you can craft stuff for him. He starts out with next to no gear. You then are tasked with making him armour and weapons. Again crafting quality and a little RNG come into play when crafting good gear for him. Its nice that you're able to sell the extras until you get a decent roll.
Next up you are tasked with hiring a smelter. You go to the tavern and you are able to speak to the bar keep and he'll suggest people you can hire. Staff come with random stats and a couple of random perks. You are luckily able to keep searching for more staff until you find one with the appropriate abilities, although at a small cost in gold each time for each roll. You hire a smelter, then set them up in your blacksmith. They are able to smelt ores into ingots which you then can use to craft higher tier recipes and equipment.
I got as far as the third member of staff (4th if you include the hero) the overseer.
This is a really unique worker. Again you hire then via the bar keep and set them up in your blacksmith. They are able to basically control stock and sales for you. You can set resource limits for each resource, so you never have to run out of anything or manually order it. I didn't go into manual ordering of resources but this basically bypasses that whole process anyway.
The building in the game is pretty standard. You can place decorative objects around your workshop. You're able to choose the material and style of the floors and walls. Some items you get, usually as quest rewards will buff you or your workshop. For example the first unlock is the bellow, will increases work speed by %5. Other items can increase your fame and charisma. Which are both stats that increase you trading abilities. There's a ton going on as I've said. I barely scratched the surface on all the mechanics with this review. There's also a lot I still need to see/unlock ingame.
I've only spent a few hours with Blacksmith Legends but I can see many, many more hours falling away playing this game.
It looks like i can save up and move to a different city. Which i assume will have a larger blacksmith i can buy. I also unlocked the bulletin board which looked good. Gave you more quests to do with nice rewards.
If you like management, tycoon games this is a great little pickup. Well worth the asking price.

I streamed my first 2 hours of the game.
If you are on the fence or want to see some gameplay feel free to check out the video below.

https://test-steamproxy.haloskins.io/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2726236275

Dwarrows is the game I've always wanted.
A super chill, somewhat sedate exploration and puzzler, with light city building mechanics.
I've spent 52hours with the game due to getting an early code from the dev to do coverage.
I've loved every minute of it. I emplore you to treat yourselves and give dwarrows a shot.
If you want a hands on look a this glorious game, check out some of the videos on my steam profile.
If you like the look of the trailer i wouldn't hesitate to pick this up.

I have 2696 games on steam.
This easily fits into my top 20.

10/10