Recent reviews by Xsage

I really like the concept of this game and want to play it, however it crashes nearly every in game day at random point, even if I just stand still and walk away or alt-tab after an indeterminate amount of time the game will crash. This is with a 4090, i9 13900KS and 64GB RAM on windows 11. This basically makes the game unplayable as you have to restart the day again and makes it really hard to get invested in the game.

is pretty fun concepts and has a lot of potential, but needs a lot of work. Not worth the price tag at this stage of development but here is hoping that the early investment helps fund the devs to build something great.

Really fun game, it is eurotrucker in space but you need to manually maintain your rig by replacing parts or getting out and patching holes in an EV suit, it even has story missions that unlock more destinations. All it needs is multiplayer and it would easily be the best trucking sim on the market (but in space)

Disclaimer, I have a 4090 and good CPU and have had absolutely no performance issues..
Review at: ~41hrs @ level 33

The Good:
First and foremost, this is one of the best games I've played in years.
I've been playing a mage/sorcerer with a tank main pawn. The graphics are amazing, the combat is pretty fluid and very satisfying. The bosses are tons of fun to fight, the exploration never feels dull because the world is beautifully crafted with tons of unique areas with lots of collectables hidden in every corner. The world feels pretty alive with plenty of situational dialog between your pawns. This is like the first game but a lot better and it scratches a lot of itches that have been missed in the RPG genre. I cannot recommend this game enough.

The Bad:
There are a few things that could be improved on, the carry weight especially if you are playing a short mage is a PAIN, like you pick up 1 additional piece of armour and you are heavy and can barely run - so make sure you have a big beefy pawn to carry stuff around. Travelling is fun when you are going to new areas, but a lot of quests require you to go back and forth between places you have already been many times before, and running back and forth can be bothersome, fortunately they provide the ox cart feature which allows you to fast travel between main cities, unfortunately they nearly ALWAY get ambushed miles away from the city, and it ends up being an ogre that smashes the cart almost instantly leaving you without a ride after you have cleaned up the mess, so you end up having to run half the distance anyway, I'd like to see them massively reduce the chance of ambushes in carts because it can quickly become tiring when every cart journey results in an ambush. Dragon fights are annoying as a mage especially when using big spells, you finish the incantation of your big spell, but it still takes a few seconds for the animation to run for the spell to actually cast, and every single time I'm about to cast, the dragons silence me, or shock me meaning I have to try and recast, and this happens on loop about 5 times until I eventually get a big spell off, its worth it for the damage though as long as you have plenty of healing items.
Finally the default PC controls seem like they would be bad but after using them for a while its not that bad and actually starts to make sense why they designed it that way. However in menus it feels slightly consoley and using mouse and keyboard you will accidentally exit out of menus thinking you can right click for a context menu to pop up but the context menu is left click and right click closes the menu, so a few things to wrap you head around and get use to.

Conclusion:
If you can run the game, its is honestly an amazing game and you will thoroughly enjoy it if you are into RPG's. I hope they patch a few things like the carry weight and controls, and I'm really looking forward to more content and DLC for this game. I'm going to be enjoying this for a good few months and will definitely replay to try different choices and classes.

100% GOTY

Played since Alpha. The game used to get boring pretty quickly, but after many years of updates, a determined dev team and a resilient community, the game is at a really good place at the moment and will only get better. It has a unique charm you can't really find in any other game. Strongly recommend anyone picks it up and gives it a go.

Absolute classic game, ages fairly well with some minor tweaks. This is a must play for everyone that is into RPGs and is a key peace of gaming history.

Tried cooking how I would in real life in the sandbox mode, but when you cut an ingredient, they become seperate objects in the game engine. This isn't bad in itself, but when you put all of those ingredients into a pot and end up with maybe 50 objects in one pot, whenever you look at that pot, it will tank your FPS insanely, making the game unplayable if you are going for realism. Would be much better if when you added an ingredient to a container, the model gets deleted from the game world and its taste values get added to a single object representing the dish as a whole. Also the controls are very difficult to use and there are many common ingredients missing, like peas. They give you soy sauce and sesame oil which clearly lean towards East Asian style dishes, but the game doesn't have noodles or rice?

A lot of people give the AC series flak. This Game deserves non of it. This new title has reinvented the AC series, changing it from a counter button masher to a proper hack 'n' slash which dirastically improve gameplay all the time, maintaining a gripping story line of a man and his Mrs. against the world. Strongly recommend this one, by far the best in the series gameplay wise yet.

played this game for 2 years now. Its still amazing, a timeless masterpiece. <3
- 2017

** EDIT SEPT 2020: **

This didn't age well ... Its time has ended, I will not create an Epic account which has Ts&Cs I don't agree with in order to play a game I have payed for.