Recent reviews by Jq・ 🐱‍💻

It's short, and cheap (2€ on sale). Decent fun for an afternoon, if you want to visit an old FPS. I would not however buy it at current full price. This is not some hidden masterpiece, and mostly it sells on nostalgia, and the curiosity of being a Half-Life 2 copy but with a sexy lady in a bikini (game never explains what that was even about). The narrative starts at the middle (I didn't know it's a sequel apparently), and ends on cliffhanger.

There's roughly five different kinds of enemies (two humans, two mutants, and a flying drone). Two boss encounters (very boring). Only three different guns (although they have alt fire, which do add some variety to the shooting).

3 hours to complete story. There's some secrets (exactly like HL2, down to the supply boxes you have to break), but otherwise no replay value. Rather forgettable.

Yep, still good. I've played Factorio, Satisfactory, and out of the three this is my favourite.

Look, it's free. And it's got some charm to it, since it's made by Valve. Neat little demo for your first VR experience.

But also, don't expect much. VR has come a long way. There isn't much interactivity here. Longbow, and Xortex are probably the highlights. Postcards, Human Medical Scan, and Solar System have no interactivity and no dialogue (postcard are just 3D snapshots of some real places, where you can't even move freely). The robot repair room is just a 5-minute Portal short with very little interactivity (bit of a disappointment actually, I thought there'd be more). The secret shop doesn't seem to have any interactivity, and just crashes for me always at a certain scripted point (your mileage may vary, I couldn't be bothered to try to fix it).

So yeah, this isn't the same quality as the the Steam Deck tech demo Aperture Desk Job. And if you've played the Meta Quest tech demos on their headset before this (like me), there is nothing new here VR gameplay wise.

The first one was better. I liked the world map in the first one, it was a very concrete map that gave something to look at, and focus on. In this game, you just have bunch of nodes, that don't feel like connected.

The puzzle pieces themselves still have the problem from the first game with the borders. They are too thick, obscuring how big the pieces are. Way too many times while playing I was trying to find where a piece was supposed to go, only to go "seriously? It doesn't look like it fits at all!".

So why am I still recommending this? Well, it's still pretty much the same game from the first. And I liked the first one. Nice game to play while doing something else. But if you played the first one, and didn't like that: there is nothing new here.

15 hours to complete all levels, including DLC.

I'm five minutes in, and the game pops up a UI prompt that says:

"Press E to shoot laser"

I don't need to see anything else. This is my favourite video game ever now.

Edit: I have now finished the game after 6 hours (minus some secret collectibles). I was right, still the best game ever.

Dyson Sphere Program is only 17€ (almost half). Factorio is only 2€ more expensive than this (although I do have issues with the developers). Buy one of those. There's too much jank and tedium for me to recommend this. Satisfactory does a lot of things decent, but nothing particularly great.

If you don't like factory building / logistics games, then this is still that, but from a worse perspective that makes the actual building a factory a tedious and slow process. You still need to worry about ratios and resources and math (no more or less than previously mentioned games), except this time the smallest building is twice your height so you can't actually see anything.

Cheap, easy, and relaxing puzzle game (especially on sale). Screenshots and the trailer describe the game well enough. Pretty much what it says on the tin. No surprises or weird twists. There is a hard mode where the pieces are not automatically rotated, but otherwise very easy and relaxing puzzle game. Beautiful visuals and soundtrack.

Reading some of the negative reviews, if you're expecting a hardcore jigsaw puzzle game, this is not it. Glass Masquerade heavily leaning on the visual aesthetic and soundtrack for it's value. As a puzzle game it's not that special. The difficulty is rather artificially inflated with the blacked out, constantly spinning pieces. You can't even see all the pieces simultaneously.

There is also a bit of an annoyance with the puzzle piece borders. The pieces when picked up and moved around have a glowing border, which is rather wide. In some cases it can make some pieces look bigger than they are.

Personally, I'm not a puzzle gamer. I was just here for the relaxing gameplay and music, so for me this was worth enough that I bought the sequels as well.

9 hours to 100 % achievements, and do all the levels (including DLCs, on normal mode).

It's a virtual book. It's not a game. So the question is: how interested are you in behind the scenes content for Portal 2 development?

A cute little game about unpacking boxes after a move, as you follow a woman through different homes. No explicit written narrative, but there is a clear through-line seeing how her life changes over a span of two decades.

4 hours to 100 %.

Fun game. 100% in under six hours. I especially like how the game tells you where the missing collectibles are.

If I have to mention a downside, it would be the difficulty. I felt it was a bit too much on the frustrating/annoying side, with 1 hit KO. For the Hold My Beer mode I ended up changing difficulty options. It's really easy to kill yourself and end up repeating stuff a lot.

The kid mode was super cute. I wish more games would let end a game by just having me rescue cats for five minutes as a little treat.

Would buy a sequel.