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Let’s School Review: Making the Grade
Let’s School is a school management simulator that I won’t call “School Tycoon” because there’s no real campaign mode. Instead of the flood of scenarios you get in something like Two Point Campus, this has two maps, a bunch of difficulty settings, and three victory goals that you’ll try to work towards. It certainly doesn’t…
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Wavetale Review – Gravity Crash
Wavetale is something like Gravity Rush by way of a 2000s platformer. Its art style, story, setting, combat, and movement are all very similar to Gravity Rush in roughly descending order. The 2000s platformer comparison comes from its puzzles and boss fights, which will feel familiar if you’ve played Ratchet & Clank, Battle for Bikini…
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Sun Haven Review – Laboring The Point
Sun Haven is clearly trying to be fantasy Stardew Valley. If you imagine SV with two extra towns (with their own farms), fantasy races, and a bunch of overworld combat areas instead of just the mines, you’ll pretty much have exactly what SH is. At first, it’s great. There’s a much better sense of exploration…
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Desktop Soccer 2 Review – Time Wasting
Desktop Soccer 2 is a sequel that somehow makes just about everything about the already quite bad Desktop Soccer worse. I wouldn’t have bothered buying it if not for it being $3 and only having positive Steam reviews. I probably should have known better given that one of the other reviews praises the game for…
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Sea of Stars Review – Sailing the Standard Seas
Sea of Stars is this year’s big indie Kickstarter JRPG, and it has a lot in common with last year’s Chained Echoes. That game was a modern reimagining of Final Fantasy XII by way of Skies of Arcadia and Xenogears. This is Chrono Trigger via Super Mario RPG and perhaps Star Ocean. SoS at least…
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Coral Island Review – Stardew Factory
Coral Island is a farming sim that, at face value, is basically Stardew Valley or Rune Factory but with a tropical setting and ocean diving. That first impression is a little over simplified, but at the same time, there’s basically no chance that you’ll like CI unless you enjoy both of those games. Although it…
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Civilization IV: Colonization Review – Death, Liberty, and Taxes
Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: Colonization is a standalone Civilization IV spinoff that aims to simulate running the New World colonies of a European power from founding through to independence. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it reminds me a lot of the Anno games in that it is almost entirely about creating production and export chains. The game is…
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Dave the Diver Review – Low Pressure Diving
Dave the Diver is a laid back game about diving into a semi-randomized ocean trench in order to catch loads of exotic fish to supply a sushi restaurant. Or, at least, that’s what it is at the beginning. Dave will still be a diver at the end of the game, but along the way he’ll…
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Riptide GP: Renegade Review – Dead or Alive, but Mostly Dead
Riptide GP: Renegade is the sequel to Riptide GP2, although you’d be forgiven for thinking that this is the earlier game in the series. Renegade starts off strong with some interesting tracks featuring fun events like a rocket taking off or a naval battle that change the race with each lap. It actually seemed pretty…
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Summer Party Time Review – Budget Pool Party
Summer Party Time is a yet another collection of minigames from Sat-box, makers of many collections of cheap minigames that I keep buying for some reason. This one is basically their earlier Our Summer Sports except that it’s mostly silly Mario Party-style games instead of Olympic events. You’ll play twelve games in a row, get…