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Have you ever wanted to be a cool egyptologist that tries to recover hidden relics? Yes? Awesome because this game will let you do that while getting chased by an angry Mejai whos slumber you interrupted.

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I remember when this game was released into Early Access after the initial Phasmophobia hype and I wanted to buy it back then already but only ended up buying it this year after the official release and I don't regret it.

Your goal is to figure out which ghost Mejai haunts the tomb you're in.
After you did that your task is to yoink the relic out of the inner tomb which angers the Mejai and results into their manifestation. Depending on which Mejai it is, they will actively hunt you down - some of which have a keen sense of hearing, some fear the light and so on.

After you yoinked the relic you want to escape but you can't because the entry to the tomb is shut and you will need to find the right lever to open the door of the tomb.
That's it right? Figure out what kind of Mejai it is, yoink their relic, find the lever and bail.

Yes but you can go one step further and banish the Mejai which requires you to solve a puzzle and you have to bring some items to the lower level of the tomb for the banishment to work - there's a lot to do and the gameplay loop, that reminds me of Phasmophobia and Demonologist, is simple but great.

You can also collect lore pages and finish your treassure collection.
You can upgrade your gear and you even can buy pets which give you some neat passive abilities like being faster or negating the poison effect - and yes, you can pat them.

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I recommend to play Forewarned with friends since there are some cool mechanics that kind of fall flat when you play alone. Also, don't worry about dying, there is always a way to come back to the world of the living even if it's with a twist.

"The ancient texts suggest there's a way to banish the evil that haunts these ruins by performing a ritual in the tomb's lowest level." - Some text from a dead egyptologist

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Mullet Mad Jack is a fast paced boomer-shooter roguelite set in the year 2095.

Story

The game is set in the year of 2095 in which robot billionaires have taken over the world and humans are highly addicted to dopamine. The player controls Jack who is a so-called moderator who was hired by Peace Corp. to rescue the Influencer Princess who is being held hostage in a massive skyscraper filled with killer robots. The princess is located 10 floors above you and you only have 10 seconds to reach the exit of each floor, sounds easy right?

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Personal Note

I played the demo of Mulled Mad Jack earlier this year and it instantly hooked me despite not being a huge fan of boomer-shooters but the fast paced action and the setting itself just made me like the demo a lot when I played it.

The game itself was released not too long after I’ve played the demo and I purchased it fairly shortly after the release. The game feels good. It’s fast paced and the gameplay loop is straight forward: Your timer ticks down, killing robots gives time – dopamine goes brr; or something like that.

Quite honestly the story itself is okay but nothing special, right? It kind of has the whole Mario vibe. You finish the 10 floors; you defeat a boss and the princess is in another castle on another floor. Despite this sounding a bit whack, the story has certainly its moments, especially the epilogue and the whole premise of the game itself is quite interesting.

The gameplay loop is satisfying. The bosses are quite simple but can be a challenge on higher difficulties. Clearing a floor gives you an opportunity to buy new guns or new passive effects and defeating a boss grants you some permanent upgrades – so pretty standard roguelite elements that mix well with the whole fast boomer-shooter gameplay.

The upgrades that you get after every floor feel fair and nice. If you have a good gun and some good upgrades you will probably do more than well – especially in the endless mode in which your timer gets reduced by 1 second every 10 floors which makes the game harder after you’ve reached floor 40 since you will only have 7 seconds to complete the level; that means that getting hit and not instantly killing a robot could be fatal.

The art-style, the graphics, the music and the overall vibe of the game are great. It’s essentially a retro anime with a beefy male protagonist that yells those 90s action movie slogans every so often.

The length of the game isn’t too crazy either. It took me around 3 hours to finish the game which is alright since there is the previously mentioned endless mode in which you can unlock some more cosmetics and if you like to go for achievements there is a few of them that require you to play through the game on higher difficulties and such – so there is replay value for sure. I hope that there will me some more content update in the future though.

Speaking of different difficulties: There’s also a difficulty which removes the timer and changes the gameplay from a fast first-person-shooter to a boomer-shooter that let’s you play the game without needing to worry about the timer and such. I personally think it’s a nice idea but it’s certainly not meant to be played like this but it might be fun for some people that have beaten the game already and want to try something new. There’s also an achievement for completing the whole game in that mode.

Rating

Pros
• The story is okay but has its moments
  
• Great aesthetics
  
• Great soundtrack that fits the vibe
  
• Nice voice acting
  
• Nice mix of boomer-shooter and roguelite
  
• Endless mode
  
• Upgrades feel fair

Cons
• A bit short

Conclusion

Is Mullet Mad Jack worth your money? Yeah sure. It depends on what you want from a game.

If you go after the whole “1 Euro = 1 Hour” thing I’d say that it’s best to buy it on sale if you only plan on playing through it once without messing around with harder difficulties or with the endless mode.

For me personally, I bought it with the 20% off deal and I have to say that it’s worth it for me. I will probably mess around with the endless mode a bit and hope that the developers add some more content in the future since it’s a pretty good game that has a cool setting and great aesthetics.

There should be a demo available so you could just mess around with that before you decide on getting it or not.

7.9 / 10

“Why is it always 10 floors?” - Jack

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Dredge is a fishing adventure game in which you uncover mysterious secrets that should best be forgotten.

Story

The story of Dredge is pretty straight forward: You play as a fisherman that accepted a job which leads you to a small costal town called Greater Marrow. Sudden fog makes it hard to navigate safely to the town and you end up wrecking your ship but the major of Greater Marrow offers you a new ship for some simple and fair work.

Soon after accepting the Major’s offer, the player starts realizing that this job is not as simple as it seemed at first. Strange fog appears after midnight. Strange ships sail around in the dark. You hear random horns and the fish you caught in the late hours of the day are mysterious and deformed.

After dredging up a mysterious artifact, the player encounters a strange man who calls himself the collector. The self-proclaimed collector has a nice little job for you but everything about it is as strange as the things you keep encountering, will you follow through with your newly acquired task or will you try to avoid it?

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Personal Note

I bought Dredge last year but ended up refunding it at first because I wasn’t in the mood for a game like this. During this year’s summer sale, I purchased it again and gave it another shot and I’m glad that I did.

The game is quite relaxing and the story is slowly unraveling a somewhat sinister plot but I mostly enjoyed the progression and fishing of the game which are both main aspects of the gameplay loop – you fish to earn money and to finish quests that you receive from a bunch of different characters and you dredge to collect materials to upgrade your ship but you also use the dredge mechanic to complete quests. The gameplay loop is pretty simple but feels good and keeps you going.

One of the quests is rewarding you with a camera which unlocks the photo mode of the game. You can do this relatively early but I would advise you to do it only after you have one of the better engines so you can get there quicker and complete the quest in one day. The photo mode itself is pretty basic but it works well and gets the job done.

Every region comes with their own challenges and requirements for fishing. You have to use special fishing rods to fish in certain regions but most of the upgrades are pretty easy to get and if you don’t rush the main story too much, you will have plenty of money and resources to upgrade your ship.

Upgrading your ship and collecting resources for doing so gets somewhat tedious after a while, especially in the mid to late-game of Dredge.

It took me about 10 hours to play through Dredge and I fully upgraded my ship and spend quite some time on fishing to make money and on dredging to get resources which makes me think that just going for the main quests would probably cut the playtime in half.

As of writing this review, it’s just fair to mention that I haven’t completed the game fully yet – that means that despite finishing the main story twice for both endings, upgrading the ship fully and completing all of the puzzles, there’s still some side quests that I haven’t finished yet and aim on finishing before trying to 100% this game in the near future.

Another fair remark is that I hoped that both endings would be a bit better. I really enjoyed playing through the game so I’m hopeful that the already released DLC called “The Pale Reach” and the upcoming DLC, which will be released in August this year, can satisfy the craving I have for Dredge.

Rating

Pros
• Nice story
  
• Simple but moody graphics
  
• Nice soundtrack
  
• Pretty relaxing game
  
• A bunch of fish to collect
  
• Lovecraftian monsters
  
• Simple photo mode

Cons
• Upgrading your ship feels kind of tedious
  
• Relatively short

Conclusion

Is Dredge worth picking up? If you like cozy games that have some slight horror elements to it or if you’re a fan of Lovecraftian stuff, then I would recommend you the game for sure.

If you’re just looking for a nice little indie title to play through, I would also recommend you this game. Grab it on sale if you think that 24,99€ is a bit steep for the amount of content you end up getting.

7.7 / 10

“Fisherman! What is it? You look a touch troubled – is the fog starting to get to you?” – The Major of Greater Marrow

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Probably one of the cooler factions if you just purely talk about aesthetics.
Who doesn't like pirates? Now mix that with undead & sea monsters and a bit of vampirism & necromancy and you get the perfect combination of fantasy pirates that are ready to get ya booty.

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This faction is honestly pretty cool. The DLC itself is a bit expensive but for sure woth to get whenever it's on sale.

This is what Total War: PHARAOH could have been.

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I like the lizard homies and their newly aquired space lasers but giving the funny rat people nukes is the best part of this DLC.

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Rotwood is a roguelite dungeon crawler that you can play solo or with up to three friends.

Story

Do we really care about the story in roguelite games? Yeah? Okay, here we go. The story is quite simple: The world was dragged into chaos and the main character meets up with a bunch of other people that try to save the world – yeah that’s pretty much it. There isn’t too much depth to the story and that’s fine since it’s a dungeon crawler with roguelite elements which excels at exactly that.

Personal Note

I’ve played the demo version of Rotwood in 2023 and was quite happy with it. The art-style, which Klei Entertainment is known for, is adorable and fits to the overall vibe of the game. The gameplay itself was already pretty decent and worked well.

Fast forwarding a year: It’s 2024 and Rotwood was released into Early Access and I have to say that it’s fun. I played it with a friend and alone and honestly, playing it together with friends is probably the way to go. Not only is it more fun, but you can also just help each other with the grind and you have a little safety net you can bounce on in case you die a bit too quick – the safety net are your friends of course.

Every biome has different mobs and different bosses which means that you sometimes have to change up your gear and strategy to get through those different biomes without too many issues.

Bosses in Rotwood are a bit hit or miss. Some bosses are easy, some have mechanics that you have to do if you want to succeed and some are just cheeseable way too easy if the rng is on your side. I like that you can cheese an entire boss fight but also kind of dislike that the core mechanic is way too stressful for such an adorable little dungeon crawler.

There’s also some progression that is bound to the different weapons that change the way you play. And there are some customization options for your character which is pretty neat.

Rating

Pros
• Neat graphics and aesthetics
  
• Good soundtrack
  
• Nice biomes, weapons and gear
  
• Enemy and boss variety
  
• Enough content for your money

Cons
• Bosses are hit or miss
  
• Early Access

Conclusion

Is Rotwood worth your money? If you like dungeon crawlers with roguelite elements that come with a unique-ish and adorable art-style – sure!

The game itself isn’t expensive and it’s still in Early Access which means that there is more content coming.

As of writing this review (16.07.2024), there is a little beta going on, in which players can mess around with new powers. There’s also a new biome coming soon.

7.7 / 10

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This should be a toggleable option in the game itself and not a paid DLC.
If the developers truly want to put it in the shop as DLC it should be free & available for everyone.

The only reason why I'm giving this a positive review is the fact that I got this DLC for free because I own Total War: WARHAMMER I: Blood for the Blood God I and Total War: WARHAMMER II: Blood for the Blood God II.

Despite me getting this DLC for free, I think that it's a scummy move from Creative Assembly to put this behind a paywall since it's more expensive than the blood & gore packs from the previous two games and that's why I would advice you to purchase the Blood for the Blood God I or Blood for the Blood God II DLC if you own either or both of the previous two Total War: WARHAMMER games.

I hope that the developers of the Total War franchise realize that making a bit of money from DLCs like this isn't the way to go.

Maybe the only reason why they put DLCs like this behind a paywall is to show off that the main games are safe for kids to play since it's USK 12 and PEGI 16 instead of USK 18 and PEGI 18.

Creative Assembly's current game Total War: PHARAOH has a paid blood DLC as well - sad to see that this trend continues; but at least people on Steam get rewards for reviews like this, eh?

This should be a toggleable option in the game itself and not a paid DLC.
If the developers truly want to put it in the shop as DLC it should be free & available for everyone.

The only good thing about this is that you will get Total War: WARHAMMER III: Blood for the Blood God III for free if you own this or Total War: WARHAMMER I - Blood for the Blood God I.

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This should be a toggleable option in the game itself and not a paid DLC.
If the developers truly want to put it in the shop as DLC it should be free & available for everyone.

The only good thing about this is that you will get Total War: WARHAMMER III: Blood for the Blood God III for free if you own this or Total War: WARHAMMER II - Blood for the Blood God II.

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