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Vampire Survivors - (2022 game)

2023-01-29

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(on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1794680/Vampire_Survivors/

A cheap knockoff of Smash TV.

Garbage. Has no victory condition. After some time you are guaranteed to die.

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(XCOM > on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/7760/XCOM_UFO_Defense/
was on microprose.com
was on mythosgames.com

Aliens drop by Earth and evil Humans shoot them down and mug them.

Nothing about the interface makes enough sense, and there are no hints as to how things work. It could have been made much better, even back in the day. I'm not going to forgive how bad it is, especially since there was zero effort by Steam to actually fix basic things like aspect ratio.

aka UFO: Enemy Unknown
- (in Europe)
TODO - There is another, XCOM:Enemy Unknown but it appears to be a remake/something and with DLC content:
- https://store.steampowered.com/app/200510/XCOM_Enemy_Unknown/

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(on Wikipedia)
https://starcraft2.com/en-us/
https://starcraft2.com/en-gb/

A 4x game.

Recommended, but I don't like it; I'm just not into this any more.

properly titled StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty

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Warstone TD

2020-04-26

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/562500/Warstone_TD/

A pretty basic tower defense game.

Pass.

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South Park - The Stick of Truth - (2014 game)

2020-02-21

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South Park - The Stick of Truth - (2014 game) image

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(on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/213670/
http://www.stickoftruth.com/

An annoying click-timed game with no ability to easily sell junk inventory.

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X-Morph - Defense

2019-12-30

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(on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/408410/XMorph_Defense/
http://www.xmorphdefense.com/

A basic tower defense game, except you have a ship.

Yawn.

Properly titled X-Morph: Defense

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Fictorum - (2017 game)

2019-11-15

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/503620/Fictorum/
https://www.gog.com/game/fictorum
https://fictorum.com/

Be a wizard that runs around casting spells.

Really hard to play, but because its gameplay is bad. A new game, but it looks and feels like a PlayStation 2 game. Get it if it's on sale for a laugh, otherwise don't bother with this one.

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Armada 2526 - (2009 game)

2019-10-12

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(on Wikipedia)
http://www.ntronium.com/Armada2526%20Home.html

The spiritual successor to Armada 2525[doesn't exist].

Boring to me. I probably would have liked it well enough back in the day.

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The bits and pieces thing makes no sense.

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.2k.com/en-US/game/the-bureau-xcom-declassified/

You are part of an elite squad who freeze time to move near cover and get shot in the head.

I guess they didn't play their own game, because there are obvious flaws. This would have been more fun if they got rid of the whole moving around like an RPG. Like the old X-COM ga-- oh wait, the old games are just better. Why was this game made?