Recent reviews by Skimt

This is probably the closest you will get to the Dragon Age: Origins and Knights of The Old Republic type games.

It has the table top action, which is slightly more hardcore than the aforementioned (relocating during combat costs action points), and it offers a story, alas not nearly as great as the aforementioned. It also offers a wide variety of abilities to choose from, and it 'seemingly' has optional paths to accomplish ones goals. Although, the latter is only the case if you treat the game like a puzzle, and have the right characters aboard to solve said puzzles, or right classes, or skills.

You CAN brute force your way through the game, but that is also the most hardcore path that results in the most wipes. The reason why it is the most hardcore path is not because the developers did a good job, on the contrary, they didn't scale levels or scenes properly. Once you get past the introduction, you will begin to find yourself out-leveled and out-manned, causing wipes that really shouldn't occur that early in the game. What I found myself doing in the end was tab out of the game, open my browser, and google what level each area on the island was, and then did these areas in order to gain the levels and gear to proceed to each area, to have any chance of surviving combat. I don't find that clever, or puzzling, I just find it to be poorly designed, especially when it's THAT early in the game.

I do, however, from experience know that if you manage to get over that hurdle, major hurdle, which involves flipping the developers the finger, you can end up sinking A LOT of hours into this game perfecting classes and routes.

I'm going to recommend this game because its overall quality was about what I expected, but they really ought to change the name of the game from "Raft" to "Eating and Drinking Simulator" because if you're not fishing, to eat, or eating, you're putting water in a cup, to drink, or drinking, or placing seeds and putting water in a cup, to water the seeds, to eat or drink, or eating, or drinking, or accidentally drinking salt water because the interface isn't quite indicative enough.

The game is probably scary, but thanks to having lived through the nightmare that was my mother, and later on, my ex-girlfriend, it's just a game of walk-in-circles-indefinitely-until-you-accidentally-stumble-upon-the-thing-you-need-whilst-annoying-music-and-background-fx-is-constantly-trying-to-manipulate-your-emotional-state.

I'm giving it my recommendation, however, since it stays true to the franchise.

The game doesn't work anymore (the game stalls and crashes every 30 turns), and they've abandoned the project, as this has been going on for months yet they pretend it isn't an issue and are launching new sale campaigns on it, meanwhile it's an issue for 99% of consumers. They did the same with Civilization: Beyond Earth, which is a game that hasn't ran in many years. You literally cannot launch that game anymore.

Now they've even added an EULA that treats the consumer as THEIR product, giving them the right to sell OUR property to anyone they want, pretending that this is a social media platform that they gave us for free. We paid for this product, and we can't even play it.

It's theft, breaking and entering, intrusion, doxing, you name it. This is the worst company in history, toppling even Bethesda and Hello Games. They are clearly not showing any remorse. Do not support Firaxis. Have them banned from Steam, if you can, and anywhere else you can think of. For the love of god, do not buy their products.

The graphics are fine.

What's awkward is when you go from using the bow in your Oculus home, which is an intuitive way of using a bow, to using a bow in Skyrim, which is probably as far from intuitive as you can get. None of the controllers are intuitive in this game. Like grabbing objects, and menu buttons. It works, but, Jesus, I could think of at least 10 ways to improve this, with a mod, blindfolded. Which comes to show that Bethesda would be long dead without the modding community to help them create 90% of their games.

You know how when you step on skeletons in regular Skyrim your character spasses out? Well, prepare to get motion sick when you try to pick up from tables and shelves and what not, too.

Other than that, the game is well worth trying, at least now when it's on, what, 70% discount?

I'm giving this game my recommendation because the game is of triple-a quality, developed by people who clearly have a passion for this game and the genre it belongs.

If the game lacks anything, anything at all, then it would have to be something in the atmosphere, something unknown, that you may perhaps only find in Diablo 2. I cannot pin-point what the problems is to be exact. It just feels like something is missing.

The nuisance that I personally have with this game is a combination of the skill tree, the skill gems, and socket/color combinations, which make it virtually impossible to create a character that I can feel content with. The skill tree is perfect in terms of options, and more games should take from its design, but you will never be done leveling up characters, and never be done grinding for gear, ever. In one hand, you want end-game content, but in the other hand, you are slapped rather early on in the face that you will never see an end in sight, and if you're like me you'll lose interest before you reach max level.

You should, however, give this game a chance. The game is of very high quality, and it's free.

This game does not need me to introduce it. You need to buy it, or get off the internet.

The game does not launch on Windows 10, and even if you somehow find a way to launch the game, the game suffers from major optimization issues.

These are problems that have persisted since the game was released in 2014, because the development team has not once released a single patch since the game was released in 2014.

Your screen gets covered in watermarks to force you to buy DLC's worth four times as much as the game itself, if not more. The interface and controls are not intuitively made, so you will constantly be lost as to how to do the most basic thing, like toggling your scope and lowering your weapon. And you need to befriend a veteran of multiplayer in order to learn anything about it.

If you buy the game, half-expect to have to buy EVERYTHING that the developer has ever developed, and that you will spend most of your time in singleplayer which, let's be real here, is not why you bought the game.

The only thing this game is missing, really, is the ability to build bases from junk and expand safe zones where refugees can live (to build a better future). But, that's another game.

The graphics are beautiful, but you may have to invest in a graphics card.

You get the feeling that you can reach out and touch everything that is in this world, thanks to their climbing system that allows you to climb mountain sides, fences, buildings, and even zombies, which I think primarily is what makes this game feel like it's still a next-generation game to this day, four years later.