My rating system is as follows (well known games as examples):

0: Dead - mainly dead multiplayer games, abandoned games, or stuff that just crashes on my PC. (eg. Deus Ex: GOTY)

1: Nope - Either it's just rubbish, or it's supremely frustrating; or I just hated it; not playing again. (eg. Dirt Rally 2.0)

2: Meh - Maybe I wasn't in the right mood/frame of mind, or not my kind of game, or it's just meh. These generally get a second go at some stage, but are at risk of deletion. (eg. Train Valley 2)

3: OK - Something that kind of grabbed me, that I'd play again if in the mood. (eg. DC Universe Online)

4: Good - This is actually a blurry category; some of these might be "OK", some border on "Excellent"; but these are the ones that I come back to (or want to) more than once, and they're good quality games with most of the rough edges knocked off (eg. Borderlands 3, Warframe, Relicta, Slay the Spire)

5: Excellent - These are the ones that just keep dragging me back. They're the games I'm thinking about while playing a different game. Right now that's Ghostwire: Tokyo.

These categories can change over time - Warframe went from Meh, to OK, to Good, to Excellent, back to Good.

Using this toot as an anchor point for the #Project365ONG reviews, and for the January reviews.

If you want to suggest a game, please reply to this toot.

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Jan 15, 2023 - Day 15 - RePlay Review
Total RePlays: 1

Game: Frostpunk

Platform: Steam PC
Release Date: Apr 24, 2018
Library Date: Mar 18, 2019
Last Played: Sept 8, 2019 - 1225 days ago (3y4m7d)
Playtime: 3.9h (Total: 9.2h)

Frostpunk is a survival-city-builder-strategy game set in a steampunk post-apocalyptic 19th Century world where you need to build and manage the last city on an entirely snowbound world.

I remember finding the idea of Frostpunk fascinating, and bought it as soon as it went on sale.

Then I played it, and... it IS fascinating, but it's quite intense and it really stressed me out.

Playing again today; yes, it's still intense. It turns out that it's also one of those strategy games that you look up and realise you've lost almost four hours.

Frostpunk is:

5: Excellent

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Feb 6, 2023 - Day 37 - RePlay Review
Total RePlays: 2

Game: Conan Exiles

Platform: Steam PC
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Library Date: Aug 27, 2018
Last Played: May 26, 2020 - 986 days ago (2y8m11d)
Playtime: 51m (Total: 1h19m)

I fundamentally misunderstood Conan Exiles the last time I played it, during the pandemic. After nearly 30 minutes, I gave up.

It was the most confusing MMORPG I'd ever played.

Because, as I realised today, it's NOT an MMO.

It's a survival game. Not really sure how I managed to make that category error, but I judged it through different eyes today, right up until the point it crashed, due to a corrupted file.

As a survival game, it doesn't seem too bad, but as per yesterday's NewPlay review for Trailmakers, these kind of games don't do that much for me.

I suspect I need to read up more, because given the IP involved, I'm sure there's something I'm missing, but maybe I'm not, and it IS just Minecraft in a Conan-skin.

Conan Exiles is:

3: OK

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