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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May 7, 2023 - Day 127 - RePlay Review
Total RePlays: 3

Game: Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus

Platform: Steam
Release Date: Nov 16, 2018
Library Date: Sep 7, 2019
Playtime: 55m

I tried Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus at some stage last year, and I hated it; so much so, that it did what I do with any of the games that I "nope" out of: leave them running until I've got all the card drops, sell the cards on the marketplace, then uninstall it, and hide it from my library.

I reinstalled it today to see if maybe it made sense to me now, and it absolutely does.

While it's not as pretty as Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters, it does make sense to me now, but it's just not quite as engaging as CGD.

Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus is:

3: OK

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June 8, 2023 - Day 159 - RePlay Review
Total RePlays: 4

Game: Ghostwire: Tokyo

Platform: Steam
Release Date: Mar 25, 2022
Library Date: Nov 25, 2022
Playtime: 20m (Total: 9h25m)

Ghostwire: Tokyo is a first-person action-adventure RPG, set in a rain-drenched nighttime Tokyo, that's as haunted as you are.

You play as Akito, a young man attempting to visit his sister in hospital, when a supernatural occurrence leads to the entire population of Tokyo vanishing, and Akito having a near-fatal accident.

Immediately after the accident, Akito is possessed by the spirit of a detective named KK... who'd mistakenly believed the accident to have been fatal.

You and your new sidekick KK must now try and solve the mystery of what happened to the populace, while taking on all manner of supernatural creatures, while avoiding the ever-present "corruption".

This is not a horror game, per se, but is horror-adjacent. The wet, nighttime Tokyo streets are gorgeous, the mobs are creepy as hell, and the sound effects send chills up my spine.

Best of all, you can pet the dogs (and read their minds).

Ghostwire is this month's AAA title for the Humble Choice bundle, and once again, a AAA title I already own. I'm going to give away the Steam key with the details in the next post.

Ghostwire: Tokyo is:

5: Excellent

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