Recent reviews by Grim

It's a cute, fun, spooky little puzzle game. Reminiscent of Daniel Mullins' games in tone and presentation, albeit not quite at the same scale. Definitely worth the $5. If my greatest complaint is that it's too short, then the rest of the game must be pretty good.

I hope the developer makes more stuff and maybe revisits this concept someday. It feels like it has lots of potential waiting to be explored.

The game is good. However, I put down a not-recommended because the online features just do not work. For whatever reason, the Steam release of the game doesn't have the access license required to use any of the online features—leaderboards, online multiplayer, hotspot check-ins, anything. It isn't that the servers are down, it's an issue specifically related to the Steam release that has existed for years.

I've spent over a month jumping through hoops with Ubisoft support trying to get my game to work as intended, and still haven't gotten a definitive response. Again, this issue has existed for YEARS based on discussions I've found while researching, and yet they can't just recognize the problem for what it is and attach the license to the Ubisoft account I created.

The single player is fun but don't buy a functionally broken product unless it's like 90% off. Ubisoft doesn't respect your money or your time.

Probably the most fun I've had with a game in a while.

Prodeus is what parents afraid of "violent" video games thought Doom was.

Solid gameplay. Innovative visual style where 3D models are dynamically rendered into 2D, pixelated sprites akin to the classic Doom graphics. Great map design. Gratuitous amounts of blood.

10/10 highly recommend, even as someone who isn't a huge fan of "boomer shooters".

TL;DR Very good concept for a Zachtronics-esque puzzler, but I wish there was more of it.

The Signal State is one of the closest games I've found to emulating the style of Zachtronics' puzzle-programming games. You don't do any written programming; The puzzles are performed entirely by connecting modules of various function to one another with wires. Each wire carries a voltage value that ranges from 100 to -100. I encourage anyone who's interested in the game's concept to try the demo and see for yourself.

While I love the game's concept and the Zachtronics feel, it carries only 41 puzzles as of its current version, several of which are straightforward tutorials, and the overall experience took me about 5 and a half hours to complete. None of them are quite as brain-bustingly difficult as the ones you'd find in Spacechem, EXAPUNKS or Shenzhen I/O, perhaps due to the game's comparatively simple system. While several puzzles were difficult and complex, none of them truly pushed the game's self-imposed limitations and forced me to get creative in order to work around them. This may be a selling point to you if you find yourself frustrated by Zachtronics' more difficult challenges, but personally I found myself longing for more.

The game promises a sandbox mode and workshop support in the coming future, which I hope will come with additional modules to bolster the game's relatively small selection. For the time being, I think this game has lots of potential, and does a lot of things well in its pursuit of the Zach-like genre, but if you expect a Zachtronics-sized game of similar level of challenge I'm afraid to say you won't find it. I still recommend it, but personally I would wait for it on sale, at least until more content updates arrive.

Build roads. Connect houses to businesses. Make your system as efficient as possible to ensure that people can reach their destinations before they get mad. Get a new upgrade every in-game week.

Good game. Straightforward and fun.

It's a good, solid 10-hour game. Super well done, super polished, every diorama is super well-constructed. Audio design is fantastic.

Solving certain identities can be super esoteric, but technically speaking every single individual DOES have a logical method to deduce their identities, even if those methods can be hard to uncover.

Hard recommend if you like mystery-solving, unique gameplay experiences, or just games with lots of care and attention put into them.

Hard to say something about Hades that hasn't already been said. It has great art, great music, great dialogue, great gameplay, everything that makes Supergiant so great. It's not a "true" roguelike or roguelite, it's more of a narrative game with roguelite elements, so if you're looking for one of those this may not be what you want, but it's an amazing game all the same. This is one for the ages.

There's not much to say about Portal 2 that hasn't been said. I recently replayed the single player campaign, finally completed all the courses in the main co-op campaign, and have been diving into the quick play queues for community created puzzles.

The game still holds up. Good puzzles, good story, good presentation, and now a more-or-less endless amount of user-generated bonus content. If you haven't played Portal 2 yet, you really should.

The premise: A level-based puzzle platformer where you can jump into chests to access new rooms. The player character can carry one object at a time, chests included, but can't jump as high while carrying something. The end goal of each level is to reach a crystal somewhere in the various rooms, but this is made more difficult by the jump height restriction, and the fact that exiting a chest will reset its contents. Collect crystals, unlock new levels, and work towards the ultimate goal of escaping the realm, somehow.

The game contains 7 worlds, most containing around 10 levels, all but the last of which introduces a new mechanic and then weaves it into the ones introduced prior; Additionally, there are two bonus campaigns, one containing sixteen levels and the other containing twenty, both of which revolve around their own gimmick along with most of those found in the main game.

The review proper: Recursed is a really good puzzle game for how relatively unknown it is. In the vein of Portal or Baba is You, it takes an unusual premise for a game ("Jump into a chest to enter a new room") and creates a series of increasingly brain-bending, challenges from it. The puzzles can be challenging and oftentimes obtuse, but in a good way; Very rarely are engine quirks, cheap tricks, or timing relied on to solve the puzzles, meaning that discovering the solution to any given level is always a satisfying affair (and the few which do rely on such things are entirely optional outside of 100% completion).

The game does a great job of introducing its gimmicks. As mentioned earlier, each world introduces a new mechanic, starting with a few simple puzzles to explore the nuances of the mechanic before weaving the new mechanic into the previously introduced systems. The puzzles are incredibly well-crafted, and even if the game doesn't look visually stunning from its 8-bit style, the gameplay is flawless. Definitely deserves the $8, and a lot more popularity. If you like Baba Is You or similar games that like to rattle your brain, I can't recommend Recursed enough.