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Chad Sapieha


387 games reviewed
76.0 average score
80 median score
54.8% of games recommended

Chad Sapieha's Reviews

Chad has spent nearly 20 years writing about games for newspapers, magazines, and websites. He has produced documentaries about games for national radio and has appeared as a subject matter expert on games for national television and radio broadcasts. When playing games for kids he often recruits his daughter to play with him and provide her own opinions for publication. The Last of Us is currently the post by which he measures all big budget games.
5.5 / 10.0 - Transistor
May 21, 2014

Supergiant Games' follow-up to the critically acclaimed Bastion is doggedly, aggravatingly abstruse in both narrative and game design

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Jun 5, 2014

Square Enix's Gumshoe-cum-ghost adventure had potential to be one of the most interesting games of the year, but ends up an case study in wasted potential.

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5.5 / 10.0 - Dying Light
Jan 31, 2015

It's gory as all get out and pretty intense, but you'll probably forget all that round about the 50th time you plunge to your death from a bad jump

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5.5 / 10.0 - Aaru's Awakening
Feb 25, 2015

Lumenox's first game is a treat for the eyes, but a clunky and often frustrating teleportation system weighs down the experience.

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Feb 14, 2024

Nintendo's latest remake is good fun but asking $65 for a remake of a short 2D puzzle game is asking a lot in these troubled times. Read on.

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6 / 10.0 - Gotham Knights
Oct 21, 2022

WB Games Montreal's game about the Dark Knight's proteges is playable but lacks the spark that made the Batman games so special. Read more.

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6 / 10.0 - Rage 2
May 16, 2019

The imaginatively gory firefights are top notch. Too bad that creativity didn't seep into the rest of the experience

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6 / 10.0 - Anthem
Mar 1, 2019

Edmonton-based BioWare's first kick at the cooperative online shooter can needs a little more oomph

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Telltale's take on Guardians of the Galaxy probably isn't what most fans of the film will expect, and the differences may prove off-putting

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6 / 10.0 - Farpoint
May 23, 2017

If you plan to buy Sony's short, pricey, and unimaginative VR shooter, best to think of it as an investment in a pretty awesome gun peripheral

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6 / 10.0 - Yooka Laylee
Apr 10, 2017

The nostalgia is real in this Kickstarter success story from a group of ex-Rare staffers. But so is the clunky camera and repetitious backtracking

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6 / 10.0 - Eagle Flight
Nov 9, 2016

It’s fun to be a bird for a while, but monotonous play and a sky high price tag keep Eagle Flight from soaring

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6 / 10.0 - Nebulous
Sep 16, 2016

Imagine an astronaut pretty much the polar opposite of Mark Watney. That’s who’s going to be your companion through Namazu’s sci-fi puzzler

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Not a bad way for Amiibo collectors to put their plastic people to some use, but a bit of a wash for everyone else

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6 / 10.0 - 101 Ways To Die
Mar 29, 2016

Four Door Lemon's house of bloody conundrums tasks players to "kill with style," but doesn't truly allow us to exploit our imaginations

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Michonne is one of the TWD's most fascinating characters, and her mini-series deserves to be more than a retread of well-known territory

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Oct 9, 2015

Nintendo's latest Chibi-Robo adventure transforms our tiny, sweet robot house cleaner into a long-leaping, whip-slinging mechanical alien fighter

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6 / 10.0 - Amplitude HD
Jan 19, 2016

It's like that slightly off record from your favourite band that you spun a few times to start but now rarely play

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6 / 10.0 - Fate Tectonics
Sep 18, 2015

Indie world builder puts players at the mercy of petulant deities with unknowable minds

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6 / 10.0 - ReCore
Sep 13, 2016

Strategic combat and innovative platforming suffer at the hands of ridiculous load times and buggy boss fights

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