Alec Meer


162 games reviewed
83.3 average score
80 median score
83.3% of games recommended
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Jan 30, 2020

For it was – it is – unforgettable.

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Unscored - It's Winter
Apr 2, 2019

It’s Winter is short and without much to ‘do’, which is clearly a problem for some folks who want to feel they’ve wrung the most value out of their spending money, but I wouldn’t want it more complex and I certainly wouldn’t want it longer: that would break the spell.

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Unscored - Islanders
Apr 4, 2019

It’s all ever so tranquil on the surface, and never once made my cortisone levels spike, but there’s a fierce brain throbbing away beneath those sedate low-poly models.

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Unscored - Dawn of Man
Mar 5, 2019

Dawn Of Man’s great triumph is that, a dozen hours after I’d picked my first berry, forging my first iron sword felt like an immortal accomplishment.

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Unscored - Astroneer
Mar 1, 2019

Its jigsaw pieces, jolly and randomly-scattered as they might be, only assemble in a finite amount of ways.

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Unscored - Slay The Spire
Jan 23, 2019

A drug I don’t want to quit. A miracle of design? Yeah, go on.

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Gathering Storm is a chunky collection of small remixes that amount to a big difference.

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Unscored - Bury me, my Love
Jan 15, 2019

Bury Me, My Love isn’t, first and foremost, a treaty about refugee-ism: it’s a compelling and effective game about deciding what the hell to do next.

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Unscored - Tropico 6
Mar 29, 2019

There’s plenty of stuff I’d change, especially tonally and in terms of international relationships, but I played it happily until I couldn’t see straight.

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Unscored - Kenshi
Dec 11, 2018

A game of everything, a game of nothing. Eternal, unknowable, remarkable, infuriating, Kenshi defies easy judgement. Kenshi is. I implore you to play it.

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Dec 4, 2018

I’m greedy. I want a bigger, beefier, more flexible Mutant Year Zero. But that’s because the small, linear but smart, powerful and atmospheric Mutant Year Zero I got grabbed hold of me so completely.

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Nov 28, 2018

Flashpoint is fine expansion in terms of re-engineering BattleTech for extended play

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Unscored - Insane Robots
Jul 17, 2018

It's neat, and it's much more tense than any of these screenshots make it look. In another world, it would have carried itself less like a tie-in browser game for Cbeebies and attracted a more Spire-like audience. The price of insanity, perhaps.

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Unscored - Bus Simulator 18
Jun 19, 2018

As much as I enjoyed learning the rules and rhythms of bus driving – thanks in part to the warm words of Mira Tannhauser – once that was done, I just couldn't find waters deep enough to swim in for long. On the other hand, Bus Sim 18 mostly smoothly (there are some bugs and performance issues, with patches planned) simulates what it sets out to simulate, and I don't for one moment regret experiencing that.

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Unscored - Vampyr
Jun 4, 2018

I'm left frustrated that Vampyr falls short of truly combining a smart choose-your-own-adventure game with a meaty action one.

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It functions both as a broadly traditional but significantly less rigid MMO and as a 'lost' Elder Scrolls. There's much I wish it did better, but I can't fail to be drawn in by the sheer substance of it.

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Unscored - MachiaVillain
May 16, 2018

There are a ton of great ideas here, and I particularly dig this whole concept of a management game that's about a production line for silent slaughter rather than cash-generation as such, but the best stuff can struggle to breathe through the excessive micro-management.

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Unscored - BattleTech
Apr 24, 2018

There is something great glinting just below BattleTech's dour and crusty surface. So much now depends on whether future updates will dig for it or not – I pray they do.

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Apr 17, 2018

I like it, but its snickering spirits will only haunt the tortured recesses of my mind for a few short days.

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