Steven Scaife


107 games reviewed
64.9 average score
60 median score
45.5% of games recommended
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Jan 31, 2019

The world the game shares with its predecessors is detailed and bizarre in equal measure.

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Feb 16, 2019

The game ultimately seems less interested in the process of how humanity breaks down than its grisly end results.

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Feb 28, 2019

The game not only gets you to behave like a rampaging gorilla, it forces you to adapt like one.

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Mar 4, 2019

The Occupation's fierce commitment to immersing the player in its credible world is also the game's undoing.

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Mar 14, 2019

The game masterfully uses its microcosm of the internet circa 1999 to examine the way society functions when it's extremely online.

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Apr 16, 2019

The game is ambitious for its translation mechanics and its big-picture look at the evolution of culture through the ages.

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Apr 25, 2019

The game meets the baseline level of quality we might expect from a big-budgeted joint, yet it remains a tiresome, empty experience.

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May 21, 2019

The setting of the game is the familiar stuff of science fiction, but the lens through which it's viewed is not.

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May 29, 2019

It fits together disparate genres so perfectly that you wonder how nobody thought to combine them sooner.

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Jun 1, 2019

Playing Pathologic 2 feels like suffering, and it's meant to be that way.

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Jun 26, 2019

Worse than the sheer tedium of shooting is the effect it has on the game's atmosphere.

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Jul 11, 2019

Its repetitive tasks are like the usual arbitrary gates to reach a cutscene in a mediocre video game.

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It experiments with all the weakest parts of the series and ties them together with a new, tedious progression system.

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Aug 6, 2019

The game isn't really supposed to be about anything, yet in that ambiguity it captures the specific madness of our present.

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One hopes Man of Medan will function similarly to a mediocre TV pilot for a series that only later finds its footing.

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6 / 10.0 - Concrete Genie
Oct 10, 2019

Concrete Genie is visually striking and offers a chill artistic experience, but its rote combat and by-the-numbers narrative greatly bring it down as the game progresses.

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Oct 18, 2019

The game offers one of the most fascinating, unique, and fulfilling portrayals of the human mind.

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Oct 31, 2019

The game is so zany and so mired in its traditional progression systems that it ceases to say anything of note.

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Dec 5, 2019

Did you know that corporations are bad? That the drudgeries of adult life are soul-crushing?

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Dec 16, 2019

Wattam communicates a poignant, refreshing, and all-too-necessary joy in the face of adversity.

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