Shannon P. Drake


73 games reviewed
75.9 average score
80 median score
67.1% of games recommended
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Oct 31, 2017

Play it if you dig a spooky atmosphere and don’t play it if you’re tired of “The Cat’s in the Cradle” in video game form

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4 / 5 - Code 7
Sep 6, 2017

Ultimately, whether you enjoy Code 7 is going to come down to how much you enjoy reading, pondering, and solving puzzles, and how much you’re willing to buy into the exceptional atmosphere.

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4 / 5 - Nantucket
Feb 8, 2018

A surprisingly compelling roguelike about the pleasures and perils of hunting whales.

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Jan 22, 2018

Great music, pixel-style art, a cyberpunk aesthetic, and the mellow feeling of shooting the shit at the bar. What’s not to love?

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Feb 28, 2018

Stellaris is finally where it was meant to be. God save our free time.

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4 / 5 - Frostpunk
May 3, 2018

If you want some amazing, bleak, and depressing world-building, Frostpunk is definitely your jam.

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4 / 5 - Omensight
May 29, 2018

There’s a little jank here and there, but if you like action-RPGs and want something a little different–and not nearly as grimdark as those have been–I’m sending you a vision.

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Sep 5, 2018

If you like your dungeon crawls with a ladle of gothic atmosphere, you haven’t seen anything like this in an eternity.

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Feb 21, 2019

That said, despite the frustrations, there’s no other series out there that captures the thrill of running around with a detailed fighter plane model in your hand blasting bad guys.

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Mar 17, 2020

Arcade-style giant fighting robot action overcomes repetitive missions and a sometimes-nightmarish HUD.

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4 / 5.0 - Othercide
Aug 12, 2020

Relentlessly stylish and relentlessly grindy turn-based tactical roguelike.

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Aug 20, 2020

Fewer vampires and more Greeks! It’s Bronze Age Total War.

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Stubbs is emblematic of the end-of-lifecycle game in that it is extremely weird, kind of janky, and beloved by those who happened to pick it up in the game store, which was something we had way back then, because console games hadn’t invented online purchases yet.

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Feb 22, 2022

The video game equivalent of being picked up in a 2000 F-250 by a guy blasting Skynyrd and yelling HELL YEAH BROTHER at everything you say.

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4 / 5.0 - Hard West 2
Aug 30, 2022

I found it compelling. Even if you don’t like tactical combat, you have to admire something so completely insane and very much its own thing when the world is busy making roguelike soulslikes platformers. It’s also an excuse to buy a cowboy hat of your very own.

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4 / 5.0 - NORCO
Jan 26, 2023

See the swamp and join the cult!

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Feb 17, 2023

Build a pyramid to my greatness. Then figure out how to not die of malaria.

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4 / 5.0 - Inkulinati
Mar 1, 2023

Surprisingly Deep And Very Silly

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Jun 1, 2023

So if you don’t mind the fact that it’s not Darkest Dungeon But More and it’s Darkest Dungeon But Different…it’s worth caveating that the first 10 hours are so are basically just punching you in the face over and over again and normally I don’t put up with that at all before going “okay yeah but then it gets good” but I am an unemployed goth degenerate, so what else am I gonna do?

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Jun 12, 2023

STAR TREKKING ACROSS THE UNIVERSE! FINALLY A STAR TREK GAME THAT DOESN’T MAKE ME CURSE!

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