Shannon P. Drake


73 games reviewed
75.9 average score
80 median score
67.1% of games recommended
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3.5 / 5.0 - BLACKTAIL
Dec 20, 2022

There’s really nothing like Blacktail as long as you don’t mind the video game stuff stumbling over the weird story stuff. Or play in story mode, I suppose.

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3.5 / 5.0 - The Falconeer
Nov 29, 2020

Interesting indie game that’s not quite as good as it wants to be, but still aims for the sky and hits.

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A thoroughly decent-to-good mech game with some weird design choices and a not-always-good retro feel.

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3.5 / 5.0 - BELOW
Jan 9, 2019

It’s not cutting edge. I mean “Souls-like” is a genre of its own now, not just an interesting experiment. So we wind up with Below, which is like one of those weird evolutionary offshoots that is never quite successful.

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3.5 / 5.0 - Tropico 6
Apr 17, 2019

The tongue is in cheek but not far enough.

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3.5 / 5.0 - Dead In Vinland
Apr 18, 2018

Dead in Vinland is only going to appeal to the more hardcore life simulation fan.

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Feb 7, 2018

The fighting is a lot of fun if you can deal with the rest of the game.

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3.5 / 5.0 - Songbringer
Sep 21, 2017

On the whole, if the overland adventure/subterranean dungeon crawl genre strike your fancy and if you dig on the modern indie aesthetic, you’re going to find a lot of procedurally-generated ground you’ll dig exploring.

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3.5 / 5.0 - Aven Colony
Jul 25, 2017

Aven Colony is thoroughly competent but uninspiring colony management game with overly-familiar mechanics. It’s an interesting diversion for fans of the genre but breaks no new ground.

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4 / 5.0 - Goblin Stone
Mar 26, 2024

So if that kind of management and absurdity sounds appealing–and I did enjoy frowning at my goblin roster and trying to min-max stats in my goblin eugenics program–then hiding beneath the cutesy storybook exterior is the fiendish heart of a pretty good roguelike.

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4 / 5.0 - Last Epoch
Mar 12, 2024

Finally, a good action RPG.

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Feb 28, 2024

Crawl through the ditches and hide in the bushes and stab a Nazi in his throat-u-la!

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4 / 5.0 - Last Train Home
Dec 28, 2023

Come on ride the depressing train (WOO WOO!)

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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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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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4 / 5.0 - Inkulinati
Mar 1, 2023

Surprisingly Deep And Very Silly

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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 - NORCO
Jan 26, 2023

See the swamp and join the cult!

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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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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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