Ondřej Halíř

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103 games reviewed
78.1 average score
80 median score
81.6% of games recommended

Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival is a wonderfully faithful adaptation that captures the franchise’s grotesque beauty through outstanding atmosphere, brutal gore, memorable Labyrinth sequences, strong combat, and Doug Bradley’s return as Pinhead. Frustrating stealth sections, awkward melee dodging, limited inventory space, weapon durability, and a few repetitive boss encounters reveal its rougher edges, but the overall experience feels remarkably close to playing through a genuine Hellraiser film.

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Oct 7, 2026

Silver Pines is a wonderfully surreal metroidvania-survival horror hybrid that excels through its Lynchian atmosphere, rewarding exploration, constant sense of progression, clever environmental puzzles, excellent soundtrack, and a mysterious story that leaves plenty of room for interpretation. Frustrating encounters with multiple enemies, fairly simple boss fights, restrictive inventory management, and some intrusive survival mechanics occasionally disrupt the flow, but they do little to diminish an experience that is remarkably easy to get lost in. jsemgamer.cz

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Oct 3, 2026

Kusan: City of Wolves is a worthy successor to Hotline Miami, delivering brutally fast top-down combat built around excellent parries, the versatile War-Hand, the Quantum Knife, improvised weapons, and instant restarts that make its 54 handcrafted stages endlessly replayable. Abrupt difficulty spikes, occasional visual confusion, an underdeveloped story, and a soundtrack that never becomes quite as iconic as its inspiration hold it back slightly, but the stylish neo-noir presentation and razor-sharp combat make this one of the strongest games of its kind in years.

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85% - Rivage
Sep 30, 2026

Rivage is a smart sci-fi puzzle adventure that combines a mysterious space-station setting with a wide variety of escape-room challenges, clever use of its K9 information system, and a time-loop mechanic that adds an extra layer of planning. Some puzzles can become frustrating, the loop may feel repetitive for certain players, and the lack of a more detailed progress journal can make navigation confusing, but puzzle enthusiasts should find plenty to enjoy.

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Sep 30, 2026

Magical Blush is a charming action-adventure with a strong elemental magic system, rewarding exploration, lovely pixel art, and abilities that meaningfully open new paths through its colorful world. Repetitive combat waves, underdeveloped characters, occasionally frustrating traversal, and inconsistent auto-targeting hurt the pacing, but its best ideas still make it an easy recommendation for players who enjoy exploration-heavy magical adventures. Jsem Gamer

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Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter is an outstanding JRPG remake that delivers a deeply emotional, character-driven story, exceptional world-building, and a refined combat system blending real-time action with tactical turn-based battles. Its expanded mechanics, memorable cast, and substantial campaign make it an essential continuation of Estelle’s journey, with only a slightly slow opening, recycled locations, and occasionally dated environmental design holding back an otherwise unforgettable adventure.

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Sep 28, 2026

Silent Hill: Townfall is a breathtaking psychological horror adventure that brings a fresh perspective to the series through immersive first-person exploration, an emotionally compelling story, excellent environmental puzzles, and a wonderfully atmospheric Scottish setting. Its inventive CRTV mechanic makes stealth genuinely tense, while frustrating enemy AI, limited monster variety, simplistic combat, and occasional crashes are the main shortcomings of an otherwise exceptional return to Silent Hill.

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Sep 26, 2026

Starsand Island is a charming and content-rich cozy life sim that shines through its beautiful anime-inspired world, interconnected professions, rewarding animal husbandry, and extensive home-building options. However, repetitive crafting tasks, shallow combat, underdeveloped relationships, cumbersome building controls, and limited shared progression in multiplayer leave its many promising systems feeling uneven, preventing this lovely island from truly coming to life.

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Sep 26, 2026

Asdivine Knot is a charming old-school JRPG with a promising story about faith and guilt, an eccentric cast, and enjoyable turn-based combat enhanced by the shared Nexus system. Its rewarding airship progression and convenient quality-of-life features make it an appealing adventure for genre fans, although repetitive dungeons, uneven pacing, poorly balanced difficulty, and lingering mobile-style monetization prevent its strongest ideas from reaching their full potential.

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Sep 22, 2026

Lou’s Lagoon is a charming cozy adventure that combines enjoyable seaplane exploration, colorful tropical islands, satisfying resource gathering, and a rewarding sense of rebuilding communities at your own pace. However, repetitive delivery quests, underdeveloped characters, shallow home customization, and technical issues, particularly on Switch 2, occasionally disrupt the relaxing experience, leaving some of its promising ideas underused.

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Sep 21, 2026

Graveyard Keeper 2 is a bigger, more ambitious sequel that expands its wonderfully morbid management formula with deeper automation, town restoration, a stronger story, and the series’ signature dark humor. Faster movement and improved travel address some of the original’s frustrations, but excessive grinding, poorly explained systems, repetitive fetch quests, simplistic combat, and technical issues, particularly on Steam Deck, mean that many old problems remain buried just beneath the surface.

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Sep 20, 2026

Crimson Moon is an enjoyable and accessible blend of soulslike combat and roguelite progression, offering satisfying parries, brutal executions, rewarding build customization, and a spectacular gothic atmosphere backed by an excellent metal soundtrack. Its two-player co-op and persistent upgrades make repeated runs worthwhile, but static environments, limited enemy variety, a forgettable story, and frustrating camera issues prevent this otherwise solid action RPG from reaching its full potential.

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Sep 18, 2026

Blue Reflection Quartet is a charming collection that brings together the series’ melancholic storytelling, heartfelt character relationships, beautiful soundtrack, and two enjoyable JRPGs, while also preserving the previously discontinued Blue Reflection: Sun. Quality-of-life improvements and helpful lore materials make it an excellent entry point for newcomers, although the underwhelming Ray adaptation, dated elements of the original game, uneven quality across the collection, and missing DLC prevent it from becoming the definitive edition fans might have hoped for.

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Sep 15, 2026

Onimusha: Way of the Sword delivers a spectacular return for the series, combining deep, fluid sword combat, outstanding boss fights, brutal finishers, and a surprisingly engaging story with a charismatic Miyamoto Musashi. Its excellent main missions, striking atmosphere, and expressive character animations shine, but repetitive side activities, unnecessary grinding, limited enemy variety, and an overly stretched campaign prevent this otherwise fantastic action adventure from reaching its full potential.

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The Lord of the Rings: War in the North – Legacy Edition is a respectful remaster that preserves the straightforward action-RPG appeal of the 2011 original while making it much more comfortable to play today. Sharper visuals, 60 FPS, improved UI, better autosaves, character switching, expanded split-screen support, and other quality-of-life upgrades are welcome, but repetitive encounters, limited combat depth, dated animations, and unreliable companion AI still reveal the game’s age.

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Sep 11, 2026

Brigandine Abyss offers a surprisingly deep blend of tactical RPG combat and territory management, with satisfying army building, a clever Rally system, and a Mission Mode that greatly expands its long-term replayability. Weak enemy AI, repetitive Story Mode progression, awkward map restrictions, uneven scaling, and an initially overwhelming number of systems keep it from reaching its full potential, but even as a newcomer to the series I found it far more engaging than its mixed reception suggests.

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Sep 11, 2026

OVER REQUIEMZ is an excellent modern otome visual novel that reimagines The Wizard of Oz through a much darker lens, backed by strong character writing, fantastic Japanese voice acting, and consistently engaging routes. Its streamlined choice system and especially the contrasting Fact and Dark branches give the cast far more depth than expected, with only some rushed transitions and uneven pacing holding the story back from being truly exceptional.

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Sep 10, 2026

Wonderfully written kingdom management RPG that blends absurd humor, surprisingly serious themes, memorable knights, and meaningful choices with impressive ease. Its clever time-rewind mechanic adds genuine depth by letting past knowledge influence new timelines, while only some repeated dialogue, a slightly repetitive late-game loop, and minor Steam Deck issues hold back an otherwise fantastic surprise.

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Sep 8, 2026

The Blood of Dawnwalker is an ambitious and remarkably confident debut, carried by a strong story, memorable characters, difficult moral choices, and a beautifully atmospheric world. Its time-management system creates meaningful consequences and replayability, while the day-and-night combat offers plenty of build variety, even if some progression systems feel overly complicated. Repetitive side activities, occasional technical issues, and familiar open-world design hold it back, but Rebel Wolves still delivers a compelling RPG that left me eager to see what the studio does next.

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Palm Sugar is a short and charming narrative adventure that surprises with how quickly its lighthearted romantic setup turns into a much darker revenge story. Its colorful pixel art, atmospheric setting, and detailed illustrations give the game plenty of personality, but the experience is held back by extremely simple combat, minimal environmental interaction, shallow character reactions, slow movement, and several technical issues. At around one to two hours long, it works best as a small narrative one-shot rather than a fully developed action adventure.

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