Gameliner's Reviews
Despite its mechanical simplicity, slow pacing, and limited gameplay evolution, Herdling stands out as an indie that leaves a lasting emotional impact—thanks to Okomotive’s beautiful audiovisual storytelling, its touching journey of guiding creatures to safety, and impresses not through mechanics, but through heart.
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Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater respectfully honors the original while adding meaningful quality-of-life improvements and stunning visuals. The choice to preserve the story while updating controls and gameplay makes it accessible to both longtime fans and newcomers. With thoughtful extras and a respectful nod to Kojima’s legacy, this remake shows Konami is on the right track.
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Echoes of the End starts as a visually rich adventure with intriguing worldbuilding, but suffers from clunky, unresponsive combat and awkward pacing. The lack of dialogue and stiff animations undermine the action, though clever environmental puzzles offer welcome relief. Myrkur Games shows promise, but needs polish to turn this into the smooth, engaging experience it could be.
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Abyssus is a thoroughly solid roguelite first-person shooter that just fails to be interesting enough to fully convince.
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Discounty is a charming blend of supermarket management and village life with a story that goes beyond mere profit, offering simple yet satisfying gameplay, humor, engaging themes, and atmospheric visuals that make it hard to put down, resulting in a cozy yet surprisingly sharp management game whose minor annoyances—like slow movement and dialogue—don’t diminish its appeal for anyone seeking a relaxing but substantial experience.
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OFF isn’t a game for everyone, but for those willing to embrace its strange atmosphere, odd logic, and old-school pacing, this carefully restored edition—complete with improved combat, new areas, and a refreshed soundtrack—offers a unique, unsettling experience that respects the original while adding enough new elements to make replaying worthwhile.
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Nearly a decade after the poorly received Mafia 3, Hangar 13 returns to early 20th-century Sicily with Mafia: The Old Country—a visually stunning, story-rich yet predictable adventure whose charming 14-hour journey is only undermined by underwhelming combat and occasional performance issues.
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Ritual of Raven is a life sim that stands out with its story-driven focus and well-developed characters, offering a familiar yet engaging gameplay loop enhanced by unique mechanics like card-based machine programming and moon phase–sensitive plant care, all within a detailed 2D pixel world—though minor issues like an out-of-place alien, pricey decorations, and static museum items slightly detract from an otherwise memorable narrative experience.
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Tales of the Shire lets you unwind in the peaceful life of a Hobbit, offering cozy activities like fishing, farming, and elaborate cooking with rewarding progression, though its shallow quests, lack of deeper interactions, missing festive elements, and technical shortcomings hold it back from being the idyllic Shire experience it could have been.
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Heartworm is a game with a clear vision and strong aesthetic—its atmosphere, puzzles, and audio stand out and will appeal to fans of classic survival horror—but its ambition falls short due to unpolished mechanics, shallow storytelling, and lacking gameplay precision, making it more of a brief, atmospheric experience than a fully convincing modern classic.
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Dead Take has the potential to be a strong psychological horror puzzler, but its scattered direction, lack of suspense, and unclear narrative thread hold it back from standing out in a crowded genre - despite solid acting and a haunting setting that could have delivered so much more.
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Ready or Not delivers a brilliantly tense and tactical shooter experience—flawed by technical issues but elevated by its hardcore design, intense atmosphere, and the sheer fun of playing with friends.
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Wildgate is a complex game to recommend. Its deep, well-integrated systems offer a unique multiplayer experience, but its steep learning curve, lack of matchmaking balance, and aggressive monetization make it a tough sell unless you're fully invested in its design.
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Dotemu and The Game Kitchen deliver a solid homage to the roots of classic action-platformers with Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound - sharp as ever in gameplay, nostalgic to the core, but lacking the surprise and staying power to truly stand out in this triumphant year of the ninja.
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Dune: Awakening offers a beautifully crafted world, solid survival mechanics, and flexible roleplaying, but uneven combat, repetitive quests, and a lonely, empty-feeling MMO experience mean it's best suited for those willing to overlook its flaws in exchange for immersive hours on Arrakis.
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Super Mario Party Jamboree TV offers no revolutions but delivers a solid improvement over the base game, with its game show vibe, fun new minigames, and Coaster mode sure to bring smiles—though the reliance on a camera and the lack of updates to the core game may leave some players wanting more.
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Shuffle Tactics shows a lot of promise with its cool style, solid combat, and flexible playstyles, but unfinished elements like broken buttons and poor controller support make it feel more like an early test build than a polished release.
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Despite some entertaining and brutal core gameplay, Killing Floor 3 is a thematically inconsistent and visually underwhelming shooter with generic design, repetitive missions, performance issues, and an intrusive in-game shop - an unfinished product, and one that Tripwire Interactive may need several more years to truly bring up to standard. The core is here, it just needs a lot of work.
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Don’t ask me how, but Mike Klubnika once again commands attention with s.p.l.i.t., an idiosyncratic terminal hacking game aimed at old-school tech romantics with a taste for the grim and uncanny, delivering an uncomfortably intense half-hour experience that—despite its brief runtime—gets under your skin fast, provided you remember to brush up on your command-line skills before facing that so-called 'unethical superstructure'... or else, well, you know the drill.
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For true soulslike fans, WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers is a strong recommendation — even a must-play. It might not be the absolute best soulslike out there, but developer Leenzee has delivered a very solid game on many fronts. What really stands out is the well-balanced mix between exploration and intense combat. Add to that the varied environments, plenty of mechanics to tinker with, and smooth-feeling fights, and you've got a compelling package. Where things do fall short, however, is the game’s performance — even on the PlayStation 5 Pro, it struggled to run smoothly. But if you can look past that, WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers is definitely worth your time.
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