AltChar's Reviews
Galactic Racer is a well-designed arcade racer that's tightly built with an excellent single-player structure that rewards players focusing on repeat runs. Additionally, the multiplayer adds another layer of reward for players who are actually fans of the podracing culture in Star Wars. I would recommend Galactic Racer to almost every Star Wars fan.
Minecraft Dungeons II turned a reviewer who had avoided every Minecraft game on principle into a believer, thanks to a surprisingly engaging story, a deep gear system, and combat that turns out to be far more than button-mashing.
Farming Camp wants to be your next cosy obsession and mostly succeeds, right up until its teenage campers start bickering like they wandered in from a nastier game.
Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve made me feel like an idiot for the first few hours, and I’m grateful for it. Once I stopped expecting Top Gun and started flying the way the game wanted me to, it turned into one of the most immersive flying experiences I’ve ever had, backed by a grounded, surprisingly emotional story about a scared pilot wearing a dead man’s helmet and a presentation that comes very close to perfection.
The Alighieri's Circle: Dante's Bloodlines brings a combat-free descent into Dante's Hell, with clever trials and a weird, unsettling and personal atmosphere. However, it never really gets under your skin properly.
SiN Reloaded resurrects a forgotten 1998 shooter with sharper visuals, a toggle back to the original look, and just enough charm to awake a nostalgia in you if you're an older gamer or a curiosity if you're a younger one.
Beyond my expectations, EA Sports FC 27 feels like a game that has some ambition behind it, but it still has its own shortcomings. With continuous updates catered towards performance, I think EA can manage to make FC 27 a major upgrade over its predecessors.
Aniimo does something I didn't think a free-to-play game could pull off twice in two years: it made me forget I hadn't paid for it. Between a story I wasn't expecting to care about, an open world I could have wandered for days, and a cast of creatures I got attached to faster than I'd like to admit, this is a game that earns every comparison to the AAA space it keeps getting held up against.
Silent Hill: Townfall doesn't need to be a flawless game to make a statement, and it isn't. Its story is the real draw: three overlapping perspectives, an island drowning in mystery, and a slow-building dread that No Code clearly knows how to feed us with – one small bite at a time. The first-person shift is a gamble that mostly pays off, trading the series' more theatrical combat for something rawer and more vulnerable.
Well Dweller has its own identity, built in a charming fairy-tale premise, a cast of characters that you start to care about, and a tone that manages to find a balance between real darkness and humour, never allowing things to get too heavy.
It’s been a long time since I was as excited to play a game as I was for this one, and I can say that Control Resonant delivered that in almost every way that mattered.
Milestone manages to deliver a strong homage to the childhood days of playing pretend with toy cars with their new Hot Wheels Infinite Rush game.
Sharp writing, forgettable combat: The Blood of Dawnwalker is a solid vampiric RPG worth playing for its story and quests alone, if you can stomach the gameplay jank.
Onimusha: Way of the Sword takes its time to show you what it does best, but once it does, there's a lot to love. Satisfying samurai combat, superb storytelling, and a beautifully grim world make this long-awaited action adventure a great title for newcomers and longtime fans alike.
To any pet owner, this will hit too close to home, as none of us is prepared for the day our pets will leave us.
Trading rats for ruins and stealth for steel, Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy swaps beloved heroes Amicia and Hugo for Sophia's untold past, which turns out to be one of the most confident reinventions you'll see in video games.
Cost of Hope is among the best DLCs to have crossed my path in my gaming career, and I'm genuinely grateful I got the chance to play and review it. An incredible story, new characters that genuinely grew on me, and a choice of paths that was harder to make than I expected; level design that blew me away, real variety in mission design, and plenty more besides make this DLC something people are going to talk about for a long time.
Once everything is ironed out, Starsand Island has my recommendation, and I hope that will happen sooner rather than later.
The Sinking City 2 is proof that survival-horror doesn't need to reinvent itself to leave a mark; it only needs a team that cares about what they're building, and Frogwares clearly do.
A confident, deeply satisfying Soulslike that stands entirely on its own, Mortal Shell 2 is one of the best the genre has to offer right now.