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Sid Meier’s Civilization 5 (2010): Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/8930/Sid_Meiers_Civilization_V/ PCGamingWiki: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Civilization_V Sid Meier’s Civilization 4 (2005): Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3900/Sid_Meiers_Civilization_IV/ GOG: https://www.gog.com/game/sid_meiers_civilization_iv_the_complete_edition PCGamingWiki: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Civilization_IV A more enjoyable, worse game I haven’t played Civilization 5 until this May 2025 because when it originally released (15 years ago… time flies…) I kept hearing that it was a FAR worse game compared to Civilization 4. Years passed and following the DLCs release I started to hear that it might have become finally good, and might even surpass Civilization 4. ...

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1158310/Crusader_Kings_III/ PCGamingWiki: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Crusader_Kings_III Crusader Kings 2 but better Crusader Kings 3 is basically a “clone” of Crusader Kings 2 but more polished in every way, it looks better, plays better, feels better and as one of the most important things for new/beginner players: you can actually learn it by playing, unlike CK2. It has some bugs (especially when a new DLC is released), but this is expected, with so many moving parts, it will have bugs. The multiplayer is sometimes fiddly and sometimes has de-syncs bugs after hours of play time requiring you to “reload” your save to continue. ...

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/846770/DYSMANTLE/ GOG: https://www.gog.com/game/dysmantle PCGamingWiki: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Dysmantle A mess that doesn’t know what it wants to be This game’s premise is great: an island “survival” game where you destroy stuff to get better tools, to destroy more stuff, with your final objective to escape the island. Simple, but efficient. It could have been great. The problem is that the developers didn’t believe this would be good enough, so they decided to make it more interesting (read: deeper)… except they REALLY didn’t know how to make interesting stuff… so they added a LOT of pointless (AND SHALLOW!) mechanics: ...

IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1477834 Trakt: https://trakt.tv/movies/aquaman-2018 There is nothing to say, because it was nothing. The story is bad and actually has a massive plot hole: when Aquaman finds his mom, she knows that Aquaman is fighting to save the world… except the mom had no way to know that since she’s been stuck in isolation for 20 years. The visual effects are bad (props to that AWFUL lighthouse green screen! I haven’t seen green screen this bad… outside of YouTube movies parodies). ...

IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7126948 Trakt: https://trakt.tv/movies/wonder-woman-1984-2020 A badly written and badly made great story. It’s a badly written and badly made [movie of a] great story. There’s a great film in there but it’s just broken. I’m genuinely struggling to write a critique that makes sense because the films makes no sense. It’s a film that’s completely missing what it’s trying to do, there is a great story buried in there, but the end result is just awful. ...