Video Game Review

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: ...

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/312200/Chasm/ GOG: https://www.gog.com/game/chasm PCGamingWiki: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Chasm Interesting game It feels a bit bland, but the fact that it’s a really slow paced game is interesting… It’s like Dead Cells on x0.5 speed which… surprisingly works! It’s a weird mix between a metroidvania, a roguelite (but it’s REALLY NOT!) and a precision platformer. About the roguelite-but-not-really: it’s a game where you do “runs” on a procedurally generated “dungeon” layout, but the run is of the whole game (you can die, but you don’t lose anything, you just respawn at your last checkpoint), which is… an interesting way to add replay value. ...

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1061180/Crumble/ Itch.io: https://brute-force.itch.io/crumble PCGamingWiki: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Crumble So close, yet so far… This is a great momentum platformer… for the first world. The best world is the one that doesn’t happen in the sky but in a forest… which is the first one… literally the tutorial world. Then it decides to put you in the sky and to become a hardcore platformer with momentum mechanics… and the quality just nosedives completely until it crashes. ...