Video Game Review

Introduction This blog post is an indirect follow-up to a blog post I made back in December 2025 about the “artistic objects” I enjoyed in 2025. This blog post is gonna be about various “artistic objects” I’ve enjoyed from January 2026 to June 2026 (included). Spoilers will be minimal. Some important context I’ve watched far less movies and played far less video games in the last few months, the reason is that I had a complete and massive fallout with my (at the time) best (online) friends with who I was watching most things. ...

Introduction Some people have recently mentioned to me that almost all my blog about “artistic objects” have been mostly negative. I have decided for the end of this year, to do a blog post where I recommend stuff I loved this year! For reference, this idea started because someone asked me for movies I actually like (after my last blog post), and when I sent a list and they commented it, I ended up asking “Do you think the only thing I watch is the (mostly slop) I blog about?” ...

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/457140/Oxygen_Not_Included/ PCGamingWiki: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Oxygen_Not_Included Broad but shallow This game feels like a weird modded RimWorld: take RimWorld, move the view to the side, remove the enemies and add Oxygen (and gas) management. The problem? Unlike RimWorld it’s far broader but far shallower. A quick way to explain it, is that there’s literally dozens of crafting stations in ONI… except all of them have like 5 recipes (while in RimWorld a crafting station does a lot of stuff). ...

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. ...