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Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap Xbox Review

Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap, which you can play on Gamepass, is a game that was tossed my way by Robot Entertainment to review which I always appreciate. Now I will be honest right out the gate, I never loved or hated this series it just always kind of existed. I had fun with them when I played them but they were never the type of game I felt I NEEDED to play. If you are looking to play this game and see some vast improvement into a AAA title, you will be disappointed.

If what you are looking for, however, is a fun game with better graphics, new weapons, and characters, well-designed levels, and just kill a ton of orcs, you will be happy. The game is pretty standard. Pick a hero, each one with its own passives, power-ups, and weapons, set traps along various paths the orcs will walk along, and protect a certain spot.

As you collect different types of currency after each run you can buy better passives for a character, or use them to buy new traps or boost your main stats that apply to everyone, the game will get a bit easier to manage. You will be able to employ a more varied strategy, and traps might become cheaper or stronger. You can even play solo or with others online.

How you play is up to you,I have tried everything from surrounding the point I am supposed to protect and just defending that ( pro tip, don’t do this) to blocking off entire paths to force them into one area and ignoring the rest ( also don’t do this) and the best method seems to be to funnel them to a few select choke points and setting traps there.

Weather on the maps will change the strategy you need to employ and will even change what enemies show up. Water elementals for example have a tendency to split into pieces. You may even run into a sort of substance that suddenly makes it impossible to put traps on walls.

The game has room for improvement, but I had a lot of fun with it. 7/10, if you like shooters and you have Gamepass you need to at least try it. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

V Rising:PS5 Review

V Rising is one of those games I had my eye on for a while, and recently Stunlock Studios was kind enough to send me a copy when their game hit 5 million sales. The game always looked like a cross between Diablo and Conan Exiles. Just a classic kill-everything and survival game where you have to build your own vampire castle. A small part of me is always worried, however, how good can a game trying to do that much actually be? Even more so when you start tossing RPG elements into it?

The game starts out when you awake from your slumber, after years of hiding away from the humans that rebelled against their undead overlords. You enter a world that you can mostly control the difficulty of. Do you want to play alone? with your friends? Let just any random person enter? These are all things you can control. I recommend getting a feel for the game before you start letting unknown people rampage around your world.

You start out collecting some basic things to build a wall and a coffin to protect you. Be careful, though. While this will keep enemies and such out, the sun will obviously come over the walls and kill you. You can build special fog equipment to block out the sun, but if you don’t, find some shade or stay in bed until the night comes. Going out and hunting,materials, enemies for their blood, and even bosses to gain new abilities is important. This is the main way to progress through the game’s many chapters and how you unlock new things to build. Rushing however can be deadly. New armor and weapons will increase your levels.

The graphics are great. I enjoyed getting lost in the woods and admiring the scenery most of the time. I say most of the time because often, I would forget the world changes as days turn to night and night turns back to day. Once safe places suddenly had a vampire hunter in them that I found myself no match for. Bosses I once beat had migrated to new areas to attack me. While chopping down trees and smashing stones to build a staircase for my castle bandits would be out on patrol and I would find myself having a quick meal instead.

This brings me to the next thing I loved about this game. The ever-changing environment. Enemies go about their days even if you don’t. Animals will seemingly live their lives and stumble across your base, and not all of them are friendly. This extends to your work benches. If you need planks or iron you can just toss materials into your machines and they will produce them until they no longer have the materials. weapons are made at work benches the same way. Simply toss your materials in, tell it what to make and just leave until it is done. I love this quality of life and more games need to make this standard.

Not everything is great however. In fact nothing about it is truly great outside of the fact that it is fun. The story has potential but it never really goes beyond being a great concept. The building is good and you can do a lot with it, there are better builders out there. It also isn’t a great surviving game because while drinking blood helps you heal and in combat you dont really need it to survive. The conbat is good, but its not Diablo level great or deep.

The game is good and it is a lot of fun,I will definetly be adding this to my list of games I keep playing after I review it. It is also a game i encourage friends to pick up and play together. If you want a game that is the best at any one thing, this isn’t it. If you want a game that is good everywhere however, definelty get this one. 8/10, best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Cube Snake Review (Steam)

As always when I write these I like to start out by thanking the people who hooked me up with these, this time it is Kabum and you can pick up CubeSnake over on Steam if you so choose.

Let me get what the game is out of the way first. Remember your old Nokia cell phone that came with one game, and that game was snake? It was all square blocks and you just picked up other blocks and your snake got bigger and if you touched the sides or another part of your snake, you died and had to start over again? It now has a 3-dimensional upgrade.

CubeSnake took this idea and gave you a legitimate snake, and buildings and put you inside of a cube and let you do the same thing. You simply use a couple buttons to turn ( there is also controller support) with the same rules. Don’t touch yourself or the edge.

The problem is the controls are still sluggish, the game is super slow and just wasn’t fun for me to play. I never figured out how the dash button even worked, not that I think it would have helped much. In 2025 the idea of playing a game you need to pay attention to so you don’t die while only hitting two buttons just doesn’t do it for me. This is especially true when the game is so slow-paced.

You can spell out the word FEVER to get more than one pick-up at a time and speed things up a bit, but this is few and far between and doesn’t add to the excitement. I don’t hate the game, it passes the time and I think kids may enjoy it for a bit, for me it is a hard pass. The game serves its purposes and despite sluggish controls, it functions well and has solid controls. it is however just a 5/10 game that I don’t recommend for most people. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Godstone Demo Review

If you think back a long time ago, to last week, I talked about Godstone. You can read more about GodStone: Early Access Trailer there for a quick outline. I did get time to play the Steam Demo and I have to say it shows plenty of promise. The controls are promising, and I think they would work even better with controller support. I assume this is something that will be implemented at some point if it isn’t already.

The graphics are not what most people would call spectacular by today’s standards, but I disagree. I love the old-school look and feel of them. It had that great Super Nintendo look while feeling new and modern while using it.

Something else the demo does an amazing job of showing is that you can run right ahead in the game, I can see speed runners loving this game. I got demolished when I did it. On my second attempt, I didn’t do much better. My third run I took my time and explored more and the area that killed me my first two runs was far easier. The game truly does reward exploring with more items and permanent power-ups and even in this case assistance in a boss fight by rescuing a friend.

power-up at levels are basic pick a card get a power-up. you know what the cards do but not what cards you get

You will notice the one thing I haven’t much talked about is story and honestly that is intentional. I don’t know much about it besides you play as Gerion, magic is seen as bad by your people but everyone seems to use it, there is an Ice Witch everyone seems to hate, though she likes you, your people want you dead, and finding this Godstone is something everyone wants. Oh, and Gaming gods be damned I can’t wait to find out more March 30th when the planned release date hits. Until then, try the demo, and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Alterium Shift Early Access Review

Alerium Shift is a turn-based RPG that the people over at Drattzy Games were nice enough to send me a copy of to check out the early access version. The game is currently sitting at mostly positive reviews with a lot of the complaints honestly being fair. The game does cost $20 and has a few known issues, none of which I ran into. They do encourage you to try out the available demo, and I do as well.

The graphics are beautiful, and I love the art and character designs. The combat is an amazing throwback to old-school turn-based RPGs. They have added some new elements to it though to keep it fresh. For example, it is easy to know what each ability does while still maintaining that old feel of learning new skills at leveling up. HP and MP don’t restore after each fight so you have to be careful with how you use your skills but areas aren’t so big you will be punished for using them and when you level up they are restored and items aren’t so expensive as they need to be reserved for emergency situations, but they also aren’t so cheap they can be abused.

Your early game choices also matter, something small you say to annoy a character at the start might be mentioned or thrown back at you later in another chapter. The game is far from perfect, certain areas feel large with nothing to do and you may find yourself exploring for no real reason. Thankfully traveling isn’t really a chore so when this happens it isn’t a huge waste of your time.

This boss is fun and interesting to fight

The real question, is this game worth $20? With my experience and a mostly positive rating on Steam, most people seem to think yes. Personally, I probably wouldn’t as I am not a fan of early access in general so anything more than $10 makes me nervous. What is here however is a 7/10 RPG and I look forward to seeing more of it. So play the demo and judge for yourself, and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Yield! Fall of Rome Steam Review

Yield! Fall of Rome from Daedalic Entertainment is an interesting 4X Strategy game developed by Billionworlds. They were nice enough to send me a copy of the early version to check out the first part of the campaign and I have to say it quickly caught my attention.

You can see where the creators grew up loving civilization but wanting something that played a bit faster without losing the need for strategy. From the beginning, you are greeted with the familiar hexagonal map and fog of war you are used to seeing. You will also be sending off a settler to start a city in an advantageous spot surrounded by useful resources, however,you can simply click on those resources to build when you have the right technology and enough money to build farms rather than using builders. Tech is also simply bought with gold rather than science.

Games now have a turn limit of around 50, which doesn’t sound like much but it is plenty of time to get all the tech and explore the much smaller maps or wage all the wars you want. Wars can quickly become quite large and require planning, I quickly learned you can’t just spam units and hope for good results. My first attempt I just sent massive amounts of horses and quickly saw them dead and me without the resources to even defend my cities.

Is this game going to be a civilization kill? No, and it definitely isn’t meant to be. Is it a good alternative? My initial feeling is yes, the time I spent playing it, this game is absolutely going to fill that niche. I don’t always have time to spend hours on a game, but I can spend the time on this and it feels great. I can not wait to spend more time on this 8/10 title. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator 2.0 Review

Tinybuild has once again been kind enough to send me a copy of Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator on Steam to check out their new 2.0 update. While it is available on consoles I haven’t played it on those. It does have very positive Steam ratings, and with very good reason.

The game starts out pretty standard, you find an old building and set up a potion shop. There is a small garden to grow basic ingredients, you have a basic alchemy set up and there is a busted machine in the basement. The tutorial will show you different ways to brew a potion. This is a simple thing to do but is super hard to master. Each ingredient will move you along the map towards different effects. You can put multiple effects on a single potion if you want or line up your potion better to make the effects stronger. This will take some practice but it isn’t that hard.

Different customers will want different things and will pay more for effects they want, you may have a high level healing potion, and you may have that recipe saved so you can mass produce them, but they may want a weaker one with only 2 ingredients. They are happy to wait and pay more for what they want.

You also have to decide if you are willing to sell to less reputable people or not. Selling poison to customers trying to get rid of rats is fine, some might be trying to get rid of their husbands and that will encourage others that want to burn down houses to come seeking fire potions. There is good money in it but your shop will get a reputation for being not such a nice place. There isn’t a wrong way to play, it just changes who comes to your shop. So feel free to encourage whoever to show up that you want.

My favorite part of this game is that while it has its challenges, and there are only so many things you can do in a day, the game is pretty relaxing. You never feel like it is all about to come crashing down. If you want to try to finish everything as fast as possible that is a perfectly viable way to play. If you want to sit back, try to collect a ton of herbs and master every potion and just collect money the game doesn’t punish you. I spent 45 minutes just trying to master the health potion for no other reason that I felt like it. The first 7 days in game I spent just trying to maximize my garden and figuring out I was wasting ingredients on poison nobody was buying. I haven’t had this much fun slacking off in a game in a while, and I definitely think you guys will enjoy this one. Solid 8/10. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Uncle Chop’s Rocket Shop Review (Steam)

As always I like to give a shout-out when someone is nice enough to send me a game to review, and Kasedo Games was nice enough to do exactly that with Uncle Chop’s Rocket Shop which you can find over on Steam. It is also available on both Xbox and PlayStation.

Another thing I would like to get out of the way is that I am bad at this game. I am truly terrible. This isn’t the fault of the game or its creator, the tutorial while short and sweet, is great. It gives you a quick and easy-to-use reference book that you can access with the push of a button. Each section is quickly accessible and is easy to read and are even outlined with easy-to-read pictures and numbered diagrams. If you want to see how to check a ship’s oil, it shows you on the ship and in the book what tab to look at, etc. They made it almost idiot-proof. Unfortunately, they didn’t plan on my existence.

The story is simple, you work for a giant floating head, you fix ships while your customers hang out in the diner and you charge them for parts and labor. This portion is essentially out of your hands. You can choose between two game modes that you can swap between. Timed where you get paid based on how quick you are and you can do pretty much unlimited jobs per day, or untimed where you can only do 3 jobs a day but you are judged on accuracy.

Fixing parts is pretty straight forward, you got your tools, you take them out, recharge or replace the broken stuff, then put them back in, usually in reverse of how you took them out. You will use a screwdriver and many other things with your mouse just like you would a real one. There are ways to upgrade to powered versions to make this quicker and easier.

Another thing to add, you are supposed to fail at this game, and it is going to happen a lot. You can tell this game was made with love. I will say again, I am not good at this game. I will keep playing it, I doubt I get better at it, but I will keep playing at it. It is sitting at very positive Steam reviews for very good reasons. Without a doubt an 8/10 game that you absolutely should check out. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Just Go With It (2011l

Honestly if you have ever seen any Romantic Comedy with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston you know what this movie was about. Adam got his heart broken by a woman, he does some insane shit for years.

He meets Jennifer Aniston,this time she works for him. He meets a woman he actually loves, he convinces Jen to help him fix the horrible situation he created. Some will they won’t they ensues.

The movie has its funny moments but the real star here is just the overall chemistry that Adam and Jennifer have. I always enjoy their movies together because they just seem to enjoy being around each other. It would be super weird to find out they actually hated each other at this point. Shout out to the kids for playing their parts well. The movie is a must see for romantic comedy fans. It doesn’t break any new ground,but it does the entire genre well. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Starbound (Xbox Review)

Starbound finally made its way over to Xbox and chucklefish was kind enough to toss me a copy to check out which as you all know I always appreciate it.

Starbound starts out on what should be the best day of your character’s life. Graduating from a program that will allow your character to travel the galaxy helps your people survive. Just then, an alien force invaded your world and wiped the place out and you barely escaped with your life.

You and your trust pet make it off the world just in time for your ship to break over a randomly generated world for you to explore. From there you can do pretty much whatever you want.

Build up a small home, improve your gear, fix your ship up and explore the galaxy even more. Anyone familiar with Terraria knows how the game is played.

The game is quite nice to look at and it sounds even better. The sounds are great to listen to as you tinker with little things in your base or as you dog around trying to find something new to build.

My only real complaint is the controls aren’t great. Don’t get me wrong they aren’t bad, they are functional but not much more than that. Mouse and keyboard would probably function much better. Don’t let this discourage you from picking up this excellent title. It is a solid 7/10 and worth the $15 price point. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.