Farming Simulator 16 Bit Review

Yes, you read that title correctly. This is a review for Farming Simulator 16-bit. No, this is not some weird, far-too-late April Fool’s joke. My good friends at Strictly Limited Games ( that is a store link for those interested in picking this bad boy up) and GIANTS Software sent me a copy to check out, and I am grateful for that. Anyone who’s followed me for a while knows I started playing these games when I picked up Farming Simulator 15 on sale and have been hooked ever since. Some years ( like 19 and 22) have been sent to me to review, others, like 25 I bought myself happily.

I went into this with odd expectations. My first game was my dad’s Intellivision, and I played Asteroids sitting on his lap. I grew up on Sega Genesis and Nintendo systems, so I know what those systems can do, so to hear a playable version of Farming Simulator was coming out for it, I was intrigued.

Yes, it’s playable on an original Sega or anything that plays them.

Let me start by saying yes, it is clearly a scaled-back version. Don’t expect to be raising hundreds of animals and buying businesses with full-on supply chains etc.

What you will get is a straightforward and simple game loop. Grow crops, harvest crops, take them to the selling point, repeat. When you get enough money, buy better equipment, at which point you can either store or sell your older stuff. Then repeat the process. You can also save up and buy another map, at which point the process continues. Your equipment can easily be moved between maps, and as you play a map, your crops will continue to grow on the others.

This means you can play each map simultaneously if you want, or just ignore them if you so choose. What is also nice is that the maps are relatively compact, so getting fuel or seeds for your tractors is super easy.

None of this means anything if the controls are bad, and honestly, I didn’t even bother hooking a controller up to my laptop. It’s 3 buttons and some arrow keys basically. That is hard to screw up, which they did not. If they made this when I was a kid, I would have wasted hundreds of hours playing instead of just a couple of dozen. As far as a 16-bit Demake of a game goes, this is as close to perfect as it can get. My only real complaint is that I wish the game explained things a little better. It, however, is nothing you can’t figure out on your own, 9/10, definitely worth picking up. Once again, I will leave the link below in case any of my collectors want to grab it. Best wishes, and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Farming Simulator 16-Bit Edition

Predator: Badlands teaser.

The year has been a major surprise in terms of nerd movies and I’m all for it. Badlands has been promising a different vibe to the series- a Yautja protagonist, new monsters, mankind not the main prey. I’m super excited by what I see here and I’m excited as hell for more. May the gaming gods bring you glory.

Alien Day 2026

Happy Alien Day, one and all, from us to you. If you followed us at all, you’ll know I’m a humongous Alien fan. I ran over 2 miles to see Prometheus opening day and I even went to Romulus for the midnight show, not to mention owning multiple copies of each movie.

Our latest installment in the saga is Alien: Earth coming to Hulu this summer. Am I nervous it’s going to be a TV series? Oh hell yeah! But there is some great talent behind the lens, and so far they the setting and creature designs are spot on. To end off this post I’ll leave you with some recent tastes we got of it and I wish everyone a safe Alien day, show some love to Ripley, David, Rain and Andy and stay the hell away from large leathery

Sintopia Gameplay Trailer

Sintopia is a fresh, spicy new title from PiraKnights that will tug at the nostalgia strings of fans of The Sims, Black & White, and Two Point Hospital.  On the OVERWORLD, watch a silly civilization of chickpea people make their mark on the world and unfortunately for them, damn themselves by committing a host of sins. Punish those poor, dead, squishy souls, keep your receipts for expenses, and generate profit to help you build and sustain your Hellish empire.

The demo itself has been a lot of fun, and I can’t wait to try out the full game. The concept is quite original and is nice to see. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Inhuman Resources: A Literary Machination (Steam Review)

Inhuman Resources is a dark visual novel sent to me by Indie Asylum, and man, does it get dark fast. It starts out as just a woman being woken up by a phone call from her aunt. You can choose to ignore it or not. You can choose how to react. I ended up going on a job interview that my aunt set up for me, since she is also my landlady and I owe her money.

This is pretty much the most normal part of the game. The game also allows you to check out as much detail as you want, or as little. There are extra things you can look at and click on that will give you all sorts of information on the world around you. Some are as innocent as what the building looks like, but later on, much of it is less innocent.

Fast forward a bit to the actual job interview, and yes, I am skipping a bit to avoid spoilers, and it is heavily implied that the man you are speaking to has been around for a while. What is less implied and is outright stated, the company you are interviewing for has, for a very long time, been intervening with much of human history to decide how it will flow. For example, you are listening to the only record (I do literally mean record) that exists of what was supposed to be the most famous duo in the world. Instead, we got the Beatles. This man liked the music and saved this single record. It is worth pointing out that the game takes place in modern times.

After getting the job, the game takes an even darker turn, one that I can’t truly explain without giving away the plot. Suffice it to say, if you like something a bit more mature that is happy to explore deeper and darker tones, including corporate espionage, secret cabals that control the world, and insane medical practices, this is the game for you. With multiple endings, there is plenty of reason to replay this. 9/10 for lovers of visual novels. Best wishes, and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Ixion Playstation 5 Review

It isn’t often that I get excited for a space builder on consoles, but when Bulwark Studios sent me a copy of Ixion I won’t deny I couldn’t wait to check this bad boy out. The story alone had me interested. The Earth is on the brink of extinction due to ecological collapse. A company (DOLAS) steps up with new technology to possibly save humanity in the form of a new engine that can take humanity to new heights in space travel, finding a new home. The dreamer in me loves this.

My realistic part loves where it goes from here, and I won’t go into detail. But I will say I would watch an entire TV series based on it. All of this, however, means very little if the gameplay is lacking or the controls don’t function well.

Probes are your best friend here

I am happy to say the game controls fantastically on PS5. At no point was I left wishing I had a mouse or that things were more precise, with one small exception. Some of the larger buildings must be built in certain spots, such as anything that leads outside. For example, probe stations. This isn’t a control issue so much as a design issue. It bothers me, and it probably shouldn’t. Aside from that, the controls are great.

The gameplay is also top-notch. The game flows nicely, from the prologue through each chapter I never felt like I was being forced to do new things I hadn’t had the chance to prepare for, and while graphically the game isn’t steller it is one of the better-looking games of its type out there.

If you enjoy this type of game, you really need to pick this 9/10 game up. This game will be in my catalog for a long time to come. Best wishes, and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Elder Scrolls Oblivion Remastered

20 years after its original release, Oblivion has a full remaster, overhauled completely in Unreal Engine 5. The release date? It is already out. It contains too many quality of life updates for me to list, including fully updated graphics, all released add-ons, newly released voices for each race ( many original voices intentionally included because we love them) updated leveling system, and so much more. Available now on PC, Xbox Series S/X, and PS5 ( and yes, Gamepass both console and PC), Happy reliving one of the best Elder Scrolls games out there, and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Wizard school management sim Spellcaster University lands on consoles in May

School is almost in session! Red Art Games is happy to announce that Spellcaster University, the hit PC wizard school management simulator, will come to Nintendo Switch, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PS4 and Xbox One consoles on May 2. Created by French indie studio Sneaky Yak Studio, Spellcaster University has been ported to consoles by Red Art Studios and will be published both digitally and physically by Red Art Games. 

In addition to its digital release, Spellcaster University is also getting two different physical versions on Nintendo Switch, PS5 and PS4 (the Switch physical version will come out on May 23). While the Spellcaster University Standard Edition will be available from most major retailers upon release, the Spellcaster University Deluxe Edition is a RedArtGames.com exclusive. Limited to 300 copies per platform, the Spellcaster University Deluxe Edition comes with a wraparound box sleeve with alternate cover art, a poster and a keychain.

In Spellcaster University, you take on the role of the headmaster of a wizard school set in a colorful heroic fantasy world. Build your school, manage your budget, recruit teachers. Will you turn your university into a black magic academy where the best professors of necromancy and demonology teach? Or will you create a place in complete harmony with nature whose goal is to train druids and shamans? The choice is up to you. 

Be warned that all of this won’t be easy. You will need to survive the ruthless attacks of the orc tribes and work around the strict control of the education authorities.

Spellcaster University’s console versions will include all the content and updates added to the PC version until now. It has also been totally reworked to make it fully playable with a controller.

Features

  • Create your very own university using an original magic deck mechanic
  • Each type of magic has its own deck
  • Pick the type of students that you want to teach to
  • Manage the wellbeing of your student… and discipline them if need be
  • Upgrade your school’s rooms with powerful artifacts
  • Use your school as a shelter for mythical creatures (dragons, pegasus, janitors…)
  • Your choices have both short and long term consequences
  • Fight the dark forces and find new allies to help you
  • Fully playable with a controller for the first time ever
  • Native 4K graphics on PS5 and Xbox Series X
  • Languages supported: English, French, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, German, Spanish, Japanese, Polish

He’s All That (2021)

For Fans of 90’s movies She’s All That (1999) told the story the resident heart throb in high school whose popularity took a small hit when him and his girlfriend broke up. So he makes a bet that he could in fact turn anyone into the prom queen with the right outfit and right boyfriend.

  Fast forward to He’s All That (2021) Which tells the story of the High School hotty whose popularity and social media standing took a hit when her boyfriend cheated on her during a surprise live stream.

Normally I am not a fan of these movies that are just gender swapped retellings of earlier movies because they always try to just be shot for shot remakes. That isn’t what happened here. While there are some similarities, both our Male and Female popular kids make bets with their friends involving an antisocial loser for example that both turn out to be attractive after a male over and both are artists,one a painter the other a photographer.

They are all vastly different characters in their own rights. now critically He’s all that wasn’t very well received and I can understand why. It isn’t a great movie,but it is a fun movie that gives you a feel good ending and that’s all I really ask for from movies like this. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

The Last of Us Part II

Joel and Ellie have settled down after escaping the Fireflies but all is not well after Ellie learned the truth Joel hid from her. They have a home. Ellie is beginning to thrive, even finding love, until the unthinkable happens when Joel is viscously murdered in front of her. Traumatized and enraged, Ellie ventures off to find the young woman named Abby and her crew responsible, journeying deeper into terror and bloodshed for revenge. But why was Abby out to kill Joel in the first place? Who are the Wolves and the Scars at war? How far are the two willing to go to settle their disturbing blood feud?

So controversies aside, I can understand some of the hate for the game. The Last of Us was a storytelling masterpiece. Last of Us 2 is a sequel that takes a lot of risks and goes to some truly depraved places as a revenge story. Personally, I loved most of what the game had to offer but I can understand why someone wouldn’t. The story, while way darker than the first (which really says something) balances it out with some pretty heartfelt and beautiful moments as did its predecessors. I was incredibly captivated by Ellie and Abby’s journeys. The beginning is much slower so you do have to stick around but once Ellie starts her revenge quest, the game not only opens up but you’re treated to some really tense gameplay. The infected take a back seat this time, though the new types combined with the vastly smarter enemy AI make some good horror- the Rat King towards the end genuinely scared the shit out of me and was one of my favorite horror bosses in a while. I love that the game adds some disturbingly realistic touches to the enemies so you feel dirty killing them. I appreciate the differences between Ellie’s and Abby’s weapons and passive abilities that add a bit in clinches. I do have have to say the game overall is way harder than the first and much less forgiving. I’ve gotten more frustrated on certain sections of this game than I have on a lot of Souls games and Alien: Isolation o give you an idea, so patience is a must. Also the slower pace does make the game feel much longer, even without the humongous death count, than I’m sure it really is. In the end, I love the game just as much as the first as a truly horrific revenge tale bordering into the waters of depravity as Blood Meridan but this game is absolutely not for everyone but well worth your time. May the gaming gods bring you glory.