Ancient Farm Steam Review

Ancient Farm on Steam is another game that Ultimate Games sent me recently, and this one is as simple as it gets. You are building a farm in, of all places, ancient Egypt. While this isn’t the first place I think of farming, they obviously had them. But how does this concept work out?

Truth be told, if you looked up the word average in the dictionary of gaming, you might find a picture of this game. I don’t mean that as an insult; average is perfectly acceptable, which is why we call it average. Everything from the graphics to the sound and even the controls is exactly that, average. For $15, I can’t be mad at that; however, I can expect more.

While I can’t call them issues, things start immediately. The tutorial will teach you everything you need to know about collecting sticks and rocks, cutting down grass and building a workbench and buildings, and even growing a farm. You will then learn to grow crops and even sell them. This will move you on to animals and creating bigger and better things. There just isn’t much of a point. You are never in any danger; you have no food or stamina bar. There are no enemies to fight. You really can’t even go out of business.

I can’t bash the game, or even say don’t buy it. There is absolutely a market for a farming game with no worries. I didn’t dislike the game at all. When I score a game, I start at 5/10. If it functions as it should with no issues, that’s where it stays. I take away for bugs and glitches. I add to it if I find the game fun, or if it adds something to the genre, or has superior sound or graphics, etc. This game is pretty much the definition of 5/10. I never ran into bugs or issues. I also never ran into anything I found fun or interesting, and it doesn’t do anything new or creative. It also isn’t particularly good-looking or sounding compared to other games at its price point. By all means, pick it up if you want a game that lets you farm with no worries, but don’t expect anything else from it. Best wishes, and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Deep Fringe Debuts in Early Access Jan 15

Deep Fringe from Publisher Thousand Generation releases into early access today and is a hardcore tactical RPG. You can watch the trailer above and read the features below about what looks like an amazing game. You can also wait a bit to see my full review, as they were kind enough to send me a review copy. Best wishes, and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Key Features of Deep Fringe

Shape the Battlefield Your Way

With limitless tactical possibilities, every moment is an opportunity to redefine the fight. Reshape the terrain, destroy obstacles, or create new pathways. Position your squad to dominate from the high ground or outmaneuver enemies in the chaos. Knock foes into traps, hurl them into hazards, or send them tumbling off the map. Switch seamlessly between top-down and isometric views to gain the perfect perspective on battle.

Command Powerful Units

Each character has unique destructive or support abilities and distinct combat roles. With a wide variety of units to command, players can unleash devastating attacks and reshape the fight with every move. Deep customization through skill trees and cybernetic enhancements adds further depth, allowing for tailored strategies and new layers of tactical complexity in combat.

A Gripping Story Lore

Venture into hostile territories to uncover the secrets behind the apocalypse and the factions vying for control. Each expedition reveals a new chapter in the war-torn world’s mysterious past. Form alliances or spark rivalries with factions and characters you encounter. Your decisions shape the course of the conflict and how the story unfolds. The Early Access version offers 10 hours of main story content, plus plenty of side maps to keep you engaged.

Nostalgic Art Direction

With its hand-drawn retro style, Deep Fringe offers a visually distinct and fractured world. The detailed artwork brings to life a world full of unsettling creatures and decayed landscapes. Whether you’re a fan of post-apocalyptic settings or just appreciate art that feels alive and raw, Deep Fringe delivers a visual experience that sticks with you.

Highly Customizable Level Editor

Unleash your creativity with an easy-to-use graphical editor that lets you create your own levels, characters, and campaigns. Share your creations with the community through the workshop for limitless player-made challenges.

Cakey’s Twisted Bakery Playstation 5 and Xbox Review

Cakey’s Twisted Bakery is a horror game sent to me on both PS5 and Xbox by Ultimate Games. They have sent me plenty of games over the years, and I always appreciate it. They are best known for Drug Dealer Simulator PS5 review, but they make plenty more.

The gameplay is quite simple: sneak around and find ingredients to make pies and cakes. You play as a child trying to save your brother, since in this bakery, children are the secret ingredient. You and your trusty flashlight (a torch for my European readers) must avoid getting eaten long enough to bake these not-so-yummy sweets and use them as weapons against these terrifying abominations.

While this game may sound easy, it is not. It also may look cute it is definitely not made for children. There are jump scares aplenty, and the monsters will literally pick you up and eat you when they catch you. It isn’t graphic like many survival horror games, but it is more difficult than many that are made for teens.

The game does have its issues, however. The game doesn’t exactly explain much, with most of it being left to trial and error. For example, there is a crouch button, and you can simply hide in open crates. This has varying degrees of success, but since you are a child, it works out. You can also simply pile ingredients into the machine as you find them; there is no need to place exact quantities into the machine. Having to do this one at a time doesn’t make it truly worth it to stockpile massive amounts, but searching for only what you need can get you killed.

The game is fun for the $10 price point. A solid 7/10 experience. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Flotsam Steam Review

Flotsam was recently released into 1.0 from Stray Fawn Studios, and I picked it up during the winter sale on Steam. I really enjoyed The Wandering Village PS5 Review and figured I would give this one a shot. I have to say, Stray Fawn really has a handle on these city builders. This time around, the world has flooded, and you are essentially on a boat picking up plastic and wood with the last few survivors and attempting to survive.

Early decisions here matter as water is at a premium, and so is your wood and plastic supply. Your boat has a limited supply of power that slowly regenerates, so choosing wear to go and what to pick up needs to be done carefully. The tutorial, which goes right into the game itself, does a great job explaining how everything works.

There are a few things that are huge game changers. For example, when you can finally start building scavenger boats instead of swimming, your people will be much happier and work much faster. It also becomes much easier to manage food when you can grow seaweed, four or five farms, and you will never go hungry. Survivors won’t be happy with the food, but they won’t go hungry.

The game itself is well done and a lot of fun, and for $25, it has plenty of replay value. Best wishes, and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Preorders Open for Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown as Deluxe Edition, Console Demos, Switch 2 Version And Launch Date Are Revealed

Many of you may remember when I reviewed the demo on Steam for Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown Demo Review. Well, for console fans, you now have the chance to play it yourself. It is currently live on PS5 and Xbox. I won’t waste too much of your time. The release date is approaching soon, on February 18, 2026, to be exact. It has also been announced that it will be released on the Switch 2. So enjoy the combat deep dive below, and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Set the U.S.S. Voyager and deep in the unexplored reaches of the Delta Quadrant aboard, Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown invites players to relive—and redefine—the legendary starship’s journey back to earth. The game blends exploration, ship & resource management, roguelite elements, and meaningful choices. Experience crew dynamics and a fresh take on a beloved sci-fi universe — with what-if scenarios that open up new possibilities.

Player decisions shape both the fate of the crew and the configuration of the U.S.S. Voyager itself. With each playthrough, the ship becomes a different version of itself—reengineered and reimagined based on the path taken through the quadrant and the command decisions made along the way.

In Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown, players take command of the U.S.S. Voyager as it traverses 12 vast sectors of the Delta Quadrant. Along the way, they’ll manage systems and crew, engage in diplomacy, navigate difficult moral decisions, and face the unknown. Familiar faces return, but their fates may differ—reshaped by the captain on the bridge.

Dreadmyst Steam Review

Dreadmyst is a new MMORPG published by Dreaddmyst.com that has a very old-school look and feel to it. You can choose from one of four classes: Paladin, Mage, Ranger, or Cleric, which do the typical things you would expect. The Cleric heals, the Mage throws powerful spells, and the Paladin swings a sword, mace, or axe while using holy spells to deal damage or heal and buff those around him.

You can check out the decently sized map and pick up a ton of different quests that range from finding a guy’s lost book to killing a certain number of enemies, or an undead wolf, even. There always seems to be something to be doing in the early game and with easy access to fast travel, you won’t waste a lot of time backtracking to areas.

There is, however, one boss in this free-to-play delight that everyone currently struggles with. Signing into the game itself. Much of my game time has been played in separate long sittings, because it takes forever to sign in. Forget playing with friends, by the way, because the chances of all of you signing in at the same time at an agreed time are slim. The fastest I have ever signed in took about 20 minutes of trying. There are also allegations of stolen assets from Aion, but I have not been able to confirm this myself.

So, do I recommend this game? No, sadly, I can’t. Even as a free-to-play game, it is unacceptable that the ability to play is plagued by an inability to sign in and frequent server restarts, which then require you to play a game of will I be able to sign back in? This game is best avoided, at least until they address the issue of not being able to actually sign in. The lack of a queue system and having to manually just keep trying makes it even worse. Best wishes, and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

EBOLA VILLAGE Console Release Date and Trailer

EBOLA VILLAGE is a first-person survival horror game coming to PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch.

Inspired by classic survival horror games of the 1990s, the game follows Maria, whose quiet evening is interrupted by a television broadcast about a biological threat. Concerned for her family, she travels to a remote village, where disturbing events and a dark mystery begin to unfold.

Key details:

  • Genre: First-person survival horror
  • Mode: Single-player
  • Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch
  • Release date: January 23, 2026

The Playground: Child of Divorce

I hope everyone had a fun, safe, happy New Year. I took another trip to The Playground for mine. Child of Divorce is the disturbing prequel to Aron Beauregard’s splatterpunk hit I didn’t know I want or needed.

The year is 1993 and Geraldine Borden’s macabre magnum opus is under construction. But after a heated swing with young Matthew Cookson went awry, Geraldine and her compatriot, Fuchs, see there’s a road ahead. In the meantime, she ordered Fuchs to build a separate structure, a prototype, ordering her broken adapted son Rock, and Fuchs to abduct a unlucky set of children. Confused, hunted by a nightmare with little explanation, who will survive the first Playground, and what will be be left of them?

Prequels are normally cursed to be inferior to the originals. Sometimes forced, sometimes bloated by needless explanations, sometimes they are decent stories twisted and mangled to fit a mold. Child of Divorce actually avoids all these pitfalls. The book improves immensely from the first. My biggest complaint from the first, the structuring, has been smoothed out, flowing much more naturally. The children themselves are flushed out a lot more and written more three dimensionally; I was much more invested in these kids and their story arcs, feeling truly saddened and impacted when they met a horrible fate. I loved the set up. Mildred, who hunts the children and keeps them moving, truly freaked me out and I tip my hat to Beauregard for making a stalker enemy that is truly nightmare fuel. The book stands really good as a standalone, only nodding to the first a few times. It is a quick read that fits perfectly, not being too short or long. The only downside I can think of was some of the games didn’t resonate with me as much and the dodgeball room utterly confused the hell out of me towards the end. In the end, I loved this book. Hell, it’s one of my favorite prequels. Can I recommend it? Yes, but do your research because there is a massive set of triggers in this book- if the cover upsets you, this book isn’t for you, and like last time, it is a scene from the book and there are disturbing pictures inside. Personally, I loved it, and I think it was captivating, grim, creepy as hell horror story I’d recommend, especially if you loved the first. May the gaming gods bring you glory.

I Am Future Playstation 5 Review

I Am Future is the newest title from TinyBuild, which they were kind enough to send me a PlayStation 5 copy of to review, which is always appreciated. I Am Future is a cozy survival game where you play as the last person on the planet. The customization options for Robin or Chris are pretty extensive, as you take apart old barrels, trees, and assorted junk to rebuild a base for yourself and rebuild bridges and helper robots.

One of my favorite aspects of this game is that while you are the last person on Earth doesn’t mean there is nobody to talk to; you will meet a cast of robots, for example, the Earl of Fridge. You will develop a friendship with them, and they will teach you things like new recipes to cook, and together you will figure out why you are the last surviving human.

Of course, none of this matters if the gameplay itself is not fun and engaging. Thankfully, if you are a fan of this type of game, the game loop is exactly what you would hope for. You will be upgrading tools at regular intervals, so you can find bigger and better things. Fishing is simple and relaxing, and serves a real purpose, and you never feel like you are stuck waiting on things to develop. There is, of course, a certain amount of grinding to it, but it isn’t ever overwhelming.

At the end of the day, like every game of this genre, it’s a title fans of the genre will enjoy, but it won’t likely change anyone’s mind. It is an 8/10 experience. I will definitely play again at some point. Best wishes, and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

First-person survival horror SENARA: The Sacrament revealed

SENARA: The Sacrament puts players in the role of a new recruit of a religious organization with a massive 6,000-ton ship: the Senara. Upon setting sail you wake up to find the crew missing, while unspeakably horrors roam its steel corridors. Hidden cult rituals, forbidden truths, and survivors with their own agendas await you in the darkness. In a place where blind faith and salvation intertwine, you’ll be forced to make choices that go far beyond survival.
Hearkening back to classic survival horror design, SENARA: The Sacrament offers a massive escape room where you must solve puzzles and use limited resources to your advantage if you’re to get out alive. In order to get out of the Senara alive, you’ll have to ration your resources, make use of stealth, and make difficult decisions regarding when to fight or flee. Explore the complex, intertwined corridors of this structure based on a real ship, uncover hidden passages, and gather clues to find the key to your escape.
This unholy tale is open to interpretation with snippets of truth scattered across documents, objects, and conversations between characters. Depending on what you believe and how you interpret the clues, the story can unfold in entirely different directions. With multiple endings based on your choices, your decisions affect not only your escape but also the fate of the Senara and what truth comes to light.
Using LiDAR, photogrammetry, and Unity HDRP pipelines, SENARA: The Sacrament offers a scan of a real-life documentary-level accuracy 6,000-ton ship. This precise reality reconstruction naturally adds an ultra immersive, uncanny playspace for players to get lost in.
“SENARA: The Sacrament is our love letter to classic survival horror titles that keep players shrouded in mystery and trapped in suspense,” said No-Jin Kwak, Director at Influsion Inc. “Using claustrophobic corridors, moody offshore atmosphere, limited resources, non-linear level design, and a fragmented story, we aim to create a terrifying experience that shakes players to their very core!”