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Stardew Valley is an incredible Indie Passion Project developed by one person. The game at its core is a farming Simulator, but the game play goes beyond just farming. From mining, combat, and even fishing; this game has so much content to offer.

When you Start the game you will be a new face in a old town. Having inherited land from you grandfather you will face the task of starting a new farm on a plot of land filled with debris. As you play the game not only will you be able to build your idea farm, but you will also be able to build relationships with the various villagers living within the town. I will not lie the game starts out a bit slow especially if you are playing for your first time and don't know any tips or tricks to start up faster. As you play the game more and more content will open itself to you.
Stardew Valley is a game that can be played at a very relaxed pace with no pressure or stress, but it can also be played fast and efficient. There is no wrong way to play Stardew Valley.

Stardew Valley has received many updates through out the years that have greatly expanded the game. It has been a labor of love from its creator and I can not wait to see what he makes next. If it has even a fraction of the passion put into Stardew then I already know it will be a wonderful experience.

Payday 3 is a good game. when you can play it. I have only managed to play 2 heists due to matchmaking servers being non-functional. I had a great time playing those 2 heists, but this stupid. If you can't keep your servers up then don't make an always online video game. especially when there is no reason too. the fact that there is no solo offline mode is absolutely stupid. you would think we would have learned our lessons from sim city 2013 that adding always online to a game that doesn't need it is a bad idea. The game is fun when you can play it. the XP system is wack and I'm not a huge fan of it, but overall the game is fun. However I can not recommend anyone pay for this game until they can keep the servers from dying every other hour. come back in a week and maybe we can finally play the game.

As far as free to play MMORPG's go AQ3d isn't bad, but it is far from being amazing. It has the same basic movement system as games like WoW or FF14. It's combat is fairly basic with you only having 5 real abilities. There are loot boxes, but you get a free 1 every day as well as every time you level up. the loot boxes offering seem to be entirely cosmetic. Any gear you get can be equipped as a cosmetic item and much of the gear you can craft or find for free looks decent. The quests are fairly simple mostly devolving to go to place, kill things, return. Overall it is a fine game and if you have played past Artix games you will probably enjoy it.

I first started playing 7 days to die in 2016 and since took a long break from it. I recently came back to the game in 2022 because a friend wanted to check it out for the first time. after playing for a few days I can say I still would not recommend this game. I first stopped playing the game as the next update that was coming was just changing the progression system of the game instead of adding anything new to it, and i come back to see barely any new content and instead see that the progression system has changed even more. in 6 years all they have done is add electricity and change the way the player progresses through levels. and electricity was something I remember being worked on before my first break. there were also talks of bandits being worked on before I quit the first time and I come back 6 years later to see not only are they not in the game, but they are still apparently still being worked on. 6 years later... and what do I see on devblogs for the next alpha update alpha 21? once again instead of working on new content they are changing the progression system... again. its like the developers are in an endless loop of changing the progression system over and over instead of doing any meaningful work on new content or finishing the game. I understand that game development takes time, but I've been gone for 6 years and I see barely anything to show for it upon returning. and if that wasn't bad enough the game seems even more unstable than I remember it being in the past. I've never had extreme lag playing with friends in the past, but now on hoard nights on default settings my frame rate drops into a slideshow despite the fact that i exceed the recommended system requirements. my friends have had to turn down the number of zombies spawned per player on hoard night just to have playable frame rate and I don't remember ever having to do that in the past with a similar number of players. I feel like exceeding recommended specs should allow me to play fine on default settings but apparently not. I would Really like to be able to recommend this game, but I just can't due the issues I've stated above. Maybe the game will be better someday and maybe if it ever reaches a full release it will be worth picking up, but in its current state I just can't recommend anyone spend their money on it, and i would not hold my breath for a full release.

I have heard that there is apparently an active modding community for this game though, and i have heard great things about some of the mods so maybe I will check them out and see if they make the game better, but I still would not recommend a game just because it has mods that make it better.

is good game.
buy game.
play game.

I bought Elite Dangerous A while back but didn't really start playing it till some friends got it free on epic. Since it went free on epic I have put 150 hours in the game and have for the most part enjoyed myself. don't get the wrong the game is by no means perfect, but if you are looking for a fun space sim Elite can definitely fill that role. The Games core gameplay loops revolve around combat, trading, mining, or exploration. There are also missions offered at stations that can help to give you some direction if you don't want to plot your own path.

You can play elite dangerous in open space, private group sessions, or solo. Open play is certainly the riskiest mode to play in, but it can be fun to interact with other players. for the most part you will be fairly safe in open unless you are flying in highly populated systems. Private Group Sessions Allow you to make or join private groups with select players. you can use private groups to only play with friends, or play with groups of players who play in the same way as you. Solo allows you to play the game with nothing but npcs. All three modes are perfectly Valid ways to play the game and the choice on how to play is up to you.

overall I would say elite is a solid 7/10 game. it is fun and will give you hours of content, but it does have its problems. I would recommend watching some videos of different types of gameplay before fully committing to a purchase, but overall I would recommend give elite dangerous a try.

Warframe is one of my Favorite games and no matter how many times I take a break from it I always find myself coming back to it eventually. I would recommend trying, but there are some things you should be aware of first. This is a free to play game and it is entirely possible to enjoy this game without ever spending money(I first spend money on warframe around 1000 hours of play time), but there will be plenty of times you want to or maybe even feel pressured to. There will be a lot of grinding. If you do not like grindy games this may not be the game for you. you can pay for boosters that speed up the grind, but that takes money or time. This game is old and has had a lot of content added to it over the years. Because of this there are many bugs and sometimes old content breaks. DE is usually good about fixing them when they pop up, but some content breaks in some way just about every major update.

I mentioned that you can play this game entirely free to play and that boosters could take money or time. What I mean by that is you can trade premium currency with other players in this game. the premium currency is called Platinum and you can trade it with other players for various items. So if you are willing to put in time grinding for Items that other players want you can get all the platinum you need without ever spending a dime.
Now lets mention reasons you may want to or fell pressured to spend money. when you start the game you will have 2 warframe slots and 8 weapon slots. Warframes are the characters you play as and at the time of writing this review there are 49 Warframes in the game. needless to say 2 warframe slots it not enough and you will eventually want more. how do you get more? well you can usually get 1 for free each nightwave which is a free battlepass like system. how long a nightwave last has been a bit inconsistent so can't really rely on that entirely. other wise the only other way to get warframe slots is to pay 20 platinum per slot. so it would cost you 940 platinum if you wanted to buy a slot for every warframe available in the game right now. 940 platinum would not be super easy to get through trading as a new player. and for a frame of reference 1000 platinum cost 50 USD. you will also likely want more than 8 weapon slots. you can buy 2 weapon slots for 12 platinum. There are hundreds of weapons in the game and I would not recommend trying to have a weapon slot for every single weapon. there are many weapons that are just not worth keeping. however if you are a collector and want to own all the weapons be warned it will cost a lot of platinum for all the slots needed for that. there are more than just warframe and weapon slots, but those are the main two issues you will likely run into as a new player.
There are other reasons you may want to spend money.
-you want a warframe/weapon that is annoying to grind for. you can buy all the base warframes and most the weapons from the shop directly for platinum.
-you want to upgrade you warframe/weapon faster. you place mods in your warframes and weapons to make them stronger, but there is a capacity limit. you can buy an item that doubles the mod capacity for your warframe/weapon. there are ways to get them for free, but they don't come up often.
-Forma. same as the above point. after doubling your capacity you may still be unable to fit a full build and that is were forma comes in. forma lets you polarize a mod slot which makes matching mods cost half capacity slot. you can farm for forma blueprints for free, but you can only build 1 per day. alternatively you can buy a pack of 3 forma for 35 platinum.
Okay I think I've done enough warning about the economy of the game, so what is the gameplay of warframe like?

In warframe you play through mission nodes with a variety of game modes. each warframe has 4 abilities and can carry a Primary, secondary, and melee weapon. the gameplay generally consist of killing hoards of enemies with your weapons and warframe abilities while performing various objectives such as defense, sabotage, or Mobile defense.

I will also warn you that the early game does not do a good job at adequately teaching how to properly play the game. The new player experience is rough and you should feel no shame about having to go to the wiki or ask other players for help. the game also doesn't do a great job at advertising what all is available in the game. there are many gamemodes and systems that you may just not know about unless you were around when they were released and reading the patch notes. as an example years ago warframe had raids. not many people played them, and I would argue part of the reason they didn't see much playtime was because there was not a single thing in the game telling you they existed. if you didn't just happen to find out about them on the wiki or have another player tell you about them you would likely never know the existed. DE has since removed raids because of low population partaking in them and the fact that they broke every update.
another issue of the way the game is developed is that fact that many time the new update will be completely disconnected from the rest of the game making it feel less like a connected game and more like a series of disconnected content islands.
In short warframe can be a fun game and will have lots of content for you as a new player to go through, but it also has many problems. warframe is not a perfect game, but it can be a fun game. it is completely free to try out and see if you will like it for yourself and I would very much recommend at least trying it.

Side note sorry that the review is a little ranty and not well put together. I am not great at putting my thoughts into writing.

I bought Skyrim while it was on sale one holiday. I thought I would play it for like 10 hours and be bored of it. I now have 400 hours in it and have only beaten the main story once....

I used to play a lot of world of tanks, and I always had fun but it was always missing something. this game has that something. customization. you can pretty much build what ever you want and then fight with it in the same style as world of tanks. This game can provide hours of fun just make new robots and testing them in battle. It even rewards you anytime a premium player is in your game. you get a 5% bonus for every premium player in your match. they also give out free premium at almost every major update or holiday. Honestly my only complaint with the game right now is that it doesn't have enought maps.

Civilization V is honestly one of my favorite stratigy games. It can be fun in single player but when you have friends to play with it gets even more fun. for anyone who likes a got stratigy game then this is a game you should have. there are quite a few difficulty levels you can choose from to make your game more challenging. You have to keep up with so many asspects at once that it can feel a bit overwellming your first few games, but you will get used to it. with the brave new world and gods and kings dlcs it can add a whole lot to the game and almost make you feel like your having to change your play style completly. overall I would recommend buying this game.