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Aloft Early access review If you’ve played pretty much any survival game before, then Aloft will immediately feel familiar. It has swinging pickaxes and axes of the non-pick variety to gather stone, wood, and other materials in order to craft your way to greater power. That familiarity quickly fades away as you discover the main thing that sets Aloft apart: the skyborne islands that serve as both places to explore and magically mobile homes to navigate this floating landscape. You’ll use a glider to fly around to visit other islands. Slapping a couple of sails, a rudder, and a steering wheel onto any island allows you to move it freely.…

Raft Review Our oceans are clogged with plastic trash, but here’s a small silver lining: All that garbage is keeping me alive. In open world survival game Raft.  I turned a collection of floating trash into a floating base—a big, semi-cluttered floating base, but it’s packed with life-saving amenities. The first few hours were so rough I probably would have just quit if I weren’t playing with a group of friends. But after a few hours of surviving, I was beginning to realize how to play it and without having to worry about death quite so constantly I eventually discovered an engrossing survival experience. I went from wanting to quit…

Bureau of Contacts Review   Bureau of Contacts is in a very early stage. There’s not a ton of maps which is kind of a bummer. The game runs really smoothly and without frame dips, and it looks pretty good. All of the equipment you’ll be using to help with exorcisms or finding the evidence types has 3 kinds of evidence they can provide, so familiarize yourself with the details of what can happen in your journal. You’re set to explore and uncover your ghost in a big manor, covering multiple floors and rooms. You will have to learn the maps to better investigate and complete your quests before being…

The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan Review I’m reviewing The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan today. I like my decisions to come with consequences. The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan presents some strong ones, including one that determines whether or not I get to see Shawn Ashmore speared through the chest with a rusty spike. Man of Medan is a serious and brooding horror game that starts off slow but maintains a welcome sense of dread. A meaningful choice-and-consequence system makes a second or even third playthrough alluring. Particularly when playing online co-op, where you each control one character and independently make decisions with the potential to fuck everything up. When…

Lethal Company Review running through an abandoned planets in the dark with nothing but a hazmat suit on your back and three of your closest buds at your side.  Welcome to Lethal Company, a co-op survival horror game that’s all about digging deep into the (procedurally generated) crevasses for loot, which your party of up to four companions (Unless it’s modded of course) will need to figure out how to safely transport back to your ship and eventually sell to your tentacle overlord at the end of each round. This is a simple but highly enjoyable premise. there’s enough chaos to sink an entire weekend into its depths without realizing…

Content Warning Review   In theory, Content Warning functions similarly to Steam-favorite survival horror multiplayer, Lethal Company. In three-day cycles, you and up to three other aspiring SpöökTubers must descend into a pit. Your goal is to film something spooky, go viral, and make money. So, you descend into the pit with a depleting oxygen tank, and you hope to live long enough to ride a diving bell back to the surface, upload your footage to the tv, and watch the ad revenue come rushing in. I didn’t play any public games, though save file options make it possible for you to play either with friends, or alone. I never…