GosuNoob Video Game Reviews
Scavengers Preview – Next Big Thing?
Not really, but if you are sufficiently bored with the classic multiplayer heavyweights everyone is playing these days and wouldn’t mind some alternative game with a decent player base, you could do worse than giving Scavengers a try. It is much too early to tell if the game will meaningfully catch on long term, but…
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Subnautica: Below Zero Review – Terra Aquatica
Subnautica: Below Zero has some big shoes to fill, or rather, an enormous diving suit left from its hulking elder sibling. The original is considered…
Resident Evil Village Review – Countryside Carving
After a rather disappointing Resident Evil 3, a half-assed remake of a pretty solid Resident Evil 3: Nemesis from 1999, it’s time for the much…
Total War: Rome Remastered Review – Random Latin Proverb Here
Total War: Rome was an excellent strategy game in one of the best post-millennial years for gaming. In 2004 we had Half-Life 2, World of…
Returnal Review – Supremely Hardcore
After dozen hours of constant headbuttin’ against the wall and minimal progress, I was beginning to doubt a lot of stuff, but mostly my neuro-motoric…
Buildings Have Feelings Too! Review – City Building Puzzle
City-building games usually follow a well-established template. There is an empty terrain lot, some initial infrastructure, and a tight budget for making that terrain blossom…
Stellaris: Nemesis Review – Become the End (Boss)
There is a particular sentence by Publius Vergilius Maro, AKA Virgil, a Roman poet from the Augustan period, often quoted in explaining the mindset of…
Oddworld: Soulstorm Review – Abe for the Ages
After a spectacular set of delays that ended up stretching for almost four years, Oddworld: Soulstorm was finally released. Owners of the PlayStation 5, as…
Outriders Review – People Can’t Fly
Some games are divisive as chewing tobacco, and Outriders is the prime example of that kind of polarization – just look at Reddit, and you’ll…
It Takes Two Review – Just Me and You
It Takes Two is probably the best, most engaging, and innovative cooperative game in the whole vast universe. It sounds like juvenile hyperbole, but it’s…
Paradise Lost Review – It Should Stay Buried
On paper, Paradise Lost has it all – Nazis, a post-apocalyptic setting, an underground colony with a terrible secret, Slavic paganism, and several interwoven mysteries….
Spacebase Startopia Review – Extraterrestrial Extravaganza
Twenty-three years ago, many talented game developers left the legendary Bullfrog Productions in waves because it became too corporate. Few of them banded together and…
Mundaun Review – Swiss Surprise
Hipsters with the ambition strive to be different, always searching for the experiences that follow the beat of their chosen worldview. Sadly, the real-world venues…
Loop Hero Review – Filling the Void
You pray for something new under the gaming sun, but the skies are silent AF. Suddenly, a thunder! Inside the smoking impact hole sizzles Loop…
Stronghold: Warlords Review – Age Old Empires
Renaissance of a beloved classic concept or remaster of a tired, old trope? Everyone’s opinion of a modern remake of the game with decades-old roots…
Destruction Allstars Review – Freebie, but…
In some nicer, pandemic-free parallel universe, the first automobile game published exclusively on Playstation 5 is Gran Turismo 7. An invisible but impenetrable quantum barrier…
Outriders Preview – Another Anthem
I really don’t want another Anthem. You and your friends don’t want another Anthem. Even Bioware and EA would like to forget about Anthem, cut…
Orange Cast Review – A Cosmic Flop
Orange Cast is a third-person shooter game set in space. That is what the authors want you to believe, at least. Developed by an independent…
Little Nightmares II Review – Building Tension
Sophisticated, slow-to-build horror that avoids cheap jumpscares is the hardest to pull off. Too many movies, TV shows, and even novels arent even attempting to…
Valheim Preview – Ragnar Exiles
Trends in gaming are even more unpredictable than fluctuations in the stock market. The over-saturated genre of survival simulation games was steadily going the same…