GosuNoob Video Game Reviews
Diablo 4 Review – Desolation Row
In these uncertain, turbulent times, quality escapism is pretty much essential for individual well-being. Preferably, that distraction is something a person intimately recognizes and enjoys at the most elementary level. Asking your significant other to make that special lasagna, binge-watching old episodes of Deep Space Nine, or playing Diablo games, raises the portcullis of your…
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Amnesia: The Bunker Review – 3D Monster Maze
Frictional Games are undisputed masters of interactive dread since the first Amnesia (2010). Their signature brand of horror had always involved a defenseless amnesiac protagonist…
System Shock Review – Remember Citadel
Imagine being a caveman hunting a mammoth with a flint-tipped spear and bone arrows. Suddenly, a bright light flashes, weirdly dressed stranger materializes in front…
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum Review – Not Precious
Playing as an antihero can be charming if the stars align and the antihero in question has some redeemable personality traits. Many people are happy…
Humanity Review – Mind Over Mater
Reading up on Humanity, I was vaguely expecting a simple puzzle game reminiscent of Lemmings 3D. What emerged instead was an arsenal of good ideas…
Darkest Dungeon 2 Review – Devolution
Delivering a sequel to one of the best games of all time was probably akin to flashing a faint smile to an executioner before putting…
Star Wars: Jedi Survivor Review – Prince of Persia
It’s a well-known fact that Jedi are noble, nimble, and sometimes conflicted. Star Wars movies, TV shows, and books established those facts a long time…
Age of Wonders 4 Review – Positively Magical
Since the early days of tabletop gaming, a crucial prerequisite for fantasy role-players was imagination. The ability to weave stories and fly unshackled from the…
XDefiant Preview – RCycled
What the world desperately needs right now is another free2play multiplayer shooter. Perhaps a simple Call of Duty clone, slated for the mid or late…
Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp Review – Wholesome Carnage
Take Battle Isle, inject a cartoon personality into it and you get Advance Wars. Oh, and make it less complicated by using squares instead of…
Dead Island 2 Review – Zombie Piñata
When first Dead Island came out, zombie games weren’t as much of a “thing” as they are now. First-person melee combat was rare and weapon…
Shardpunk: Verminfall Review – Ratapocalypse Now
Shardpunk: Verminfall is an impressive label that attempts to check several pseudo-cultural reference boxes at once. The “punk” evokes retro-futurism; its prefix, “shard”, serves to…
Everspace 2 Review – Interstellar Diablo
Free-form sci-fi combat/trading simulators are the rarest breed of games. You can practically count good ones using one hand, and even that seems like an…
Dredge Review – Sea is a Harsh Mistress
Dredging is the excavation of material from a water environment, usually the removal of sediments and debris from the bottom of lakes, rivers, harbors, and…
Resident Evil 4 Review – The Perfect Organism
Contrary to the other forms of art, perfection in gaming is a fleeting thing, prone to aging badly. Nobody would dare suggest improvements to Mozart’s…
The Last Spell Review – Chew You Up and Spit You Out
Suppose you are looking to spice up the early spring with a fantasy rogue-lite game, which one would you pick? A friend asked me that…
Company of Heroes 3 Review – Road To Rome
It has been roughly a decade since Company of Heroes 2. The real-time strategy genre didn’t exactly thrive back then, but now it’s objectively dead….
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty Review – Nioh 2.5
It still perplexes me that the masochistic experience of Soulsborne games has become a global phenomenon played by millions, instead of staying a niche product…
The Settlers: New Allies Review – Boring Shores
Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it. It has been soooo long since the last Settlers game that I’m…
Atomic Heart Review – Come To My Oblast, Have A Blast
Since the first announcement teaser from 2017, Atomic Heart became “that uncanny soviet game” people loved to speculate about. The clips showed plenty of stuff…