by Chezni “That’s a lot of blood. I like it. I want to bathe in it.”
Look, I’m just gonna say it–roguelikes are so good man (er, well good ones are good anyway). Caveblazers is another Tier 1 release that fits the bill. Of course once you’ve played one roguelike, you’ve played them all (conceptually) so I won’t go into great detail over things like “Tons of items! Equipment combinations! Classes! Randomization!” so much as what makes Caveblazers unique or specifically fun.
by Chezni Betrayer? I barely knew ‘er! AHAHAHAHA… ha.
Lepcis has this great response any time I complain about a game but stop and ask, “Am I just biased?” To which he responds “No, you just know what you like.” That singular statement is a great way to understand that even though your preferences are swayed by your own personal interests, they’re still a valid method of evaluating something, as long as you’re aware of that and admit it. Thus, I am an extremely mechanics-driven player; I play to consume rules, tricks, puzzles, strategies, nuances (even bugs at times), stats and techniques. So–even while Betrayer presents itself *very* uniquely… it’s a horrible game mechanically, and because of this I cannot rate it higher than Tier 3.
by LepcisMagna 
One of the first games I reviewed on PICD was Golden Krone Hotel. I put it into Tier Two, because I figured that there would be far too many roguelikes ending up on my Tier One list. This proved not to be the case. Many roguelikes were terrible, and many others were just nondescript or uninteresting – I found myself constantly thinking back to Golden Krone Hotel. Later, I was looking for it in my Steam Library, and was astonished to find I had put it into Tier Two. After revisiting it, it proved to be just as fun as I had remembered. It has been released from Early Access and just got its “Last Update” – I look forward to beating it (someday).
by Chezni It’s like if you took some of the good mood bits of Silent Hill 2 and smooshed it together with the survival aspects of the old Fallout games, the vision mechanics from Endless Sea, all in combination with some very simplified aspects of the survival craft genre. Oh, and Poland. That ends up being the perfect recipe for…
by LepcisMagna 
No, not that one. And no, not the other seven or eight. This King’s Quest is a reboot/continuation/prequel of the classic King’s Quest games in an updated graphical style. I was told that all of the textures are based on oil paintings which were scanned and applied to the game – it works, though not as grandly as I had hoped. If you haven’t heard of King’s Quest, you probably aren’t a fan of point-and-click adventure games and can feel safe skipping this one. If you have, I need to preface this with the information that I haven’t actually played the originals – they’re on my list, but I’ll first need to get them working in Windows 10.
by Chezni Well, yeah, I mean I could write you a review or you could just watch my video. Or you could just buy the game. Would you rather be happy or $3 richer? Yeah, I thought so. Tier 1 vid and Steam link below.
by LepcisMagna 
Endless runners are probably one of the few casual game types as old as Tower Defense. They have been done and perfected in every way and in every style: from the sublime futuristic to the flash game classic to the puzzle version to the mobile modern to the ridiculously popular. Any new entry must stand up to these and the thousand others which already exist. Alto’s Odyssey looks pretty, but doesn’t have much new to add to this tired genre.
by Chezni by LepcisMagna I’m a math guy – let’s start with some numbers:
597 days (292 days after Chezni).
978 games in total.
229 in Tier One (23.4%).
216 in Tier Two (22.1%).
Now it’s done. I have…far too many Steam games. What’s more, I now know that even with unlimited time, more than half of them are not worth playing. You might think that depressing (I’ve specifically avoided calculating exactly how much money I wasted), but it’s a remarkable feeling to look at all the Tier One games I have and know that I enjoy each one of them. I can pick any game in my library and have a good time. That was the point. I no longer feel an obligation to play video games. I can have, you know, fun.
by LepcisMagna 
Let me be clear: I went into Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition thinking I could just knock a quick game off my list, sure I wasn’t going to be particularly interested in it. It looked like a vaguely Mexican-themed Smash Brothers ripoff. What I got was a fun and (mostly) intuitive game about a man named Juan who gets killed by an evil skeleton on Dia de los Muertos, but is given a second chance by a mystical luchador mask. I look forward to playing far more of this – here’s to hoping the initial glow doesn’t wear thin. Tier One.