NEO Scavenger

NEO Scavenger

Operating System: PC
Website: Official Website
Rating: 7/10
Comments: This, once again, is a survival game that is still in beta stages. The basic story is this: you wake up in a cryotube with a name and a bank account number but remember nothing else about yourself. You can see lights of a city at night and so you go out in search for answers only to find that the world outside is in a post-apocalyptic state and has in general gone to shit.

I love this game. It's so damn hard to survive! I've died in so many, many different ways, recovered from sepsis only to be struck down by gastro and have also has my things stolen in my sleep and gone on a killing vendetta to get my stuff back. And yes, I have also resorted to cannibalism when I was starving. It wasn't a pretty sight.

I can't wait when they'll have different quests and all that. My main problem is that I still don't know how to save the game... so when I first got to the city I was simply looking for some iSlabs but it was late and I shut down my laptop only to find that it didn't autosave and I had to start again.

Project Zomboid

Project Zomboid

Operating System: PC
Website: Official Website
Rating: 8/10
Comments: I don't normally like zombie genre but this game warmed to me. Well, more like it warmed my hoarding. Because I am always that person who has to drop a healing potion to pick up another healing potion. I like raiding houses, chests and boxes for loot and this game. My god this game. The amount of loot lying in peoples houses is amazing at the best of times... and other times the curiosity can get you killed. Like I did. Many, many times. MANY times.

The intro says it all: There are no survivors. There is no hope of winning. This is how you die.

You have to run around and gather the necessary tools you need to make sure that you survive the zombie apocalypse which has ruined the world. I love this game to bits and it's only in beta testing. I can't wait until it has extra plot and features. So much to look forward to!

Artist Colony

Artist Colony

Operating System: PC
Website: BigFish page
Rating: 6/10
Comments: This game is rather reminiscent of a Virtual Villagers setting in that you can control each of your people, train them in different art styles and all that jazz. The biggest let down - just like with VV - is that after a while you have people maxed out and they're still complaining about the garden being run down. You just end up needing a ridiculous amount of cash to restore the colony and that's where I started to lose patience.

The story is what really keeps you playing though. The gameplay itself is rather tedious in the end but you do what you have to. The story is a nice step-brother rivalry for the affections of a girl; a story which happened exactly the same way with the brother's fathers and their mum.