Finally more information on The Dark Eye: Book of Heroes!

18 Feb 202018 Feb 2020

Unfortunately, I am not sure I like all the news I heard about The Dark Eye (TDE): Book of Heroes. I am basing my information on two videos, one from…

My Top Games 2019

29 Dec 2019

This is the last of my three lists of my favourite games in 2019. The first was about my favourite MMOs. The second was about my favourite games that I…

Screenshot Saturday: Abandoned…

21 Sep 201921 Sep 2019

The Parkasaurus developers have added the first three missions to the game to test and play through. I did not like the first one too much. It is well done,…

Mad Tower Tycoon and Project Highrise – What’s the difference?

25 Aug 2019

I bought Project Highrise back in 2016 and have played it for 54 hours. This number seems oddly low as I thought I'd sunk in much more time than that.…

First Impression Review: Equilinox

22 Aug 2019

This is probably not a "first impression" piece, since I've been playing Equilinox for 30+ hours by now. But I still think it deserves more attention than just a few…

Parkasaurus Early Access: Where is the game now?

15 Aug 2019

Parakasure went into early access on Steam in September 2018 (I wrote about my first impressions soon after). Thankfully, the game's developers are still here and they are active and…

To Kickstart or not to Kickstart: To The Rescue

11 Aug 201914 Aug 2019

I saw a tweet about a new Kickstarter project yesterday: To The Rescue. It's going to be a PC game about running a dog shelter and it's already reached its…

The Dark Eye: Book of Heroes

10 Aug 201911 Aug 2019

Ulisses and their partners announced a new computer game today: The Dark Eye - Book of Heroes. It seems that Wild River will be the publisher. The game is developed…

Screenshot Saturday: Mad Tower Tycoon

3 Aug 20194 Aug 2019

I had some trouble deciding which screenshot to show here today. I'd repeat myself showing more of Equilinox. Especially as I am preparing a little "first impressions" piece for the…

First Impressions: ISLANDERS

7 Jul 2019

Excuse the caps, but that is how they spell the game's title: ISLANDERS. In case you've read my post about the summer sales and which games interest me: ISLANDERS (okay,…

Summer sales…

30 Jun 2019

There is currently the Steam Summer Sale going on, but of course, this isn't the only sale we've seen recently. I have a lot of games on my wishlists, but…

Screenshot Saturday: One less in my pile of shame

22 Jun 2019

I don't even want to count how many unplayed games I have in my game libraries. Of course, there are a lot that I technically didn't even buy, because they…

Screenshot Saturday: Unheard

15 Jun 2019

Unheard is a detective game that works with audio files only. That is, you have a map and can see where each "dot" (until you've tagged them with a name…

E3 Highlights?

15 Jun 20196 Jul 2019

I have not been following all of E3 lately, but I did watch a few of the press conferences. Altogether, I did not take away much for me personally, but…

Screenshot Saturday: Equilinox

8 Jun 2019

The past few days I've spent quite a bit of my gaming time playing Equilinox. It is a little indie game that simulates an ecosystem. You can put plants, trees,…

First Impressions: Parkasaurus (Early Access!)

25 Sep 2018

Parkasaurus is a tycoon game where you get to build a dinosaur park. The game comes with cute comic graphics, but it has the depth that one would expect from…

Folk Tale: Where is it now? (March 2017)

25 Mar 20173 Aug 2019

Update (June 27, 2017): The developer seems to have gone MIA. The last post in the game's Steam Communiy Hub was posted on April 30, 2017. Before that, there were…

Quick First Impressions Review: Northgard

22 Feb 201715 Apr 2017

I've promised to write down my impressions of Northgard on Twitter. The game released tonight, exactly two hours ago and since it is an early access game, you will not…

Personal Top 9 of 2016

12 Jan 2017

I have seen several people and gaming sites make their "top x games of 2016" and when wondering which games I would put on my list, I thought: "Oh well,…

Bookahneer’s Geekwatch (September 2016)

15 Sep 201615 Sep 2016

First of all, we have Rift and some tiny news about its upcoming expansion "Starfall Prophecy". We still do not have a date for the expansion's launch, unfortunately. I speculated…

Bookahneer’s Geekwatch (Mai 2016)

14 May 201614 May 2016

When reading through the Steam community hub of Funatics's game "Valhalla Hills", I saw a post by a player saying that Funatics was recently acquired by InnoGames. The post is…

Insights into indie game development

11 Apr 2016

I bought "Gremlins Inc." in early access and only barely noticed its official launch. Even if I hadn't noticed it, though, the amount of search hits for "Gremlins Inc. review"…

Sunken – First Impressions Review

31 Jan 201623 Aug 2019

In general, I really despise permadeath in games and stay away from games where I am forced to play with this feature. With my playtime being limited due to my…

The future of The Repopulation

31 Jan 2016

Rather exciting news appeared while I was sleeping: The Repopulation will come back*! The developers (Above and Beyond Technologies) decided to leave the Hero Engine behind and port the game…

First Impressions Review: Gremlins Inc.

6 Jan 201623 Aug 2019

(Update: They have added the "save last session" feature with their update on January 22, 2016) Steam's Winter Sale just finished and throughout it, you could gain Steam trading cards…

Games I want to play during winter break

8 Dec 20153 Aug 2019

To be honest, the list of games I would want to play during my break is much too long, especially considering we'll be gone visiting family for about half of…

GOG Piñata – Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure

14 Sep 2015

GOG is currently having its "piñata sale" where you pay $3 (2,74 €) where you have no idea what kind of game you're getting. They promise it will be anything…

Valhalla Hills: First impressions

12 Sep 201523 Aug 2019

I've previously written about Valhalla Hills and my impressions from the outside, but now you can get an impression piece from me from the inside! I was the lucky winner…

Valhalla Hills: Impressions from the outside (Blaugust Day 30)

28 Aug 201526 Sep 2015

Just a quick warning: I will start with Valhalla Hills and detour to Cultures in the end. :p But there is a very good reason for this: The developers of…

Backing games – Blaugust Day 27

25 Aug 201523 Aug 2015

In general, I am quite cautious when it comes to backing games before they are released. Or so I thought. When preparing to write this post, I collected the games…