Screenshot Saturday: Mini Healer

6 May 2023

I completely forgot about this game until Steam downloaded an update for it. Since I had no save games left, I started from scratch yesterday. It really does fulfill the…

Screenshot Saturday: Lord of the Rings Online – again and again and again…

22 Apr 2023

When I think about the MMO places that I have called my "virtual home" (if there ever was one), then it would be World of Warcraft, Warhammer Online, Rift and…

Screenshot Saturday: Fabledom

15 Apr 202315 Apr 2023

Another city-building game, another game in Early Access. I am too weak. But it is a pretty and relaxed city-building game so far! There isn't too much content in it…

Screenshot Saturday: Diablo IV Open Beta

25 Mar 202325 Mar 2023

I, like many others, gave the open beta of Diablo IV a try. I decided to go with druid which is definitely not my favourite class. It took me a…

Screenshot Saturday: Catizens

14 Jan 2023

Catizens is part of Fanatical's "Platinum Collection Bundle" (and low on stock there). I had been on the fence about this one, so getting it for 3.33 € (the bundle…

First Impressions Review: Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator

6 Jan 2023

Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator is exactly what the title suggests. You own a little shop with a garden plot where you can harvest a few plants every day. Your job…

Paeroka’s Ponderings: What’s new in this year’s Halloween festivities?

21 Oct 202221 Oct 2022

I love and hate festivals in MMOs. In general, I think that most MMOs capture the spirit of the respective festival quite well. This is especially true for the Halloween…

Quick Impressions: Railroad Corporation

11 Oct 2022

When I saw that Railroad Corporation was part of this month's Humble Choice, I got carefully excited. Excited because in theory, this is my kind of game! And carefully, because…

Screenshot Saturday: Loving my strategy games

24 Sep 202224 Sep 2022

There's currently the Steam Tacticon going on which, as usual nowadays, comes with lots of game demos! I haven't yet had enough time for any of the games that I…

Quick Impressions: Police Simulator: Patrol Officers

5 Sep 20227 Sep 2022

Who here hasn't dreamed of roaming the streets handing out parking tickets left and right? Okay, maybe nobody. But it's still fun! And every now and then, somebody asks me…

Quick Impressions: Hamster Playground

31 Aug 2022

I don't remember when and how I stumbled over this game's trailer, but it was so cute, it certainly stuck to my mind! And I also had to show it…

Screenshot Saturday: Restarting Guild Wars 2

27 Aug 2022

I decided to take a look at Guild Wars 2 from a beginner's point of view. That is, with a fresh clean Steam account that doesn't own anything! It took…

Screenshot Saturday: Back to Wow… again… again… again

20 Aug 2022

After being away for a year, I decided to return to WoW Classic. My initial goal had been to level my mage and get her through Burning Crusade. But that…

Screenshot Saturday: Time well spent

13 Aug 2022

Parkasaurus officially released their first DLC "Sea Monsters". I got to test it (us testers got to keep the DLC afterwards, so yay! But they did not ask me to…

Screenshot Saturday: New glasses

6 Aug 2022

Some time ago, I had bought more gems for myself. I had not wanted to spend them on anything immediately, but rather wanted to save them for when I see…

Quick Impressions: Emily is away <3

5 Aug 2022

After "Emily is away" and "Emily is away too", "Emily is away <3" is the third in this game series. I am not going to write about the first two…

Paeroka’s Ponderings: Living in an MMO

4 Aug 20224 Aug 2022

Answering one of my own prompts here: If you could – or had to – live in an MMO world for the rest of your life, which one would you…

Quick Impressions: Noble Fates

10 Feb 2022

Noble Fates is a colony building simulation game similar to RimWorld and Going Medieval, currently in Early Access on Steam. I recently bought it and despite liking "Lords and Villeins"…

Bookahneer’s Geekwatch (February 2022): Just One Percent

7 Feb 2022

The "Just One Percent" Project I love it when the blogosphere comes up with a gaming project like this! You can read about the origin of this idea in Krikket's…

Colony building sims

31 Jan 20227 Feb 2022

Is it just me or are there more and more colony building simulation games* in development? Of course, I will be the last person to complain here because my first…

Quick Impressions: Jurassic World Evolution 2

30 Nov 202130 Nov 2021

I actually find it difficult to even write any quick first impressions, because I don't know if the disappointment will stay or not. But it certainly is tied to the…

Quick Impressions: Mini Healer

30 Nov 2021

I had Mini Healer on my wishlist for a while now and always knew that I want to buy it! Now, I finally did. This game can be summed up…

Quick Impressions: Tavern Master

29 Nov 2021

I actually expected Tavern Master to go into Early Access before it releases. So when I saw the message from the developer that it was to actually release on November…

Paeroka’s Ponderings: When is a game too cheap?

29 Nov 2021

Quite obviously, developers need to make a living, so they do need to earn enough to pay for rent, food, health insurance and all that other nonsense that people like…

Bookahneer’s Geekwatch (May 2021)

2 May 2021

Guild Wars 2: What's coming next I actually wasn't expecting ArenaNet to give us a timeline of what's coming when in the next few months, but they did! The highlight…

Paeroka’s Ponderings: Railroading in MMOs

24 Jan 2021

It took me a long time until I could finally step into the Shadowlands expansion in World of Warcraft. And I am immediately longing for WoW Classic again (well, the…

Screenshot Saturday: Haunted Burrow

7 Nov 2020

I finally found the time to take a stroll through the Haunted Burrow in LotRO. I forgot that there are a few - harmless - jump scares. And the cobwebbed…

First Impressions Review: Not For Broadcast

4 Oct 20204 Oct 2020

Not For Broadcast is currently in Early Access. The first few episodes are available to play through already, but there is more to come. The developers offer a free prologue,…

Paeroka’s Ponderings: Gamescom 2020 – What’s the verdict? What did you discover?

12 Sep 2020

Altogether, I was very happy with the online version of gamescom. Having moved away, we aren't able to go to gamescom anymore and we probably wouldn't even go if we…

Screenshot Saturday: Fighting Drakkar

22 Aug 2020

I know, I am very late to this fight, but I have never actually done that one before. As always, I hated the amount of boom, bam and colours and…