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…

First impressions of Parkasaurus 1.0

22 Aug 202024 Aug 2020

I didn't put it in the subject line, but this is a post for Promptapalooza: Write that one post you wanted to write so often, but always postponed. Finally do…

Screenshot Saturday: Being a rebel

1 Aug 2020

Yes, well... In her defence, she came from the other side!

Bookahneer’s Geekwatch (July 2020)

29 Jul 202029 Jul 2020

If you still play LotRO, then you probably haven't missed their recent server issues. We still don't really know what happened, but it went on for a long time. Now…

Playing a random game: Democracy 3

12 Jul 202012 Jul 2020

Thanks to the various integrations available, GoG Galaxy shows me all the games I own on GoG, Battle.net, Origin, Steam, Twitch, Epic and Uplay as well as Guild Wars 2.…

Send help! – Games I’ve been playing in June

3 Jul 2020

I bought both Project Hospital and Old World a couple of weeks ago. One evening, I couldn't decide if I wanted to play Project Hospital or continue playing Old World.…

Screenshot Saturday: You can save after…

27 Jun 2020

I treated myself to another city-building game, The Universim. There isn't much to say about the game yet as I only started playing. But it was late and I wanted…

Screenshot Saturday: Ding Ding!

20 Jun 202020 Jun 2020

My shaman finally hit level 40 in WoW Classic! I realized too late that I don't want to play my warlock and am slowly levelling my shaman now... if only…

Screenshot Saturday: First Look at Western Skyrim

30 May 2020

The last chapter of Elder Scrolls Online, Greymoor, launched last week and it brought us one new zone, Western Skyrim. It's a beautiful zone and does remind me of the…

Paeroka’s Ponderings: Guilds and their leaders

24 May 2020

The members of Dragon Season (a guild on the EU servers in Guild Wars 2) may remember a time where I was actively playing the game and organized our guild…

First Impressions: Old World

21 May 202022 May 2020

Old World is the first game I purchased from the Epic Game store. All others that I have on that platform were free games they're giving us. But this is…

Screenshot Saturday: Waaagh!

9 May 20209 May 2020

As I said... favourite class. It feels good to "be back". And apparently, with returning to LotRo once again and WoW Classic, it's the year of MMO nostalgia.

Bookahneer’s Geekwatch: Free stuff in MMOs

29 Apr 202029 Apr 2020

Lord of the Rings Online extended its period where you can play all content - that is: all quest packs - for free. You can now play the game without…

Screenshot Saturday: Deshaan in ESO

25 Apr 202025 Apr 2020

There's not much to say about this. I just liked the view. The citizens rebuilding their village while there's something brewing in the distance. My templar is level 48 now,…

Bookahneer’s Geekwatch (April 2020)

23 Apr 2020

Tropico 6 released a new free update with several bug fixes, but with it also came the ability to cross play between GOG, Steam and Origin. MacOS will follow later.…

My Five Favourite Game Series

22 Apr 2020

Krikket posted about her five favourite game series (this topic is apparently going around in Twitter, but I haven't seen it there yet) and I like the idea so much…

Making my own wine in Terroir

18 Apr 2020

A few days ago, I looked at the Kickstarter of Chinatown Detective Agency and as I wrote in my blog post about the game, I downloaded and played not only…

Screenshot Saturday: Level 46 in ESO

18 Apr 2020

I'm slowly making my way to level 50 - which will lead towards the CP grind, apparently. But it's still nice being able to just explore the game, do a…