City-builder/Simulation Game… Steam Next Festival (Oct 2021): More demos 12 Oct 2021 After my last post about Gremlins Inc. - Card Game, I tried out a few more demos: Tavern Master, Inscryption, Who's Lila? and House Flipper City. Tavern Master This is…
Games in Development Steam Next Festival (Oct 2021): Gremlins Inc. – Card Game 3 Oct 2021 Limited play time means that I need to be much pickier about which games I'm going to give a try during this week's Steam Next Festival. It started on October…
Atlas Rogues… Goodbye, Atlas Rogues? 7 Sep 2021 I do not have much hope left for Atlas Rogues. And even though there's been a lot of criticism about the new take on the Atlas Reactor IP (no PvP,…
City-builder/Simulation Game… Steam Game Festival (February ’21) – Part 2 8 Feb 2021 The second part has a few more visual novels/point and click games than the first one. But there are other genres as well! As is usual for me, these are…
City-builder/Simulation Game… Steam Game Festival (February ’21) – Part 1 6 Feb 20216 Feb 2021 I have been able to play through six of the 17 game demos that I've chosen and decided to share my thoughts about them with you. I will try to…
Games… Steam Game Festival: Feb 3 to Feb 9 4 Feb 2021 It is time for yet another Steam Game Festival - running from February 3 (so yes, it is already live!) to February 9. Participating (indie) developers are letting you play…
Atlas Rogues… The first days with Atlas Rogues 21 Nov 2020 Atlas Rogues came into Early Access on November 18. Since then, I have played several matches with the four starting freelancers and my current conclusion is that I would not…
City-builder/Simulation Game… Steam Game Festival: Simulation Games 12 Oct 2020 As I mentioned in my previous post, some of the demos I tried there were already simulation games, but they were also listed as strategy games. There is sometimes a…
Games… Steam Game Festival: Strategy Games 11 Oct 202011 Oct 2020 As I said, I went and looked at the strategy and simulation demos of Steam's Game Festival. This post now is about the strategy games I found interesting at first…
Games… Steam Game Festival: Demo marathon Part 2 28 Jun 202029 Jun 2020 This is part 2 about the demos from the Steam Game Festival. I already wrote about the ones that didn't make it onto my wishlist, so let's switch to the…
Games… Steam Game Festival: Demo marathon Part 1 25 Jun 2020 Steam recently hosted the Steam Game Festival which focused on yet unreleased games with their developers offering a demo of their game, doing AMAs and so on. I admit, I…
Blogging Months… Atlas Reactor Giveaway: Grey’s Citadel Skin, Loot Matrices and more beta codes! 17 Aug 201629 Jun 2020 (Update August 22, 9 pm local time: This giveaway is closed. All winners will get their codes via email, so you won't have to do anything. Just wait a bit...)…
Bookahneer's Geekwatch… 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…
Bookahneer's Geekwatch… Bookahneer’s Geekwatch (April 2016) 17 Apr 201617 Apr 2016 Fragmented, the "little brother" of The Repopulation will officially arrive in Steam Early Access soon, on April 26. If you already own The Repopulation, you will get Fragmented for free…
Games… Atlas Reactor Alpha returns on March 31 28 Mar 2016 Yes, that's right! We will finally be able to play Atlas Reactor again come March 31. According to Trion, this is the last alpha test and the game will go…
Bookahneer's Geekwatch… Bookahneer’s Geekwatch (28. February 2016) 28 Feb 2016 Fragmented, the game that the developers of "The Repopulation" are working on as a basis for the engine-switch of Repopulation, is entering closed testing soon. You can sign up and…
First Impression Review… Atlas Reactor: First Impressions Review 20 Feb 201623 Aug 2019 Atlas Reactor is currently in alpha and they are currently holding their "alpha sneak peek" event until February 24. Since there is no NDA for this event, I can write…
Bookahneer's Geekwatch… Bookahneer’s Geekwatch (February 2016) 16 Feb 201616 Feb 2016 Welcome to Bookahneer’s Geekwatch! This is the place where we take a look at all those little pieces of gaming news that have attracted our interest and talk about what's…
First Impression 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…
Games… 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…
Games in Development… Wildstar “open” beta started 24 Sep 2015 Wildstar will go free to play in 5 days! And maybe you're sitting there, in front of your PC, wondering: Is Wildstar for me? Will it suit my gaming needs?…
Blogging Months… Wildstar: loyalty and cosmic points – Blaugust Day 22 19 Aug 2015 I saw Missy's post about Wildstar yesterday and was a bit surprised when I saw the table she had added about loyalty rewards. One of my concerns about Wildstar's switch…
Blogging Months… Wildstar Free-to-play beta (Blaugust Day 12) 11 Aug 201511 Aug 2015 This is exciting! Wildstar's Free-to-play closed beta has officially started and since I am currently subscribed to the game, I get to participate. Now, excuse me while I'm still wearing…
Trove Trove will launch on July 9 4 Jun 20154 Jun 2015 Every player probably knows at least one of those games who seemingly stay in open beta for an eternity. Some wondered whether Trove will be one of those games. However,…
Games in Development… Trove: Open Beta and Unlimited Use Access Key 1 Nov 20143 Nov 2014 First things first, if you want to get into Trove, you can do so right now! Avarem just posted an unlimited access key on the forum: 9YR7-HRM7-LYXE-NZQM-QT7R Other than that,…
Games in Development… Two beta keys for Trove – Giveaway! 21 Oct 201423 Oct 2014 UPDATE: The Giveaway is now closed. Winners will be chosen and contacted in a bit! Congratulations, The Mystical Mesmer and Donald McLeod Jr! I don't even remember how many alpha…
First Impression Review… Trove: Second Impressions Review 17 Oct 201412 Jul 2015 Update (July 12, 2015): This post is outdated! Go here to read the latest impressions piece about Trove! Back in alpha, I already wrote about my first impressions. Now that…
First Impression Review… Wildstar: First Impressions 17 Mar 2014 Carbine Studios lifted the NDA for Wildstar some days ago, so I can finally share my impressions about this game. This also includes screenshots with watermarks, so this is what…
Games in Development… Lotro’s class changes 5 Nov 2013 The NDA for the beta of Helm's Deep has dropped, so I can now write about my impressions. I had "quit" the game months ago, although "quit" is probably too…
Bookahneer's Geekwatch… Bookahneer’s Geekwatch: First Beta Weekend Event Reports 30 Apr 20129 Apr 2015 I've seen countless people write about their experiences and share screenshots (not always in public places, so I'm not going to be able to link to all of them). If…
