GameGrin's Scores

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For 3,393 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 51% higher than the average critic
  • 18% same as the average critic
  • 31% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound
Lowest review score: 10 FIND ALL
Score distribution:
3396 game reviews
    • 55 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A hastily cobbled together mess of a videogame, Red Game Without A Great Name doesn’t deserve your attention. I suffered it so you don’t have to.
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    • 30 Critic Score
    A game with a nice premise but spoiled by its execution. The parts that could have been fun were either rushed or poorly developed. I won't be holding my breath for Episode 2.
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    • 30 Critic Score
    ShockRods is a disappointing game that was made with a lot of oversight. While most of the issues can be resolved with software updates and DLC maps, the base game costs £20 and you are getting what is essentially a half baked game.
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    • 30 Critic Score
    While Priest Simulator: Vampire Show was fun in spite of its flaws, its DLC is hidden behind frustrating races that just aren’t fun.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is a poorly designed, bug-ridden, untested game that’s only redeeming quality doesn’t matter in the whole picture.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A very drab and uninteresting open world adventure game. Lacking in all key areas, and devoid of any fun whatsoever. Although, the creator must be commended on his efforts in making this game entirely be himself, sometimes it's best to leave it to the professionals.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    I’ve read scarier issues of the Beano in this clunky, buggy mess of a wanna be Deadly Premonition.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Cityconomy’s mix of RPG elements make it resemble a different kind of game than the one it actually is. It is something that simply doesn’t work, as it pulls you to two different trains of thought.
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    • 30 Critic Score
    Gore Doctor is an example of when a developer just makes a lazy, bad game. Be warned.
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    • 30 Critic Score
    Freak Crossing is not a broken game, but with no instructions and along a story full of twisted and disturbing events, it was not a fun experience for me.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    When The Waylanders succeeds, the game is one of the most solid experiences I’ve had all year. But those successes are few and far between, while the rest of the title fails to keep itself afloat among a sea of bugs and poorly thought out gameplay decisions.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Despite a few neat gameplay touches Bullet Witch ultimately fails to impress and this remaster only goes to show that this game should have stayed in the past. What could have been an interesting third-person shooter is let down at almost every point by frustrating game design and bland level design.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A disappointing romp through an underwhelming narrative from an unpleasant game. Overall, just a poor time. Has the potential to be decent, but is ultimately bogged down by the plethora of issues the base game forces upon it.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Avoid Alekhine’s Gun. There are much better games out right now that are actually worth your time and money. Hell, there’s a proper Hitman game out this month - go get that, it’s a fraction of the price! Alekhine’s Gun will not be remembered for its own efforts, but for the efforts of the Youtuber’s that will tear it apart.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Left Alive falls short in many areas. What could of been an interesting title ends up being one you best avoid.
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    • 30 Critic Score
    The developers would do well to take notes from From Other Suns, and if they did so, I could see this game becoming something immersive and fun. For now I wouldn’t enjoy playing it for more than an hour, and even then it seems tedious.
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    • 30 Critic Score
    With a mix of stale combat, rough translation, and no saving, Ship of Mist has an interesting core concept, but the execution falls flat to the point that I cannot recommend.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Ego Protocol: Remastered is a tile-sliding Lemmings-like that offers about as much excitement as a geriatric knitting club. Outside of some temperamental controls and poor use of its sci-fi theme however, there’s not much to highlight as a real issue. It’s not offensive enough to incite mass riots but it still feels like a chore every step of the way.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The contentless husk of an MMO with uninteresting mechanics and a progression system with no rewards.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Knee Deep is a game that certainly tries to bring its world to life, but overall, doesn't make it past the first hurdle. A narrative focused title that isn't gripping nor riveting, Knee Deep shows us the negative side of storytelling.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Copycat has visual charm and enjoyable cat-based gameplay, but with a short runtime and poorly executed story, it isn’t worth your time, especially if you love cats.
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    • 30 Critic Score
    Having 64 endings seems excessive when the vast majority of them aren’t worth going through the tedious mini-games for.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    This game will likely make such a fleeting appearance in your life that it’ll disappear under the TV stand or behind the sofa. Sadly, a disappointment on many fronts.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Periodically beautiful yet consistently broken, Generation Zero’s brand of monotonous, sterile and bug-riddled open-world first-person shooting is something that you should avoid at all costs.
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    • 30 Critic Score
    Unstoppable isn’t very fun and lacks some very basic functionalities, making it a frustrating and boring experience.
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    • 30 Critic Score
    Avatar: The Last Airbender - Quest for Balance feels like an incomplete port of a mobile game that was retextured. It definitely isn’t worth £39.99 and I wouldn’t recommend it even if it was free.
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    • 30 Critic Score
    Like the island in the title, Skull Island: Rise of Kong should be left alone by anyone curious enough to buy, play, and refund the game.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Lost in Tropics is barely a survival game and I can’t even tell it was a roguelite. There are better games that will last you longer than three real weeks than the three in-game weeks this game asks of you.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    ELEX is a broken, messy game that might have some interesting ideas deep down but they won't save it. Honestly you are better of avoiding or waiting for the developers to maybe save this title.
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    • 30 Critic Score
    Flix and Chill 2: Millennials attempts to give an insight into millennial culture and issues that affect the younger generation. Instead the game either misses its own point or is just comical in its delivery. There is very little game here. It is possible to finish in under two hours and with the lack of any mechanics, other than dialogue choices that may or may not even yield a different result, Flix and Chill 2: Millennials feels very lackluster.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Is ADIOS Amigo worth your time? No, not really. If you like atmospheric games then maybe, but I doubt that you’re just going to want to fly around in a game after spending 15 dollars on it. There’s a co-op option, so maybe there’s some humorous drunk playthroughs waiting there.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Rogue Continuum is an ugly game. Unfortunately, here you can judge the book by its cover, as the top-down shooter at its core is unbalanced, repetitive and unsurprising.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    My final thoughts are that I appreciate the effort and difficulty of breaking into such a new area. I did not enjoy playing the game, however, and were it not for my desire to support aspiring artists, I would not spend money on this game. With all of this in mind, I still believe the developers should keep trying, as I see some promise in their concepts, but if this was their first try, which I believe to be the case, then it's not that surprising that it didn't land.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    While Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris is ambitious in scope it ends up being a largely unenjoyable title full of technical problems, bugs, and horrible pacing.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Shocking, controversial, technically broken, brutally forward with its presentation, and forwardly present in its mechanics, Martha is Dead wants nothing but a shocked gasp and an article made about its material. Mission accomplished, but at the cost of integrity.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Despite the name, Mad Smartphone Tycoon is painfully dull and lacks any real sense of wonder that might keep a player invested.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    I can’t think of a single redeeming feature about this game. It’s about as entertaining as a night out in Milton Keynes. Poor controls, lazy graphics, very little gameplay and everything is just a long, drawn out frustration.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Roarr! The Adventures of Rampage Rex - Jurassic Edition doesn't have a lot going for it. Dull gameplay paired with technical problems and a hideous soundtrack makes this Switch title – despite the cheap price tag – one to avoid.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    An underwhelming game, full of lag, that is janky and has issues with hit detection. There is no online multiplayer, and it’s very boring to play against the dumb AI.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Is Metal Gear Survive worth it? Oh yeah, totally. Game of the Year. Honestly, I don’t know why you haven’t bought it yet! Death Stranding won’t be able to compete with this. Sarcasm aside, don’t buy this game, just don’t. Yeah, the environments and visuals are kind of neato and the feeling of helplessness certainly comes across, but it’s just a clusterf**k.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A collection of interesting ideas, none of which are executed particularly well.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    If you really hate someone, then gift this to them on Steam but if not, then don’t bother. I wasted seven hours of my life playing this so you don’t have to.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    This is a terrible piece of cheap shovelware with no realism, no entertainment value, and nothing to make it worth buying.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Needlessly complex controls dragging down a robust system, a storyline uninterested in upping the ante to wacky hijinks or otherwise, and a world that fails to acknowledge your existence, Shredders performs self-sabotage by seemingly not performing at all.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A game with awful controls and sections that punish you with unpredictability and unreliability.
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    • 30 Critic Score
    The videogame equivalent of telling a joke and it not landing, so you keep telling it until someone laughs, but no-one ever does.
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    • 30 Critic Score
    Fairy Knights is a poor excuse for a puzzle RPG, and a bad mobile port to boot. Even if you were interested in this game for whatever reason, the mobile version costs half as much and is near identical. This Switch release does nothing to justify its price increase, and the game as a whole is just not fun.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A funny social commentary trapped between frustration and poor game design.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Trade Bots: A Technical Analysis Simulation is not really a game per say. It does have game-like elements, but it’s primarily an educational app that allows an amateur trader to learn in a safe environment.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    There’s not really many ways of sugar coating it; this game is a mess on Xbox One and isn’t worth your time. Surely any other fishing game would be worth considering if you have that urge.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Overdosed - A Trip to Hell is a bad trip through bad game design choices that was released a little too early to be good. From dull graphics to bad gunplay, indistinguishable enemies and cluttered audio, this game doesn’t feel finished and could do with more time with a QA team.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Disputed Space feels as if it completely skipped the testing stage and went straight to sale. The game plays itself, it does not need any player input for the friendly AI to complete each level. There is no challenge in the gameplay, from movement to the shooting mechanics everything is extremely simplified and easy. While the particle effects are pretty to look at they almost completely blot out the player’s vision, adding the extreme muzzle flash of the some weapons this game is extremely harsh on the eyes and difficult to play for long periods of time. There is no disputing that this title is unpolished, untested and really not worth anyone's time.
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    • 30 Critic Score
    Grief Trigger has an interesting premise, but despite the personal story, there is very little substance.
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    • 30 Critic Score
    This is barely a game, and not even the titillation is worth a curious look.
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    • 30 Critic Score
    Avoid this like the plague, and for god's sake, lads, hire yourself a better PR team.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    What we have here is the definition of cash-grabbing and at £40 you’ll be as braindead as the ghouls ingame to buy. The release is obscenely catered towards parents or grandparents who would buy this for their child/grandchild because, it’s all the kids are talking about these days.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Undoubtedly, there has been enjoyment had by enough people to warrant a Switch release, but the time and patience to do the simplest things without external help was just not for me. The few humorous lines of dialogue spouted by the guards and fellow inmates did little to put a shine over my miserable time with The Escapists.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Basic, boring, ugly mess that is glitch city. The game has no plot, no motivation and there is zero reason for anyone to play this game. Complete sewer poop!
    • 61 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The smooth textured environments do not make up for the game play issues and infuriating dialogue.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Do not get Wild Hearts on PC right now. The game itself is great, and something you should pick up if you want to get into monster hunting, but the garbage performance me and many other players have experienced cannot be excused.
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    • 25 Critic Score
    Woodle Tree 2: Worlds is not very good, and while my experience with it was marred by the technical issues present I doubt it would be much better if it did run well. The game is boring: there’s nothing to draw you in to keep playing it, and for the most part it was making me want to not play it. The one thing it does do well is live up to its predecessor’s legacy of being a difficult to control technical mess, though that won’t help it sell many copies.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Mexico, 1921. A Deep Slumber. is an interesting look into the history of Mexico from the eyes of a normal citizen. The camera mechanics are great and the plot seems interesting, but it is let down by some major bugs.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    A game that has a lot of potential, but the Switch version is full of glitches and even with jump scares the parts that do work just aren’t as creepy as they could be. The game is very repetitive and gets boring really fast.
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    • 25 Critic Score
    It’s nothing more than a concept game for the developers, but I could have given it a higher score if it gave me a laugh. But it didn’t. Just pretend you never even read this review and carry on with your life.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    An unfinished game that left Early Access too soon. Into The Flame’s inconsistent dedication to realism cannot reconcile with fun, smooth gameplay. With frustrating controls, underwhelming visuals, and widespread bugs, it isn’t worth your time.
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    • 25 Critic Score
    With crashes, issues with localisation, and an inability to progress, Chromatic Memories can’t be saved by the Avant-Garde artwork and Spanish music, and requires more updates before I can recommend it.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Bland, broken, and just overall bad, Road Maintenance Simulator feels like an Early Access game that was accidentally released. If you’re craving a simulator title, then look elsewhere.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    With miserable gameplay, terrible story, and utterly unfunny jokes, Narco Road’s idiotic antics destroy everything the main game managed to accomplish.
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    • 25 Critic Score
    Party Maker has a lot of charm, and despite some of the features feeling a bit unpolished, I would've loved to recommend it. Unfortunately, there's a game-breaking bug and no way to fix it.
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    • 25 Critic Score
    So Much Blood disappointed me with completely unbalanced weapons and armour; an annoying pickup system, baffling aiming mechanics, and awful optimisation. If it played with my controller, didn’t drop frames significantly and had more balance in its combat, So Much Blood would have been an alright game.
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    • 25 Critic Score
    It’s not even worth your thought time, never mind anything else.
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    • 25 Critic Score
    There are some heart-warming themes of friendship and scenes of goofy fun that might appeal to someone looking for an optimistic gaming experience, but in many ways these only make the sexual scenes even less pleasant. NEKOPARA is a franchise for a very specific type of person, unfortunately, that’s just not me.
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    • 25 Critic Score
    Frustrating controls, boring game play and a lack of incentives to keep playing mires an interesting concept. Cannot recommend this one, especially when there are so many good space games of all genres out there at the moment.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    A would-be bland, but harmless kids’ platformer that, due to insulting levels of gameplay padding, crosses over into dreadful territory. Truly, it’s hard to imagine anyone enjoying this tedious, personality-devoid bore of a game.
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    • 20 Critic Score
    One of the worst kart racers to be released in recent times, lacking decent track design, tight controls, visual flair, fair A.I, and is far from an optimised experience. Hideously broken on almost every level, this is something a “simple patch” cannot remedy.
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    • 20 Critic Score
    Sofie: The Echoes looks like a compelling story-driven shooter at first glance, but it’s rife with awful enemy AI, optimisation issues, poor design choices, and game-breaking bugs. Steer clear of this one.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    MilitAnt is offensively bad, it looks like a PS2 game and plays like something a few amatuer developers cobbled together. This wouldn't be an issue if there wasn't a price tag involved. Steer well clear of this.
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    • 20 Critic Score
    Perhaps the lack of features, collision detection, animation, depth, gameplay, fun or anything that actually resembles a game would be excusable if this were an early access title or a really cheap budget game. That's not the case though, the cheeky buggers have the sheer audacity to be charging 35 quid for this game! It's astonishingly poor value for a title that barely works and isn't any fun at all. I wood recommend striking this one off your chopping list, it's just not worth the axing price.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 15 Critic Score
    The PC market is already over-saturated with zombie shooters, and Crimson Earth doesn’t bring anything new to the table. With enough bugs, odd design choices and crashes to fill a book, you’d be better off sticking to richer shooters such as Killing Floor or Nation Red. Even for the £2.79 price tag, this is really hard to recommend.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Blink: Rogues is a top-down shooter that tries – and generally succeeds – at doing something unique with the genre. The blinking feature is challenging and can be irritating in the beginning, but becomes fun when you begin to learn the flow and multiplayer could be enjoyable for only a couple of hours as well. But if you’re here for a great story and long hours of gameplay, I’d blink in the other direction.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Colour in a world with FIND ALL, a black-and-white hidden object title that I enjoyed too much, though I do wish it had been just a tad longer.

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