Pixel-hunting for small, barely noticeable items in dark rooms is a crappy idea for a horror game by itself, but timer just adds insult to injury. And don’t bother suffering through this for the story, because there is pretty much none of it.

Time equals money, and Time and Eternity is not worth either.

This game is equally bad in all of its aspects. The developers should remove all the gameplay and turn Kursk into a free virtual tour of the submarine.

The best thing about DARK is that there are no hints at a sequel. At all.

It is hardly a spy thriller, but rather a madhouse with disguises and murders, so it’s best to avoid this chapter of Mr. Strogov’s life altogether.

Left Alive is a strong contender for the dubious title of The Worst Game Based on a Famous Universe released by a top-tier publisher in this decade.

Dead Horde, the previous offering from DnS Development, was abysmal. Primal Fears is just bad. Well, at least they're moving in the right direction.

There is no sense in pointing out any specific bad decisions — The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is awful on some basic level of a game design. Almost every task infuriates me in this game.

This game is like a zombie itself – from afar, it seems like a normal person who just limps along for some reason… But up close the stench of dead meat is unbearable.

An exemplary “YouTube shocker” of a game. Avoid at all costs.

There is a clear advantage over the Nintendo DS version – it is much easier to shoot monsters using keyboard and mouse. But why on Earth would someone play this silly, buggy, boring parody of a horror game?

Flashback 2 initially had no chance to stand next to its great ancestor — or even come close to it.

Drab, monotonous, predictable — these words come up even just after 5 minutes of playing the game. Vogelsap failed to walk the thin line between minimalistic and primitive.

If you burn $15 and scatter the ashes, you will have more fun than you would by playing this game.

The contents of the two available episodes extinguishes all hope that somehow, someday Majestic Nights will get better.

It takes a special talent to create a remake which is much worse than a game released 17 years ago.

007 Legends greets you with a warning that Activision will not support the game's multiplayer servers if there is not enough interest. Was there any interest, really?

Even though tactical freedom is just an illusion, Afrika Korps can keep you captivated for hours thanks to its unpredictable dynamic scenarios.

Judging by the poor quality of this expansion, they made it during a couple of lunch breaks.

If you're OK with the crazy premise of this expansion, Sunset Invasion will take you on a rollercoaster ride.

Jewel of the Nile is not an "expansion to the original campaign", but rather a pale imitation.

At first glance, Puddle looks like a simplistic game – after all, you have to press only two buttons. But it offers so many diverse challenges that you'll be quickly proven otherwise.

A unique visual style alone does not make a great game. I wish that Derrick the Deathfin had something else going for it besides colored paper.

There was a time when Steam was an upscale digital store, and now it looks more and more like a flea market. You never know what you’re going to get there, and sometimes you run into a sly salesman asking an arm and a leg for some musty old stuff. Like, you know, Triple Town.

Want to see the actual ending to the adventures of Clark and Carver on Tau Volantis? That’ll be $9,99, please.

If Eversim had not changed President Medvedev’s portrait with President Putin’s, I bet most people would not have noticed any differences between Geo-Political Simulator 2 and 3. Stability is a good thing, but the series is in a dire need of a radical reform. The developers have a lot of experience now, but, to enter next level, they have to make a new game from scratch.

Do you think that the latest Call of Duty is a tiresome on-rails FPS? Wait until you play the Heavy Fire trilogy!

Even last year’s Bang Bang Racing, which is far from perfect, is better than MMR EVO. Here is hoping that one day a talented studio would come and properly revive the concept of micro machines racing.

A dumb, ugly, annoying game.

By packaging the original Flashback: The Quest for Identity, the developers made a huge mistake – because it makes the remake look even worse than it is.

You could play through the entire game without even looking at the screen, if Chainsaw Warrior had hotkeys – it is that primitive.

It is nice that 2x2 Games managed to offer a fresh take on the original game’s formula without resorting to radical changes.

An unfinished chunk of a bad game.

You should definitely pick up Real World Racing if you are into this kind of racing games – the single-player campaign alone is worth the price of admission. Here is hoping that the developers will eventually fix the broken multiplayer.

Blood Knights is the kind of game that excels at being annoying rather than entertaining.

By the way, this is just Episode 1. Do the developers really think that anyone would go for seconds?

Here is hoping that Yard Team will successfully conclude its negotiations with Blizzard and will be able to re-release the improved version of the game. But even then Motor Rock will remain just a clone without a hint of originality.

Right now, Burning Cars is nothing more but a buggy demo version. Unfortunately, it seems that no one is going to fix it.

A stillborn attempt to bring rally into an arcade racing game.

A fun, addictive TD strategy game. The story campaign could have been a tad more challenging, but, thankfully, there is a plethora of additional gameplay modes.

Braveland is a cute little thing for those who have never played turn-based strategy games before.

Playing FX Eleven has only one good side effect – it makes you really crave Football Manager.

Unresponsive controls is not the worst annoyance here. Cheating AI is the real problem.

The AI does not make mistakes – ever. Each race is only two laps long, so if you fell down, landed badly or simply pressed a wrong button – there goes your chance of winning a medal. At first, you think that you can get ahead by buying upgrades and new vehicles… But here’s where Riptide’s free-to-play past rears its ugly head: money prizes are minuscule, prices are exorbitant, and you can’t sell the scooters that you don’t need.

Circuits lacks the difficulty of SpaceChem and excitement of Audiosurf and 140. It is not so much a game as a visual guide to music creation for dummies.

I don't need more 'historical' battles and dozens of new units. What I want from Rome 2 are solid multiplayer, good, easy-to-understand balance and smart AI that uses battering rams and ballistics to storm castles. Is this too much to ask for?

A for the concept, D for the execution.

By improving the original formula with lots of cool details, Knuckle Cracker created an addictive, albeit derivative, TD game.

Just another faceless, generic roguelike that feels as if its creator was going through a checklist. Time rounds – check. Randomized dungeons and weapons – check. Permanent death – check.

Rogue’s Tale apparently comes to us from an old forgotten era when a simple computer mouse was a rare luxury.

Starlight Inception is a microwave pizza of space simulators.

There is so much grinding here that it overshadows cute animations, nice music and original ideas. If you want to make a PC port of a game that relies on micro transactions, you have to go back to the drawing board and rethink the concept, otherwise just don’t bother.

Mars has never been so bland and dull.

ZAMB! has a somewhat original concept, and this is pretty much its only saving grace, because even after weeks in Steam Early Access, it is ridden with bugs.

The creators of QuestRun decided to get rid of all the problematic gameplay elements, leaving the very core. Unfortunately, while doing that, they removed the game’s brain and soul.

Shorebound clearly learned from their old mistakes, but, unfortunately, they made a few new ones. The studio still has not found its style, and it is in dire need of fresh ideas.

It’s not tower defense. It’s just rubbish.

A mildly entertainment workout for your fingers, nothing more. The music is a pleasure to listen, though.

Supreme Ruler 1936 has no place in the world that already enjoys Hearts of Iron 3 and counts down months to the release of its sequel.

A captivating reimagining of a classic puzzle game.

Ascendant is a colorful, original platformer that desperately needs more content.

Don’t Starve is addictive like a drug, you can’t go cold turkey on it that easily. Just when you think that Klei Entertainment is out of surprises, the next update turns everything upside down. And now Reign of Giants offers even more opportunities for crazy survival experiments.

If you’re looking for a good hex-based wargame, don’t fall for the unusual card mechanic - go look somewhere else.

A weird, twisted take on a horror game that combines excellent gameplay ideas with truly horrendous mistakes. It’s brilliant and disgusting at the same time, but, alas, the latter prevails.

The core concept of Epigenesis is okay, but the team did not have the resources to turn it into a decent game.

Dungeon Defenders Eternity is not so much an enhanced edition but rather an amusing different take on the same concept.

I would have liked to write anything positive about this game, maybe mention untapped potential or hope for a better sequel, but Industry Empire is impossible to either love or hate. It produces zero emotions except for a hint of somewhat pleasant boredom.

Mount Your Friends is good only if you want to shock and stupefy your guests at a party. This game is fun for the first 15 minutes. After that, don’t even try to look for variety here. Even if it were a free Flash game, it would have been crushed by more creative (Climb), witty (Double Hitler) and absurd (Realistic Summer Sports Simulator) brethren.

Global Outbreak is a typical denizen of the mobile realm who wandered into the land of PC. Along the way, it lost microtransactions, got better graphics, new interface, a handful of minor improvements and a subtitle Doomsday Edition. Yet this weird hybrid of X-COM and Alien Shooter is still lame in both legs.

Frontline: Road to Moscow is a decent choice for newcomers to the wargame genre. Just keep in mind that there are much better games around on both PC and mobile platforms, like Panzer Corps and Unity of Command.

Heroes of a Broken Land is smart, hardcore enough to be fun and quite charming, and it could have become a hit if its creators did not pursue the procedural ”infinity”. Ten hand-made dungeons would have been much better than billions of generic ones. So, enjoy the first few hours of game, take a tour of all the landmarks and then leave the game mid-campaign.

All elements of Tiestru coexist in harmony as they’re all pure, undiluted garbage.

Unfortunately, the designers decided to up the difficulty by unleashing large numbers of slow-moving, very thick-skinned monstrosities, more and more with each wave. Thus, rocket launchers pretty much dominate the battlefield. Way to kill the interest!

Even if Last Knight were the only ‘endless runner’ in the world, it still would not have been worthy of your time.

The process here is so mindless that, just out of curiosity, I recorded all my keystrokes, and the resulting macro automatically cleared the whole first dungeon and swiftly dealt with its boss. Too bad that you can’t mute the sound effects, otherwise I’d have just left my computer to entertain itself.

Warmachine: Tactics is a promising game, but I would not advise buying it in its current state. Let the developers fix its numerous flaws first.

Sproggiwood is cute, but there is not enough substance to keep you interested after a couple of hours.

If you value your mental health, keep away from Cargo 3 as far as possible.

It will take you just a couple of days to try every character, go everywhere and conquer everyone. Without a decent single-player campaign, there is no incentive to come back and save the Multiverse again.

There is no point in spending time and money on Lords of the Black Sun. It’s not that bad, but there are much better alternatives available now.

If you want to buy Hail to the King: Deathbat — buy the album, not the game.

Without coffee, the hero can literally fall asleep during a chase. I don’t blame him, since I had the same feeling while playing the game.

You don’t have to invent anything new to achieve success — just take the best ideas from your competitors and wrap them in a slick package. Dekovir Entertainment did that in Craft the World, and I don’t want to criticize them for this approach, as the end result is a nice game.

If you’re willing to give this game a chance, make sure to try the demo first before opening your wallet.

Please try to bear with the game’s uncomely look. It is worth it. Bleak and plain, Particle Mace will not let you go once you start playing it.

Viking Conquest’s multiplayer mode pales in comparison to the expansive, highly detailed, albeit somewhat flawed single-player campaign. It’s not downright bad, it just doesn’t offer anything new, and there are too few servers online. So, if you’re going to the unforgiving Nordic lands, do it for the story.

“Objective: play for fun”, the game tells you after you’re done with the career mode. Alas, there’s no such thing as fun in Chaos Ride.

If you’re not a fan of the «early access» concept, don’t rush to buy Caribbean. It’s a good game in its core, it’s just not ready yet.

The creators of Ancient Planet made a rookie mistake — when switching from micro transactions to a regular commercial model, they opted not to rebalance the difficulty. As a result, in order to upgrade towers and obtain better weapons, you need to farm insane amounts of gems by replaying the levels again and again.

DBX is huge — it can entertain you for dozens, if not hundreds of hours. On the other hand, you have to be a big fan of the series to enjoy the game.

Outside of the spaceship editor, Kinetic Void is excruciatingly boring.

A psychedelic look is not enough to make this ho-hum tower defense even remotely entertaining.

I hope that next time, Cliffhanger Productions will aim for the normal commercial model from the get-go, so they won’t have to make a shoddy rehash of the entire game when the F2P-udder suddenly dries off.

Many indie developers tried but failed to reach the bar set by TowerFall. They have no problem with generating cool fresh ideas, but few have turned a minimalistic prototype into a full-blooded game.

I have a feeling that the developer of Lex Mortis has never managed to nail down the concept of his creation. The game’s official description doesn’t lie — we are free to roam around a sizable sandbox, only there is nothing to do.

Maybe one day, in the distant future, the lone coder who works at TBA Games, will fix all the showstopping bugs. If he also manages to optimize the game’s engine, I will upgrade PeriAreion’s rating to 40.

This fun wargame will entertain both experienced armchair generals and those who are allergic to thick rulebooks.

Despite the fact that Telepath Tactics failed to fully live up to its promises, it is a decent game in its genre. And, it’s an excellent showcase of what just one developer can do.