Riot Pixels' Scores

  • Games
For 1,366 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 20% higher than the average critic
  • 7% same as the average critic
  • 73% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 11.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 64
Highest review score: 95 BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma Extend
Lowest review score: 1 Bloodbath Kavkaz
Score distribution:
1366 game reviews
    • 81 Metascore
    • 35 Critic Score
    Compared to their previous creations, Blendo Games shows some promising progress. So far, they've mastered interactive introductions and tutorials. Still waiting for a full-fledged game, though.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 34 Critic Score
    Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics has the most primitive levels I have ever seen in a turn-based strategy game, coupled with an equally primitive AI. Combat system has quite a few fine ideas, though, but they're not worth it to suffer through 10 hours of identical gameplay situations.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    Sometimes a Hollywood studio tries to make a blockbuster, but the end result is so dumb and pathetic that you can’t stop chuckling while watching it. Aliens: Colonial Marines is a game equivalent of that kind of failure. So do yourself a favor – wait until it hits $4,99 on Steam (oh, it will!), buy it, gather your friends, and get ready to laugh for four hours straight.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    You know that a cooperative game is stillborn when you spend several minutes looking for random players to team up with even on a launch week. Probably because it’s one of the worst D&D games in ages.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 32 Critic Score
    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.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 32 Critic Score
    Inmates probably seemed intriguing as a concept, but it’s just downright bad as a game.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 31 Critic Score
    In Sunset, Tale of Tales decided to construct something that looks like a traditional game instead of their usual half-abstract interactive installations, and then it became clear – oh my God, these people have no talent for making games at all.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Gunnheim is almost a torture to play because of its awful combat mechanics.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Flashback 2 initially had no chance to stand next to its great ancestor — or even come close to it.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A psychedelic look is not enough to make this ho-hum tower defense even remotely entertaining.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The only thing worthy of praise in Riot is the idea itself, but, as every sober-minded revolutionary knows, you won’t get far with just an idea.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A dumb, ugly, annoying game.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    It's sloppy and boring wherever you look. Fallout 76 feels like a mishmash of half-baked ideas rather than a proper MMORPG with a decent story and exciting challenges for both lone wolves and groups.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    In an attempt to please all kinds of strategy players by adding city building, trading and wars, Grand Ages: Medieval miserably fails on all accounts.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    “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.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The best thing about DARK is that there are no hints at a sequel. At all.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Don't expect to see something in the vein of Patrician 4 or Space Rangers in a Middle-Eastern setting. The developers of Caravan cut, simplified and sterilized pretty much everything that made those games fun.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Right now, Burning Cars is nothing more but a buggy demo version. Unfortunately, it seems that no one is going to fix it.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Ace of Spades has all the components of a decent multiplayer shooter: stylish graphics, gameplay inspired by Team Fortress 2 and Call of Duty, destructible environments… But the sum of these parts feels like a bad parody of popular games.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Strafe is not even close to the real first-person shooters of the 90s. If it were released in 1996, it would've died a quick death at the hands of its more polished rivals.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    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.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    You could play through the entire game without even looking at the screen, if Chainsaw Warrior had hotkeys – it is that primitive.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Why do we need Hatred anyway when we have GTA?
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    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.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    If you a fan of the original Space Rangers, please avoid Space Rangers: Quest like the plague. This little ugly Frankenstein monster tugs at your nostalgia strings non-stop, but the more familiar parts you recognize in its body, the worse you feel.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Finally, there is a game that I can safely describe as “Even Hotline Miami was better!”
    • tbd Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Do you think that the latest Call of Duty is a tiresome on-rails FPS? Wait until you play the Heavy Fire trilogy!
    • 75 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Jazzpunk is an equivalent of an avant-garde show – it doesn’t have a story or even a point to it. It’s nothing more than a collection of rejected ideas.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    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?
    • 62 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Even though the game’s weak attempts at humor work better when you play it with friends, compared to Magicka, Legend of Dungeon is still a snoozefest.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The makers of Solarix wanted to follow in the footsteps of System Shock 2 and Dead Space, but the result is just awful.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    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.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    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?
    • 64 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    This awful strategy game is not worthy of even a single playthrough neither on PC, nor on tablets.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Neverending Nightmares is a heavily scripted walk through a weird museum rather than a game. Even encountering monsters feels mundane here.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Double Fine overestimated its abilities and failed to produce a proper management strategy game. Remember Spacebase DF-9 every time before buying anything in Steam Early Access. Even a big name is not a guarantee that a game will be actually finished.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Everywhere you look, Light is a sloppy, unfinished game. Next time I’ll think twice before voting for games in Steam Greenlight – who knows, maybe that short stylish trailer is actually the entire game!
    • tbd Metascore
    • 23 Critic Score
    Outside of the spaceship editor, Kinetic Void is excruciatingly boring.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Horrible Revelation that awaits you at the very end, is not worth the hassle.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    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.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    All elements of Tiestru coexist in harmony as they’re all pure, undiluted garbage.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    A dumb addition to a dumb TV show.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    If you burn $15 and scatter the ashes, you will have more fun than you would by playing this game.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    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.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Bladeslinger looks stunning, but the gameplay is just as rotten as the monsters you have to kill.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Even though the developers use the word ‘communication’ three times when describing their game, it doesn’t require you to communicate much. If you want to really test your teamwork skills, try a board game called Hanabi or Left 4 Dead on maximum difficulty.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Fan support and unlimited creative freedom gave birth to a monster. If Moebius were a debut by some unknown studio, I would have simply sniffed at it in disdain. But the knowledge that this wretched thing was produced by a lauded veteran of the industry fills my heart with primordial horror.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 15 Critic Score
    There is nothing even remotely decent about this game; wherever you look, you’re bound to find only glaring mistakes.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 15 Critic Score
    If you value your mental health, keep away from Cargo 3 as far as possible.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 15 Critic Score
    Gridberd is closer to being a game than the atrocious Lex Mortis, but it’s still a piece of utter trash.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 15 Critic Score
    An exemplary “YouTube shocker” of a game. Avoid at all costs.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 15 Critic Score
    This Frankenstein’s monster disguised as an adventure game is a clear example of how its creators do not understand what humor, storytelling or gameplay is. At first, you blame the cultural barrier between Japan and the Western world. Then you think that Access Games is trolling us. Finally, you realize that this is just interactive gibberish created by talentless hacks.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 15 Critic Score
    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.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 14 Critic Score
    Awful placement of respawn points, guns that suck all the joy when you use them, dumb AI… and a loooong laundry list of bugs.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 13 Critic Score
    It takes a special talent to create a remake which is much worse than a game released 17 years ago.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    A collection of horrendously bad mini-games, hastily glued together by an asinine story.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    An unfinished chunk of a bad game.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Shadows of Kurgansk also features a handful of character stats, hallucinations and even angling, none of which are a reason to touch this game.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Just like Hotline Miami, LA Cops also requires planning, excellent reflexes and never forgives a mistake. But here, you also have to babysit a stupid AI partner, wage war against an unwieldy camera, trying to rotate it to see an enemy in time, and deal with hordes of dumb, but sturdy, speedy criminals. Scary, right?
    • tbd Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    This one is for the most hardcore garbage collectors on Steam.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    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.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    The contents of the two available episodes extinguishes all hope that somehow, someday Majestic Nights will get better.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 5 Critic Score
    By the way, this is just Episode 1. Do the developers really think that anyone would go for seconds?
    • tbd Metascore
    • 1 Critic Score
    Bloodbath Kavkaz crashes upon launch every other time, if you’re lucky. It’s nice to see that the developers made an effort to protect our time and nerve cells from their ‘masterpiece’.

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