Jacob James
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Despite not being the remaster the CG trailers would have us believe, Re-Reckoning remains a worthy title everyone should experience.Kingdoms of Amalur Re-Reckoning is more of a re-release than it is a remaster. With improved visuals and [...]
A compelling strategy game that combines turn-based combat and card-game elements into a straight-forward and easily digestible format.Not all strategy games have to be so deep and complex that it takes multiple play sessions to [...]
Whatever potential Windbound had went down with the ship.Windbound is a survival adventure game with rogue-like progression and procedurally generated islands. The main focus is centered [...]
Mortal Shell may not be as difficult or as long as similar games in the genre, but the level of polish and balance is impressive.If you’re going to emulate the best, you’d better get two things right: innovate and elevate from your [...]
Developer Lightbulb Crew has successfully blended a complex turn-based strategy game with layers and layers of roguelike progression.It’s time once again to save humanity, and this time you’ll be redeeming it by way of the [...]
Sometimes the try, die, retry system can grind your gears, but more often than not you’ll be enjoying the myriad scenarios to stealth kill your way to victory.Set in the gun-slinging wild west, Desperados III sets you on a path for vengeance. In this real-time [...]
While wielding a lightsaber is immediately gratifying on a base level, the rest of the experience is hot and cold.It’s been nearly a decade since we were last given a single player story-driven Star Wars game with [...]
Sparklite is a delightfully well-crafted rogue-lite indie game with charming 2D pixel art & meaningful progression.Traverse the world of Geodia as Ada, the wrench-wielding, sparklite-gathering, monster-smashing adventurer in Red Blue Games' Sparklite; a whimsical rogue-lite [...]
A brutal game where every choice comes at a price.11 Bit Studios brings its bleak and frozen city-building/survival game to consoles, with all its micromanagement glory. Frostpunk: [...]
Mixes side-scrolling metroidvania exploration, Valkyrie Profile inspired combat, and Celeste-level platforming all into one package.Indie studio Lab Zero Games has crafted one of the most impressive genre defying mashups to date. Indivisible [...]
This Switch port has its shortcomings compared to the PC original, but portability makes the trade-off worthwhile. Northgard is a real time strategy game based around Norse mythology. Originally released on Steam Early Access in [...]
After 7 years, Torchlight II finally makes its way to consoles.After 7 years, Torchlight II - an action-RPG dungeon crawler from the developers at Runic Games, ported by Panic [...]
CriticDB tracks 12 Jacob James reviews, averaging 72/100. See the score distribution and their highest & lowest rated games below, or browse every Jacob James score in the Reviews tab.
Jacob James score distribution
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