Gideons Gaming
Video game reviewer, board game reviewer, and content creator! Everyone has a schtick, mine is that I don't have one, all of my reviews and content are 100%, Gideon, for better or worse. Look to Gideon's Gaming for in-depth reviews of video games and board games, plus the occasional guide or opinion piece no one asked for! Email: jp (at) gideonsgaming.com
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Mewgenics
Mewgenics is the very highlight of what the rogue-lite genre can be while surpassing the games that got me into the tactics genre in the first place, such as Final Fantasy Tactics, and it does so by nearly every metric. It’s mind blowing to realize that I only paid $30...
Ball x Pit
Ball X Pit is certainly a unique game and for a time I found it interesting, but if I’m being honest the urge I had to play it felt eerily similar to the urge I’ve had to play crappy mobile games. There is an incremental progression that can be addicting....
Monster Train 2
Monster Train 2 is a deck building game that is packed full of content, at least in part by including half of the content from the first game. Beyond that, it’s a better polished and more refined version of Monster Train. While it still features a few of the first...
ARC Raiders
For now, however, as long as Arc Raiders remains true to its initial vision. It’s one of the best multiplayer games ever released, with some of the greatest emergent gameplay I’ve ever seen. Arc Raiders is definitely my game of the year.
Ghost of Yotei
Ghost of Yotei is a safe sequel, and in some ways, that’s a great thing and will be precisely what a lot of people wanted. For me, however, I was hoping to see some large improvements from Ghost of Tsushima, rather than a reskin.
LEGO Party
LEGO Party is a safe mimicry of the genre popularized by Mario Party, but that’s the exact type of game that non-Nintendo platforms have never seen and desperately needed. While it can’t match the charm of the inspiration it brazenly wears on sleeves, it’s still a respectable party game that...
Hades 2
Ultimately, despite its repetitive nature, Hades 2 is simply more Hades, and that’s not a bad thing. The story is compelling, the characters, dialogue, and line delivery are fantastic, the combat is more thoughtful than the first game, and there’s twice as much level and boss variety compared to Hades...
No Man's Sky
The failed balancing act, the broken multiplayer, and the lack of friction, especially the lack of friction, all pull No Man’s Sky down from the throne where it should be, from where it realistically could be, given Hello Games’ track record of updates. No Man’s Sky is a game I love...
Wildgate
I doubt many who bought Wild Gate were looking to play Call of Duty Lite. They likely expected epic space ship battles and cool clutch gameplay moments, and while that framework definitely exists, it’s currently unbalanced to a severe degree. I want to keep playing Wild Gate, but the more...
Dead by Daylight
The end result is that Dead by Daylight is an incredibly graceful and strategic game of cat and mouse that is largely best played with randoms. The scoring system has degrees of success and failure and greatly incentivizes killers to play their roles and survivors to work together. I can...
Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
Death Stranding 2 keeps the spirit of the original by continuing to be a game about deliveries. However, it threw away its soul by removing any and all friction involved in those deliveries. Instead of overcoming obstacles, the most direct path rarely has any, and the entire game is designed...
Elden Ring: Nightreign
Nightreign isn’t even a full-priced game, and I’ve already put over 100 fun-filled hours into it, with more to come. I’ll take that any day over a full-priced 15 to 20-hour “cinematic experience” the industry seems to be in love with. The way Nightreign blends the replayability of a rogue-lite game...