Game Reviews

This page will be dedicated to all of the games I have played from start to finish with all DLCs, with a download link to all the recommended games(Using my Instant Gaming links supports me and I would greatly appreciate it!). As an associate of these websites, I earn from qualifying purchases.(Instant Gaming)

Will be starting with a list of the problematic games that I would urge you not to consume(with reasons for each both moral and technical) because warnings are ultimately more important than recommendations. However, after them I will have all of my actual reviews and thoughts on both paid and unpaid games(although with free games having more leniency and more constructive criticism).

DO NOT BUY

Moral/Personal Reasons

Five Nights At Freddy's

The creator, Scott Cawthon, made donations to very problematic politicians such as Donald Trump. Currently he still owns the rights and profits from the series, so I will not be supporting him nor the series in any way.

Heartbound[PirateSoftware]

The creator, Pirate Software, has shown himself to be a chronic liar and corporate shill, spreading misinformation about such a good cause as Stop Killing games then doubling down when proven wrong, calling it "used car salesmen garbage", "a really stupid ass move", telling Ross(SKG creator) to "eat your entire ass" multiple times. He also misconstrued his credentials and then used his "credentials" to act like he's better than others.

Hogwarts Legacy(And All New Harry Potter Games)[J.K. Rowling]

The creator, J.K. Rowling, has a vast history of transphobia including following a self-professed transphobe, defending people who were ousted for anti-trans statements, and more. Also created her own fund specifically committed to fighting against trans acceptance which she funnels Harry Potter money into so giving money to her is both pracically AND figuratively supporting transphobia. Also, out of curiosity since I grew up with the series I bought a copy from CD Keys so she would not profit from it and the game itself was dogshit, not running above 30 FPS and essentially playing like a slideshow.

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Technical And Moral/Personal Reasons

BHVR(Company)/Dead By Daylight(Game)

Technical Reasons

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Not Recommended For New Players

Hours Played: 198.3

Replayability:5/10

Content:5/10

DLC:3/10

Categories: Multiplayer, Asymmetrical Horror

Recommendations: Do Not Buy At This Point.

More Thoughts:

Texas Chainsaw Massacre had a lot of potential and started off very strong, but currently does not have a large enough player base to make finding a lobby very viable(333 player 24 hour peak on Steam as of 6/13/2026) especially because if you do not find enough people the lobby will automatically close. A lot of people lost interest in the game due to developer inaction(especially regarding cheaters), bad balancing, and lack of content. The gameplay enhancing DLCs are overpriced for the little content they give and there is not much to do inside the core gameplay loop once you've played each killer and through each escape pathway. It's OK for an occasional idle activity but not really worth it for a new player to buy.

Normal Reviews

Paid

These are games that are actively being charged for, so I will be a lot more critical of them than free games, especially with higher priced games . The developers are taking peoples' hard earned money and as such should be held to a high standard.

Batman Arkham Asylum

Instant Gaming(Xbox)

Instant Gaming(Playstation)

Steam

Hours Played: ~150, Playstation 3/4/5

Replayability:5/10

Content:9/10

DLC:5/10

Categories: Open World, Fighting

NOT PLAYABLE ON UNMODIFIED STEAM DECK

More Thoughts

Arkham Asylum is a really good game although also quite primitive. The elevator level in particular shows the team was really getting used to level design, but the combat system was and is a masterpiece to this day. Not much to say about the DLC since the Joker content was also quite primitive, but it was fun.

Batman Arkham City

Instant Gaming(Xbox)

Hours Played: ~200, Steam Deck and Playstation 3/4/5

Replayability:6/10

Content:8/10

DLC:8/10

Categories: Open World, Fighting

More Thoughts

Arkham City is my 3rd favorite Arkham game with a great story and an even greater ending. Although the side missions are a bit lacking with 5 of the 12 missions being comprised mostly of either purely retrieving something or beating people up. The DLC content is spectacular, showcasing another character's side of the events of Arkham City. Although the mobility of said character is a bit annoying along with that character's endgame goal.

Batman Arkham Knight

Instant Gaming(Xbox)

Hours Played: ~400, Steam Deck and Playstation 4

Replayability:8/10

Content:10/10

DLC:9/10

Categories: Open World, Fighting

More Thoughts

Arkham Knight is my second favorite of all the Arkham games. His internal struggle is fantastically done, all of the villains are done very well, the DLCs are really good, and I even found myself liking and playing the AR challenges which I would actively avoid in other games. There was some original awkwardness with the batmobile, but I would say it's really fun once you acquire the skill(minus some of the special AR batmobiles which handle like a tin can falling down a staircase). Would say more, but don't want to spoil.

Batman Arkham Origins

Steam

Hours Played: ~500, Steam Deck and Playstation 3

Replayability:8/10

Content:10/10

DLC:9/10

Categories: Open World, Fighting

More Thoughts

Arkham Origins is my personal favorite of all the Arkham games. Love the angry gritty Batman, his internal struggle is fantastically done, and the Christmas aesthetic was a brilliant choice. Would say more, but don't want to spoil. The online portion was also a work of art before the shutdown.

Call Of Duty:Black Ops Cold War

Recommended

Instant Gaming(Battle.net Only)

Instant Gaming(Xbox)

Instant Gaming(Xbox)[Ultimate Edition].

Steam

Hours Played: ~1000, Playstation 4/5

Replayability:8/10

Content:9/10

DLC:10/10

Categories: Multiplayer, First Person Shooter

NOT PLAYABLE ON UNMODIFIED STEAM DECK

More Thoughts

Cold War is a hidden gem. The campaign is great, the zombies are great especially with its separate camo and perk progression system, the multiplayer is fun and allows a lot of diverse builds with knifing being really fun, and the ranked play is fun. The camo grinds for both multiplayer and zombies were great. I couldn't really get into the arcade-like "Dead Ops Arcade" mode, but loved everything else. Only annoying part of it is the broken pistol shotguns in multiplayer.

Call Of Duty:Modern Warfare(2019)

Recommended

Instant Gaming(Steam)

Steam

Hours Played: ~1000, Playstation 4/5

Replayability:8/10

Content:9/10

Categories: Multiplayer, First Person Shooter

NOT PLAYABLE ON UNMODIFIED STEAM DECK

More Thoughts

Modern Warfare is a great game with beautiful graphics, fun and diverse gameplay(especially loved ninja defusing and knifing with a riot shield), a great campaign, tough but fair time to kill, and really smooth weapon play.

Fallout 3

Recommended

Instant Gaming(Steam)

Steam

Hours Played:~500, Steam Deck and Playstation 3.

Replayability:9/10

Content:10/10

DLC:10/10

Variable Difficulty

Categories: First Person Shooter, RPG

Recommendations: Buy The Broken Steel DLC.

More Thoughts

Fallout 3 is my favorite game and is a great mix of rustic charm, serious moral and ethical lessons/dillemas, and satirization of capitalism and senseless violence. While there are options to do horrible things in the game, they are very deincentivized both by the ingame rewards and by the fact the world feels very lived in. The characters you can do the horrible actions to are very sweet, relatable, and feel like an everyday person, so the horrible options are obviously meant to make the player feel bad and push them towards more benevolent options, enforcing good moral lessons both in game and in real life while still allowing player freedom. The side quests are very well made and mostly are filled with interesting player choices as well. The Downloadable content is top tier. Would highly recommend. The combat and progression systems are really nice and fluid. The only real criticism I've seen is some points about the ending of the game, but it is symbollic.

Fallout 4

Recommended

Instant Gaming(Steam)

Instant Gaming(Xbox)

Steam

Hours Played:~500, Steam Deck and Playstation 4/5.

Replayability:3/10

Content:6/10

DLC:7/10

Variable Difficulty

Categories: First Person Shooter, RPG

More Thoughts

Fallout 4 is fun for the first playthrough although a lot of the quests, especially for the morally good ending, are just fetch quests or go to X and kill X quests which I don't find engaging. Probably the most interesting part of the game is the companion system, which is actually really good and allows good insight into the people watching your back. This is closely seconded by the settlement building system which both encourages exploring and allows the player to feel like they're actually a part of the world. Fallout 4 has a lot of endings, but only 2 of them are really morally sound. There isn't too much push back from choosing any ending aside from a couple dialogue lines, so there is not a lot of emphasis on your decision. The DLCs are really good and in some ways better than the base game. Far Harbor is a fantastic break from the normal feel of Fallout 4 and felt a lot like Point Lookout from Fallout 3 to me. Nuka World was a great way to give more morally bad choices with Fallout 4 having very few of them, although even the Nuka World choices have very little push back. Automatraton is also a really good DLC with an interesting story and good characters.

Fallout New Vegas

Recommended

Instant Gaming(Steam)[Fantastic Deal, If In Stock!]

Steam

Hours Played:71.6, Steam Deck.

Replayability:9/10

Content:9/10

DLC:9/10

Variable Difficulty

Categories: First Person Shooter, RPG

More Thoughts

Fallout New Vegas is really fun and reminiscent of Fallout 3. Amazing combat and progression system and really fleshed out characters and world. Definitely gives a much more happy vibe than the rest of the series but definitely does have its darker moments and gives some really interesting commentary on free will and capitalism through the main story. The DLCs are amazing as well. Dead Money is another really interesting storyline involving capitalism and free will with a really cool new environment and enemies, Honest Hearts is a very interesting moral quandry and a much different feeling and environment with a much more lively landscape, Old World Blues is a really fun wacky story filled with satire on the pre-war world as well as the current occupants of the new environment with new enemies, and Lonesome Road is a really interesting and thought provoking story shedding light on the main character's past. The game contains a couple quirks like a lot of invisible walls between areas that artificially enhance play time, but overall a really solid game.

R.E.P.O.

Recommended

Instant Gaming(Steam)[Fantastic Deal, If In Stock!]

Steam

Hours Played:9.6, Steam Deck.

Replayability:10/10 with multiplayer, 3/10 solo.

Content:7/10

Variable Difficulty, RNG

Categories: Stealth, Party Horror, Physics Based

More Thoughts

R.E.P.O. is a really cute charming physics based multiplayer horror game that is super fun while with friends(although admittedly a bit boring with just gameplay by itself). It is also amazingly priced for the quality of the game to the point I felt comfortable buying it twice(one for myself and another for a streamer friend).

The Elder Scrolls V:Skyrim

Recommended

Instant Gaming(Steam)[Fantastic Deal, If In Stock!]

Instant Gaming(Xbox)

Steam

Hours Played:~300, Steam Deck and Playstation 3/4/5.

Replayability:7/10

Content:10/10

DLC:9/10

Variable Difficulty

Categories: First Person Shooter/Fighting Game, RPG

More Thoughts

Skyrim is a masterpiece of the medieval genre and should be used as the golden standard for the genre. It has a fantastic combat and progression system(all weapons feel really good although I, like many, tend to gravitate to a stealth archer. The world feels really alive. The characters, their stories, and the various guilds you can join are all really fleshed out. There is a lot of content included in the base game including some from Bethesda's own shop called the creation club included in the newer versions. The DLCs are also amazing although 2/3 of them are very linear with not much room for player choice.

Free

These games are provided at no consumer expense and with some of them being from indie developers, so I will be very lenient with my reviews and if anything will provide constructive critical feedback. I'd ask others to do the same and if you enjoy the game show some love to the developers.

Call Of Duty Mobile

Recommended

Download

Hours Played:100, Iphone.

Replayability:10/10

Content:10/10

Categories: First Person Shooter

More Thoughts

In my opinion, Call Of Duty Mobile is the most well made and fun mobile shooter available. Some of the time to kill of the weapons is overtuned which makes high streaks a bit less consistent than I would like, but otherwise it is great. No technical issues, cool events, a good selection of killstreaks and weapons, good cosmetic and cosmetic variety even while free to play(the skin I run is a free one from getting good placement in the 2020 World Championship and the emblem and frame I use are from being a first week player), a ranked and unranked queue, a good battle royale, it is not too technically intensive, and a fun zombies mode. Also because it is a long running live service(unlike the main line titles that replace each other every year or so) you can buy cosmetics knowing that you'll be able to use them for the foreseeable future.

Chucky Doll Run Ghost House

Recommended

APK

Hours Played:8, Drawing Tablet.

Replayability:5/10

Content:9/10

Categories: Parkour/Escape The Killer

More Thoughts

Good level design and fun gameplay. Funny intro and animations.

Marie's Room

Recommended

Steam

Hours Played:1.9, Steam Deck.

Replayability:7/10

Content:9/10

DLC:10/10

Categories: Walking Simulator, Puzzle, Story

More Thoughts

Marie's Room is a really cute charming short game with a very interesting story, a cozy look, and a lot of work put into details. It is not long and you can side step a lot of the lore to go straight to the end, but it is much more enjoyable getting the full experience. Just wish it was longer.

Matexo

Recommended

Android

IOS

Hours Played:4, Iphone.

Replayability:5/10

Content:10/10

Categories: Math, Puzzle

More Thoughts

Cute little math puzzle game.

Phineas and Ferb: Heroes of Danville

Recommended

Web Game

Hours Played:2, Web.

Replayability:5/10

Content:10/10

Categories: Action, Top Down Shooter

More Thoughts

Cool collaboration, fun gameplay.

Pipe Art

Recommended

Android

IOS

Microsoft Store

Hours Played:2, IOS.

Replayability:5/10

Content:10/10

Categories: Puzzle/Maze

More Thoughts

Cool well executed and easy to pick up puzzle game.

Rainbow Six Mobile

Recommended

Android

IOS

Hours Played:2, IOS.

Replayability:7/10

Content:8/10

Categories: First Person Tactical Shooter

More Thoughts

The time to kill is significantly lower than I would like and I think that encourages a lot of camping on angles which is not very engaging to go against. Although from what I can tell the time to kill seems to be around the same as the main game, so that's just them adapting the game rather than a conscious balance decision. I prefer run and gun playstyles so it really isn't for me, but if you're interested in holding angles and giving yourself tactical advantages through cover and gadgets then you will probably like Rainbow Six Mobile.