Gold-Plated Games

The big news in the current Weeklong Deals is western Square Enix catalog being on sale, so this is your change to grab your Tomb Raiders and Just Causes for a song. Outside of that there are a lot of Weeklong stand-bys like Stronghold and Sanctum, and a whole lot of junk that decided to resurface this week. Can’t win ’em all, right?

Why, yes!

Tomb Raider (Review) – The 2013 revival is an action-packed romp across a mysterious island

Rise of the Tomb Raider (Review) – Better in some ways and worse in others, this in nevertheless a solid follow-up for the series

Stronghold Crusader HD (Review) – The perfect castle-sieging sim for endless war

Sanctum 2 (Review) – A surprisingly robust upgrade to the original’s concept

Dungeon Siege (Review) – Tough to break into now, but this classic ARPG still nails the feeling of being on an epic journey

Dungeon Siege II (Review) – You might have a hell of a time getting it to run, but if you do this is still one of the top classic ARPGs around

Sanctum (Review) – A decent stab at the FPS/tower defense concept, but the sequel does it way better

Hitman GO (Review) – Absurdly clever little puzzler that turns assassinations into a board game

Startopia (Review) – Classic building sim for refurbishing space stations and accommodating hilarious aliens

The Dream Machine (Review) – A fascinating and sometimes disturbing journey into the land of dreams

 

Oh goodness, no!

Majesty 2 (Review) – Unless they patched out its atrocious difficulty curve in recent years, this is a hard pass

Dungeon Siege III (Review) – Turns out making a boring third-person adventure and slapping the name of an ARPG franchise on it isn’t a winning strategy

Knights and Merchants (Review) – Obscenely slow and finicky RTS

Slender: The Arrival (Review) – Here’s how you waste a perfectly good mythos on an incompetent game

The Bridge (Review) – Sadly not as clever or engaging as it needs to be

Deadly 30 (Review) – Side-scrolling zombie wave shooter that lacks the variety to keep you going

The Dungeon Power (Review) – Wow I don’t even remember playing this one

Firewood (Review) – Poor attempt at side-scrolling horror

Space Hack (Review) – Few games have been hit by the sci-fi ARPG curse as hard as this one

Sinister City (Review) – I want to like this cheesy HOG, but it’s too technically incompetent to recommend

Hektor (review) – Rape hallway