As somebody who sometimes critiques video games for a web site that always critiques video games, I in all probability should not be saying this, however… my favourite sport critiques are on Steam, written by gamers. I am particularly speaking a couple of sure kind of sport assessment that normally comes within the type of a sentence or two, adopted by a rating. And that rating is all the time “10/10.”
You in all probability know these critiques: they normally describe some type of bizarre or humorous emergent habits. As an illustration, a Far Cry 5 assessment that claims one thing like “Went fishing, enemy soldier attacked me however received killed by a bear, I shot the bear however received mauled by a mountain lion. 10/10.” Or typically its less complicated, like a assessment of Elden Ring that claims “Will let Malenia step on me once more – 10/10.”
With Dwarf Fortress (opens in new tab) in the end launching on Steam at present, I went assessment diving as a result of if there’s ever been a sport with weird emergent habits and followers who find it irresistible, it is DF. And I wasn’t disillusioned. Here is just a few 10/10 critiques (and a few scored a lot increased) I discovered in only a couple minutes on Steam.
Mike (opens in new tab): “Began a stunning fortress, constructed into the aspect of a mountain, subsequent to a fish stocked river. Migrants joined, commerce was booming and two migrant youngsters jumped into the river and drowned. They got here again as ghosts and proceeded to behead the opposite members of the fortress. 10/10”
Rando (opens in new tab): “Misplaced half my dwarves to dehydration, turned their bones into commerce items. 10/10 would get haunted once more.”
The krut: “10/10 would watch Urist McWoodcutter get crushed by a falling tree once more”
Marcus: “Completed the tutorial and my fortress virtually instantly flooded killing practically everybody 10/10 GOTY / decade”
Spankleford: “Two dwarfs drowned and weren’t discovered for a number of months, a yak was jailed, and a goat vomited in all places outdoors whereas my fortress was slowly being swallowed by miasma. Rimworld needs it was this foolish. 15/10 DF is definitely a lot enjoyable.”
Harm: “Alligators ended every little thing rather a lot before anybody ever anticipated 10/10 GOTY”
Anden: “10/10, would die to zombie carps once more.”
Vespero: “One among my miners received in a battle with a kitten and needed to be hospitalized, then my Chief Medical Dwarf died in a mining incident and the miner died of dehydration 11/10”
TuGun Jr.: “Been taking part in for a while now and eventually received it on steam. I began an embark subsequent to a river and my miner spawned in and drowned with out me realizing for the primary couple of minutes till i noticed dwarves had been horrified. 11/10 would embark once more.”
Icy Screams: “FEAR THE ALLIGATOR MEN!! THEY SHOW NO REMORSE! 10/10 WILL BE DEVOURED AGAIN”
Proctorg76: “I have not even completed worldgen and but because of the brand new dwell stream of historic occasions it’s yr 417 and I’m watching two civs named The Playful Flute and The Curled Nuts steamroll the whole world and start a chilly struggle with one another. 10/10 GOTY.”
I am a fucking elf: “I simply flooded my first fortress as a result of I dug by way of a frozen river with out realizing – till it thawed. 10/10 would drown in ice chilly water once more.”
Legion: “Первая же крепость была уничтожена стаей гигантских Орлов ещё до прихода первого пополнения.Просто 10/10”
(Through Google translation: “The very first fortress was destroyed by a flock of large Eagles even earlier than the arrival of the primary replenishment. Simply 10/10”)
FlatBoulders: “You can also make pets burst into flames… it is a 10/10.”
To shut issues out, there’s even a unfavourable assessment, sad concerning the Steam overlay. The rating remains to be surprisingly excessive:
TommyTwoTimes: “Steam Overlay would not work!!!! FIX EEET REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE 10/10”
