Europa Universalis IV: Conquest of Paradise Review
Columbus and his small flotilla had been at sea for 4 months. The open water was treacherous, and supplies were running low. If land were not sighted soon, the expedition…
Crusader Kings 2: Sons of Abraham Review
Crusader Kings II has shown quite a bit of life for a game that is now approaching two years old. It was fantastic initially, and the expansions and patches along…
X-COM: Enemy Within Review
Erica was cutoff, and in my mind, left for dead. Someone had to activate the transponder to bring in the airstrike, but now two deadly Chryssalids had moved in between…
American Civil War 2 Review
Step one for me in playing AGEod’s American Civil War 2 (ACW2) was to print out the nearly 130 page manual. Now, for those of you who didn’t run and…
Total War Rome 2 Post Patch Impressions
Five substantial patches in the span of a month and a half- one released every week, starting the week after release. That is the level of effort Creative Assembly has…
Question of the Week: If Games Are So Buggy At Launch, Why Do We Keep Buying Them?
Welcome to Critically Sane’s Question of the Week, where we do our best to answer an inquiry posed to us by the community. Have your own question? Tweet it to…
Rise of Venice Review
Kalypso has finally taken their series of trading simulations to Renaissance Italy in Rise of Venice. A sequel of sorts to last year’s Port Royale 3, the game includes a…
Game Dev Tycoon Review
The history of video games has been short, frantic, and utterly compelling. In only a few decades, gaming has grown from one-man development shops in people’s basements and garages to…
Total War: Rome 2 Review
The sun shined bright over the village. Birds flew swiftly over green fields, while deer grazed in the meadow. It was a beautiful day, an idyllic world. And yet, the…
Europa Universalis IV Review
My dad used a series of spreadsheets, a bunch of historical data, and a book called Numbers, Predictions & War to develop a mathematical simulation of the entirety of World…