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Yeah I’ve been a little disappointed in the loot too, things feel a little more perfunctory. I’m guessing it gets more interesting as you level up and move to new areas, but I’m not out of Kingsmouth either. Read more

The July launch is early access, which we usually don’t put on these lists. But it looks cool! Read more

Yeah I found the controls a little tricky, I wonder how they’ll be on console. Read more

The number of times I have accidentally scorched my own cards, jeez... Read more

I started getting radiation poisoning and figured it would kill me, but I don’t know! I’m going to make a ton of health kits and anti-rad pills and try. Read more

You can turn it down to ‘easy,’ but I found easy pretty tough at times, to tell the truth. There’s lots of ways to avoid combat if you’re clever/thoughtful, though, so even when it felt tough, I never felt like I was stuck because I wasn’t good enough. Read more

I boot off an SSD but run games on my hard drive. The two-step load screens (where it loads and then you have to click to confirm) threw me too. I kept checking my phone and forgetting to click. Read more

As far as I can tell the in-game counter doesn’t count reloads, so I played longer than the game says. Some of that was also sitting in pause menus, though I tried to account for that. Read more

As we wrote about on the site, it’s really a game that’s not for rushing through, especially on a deadline. I don’t think I’ve had an experience quite like that before—usually I feel like I can focus on the main story and still know what a game is, but with Prey it’s such a different game when you go slow than when Read more