The Worst
Tech Support: Error Unknown
The worst games of a month aren’t always necessarily bad games. Sometimes there are just strong months. Tech Support: Error Unknown is an indie game that brings the best and worst about a proper simulation—when the thing you’re simulating is boring, an authentic experience will bore you. In this case, Tech Support brings the player into the world of a nine to five office job, but in doing so loses some of its luster. Ultimately, though, our reviewer had to say, “Tech Support: Error Unknown is a short little game, quick to play, easy to digest, and honestly, compelling enough to make me want to find out what happens next.”
Left Alive
Unfortunately, not every game can be a star. Left Alive was a promising stealth game (but maybe that’s just optimism speaking) that also features survival and action shooter elements, but when it was released, pretty much everyone picked up on the fact that…it’s not very good. The stealth mechanics are clunky, the survival mechanics hardly matter, the story is overblown (while ironically entertaining), and the A.I. is poor. We said in our review, “Ultimately, Left Alive was such an awful experience that I wouldn’t recommend purchasing it for its full $60 price or even half that.
Necro Mutex
Games are about gameplay, right? And that, in most games, means engaging in violent activities for the sake of plot progression. Or just for the sake of itself, sometimes. But even the best-intentioned violent gameplay can grate on a player’s nerves, and that’s too often the case with Necro Mutex, a sci-fi horror game from developer Denormalizer that gives little reason for murdering humanoid figures. As our reviewer finished with, “Necro Mutex wants to be an old-school shooter but it fails to capture the elements of what made those games special and fun. It throws plenty of gore and carnage in your face without ever stopping to consider why…And when there are already so many classics old-school shooters available, there’s really no reason to bother with Necro Mutex.”
Did you play any better or worse games in March 2019? Let us know in the comments below!