December Rewards and its Holiday time! So we've restocked!

Posted By: GamerDating Team - December 19, 2022

GamerDating's December Rewards! It's the holiday season, a time for relaxation, spending time with loved ones, and gift-giving. For many of us, it's also a time to get back into our favorite hobbies, like gaming. This year, we've restocked and added some exciting new titles to our collection. Whether you're looking for the latest releases or classic hits, we have something for every gamer to enjo This month, we are offering even more games

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Frozen Flame – a Survival RPG that needs a little thawing out

Posted By: Elena Walker - December 12, 2022

Frozen Flame is a multiplayer survival fantasy RPG, in a world once governed by Dragons and is now in the aftermath of what appears to be a post-apocalyptic world. It was released in its Early Access form on the 25th of November by fresh-faced developers Dreamside Interactive. I’ll be honest – my first impression was that the game looked generic. The style was immediately reminiscent of the many aesthetic copycats of cartoony an

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November includes Core Keeper, Golf with your Friends and Moving with your subs

Posted By: GamerDating Team - November 01, 2022

GamerDating's November Rewards! It's November! Christmas is coming, games are flowing, and its time to plan your gifts! We aim to keep the subscription cost down, while we can offer indie games or popular titles so that you can game, whilst we find you a match. We offer games every month with our 2 and 4-month subscriptions. Our list of games is available to view, with updates each month. Subscription grants you the ability to read

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Fueled up a chaotic couch co-op reviewed

Posted By: Ryan - October 28, 2022

Space-borne chaos or a shiny re-tread of old ground? Couch co-op party games are a small, but still popular, genre. As evidenced by games like Overcooked and Moving Out, there’s a need for one-to-four-player games that rely on communication, a willingness to make mistakes, and an almost sadistic urge to test the strength of friendships. Make no mistake, much like its chaotic forebears, Fueled Up will also put your relationships to the

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Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Closed Beta Preview

Posted By: Dan and Team - October 19, 2022

This weekend October 14th to 16th our team had the privilege to try Fatshark's closed BETA of Warhammer 40,000: Darktide. We gathered together, jumped into Discord in varied group sizes and chugged through the delights of Darktide. You can play with any variation of your custom characters, a refreshing step away from Vermintide.   The Poundshop Paladin, WoodTier, Farske and Zahur gathered together to dip their toes i

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Games while you date! Imp of the Sun, Potioncraft, Spirit of the Island now available

Posted By: GamerDating Team - October 06, 2022

GamerDating's October Rewards! It's October, autumn is here, winter is coming and the new games are flowing! It's the time of year where curled up on the sofa, with hot chocolate and gaming all evening is ideal. We aim to keep the subscription cost down, while we can offer indie games or popular titles so that you can game, whilst we find you a match. Our list of games is available to view, with updates each month. We offer 2 or 4-

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Pokemon Killer Temtem? Ryan Reviews

Posted By: Ryan - September 26, 2022

TemTem - Pokemon killer? An indie, monster-taming MMO with PvP built into its foundation, and a full PvE story, was always going to be a sure bet for fans of the Pokémon franchise. Temtem goes out of its way to emphasise how much of its gameplay experience is focused around competitive play, so much so that it’s nigh impossible to escape, but, if PvP isn’t your thing, all is not lost! I’m not a huge fan of PvP in m

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Smooth Summer Update to make your experience better.

Posted By: GamerDating Team - August 22, 2022

Say hello to our summer fresh update!  In this update, we focused on some quality of life updates, better email interactions, improved performance and bugfixes. Our last big update was earlier this year when we updated messaging with the use of emojis, gif support, improved updates and optimisation. Now we have introduced a new notifications sidebar, improved email notifications and new anti spammer/bot measures to make your experie

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South of the Circle Preview

Posted By: Ryan - August 15, 2022

A narrative experience about the power of regret. Emotional, story-driven games like South of the Circle (SotC) are not, for better or worse, everyone’s cup of tea. Originally released in 2021 for Apple Arcade, it was developed by State of Play, published by 11 Bit Studios, and is a compelling story of ambition and love set around the Cold War. I played SotC on the Nintendo Switch to write this review and was pleasantly surprised by w

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Overcooked! Our sous-chef reviews a top coop.

Posted By: Will Smith-Parsons - August 01, 2022

Overcooked: All the fun of watching your kitchen burn down, none of the messy clean-up. Overcooked! is a top-down, high-pressure cook-em-up that pits aspiring chefs against the clock and a series of strange circumstances to prepare ingredients and cook dishes to the satisfaction of hungry customers. After each level, players receive a score and a number of stars based on how many orders were completed, how many were missed, and how many wer

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Tails of Iron, House Flipper, Foxhole and Overcooked! 2 added for August subscriptions

Posted By: Alex - July 29, 2022

GamerDating's August Rewards! It's August! The perfect time for some game dates, followed by nice walks in the evening. Our goal is to keep subscription at a low cost, offer unusual indie games or popular titles so that you can game, whilst we find you a match. Our list of games is available to view, with updates each month. We offer 2 or 4-month subscriptions which allow you to read and send messages to any user, your messages allow

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Gloomhaven, Kitaria Fables, Farm Together, and Tavern Master now available with subscription

Posted By: Alex - July 01, 2022

GamerDating's July Rewards! As we roll into July, the peak of the summer season, and we have new games for our subscriptions. Our mission is to keep subscription at a cost low, offer popular or unusual games so that you can start gaming whilst we find you a match! Our list of games is available to view, with updates each month. We offer 2 or 4-month subscriptions which allow you to read and send messages to any user, your messages all

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Wingspan, Cuphead, Children of Morta and Outriders available in our June subscription.

Posted By: Alex - June 02, 2022

GamerDating's June Rewards! It's June, new game time! Available for new subscriptions, we have limited stock, so first come, first served. Our goal is to keep subscription cost low, and always offer new games so you can find a match, start chatting and play a game with your date, preferably one of those new ones you've just got! Our full list of games is now available on our static page which we'll update each month. We offer 2 or 4-

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Games available in our packages

Posted By: GamerDating Team - June 01, 2022

Our gaming offers bundled in with our packages Check out our entire list of new games added and available. Our games we offer are separated between two options of subscription to GamerDating, a gold option and a silver option. Remember you can choose two silver games for the gold option instead of just one gold game if you'd prefer. Each month we add new games, restock and seek out the unusual games for those game dates and couples da

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10 Reasons to Date a Gamer

Posted By: Alex - April 13, 2022

10 Reasons to Date a Gamer There are many benefits to dating a gamer, be you a gamer yourself, or an open minded non-gamer who is looking to support their partner or perhaps even become a gamer. It is also not uncommon for couples with a gamer in the mix to convert the other and introduce them to what it’s like to date a gamer. We reached out and asked some of our successful couples to give a list of reasons why it is good to date a g

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April Rewards - Easter new games for your subscription!

Posted By: Alex - April 05, 2022

GamerDating's April Rewards! Spring Bunnies and Happy Hearts. It is the month of new love, relationships and the blossoming of true love. Love, date, game. Each week we add more new games that are available with your first subscription, and each month we update that selection. We keep our subscription cost low, and at the same time offer you games with your first month so you can play. So get gaming, get matching and find your ideal part

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March Rewards - It's spring and we have new games!

Posted By: Alex - March 09, 2022

GamerDating's Spring March Rewards! It's spring, everyones talking about Elden Ring, and it's time to give them a ring!. Sorry, I couldn't resist. The rhymes flowed, and I was on the road to overload .. and... and... and it's time to, just get on with this update so you can go on a Game Date. Each week we add more new games that are available with your first subscription, and each month we update that selection. We keep our subscription

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Valentines February Rewards - Latest games for you!

Posted By: Alex - February 16, 2022

  GamerDating's Valentines February Rewards!   Happy Valentines Day, and if you are here, maybe you have yet to reach out and connect with your potential special co-op gamer. Well reach out now! Each week we add more new games that are available with your subscription, and each month we update the selection. This month we've added a selection of new games, but also a selection of ideal co-op games or games to have

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Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Tempestfall - Swing and a Miss

Posted By: Alex - February 16, 2022

Swing and a miss, but literally. Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Tempestfall is a VR-exclusive action-adventure game. A game that I was super excited about, because who doesn't enjoy being a Stormcast Eternal! When the combat worked, it felt great, but the game didn't support that! I was super stoked for this, as a fan of all things Warhammer I leapt into the game with excitement, looking forward to playing a skilled Lord-Arcanum of

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Pupperazzi, cute game of dog photography

Posted By: Ryan - January 26, 2022

A wholesome, casual video game for lovers of dogs and photography everywhere. This review was written based on my experiences playing the Xbox Game Pass version on an Xbox One X. Pupperazzi has a simple premise: take pictures of adorable dogs. That’s it. There’s no overarching story, there’s barely any lore to speak of, and that’s okay. The world has been a dark place in the past few years and sometimes it’s ni

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Mothergunshipped off - Core gameplay cycles

Posted By: James - September 17, 2018

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It’s fair to say that Mothergunship was not what I was expecting. So what went wrong?

 

I wanted to start this review off with something really simple; An analysis of gameplay cycles. That's probably the least simple thing that you can do when it comes to a video game, but I'm gonna try my best because I think that when it comes to modern gaming a lot of games regardless of the amount of effort that's been put in, really fall down when it comes to keeping a player engaged within what should be the most important part of any game: your core gameplay cycle

Let's take something really simple, lets take something like Super Mario, in Super Mario you've got a really simple gameplay cycle; Avoid all the obstacles and enemies, find one ups to get more lives to enable you to have more chances of completing the game, get to the end of the level, run up the steps and jump on the flag.

 

Endgame rescue the princess, end.

Now the bit that keeps you engaged is distractingly simple, it's the bit in the middle where you have to avoid all the obstacles. Now why is that important? Multiple reasons really, but there's a really simple explanation behind why the “in the middle where all the detail is” part which is avoiding the obstacles to get to the end, is the most important part; because it's the part you spend most of your time, and in a video game the part where you spend most of your time has to be the part where you have all the fun. And if not all the fun, then 95% of the fun!

 

So we can boil core gameplay cycles down to this: If I have to keep doing something repetitively, is the action I'm completing fun?

 

If the action isn't fun, you don't have a good core gameplay cycle.

So let's move on to Mothergunship let's start with a really simple example, the first thing Mothergunship wants you to do is build a gun, it's part of their core gameplay mechanics – this is different from the cycle of course but it’s a cool mechanic, it’s worth mentioning. You build a great big gun and you shoot a lot of stuff. The action ramps up quickly and the difficulty ramps up in turn so there is more stuff to shoot but you will have larger guns therefore the difficulty should be relatively linear as it increases. Shoot all the stuff, moveon to next area - mainly.

 

And for sure the first two levels I played of Mothergunship were fun. But an area in a level on Mothergunship is about 60 seconds sometimes which will you get onto a new area. The exploration which is another core gameplay mechanic in many FPS therefore is also extremely boring. Because levels look pretty much the same, pretty nut and bolt standard, pretty damn boring to put it in plain old English.

 

However, the difficulty on Mothergunship is not a linear experience at all, while this may be fun in games with core gameplay cycles that are really fun to play like Super Mario, in a game where the linear suddenly jumps up to nonlinear levels of cliff like proportions it makes progressing in the game absolutely grinding.

 

So you've got your great big gun that you've made and enter an area that you walk into through a very brief piece of story exposition with your typical characters, and I call them typical first because they don't have names, they have names like "The General" for example, who to be fair to the voice actor behind him is giving his best Cave Johnson impression ever. But there's just something a little soulless about the whole experience, while it does it's best to regale you with in jokes with your computers sometimes getting infected by “space spam” which is for the moment quite amusing from time to time, there’s just something about this game I can't put my finger on .

I think in reality there are a lot of games where I have allowed story elements to slide because the gameplay has just been stellar; those experiences stay with you for a long time. This game isn't one of them, because quite frankly the core gameplay cycle is really really boring.

 

Build a gun bigger than any gun you've ever built before which is a fun mechanic in a first person shooter and I did enjoy that - for about 5 minutes - until it became overwhelmingly obvious that building a gun that I want to build on every level won't be possible, because you're not given the full range of mechanics, weapons attachments and connectors that you were given in the previous level in every new level.

 

This leads to some really boring levels, where you're given really crappy guns that you have to bolt together into really crappy ways, but sometimes you can't even bolt them together because you're not given enough connectors which means firing at the stupid enemies in level before where you had let's say 4 blasters that fire in nice linear paths towards your targets, and do extreme amounts of damage.

 

However, there were some levels where you're given basically enemies floating en masse around the screen, filling your fucking screen with enemies, absolutely swarming with things to kill, flying around in the air coming at you, from underneath and above with Super Mario Bullet Bills (which is the only way I can describe them) shoving your screen with crap, while at the same time having to avoid all of this stuff, shoot your underwhelming underpowered slow performing guns that have an energy bar (by the way) and sometimes without particular energy-efficiency attachments you're not given automatically, you will be waiting half the time for your weapons to recharge and shooting the other half of the time.

This leads to a feeling of absolute frustration when all you want to be doing is returning in kind the clusterfuck of bullets that are coming towards you at any one time but instead you are left with a wilting excuse for a weapon which sometimes you're not even given in your other hand, the hand which can also shoot and build weapons from but is 90% of the time empty because you need to have your main hand weapon as overpowered as you can possibly get it get through a simple level without dying from the cacophony of crap being fired at you.

 

Suffice to say in a nutshell the lack of credible storyline that I find interesting, the exposition of constant jokes are in themselves amusing but taken as a whole can just be read as filler, this leads to a sense of complete detachment from the whole game.

 

Mothergunship’s only interesting feature is the fact that you're building a motherfucker of a gun, and perhaps if they'd had some larger environments for example like Serious Sam, this would work amazingly. Serious Sam gets this very very right, Painkiller is another great example, large open form massive environments with large numbers of, to begin with, low challenging enemies for you to deal with and then steadily ranking up the difficulty as you're introduced to larger and larger weapons and as your skill level increases and you become familiar with the game. The last great example of an indie game that you should definitely pick up instead of this one if you want an interesting linearly progressive first person shooter loaded full of enemies on screen for you to kill and high paced action is Dusk. I played this badboy through on 1 shot 1 kill mode, and it was still just possible, but damn it was fun, even if I did die 100 times per level in the process, you just instantly started again, which made dying part of the learning process rather than a hassle + a loading screen.



Dying in Mothergunship and being booted out to the menu screen every single time you die – Which is the worse indignity of it all to be honest, is one of the most frustrating experiences I’ve had in an FPS in a long time.


"You will die, and you will suffer the loading screen, I have foreseen it - EuhuhHAHAHAAH" - Palpatine no doubt

What happens if I died in Dusk? The level restarts, try again. 0 loading involved. No clicking, no stupid score screen telling me how I died with some snarky comment like:

 

“Never mind recruit, we didn’t think we’d see you dying so often, but then again we had high hopes for you when you joined! Not really, your IQ is lower than the average bison’s after all, but try again!” (I wrote that one lol) ad infinitum.

 

So I have to leave this review with one thing, I applaud the developers for a really interesting mechanic around building great big guns, bolting them all together and making guns that feel genuinely interesting to fire and play with - when you've got the pieces to make them, which is basically never - however the feeling of randomness connected with the pieces of guns that you collect, and the overwhelmingly boring environments and enemies that you have to slog through in order to progress (Honestly levels out of the 1990s were better), simply leaves this game feeling in a really simple term, boring.

 

 

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