About David Temple

Great Conqueror: Rome provides a lot of value in gaming time, elements to control, and campaigns to fight. You also get some real history; enough to be interesting and support the game, but not so much that it turns into a history class. But is it fun to play?
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Her Majesty’s Ship has a promising premise. You are the captain of a Ship of the Line, aspiring to become an Admiral. Sadly, those aspirations are dashed against the rocks of an unfriendly shore of design in the middle of a squall of bad user interface.
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In Immortal Realms: Vampire Wars, you get the chance to prove you can defeat all your enemies and survive for all time—or you can get creamed. Either way, we get to have some fun, right?
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The premise of the action/adventure game Kwaidan: Azuma Manor Story involves the classic hero-coming-of-age stuff, so we are off to a good start. Unfortunately, the journey is a bit clunky and fraught with issues from its dated gameplay.
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Have you ever had the suspicious feeling your room has been bugged? It may not just be a conspiracy theory, it could be you are the bug. No, really; in Metamorphosis, you transform into a bug. Not the best start to your day, but it could be worse.
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Have you ever thought to yourself, “Where can I find an adventure game set in ancient India with a feisty heroine with magical weapons?” I know it happens to me every other week.  Luckily, we now have a solution to our problem via Raji: An Ancient Epic.
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Faeria is a bit of a mélange of turn-based plus card play plus board game stuffs, all with nice artwork and a general feel that’s a bit reminiscent of Magic: The Gathering and Heroscape. It feels like a game you can play for the next few years and not get weary of it. 
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On your way down the dungeon dive, make sure you don’t get run over by any demons on the rise. Demon’s Rise – War for the Deep is a dungeon crawl RPG with lots of character and equipment options. Let’s take a look around the game world, shall we?
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Have you ever had the feeling the whole world just got turned upside down? In Tower of Time, you don’t get a gravitational inversion for the whole planet (which is a good thing, by the way), but the tower you have to explore is actually upside down.
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If you are very young and have a greater allowance of patience than average, you might have some fun with this game. If this doesn’t describe you, I would suggest finding another hill climber game if you really feel the need to drive up and down hills.
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“Welcome to the jungle” sounds a bit harsh, and “a walk in the park” sounds too mild. What we really need is the happy middle ground for Potata: Fairy Flower, a new puzzle-platformer for Nintendo Switch.
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Although Star Horizon could really use some more levels to stretch out its short story, if you are generally OK with on-rail space shooters, this game is generally OK.
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Tharsis is a mission-to-Mars game. You need to direct the actions of four crew members aboard your spacecraft so you can land at least one person alive on Mars. I would say “safely” on Mars, but this voyage isn’t exactly OSHA approved.
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When the night falls down around you, and your airplane falls down with it, you know you’re in deep. In Broken Lines, you start at “deep.” So, now that we’re on the ground again, let’s get going—and we’ll talk through some things along the way.
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To do today: get up, brush teeth, follow strange dream about a deer and head off to the cursed castle to see what happens. Sounds like a plan, so what could possibly go wrong? Well, we all know the answer to that question, don’t we?
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With scores of tracks, bikes, and modifications to be had—along with a multiplayer mode to share with your friends—Monster Energy Supercross – The Official Videogame 3 will keep a gamer happy for a good, long time.
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Ready. Aim. Fire! Wait, that isn’t quite right. Oh, yeah – just fire! This is is shmup, after all. Sisters Royale: Five Sisters Under Fire combines a continuous shooting fest with sibling rivalry cuteness to bring you a bit of fun.
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Demolish and Build 2018 takes you on a tour of the world of construction and contracting. The problem is that the world of construction and contracting is mundane where there is a lot of hard work and very little excitement or fun.
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