Humble Choice - September 2026

I hate to be a downer, but both Voidtrain and Ballionaire didn't do anything for me.

Here's my quick review on Voidtrain:

My indecisive multiplayer group chose this, as we really loved Raft and the two games are very similar.

Sadly, Voidtrain is a subpar version of Raft in pretty much every way.

It's got some cool ideas and a cool setting that are mostly squandered by interminable repetition and asset reuse. Like, every station you stop at has a fire fight with the same enemies in the same arena. There are little sidequests you can do where you have to grapple away from your train and follow a chain of rocks, which seems really cool initially, but they always take you to the same place. where you do the same thing.

It feels like they had the skeleton of a decent game and just polished that up to a 1.0 release rather than fully developing something more robust.

We're having fun with it because it's fun to play games with your friends, but it's unfortunately not the Raft-alike we were hoping for.

I don't have a writeup for Ballionaire but it seemed like something I should love as a huge Peggle fan and mild incremental-game enjoyer. For some reason it just didn't click for me.

To make things more positive, I wrote a poem:

Please
Re-release
One of the most
Transformative
cOnsoles of all time, the
Nokia N-Gage

Innovation.
Simplicity.

May
All of us
Game
agaIn on our
taCo phones