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Michael, Beetle Lord

@michael.jagreview.com
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Personal account of the guy that runs Just Another Game Review @jagreview.com Posting almost exclusively about video games in a desperate attempt to get my Discover feed to do the same (it's not working, someone please help me).

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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 06/10/2026
Surprise, I'm not dead, just caught up with life and a new hobby (and possibly crippled by undiagnosed ADHD). Big thanks to @leik.games for the game code, and a huge apology for taking so long to actually review it due to a two-week vacation followed by another week of exhaustion and illness, lmao.
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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 25/07/2026
Sorry to be controversial but I
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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 15/05/2026
why did I do this Source: Dead as Disco
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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 14/05/2026
Sorry to be controversial but I don't think
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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 06/05/2026
Regarding Animal Crossing hourly music: New Leaf is indoor music, New Horizons is outdoor music I will not explain
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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 01/05/2026
Sorry to be controversial but I think
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Just Another Game Review @jagreview.com · 30/04/2026
"RE9 is an easy enough recommendation for the Grace sections alone, but it’s a shame those parts are somewhat bogged down by some of Resident Evil’s worst habits." - @gordon.jagreview.com Read the full review for Resident Evil Requiem here: jagreview.com/2026/04/20/r...
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Review: Resident Evil Requiem (2026)
Platform(s): PC (Steam, Epic Games), Nintendo Switch 2, PS5, Xbox Series X|S Verdict: POSITIVE This game is a bit of a tough one, and I kind of figured it would be when Capcom announced that Requie…
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JuniperTheory @bimbo.city · 19/12/2025
hey, do you play games on steam? want to do something nice for the devs of the games you've played this year this holiday season? just go through the last 10-20 games you played and post a short positive review for them. reviews are SO important to the steam algorithm, this is a good thing to do!
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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 13/12/2025
Fortnite eat your heart out (Source: PEAK + bbno$ / Ironmouse / vanillamace collab event)
Two gigantic player characters dance in the ocean next to an island.Two gigantic player characters and two gigantic green creatures dance in the ocean next to an island.A gigantic man looks down at the player and holds his hand out towards them.
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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 01/12/2025
Caves of Qud has two kinds of cybernetic implants: A. A device too small for the human eye, capable of manipulating the very fabric of reality to let you warp through space at will B. Yaoi hands
An item called a "matter recompositer", which lets you teleport to a random, explored space on the map.An item called "giant hands", which lets you wield two-handed weapons in one hand.
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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 27/11/2025
Update: I am the Beetle Lord
A player character is shown on a top-down grid standing next to 53 clockwork beetles.
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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 26/11/2025
Caves of Qud is by far the most wet game I have ever played
A map with a large pool of salty water and dozens of map tiles filled with streaks of a multi-color slurry of other fluids like blood, slime, and brackish water.
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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 26/11/2025
Came back to Caves of Qud after 10 months away. First new place I visit gives me a mace that spawns friendly clockwork beetles every time I bonk someone over the head with it. It's good to be back.
A player character is shown on a top-down grid surrounded by 21 clockwork beetles.
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Just Another Game Review @jagreview.com · 25/11/2025
"I went in expecting another second monitor "number go up" time killer and wound up with a shockingly compelling mystery story that sat firmly on my main monitor basically the whole way through." - @michael.jagreview.com Read the full review for Asbury Pines here: jagreview.com/2025/11/24/r...
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Review: Asbury Pines (2025)
Platform(s): PC (Steam) Version: Early Access v3.00.004 Verdict: POSITIVE Short Answer: An incremental resource management game with a time-hopping murder mystery narrative twist. The gameplay is s…
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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 23/11/2025
I'm watching maybe a dozen players bickering in MapleStory Idle's world chat, and I've gotta get this off my chest: letting players broadcast messages to every other player online might be the single biggest mistake of MMO game design, especially if you can't mute that particular message channel.
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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 23/11/2025
Truly my greatest gaming achievement. (Source: Asbury Pines)
A Steam achievement titled "Snail Lord", earned for producing ten million snails.
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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 20/11/2025
I was recently given a copy of Wednesdays, a visual novel about healing from child sexual abuse. In honor of World Children's Day, the game has been made free to keep if you grab it before November 21. If you'd like to know more before picking it up, you can read my review at the quoted post below.
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"The hardest part is not to speak up. It’s being heard." Part video game, part graphic novel, Wednesdays seeks to raise awareness about child sexual abuse through a surprisingly hope-filled ...
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Pierrec @wednesdays-game.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Wednesdays is ✨ free ✨ for World Children's Day in order to raise awareness about child sexual abuse. Grab it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2747770/... or Itch: artefrance.itch.io/wednesdays before November 21th 9PM CET!
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Gordon @gordon.jagreview.com · 15/11/2025
I crawled out of my hole to play Battlefield 6. I should have stayed in the hole. It sucks. It's worse than living in the hole. It made me miss the dark, cold hole. Don't play it. It is bad. I wrote a review of it for @jagreview.com. You can read the full review here: jagreview.com/2025/11/14/r...
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Review: Battlefield 6 (2025)
Platform(s): PC (Steam, Epic Games, EA App), PS5, Xbox Series X|S Verdict: NEGATIVE I haven’t regularly played a modern military shooter in many years, and Battlefield 6 does nothing to make me wan…
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Just Another Game Review @jagreview.com · 14/11/2025
"It wears the skin of BF3, an infinitely better game, without understanding what made that game fun to play." - @gordon.jagreview.com Read the full review for Battlefield 6 here: jagreview.com/2025/11/14/r...
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Review: Battlefield 6 (2025)
Platform(s): PC (Steam, Epic Games, EA App), PS5, Xbox Series X|S Verdict: NEGATIVE I haven’t regularly played a modern military shooter in many years, and Battlefield 6 does nothing to make me wan…
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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 10/11/2025
I put off playing this game for way too long, but it ended up being the perfect way to spend a not-so-scary Halloween night (yes I know I'm posting this in like mid-November, I'm slow, don't judge me).
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Blue Prince @blueprincegame.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
A plea for help. 🙏 One of the lead playtesters of Blue Prince, Iggy, has polycystic kidney disease and has only a few months to find a living kidney donor. His story, contact and donor information can all be found on iggyland.org Please help us in sharing his story and getting the word out.💙
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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 05/11/2025
I just beat My Friendly Neighborhood a few days ago and wanted to mess around with some of the cheats I'd unlocked during my run. Turns out starting a new game with cheats doesn't disable achievements, and accidentally triggering the ending unlocked three achievements in the funniest order possible.
Three Steam achievements for clearing the game My Friendly Neighborhood with an A rank, an S rank, and an S rank on normal or harder difficulty respectively. The icons next to each achievement spell the word "ass".
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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 19/10/2025
New favorite mall activity: find pop culture stores with a graphic tee display, look for stacks of any shirt with someone's face on them, and fold the top of the stack in such a way that it deletes their nose.
A stack of t-shirts with the face of actor Pedro Pascal on them. The top two shirts are folded in such a way that his nose is missing and no space exists between his eyes and mouth.A stack of t-shirts with the face of Lord Farquaad from the movie Shrek on them. The top two shirts are folded in such a way that his nose is missing and no space exists between his eyes and mouth.A stack of t-shirts with the likeness of wrestlers Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Stone Cold Steve Austin on them. The top two shirts are folded in such a way that their noses are missing and no space exists between their eyes and mouths.
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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 13/10/2025
I love Steam Next Fest
A Steam game collection with 62 games inside titled "Demos (Unplayed)".
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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 01/10/2025
Slime Rancher 2 Pro Tip: If you can successfully get a Lucky Slime zapped by a bolt of lightning, it does absolutely nothing.
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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 15/09/2025
Summoner is the best class in Terraria. You get to spawn a bunch of little goobers to fight for you while you smack enemies from a distance with a whip that annoys every player of the vicinity with the sound it makes. I will not stop playing this class in every run of this game.
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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 13/09/2025
look at this dude
A player character from the game Terraria, who is wearing a giant fish costume and standing next to a smaller flying fish.
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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 13/09/2025
Okay so life got in the way and I was VERY late to finishing this write-up, but it's here now. This was at the top of my most anticipated games list ever since I played one of its old demos a few years back, and I'm so glad I finally got to experience the full thing.
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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 12/09/2025
I think RSS should make a comeback
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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 10/09/2025
urara...
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Just Another Game Review @jagreview.com · 04/09/2025
"I don't think that this is a game I'll dump a hundred hours into or anything, but it got me to engage with a genre that I normally don't enjoy playing, and that's got to be worth something." - @michael.jagreview.com Read the full review of Hot Pot Game here: jagreview.com/2025/09/03/r...
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Review: Hot Pot Game (2025)
Platform(s): PC (Steam) Version: 1.0.4 Verdict: POSITIVE DISCLAIMER: Game code received for free by the developer. All thoughts and opinions written here are my own. Short Answer: A Suika-styl…
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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 30/08/2025
This game popped up in my Discovery Queue. I know train games are notorious for their ridiculous pricing and DLC practices that put EA's treatment of The Sims to shame, but having four different editions and over $3,000 in DLC when it's not even out for another month still took me by surprise.
A Steam listing for the game Train Sim World 6, launching in approximately 4 weeks. The Standard Edition costs $50, the Deluxe Edition costs $80, and the Special Edition costs $120.The end of a list of DLC for Train Sim World 6. The button labeled "Add all DLC to Cart" has a price tag of $3,241.72.
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Misc. A Tiny Tale | OUT NOW on Steam & Nintendo Switch! @miscatinytale.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
If you haven't been on this heartfelt robotic journey, it's never too late. 🥳 Go on an unforgettable adventure with Buddy and Bag Boy in Misc. A Tiny Tale: store.steampowered.com/app/1308940/...
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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 28/08/2025
Help me I'm obsessing over the contents of a Mabinogi teaser site like it's 2008 all over again
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[Mabinogi Mobile] Our Journey into a World of Dreams | Full ver.
YouTube video by 마비노기 모바일
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Just Another Game Review @jagreview.com · 27/08/2025
"Even though it could feel very rough around the edges at times, I still had my fair share of fun with Miner Open Chests." - @michael.jagreview.com Read the full review here: jagreview.com/2025/08/26/r...
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Review: Miner Open Chests (2024)
Platform(s): PC (Steam) Version: 1.0.1 Verdict: Mixed Short Answer: A retro-inspired block-breaking puzzle game where you collect treasure chests in a series of labyrinthine caves. The mechanics ar…
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Draw Me A Pixel @drawmeapixel.com · 20/08/2025
📢ANNOUNCEMENT! We are thrilled to introduce Crushed In Time, an elastic point-and-click game with Sherlock and Watson from There Is No Game! 🗓️Coming 9202 ❓On PC, Mac, Switch, iOS and Android 💬Fully voiced with subtitles in 10 langages 👉Wishlist NOW!
The Crushed In Time key art.
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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 18/08/2025
Bilkins' was by far my #1 game of 2023, and is probably one of my favorite puzzle games in general. Clever, charming, criminally underrated, and an absolute steal at this price.
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Misc. A Tiny Tale | OUT NOW on Steam & Nintendo Switch! @miscatinytale.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
There's an adventure to go on, while you may be tiny it's nothing short of BIG! Clean, collect, and help make a difference as a little robot in Misc. A Tiny Tale - OUT NOW for Nintendo Switch & Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1308940/... #IndieGame #indiedev #gaming #nintendoswitch #unrealengine
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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 11/08/2025
On today's episode of #GamingWithoutContext: Game Logic (Source: Misc. A Tiny Tale)
A dialogue box showing writing from a sign that reads "It doesn't count as stealing if it's...on the ground, all over the place, right?"
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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 09/08/2025
Sometimes the pursuit of completing games requires me to do terrible, terrible things (this dialogue option was tied to an achievement because @miscatinytale.bsky.social is EVIL). You'd best believe I reloaded my save file so he could go right back to happy dancing. (Source: Misc. A Tiny Tale)
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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 08/08/2025
Finally made the time to start playing Misc. A Tiny Tale and I just found out that my little guy SQUEAKS when he crouch-walks. This might just be a 10/10 game already.
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FLEB @flebpuzzles.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Okay, Strange Jigsaws is released. Have fun! store.steampowered.com/app/2702170/...
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Save 10% on Strange Jigsaws on Steam
A game of strange jigsaws.
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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 07/08/2025
Huge thanks to @flebpuzzles.bsky.social for the early review copy. My only "complaint" with his last game 20 Small Mazes (which you should also play, it's free) was that I wished I had more puzzles with that same level of creativity, and playing through Strange Jigsaws finally scratched that itch.
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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 04/08/2025
I lied, I attempted that challenge again. (Source: Dead as Disco Demo)
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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 02/08/2025
This is my first video shitpost, please be nice
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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 01/08/2025
I just learned about the recent(ish) trend of AI generating all of its images with this weird yellow "Breaking Bad scenes set in Mexico" type filter over them, and I find it really funny that AI is essentially generating its own image watermark—or urinemark, if you will.
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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 30/07/2025
video games
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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 22/07/2025
Got the itch to play a quick round of Word Play. Took the ABC Challenge modifier card at round one for kicks (gain bonus points if your next word contains the next letter in the alphabet), and miraculously made it all the way to Z on my first attempt. God bless refresh-heavy upgrades.
A "You Win!" stats screen for a Scrabble-style game with the following stats:

Words Spelled: 29
Perks Purchased: 11
Best Word: Zones (148 points)
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Michael, Beetle Lord @michael.jagreview.com · 19/07/2025
We didn't win the Arima Kinen, but we made up for it by sweeping the URA Finale on our first attempt. (Source: Umamusume: Pretty Derby)
A girl with pink hair and horse-like ears looks up happily at the camera with her arm stretched out towards it. Next to her is a big "First Place" graphic showing that she won the final race of the campaign, the URA Finale Finals.
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