Giveaway Closed

Ever dreamed of being a game reviewer and get games for free? Well, this is your chance!

Here's the price: the nine indie games from Build a Greenlight Bundle.

Salvation Prophecy
Beware Planet Earth!
Millennium - A New Hope
Recruits
Private Infiltrator
I Shall Remain
Wooden Sen'Sey
Oozi: Earth Adventure
Eryi's Action

(If you want more info about these games, there is a nice thread here:
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/groupees_buildagreenlightbundle_coming_soon/page1.)

This is the deal: play each game for a little while and share your first impressions. I am not expecting elaborate reviews (although those would be great), but I am not expecting one-liners either.

Bear in mind that you are now a powerful reviewer, and early reviews are extremely important for indie developers. Be honest, but be also thoughtful. If you don't like a particular game because you don't like certain genre, say so, but also consider if the game is well designed and if fans of the genre might enjoy it. And don't forget to answer a very important question: Would this game be a nice addition to GOG's catalogue?

I know: when I gift you the games, you can do as you please. I am not the police, I am not going to chase after you. But I think this could be fun for all of us, and it would be a nice excuse to play these games instead of letting them rot in your backlog.

To enter, just post in the thread and say when you think you'd be able to submit your reviews (no need to submit them all at once, of course. I guess you could create a thread and post your reviews there at your own pace).

I'll choose a randow winner in a couple days.

Maybe asking for short reviews is too much?

If I may have a suggestion. The problem is that to be able to write a review on these games you need to own them first in order to review them. Therefore there is no incentive to enter the contest. I do not think that writing small reviews are to much to ask, maybe change the rules a little to review some other games then the ones you are giving away? Or maybe change the reviews into some sort of guessing game so they players do not need to own the games before participating?

It might be the time of the year. I know personally I'm swamped doing stuff for Christmas that I couldn't do before hand. Even those people who have been good about Christmas shopping are probably still running around making sure they have everything. Kinda hard to handle reviewing like that.

re:entry requrements
he isn't asking for the review to enter. hes asking you to review after you win
to enter you give a deadline of when you'd be able to do that by.
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don' think a short reivew is too much...but like twilitbard some people don't have time to reliably give it the attention it'd need just now.

I'd enter but I've been in more than enough givaways for a while(need more foruming) and I don't want the kind of responsibility of deciding if a game lives or dies by my careless review made power by being early :). My natural tendencies I'd proably get on about some minor ui thing and forget to mention everything I loved cause it went without saying. I am not a good reviewer at all. If I love it I'd probably have trouble saying more than "Its good" outside of the context of a conversation with questions about why ect....But if i didn't like it I'd easily say exactly why in great detail. not a good mix for a new game easily crushed and awaiting approval from venders. :/
And even if I did manage a quality review(which I'd out the effort into doing and edit it specifically knowing what i said above about myself and rereading it from a blank slate again before posting to see if i had a balance ect) I'd be worried about actually getting the reviews in by my chosen deadline because given the time i'd want to set aside to do it right it sounds like something I'd manage to flake on by accident and remember a few months after I played them lol
+ for this though

ha - i see. Sorry. Carry on then.

Meh, I'm too lazy for this. :P But thanks for your generosity anyway. +1 ;)

I'd love to do this but to be honest I think I would have trouble giving a critical review knowing the potential damage it could cause to an indie dev :/

Also not all the games are in genres I enjoy so I'm not sure if I could really be unbiased there (for example I really don't like tower defense or platformers much at all)

Will these reviews be posted anywhere?

Whilst I used to review for magazines, I'll pass on this as I don't think I'd have the time to actually commit a proper review.

+1 for the idea though!

Not, but thanks for the giveaway! :)

I did do a quick review for Eryi's Action a few months back which I'll post anyway though.
http://www.meodia.com/PC-detail/eryis-action-review/

bump

I'm interested, sounds fun. I am about to go on break at uni and will be off until Jan. 7. I should have some time between now and then.

What are you planning on doing with these reviews?

No, I was not planning to do anything with these reviews. I thought the winner could open a thread to share them in here.

Anyway, this was probably a horrible idea, so I am going to wait a couple hours and close the giveaway.

By the way, I am not sure how gifting works with this bundle, but I think I might need the winner's email address to send the gift.

Not in, as I'm a slow gamer, and probably will took ages for me to play and review all the titles, but thanks and +1 for your generosity, Andanzas!

Also, a little promotion in the Giveaways' Directory:
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/how_does_one_make_a_gift_aka_gifting_on_gog_for_dummies/post538

PS: Glad to see Groupees now offers the games as DRM-free and with Desura keys...