Amy
Hi, I’m Amy! I’m lydocia on most of the internet.
In my free time, I love to play video games and then write reviews about them (there is usually a fair share of rambling, too, hence the name) in which I share my opinion on five main topics:
Gameplay
Storyline
Atmosphere
Tutorial
Modding
Outside of Rambing Reviews, I also write short Steam reviews in my personal name (usually linking to the more extended review on this blog), as well as very short reviews on my personal curator page, where I only share cute, cosy and quirky games I love and 👍 recommend wholeheartedly.
You can also find me on Bluesky, where I am trying to build my former gaming audience from Twitter back up. I’m not very active yet, mostly because I haven’t found my people there yet, so please drop me a follow if you are into gaming nad occasionally rabbits, and I will follow you back!
This actually isn’t the first time I start a review blog.
The first time was in 2020. The world had just gone into lockdown due the Covid-19 pandemic, and I was counting down the days until March 20 - the Animal Crossing: New Horizons release date.
In an attempt to keep myself occupied and work through my ever-growing, never-ending Steam library backlog, I challenged myself to play a new game every day for at least 30 minutes and then write down my first impressions. This blog was called “Project 2020”, reached a handful of loyal readers but otherwise didn’t take off.
The second time was a couple of months later, when I had burnt through hundreds of hours on AC:NH and was bored again. I decided to continue the reviews but rebrand it to ‘Rambling Reviews’ and loosen the deadlines a bit, to one post a week. In this blog, I started doing the occasional compilation post, such as mod lists for Skyrim and Stardew Valley, or a handful of similar games within the same genre that my brain lumps together. I’d rate the game(s) from 0 to 5 stars and write my recommendation to (not) buy the game. Still not a raging succes, but once more, incredibly fun to do.
So here we are: third time’s a charm. I moved platforms from a self-hosted WordPress to Substack, to make subscribing possible and distribution, easier. I did away with the actual rating in numbers (or stars, or speech bubbles, or whatever equivalent) because it felt too much like grading papers and too little like passionately sharing what I feel about these games, which is mostly what I want to do. I don’t have to tell you what it’s worth. I’ll tell you what I think, and then you can make up your own mind. I trust you that much.
Rambling Reviews has also become a project I would like to share with more people, the kind of people who are on the same wavelength, who are as passionate about video games and reviewing them as I am, and whom I can trust with my virtual baby Rammiewammie. Err, okay. Blog.