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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015) StC: -2 (Introcrate Design Penalty) The latest entry in THE WITCHER series seems to have given fans something to crow about… but we here at STC are concerned ...
GOAT SIMULATOR (2014) STC: 17.35 Intrepid Start To Crate submitter Nep used Twitter to supply this fractional rating, along with a screenshot of a capra aegagrus hircus artfully positioned by...
SUPER MARIO BROS. (1985) STC: 1 From submitter Clement, we received this scientifically exhaustive (and wholly accurate) report on one of the most classic (and apparently criminally overrated) ...
gamespite : > BOXXLE > Thinking Rabbit/FCI > Game Boy, 1990 > > Soukoban greeted the ’90s with a zestful embrace: On Game Boy, > wearing its baseball cap backwards...
BIT.TRIP PRESENTS… RUNNER2: FUTURE LEGEND OF RHYTHM ALIEN (2013) STC: 0 BIT.TRIP PRESENTS… RUNNER2: FUTURE LEGEND OF RHYTHM ALIEN manages not only to provide a nearly impossible to not cut-...
HALF-LIFE 3 (2014) STC: 0 When the founding fathers of Start to Crate research work on a project, you know they’re going to toy with audience expectations, but a surprise release with such a ...
HOTLINE MIAMI (2012) STC: 17 Sometimes at the Start to Crate Chronographic Research Laboratory you start to get paranoid, and think, ‘they’re messing with us’. The player is rewarded fo...
HEARTHSTONE: HEROES OF WARCRAFT (2014) STC: 0 The introductory cinematic is about opening a magical crate of cards. If that doesn’t reassure you that you’re in for a mediocre Warcraft expe...
Standard Crate & Standard Barrel Rope Barrel Long Crate Snow Barrel Temple Crate Lectern DARK SOULS REVISITED - A CRATEURE COMPENDIUM Though we here at Start to Crate have taken a l...
CRUSADER KINGS II (2012) STC: 1 Looks like you can’t marry your way out of this one, Matilda of Tuscany!
ANTICHAMBER (2013) STC: 1 Wait… I get it now… we’re IN the crate?
THE STANLEY PARABLE (2013) STC: 0 Wait… I get it now… we ARE the crate?
Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons (2013) STC: 61 Pulling a veritable Dark Souls on us, BROTHERS - A TALE OF TWO SONS (good on you for not putting a colon in there, Starbreeze) teases the StC resea...
DISHONORED (2012) STC: 0 Despite the crate divide betwixt the Hardcore leetz and the Casual noobs, Dishonored hangs its head in defeat to both varieties of gamer by presenting its first crate (...
X-COM: ENEMY UNKNOWN (2012) STC: 0 A tutorial. In a warehouse. Crates. Barrels. Space boxes. Mysteriously tarped-over bundles (other crates). Like one pallet in the whole place. T...
FEZ (2012) STC: 0 Couldn’t leave well enough alone, eh FEZ? A game about finding magical puzzle cubes, 6-sided multi-dimensional figures and a helpful prismatic companion, and you neverthel...
Without a doubt any wooden box the player will root around in for goodies IS a crate, and all of the perfect scores that BIOSHOCK INFINITE (2013) has received are merely a result of the Video ...
NEED FOR SPEED: MOST WANTED (2012) STC: -5 (INTROCRATE PENALTY) Criterion’s latest (and currently an Origin freebie if you plunked down for SimCity), NEED FOR SPEED: MOST WANTED, thumbs its n...
Our recent Far Crate 3 entry has led to a dramatic dispute in the Start to Crate Ceremonial Staff Room vis-a-vis the appropriate StC score, perhaps necessitating a score in the negative numbers...