“Hardspace: Shipbreaker” is now on sale at steam. So far it feels like a mix between relaxing work like “Power Wash Simulator” and the story beats of “Papers, please!”. It’s been pretty fun so far!

Not true. I played Conan Exiles on both PS4 and PS5 and you can switch on the full nudity just like on PC and go ham on the dong/boob slider. I’m in the EU if that matters

It doesn’t help that the One S is an underpowered cheapo console, but that MS demands that all Xbox games must run on the One S with a pretty high FPS. You had major developers delaying or cancelling their Xbox release because they couldn’t get it to work on the One S.

Yes, Origins is by far my favourite of the series

I’m into Elite Dangerous at the moment. I got a cheap second hand X52 hotas and I set up head tracking with OpenTrack and a webcam. It’s pretty immersive and fun!

Why hasn’t RocketWerkz not switched away from Unity for their upcoming projects? It should have been clear after the install fee debacle that Unity cannot be trusted.

Source?

Don’t make dying harder than it has to. I really hate the mechanic in Hollow Knight where you had to go back to the place you died and battle your shade. It’s extremely punishing and unfun (for me). Compare that with Ori where, when you die, there is no extra penalty and the reload is almost instant, so you immediately get to go again. It keeps me in the flow.

For that same reason, bosses should only have a grand entrance, cut scene, etc once. When I die and go again I want to immediately fight him, I don’t want to have to sit through the same scene 30 times just because I suck. Not even if it’s just 5 seconds long. So, second time make sure the boss is spawned and waiting.

I loved Obra Dinn. If you like that you will probably also like “Case of the Golden Idol” and it’s successor.

Yup, so they know how to fix this! Makes me wonder why they didn’t. Not enough time? Or does the base decay mechanic also have downsides that would work poorly with Dune?

Conan Exiles too

You can do that since 2015 when the Imperial City was added to The Elder Scrolls Online

Me and my friends really liked Valheim, Deep Rock Galactic and Sea of Thieves

I always find it interesting to see the percentages drop on Steam achievements when you progress through a game. The drop-off curve is very different from game to game. I always wonder about the people who drop off just before finishing the game.

No, this is about the official remaster from Bethesda

I fondly remember when my parents bought a new house that had yet to be built. I took all the drawings and made a Doom map so I could show my parents what their house would look like.

After the OGL debacle, nobody should trust WotC or Hasbro

I just finished “Styx: Master of Darkness” after getting it in a deep discount recently. It’s a really fun stealth game. Unlike Assassin’s Creed or Dishonored you can’t just run around and fight everything. You really have to be sneaky and stealth(kill) your way through.

I think that 1974’s “Super Star Trek” is the only Star Trek game I’ve ever played.

I recently picked up “Styx: Master of Darkness” in a Steam sale. It’s really good! It’s a stealth game where you can’t fight your way out if you screw up. If you like the sneaking parts of Assassin’s Creed, Thief or Dishonored then you’ll love Styx.

Just ignore the current AAA games. There is an ocean of great AA, indy and older games. And plenty to be excited about.

My nephew did the same. 25 buck PlayStation card, spent on some FOMO skin sale.

Dwarf Fortress goes that deep. They once had to fix a problem where cats died from alcohol poisoning. Dwarfs in a bar would spill their drinks, the cats would walk through the puddles and subsequently lick their paws to clean themselves. It’s crazy!

Oh, thanks. I bought them!

I wonder how this affects all the people who recently got a free premium pass from an Epic giveaway

I really detest people abusing Discord like an unsearchable wiki with dozens of (locked) channels filled with sticky posts.

That’s because Valve isn’t owned by investors

You can romance and have sex with pretty much anything with a heartbeat in BG3.

Yes, but you keep the game even if you cancal prime. As opposed to e.g. PlayStation Plus where you loose access to the free games when you cancel your subscription.

Doesn’t Prime give away GoG games?

I don’t think consoles do early access normally. Satisfactory only had its 1.0 recently, so it’s not surprising it’s not on consoles yet.

The article say 15 feb 2025, but I swear I read that exact same story about a year ago.

They didn’t yoink the code base. That would be copyright infringement and the judge said they didn’t do that.

I think that’s “Infinite Nikki”. This is the game that uses all the ray tracing capabilities of your RTX 4090 to render a girl’s spandex covered ass.

The first one is regularly on sale for $10 or less. Just try it. It’s really good!

People already hardly interact with old content. Have you been there? It’s dead. The game should be called “Zone of Warcraft” because pretty much everyone only runs the latest expansion.

I think I’ll love the time mechanic. Pentiment has something similar and it makes choices meaningful. I don’t like how in many games when an NPC says “meet me there tonight” they will just wait for you for weeks on end. They should wait the very next night and then be pissed off that you stood them up!

I just finished SOMA. If you’re into scary games, just get it in the next sale and go in blind. Don’t read anything about it. It’s great!

Not really. I didn’t play with any mods.

It’s not so much a sandbox, but more of a 4X grand strategy game. Conquer the universe, or at least help some other faction to do so. And stop the Xenon from assimilating everything. It’s like a cross between Elite Dangerous and Stellaris.