Stardew Valley.

It’s 2D, co-op, not difficult or punishing, has few inputs, and is approachable mechanically.

This is mine- I always wind up coming back to it.

Unnamed Space Idle. Not very patient though, unless you count the gameplay itself haha.

Slay the Spire co-op mod and AC6 are also recent plays for me but not strictly this week. I’m not sure that I’m gonna stick with AC6 though.

Sometimes I just like killing rooms of enemies by walking around. I like Warframe for that - specifically I have a Gyre build that goes pretty hard even through steel path. Nice brain off time.

Spire Together (I think that’s the name) is a pretty good co-op mod as well

SimCity’s cooperative structure building - anything where the group has to earn “points”. PvP asynchronous mechanics are essentially anything where a player can be attacked while offline.

I remember when Warframe had Pay For Revives. Not sure if that was Steve.

But many things in Warframe are much more player friendly these days.

Dwarf Fortress, if you like rimworld but prefer gigantic learning curves

I tried Hammerwatch for about 45 minutes and came away bored, unfortunately.

I picked up.Bloons TD 6 but it just triggers all my mobile game micro transaction alerts.

I finished Dredge - it was about the right length for the gameplay loop for me. I had a good time with it on my steam deck.

For all we know, Arrowhead paid to rent Sony moderation infrastructure month-to-month six months in advance and didn’t have it as part of their publishing contract and had to cancel the month and ask for a refund.

Was user linkage part of their contract? I haven’t seen it. Have you?

If it was, I doubt such a clause is illegal, as you say.

I haven’t played it in a while but I did watch a playthrough recently and I don’t think there was any guessing necessary or anything.

Myst

Fortnite. My friend wanted to play the Guitar Hero mode. Also playing Lego Fortnite some, which is kinda Minecraft-y. Occasionally some Zero Build battle royale.

Turns out I was a Founder. Heh

You’ll probably love it lol

Oh yeah I’m totally aware it is an unpopular opinion. I feel the need to bite my tongue every time there is a thread recommending it because I know I’m in the minority, and the person receiving the recommendations will probably enjoy it :)

I don’t like Outer Wilds. I played it. I beat it. It was irritating almost all the way through.

Lots of Warframe. I still have lots to collect and 8 more MR to MR30 so I’ll probably be at it for a while.