Just got to the second city and I think I’m hooked.

Yes it was, though the autumn and spring sales are considered not as big as the summer and winter ones.

Factory gamers were eating good this year.

I believe 51 Games came out right before the stricter PEGI policy. Same year at least. The whole thing is very silly.

I believe SOMA is less horror-y and generally more approachable than the other frictional games. It may be because it’s a scifi story, like the other games you mentioned enjoying.

I used to hate horror games, but I realized I actually just hated bad horror games. SOMA is a good horror game. It has a compelling story, fantastic atmosphere and sound design, and the frictional games devs are great at balancing the suspenseful moments with more relaxed thoughtful moments. All of this makes getting through a stressful or scary bit of the game more worthwhile.

Like Ashtear said, the safe mode prevents the monsters in the few areas they patrol from ‘getting’ you, which I would say somewhat gets rid of some of the suspense. However, after you’ve been caught once and have to reload a checkpoint, they just become an annoyance so I wouldn’t blame anyone for turning safe mode on.

Playing through Phantom Liberty now. So far it’s a breath of fresh air in a save I’ve been playing on and off since launch.

I’m only 17 hours in and my base is continually getting beat up by medium and big biters

Thankfully the new one doesn’t require further downloading. The trade off is that even more of the game is server-side.

Loot boxes and what is essentially a market of nft’s. Otherwise they’re pretty cool I guess.

It almost happened too

Really? The key art even had two divers on it during early access. I just remember being kinda bummed when they said it wasn’t happening. I don’t think they knew how their game would turn out at that point and it did turn out great in the end.

A large portion of the player base wanted it because they advertised it as being a big feature of the first game and then walked back on it.

Does the Nvidia app have gamestream? That’s all I care about

I’m also surprised how much the full release has taken off. One of my favourite things has been watching streams of people 100% new to the game to see how they solve things.

I was skeptical of the alien tech but dimensional depots rule.

Starting my new save in Dune Desert this time around because I never really see that much of this side of the map.

Top tier game and dev team.

If this means you’ll no longer be able to share with neighbouring countries that’s a real shame.

They’re promising coop again?

For the curious they showed fog, better foliage, US map with rivers, rice planting and harvesting.

Man that last line brings back some memories.

I’m still on PCIe 3. But that’s mostly because changing motherboards is a pain in the ass.

The gameplay feels more like anno but where you control all of the logistics instead of it being automatic.

That’s a respectable amount of hours

What’s Railroader? Your list of games makes it sound up my alley.

Really hope the coop isn’t a lie this time too.

Stay pegged gamer

Did they fix aim down sights toggle not staying on with full release?

This is an indie game. It used to be called ILL Space but it looks pretty interesting. There might be some gameplay footage out there under its previous name.

Give the modders at least an hour.