Ah that’s a shame. The game looks nice, but there’s not that much going on, so you shouldn’t need an expensive rig to run it, so I imagine it’s a bit poorly optimized.

One day in and I’m loving it!

Counterpoint: Wanderstop just released and I’m going to enjoy it immensely. Stanley Parable/Beginner’s Guide + C418 music is tailor made for me.

Davey Wreden is just a powerful writer. Even his interview trailer for the game gave me pause.

I absolutely love how well Alta’s behaviors and animations convey her mood and motivations. Angrily running around swinging the tea basket is cathartic all in itself :D

Should really check that one out, I’ve always heard good things

Yup, we’ve played every Borderlands game, It Takes Two, Palworld, Rotwood, PlateUp, LEGO Harry Potter, Deep Rock Galactic, Outward, Stardew Valley, Cult of the Lamb, Sea of Thieves, Baldur’s Gate 3, Grounded, Don’t Starve Together… We also play other ‘competitive’ games co-op against bots, like in Beyond All Reason, Marvel Rivals, Overwatch, and Predecessor. I could go on but I could list games for a while. Definitely always looking for new ones though.

Hell yeah, my group has been playing that for a few months now. I should donate to the devs because it’s such a great free game.

Nifflas doesn’t get enough recognition! I’m surprised they went with Within A Deep Forest though, I would have thought Night Sky is his most recognizable game.

That being said, his older works like WADF and Saira are great.

Yup, it doesn’t make a difference if you pay for:

• a box containing random items (Overwatch 1)
• a key to open boxes you find for free (Guild Wars 2)
• an incubator to hatch an egg with a random creature (Pokemon GO)
• a wish to reward a random character but there’s a guarantee after 80 wishes to get one exact character (Genshin Impact)

Genshin is in year 5, so it’s still an impressive number. Plus they have 3 other live service games running concurrently (one released this past July)

MARIO PAINT 2 BAYBEEEE

At the same time, the Switch is such a solid console that a hardware upgrade with full backwards compatibility* is really the best case scenario. People have wanted a bigger screen, better chip, and better joysticks since launch, and now we’ll have them!

*the video says it’s not 100% compatible, but I’m assuming that’s for stuff like Labo and Ring Fit that need those exact joycon sizes/shapes.

It barely qualifies as a teaser, but I concede that.

It’s absolutely a cheap way to give you an easy win. If I get SVP but lose in overtime, it’s absolutely an insult to throw me into a bot match for ‘practice’

Yeah except it doesn’t work like that. If you get 2 losses in a row or even 2 losses separated by a win, it’ll dump you in the kiddie pool, doesn’t matter how much playtime you have. If I get SVP and it still puts me into a bot match, that’s bad design.

It seems to be a way to grant the player an easy win so you don’t tilt and quit. But the ruse was way too easy to see through.

Every studio does this though. “Media Blackout” is just everything up to the reveal trailer.

That would be an interesting challenge: to play a game suboptimally, intentionally rhythmic.

HZD actually has a fantastic story and a great setting. With some recent successful game movies, I can see this one actually being good. But does Sony have much of a track record here? Uncharted was bad.

Big shout out to Beyond All Reason. It’s an RTS game that’s free and open source that I’ve been playing with my friends for a few weeks now. Not even a fan of RTS games, but it’s a lot of fun to play co-op matches against AI.
https://www.beyondallreason.info

Rotwood is a good one. Co-op Roguelite beat-em-up from the Don’t Starve guys.

Lethal Company is just lots of fun, we’ve gotten too much time out of that dumb game. Maybe check out Content Warning if you like LC but want a change.

Outward is a fantastic old-school RPG for two people, has all the traits of a game from 2002

Palworld - haven’t hopped back into this one since its launch but have been meaning to. But this type of game is definitely not underrepresented on the market.

Escape Simulator is a nice stress-free co-op escape room game, lots of official content and also has Steam Workshop so there’s tons of great content.

PlateUp! if you’re not worried about getting into a fight over how awful your buddy is at making food

Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos is a Zelda-like RPG that’s a surprising amount of fun for how simple the game first looks.

Other bigname recs: Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, Baldur’s Gate 3, Sea of Thieves, Deep Rock Galactic, Stardew Valley

In ZZZ there’s not much you need to do in the overworld by looking up, it’s 100% to see more angles of the character

they pay devs millions

I mean I see this as a good thing. I have to keep a separate launcher around but… at least that dev is getting a great deal and will probably be able to support that game for a while (or start their next one)

Wise actually worked with OC Remix on the DKC album!

It’s fantastic to see an article like this in the Times. His work continues to be incredible, with more recent works like Yooka Laylee and the Impossible Lair and Gimmick 2.

Very cool, got a ‘75%’

Well Nintendo is playtesting a Minecraft-style MMO so hopefully they’ve put resources towards better online play.

Tell your friends and family that you love them but you won’t see them for a while

Could be fun, probably not something I’ll play for more than a few days though

Exhibit A: the hilariously horny official trailer for Jane Doe

Lady Geist is a lot higher than I expected. Though, I only used her once and she felt awful.

If Concord doesn’t see a F2P re-release, it will DEFINITELY be some highly-sought cultural relic in the future

Until there’s combat, I don’t think there’s going to be any significant risk/reward choices. Basically you choose the right gear loadout and head to an activity; you can try to optimize by planning a route, trying to keep your inventory from getting full, etc. There’s also low drop rate collectables, so it’s a risk to try to find it vs. spending your time on some guaranteed progression.

But at the end of the day, it’s a super lightweight step tracking game that gives me some cute in-game progress for when I have to run to the grocery store, or I can make sure I queue up something good before I run a 10k.

Not to diminish the dev, but I did see this promoted in a Steam sale, and with 200+ reviews, that’s not exactly chump change. Also it was released only a week ago. From watching the trailer, that’s more or less the numbers I expect that kind of game to be pulling.

Miitomo?

In the same vein, check out Klei’s new game Rotwood. I’m early access, but well worth the price, and will no doubt receive updates for years to come.

Your ship computer shows hints and places you haven’t fully explored. Alternatively you could say where you are and helpful internet people can give you a nudge.

I played a demo of Goblin Cleaners which put a fun twist on the formula

Dang really? I liked how they decided to not even attempt to call them grenades and just made it magic. I haven’t played all the classes yet, but they all did seem more barebones than BL2 and 3, likely because you multiclass.

Their trailer made it very clear they were forced to announce this too early, so ‘going well’ is everything we could expect at this point.

Have you played Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands? It’s pretty similar to 3, but I loved the hell out of the setting and meta jokes

Combat is a bit better after the first major patch, it added heavy attacks and some new weapon types. But if you didn’t enjoy the attack-dodge roll kind of gameplay, it doesn’t fundamentally change that.

But the updates did add a lot of little stuff all around the game

Here’s some of his pre-SDV work https://evergreenmultimedia.bandcamp.com/album/your-a-mega-star