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It feels like companies like this eventually become vehicles for like 5 people to make lots of money. You can’t let go the guy making these mistakes - lining his pocket is the purpose of the company! It’d be ridiculous to fire him! Unless some of the other 4 people making money decide he’s keeping them from lining their pockets.


Raft was kind of interesting, and chill if you turn off “sharks keep attacking for some reason” mode.

I watched someone play Satisfactory and they had a blast.

Dinkum was fun and not stressful, but the characters have big heads and it’s got some typical farming life sim elements that were inspired by harvest moon and animal crossing.


Is Coral Island too anime in style?


Modern quality of life upgrades make it so hard to go back. There was a harvest moon game i adored and i tried to replay it, but just changing tools was a pain.


I get reminded of this quote from their studio exec:

“You can say, ‘Okay, we are exploiting, you know, child labor,’ right? Or you can say: we are offering people anywhere in the world the capability to get a job, and even like an income,” Corazza said. “So I can be like, 15 years old, in Indonesia, living in a slum, and then now with just a laptop, I can create something, make money, and then sustain my life.”

When I read that quote a few weeks ago, I thought about how that’s the kind of argument people who travel abroad to rape kids use to justify themselves.

It feels related to this, somehow. Maybe something about how children are treated like a disposable resource or an object to be used unless the person who owns them (parents?) are powerful, well to do, white, etc, etc. And that’s because their owner is those things, so they’re valuable property. I’m not sure if I’m articulating myself well. Too much sun.


Thanks for sharing! I’d only heard of dragonsweeper before.



In a post on X last year, the studio asked that players spend what they might have on the game giving to a trans-inclusive charity. A couple you might consider are the Trevor Project or TransActual.

nice! I also recommend finding what local charities exist near you, if you don’t want to donate to those. There’s also TransLifeline and Mermaids.


I like that they put some guides up ahead of their announcement. At some point I followed polygon on here, and I remember the guides being some of the most frequent updates.


I watched some streamers play it and was just wondering why they weren’t anymore. Now I know!


With most games, I don’t mind just watching a playthrough, but this is one I’d actually want to play. Maybe in a few more years the emulator will have fewer bugs or I’ll get a cheap 360 (or a new computer ). I’d forgotten how disappointed I was back then I couldn’t play it on pc!




Always wanted to play this one, but never enough to buy a console.


If you did more posts about gems you’ve found in the bin, I’d read them


Yeah it’s been years since I read about it, so I didn’t want to come across like I knew more than I did. And maybe they’re better now, was my thought. But the stuff I’ve read since this morning says otherwise.


I remember really vaguely reading an article about how it had kind of an exploitative model, especially considering the amount of labor done by kids, but it’s like an entirely different world i just tried to understand when my nephew played.




I thought they were more interesting than average, even when I disagreed with a take. The kind of site there should be a ton of, with varying takes for people to despise to a baffling degree. Sad to see it gone, or “gone” and turned intp a slop factory with known terrible working conditions for the people left.

Regardless of feelings about the people themselves, it’s awful that they fired the union members probably deliberately at this point in the sale so they wouldn’t have to go along with their contracts.


Is this all a weird ad for his game, to get eyes on it, or is he just like this?


The ideal is that it’s just in there and no big deal. I know that’s all I wanted when I was young.


iirc, there was one old harvest moon game where you played as a woman and you could marry a guy OR live forever with your female bestie. i don’t remember if that one made it to the english speaking world.

stardew valley really upped the game when the guy who made it decided it’d be no big deal if you wanted to pursue a same sex relationship in it. now it feels like a standard of the genre to let you do that, and it really wasn’t always like that. other games did it, too, but it still felt exceptional back then.

(but, yeah, the gay thing was a big deal for me personally, especially at the time sdv came out. i don’t know if it was generally a big deal for most players, but that’s definitely a reason for it to catch a certain sort of player’s eye back when it was first becoming popular.)


comments are pretty far down - below where it gives a short writer bio


the comments on the article on pcgamer are fascinating to me. i’ve enjoyed polygon for years now, and all this time it was a hipster art installation for communists? hell yeah!


It rarely works out, but it’d be great if some of the fired staff tried going independent. A couple of my favorite groups managed it after they were fired in similar circumstances.


it’s a shame because the basic gameplay is pretty fun, but i can’t recommend it to people without worrying about triggering someone’s gambling addiction. for whatever reason, i’m immune to spending money on microtransactions. i even think that it wouldn’t be bad to put an amount of money in every month like a subscription if i’m enjoying a game enough. i just don’t.


The initial appeal for me was that I enjoyed harvest moon, except for how the old tech made the experience of playing it suck so bad, I couldn’t replay it. It was annoying doing any of the basic tasks like switching tools iirc. so there was a huge opening in the market for a new harvest moon that wasn’t annoying to play. And where you were allowed to be gay.

So the initial buzz came from that, imo. the people who wanted a new harvest moon game were like ‘wow, finally!’ and then word of mouth did its thing. these days, nostalgia for it specifically drives people back to play, along with extensive modding and occasional free updates keeping things fresh.

i think other people can explain better why the harvest moon formula itself is so appealing, but i just think it’s interesting how an indie game can get so popular by just being like "what if i made this big corporation game people want a new entry from, but fixed the stuff in it that sucks?’


had an ‘oh shit what did they do’ moment about the game since i own it on steam, but then i realized the game company is participating in the anti-xbox boycott and is fine

https://www.polygon.com/news/554879/bds-palestine-israel-xbox-microsoft-boycott-candy-crush-minecraft-call-of-duty

they know microsoft is huge and difficult to escape using for some people, so the boycott is targeting specifically microsoft videogames and related services, is my understanding of it



I’ve seen a couple people play this. Is it one of those games that got way bigger way faster than the devs expected?


Thank you! The wall in my brain keeping me from doing it is a bit smaller now


That sounds pretty cool, actually, that it.s protected against me breaking it. I’ve always got that worry


Is this something that’s relatively fool proof to do? I’m very good at imagining disasters. That’s the big mental block I got when I thought about dual booting before.


I’m somewhat open to the idea, but the thought of messing up and not having any computer other than my phone until i figure it out is tough to get over.


I can’t afford a new computer right now and tariffs meaning higher prices means I can’t anticipate affording one in the near future. My plan is to see where everything’s at when they stop doing updates. Unfortunately.


Looking forward to it further down the road in development. I do wonder why these dollhouse sims are so rare, since they’re so popular.


I’ve heard of it before and considered playing it, but I have a tough time committing to play a game with sexual violence as a theme. It’s nothing against the game, which looks interesting. If anyone knows of a good let’s play for the series, I’d love to experience it in some way, even if it’s a dulled experience.


They’re pretty strict about depictions of violence against minors, right?