It was interesting. Added a roguelite aspect to the dungeons, which could work if it’s implemented well, but is pretty overdone at this point. The shop part is pretty similar with a few additions. Performance was pretty bad and was unplayable on SteamDeck.

Overall, I’ll wait for the full release and see how the reviews look. I like the developers and hope it does well.

Jump Ship and Moonlighter 2

Hardware, yes. Software? idk. Game Pass is pretty awesome value atm

Will Borderlands 4 be an Epic exclusive like 3? Really fighting an uphill battle there

Cult of the Lamb maybe?

Seconding Yakuza. There’s about 10 games in the series, all are pretty great to amazing. The older ones are all dirt cheap and often go on sale by 50%

Yakuza 0, Yakuza Kiwami or Like a Dragon are all good starting points

Totally agree with you. I was a huge fan of Doom 2016 but couldn’t get into Doom Eternal. Will reserve judgement until this is released, but I get the feeling I won’t like this one either.

Remedy bought back the rights for Control from the publisher earlier in the year. There’s hope that they could do the same for Max Payne!

https://www.ign.com/articles/remedy-has-taken-back-control-of-the-control-series-from-505-games

Most 1st party Nintendo games are pretty solid at launch