https://store.steampowered.com/app/385380/Planet_Centauri/

They did kinda abuse early access to crowdfund development for a very long time. 100k+ copies sold is not a bad result overall. The bug is pretty unfortunate, but they didn’t exactly set themselves up for future financial success. Seems more like an unfortunate factor in the “flop” rather than the ultimate cause of it.

The game does look interesting though and if they can regain enough momentum off a daily deal and/or future discounts to fix some of the issues mentioned in the post-1.0 reviews, I’ll definitely consider getting it on sale.

Last Epoch, an indie ARPG similar to Diablo or Path of Exile. I have about 450 hours in it (since the early access phase) but hadn’t played it for over a year. Now that I’m boycotting Microsoft/Xbox I recently jumped back in and have been enjoying the impressive amount of stuff that’s been added post-launch.

I play this kind of game “casually”, by which I mean I don’t look up build guides. To me the most fun part of the game is developing a good enough understanding of the mechanics to be able to find success building whatever type of character it is that I want to play. For someone with this type of approach I think LE is great and very flexible! It’s the only game I’ve reviewed on Steam and years later I still recommend it!