The witness is a really interesting puzzle game that can be had for not that much.

Or if you are looking for something more actiony then I would recommend remnant: from the ashes or remnant 2. Described as souls like with guns, but they really change up the formula I found with semi random worlds and bosses.

This is an instant sign for me.

I just wish they would release the server source when done with a game. At least then someone could hack it to work.

Make a shitty live service game and people are going to think it’s shit.

I don’t understand why this is surprising to execs…

Absolutely this, the crafting system is a great balance of getting what you want but also giving you something to try again and again for.

Basically that and the talent trees inside skills sold me on this game.

In competitive games, as you pointed out, it doesn’t really. Usually they end up with controller only servers.

In a co-op game it doesn’t really matter that much. I would argue it’s more about the movement than the shooting anyway.

Factorio has cool, and very customisable, procedurally generated maps. The ore distribution, quantity, biters, cliffs, water, all change game to game.

These guys are crazy, I just hope their quality doesn’t suffer for it