I hardly buy anything on release, only the occassional indie.

In other words: No chance.

I can really get behind your taste in games

Same. I can watch others play them (and I love to) but being the one playing, I‘m basically in perma „I‘m about to get jumpscared“ ultra tense mode and don‘t enjoy it at all

I guess the kinda games they make cost a lot of money and don‘t have the mass appeal to rake huge RoI in, still wish clearly talented studios like these could do their thing in a smaller scope under publishers that don‘t calculate MS kinda RoIs instead of just being closed down.

Loved the original and honestly… with its 2D art style, it might be the superior way to play the game IMO

I was so hyped about 007 and then the previews came out: „It‘s about 30% or less Hitman and 70% Uncharted“

Well, not what I‘m looking for. Getting more Hitman is gonna be a long, long wait.

Competitive (e)sports are usually repetitive to a certain degree. I wouldn‘t call League very repetitive anyway. It’s mostly the same map, yes, but football and chess are also always on the same „map“. With 160+ champs and their interactions and the strategizing aspect of it, I never felt like a match was going like another.

The players are mostly insufferable (like in other competitive games) and League‘s too much of a timesink due to average game time.

Real. Without my 800 mods I would‘ve never bothered finishing it. Playing/modding was probably 50/50 in terms of time spent.

Still on GTA Online (send help) with friends. We‘re doing the Criminal Masterminds challenge but we‘ll probably be done next week and then it‘s onto other games.

Funny enough, 5 hasn‘t really clicked for me yet cause there‘s no icon spam on the map I can checkmark LOL. Hope you‘ll have a good time with em!

Probably Slipstream. I just bought it cause cheap and it turned out to be an absolute vibe.

Also, Far Cry 3. Turns out I don‘t mind putting checkmarks on collectibles and just find it oddly relaxing.

For me it‘s Darkest Dungeon. I just don‘t enjoy „scraping by,“ I like to take care of and connect with my party, and that‘s just not the kinda game it is. It‘s just bleak everywhere, by design and fully intentional; and just not my thing. Saw a lotta friends play it and thought I should try it.

I think artificial scarcity in survival horror is kinda annoying. A flashlight burning through batteries as if it was a battery-powered oven is just an eyroller to me, the dude having the stamina of someone who‘s just woken up from a decade long koma doesn‘t help my enjoyment either. It just makes it annoying to me to play. I know it’s meant to make me feel weak and scared but I’d prefer if they could realize that in other ways.

The story was alright though IMO. I enjoyed the town sections the most.

I‘m still playing GTA Online (legacy) with a couple friends. Sadly, we were unable to do 4 men heists so far, we tried looking for a random fourth but we got kicked due to „inactivity“ while searching for someone cause it took too long; seems kinda dead.

Cheap all-time-low price tag games (according to SteamDB) that I‘ve played myself and can recommend:

Slime Rancher

Broforce

My Friend Pedro

Dust: An Elysian Tail

Poly Bridge 2 (also the first one)

Clustertruck

Risk of Rain (the old one)

The Swapper

Rogue Legacy

McPixel 3 (also the first one)

Overcooked (also the second one)

Party Hard

Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince (and other series entries)

Train Valley

Minit

All of these are of varying genres so probably most of them aren‘t everyone‘s cup of tea, but maybe one or two are gems that you hadn’t heard about yet. List isn‘t conclusive, obviously, but I don‘t wanna spam too much.

Interesting, thanks for sharing

I cannot fathom how this move is better for them than a larger audience with baked-in ads. This isn‘t some huge event with mainstream appeal. I‘d hope they ran the numbers, but nowadays I‘m not so sure.

If that‘s their big plan… well, I hope the IPs find smarter homes after EA goes bankrupt

I have…

Just Shapes & Beats

Nine Sols

Smushi Come Home

CATO: Buttered Cat

Is This Seat Taken?

GRANBLUE FANTASY: Relink

Ballionaire

Pepper Grinder

Like a Dragon: Ishin!

…in my cart, but considering I‘m unlikely to get around to any of them this year, I‘ll let them sit in the cart throughout the sale and see whether I’ll pull the trigger on anything.

Yeah, but that‘s usually stakeholder-driven. Of course, it could be all the same if and when they go private, but this move just seems unprecedented to me so it‘s interesting to observe if it does have any impact in this regard.