But see, for some people and some genres, the fiddling and trying and testing and redoing IS the actual gameplay.

BG3 is a good example, Factorio came up in this thread as well. And from a certain perspective BG3 is as much of a playground as Tears of the Kingdom. The latter hides the numbers from you, the former invites you to play with them.

Different strokes for different folks, I guess. I for example can’t seem to get into story driven single player games such as God of War or Farcry. The constant tutorialising drives me nuts…

Ultimate Chicken Horse has quickly become the goto-local-multiplayer in my group.

The game design is so devilishly elegant: you co-create 2D jump&run levels. Together you want to make them so easy that at least one player can finish the level (and get points), but also hard enough that not all of the group get through (no one gets points).

It’s great. Will most likely be on sale. Don’t sleep on it!

More people need to try Starsector. It’s so goddamn good.

Bild so: „ÖKO SCHOCKER - GRÜNEN VERDOPPELN PREISE FÜR BUTTER“

Haha. Geil. Kompilat. Das adoptiere ich und brings allen englischsprachigen Kollegen bei.

Ich mochte „Let’s burn that bridge when we get there“. Funktioniert auch nur auf Englisch meiner Meinung nach, wegen der Redensartvermuddelung.

Check out https://crossplaygames.com/ - for me it’s one of those bookmarks that I get back to again and again over the years.

May I throw „Cassette Beasts“ in the mix? Is it premium as in the seventh installment of a series that lost its soul with the second release? As in costs 60+€ and is a collectathon with no heart? No. Not premium.

But it has

• tons of replayability. Gotta catch them all.
• an intriguing story that is surprisingly mature for a pokeyman game
• fan-tas-tic soundtrack

Also lots of stuff to find and discover. Also also does not break the bank. Also also also does not eat the SteamDecks battery for lunch, because it’s only 2D. And finally, for us old people, the combat is turn based. You will not fail because of lacking reflexes.

Hm. Installing a separate OS is not exactly painless, is it? I mean, I did the same, but just because you could use a pogo stick to get from a to b doesn’t make it a proper form of transportation.

And the whole Apple silicone story makes this point moot anyway. I am very happy that the toolkit exists. Hopefully we see a healthy and easier to use open source tool chain soon (think Lutris like tools) and more native ports down the line.

Ne. Nur blöd.

Anstatt unser Wirtschaftssystem neu zu gestalten, denken wir unironisch über gigantische „Sonnenschirme im Weltall“ nach. Der beste Trick des Turbokapitalismus ist es, Alternativen zu sich undenkbar zu machen.

Ach schön. Overton-Fenster wieder ein bissle Richtung Muskschem Techno-Messianismus geschoben. Weil wir ja so gut wissen, wie wir höchstkomplexe Systeme beeinflussen können, ohne unerwartete Konsequenzen.

Yup, worth it. I love that it is just so blatantly videogame-y. The damn mirror? Yeah, sure. Makes sense, game.