I sincerely doubt the anti-cheat is why Wildgate failed. It’s a multiplayer extraction shooter, that’s just a tough market to break into, and their gamble didn’t pay off.
Sunderfolk on the other hand, you’re probably right. A digital tabletop RPG, made for couch coop (although you can play solo and just control everyone), that you need a phone/tabled app for? And it’s $50/50€? That was never going to be a massive seller.
Currently preparing for a Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous playthrough, but I might play something else before then.
I’m definitely not gonna make my own builds, nor am I interested in that, with the hundreds of feats and spells in the game, many of which are just traps and no real way to learn. So I’m going through a bunch of different guides, a lot of which are outdated, and am currently creating a spreadsheet for me to reference, so I don’t have to sift through different videos and websites, every time I level up or do some other stuff (like the Crusade mode). I did the same for my BG3 Honor Mode playthroughs, and it makes everything so much more convenient.
The former, users with language set to Japanese.
So, apparently this headline is just totally misleading.
Browser games were huge in Japan, but that market collapsed (and probably all moved to Mobile), but the “hardcore” PC gaming we’d typically think of, has grown massively.
On Steam, Japanese language has grown from 0.85% in July 2015, to 2.56% in July 2025.
Bought Titan Quest 2 in Early Access and played through the current content (Prologue + Act 1) with two characters.
While the game is fun, the current masteries (classes) are kinda boring (except Storm). For some reason, only the Storm mastery gets different basic abilities (low cost, spammable attacks), and everyone else is stuck with the dinky basic weapon attack. I also wasn’t too hot on the active abilities for the Rogue and Warfare mastery, so I basically just ran around with two passives and the default attack otherwise (which you can upgrade) on my Bowman. My first character, a Frost caster (Storm+Earth mastery) was a lot more fun, with better abilities.
I wouldn’t recommend at its current non-sale price, but it’s a good foundation, as long as the devs can keep updating the game with more stuff.
With stuff like this, it’s always possible that’s just the slowest hardware the devs have on hand to test with. The Doom and Quake re-releases are the same, I think all of these use the Kex Engine.
I got an email from Bandcamp about the soundtrack from Andrew Hulshult and had to check if these games finally got a remaster/re-release/sourceport.
Pumped for this, and I don’t have to pay anything extra for the update, since I owned the old games on Steam already.
Yes, same, been waiting for this one.
I played through Heretic on Steam (not on the Deck) a few years ago, but I definitely didn’t use the Dosbox version, but some sourceport (probably Chocolate or Crispy Doom). Guess I have to re-play it.
There are a few games/genres like this for me. Like the Anno games, whenever I play one, I just turn it down to the lowest difficulty, and just build and expand. I kinda treat it like an idle/incremental game. That’s also why I normally don’t play any of the survival city builders, like Banished or stuff like that, it’s just not what I’m looking for.
I’m usually a normal-difficulty gamer and usually don’t turn down the difficulty from there. However, as the article says, If I started on a higher difficulty, I’m more open to go back down to the default.
Just finished The First Berserker: Khazan earlier today. For some reason, the final boss was extremely hyped up in the game’s subreddit, and it ended up just being alright. Overall a good game, I had fun with the combat, but the story is trash and the characters are nothing, not even cardboard cutouts.
I’ve been playing The First Berserker: Khazan. I’m maybe two-thirds through the game and generally have a good time. It’s basically Nioh with the faster paced combat, loot and mission based level format. For the first two regions, I mainly used the Spear, but recently have switched to the Greatsword. The monster bosses are fine, but some of the human bosses can be extremely infuriating, with how their stamina regenerates so quickly.
I’ve bought the game in the recent Steam sale and played it on launch through PC Game Pass before. My biggest complaint are all the loading times and screens, especially when you want to get into a race. Just constant waiting, for hundreds of races.
Back on launch I just eventually did more and more open world stuff, like the XP boards, Danger Signs, Speed Traps, etc. and then quit. I’m kinda doing the same already now on Steam, but I still do want to do more proper races.
“But Godot doesn’t assume that, you need to fiddle around to make it look nice.
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you probably are better off using Unreal at this point in time, unless you really want to get into the weeds.”
This seems like a silly take, especially with all the lighting upgrades shipped in Godot 4. The tools are there, users just need to configure an environment node to suite the needs.
Truly silly, you just have to do, what he said you need to do. Why didn’t he think of that?
If it passed in its current form, my fear is that it would effectively be an extra tax and burden just for choosing to make games instead of some other type of media, and I’m concerned investors would see it that way too, and move their financial support to these surer bets, ultimately harming individual game developers and lessening game releases.
But for most games, I don’t think it would it be an extra burden? As an armchair developer, most games might do a DRM check online, which would have to get removed or emulated or something.
For multiplayer shooters, I don’t know if dev hosted servers are somehow a lot easier to do, compared to dedicated servers of yore, even if they’re just internal, and would get a public release when the game is EOL. Depending on how things are defined, a single player, offline mode against bots might also count and “just” the multiplayer aspect gets shut down.
Games that would have a harder time are probably MMOs or Live Service games. I don’t know how those would get sold/made, if you can never shut down the game. Maybe those types of games would basically have to be rented or something, so it’s explicitly clear you’re not getting a perpetual license.
True, didn’t think about games like this, but that’s the case for every online-only game, even if the changes might not be as drastic as OW1 -> OW2. It’s not like you can roll back a patch in FF14, Siege or Destiny and play on that version, if you don’t like the direction the game is going.
I don’t think a part of SKG is making sure all different patch versions of a game are available and playable, once the devs end support for a game.
BTW I’m not against SKG, I’ve signed the petition, but when people say this would keep companies from selling the game forever, kill yearly installments of some franchise, or would “force” devs to make old version of their favorite game available, that’s not what SKG wants to do.
I mean, SKG is about keeping the game still playable, not buyable forever.
But I want to resell it to the same person for further profit
One of the biggest controversies at the start of all of this was Ubisoft pulling The Crew whilst pushing people to buy The Crew 2.
I know about The Crew, but it’s not like Ubisoft had a Special Edition or something lined up that replaced the original game, and you had to buy it again. There was no reselling, the sequel is a different game.
Nothing in the SKG initiative is against Sequels, Remasters, Remakes, whatever. It’s not even about keeping a game in stores forever. It isn’t against yearly releases of Fifa, Madden, NBA 2k, that get removed after a few years, as long as you can still play your copy of Fifa 26 in twenty years.
No one’s forcing you to buy a remaster… unless they are because they revoke your right to play the original so it’s your only option.
That’s the thing though, does this really happen? Usually games that get completely removed, that you can’t even play anymore are multiplayer games, live service stuff, that are just so dead that nobody is even remotely interested in a remaster, so the game is just gone.
Not really what this is about.
They could even still keep doing that with Remasters, Remakes, Ports on a new Console, Special Editions, whatever.
Looks like this actually works on Linux. Steam Deck rating is Playable, with ProtonDB rating as Gold. Not that this changes the other part, where the game doesn’t look interesting to you.