All the usual suspects are already mentioned, but I have to shout out one of the most unique and addictive strategy games I have ever played, What Did I Do to Deserve This, My Lord?

“Backward compatibility”? So I can put my Xbox discs into my PC and run the games?

I still don’t believe he ever genuinely thought that. Microsoft hasn’t even been a good steward of its own brands.

Here’s the link for other interested parties: https://store.steampowered.com/app/497780/Recursed/

What a great post idea, thanks OP!

My contribution is NeonXSZ, a 6DOF open-world ARPG by a solo dev. It’s been a decade since it released, but IIRC, the dev cited Quake and Diablo as primary inspirations and the game has a native Linux version.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/296010/NeonXSZ/

I was thinking the implication would be that we have already reached the filter without understanding it, and our destruction is imminent.

The most terrifying thing we could actually find on Mars? Ruins of an ancient proto-human civilisation that had reached a similar level of technological advancement to our own.

I’m not sure what the route looks like based on your post, so I’m not sure this is relevant, but the problem description is similar to what I have experienced with other VPN setups when MTU was too high on the VPN interface.

I’d buy a month for $10 once in a while if there are 2-3 games I’m interested in but don’t want to commit to a full purchase for.

For $5/mo, I’d probably just subscribe and forget about it until they inevitably start hiking the price up again.

…I was totally expecting DOOM.

Yet another overwhelming W for small creators thanks to copyright

Fauxgramming

This feels like the same principle as “measure twice, cut once”

I’m reminded of this story about the Thompson SMG in Wolfenstein Enemy Territory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDxiuHdR_T4

Could be something like “Karen” or “boomer” where you’re just using the predominant demographic of a behaviour as a label for anyone who engages in it.

I haven’t touched it in years, but I don’t think anything is going to surpass World of Warcraft in hours played anytime soon.

Next up would be Monster Hunter World and Dark Souls III with 2000+ hours each.

It’s an amusement park builder and not a city builder, but Parkitect might be worth a look. It sets spatial limitations for your park and has more focus on individual buildings as opposed to zoning and traffic efficiency (though there are still things you can do to optimise guests’ paths through the park). There is a “beauty” system which gives you incentive to decorate the park and hide infrastructure from the guests, and you can get pretty creative the the decorations.

Each level sets an income goal for your park to reach, so outside of building you’ll primarily be managing your park’s budget. You set prices on park entry, individual rides, shops, and restaurants, as well as paying for staff and upkeep. You can take out loans to finance construction and buy advertisements to boost sales. You have the option to continue playing after you compete the level.

It lets you design your own coasters of course, but it comes with prebuilt rides if you’re not into that. You can also use other players’ ride designs and upload your own. And it has co-op, if that’s your thing.

Yeah, at that price point I’ll just hold on to my DS4.

No bro you don’t understand, Claude needs access to backups so it can restore them in case something breaks because our senior dev ($50k, 2YoE) doesn’t know how to do it