It could also be an object with ke bis, which sounds much cooler if you ask me.

Neon White has a killer soundtrack by Machine Girl. Highly recommend it for anyone into DnB (the game also isn’t bad).

I believe Slay the Spire 2 is being made with Godot.

That’s wishful thinking, I’m afraid. Nintendo owns the handheld market and now that they’ve made a handheld their only platform there’s no way they’re going back to traditional consoles, especially not after the original Switch sold a gazilion units with the same form-factor as the new one but with a hardware 10x weaker. The higher prices are a risky gamble but their profit margins have never been this high so they probaby don’t even care if the Switch 2 doesn’t sell nearly as much as its predecessor.

Last I heard they were being called MAMAA now, meaning Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet.

It will be 10 minutes to announce the new console and 50 minutes to announce Silksong

I fully expected this game to be dead so that announcement was a welcome surprise.

The art looks so damn good. Can’t wait to play this.

It looks very promising for sure. I’m more excited for Paralives personally, but either way I’m glad to finally see some actual competition for The Sims.

Ooh, I love this channel. Gonna save it for later.

Bushido Ball is awesome. I’ve been trying to get a cherry on it lately but it’s pretty hard.

This sounds amazing. Any chance it runs on Linux?

A rare Intel W

Were they? Last year they had Mario and Zelda and the year before they had Elden Ring. This year doesn’t feel particularly strong.

The thing is, there’s just so much stuff on Steam that even if you only care about the crème de la crème (hell, even if you only care about a specific genre), you’ll still find yourself with a wishlist longer than you’ll possibly have the time to play. I often go “ZOMG! STEAM SALE!!!” so in my case it’s slowly becoming a backlog but I do intend to play everything I buy.

Huh, I thought this would be about a new device. I guess Anbernic’s release schedule has spoiled me.

And just for the sake of completion, yes, it also has an Epic store page.

They opened up a genre of gaming to people that would have never even considered it.

Can confirm, that was my case. Before this game the closest thing to a turn-based CRPG I had played was KOTOR, now I’ve already purchased DOS:2 and I’m looking forward to Larian’s next title.

The fact that there aren’t many alternatives likely means that making a Sims-like game isn’t as simple as it looks. That being said, there are a bunch of life sims under developement right now (probably because EA is doing a terrible job) such as Paralives, Inzoi and Alterlife.

It becomes even more impressive when you remember how many amazing games came out in 2023. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Pikmin 4, Street Fighter 6, Alan Wake 2, The Talos Principle 2, Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon, Final Fantasy XVI, Hi-Fi Rush, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, Lies of P, Pizza Tower, most of these would win GOTY if they had come out this year instead.

I don’t think it’s that deep. Deadlock, the game they mention in their rant, also has a pretty diverse roster. I think Concord just looks very generic both in gameplay and in character designs.

Good. Let them cook.

Interesting. I never finished The Witness but I got some solid 10h of entertainment out of it before I stopped having fun. I’d say it is a brilliantly well designed game that’s well worth the price if you are into puzzles.

There’s also AlterLife.

Why, just because I decided to leave my honest opinion instead of trashing Nintendo like every other comment here? I can see where people are coming from with their complaints but to say Nintendo’s games have been disappointing is absurd. Yes, there are other factors contributing to these sales numbers, and none of them would matter at all if the Switch didn’t also have great games on it.

I couldn’t disagree more. Other than Pokémon their first-party releases have been pretty much flawless this generation, it’s arguably the strongest lineup of games any Nintendo console has ever seen. There’s a reason the Switch is currently in route to become the best selling console of all time. That’s not an excuse to their legal team shenanigans, of course, but credit where credit is due.

Nah, I’m excited as well. It’s not really my kind of game but I can’t complain about getting something new from Valve.

I thought they were making Windblown?

At this rate in a couple years there’ll be nothing left of all those studios they bought recently.

To be fair they did run out of stories to tell.

Same here, Sim City 3000 and The Sims were my jam and I still listen to their soundtracks every once in a while, they’re so good. There was something truly magical about Maxis back then.

There’s a guy making an ATLA fangame for quite some time now.

Rogueli*es

The problem as far as I understand is Nintendo doesn’t have the same degree of control over Pokemon that they have over their other IPs since they share ownership of the franchise with Game Freak and Creatures Inc. I bet they’d like to hold Pokemon to the same standards as Mario or Zelda and probably just can’t… Or maybe they just don’t really care considering how Pokemon games sell like crazy no matter how much effort is put into them.

All 4 of them, really. Those games are made of hard decisions. Also QTEs, but mostly hard decisions.

This is the way. It’s how I managed to beat both Pokémon Emerald and Fire Red on my phone during my bus commute a few years ago.

For me the main draw was always being able to freely explore their beautiful handmade worlds, be it Tamriel or a post-nuclear US. You always knew you’d find something interesting around the next corner. I’d be happy with this being just Fallout in space too but it seems Starfield is mostly procedurally generated and you can’t even drive any vehicles so in that front they lost most of my interest.

Thank you, I just subscribed.

Speaking of which, do we have a Lemmy version of r/patientgamers? I miss that place

TIL the Dead Cells’ game dev studio is a worker cooperative with no hierarchy. That’s based as hell.