goodbyereptilian

Outside what's already been mentioned, I'll list some I really enjoyed over the past few years in no particular order because orders are hard.

• Hardspace Shipbreaker
• Dead Cells
• Weird West
• Vampire Survivors
• Citizen Sleeper
• Monster Train
• Risk of Rain 2
• Deep Rock Galactic
• Heat Signature
• Yoku's Island Express
• Super House of Dead Ninjas

And I'll also heavily second the rec for Dungeon of the Endless. I'm really excited for the spiritual sequel!

I'm just viewing Premium as a group Patreon, and it's a good rate if I think of it like that. If I can't do a Patreon I usually just block the heinous ads and leave the ones that don't bother me, because I know that's covering costs of the things I love. I don't really do big discords, I have an insane and tiring fomo compulsion to read literally every new post in every channel. I wish the discord likers the joy of it.

I had mixed feelings about Jeff's waning engagement. He seemed to only perk up anymore for arguments, but I think I understand a lot about why he felt disconnected and eventually left. He has children now, and his life priorities changing probably forced him to take a look at how his career was affecting his life balance.

I've seen time and time again people end up in management roles that keep getting more and more complicated and less and less why they got into an industry in the first place, and it wears away one's soul when you really don't want to be an organizer or facilitator. I imagine that's even worse when you got used to not having a corporation staring over your shoulder (which to most of us is a privilege we'll never get).

I'm excited to see the changes over the next while with the new crew and new perspectives in the creative aspects (and dread what Dan will bring in the same way you can't stop looking at an impending spectacular car crash).

My favourite game is also not the game I'd play for the rest of my life.

Outer Wilds was a hell of a thing, genuinely powerful... but if I could play one game or series for the rest of my life it'd be a Monster Hunter(presuming I could play them again). There's a lot more repeatability and mutability there for long term play.

@ranjhhaheer: I have a similar problem and if you ever have to go more formal with your shoes, Clarks has wide shoes for any gender that are genuinely comfy!

@hermes: I missed this one! I didn't realise they all got ported, I stopped having the right system around the third one's release, so it might be fun to have a combined nostalgia and continuation, especially if they're bundled for a good price.

@nuttism:Dicey Dungeons is indeed old ground for me, but I'm glad to find another fan of Pratchett! Genuinely just a great author and great dude(GNU TERRY PRATCHETT). I wasn't expecting people to actually rec novels here given I haven't been on the forum long and haven't got a sense of how much folks stray from games, but I found myself interested in a couple you mentioned anyway so it's much appreciated!

@paulwgraham: I am very much still here and still writing stuff down for when I need a new distraction, so everyone's responses are super helpful even if I don't end up clicking with the stuff they mention; just knowing what is and isn't comfortable with my only control scheme is huge! Lots of games on Steam will indicate which games are controller compatible, but it feels impossible to find out which feel comfortable with mouse and keyboard if they support controllers at all. Plus a lot of games have partial or selective rebindability, so like I find Genshin Impact pretty tough just because I can't move things around in what I'm pressing.

@retris: Knowing Rogue Legacy 2 works well is really nice! I loved the first one and I've heard so much about this one I'm really aching to try it sometime soon. I should restart Return of the Obra-Dinn now too, I fell off it at a point and forgot what I'd learned and didn't want to restart.

I've found larger scale city builders or rts-like games pretty hard on my attention span, but when it's a small like... business? or farm? When it's something I can walk through and touch bits of generally I can fall into it for hours.

Definitely gonna check out Noita and Teardown, and refreshing my interest in Satisfactory as a game that's been on my wishlist for ages but I never got around to!

I'm also really enjoying my first few hours in Yakuza 7, the binds aren't the least awkward but it's easily fixed and the turn based with timing appeals to my mario and luigi superstar saga love! It's also super real and also goofy as shit at the same time about the world and I love that.

I should mention I've redownloaded Disco Elysium to try again and Transistor to play again, I'm wishlisting Legend of Grimrock II for when I can next buy new games, I'm planning starting Yakuza 7 while I've still got gamepass in hopes it'll make me renew gamepass, and Paradise Killer seems pretty neat so I might check that out there too.

I'm super down to take down more recs because I'm currently only sane by consuming media voraciously(and hey if you have book recs...) but I also wanted to give appreciation for all the options y'all presented me with!

@facelessvixen: The municipal committee will set a date to action a meeting to determine the viability of the recommendations submitted herein.