Just got Deathloop, but currently doing MonHuntWorld so it has to wait. Was anticipating iceborne to go on sales so i can jump on the DLC right away but Capcom didn’t have any game on sales so maybe that’s the next thing i’m gonna get.

Esoteric Ebb.

I pirated it to check it out after hearing about it, played through once and can’t bring myself to play it again, even though I really want to, because it demands my money and trying to do another run on the pirated copy makes me feel dirty.

I’ve got a substantial existing backlog of owned games and am trying not to just jump on more things until I’ve worked through some of that.

Some things that I’d buy anyway:

• If Kenshi 2 comes out anytime soon. My expectation is that that’s years out.

• If something like Caves of Qud comes out. I already have some roguelikes to play.

• Additional good DLC for some games that I have been playing, like Starfield. The Rimworld DLC has been worthwhile.

• If something like Steel Division 2 with Wargame: Red Dragon’s modern setting came out. Steel Division 2 has reasonable game AI and good quality-of-life features, but I personally enjoy the newer setting of Wargame: Red Dragon. WARNO isn’t that — it’s much too fast-paced for me and has less unit variety, feels to me like mostly just directing a constant flood of units. Less of the intricate deck-building that characterized the earlier two titles.

• If Fallout 5 came out anytime soon, which I am very confident will not happen.

EDIT: If someone successfully comes out with some game that can be plugged into a local LLM backend — it’ll probably be a game in a new genre, simple ruleset run by the game with its own logic that an LLM is smart enough to reasonably play and generate text description for — I’d be interested in giving that a shot. There are some developers experimenting with that sort of thing, but I don’t think that we’re really there technically. Might not be possible to do this effectively with current LLMs.

EDIT2: I’d also go for a Noita 2 or Noita DLC. There is some developer working on an unnamed game for what looks like a Noita-alike that I discovered a bit back, but it’s in early development, and I don’t know whether the actual gameplay will wind up getting the kind of appeal that Noita has. I imagine that one could get similar mechanics but have a game that isn’t as appealing.

Slay the spire 2 is tugging my sleeve but I’ve got a bit more iron to process and that’s already paid for

I think I’m going to be picking up Screamer when it has its proper launch on Thursday. I’ve waited so long for a racing game like this to come out again. The only one I’ve had in the past 20 years was Trail Out. The Steam forums for this one are full of people asking who’s going to pay $60 for this when they can buy Forza Horizon, and the answer is me; I have no interest in Forza Horizon, but this is a racing game that speaks to people who don’t care at all about real world racing. Let me check people off the road. Make it over the top. Don’t bother with an open world. Screamer seems to be checking all of the boxes of what’s important for me in a racing game.

Ultima underworld is amazing! Did Majuular get you into it too?