Slay the Spire. I hated it when it first came out on the Switch, then got the itch to try it again after watching some challenge run videos. I got it on Steam during a sale, and now I’ve put over a thousand hours in the game ;_;

Slay The Spire. You never seemed to get powerful enough and the fights always whittled away my health. Much later I played Balatro and this sonehow inspired me to give it another go.

I do think some of the boss design is anti-fun though, or at least punishing you for not following the build the developers want you to. The sequel already seems to be better for letting you play it your way.

Disco Elysium for me! Didn’t understand it and thought it was weird. On the third try, it was amazing. I finally understood what it was trying to do. It was an art piece and I don’t think I’ll ever have that same journey again for a long while.

I predict that Cyberpunk 2077 will become this game for me in like 3-5 years

Baldurs Gate 3. When I first saw it on the Fitgirl website I thought it was boring DnD stuff. A month ago I decided to try it out and have been hooked on it like crack.

Grounded. It initially felt impossible cuz early game practically every enemy one-shots you. Abandoned it for a while, then a friend played it and told me the secret is to learn all the movesets and perfect parry every single hit, and I was like “that sounds unreasonably difficult”, and then immediately played it for like nine hours straight.

Persona 5 Royal.

Baldurs Gate 2. Never played the first and didn’t know D&D so it was a LOT to get used when Final Fantasy was the most complicated RPG I’d played before trying it.

Fumbled the intro dungeon and just couldn’t get into it so it sat in a drawer for awhile. Then Throne of Baal was announced and for some reason I gave it another try and got SUPER into it. No idea how many times I’ve played through it now. The engine really doesn’t hold up well but I love the characters so much.

This sounds like a really cool idea. Since ethics rules are negotiated anyway, this isn’t as problematic as a “morality index.” Maybe keep the data forever in case anyone cares, but calculate the main score on the most recent 5-year period.

In the US, at least, truth is supposed to be an absolute defense against slander or libel. And opinions are protected speech in any event.

Outer Wilds. Wandering around in the village in the beginning was a bit boring so I put it down. Took it up again some days or weeks later and continued to play until I found the thorny seed on my home planet. That was the point where I was hooked and at the end it became one of my favourite games of all time.

Stardew valley was this game for me. I basically sped through getting married and then put the game down after maybe 20 or so hours. Then I got it on switch and have over 1.5k hours

FTL the space dogfight roguelike. Took me 10 years to revisit and I’ve gotten more than a hundred hours in it since then

For me it was Saints Row 2. When I first saw the game, I was like “what is this GTA knock off?!”. But when I finally played the game, I was hooked and went “Haha! It’s so funny spraying shit on buildings!”

witcher 3

first time playing, i got to the bloody baron and for whatever reason i can’t explain, felt like it wasn’t resonating with me. went back some time later and was hooked enough to finish the main game and all DLCs.

fucking fantastic game

• Nova Drift
• The Long Dark

Now my most-played games on Steam!