This looks super cool. I’m very excited to play it! Crazy to think it’s only a few months away.

I’m hoping it runs well on Steam Deck, seems like it’ll be a great game to play from the couch.

If you like horror Outlast Trials is pretty good. It’s a little short on content (there are 9 unique missions) but the experience is well worth the money, I’m hoping they add new content soon.

I went to see the orchestral tour live in Chicago, it was amazing! Really fantastic soundtracks.

I’m enjoying Boltgun a lot, but the year was so jam packed I couldn’t fit it into my list.

If you liked Boltgun I’d recommend checking out Cultic: Chapter One, it’s probably my favorite overall ‘boomer shooter’.

Best:

• Hi-Fi Rush: Holy crap, I didn’t expect Shinji Mikami to make the best character action game since DMC3. From the soundtrack to the gameplay to the artstyle this game really stands out as something amazing.
• Pizza Tower: I’m gonna be honest, I missed the hype train for this game. I knew it was coming but I didn’t play any of the betas or follow the community, but once it released I was pleasantly surprised by its blazingly fast and addictive gameplay loop.
• RE4 Remake: I prefer the oldschool tank control RE games, but this is a pretty fantastic remake that stays pretty faithful to the original game.
• Dead Space Remake: GOATed. Reimagining the game as one giant open area instead of locked off mission zones really opens up the exploration aspect, and the random scares you’d run into while re-treading old environments caught me off guard every few hours.
• Street Fighter VI: I didn’t expect Capcom to hit it out of the park so hard. After the disaster of SFV leading to me quitting fighting games for a few years and eventually discovering Tekken/Guilty Gear I never thought I’d be back to playing good ol’ Street Fighter, but the systems are really well thought out and deceptively deep.

Disappointments:

• Diablo IV: I might be a little salty since it’s so recent but I’m not really jiving with D4 right now. The game feels like busy work, the scaling feels wrong and it just doesn’t have the QoL I expect from a billion dollar company. Maybe it’ll open up later, but with Path of Exile 2 around the corner I don’t need this game to be great.
• System Shock: The game is probably great. Issue is I bought it on Deck and the controller support is extremely half baked to the point where I am just going to shelve it until they update it.
• Last of Us 1 (Steam): It just doesn’t work.

Not OP, but outside of very occasional crashes it runs pretty great. In about 20 hours of play I’ve crashed maybe twice.

I imagine it’ll get more stable over time. I’ve also heard rumblings of there being a memory leak that’s been around since the closed beta tests, but there’s no concrete proof of that.

How do you like Bottles for Battle.net? I tried it a while back to install Diablo 2 (for Project Diablo 2) and couldn’t get past the installer - it seemed like no matter what I did the Bottle wouldn’t be able to use wine-gecko (I found posts online of people running into this same issue with the same installer, too.)

I’ve been using Lutris for BNet and it’s been great, easy to change my Wine version and easy to add it as a non-Steam game to launch from gaming mode.

I think they did do research and third party app users make up a small enough portion of their user base that losing them is okay to Reddit.

Keep in mind how popular Reddit is – for the most part the people left will be content with the karma bots reposting memes for the thirtieth time and there’s always going to be somebody racing to be the first to post some news to a related subreddit.

I doubt it’ll affect their bottom line too much and in a week it’ll be back to business as usual for most subreddits.