Forager, full stop, the end, farewell. The dev literally used an article about dropping mac support from games as a reason to drop the game's already released Linux support 4 months after release in a changelog footnote! The article the dev quoted didn't mention a thing about Linux!

That still grinds my gears! I don't care that it runs in Proton, that's not the point. If he had been less disingenuous and had he admitted that he had problems with the Linux build, I would have been fine.

*sigh*

Alright, I feel better now. Thanks guys/gals/folks!

Age of Empire 3 whatever edition, I badly slept because of the guilt to give money to Microsoft (4 € maybe) so I ask for a refund in the morning.

Probably Helldivers 2, Cyberpunk 2077 or the Elden Ring DLC.

The first was ok with friends then quickly went to shit as they tried to impose Playstation account requirements, followed by constant nerfing of weapons instead of fixing long standing bugs or adding interesting content.

Cyberpunk 2077 started ok-ish, but the more you played the more you realized they couldn't fully overcome the problems that game had at launch. After some of the large changes, a lot of the stuff you could equip felt like leftovers that weren't removed. The game play mechanics were poorly implemented.

As for the Elden Ring DLC, well, even the base game felt amateurish, in the sense that you could really tell they had too much on their plate by having to make their first open world game, and their first DX12 renderer at the same time. And then they reused as much as they could from previous games but I never liked how the combat system got hastily balanced by giving enemies attacks with insane reach so they could work in open areas.

Still, I considered it a decent first attempt, though not one that I would play as much as previous entries. In the other hand the DLC feels like garbage designed to pad gameplay hours: every annoying aspect of enemies cranked up to 11, there's 3 practically empty areas, 2 of which have absolutely nothing of importance in them, and the other one forces you to walk instead of riding your horse, an end boss that is an endless sequence of bullshit, and recycled assets everywhere.

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I badly slept because of the guilt to give money to Microsoft (4 € maybe) so I ask for a refund in the morning.

Eight hours of half translucent Gates heads, cackling and expanding.

You did the right thing.

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Honestly probably Cultist Simulator and I know I'll probably get crap for it. I spent 15ish hours in that game and just gave up, it's way to esoteric of a game imo. I understand wanting to be a "discover as you go" kind of game but having zero explaination about anything, no tutorial/manual or anything and expecting you to figure out what to do without even knowing how a single thing works was way too far over the edge for me. Really wish I could refund it in steam tbh

D2R, the og D2 is my favorite ARPG.

D2R has the always online bullshit even to play singleplayer.

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Battle Bit Remastered. An "early access" game that did right what new Battlefield games did wrong.

Shortly after purchasing the game once they recommitted to supporting Linux through Proton they completely stopped working on the game and there have been no updates in 9 months at this point.

Instead of pushing updates they went to war with their player base and created a highly restrictive code of conduct that drove away most players, silenced the remaining players, and the game is now essentially dead.

The devs then imploded with infighting and ran off with the money.

Flintstones on the Amiga. The first game I ever bought I learned that movie tie-ins are not a prime example of quality.

AquaNox. I wanted another Archemedian Dynasty and got a bad Q3A underwater with cheesy characters and boring missions.

Deus Ex: Invisible War. Well, it wasn't anything like Deus Ex 1.

Söldner: Secret Wars. I expected something along the lines of Battlefield and got a messy, buggy multiplayer shooter that nobody wanted to play. Including me.

Doom 3. I expected another Doom 1/2 but got a sluggish failing light simulator in a world where ductape hadn't been invented. And I even bought a new graphics card for that game...

Sunless Sea. Critically acclaimed, but not for me. I hated the gameloop with a passion. It seemed like you had to play the game in a certain way where every problem that arises has exactly one solution and if you don't know what happens in advance or you want to try anything else you're basically screwed.

Definitely Rocket League
I tried it a bit in couch-coop with a friend fan of the game. It's fun so I decide to buy it to play online with him from time to time.
One month later, they remove the Linux version of the game. I had about 9 hours played at the time. Too late for refund.
I have not launched the game since.

Flintstones on the Amiga. The first game I ever bought I learned that movie tie-ins are not a prime example of quality.

AquaNox. I wanted another Archemedian Dynasty and got a bad Q3A underwater with cheesy characters and boring missions.

Deus Ex: Invisible War. Well, it wasn't anything like Deus Ex 1.

Söldner: Secret Wars. I expected something along the lines of Battlefield and got a messy, buggy multiplayer shooter that nobody wanted to play. Including me.

Doom 3. I expected another Doom 1/2 but got a sluggish failing light simulator in a world where ductape hadn't been invented. And I even bought a new graphics card for that game...

Sunless Sea. Critically acclaimed, but not for me. I hated the gameloop with a passion. It seemed like you had to play the game in a certain way where every problem that arises has exactly one solution and if you don't know what happens in advance or you want to try anything else you're basically screwed.

I clicked on the Flintstones link; and got intrigued by the fact that the music was made by the late Ben Daglish (familiar to C64 users from Last Ninja 1) -- so I found this link: https://youtu.be/rsOaYLc1VMw?si=xOwoFLeNIcU5UbZG -- looks like a hilariously awful game; though the music *does* have a bit of contrapuntal sophistication.

Another thing that *might* be in its favor, is that it isn't your bog standard 'euro-platformer' shovelware. It's still shit; but at least not *that* kind of shit.

Definitely Rocket League
I tried it a bit in couch-coop with a friend fan of the game. It's fun so I decide to buy it to play online with him from time to time.
One month later, they remove the Linux version of the game. I had about 9 hours played at the time. Too late for refund.
I have not launched the game since.

You could have refunded regardless of play time. Just not through the standard option since that is only bot checked. I got mine with 20 hours.

I clicked on the Flintstones link; and got intrigued by the fact that the music was made by the late Ben Daglish (familiar to C64 users from Last Ninja 1) -- so I found this link: https://youtu.be/rsOaYLc1VMw?si=xOwoFLeNIcU5UbZG -- looks like a hilariously awful game; though the music *does* have a bit of contrapuntal sophistication.

Another thing that *might* be in its favor, is that it isn't your bog standard 'euro-platformer' shovelware. It's still shit; but at least not *that* kind of shit.

I honestly don't remember anything about the music. That might be a sign for it not being horrible. I'll have to listen to it once I get home.

In terms of gameplay I think any platformer would have been better. The core game loop of the first level (that's the one in the video you posted) was really uninteresting. And the game was hard. I've never made managed to make it past that level. Second level was getting to the bowling alley I've been told. Third level was bowling with Barney. You could try that in some sort of freeplay IIRC – but I never managed to win.

I started reading magazines with game tests shortly afterwards. My parents however, who had gifted me that game (based on their fondness of the cartoon), lost faith in good games for quite some time.

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Papers, Please

I played it for 1.3 hours and was not impressed. I left a negative review. Years later, Steam still recommends games as "Similar to games you've played (Papers, Please)."

Sword Coast Legends and a few other games I never got round to playing until they were broken due to online requirement.

I tried Sword Coast when it was unplayable on my old computer / network, and it was pulled by the time I got a new computer.

D & D should always support single player offline.

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Starbase. It was great at first but the developers seemed to abandon it for many months. I had a lot of fun building ships and flying around with friends, so much so that we forgot about the always-on pvp. Got out of the safe zone for a few hours one day without a problem to get some more rare ores, built up a base to process things... came back the next day to find we're camped and killed if we went to it again.

Between that and the devs ghosting for months made me thoroughly regret purchasing it.

Seems like they're still working on it though (as I just found out looking at things during writing this), so I'm very cautiously dipping my toe in it again, but they already broke trust.

Cyberpunk's character creator was incredibly limited and gender-locked, which went against the "you can be anything/anyone" tagline marketing loved repeating.

Wait, you didn't try the game past that? I do not choose the same gender character from game to game personally. What about games like Horizon: Zero Dawn or Tomb Raider?

Cyberpunk 2077 was a great work of art from different angles IMO.

Cyberpunk's character creator was incredibly limited and gender-locked, which went against the "you can be anything/anyone" tagline marketing loved repeating.

Wait, you didn't try the game past that? I do not choose the same gender character from game to game personally. [...]

Cyberpunk 2077 was a great work of art from different angles IMO.

No, I didn't go past character creation in Cyberjunk, and never will. The 2.0 update didn't touch that aspect at all, and there are no mods to remove the gender locking either.

Want your male cybersamurai to have a ponytail (a hairstyle that's historically always been gender-neutral) ? You have to pick the body type with boobs. Don't want boobs ? Too bad, ponytails (and most other hairstyles with long hair, by the way) are boobs-only.

What about games like Horizon: Zero Dawn or Tomb Raider?

I don't mind games with fixed characters. But I haven't played HZD (and I won't because I don't want to support Sony's PSN account requirement on single-player titles), and I gave up on TR after the 2013 reboot because the series became a Ubi-like open-world collect-a-thon.

I don't think I'm going to remember all the way back to like 20-30 years ago, so I'll say this is most memorable at the moment: Cossacks 3. I couldn't get it to work, and my friend was online and bought the game as well so we could play it together. I never got it to work back then, and since it was purchased outside of Steam, no refund was accepted. This was years ago at this point. To this day, I have not purchased a Steam game from a 3rd party. I was mad.

Papers, Please. I played it for 1.3 hours and was not impressed. I left a negative review. Years later, Steam still recommends games as "Similar to games you've played (Papers, Please)."

You can "Ignore" it in the store to exclude it from being used for recommendations.

Want your male cybersamurai to have a ponytail (a hairstyle that's historically always been gender-neutral) ? You have to pick the body type with boobs. Don't want boobs ? Too bad, ponytails (and most other hairstyles with long hair, by the way) are boobs-only.

It could be worse, though, the prerequisite could've been having a dick that clips through your pants.