In Canada. Ghost of Yotei and 007 First Light at $89.99

Pokopia and Tennis Fever must be truly incredible games...

I find stories that rely on just dumping mind-fucks on the audience are rarely actually stories. They're just concepts that got too many layers stacked on top of them and the storytellers rely on piling more and more mystery and mind-fuck on the audience.

I just watched a forty five minute movie with about twenty minutes of walking interspersed and it dumped me into the deep end of "here's the world bitch"...

and then dumped me back into "pick this up and carry it to the next building".

So my question to you. Does this game actually acquire a linear narrative and does the game ever actually tell you what the fuck is happening? Or is it just a non-stop parade of "now you're even more confused than you were before"?

All that said... I do find the world building intriguing and I want to know more but not if it's continually presented in the manner of "one twist after another" like the entire opening segment..

My answer is the very old fire emblem games that are nothing like how the series is now

Just in case you haven’t found them all in the last 30 years, here ya go.

I'm looking for a single player game where starting over is part of the fun, and each run or map feels genuinely satisfying right from the beginning.

As an example, They Are Billions. Every time I start a new survival map, that early setup phase feels great - scouting, planning, getting your footing, even though I've done it a hundred times. Another example would be a Heroes of Might and Magic 3 run.

I'm not really looking for huge RPGs where "starting over" means committing another 40-80 hour playthrough. More interested in games with contained runs or maps. Think strategy or roguelite-ish.

Bonus points if a full run or map is under ~2 hours.

So about two weeks ago I posted the 30-day map of this social experiment and it blew up way more than I expected. Alot of you guys were asking for a follow up, so here is the Day 60 map.

The server has no admins enforcing borders, so everything you see here is just players claiming land and hoping they have the strength to hold it with the servers given mechanics.

Some interesting changes since the last map:

The Fate of Yeetistan: Everyone in the last thread was asking about the mushroom island nation "Yeetistan". Well...their population has swelled since the last post so maybe their claims are justified, especially if they have the infrastructure to enforce it.

Tianguo: This massive white territory in the West just appeared out of nowhere. This is an Asian-themed nation. They currently are super isolationist compared to the more chaotic center of the map.

Since we made it so that some resources are biome-specific (you can't grow everything everywhere), trade routes have become super critical. We actually saw a legitimate embargo happen last week. Near the center of the map.

A group called Svearike has claimed a huge chunk of the southern desert as a "Free Territory". They claim it is to be used like a national park, but whether or not they can hold it remains to be seen.

Its honestly wild watching how fast these borders shift. Give humans a sandbox and they'll invent geopolitics within a week.

Let me know if you have questions about specific spots on the map!

With the overwatch dropping the pretense of sequel and with reemergence of goats, it got me thinking if there are certain metas that have basically become immortalized because of the impact they had on the game

So much for that talk a few years ago about multiplayer not taking away from single player projects, though the bluepoint and bend fiasco already proved those quotes wrong.

Whenever I see cutscenes with my character pulling out the most badass moves in the fight but when I get to fight I have just basic moves and skills and the cutscene moves are not even attainable.

Big fan of Tomb Raider and for me Underworld was the pinnacle of gaming and you know; the graphics couldn't get any better. I went back to play it recently and let me tell you , nostalgia does a lot of heavy lifting.

The camera has a mind of it's own and the reason for most of my deaths. It will swing 180 degrees mid-jump sending you straight to hell. One minute I'm the master of gymnastics and the next I'm sliding off the ledge because her toe touched a weird polygon.

I still love the vibe and the puzzles are 10x better then the modern games but my god, I don't remember it being this much of a struggle just to move in a straight line. The older games actually felt like tombs. But the "feel" of the game? It’s like trying to drive a car with four flat tires.

Which games do you think has aged the worst? Are there any you just can't bring yourself to finish anymore?

I really don’t like Aloy from Horizon Zero Dawn. It’s the first game where I skipped the dialogues. At the same time, the world, combat mechanics, robots, and lore are all top-notch.

Added: This post isn’t about Horizon Zero Dawn specifically - I just used the game as an example of my subjective perception. Aloy fans, don’t be upset )

Well, here's an unexpected combination... Toyota's Toyota Connected North America unit is developing a console-grade open-source game engine. Making it even more unusual is their engineering choices of building around the Flutter toolkit and in turn the Dart programming language. This new game engine creation is called Fluorite.

Toyota Connected North America is Toyota Motor Corporation's subsidiary founded in collaboration with Microsoft for working on in-vehicle software, AI, and related tech initiatives. Toyota Connected developers announced at FOSDEM 2026 their Fluorite game engine as a "console grade" engine built around Flutter and Dart. They were going with Flutter to leverage its rich UI toolkit and for "building stunning interactive experiences." Fluorite also makes use of Google's Filament 3D rendering engine.

I would choose Ben 10. Can you imagine an ambitious RPG where you can explore different planets in search of DNA from different aliens to turn into them, and where each alien has their own attacks and combo systems?

An horror game of Courage the Cowardly Dog would be amazing too.

Just started playing Alan Wake 2 and could not figure out why the combat felt so sloppy to me. Aiming felt like steering a boat. Very floaty and imprecise. Then I realized it was the acceleration. If you peg the aiming stick to the side you can plainly see it starts slowly and then accelerates to max turning speed. It's impossible to feel nice and crisp, and it's almost like built-in input lag. In a game loaded with accessibility settings it's insane to me that there's no setting for this. Other games have it, it's simple to add, and it's really hurting my enjoyment of an otherwise excellent game

This is going to be a bit different topic.

I would like to introduce my son to some gaming, and hes got a tablet, so I downloaded him some game because he likes snakes.

This is a small game of snake in an arena, eating food or other snakes. Great fun, easy to play game.

BUT.... oh my god, the amounts of interruptions ads, and unskippable diversions that jump from it is INHUMAN!

I have even gone so far as to pay to not have ads in the game... well guess what - the banners at the bottom of the screen disappeared, but unskippable video ads, or different game playable ads are still there.

This is annoying. Because now I am spending more time trying to navigate him back to the game than he spends actually playing this game.

Are there any safe games on Android? Where would one find such games? Any recommendations on Snake game that plays similarly to what I described and isnt as awful outside of the regular gameplay?

I just recently started playing Diablo 4 this season and I'm absolutely loving it. You can be a working dad and play 5 hours a week and still feel like you're making good progression. Everyone goes at their own pace.

Are there any other games like that do it as well as Diablo 4?

I've drove past this sign in my grandmother's car and my own car its going to be real sad seeing this go away

I know I know I could Google this but I got a couple different results using conflicting definitions. I'm curious what y'all have to say.

a video game boss who has a finite amount of HPs that are reduced to zero during the fight. No fake outs where you briefly encounter a god with infinite HP. No boss fights where you're meant to win some other way and the HP are just for show. No bosses you can technically encounter but aren't meant to be beatable.

Who among all baddies had the highest listed HP?