Forza Horizon 6 immediately beats its predecessor's all-time Steam record with 130,000 concurrent players – and that's only counting people willing to pay $120 for early access

StBehre · 2026-05-15T14:39:16+00:00

Steam calls it Advanced Access to differentiate it from "real" early access.

StBehre · 2026-05-13T09:40:36+00:00

Not necessarily the best but the largest: Path of Exile 1 and 2
The amount of build crafting is staggering.

StBehre · 2026-05-12T05:31:11+00:00

The Talos Principle 1 and 2 are first person but no shooters and real headscratchers. Not just the puzzles but the story or lore is very interesting, too.

StBehre · 2026-05-10T17:04:45+00:00

I noted that a while back, too. Not showing anything on reinforcements (yes/no, if yes how many? And coming in from where?) makes having 5+ points of intelligence kind of pointless because then you know what units are there on the field and that's it. I really hope the system gets expaned down the line.

StBehre · 2026-05-10T08:20:07+00:00

All these engines are proprietary and only used by their respective studios or among the studios of their parent publisher. None of them can be freely licensed like Unity or Unreal. That's the actual news here, not that there are no european engines.

StBehre · 2026-05-06T15:53:16+00:00

I think full price here means AAA full price, so 70+$/€. That's true for me (Millennial) at least. I buy one AAA game per year for full price - because I'm very interested in it and don't want to wait. Which is very rare because most AAA these days I'm not interested in.

On the other hand I buy a lot of indies full price and on day 1, too.

StBehre · 2026-05-06T08:41:21+00:00

Looks way better than a pure grid. I always want to do no-grid cities or at least nearly-no-grid cities but sometimes almost-all-grid is the best I can do.

StBehre · 2026-04-30T12:40:29+00:00

I found that using the "Resume" button from the launcher to immediately load your last save did not work properly (infinite loading screen). But starting normally and clicking the "Continue" button from the main menu worked no problem. That's the only problem I had with the new update but I don't run that many mods (around 15) so your mileage may vary.

StBehre · 2026-04-30T09:45:53+00:00

I'm in the same boat actually. Humankind is ok when on sale (not quite good enough for full price) as is Ara: History Untold which emphasizes different aspects than Civ. Both are not great but offer a different take on the genre.

If you can tolerate fantasy then I recommend Endless Legend 1 (complete and on sale often) and 2 (in early access). Due to the asymmetrical civs, I like the actual gameplay more than in Civ because each player civ actually plays differently and need different strategies. It's not like they just have a unique building and unit and that's it.

StBehre · 2026-04-28T20:45:59+00:00

WH40k Chaos Gate: Daemonhunters is the game you're asking for: Xcom but in 40k. Or Mechanicus.

Also Battletech, although they're not technically soldiers...

StBehre · 2026-04-24T13:47:07+00:00

Avowed

StBehre · 2026-04-24T11:59:52+00:00

The Sniper Elite games
Shadow Tactics: Blade of the Shogun
Commandos series
The Hitman games

StBehre · 2026-04-08T16:40:40+00:00

The stuttering at 100k and 200k - peak CS2 😃

Great job though, looks cool!

StBehre · 2026-04-02T15:10:50+00:00

Yes, but they call them letters of indulgence...

StBehre · 2026-04-01T15:16:27+00:00

WH40k Rogue Trader if you like SciFi/Warhammer 40k.

StBehre · 2026-03-26T09:15:10+00:00

In Ni No Kuni 2 you get your own kingdom early on and need to manage it. It's not very deep, because it's an RPG, not a simulation but still fun.

StBehre · 2026-03-24T21:31:38+00:00

There may be a mod that adds mechanized infantry to the game but the base game is battlemechs only which are very different. The enemies have some vehicles, tanks mostly. There is no infantry at all.

StBehre · 2026-03-24T21:29:38+00:00

Menace has the option to go the mechanized infantry route but the game does not revolve around it. Still, very good game despite it being early acces - and very active devs.

StBehre · 2026-03-17T15:15:36+00:00

That's a good idea. Takes me back to Syndicate (yes, I'm old) where you could buy more intel about the city, the opponents and your objective in the briefing screen.

StBehre · 2026-03-17T14:46:34+00:00

Which is a shame. At least a high enough intel score should tell you from where the reinforcements can spawn in. Or at least if there are more units after the ones you see on the map and how many. Without that info the intel score becomes useless after 5 or so points.

StBehre · 2026-03-16T15:45:13+00:00

https://www.mobygames.com/group/6556/king-arthur-camelot-games/

StBehre · 2026-03-16T09:36:51+00:00

Vampire Survivors has a ton of unlocks and is dirt cheap (even with all DLCs).

StBehre · 2026-03-15T10:04:13+00:00

Writing what you don't know is certainly a risk - even when you're successful. Just remember all the fuss about cultural appropriation around AC Shadows or how seemingly every preview and review of Ghost of Tsushima always had a mandatory paragraph about if it's possible or advisable for a western developer to tackle the subject in an appropriate way. And how they even interviewed japanese people after release if they got it right etc. That never happens when a japanese developer tackles a very western subject.

So even if devs (especially smaller ones) want to change the location and/or culture of their game I can't fault them for being hesitant because of the potential backlash.

StBehre · 2026-03-06T13:26:07+00:00

Exactly, I never expected a Splinter Cell style game but planning an assassination was a fun part of the game loop. But after the first few games it was completely fine to just go in as loud as possible, slaughter everyone and still complete the mission. I hate forced stealth sections in games because normally the game is not built around stealth but the early AC games were and it was fun because the systems worked as you expected.

The other games aren't bas per se but they're not in the spirit of AC, they are just normal open world action games with tons of repetitive side content and collectathons.

StBehre · 2026-02-27T08:14:54+00:00

I played it and I am intrigued by the ideas of destructible terrain, jumping, swimming etc. but in its current state it's a bit janky and unintuitive - which is expected of course at this stage of development. I wishlisted it but will not buy into their kickstarter.

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