KCD II is one of the few games I bought on Steam, because I just couldn’t wait to play it. I then installed a ton of mods, and now I have it on GOG I just have to start it all again!
The irony is that I am a vegetarian who avoids hunting in games (RDR2 for example) but somehow Dave the Diver had me swimming around with a speargun like a mad girl.
…and it’s the second time they’ve done this silly DLC which is limited (though, to be fair Godzilla wasn’t a paid one)
Keep your eye on it, I’d say on steep-steep discount it’s a fun game, but to me the opening of the game can’t ever be matched. It tries to be too many things instead of being great at just one
I found Dave the Diver to be…well a mixed bag. It was so pretty and fun in the first few hours - I live for summer and I’m 100% a beachgirl but then they just threw everything in - hospitality management, farm-y bits, fetch quests. The one section I found super fun (diving) got to be the one I spent the least amount of time in. And then they make what time you do spend down there a scramble to get the bits you need most.
Still, it’s a lovely game.
Between that and DREDGE (in my top 3 Steam Deck games ever) - because they’re both aquatic - DREDGE gets all my votes.
And OMG CONTROL!!! I adore it. The brutalist architecture is sublime, and so is the atmosphere. It really does feel like a beautiful mix of David Lynch, Stephen King and X-Files. I love Remedy, they’re a dev company who keeps on delivering in my eyes :)
I’m unsure, but the last game on the blacklist for your country for giveaway was F1 Manager 20X (the ‘X’ means I can’t remember its year…2024? 2023?) - really recently. And then 6 days afterwards it was offered for claiming in Australia (edit: AND Brazil, by memory. This was maybe 3 weeks ago?).
So…there’s a snowball chance in Hell that maybe it still will? Maybe?
I didn’t include a link to it in case my post felt like it pushed people to shops, or whatever (tbh its probably a remnant of paranoia from Reddit days - having mods remove posts for a myriad of reasons!)
I think I found KCD II easier to sink into than the first. The first one I played maybe 10 hours of and kinda walked away. I told myself it was too open-ended. Maybe I need a little structure to my games to make me feel less overwhelmed?
That turned out to be obvious nonsense though, since the second is even more open-ended and I just love it. Like I said though, I really found I needed mods to make it less like ‘work’. But I know I am in the minority because it’s not as the developers wanted it to be.
I’m…waiting for more before I can really form an opinion on Perfect Dark. I adore how it kinda feels like a loose spiritual successor to Deus Ex, if that makes sense? I’m hoping it stays true to what the original was. Weirdly I feel like Selaco gave me similar feelings of ‘high-tech-corpo-espionage/action’ that Perfect Dark once did, though it’s a completely different game.
This is honestly so sweet to read, thank you for making me feel like my silly little posts can make a little bit of an impact :)
And, I think everyone here - especially on Lemmy - understand that feeling of things becoming ‘too much’ lately. Heck, I just ran away to Rome to drink coffee, play chess and avoid real life because it all feels a bit much right now. So I understand completely!!!
Keep on claiming those free games! Its my fav deal in gaming now - for the cost of a Prime subscription you get a whole bunch of games, each week! A lot of quality GOG games, alongside Epic and Amazon’s own.
You can’t lose by claiming them, each month suprieses me with how much I get for an add-on to a subscription I already use :)