It works, I launched a rocket on it. Subjectively it feels 20-30% slower to do stuff than with a mouse and keyboard, but once I cooled down and adjusted to it instead of trying to speed through stuff it was good!

Oh, that’s interesting! I’m not very familiar with German, thanks for sharing!

What is rice corn? An image search just shows me corn kernels mixed with rice.

You already said solved, but I have more to add to the other comments. As someone who rarely plays turn based JRPGs, the gameplay is very good as each party member has their own unique system that develops over the game, which keeps things from getting stale most of the time.

The artwork and graphics are gorgeous, it often feels like walking through a painting in the best way possible.

I don’t spoil any plot points below, but do discuss the themes through the ending and how they affected me.

But the thing that cemented this game in my mind is the theme. From the outset this game has a major theme of dealing with grief. In the first few minutes it’s established that everyone is grieving almost all the time, and the game looks at how different characters deal with that grief. I was dealing with my own grief when I started playing it, and while I kept that and the game separated for most of the game as the finale approached the game and my own thoughts/experiences intertwined in a way that I have very rarely experienced with media. This culminated in the only narrative decision the player makes, and is the hardest decision I have ever made in a video game. I sat there pondering it for at least five minutes. I was still processing the experience when I talked to my therapist the next day, and when I shared my feelings she told me she had never thought games could be so impactful.

If grief is something you are very in touch with, I highly recommend playing Clair Obscur.

Its a procedurally generated detective game. You get plopped down into a voxel-looking city and investigations to conduct are generated to solve. I haven’t played it, but I’ve heard as of a year or two ago when it released that it is pretty fun for a while until things start feeling samey. Workshop support sounds like just the thing a game like this should have, so this is great news!

Thanks for reminding me Assassins Creed Syndicate came out 10 years ago.

I agree, but I think there are enough people who conflate working class with blue collar that making the distinction is justified.

I haven’t heard anything about BG3 getting a major update since modding tools were added, and it looks like that was 2024. It’s a very weird game to even be nominated.

Edit: It sounds like Larian added native Linux support and new subclasses in 2025, that sounds like enough to qualify for a labor of love award to me!

I’ve been hung up on Unnamed Space Idle for a while, an incremental game that involves moving your little ship forwards through little sectors watching it blast infinite enemy ships while numbers go up. It’s insidious how it layers system after system for making those numbers go up to make the whole process interesting. At first you just slot stuff in as it unlocks because there’s space, but then there’s more to equip than you have slots for and you have to start focusing one or two things at a time. There have been days where I have just sat watching and every few minutes clicking something to shave just a few minutes off a major upgrade.

Were you around when it released? There was a somewhat small but steady voice online that disliked the weapon degradation, lack of traditional dungeons, the small scale of what dungeons there were, and the clunkiness of the UI.

2-5 times a year I get really into Enlisted. It’s a really grindy free to play game, it feels like 90% of my teammates fail to work toward the objective, and every other round there’s an enemy player that paid for overpowered equipment wiping us out.

But man, it is a thrill to charge through whizzing bullets to get into the midst of the other team before firing round after round from a lee enfield bolt action. And if I am playing with friends there is constant strategic and tactical chatter that makes it so engaging.

So am I to assume there was more to the story that didn’t click with you than the optional narrative sub-branch that you chose not to engage with?