Update: I bought the game but it runs in a postage stamp for some reason and it’s not even showing me the whole screen, just a tiny portion.
Welp
Unironically good
This is relevant to my interests
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Yeah, it’s legitimately a question of who gets to be a gatekeeper, and if it’s fairer/better to have Valve decide what games people get to buy or for them to throw open the only viable PC games store and then, without obligation, try to improve their store to connect games to players.
Both situations ain’t no good and I don’t like browsing the Steam store nowadays but I’m happy that a bunch of people I know aren’t relying on the people at Valve to gatekeeper them.
The other view is that Valve is abdicating responsibility, that they formerly had a system that could reward a certain number of developers with stable success and now it’s even more capricious. That’s not untrue but they made mistakes picking who would succeed like any small group would.
Maybe because nobody’s making livable money there, the community is small enough to keep its shared values.
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I still think you might be more amused/bemused by Choice of the Deathless and its supernatural demon law firm stuff. (Admittedly it doesn’t get too deep into that, it’s mostly set dressing).
I want to say it was a year to a year and a half ago when Steam just opened the floodgates and let everything through.
Today’s new games (plus a few from the weekend)
- Dad’s co-worker
- ASSASSINATION BOX
- Fat Foods
- Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!
- Bikour!
- Quirky Crook
- Luvocious
- Ripped Pants at Work
- An Aspie Life
- Primordian
FWIW An Aspie Life seems to be a good intentioned game with a somewhat unfortunate name.
another gem
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That actually does look kinda fun-ish.
- Nostradamus - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- My Time At Portia
- WOAHDS!
- The Bears And The Bees
- Nogibator: Way Of Legs
- The Eerie Adventures Of Kally
- Mumps
- Edepth Angel: Pinocchio’s Murder
Pour one out for Pinocchio, who apparently died of mumps or something.
- The Great One Hand Challenge
- Redemption Cemetery: Clock of Fate
- LEGRAND LEGACY: Tale of the Fatebounds
- Unstoppable Hamster
- Heart-Pounding Dating Prep
- Normal Fastfood Fantasy
…and (sigh)
- Uganda know de way
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I’m sort of impressed by the speed with which shovelware based on racist memes can be dumped onto Steam now.
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Their pipeline has become much more efficient, for better or worse.
- Kicking Kittens: Putin Saves The World
- Tavern Table Tactics
- Gimbal Gravity
- Clumsy Knights : Threats of Dragon
- Floresia I : Intemporel
- Roun
- A Dump in the Dark
That last one also has the description of the day:
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best possible punchline
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- Hard Era: The Fantasy Defence
- Walhall
- Doodle God: Alchemy Jam
- YangBo Adventure
- Your Royal Gayness
- A Handful of Keflings
- Tesla vs Lovecraft
Scientist vs author is the new vs fighter hotness.
This list is a real emotional rollercoaster.
Just popping in with a tangential topic to say that if the purpose is to find new game you might enjoy, steam250 has a list of Steam “hidden gems”. The criterion is “games that few people know but many like”
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Ha, assuming something I do might have a purpose, how cute 
That is a neat site though, I’ll probably browse it a bit later.
Rather quiet few days for kooky names
- Papich - The Game Ep.1
- Dad’s co-worker
- Soul Grabber
- Stick Adventures: Wizard Madness: Chapter 1
- I See Your Pain
I thought for a second there was a game just called:
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