Agreed. Matchmaking + Dedicated server would be the gold standard.

Yeah, I feel like all of those games would be better with community ran dedicated servers instead of this modern matchmaking crap. Matchmaking really killed communities and smaller clans.

Import it as a custom filter list. The option should be on the bottom.

I read somewhere most of the cost is payment providers, scams, chargebacks and refunds they can’t offload onto the publishers.

uBlock Origin (not on Chrome) + https://raw.githubusercontent.com/liamengland1/miscfilters/master/antipaywall.txt

There have always been pretty tech demos without much gameplay. There was Incoming it was basically a super simple turret section showing off the awesome (at the time) capabilities of the first Voodoo card. It was impressive and fun for about 15 minutes. Still doesn’t look too bad considering it came out in 1998.

Glad you like it. It has no right to be this good and campy but somehow I also can’t put it down.

If you want something even more crazy another guy made X-Pirates on the XCOM engine. It’s a catgirl post-apocalyptic pirate mod (NSFW, yeah, not kidding).

X-Com (1993)+Mods, Jagged Alliance 2, Master of Orion 2, Starsector, Avorion and lately Balatro and Peglin for mindless fun.

Sounds like you guys might like The X-Com Files. A mod for the original.

I never tried it before because I thought the RPG part would be dumb. But it’s surprisingly fun and has the great Meretzky humor.

it’s even on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1104470/Super_Hero_League_of_Hoboken/
EDIT: GOG version is probably superior: https://www.gog.com/en/game/superhero_league_of_hoboken

The counter-clockwise one would have been the more fitting nazi symbol for Night and the Goddess of Death. Had to think about “Are we the baddies”

It is pretty incredible. But it takes more power to reach those high clocks.

Avg FPS from all tests:

Source (German): https://www.computerbase.de/artikel/prozessoren/amd-ryzen-7-9800x3d-test.90151/

Those are also among my favorites. Also the Title Theme to Anno 1404: When Cultures Meet and the Beyond Good and Evil Soundtrack.
Also a great theme is used all over Tilo Alpermann’s - The Night Of The Rabbit OST

Aquaria: Original Soundtrack by Alec Holowka

Such an underrated game. RIP Alec.

If it’s an EXE and you just want extract it you can use https://github.com/dscharrer/innoextract
It supports the special GOG Inno files. And it’s a lot faster than the official installer with less temp files.

I don’t think it’s a LSD like trip. But you definitely go “WOOAHHH” a few times. It’s well made and rather short.

Also (now also on PC): Monument Valley 1 & 2: https://www.monumentvalleygame.com/

I vote for Concord. I didn’t buy it, I didn’t play it. But seeing Sony fail so spectacularly was massively entertaining. GOTY material indeed.

Other than being a nostalgia-reference filled and well put together time waster it’s not that special. It’s very inoffensive and it runs well. Maybe that is enough for most people to indulge and enjoy.

I don’t think it GOTY material but I don’t hate it. It’s certainly fun and has tons of cute details.

I am currently somewhat addicted to The X-Com Files. It’s a mod for OpenXCom which in turn is a port of the original 1993 X-Com. It’s fucking brilliant (and free).

Before that I played a campaign of Starsector. I also liked Gris and Dredge earlier.