Mandy

steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back

It's an especially weird angle to take since the game is (as resident evil-likes are supposed to) relatively short, so getting "only" two saves per save room is extremely generous actually.
I slipped through the cementary area and didn't even save there simply because i thought the area was longer.

By now i'm very close to the time limit, and there is still something great happening, i'm very curious if i'll be able to fit everything i still need to investigate into the last hours

every day of october, i'm drawing myself with a different fursona

#sonatober day 01: bunny

The first one was good as well as quite funny as a "first horror experience" from a new (?) dev team.
Even though it had its jank, it was more great than stupid.

By now that kinda feels like when people buy 36 different editions of the same book because the cover is different.
Like...sure, you could, but y have the same disk lounging around 6 times?

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

It's got a slow start, but once it gets going it hits like a brick again and again and again.

But yeah, the translation is really the weakest bit about it. I have seen worse though, so i can excuse it. :D

Winion Virus on Steam Winion Virus is a pixel-art visual novel horror game. It features adorable and charming graphics paired with a dark fairy-tale story full of unexpected twists. As a point-and-click adventure, your tas...

While i play many "unique" games so i pull comparisons a lot, the last game that stuck a lot with me way after i played it was Winion Virus.

The way it tackles it's themes and "exploring a fantasy OS" with "emotion tamagotchis" are it's unique factors to me.

store.steampowered.com/app/3334660/...

every time a hard (very good) game comes out some people always jump to objectify difficulty into this truth bearing concept like "accessibility is better because it allows greater access" and come to the same group of basic conclusions that are in 99% of games out there. if we were talking-

Steam Political Sim Fest banner

SMH, can't believe Steam got political

Screenshot from a Tumblr post by ralfmaximus: Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference. Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false: If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false. Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out

Hey Firefox users.

I second that.
I got into their games because the premise is cool, and the gameplay seems very cool, but it just dulls down in the first hours and stays on that level for the rest of the game

negative steam review: Scripted death right in the beginning of the game, no way to avoid, no way to remove the 'achievement' stain from your play history when it happens And the game dev and their crony community call this 'a pivotal part of gameplay mechanics' and not what it actually is, a direct, coded betrayal of player trust. Why should I bother investing any further time in this title when the dev just seems comfortable arbitrarily killing you whenever with no recourse to fit their childish metaexamination of savegame mechanics? Life is too short to be a script kiddie's emotional punching bag. Even worse I have no idea how many more 'omg you died teehee' little moments and 'achievements' they've created to litter my profile with unerasable proof of failure. But since the art is pretty and it's about friends, everyone will just ignore how emotionally abusive insertdisc5 is and how casually they just dismiss all criticism Last and most bitter to me, the game is paced that you don't get the gutpunch till JUUUUST after the refund window. I kind of feel that was deliberate on the dev's part to even more severely punish people like me who don't enjoy being railroaded into character death. Toby Fox did the same motherloving thing with their ;uwu omg toriel scripted crit,; and the community defended his abusive actions then just as I expect insertdisc5's will do here. I am so motherloving tired of indie game devs being emotionally abusive and calling it cheeky fun

this just in: im an abusive gamedev for (checks notes) making you feel things

It's also a feature to just skip these things, and grinding is just something rpg maker style games do. :D

01: A girl labeled 'Artists' is holding a drawing tablet and pen under her arm. She is wearing round glasses and a blue sweatshirt. She has messy dark-brown hair and a brown skin-tone. She says "We don't really wanna MAKE A.I. art." 02: A guy labeled 'Art Enjoyers' holds his hand out while speaking. She is wearing a purple and yellow hawaiian shirt with a floral pattern over a white t-shirt, and has red hair and a light skin-tone. He says "We don't really wanna SEE A.I. art." 03: Behind them both, there is a cute girl in a business suit with a pink tie. She is blushing a bit and has pink eyeshadow, and looks upset. Her messy shoulder-length hair is parted in the middle, and held by two hairclips: one that looks like a red arrow pointing down, and one that looks like a green arrow pointing up. She says "Um ... I-Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?" She is labeled 'Shareholders'. 04: She puffs up her cheeks and pouts, a tear is on the verge of falling from one of her eyes. 'Artist Enjoyers' Guy is now in front of her yelling "AH!! SHAREHOLDERS-CHAN!!" while 'Artists' Girl is in front of her yelling "WE'RE SORRY WE HURT YOU!!!!"

Good panda.

This is veeeeery 3d cave story.

Heads up, gonna reopen pokey and pet commissions this monday ✌️

Newgrounds' approach to verifying age is interesting and transparent.

If that shrimp fried some rice.

modern candy and the version of candy i had in middle-school shouldnt be left alone in a room together

Squeakross mentioned on timeline

Understandable

They need to force it on us, so they can tell shareholders that "look, 15 billion people use this agent every day, it was not a waste to invest, so more money please"

Mei-Rin from Black Butler without her glasses, wielding her two rifles

This is also her. :'3

Hi Bluesky, could really use your help 🙏🙏

We just launched our latest game Starless Abyss - the exact week that Oblivion was shadow-dropped. Which has been *not fantastic* for our launch

If anyone can spare a RT, that would be so, so helpful ❤️❤️

Find it here: store.steampowered.com/app/3167970/...

Using the Gendered bathrooms ☠️