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A smooth roguelite shooter from the creators of RACE THE SUN, featuring a voiced cast of feline pilots in a dramatic showdown against corporate-powered robots called The Swarm. Features a 3-act campaign with branching paths, epic bosses, and a wide arsenal of pilots, ships, and weapons.

A top-down action roguelite about catching fish, fighting them, selling their bones, and catching more fish. Upgrade your boat and weapons, hunt down sea monster bounties, delve into eldritch mysteries, and try to pay off a cosmic debt millennia in the making.

Where home feels wrong, and you're anything but welcome

Hearing about the 5090 dies with missing ROPs, that sounds between misleading and fraudulent. Having 5090s with 176 ROPs, other 5090s with 168 ROPS, that's on the die of the GPU that gets send to board partners, MSI, Zotac, ASUS, Gigabyte, etc. Whoever made the GPU, that are not to blame, they got the die of the GPU from nVidia, but obviously didn't know that part of the GPU functionality if missing.

Having GPU dies or chips sent to companies that do not match publicly stated specs from nVidia merits a legal investigation.

Blood Running is a stylish extraction shooter where you'll enter the cyber-wasteland, fight off creatures and bandits, loot valuable gear, and venture into the remnants of a world in ruins. Are you willing to bleed to survive, Blood Runner?

BrokenLore: LOW is a psychological horror game set in a mist-covered, beautiful Japanese village, blending hyper-realistic graphics with low-poly elements. The main enemy is a Gashadokuro, a yokai from Japanese folklore.

I did not realize they were trying to compete in the first place.

A community devoted to all things Commodore Amiga.

Embark on an over-the-top, modern-day pirate adventure with an ex-yakuza, now pirate captain & his crew. Engage in exhilarating combat on land and sea in the hunt for lost memories and treasure.

Venomous is a 2D action-adventure game where you play as a skilled hero wielding web-slinging, slashing, and shuriken abilities to explore handcrafted levels, defeat unique enemies, and conquer epic boss battles.

basegame 3€

Antology 9€

I'm about to play Back 4 Blood, the "spiritual successor" to Left 4 Dead.

This game has mixed reviews. And based on comments, it looks like the online co-op and PvP is dead.

Now whenever I see blowback on games like this, I wonder if it's because Back 4 Blood is simply not exactly like Left 4 Dead even though it was made by the same developers. It's what I like to call the Yooka-Laylee Phenomenon.

Or is this more like the Mighty No. 9 Phenomenon where, it's not so much the spiritual successor isn't exactly like the original, but nowhere near as good as the original?

Hard to say without playing.

I do notice that, for whatever reason, Steam reviewers tend to privilege indie releases over AAA titles. So that might be something to do with it too.

I don't know. This is all conjecture from someone who's yet to play it yet. However, last Steam sale, I bought this for C$3.99 -- which was 95% off. So how bad can it really be?

Well, you know what they say -- YOLO!

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TYPE TO KILL in this survival horror adventure. Alone or with friends, explore a sprawling cursed film studio as its horror movies bleed into reality. Choose from a roster of characters then plan your escape from this bloody homage to old school horror. But remember... death is just a typo away.

Cabernet is a 2D narrative RPG set in a 19th century Eastern European inspired world, with a modern twist. Guide Liza, a young vampire in her new unlife among the unsuspecting townsfolk. Will you retain your humanity or descend further into the horror you have become?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/39408158

• [Gamers Nexus] Do Not Buy: NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti GPU Absurdity (Benchmarks & Review)
• [Hardware Unboxed] RTX 5070 Ti Review, If Only It Was Really $750...
• [der8auer EN] Not Bad, but still kind of Pointless – RTX 5070 Ti Review
• [JayzTwoCents] RTX 5070Ti - I don't trust what I am being told one bit!
• [Level1Techs] The 5070 Ti: A Solid GPU, But What's Up With The Pricing??

To provide an answer to the title on why:

• NVIDIA's limited GPU supply and high initial MSRP ridiculously increases costs for everyone.
• PhysX 32-bit support has been depreciated.
• 12V high power cable is severely underspeced which may or may not cause problems into the future.
• Scalpers are everywhere because of the limited supply and insane initial prices.
• Market sellers such as Newegg are bundling NVIDIA's limited GPUs with overpriced and old components/peripherals.
  • Fear Of Missing Out (FOMO) buyers will be saddled with overpriced and useless e-waste.

The general consensus online seems to be that NVIDIA has fumbled their 50 series GPU launch in spectacular fashion. Best of luck to those who can buy the 5070 Ti at the marketed $749 USD MSRP.

So I looked at the top 100 best rated games released on Steam during 2024, and I saw some interesting trends.

First, only two games were AAA titles. They were Black Myth: Wukong and SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS. And even then, I'm being a little bit charitable by calling the latter title an AAA game.

As for everything else? Budget title indies. Most titles were priced under $30. And 22 of them were free -- not "free with in-app purchases", but simply free.

The other trend is that few of these games got press attention even though, in a lot of cases, they had a large playerbase.

Case in point: the highest rated game on Steam is MiSide which has a 97% positive rating based on 87,019 reviews. I checked news archives and MiSide hardly got any mentions from the gaming press. No mentions on GameSpot, IGN, or PC Gamer. How did gaming journalists miss out on the highest rated game of 2024?

But the most surprising trend is that the bulk of the 100 highest rated games on Steam are PC exclusives. As much as people say we are living in a post-platform world this is simply not the case. For instance, only 2 of the top 10 Steam games of 2024 got a multi-platform release -- Balatro and Black Myth: Wukong.

You would think a beloved game like Satisfactory would already arrive on PS5 or Xbox Series X|S, but after six years of development, it is still PC-only. Now to be fair, Satisfactory is supposed to arrive on consoles. But that game has been on Early Access for PC since 2019 -- and there's no firm release date for console versions.

There are three takeaways here: price does not indicate quality, don't believe the hype, and exclusives still matter.

https://steamdb.info/stats/gameratings/2024/?displayOnly=Game&sort=rating_desc