The artstyle is great, the animation… ouch

[email protected] is hosted on jlai.lu, this particular post is a cross post from that instance, this might be the source of confusion yes haha

This is an event posted on a francophone instance, you should expect to see some french being spoken by coming here. If anyone shows up with a question in a language - other than English - that I can speak, I will automatically assume it’s easier for them that way and respond in their language if possible ; that has also been my approach in advertising this event.

Do you know which one ?

Oula non, normalement le bouton start te fait accéder à la suite du formulaire, tu es sûr que tu ne cliques pas sur la banderole “created with tally” ?

Yeah, do it, Seth.

Prey, I forgot Prey, but I haven’t finished it yet, also Dishonored

I think the common denominator is a strong / immersive story and universe that appeals to me (big fan of sf), interesting mechanics and gameplay in a way that makes the game unique in its own way, and the artistic approach behind the game, so for each of those :

• Outer Wilds was a fantastic experience that you can only live once, the freedom of exploration is crazy, the feelings you can go through in the span of a single minute make it so memorable, I connected with this game like no other
• Death Stranding I played during one of the lockdowns, and after hiking in Iceland, it was a continuity of these two experiences that felt very personal. It was also my introduction to Kojima games. I found it to be such a premium experience and statement about video games, I loved the insanity of the plot, and once you dug deeper, you find all the artistic inspiration and process that went behind the game, it’s an insane work of interactive art
• Disco Elysium I was already fully on board just learning about the game, I sympathise with the authors, the fact that it started as an rpg campaign, with immense lore behind it, love the art style, the narration, the story and its themes, I haven’t lived in post USSR Europe but the game make me nostalgic/melancholic for a time, aesthetic, struggles I didn’t know

They’re my absolute favourite but some games come close, Inscryption, Pyre, Spiritfarer…

Any of those three

• Disco Elysium
• Death Stranding
• Outer Wilds

Same, 505 games (who handles pc porting) was still retweeting DS related posts, so I’m hoping they’ll get a deal soon

Alternate links :

• https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=HdzIwQhYABQ
• https://watch.leptons.xyz/watch?v=HdzIwQhYABQ
• https://poketube.fun/watch?v=HdzIwQhYABQ

Releases Q4 2025

The master of stealth is back! Explore the dizzying heights of the Iserian Continent and cunningly eliminate your enemies. Thanks to your Quartz powers, you are freer than ever. Be creative: Never has it felt so good to be greedy.

Media incorrectly reported that they were rebranding, when it was only a small part of the studio changing name

Nice, thanks for all the effort, keep them coming !

It runs for a full week!

What do they hope to achieve with this?

Have you read the article ? Here’s two articles from the STJV website with their demands, translate at your convenience:

• https://www.stjv.fr/2025/02/gg25-greve-generale-du-jeu-video-quelles-revendications/

• https://www.stjv.fr/2025/01/gg25-greve-generale-du-jeu-video-pourquoi-pour-qui-comment/

It goes further than your oversimplification ; i don’t know where you live but in France workers have rights that they fought for thanks to unions and collective actions like these, and quality of output is not the sole metric to “deserve” just pay.

All good!

Steamdb mentioned it’s not a recent ban :

Valve has created a dedicated page describing that in-game ads or ad-based revenue models are not allowed in Steam games.

This has been reported as a new policy, but this has been the case for at least 5 years as seen on the pricing page, there just wasn’t a separate page.

https://bsky.app/profile/steamdb.info/post/3lhsxkmaj7c2c

Overwatch moment

I think their “library” link is just a list of the content, and you have to go to https://archive.gamehistory.org/ to actually access the content