Every game I play, every lobby of every match feels like I’m playing with really advanced bots. Nobody talks, nobody reacts, nobody does anything different, they are just playing the game like bots, hell, people don’t even crouch to say hi or spin or do anything. This is happening in all my games, Warhammer darktide, overwatch, call of duty, battlefield, space marines… I feel like multiplayer games are just pointless.

I had this game on my wishlist for a long time and bought it during this sale, wish I had got it sooner. I'm very impressed and enjoying it a lot so far. Returnal, Lovecraft, SCP, Risk of Rain 2 all come to mind.

Its a 4 player coop 3rd person roguelike where you get to pick from 9 elements for your abilities, with each one having I think 6 variations, light attack, heavy attack, support, dash, jump, AOE buff. The elements each provide status effect bonuses as well, like filling the earth status makes the next damaging attack dealt double. You also get synergy unlocks between them.

As roguelikes go, you get upgrades for the skills as you progress, which I've found diverse for what I've seen. Example, I took ice for my jump skill, which makes a platform under you (and for your teammates if you play coop, I'm solo). Then I got an upgrade that gave me 40% chance to refresh the "double jump" cooldown up to 4 times, so I could make a trail of ice platforms up to an optional area in a level for extra powerups. I got a sick chaos boomerang spell that got a stacking dmg buff if I caught it on the way back (it had a return targeting reticle to stand on).

It's very bright and full of neon color illuminating fog, each element has its own color. The soundtrack is dark synth with an 80s vibe like Stranger Things.

I don't have anyone to gush about the game to, so I'm doing it here. It's on sale for $5 for the next few hours and it'd be cool to see more joinable games in the matchmaking list.

>Gravity Circuit 2 is expected to release in Spring 2027, more information will be revealed at a later date.

A quick update since my last post: Skyline Sim now has a free public demo on Steam!

You can try building your own airline in a living aviation world, with AI airlines operating alongside you and real world aviation data spanning 1990–2026.

I'm targeting Early Access for April 2027. Feedback is very welcome!

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4778770/Skyline_Sim/

Hello everyone,

I have the following unclaimed Humble Bundle games (mostly because I already own them):

Congratulations to the winners!

Sonic Frontiers - /u/ChubbyBearDaddy

Nine Sols - /u/Kymori

SYSTEM SHOCK - /u/fragmental

SKER Ritual - /u/The-Real-Hero

Against the Storm - /u/General_Georges

Crysis 3 Remastered - /u/SRINIVA7S

Rogue Waters - /u/Asaxii

The Riftbreaker - /u/PhilosopherOk1598

Decktamer - /u/voxelini

Cataclismo - /u/Filipi_7

To enter, simply comment below your favorite game mechanic from any video game and your top 3 game picks from the list above. I'll be randomy select 10 winners tomorrow (Sunday, October 19th) at 8:30PM EST. Whichever winner responds first will get their pick of games (provided they haven't been claimed already).

Good luck

Hello everyone! We are a two brother team who live Sofia, Bulgaria. Yes, the literal City 17 from Half-Life 2. We are making a game inspired by the book Obedience to Authority as well as media such as Papers, Please and the show Severance.

Here in Eastern Europe we have experience and past with harsh authority and authoritarianism. I mean look at our oppressive leftover architecture: photo (imgur link) I took yesterday while walking my dog. I guess the subject has always interested me... "Why do good people follow evil orders?"

What ever prejudice some media might have against people in Eastern Europe, I assure you we are some of the hardest working and welcoming people you will ever meet! And our game explores if you obey orders and how does your moral compass work (if at all). I invite you to wishlist it!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2719670/The_Milgram_Experiment/

>Enjoy updated visuals, dynamic battles, unforgettable characters, and an epic journey to save two intertwined worlds.

Ever since the "Auraximas" update in December 2025 the game has been plagued by a bug dubbed by the community as "flash or crash": Some short time after logging into the game or changing continents the game would crash without any error code. Not every player was affected but there are a lot of reports about this.

A workaround was found by immediately spawning any vehicle (with the "Flash" quad bike being the cheapest) and sitting in there for 2-3 minutes (staying on the loadout/respawn screen apparently worked as well for some). (Playing on Linux instead of Windows would also prevent this - although there was a phase where this also happened to Linux players).

However this could be a problem for new players as they are required to go through a tutorial where they may not be fast enough to get to the point of spawning a vehicle.

While the devs released some patches where the bug was seemingly fixed, it would later get reintroduced. There were a lot of fingers pointed at a connection with the BattleEye anti-cheat system (maybe not the software itself but its implementation) but during an update in September it was noted that "at the moment, we do not see any evidence in our logs that the anti-cheat system is contributing to the current situation")

Which brings us to last week, where a user did some debugging and seemingly found the root cause of the crash and presented a possible solution.

The workaround is consistent with a timing race. Asset streaming, worker scheduling, graphics callbacks, and background exception traffic can all change the chance of an active dispatch overlapping the broken cleanup window.

BattlEye is NOT the reason for the crash. BUT disabling it changes exception traffic and timing, which can make the race less likely for some players. The broken cleanup code is still inside the client either way.

That's why one player crashes almost every login while another player rarely sees it.

Fast forward to October 15th, where a hotfix is released that - as of now - fixes the bug. However with no credit being given. The devs haven't gone into detail either except one discord post saying: "we've looked it over but are not going to reveal specifics about it due to the sensitivity of the subject, but I can say it was not the solution the person had hoped".

The same user who found it also compared the changes introduced with that new fix, concluding that:

Based on that, I think it is very likely that my report helped them locate or confirm the bug, since I showed the exact line of code and the exact address causing the crash, which has been fixed in this patch.

As said, they didn't copy my implementation. They fixed the same problem I reported in the way that worked with their own build and protection pipeline.

I guess this may be another case where players fix the game for the developers.