Definitely looking forward to Book of Travels and Imposter Factory, both insta-buys for me.

Chained Echoes [External Link] and Open Roads [External Link]are both scheduled for 2021, although both are saying Q4. So a delay or two could push them into next year at this point. Still, I want to play both so I'm hopeful.

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I finally finished Salt & Sanctuary recently, so that's a big achievement for me.

Been playing Stardew Valley the past couple of days, now that the new expansion is out. It's really great and I love the new map.

Littlewood is great, and I'll probably go back and play a different route sometime in the new year. The characters are all wonderful and it's a joy to just putter around and make my little town. Can't wait to see what the dev does with it in the future.

I come back to ISLANDERS every so often, and early in the year I played a lot of Dicey Dungeons. For a while I got pretty into Kind Words, and again after the update for that came out. Need to play more of it. I tried a variety of things from the BLM Bundle on Itch, of course, as a lot of people did. Dorf Romantik in particular looks promising, and the dev is planning to expand it into a much deeper game. One to watch out for.

Those are the big highlights I can recall off the top. There's probably a bunch I've forgotten as well.

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Damn shame that the Feather team decided to abandon Linux support, which was present for the demo and they initially promised would be coming.

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Quoting: tuubiIt does look enticing, but the "Multiplayer Online" bit will keep it off my wishlist. I suppose this is for the extroverts among us.

From what I'm seeing here, a lot of the multiplayer aspects seem to allow for not interacting beyond greeting others as you both go about your errands, rather than absolutely needing to team up. I like the idea of that, since it would make the world feel more "lived in" than solely NPCs populating the place.

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This is looking really good, and seems to be the sort of game I was hoping Wander would be, way back. But where that attempt at a non-combat, exploration and RP focused MMO made some bad choices and ultimately failed, this project seems to have some serious thought and effort behind it.

Will definitely be taking a close look at this once it hits EA or release, whichever comes first.

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I really do like how Monster Sanctuary plays. The combat feels good, the exploration too. The story and characters aren't especially deep, but what's there is fun to interact with.

If anything, the only criticism I've had so far is with one particular boss who absolutely punishes you for not using particular strategies that...the game never indicates are necessary to succeed. In fact he comes right after several levels of pretty much stomping enemies with just paying attention to affinities. Like hitting a brick wall, which did give me a negative opinion of that part of the game.

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Wait, is that a "wine road/route" joke? Well done, if so.

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The headline is a bit oddly (heh) worded, suggesting it wasn't available DRM-free before it came to GOG, even though it was already DRM-free on Itch for a while now. And well, depending on your definition of DRM in Steam's case.

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I'm not so much "oh no, Imposter Factory is delayed" as "oh boy, Imposter Factory will be out in the spring!" Kind of a glass half full...of tentacles!

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Looks like the variants are lagging behind? The Ubuntu MATE release hasn't happened yet in any case.

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