Who would want to move to another planet just to live in a highrise again? :D

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Strictly spoken, any game that's developed by a studio not fully independent in their decisions is not an indie game. Which is funnily why Baldur's Gate 3 (a clear AAA title) qualifies as indie, because Larian is a fully independent studio, despite its size.

The community seems to have adopted a slightly altered definition of the term, though. An indie game seems to be anything that's a labor of love and has the "Not made by big business" vibe to it.

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Quoting: Mountain ManDoes every 4x game really have to look like Civilization clone?

This game looks way less cartoonish than Civ VI.

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I play a lot of multiplayer games (MMORPGs), yet none of them is using anti-cheat. It would seem the MMO devs are better at designing anti-cheat directly into the application, where it belongs.

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Quoting: anewsonAnd that's not even mentioning that Paradox DLC seems to always be poorly-received; I can only think of a few that score above 'Mixed' on steam.

It's safe to assume that's partly because people vote against the business model, not so much a particular DLC.

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I also had no clue about the game's release. That's not all that surprising in my case. I am notoriously hard to reach with marketing (I ad-block everything, barely watch any TV, don't listen to radio, and don't do social media except Discord and a few reddits that interest me). The only game-related news site I am following is gamingonlinux. Anything else, if it does not make it to the Steam frontpage, I have a good chance never to notice.

Still, the game seems to be kinda decent, so I am really wondering what made it fail so hard. I can see where it won't appeal to Paradox's core audience, but this can't be the only reason, no?

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What a shame. Their Shadowrun games were fantastic.

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Look at the bright side: Usually, when big studios acquire others, the quality of games made by the studio that got taken over plummets. Looking at the stuff Activision/Blizzard churned out...this can't happen here! :D

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I wonder why Steam can't just support hardware tokens, like everyone else. I hate using phones as security tokens because they become a single point of failure (and also because I don't trust big business not to lose/abuse my phone number). :S

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Ahh, the joy of seeing good news, even in this time and age.

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