/v/ - Video Games

>>14184499

That was the worst purchase of my life. The game is excellent but I have no friends to make it playable.

KSP, Factorio

that's about it.

FTL

Chivalry: Medieval Warfare

Banner Saga

>>14184820

Depends if you have friends to play it with.

>>14184811

Want to give me your Steam anon?

>>14184820

>>14184843

Oh wait, thought you were asking about Tabletop

Subnautica, dead cells (although the brutal update ruined it before foundry came around)

>>14185602

>build ship

>fly it for the first time

>physics glitches out so that the ship is colliding with itself

>explode

"we fixed the netcode" -space engineers 2017

darkwood

>>14184499

Subnautica

Darkest Dungeon

Distance is stuck in perpetual early access, but the meat and potatoes of the game is its community levels anyway (and there are well over 1000 of them on the workshop). The actual core gameplay is solid too which helps.

>>14185684

It really is a perfect simulation.

>>14185773

Most of the community maps are garbage though.

This is actually what killed trackmania, although trackmania had good community maps before this decade hit.

I'd also add Prison Architect and The Forest to all the other games mentioned in this thread. Both had consistent updates with deadlines that weren't missed and have delivered good experiences well before they were completed games.

As bad as Early Access has been for the consumer, I'd put the blame on Steam more than the developers themselves. Almost nobody understands how snail-paced most development can be, let alone the differences in the critical path that different types of game follow. The best example is the autistic rage at the slow development of Wreckfest, which this December finally rolled out something that is properly playable after years in development. Steam should have separated Early Access from the entire store and fenced it around autist-friendly/child-friendly warnings that they aren't buying a game.

With Subnautica, The Forest, Prison Architect, and Shenzhen I/O, the development has actually been thoroughly enjoyable and insightful to follow along with.

>>14185614

I'm still not sure what happened with that, but given some of the issues they had, like the machine shotguns causing incredible slow down, I imagine it will be awhile before the PS4 version is up to snuff. The fact that their "small" fixes always require an update on the order of 3 gigs also makes me think they did something real dumb. They must have put everything into the executable file, or something like that, so they had to send out the entire thing each time.

Starbound's devs did something similar.

>>14184499

Does it have scrabble at the very least?

>>14185602

That game's performance has gotten steadily worse as time has progressed.

>>14184499

While it didn't turn out to be complete shit, they DID however decide to fuck over anyone who isn't a faggy Steam user after promising a DRM-free version. At least it evolved into something decent. Early versions definitely lived up to the "_ Simulator" name.

>>14186045

Yes. It also has good games.

>>14186234

Well that's a shame. I thought it was looking promising.

>>14184499

Xenonauts? I think it's more of a Kickstarter project than an Early Access one but whatever.

>>14185602

>Game has had to have its entire netcode redone 4+ times

>Still doesn't work

No.

>>14188371

Game technically released, it's Tannenburg that is in EA now. Either way Verdun got a pretty big update yesterday which is mixed. I think the update isn't bad outside of the horrid supression system.

>>14185602

This game is still a buggy piece of shit after years of development. Kill yourself.