With Deus Ex you definitely can play very different characters with a broad spectrum of personalities and narrative decisions. Although I do agree that an argument can be made it’s not an RPG.

Eve is a sandbox MMO and The Sims is lifeim, don’t really see how they are RPGs.

Very few RPGs execute the role playing component so well as VTMB IMO.

Eve Online and The Sims are excellent additions. But they are not RPGs.

I would personally include VTMB or Deus Ex, but from a broader perspective probably one of the Ultimas (6 or 7 are considered the best I believe) would be more appropriate.

Don’t play jRPGs, but from my understanding FF7 is considered the “best in genre” release.

Pretty solid collection IMO. I am surprised they haven’t included any RPGs (say one CRPG like Ultima 6 and one jRPG like say Final Fantasy 7).

Been there )

Hey, your posts are getting duplicated. Seen this happen a few times.

I would rather have more competition in the market.

But is Palworld really a knockoff? Some of the designs are similar, but I didn’t get the impression that whole game is a knockoff.

If we used Nintendo’s logic, we would never have any other CRPGs beyond Ultima. I am don’t support such measures.

Some are the designs are pretty close I will admit, even though I don’t think Nintendo should be able to randomly shut down gamea that are vaguely similar to Pokémon.

Is the art of Palworld similar to Pokémon?

Never heard of it. Will need to check it out.

The Deus Ex series often have pacificist playthroughs (3rd one definitely does, you can play a pacificist playthrough of the OG game with a few exceptions).

The Age of Decadence has a mostly skill check and conversation playthrough. I forget if it’s fully pacifict though.

Haven’t tried the demo yet. I will probably try it out before deciding whether to get the release version.

But it feels like my kind of game (I love restaurant management sims and I like sci-fi). I just hope the management and business sim elements aren’t too simplistic

I would really like to try out this VR headset, almost as a technology history type project.

This reads like a joke. :)

Looking through Steam tracker it does seem to be incest and fetish porn games removed:

https://steam-tracker.com/ (you can sort the table by date).

Or am I missing something? I am genuinely curious.

I am no supporter of Collective Shout, but there are many examples of US tech companies ignoring local laws due to a toxic mix of corruption and arrogance. Steam initially not giving refunds is one relevant example.

I don’t understand OP’s post. If you want sexy/porn games on Steam (I even have 1 or 2) best option is to comply with local laws and get rid of incest, rape and extreme fetish content.

The devs can setup a patreon (without explicit references to incest) and email new builds to subscribers. It’s not unreasonable to expect a few hoops considering the nature of the content. I would even go as far as saying that it’s in their benefit to keep a low profile (i.e. not be listed on Steam).

Is it though?

Valve openly refused to honour legally required refunds because of the culture of corruption and criminality that is unfortunately extremely prevalent in the US.

I believe it was complaints from Australia that forced them to provide refunds on a global level.

How is this different?

The Amiga supported two mice connected at the same time, allowing for multiplayer in games such as The Settlers and Lemmings.

Never knew about this.

Are you sure that something like incest wasn’t illegal to start with in many places where Steam operates?

I would speculate that many places ban incest containing media and Steam simply didn’t bother following these rules.

That’s a whole different discussion compared to the messaging in OP’s text.

Touche!

Itch had to limit dynamic filtering (like searching for Arcade + Fantasy) to just a few preset tags because of the server load.

That sounds rough. I follow a few devs/projects on Itch, but I don’t really use their discovery features.