Yesterday's discovery: How important the text behind a steam review is compared to the simple thumbs-up/thumbs-down.

There are of course certain lists where what's meant as a scathing damnation sounds like the highest praise to me (oh no, there are queer people in this and the main character is not a white man!), but even reviews by more well-adjusted people can have completely different value axes than me.

#Techtonica was recommended to me by friends as an automation game with an interesting story that steers clear of Factorio's uncomfortable colonialist undertones and it was on sale right now. I looked it up and found the reviews as Mixed, recent reviews Mostly Negative. So I hesitated, but looked into what the reviews were actually criticizing - turns out most problems only appear in the late game, late meaning 100+ hours into the game, while the early game gets praised.

As someone who isn't planning to actually sink that much time into the game (I'll probably drop out once the production chains grow beyond a certain complexity), it sounds to me like I'll definitely get more than ten bucks worth of entertainment out of this, so I grabbed it and I'm having fun so far.

I wonder what might be a good method of aggregating reviews that's not as binary and actually takes different preferences into account.

#CiferRecommends #videogames #steam

Welp, I did it again. I played a building game in early access and forgot about it, and now my saves are incompatible.

#Techtonica

Techtonica 1.0 è finalmente disponibile! Unisce l'automazione di Satisfactory e Factorio alla terraformazione di Astroneer in un fantastico mondo fantasy. Sconto del 34% su Steam fino al 18 novembre. #Techtonica #Videogiochi #GiochiPC

👉 https://www.absolutegamer.it/il-bellissimo-gioco-di-simulazione-automatizzata-techtonica-intensifica-la-trama-nel-lancio-della-versione-1-0/

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