There really is no need for this rudeness. I’m sure you can make your point without resorting to this kind of language. Please see rule 3 and let’s try not to turn into reddit (Clarification: I am not a mod or trying to impersonate one. This is just my opinion).

I don’t think it does either. I was referring to BenLeMan’s link Inn Keeper posted above.

Is every game just a Synty low poly asset flip theses days? Somebody needs to start using something different soon, cos everything’s starting to look the same. It’s just so obvious too! One of the clips on that Steam page is literally a bunch of them just rotating in T pose 🤣

“Despite over a decade in development, take caution that Tavern Keeper is still an early access game.” lol

ADHD is falling down a rabbit hole trying to find an answer to this question and realising that there IS actually a definitive answer, which turns out to be that it’s a “half empty glass” if the last thing that happened to it was that liquid was removed, but it’s a “half full glass” if the last thing that happened to it was that liquid was added, BUT you also have to factor in evaporation which is happening constantly, so really every glass that contains an amount of liquid that corresponds to half of it’s containment ability is actually “half empty” except for the few seconds after water was added to it, in which case it is, briefly, half full, then describing your findings in a single, insanely long sentence.

Really fun demo. Do yourself a favour and ignore Hond’s review. I have no idea what they’re talking about or why they’re so filled with hate.

I’ll go negatives first - It definitely needs optimising, but I was getting a pretty smooth 55 fps on my 4060 RTX on medium settings with DLSS set to “Balanced” on my Ultrawide at 2560 x 1080. Also, why is it having to precompile shaders every time I launch it? I found at least one hilarious bug where a mountain bike would suddenly appear glued to the front of the bus sideways when I pulled into a bus stop. And that’s it… pretty much.

The rest of the game is really fun. I’ve been looking for a decent Bus driving game (not so much sim) for AGES. Also, going into this I had no love for Sabre Interactive. They absolutely ruined Dakar Desert Rally. What a horrible mess that game turned out to be! I have to admit though… they’ve redeemed themselves a little with this demo. At least I think so.

So, the good things that come to mind are…

It worked immediately with my T-248 wheel. No messing about with confusing settings like in THE BUS. It just worked and it was really easy to adjust all the settings.

I love how you have fixed side mirrors but you get a temporary mirror that appears only when you indicate and only on the side you indicate. It works really well and doesn’t clutter up the UI when it’s not needed. ETS2, for example does offer UI mirrors but they’re either on or off and not cleverly tied to the indicator like in this game.

The people in the town look good and walk around naturally. At least a LOT more naturally than the pedestrians in BUS SIMULATOR 21. There’s also a decent amount of people and a nice variety of cars as well.

I love the town itself. It feels like a city that’s buzzing with activity and looks really nice. The lighting is great and the sunshine and rain effects feel perfect to me. Compared to the weird plastic town feel of BUS SIMULATOR 21 this is a breath of fresh air. I wanted to love BS21 so much but I just couldn’t play it because the environment was so jarringly fake feeling.

I also really liked the game loop. How you unlock extras routes and buses by getting “likes” from your passengers for each bus stop by following all the good driving rules. It made me want to keep driving the routes till I’d filled up each bus stop’s “Like” meter and got that all important star. I also really like not having to fiddle about with change and tickets for passengers because bus travel is free in this game. I really didn’t enjoy BS21 where you have to get up and go check each passenger for tickets and figure out if anyone’s trying to ride the bus for free. I just wanna drive man!

I’m really excited to see how they improve this game and for an early access demo this seriously impressed me. It feels like there might FINALLY be a good bus game on the horizon 😁

G-Rebels demo is back. I just love how nimble the ship is in this one. Fully upgraded you can get up to insane speeds with it darting around the cyberpunk style city. Personally I think they should make more of that, so that you can fly through more narrow gaps and maybe even underground tunnels. Also I’ve been watching their Discord for a while and they seem to be really going full steam ahead (no pun intended) with this one. Can’t wait for the full game 🙂

Absolutely. Also, I’d love to make it a rule that you can’t start a review with:

“I really wanted to like this game but…”

Aww… Did you pumpkin? Are you SO disappointed that you don’t get to like a thing you wanted to like? That must be so rough for you. Anyone using that opener is immediately suspicious to me.

You’ve just reminded me actually, there was a game I loved playing the demo for called “Truck World: Australia - First Haul” I saw back in June that got hugely review bombed (maybe by ETS2 fans?). “Worse than a mobile game” and “It’s way too red” were two I remember 🤣

I believe how it works is people buy the game, write the negative review and then refund it. Review bombing is not only definitely a thing but Steam have gone to great lengths to combat it, which would be odd if it was imaginary.

Oh ok 🙂 It was Seafarer: The Ship Sim. A day after they launched they got a load of negative reviews that took them down to a “Mostly Negative” rating. That’s improved since then, presumably once more genuine reviews came in.

Really well explained thanks! 🙂

That’s good to know.

Didn’t want to mention the name of the game cos some might claim I’m stealth marketing for it or some bs like that.

Played the demo of Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream a while back so might buy it now it’s 20% off. Not surprised it got “Overwhelmingly Positive”. Bloody excellent game.

Yes, and the tabs are all nuts 🥜 and the brain monkeys 🐒 are after them! Get away from my thoughts naughty monkeys 🤨

It’s interesting because you can kind of tell whoever made that 4 panel thing must not have a clue about memes. There’s literally nothing left of the “Gru’s Plan Meme” format. It’s just 4 panels with a punchline. In fact I think it’s literally just borrowing arms from Gru 🤣

I’m at the “Happy with Windows, thanks” stage.

See, this is why I keep struggling when I’m telling someone about something I heard on here and they ask if it was on reddit

“No… it was on erm… well… it’s this other place. It’s not reddit… thank God it’s not reddit but it’s called erm… well it was Mbin and then that shut down and then it was kbin and now I’m on fedia.io but actually it’s lemmy… but it’s part of the fediverse… I think? it’s… yeah it’s like reddit basically but it’s not… anyway this asteroid is going to zip by the earth later today. Here’s a live youtube page that’s tracking it” 🤣

Leaving reddit was also one of the best things I ever did for my mental health. Joining this place has been such a positive thing ☺️