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Other Games / Re: Blurb on Games that probably don't deserve their own threads.
« on: May 01, 2024, 07:31:41 am »I think it's getting a bit of a Banished treatment, a decent game that for some reason is way too talked up by a ton of people. From playing it a couple of hours, so far, it pretty much is Banished+
I was thinking the exact same thing. Banished's hype was and remains completely inexplicable to me. A solid game by all means, but I never understood why people seemed to go insane for it. I haven't played this (yet) or seen *too* much of it, but it strikes me the same way. Solid game with a weird hype around.
Personally, I think it could just be because I don't think there was a big mainstream game of that sort before? That being a 'hardcore' settlement manager of the sort, Rimworld had only been out for a year and Dwarf Fortress was still at least afaik niche, City: Skylines was a year out so we were still in between major city building franchises, too.
I forget exactly the gaming landscape in 2014, though, so this is entirely speculative.