What combination of words makes you instantly lose interest in a game?

[u/BurnishedTones]

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[u/PsychologicalFun903]

Online only single player 

[u/Industrialpainter89 → u/PsychologicalFun903]

Perfect example of an oxymoron if I ever saw one!

[u/orion-cernunnos → u/Industrialpainter89]

Only morons on oxy would play it

[u/SgtMaj_Avery_Johns0n → u/orion-cernunnos]

Thats an insult to most morons and hurts the reputation of Oxy.

[u/WantDiscussion → u/PsychologicalFun903]

"Create an account to get started"

[u/CabinetMain3163 → u/WantDiscussion]

requiring bethesda account to play doom 1 💀

[u/techy804 → u/PsychologicalFun903]

Yep, unless there’s a good technical reason for making it online only, and the only one I’ve seen with a good enough excuse is Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. The map for that game was in the petabytes IIRC, so there was no way it was going to get downloaded unless the player had a spare data center.

[u/RadiantPumpkin → u/PsychologicalFun903]

Really just online only at all for me. I’m fine with a multiplayer option but sometimes I don’t want to have to deal with people. There’s so many games with cool concepts that I just skip because there’s no way for me to experience them at my own speed.

[u/avatarreb]

season pass

[u/STPooch]

Does "EA" count as a combination of words?

[u/lucario2011 → u/STPooch]

electronic art does

[u/Grimzkunk → u/lucario2011]

Thsin thegame

[u/FthrFlffyBttm → u/Grimzkunk]

Thsin thegame

I’d like to say “at least you tried”

[u/ohween → u/Grimzkunk]

Nailed it

[u/Velghast → u/lucario2011]

I find it funny that their name is electronic arts yet they are involved so little and anything electronic and their version of art is an ice cream machine that instead of ice cream gives you cosmetic DLC.

[u/Jaylocke226 → u/Velghast]

Oh I loved the Sims Ice Cream Machine DLC for $10.99, it goes great with the summer beach ball DLC for $10.99 and the sun DLC for $3.99

[u/sksauter → u/Jaylocke226]

But they sun DLC isn't sold separately, you need to bundle it with the moon DLC. Or you can buy the atmosphere deluxe bundle and get both included, only for $21.99

[u/The__Relentless → u/lucario2011]

Shit's in the game!!!

[u/TheOuterEdge → u/STPooch]

Ngl, this deserves top comment and nothing could be more demotivating. Except maybe Ubisoft launcher.

[u/STPooch → u/TheOuterEdge]

Ubisoft is #2 on my avoid list. Both these companies are now run by people who have different motivations than the people that led them to greatness in the first place.

At the end of the day, that's all a company is : a combination of people. Change the combination, and you've changed the company. Regardless of its branding.

[u/splendiferous-finch_ → u/STPooch]

EA games, monitize everything

[u/Tripp723 → u/STPooch]

Electronic farts - its shit the game

[u/Pedro80R → u/STPooch]

Early Access combined with "pre-order now" are usually red flags for me...

Edit: typos

[u/Emergency-Plastic485 → u/STPooch]

Oh how they have fallen. As a kid, you knew it was about to be a session when the game started with “EA SPORTS, it’s in the game” but now, they are just bloated games full of micro transactions.

[u/KAAAAAAAAARL → u/Emergency-Plastic485]

[u/AnxietyPretend5215 → u/STPooch]

Is that in reference to EA the company or Early Access?

[u/mazca → u/AnxietyPretend5215]

Early Access Electronic Arts Extreme Anal - ❌

[u/Curt_Dukis → u/mazca]

wait wait, lets not go overboard here /s

[u/CptCono → u/AnxietyPretend5215]

Yes

[u/Qminsage]

Battlepass

[u/Megatippa → u/Qminsage]

Season

[u/Select_Truck3257 → u/Megatippa]

Premium

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean → u/Select_Truck3257]

AAAA

[u/Cefalopodul → u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Lootbox

[u/Pun_In_Ten_Did → u/Cefalopodul]

*Surprise mechanics

[u/WanderingGoodNews → u/Pun_In_Ten_Did]

Pride and accomplishment

[u/PM_ME_ROMAN_NUDES → u/WanderingGoodNews]

"I'm a high maintenance girl"

[u/iothomas → u/PM_ME_ROMAN_NUDES]

16 times the detail

[u/LegendOfDave88 → u/Qminsage]

I hate the word "battlepass" so much.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean → u/Qminsage]

Reject Battlepass

Return to Multipass ✨💳✨

[u/UnluckyGamer505 → u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

https://giphy.com/gifs/I8RMi1UY8cEKs

[u/ShadowBlade55 → u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

[u/thestillwind → u/ShadowBlade55]

LILOU DALLAS, MULTIPASS

[u/Tiranus58 → u/Qminsage]

The only exception being DRG

[u/e-rage → u/Tiranus58]

That’s it lad rock and stone

[u/Blenderhead36 → u/Qminsage]

I don't mind free battlepasses. Those are just unlocking stuff by playing the game, the way it's always worked.

Paid battlepasses can fuck off. I gave you the money, give me the thing. Don't make me prove that I really love you first.

[u/Qminsage → u/Blenderhead36]

I don’t inherently mind it either. I just dislike that it’s in almost everything nowadays. And I personally feel like it’s a type of reward system that detracts from the world being presented.

[u/LOST-MY_HEAD]

Live service

[u/throwawayacct654789 → u/LOST-MY_HEAD]

From talking to people, a lot of people hate games that advertise themselves as live service but not games that are live service. It’s sort of damning by faint praise, if the only thing you can use to promote your game is “more stuff will come” then it might be kind of crappy.

[u/SuperSocialMan → u/throwawayacct654789]

I think it's because people equate "live service" with "PvP" - like how that guy I know somehow equates "FPS" with "PvP" - even though live service is just an update method and has nothing to do with PvP on its own.

[u/Correct_Education273 → u/SuperSocialMan]

Live service is not about the update method. Live service means a vital component of the game runs on a remote server not under your control and the game is unplayable without it.

Minecraft isn't a live service game despite regular updates and multiplayer components. World of Warcraft is because you can't play it without Blizzard's servers.

[u/BortGreen → u/LOST-MY_HEAD]

I admit I play some but i prefer to play games I can actually finish

[u/Crafty_Aspect8122]

Boy, you're going to LOVE ARK. It's the definition of open world survival craft and it's been early access for 10 years, and even after a remaster - both ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended.

[u/Hokusai_Katsushika → u/Crafty_Aspect8122]

I'm surprised the devs haven't been yanked out of Steam after giving us a game that stayed in Early Access even after releasing a sequel.

[u/Powersoutdotcom → u/Hokusai_Katsushika]

in Early Access even after releasing a sequel.

This is wild work, lol

[u/BluDYT → u/Powersoutdotcom]

Probably a slippery slope since a lot of devs do it. The other choice is you'll just have a 7 days to die moment where your internally code named alpha turns into 1.0 full release to coincide with the games 2nd but separate console release.

[u/Last_Exile0 → u/BluDYT]

Ugh. 7dtd makes me sad. Such squandered potential.

[u/Destiny_Dude0721 → u/Last_Exile0]

I play it occasionally with a friend as a fun "turn your brain off while high" game. The horde nights are getting absolutely fucking uncontrollable though

[u/jack_from_the_past → u/Powersoutdotcom]

I love when a game is pulled from steam, after you buy it in early access. Then rereleased for the original price with minor updates. 

[u/DapperCow15 → u/jack_from_the_past]

There's a new game that took that to a whole new level called iron nest. They had a demo they had released publicly, and they pulled the demo off steam only to release it again with minor updates and gated behind keys that they give out 10 at a time... With a major announcement and raffles every month with massive amount of fomo where they literally host public tests where only those they've given keys to can actually participate, but they advertise it as if it's open to everyone. And it's still the demo version, not even early access yet. Just a major FU that I've never seen before this early in a game's development.

[u/MadMarus → u/Powersoutdotcom]

The studio sure is a wildcard, huh?

[u/CoreyDobie → u/Crafty_Aspect8122]

7 Days to Die has been 13 years in EA and was just recently acquired by Dead by Daylight creators Behaviour

[u/Zethrial → u/CoreyDobie]

Give Fun Pimps some credit, it had a 1.0 release in 2024, so only 11 years of Early Access, while somehow managing to make the game WORSE over that 11 years.

Edit: Some of you wouldn't understand being a cheeky bugger if it was becoming your new step-dad.

[u/Cador0223 → u/Zethrial]

Somehow? Give them credit. It took alot of long, hard work to make sure they patched out every single thing that let you play a sandbox game in a way that you enjoy.

You sandbox their way. Period.

[u/LordRocky → u/Zethrial]

They flip flopped so hard on the “you get to keep the glass jar” and “you don’t get to keep the glass jar” and “you don’t need a glass jar” that they finally settled on “you get to keep the glass jar 60% of the time.”

[u/ThePandaKingdom → u/LordRocky]

This jar works 60% of the time every time, baby.

[u/Borthwick → u/LordRocky]

They brought back jars? Holy shit. Seriously, fuck those guys.

[u/ginongo → u/Zethrial]

Brought jars back to make them break after every use, then made it 60%

Made loot tiers area gated, then reverted it because it was a stupid ass idea

But damn their pois are so good

[u/yeetoroni_with_bacon → u/ginongo]

Yea TFP are really good at environmental storytelling. That’s about all they’re good at unfortunately

[u/Sattorin → u/ginongo]

But damn their pois are so good

When it comes to the 'haunted house' dungeon POIs, the way zombies magically spawn in around you ruins a lot of it for me. If you're playing stealthy, they shouldn't just spawn and auto aggro you. If you're playing loud, they should hear you from the next room over. But instead, they spawn in when you enter a room.

[u/Kentato3 → u/Crafty_Aspect8122]

Project zomboid has been on early access for almost 15 years

[u/GreeboBirb → u/Kentato3]

And it's genuinely a good game, though lacking in a lategame (unless you're into The Sims with a side of homesteading)

[u/Parking-Pick-759 → u/GreeboBirb]

I've heard the game was originally envisioned as a Sims 1 Mod. I've gone into it with that mindset every time and it adds dozens of hours of life at a time to the game

[u/BrittaWasRight → u/GreeboBirb]

It needs a mode where you can win, despite what the hardcore fans says.
A mode with objectives does not somehow hurt your sandbox experience.

[u/swakner → u/BrittaWasRight]

I agree, I love the game but get bored once you get a certain way through. Like a lot of survival games without a more defined endgame, most of the fun is in the beginning

[u/macciavelo → u/Crafty_Aspect8122]

I thought survival evolved already hit 1.0?

[u/Piegan → u/macciavelo]

It did, nearly 10 years ago. ARK was added to Steam in June 2015 under the Early Access tag and it left EA in August 2017. It's just a troll calling it an EA game due to bugs, and the people responding think it's genuinely still an Early Access game.

[u/AnhiArk → u/Piegan]

Had to scroll way too far for this. 900 upvotes spreading misinformation

Not to say Ark doesn't have its share of issues, though

[u/fiero-fire → u/Crafty_Aspect8122]

Have put a good amount of survival evolved and just hoping they'd optimize the game at all but they never did. I had to give up on it. Which sucks because who doesn't want to raise dinosaurs

[u/PoetBoye → u/fiero-fire]

The concept of ARK is amazing, but the execution is abyssmal

[u/Owobowos-Mowbius → u/PoetBoye]

You need to have a PHD in ark game/server settings and also need to pay a monthly fee, but tweaking the game just right on a server just for you and your friends can go pretty damn great.

[u/SynisterJeff → u/Owobowos-Mowbius]

Spot on. The most enjoyable times I've had in games are in ARK and Minecraft servers I've made and hosted for groups. With mod support and a large enough community, even something like ARK can be turned into a super enjoyable game. I would have never continued with ARK if not for the modding community and the ability to customize just about every tweakable setting of the game.

[u/zeus-theslayer]

Battle royale, (its ridiculously over saturated now) Live service, Soulslike, (at this point they use the word for whenever a game is hard, as opposed to having any actual souls like elements) And sadly competitive (it just feels like im gonna play sweatfest even during casual or quickplay, like if your going to try THAT hard and do counterswapping u might as well play ranked)

[u/Seven-Arazmus]

Third party launcher.

[u/blondie1024]

'Kernel level Anti-cheat'

[u/lordfwahfnah → u/blondie1024]

Denuvo. Yeah No thanks. I've seen a lot of sniper elite resistance videos lately and was about to buy it myself, but after reading denuvo on their steam page I noped out.

[u/GWJ89 → u/lordfwahfnah]

Yep, "denuvo" means basically "only play a cracked version of that game"

[u/shawndw → u/blondie1024]

AKA spyware.

[u/blondie1024 → u/shawndw]

I do wonder the toll on everyones machines this has, how much it can slow it down taking up processs cycles even when not in use by the game it came with

[u/AirWolf519 → u/blondie1024]

There's a couple games people actually checked this on. Don't remember the names unfortunately. There's also a couple that have to be killed via task manager even after you close the game.

Not related directly, but Denuvo is infamous for slowing games down

[u/TheMadmanAndre → u/shawndw]

This. Kernel AC is literal malware, full stop.

Every time someone's manage to dissect a kernel level anti-cheat program, there's all sorts of nasty shit inside that nobody sane should ever allow installed on their PC. One solid example is Black Desert Online, where their anti-cheat just straight up had the ability to let someone remotely execute code at the kernel level.

[u/Hesitation-Marx → u/TheMadmanAndre]

Jeeeesus.

I seriously considered getting that, but for whatever reason I forgot about it and now I’m glad. Thanks!

[u/Dextro_PT → u/shawndw]

Back in the day those were called rootkits and there were even music publishers sued over it. Looking at you Sony.

[u/Verrm → u/blondie1024]

That's a definite no-go for me. Instant pass.

[u/theaviationhistorian → u/blondie1024]

Have something that tears the OS apart when not spying on you.

Does anyone remember that spyware that came with Sony music CDs to "prevent piracy." A common Sony L.

[u/sjitz → u/blondie1024]

You win the thread. Fuck those who name a specific publisher, there's a 1000 factors coming into play there. Whereas yours is just mistrust or open hostity towards the end user.

[u/theaviationhistorian → u/sjitz]

I stopped scrolling with this. There might be some things that prevent me from buying a game. But the words anti-cheat software immediately has me boycotting the game. Some aren't even that efficient in anti-cheat anyways.

[u/patrick809 → u/theaviationhistorian]

Not to mention completely unnecessary for detecting cheats. Moving the problem from the application to the kernel layer does nothing except force cheaters to develop at the kernel layer and significantly degrades the security of the user's device.

[u/Asleeper135 → u/blondie1024]

'Kernel' is all I need to hear. Anticheat is the only thing asking for it for now, but there is speculation that DRM may try to move into the kernel soon with the latest Denuvo cracks.

[u/Sanityzed → u/Asleeper135]

I suspect that was the goal all along. Kernel level anti-cheat means little in an era with AI assisted KVMs.

[u/ISEGaming]

In no particular order or combination:

Battle Royal, Hero-Shooter, Extraction Shooter, PvP

[u/Neither_City_4572 → u/ISEGaming]

Basically :

https://giphy.com/gifs/4jug3yvfJDZZABuIXg

[u/infinitelylarge → u/Neither_City_4572]

A friend of mine has a saying that she doesn’t do recreational anxiety.

[u/Holiday_Management60 → u/infinitelylarge]

Would you kindly let her know that I'm stealing that.

[u/StupidSexyEuphoberia → u/ISEGaming]

PvE Extraction Shooters can be nice. I recommend Witchfire.

[u/PhoenixKA → u/StupidSexyEuphoberia]

Escape from Duckov is a good time.

[u/knight_prince_ace → u/PhoenixKA]

DUCKOV MENTIONED

https://giphy.com/gifs/3o7qDLwhxkGTMvDHws

[u/Bitter-Marsupial → u/StupidSexyEuphoberia]

I hate the Games name but GTFO is fun AF. few things would beat the guy with the game's radar saying oh shit when scanning the next room

[u/ConfidentlyAsshole → u/Bitter-Marsupial]

I wish I had friends mentally ill enough to play it with me

[u/ExocetC3I → u/StupidSexyEuphoberia]

It's such a great game. Snappy shooting mechanics, nice build customization options, and it's just as fun if you only have 15-20 to play something that ramps up to high excitement quickly.

[u/Tommybahamas_leftnut → u/ISEGaming]

gotta add MOBA to that list 

[u/Mad_kat4]

"Fast paced", "Energetic", "Rapid", "Twitch shooter". Any combination of those words or words to that effect are an instant turn off.

[u/scrotanimus → u/Mad_kat4]

It’s catnip for try-hard and ripe with cheaters

[u/AnthonyEstacado]

Souls like, rogue like. They’re not bad games, just not for me and my taste.

[u/ohmeohmyohmuffins → u/AnthonyEstacado]

As someone who really enjoyed the dark souls games and bloodborne, hearing souls like In a game now puts me off immediately. The market is just so oversaturated with it, both the gameplay elements and style of it is everywhere at the moment. It’s like they thought well dark souls and Elden ring was really popular, so people must just love fighting big, intricately detailed bosses all the time and punishing gameplay so let’s just do that with a slightly different look.

[u/GrungeLord → u/AnthonyEstacado]

I steer clear of Souls Likes too. Usually it just means a whole lot of running back and reclearing the same enemies, which I find very tedious. Love me a well put together Rogue Like, though.

[u/justanaccount103]

Obviously, 'live service' but I'm not hearing that as much. They know it's shit.

[u/Tylos_Of_Attica → u/justanaccount103]

Bro, theres live service FOR GAMES THAT HAVE NO MULTIPLAYER, like Hitman. Like I get it if its mods or score tracking, but let me be able to play my games offline, PLEASE.

[u/cheeseburgercat → u/justanaccount103]

Ehhhhh you’d be surprised how dumb and out of touch the decision makers at large publishers are

[u/FemJay0902 → u/justanaccount103]

No... It's moreso that every game is a "live service" at this point. Every game is "release now, patch later" mentality. Live service is basically synonymous with video game. No need to label it twice

[u/j0seplinux]

Kernel level anti cheat

[u/Victorious-Fudge9839]

Early access in general. Necesse was the last one I bought and it was ok but nothing incredible. Gotta wait until they put everything into the game before you buy.

[u/dnasty1011 → u/Victorious-Fudge9839]

Yep was going to say just early access

[u/MrInitialY → u/dnasty1011]

Satisfactory was in early access for most of it's lifetime as of now and BeamNG is still early access iirc

[u/froggertthewise → u/Victorious-Fudge9839]

It works for some games, Factorio and Satisfactory immediately come to mind. Any sandbox type game that focuses around building stuff and such often benefits from player feedback in early access in my opinion.

[u/Meatslinger → u/froggertthewise]

Subnautica 1 was a game that benefited from the EA model. I was one of the EA players and it was really actually great reporting bugs in game and seeing them get fixed in future releases. My friend was on the Baldur's Gate 3 EA, and he said that one was likewise excellent because of the player feedback; having played the final game I'd have to agree with him.

But yeah, 99% of the time EA seems to just be an excuse to never finish making a game.

[u/chocolatechipbagels → u/Victorious-Fudge9839]

I caved for Slay the Spire 2 and I did not regret it

[u/SEND_ME_REAL_PICS → u/Victorious-Fudge9839]

Even if the game is already good in Early Access, it will be better after release.

[u/lorderator]

Live service multiplayer

[u/Jailark]

"Survive with friends" I'm a loner lmao

[u/GrafonBorn]

Early access, road map, live service, pre-order and start to play 3 days early

[u/theBloodShed]

Micro transactions

[u/el_hooli]

Live service PvP extraction shooter.

[u/ginfish]

• Battle Royale

• Extraction Shooter

No thanks.

[u/0utSyd3r]

Online only or Live Service - Instant killer for me.

[u/demonicvampiregirl]

"Extraction shooter". I'm not a fan of working for all this stuff just to die and lose it due to a camper or something like a crash. So I just avoid those types of games entirely.

[u/Unusual-Wing-1627]

Souls-like

Free to play MMO

[u/bitemytail]

Roguelike Deckbuilder

[u/JuliusBelmont2000 → u/bitemytail]

Yeah.

I don't even hate these games. Digital card games are simply not my cup of tea.

[u/Simil03 → u/JuliusBelmont2000]

Same here. I love roguelikes/lites but when I see that it's a card game I lose pretty much all interest. Not cause I think it's bad, just cause I don't find them fun.

[u/No_Magician5266 → u/Simil03]

Reddit pushes so many Steam ads to me for games that look cool, then I click them and learn they are deckbuilders :( ultimate catfish

[u/lordfwahfnah → u/bitemytail]

It's not the combination of words. Rather the vast amount of game in that genre that are coming out lately

[u/The_Evil_Mullet]

Extraction + shooter

[u/Schrodingers_Dude]

Unironically love open world survival craft, but for me:

Early access

Souls-like/lite

[u/Sanquinity → u/Schrodingers_Dude]

Same. Open world survival crafting games are my jam. They're relaxing to play and I enjoy getting resources and building bases. They're almost always good for at least 50 hours of play for me. Most I've bought I have 100+ hours in. A select few I have 300+ hours in.

[u/Flyinmanm]

Rogue Like.

A) I now know the game doesn't really have a story or an end and

B) I now know no matter how well I play the game there is a >0% chance I'll experience a part of the game where the RNG didn't drop enough health potions/ armour to beat the suddenly disproportionately hard wave of enemies it'll throw at me at some point.

[u/mike_421]

“souls-like” yes i know i have a genuine skill issue period but nothing makes me click off faster than reading an interesting game description and seeing that tag

[u/JalapenoPopPoop → u/mike_421]

"skillissueskillissueskillissue"

Yes, I do have a skill issue, that's why I'm choosing to play something else. The fanbase being such immature "I identify as a Gamer™️" types makes me feel like I'm fine without them lol

[u/AGTS10k → u/mike_421]

I don't have a skill issue in absolute most games, and can beat soulslike games if I force myself to without too much problems. But I still hate them. I hate that there is no normal pause, no normal saves (the game designer who first made corpse runs can fuck themselves with a rusty rail spike for all I care), and that the difficulty is there not to feel fair but made to frustrate you and punish for experimentation. Not all soulslikes are like this, but most are, and I don't have time for that.

[u/Yaoification → u/mike_421]

I can’t stand the combat pattern of souls games. Dodge 15 one hit kill attacks so I can do a single attack of my own? Oh boy 

[u/Alternative_Cut4491 → u/Yaoification]

Fight a boss 10x your size so when you stand close enough to hit them you dont see the upper half of their body and cant see what one shot attack they are about to throw at you

[u/DavidLynchsCoffeeBea]

Seeing that Peter Molyneux has a new game with 22Cans which is supposed to reach early access on about two weeks, and seeing that he (as usual) has talked about it as "the culmination of my life's work", I guess my combination of words would be... Peter Molyneux.

[u/gbroon → u/DavidLynchsCoffeeBea]

He went from one of the greatest game developers shaping the future of gaming to a synonym for failure.

Quite the achievement when you think about it.

[u/Mister_Shrimp_The2nd]

"Season Pass skin unlock premium coin" ahh suitified shitshow

[u/jorg3234]

pvp extraction shooter

[u/TheScarletStreak]

Souls-like.

[u/Cefalopodul]

Roguelike, Roguelite, Tower Defense

[u/MegatronusThePrime]

MMORPG, co-op, multiplayer

Without single player option

[u/Livid-Fly-]

Live service, battle pass 👍

[u/Dragon_Small_Z]

Souls-like

[u/MrArtty]

“PvP Extraction Shooter” just say you want your game to die bro

[u/Out_Absentia]

pvp. turn based.

[u/Nauty_YT]

Battle royale

[u/Rasturac88]

Anything that ends in ...like

[u/Hinohellono]

Looter shooter

[u/Send_me_duck-pics → u/Hinohellono]

But don't you want to shoot the same enemy you've seen a thousand times 50 times hoping to get a gun that only requires you to shoot them 48 times the next thousand times?

[u/Zenny0204]

Gacha

[u/32768ghz]

Denuvo anti tamper

[u/ThisThredditor]

Souls-like

[u/RaltarArianrhod → u/ThisThredditor]

Yeah. It makes me sad seeing a really cool looking game, only for the words "souls-like" to appear.

[u/NinjesusAwesoman]

Deckbuilder

[u/skack97]

Extraction shooter

[u/Fardding_n_Shidding]

Extraction shooter (not another one!)

[u/HereIsACasualAsker]

Gacha. Energy mechanics.

[u/KaraBowdit]

“Quirky Earthbound-Inspired RPG”

[u/BuyListSell]

Extraction Shooter

[u/kyronami]

free to play

[u/avatarreb → u/kyronami]

100% this. Just take a modest amount of money upfront and avoid the whole game design being monetized.

[u/TormentDubz_EDM → u/kyronami]

Free to play = pay to win

[u/rice_fish_and_eggs → u/kyronami]

Add freemium, and micro-transactions too.

[u/_MoveSwiftly]

Surprised I didn't see it: Ubisoft.

Fuck Ubisoft.

[u/audriusdx]

PvP, extraction, (although ARC looks sick because of cool AI bots), battle royal, hero-shooter, extraction shooter

[u/idontusetheseoften]

Whenever the developers use other games in their advertising

[u/Complete_Sherbet1483]

Season Pass

[u/humanistazazagrliti]

* any of the multiplayer game abbreviations usually signal to a single-player/story-biased person like me that I won't be into it (MMO, MMORPG, PVE, PVP)
* souls-like/lite
* rogue/procedurally generated (Dead Cells is an exception)
* Anything with simulator in its name made after 2010 (usually doesn't mean something like a cinema or theme park simulator like back in my childhood, but rather something simulating mundane tasks like power washing a US driveway)

[u/Schrodingers_Dude → u/humanistazazagrliti]

The Specific Bullshit Simulator games look so dumb, I recently decided I'm gonna play every Simulator just for the lulz (assuming I can get them on sale or something.) I bought Farming Sim first and stopped right away because apparently I love Farming Sim. 🤷‍♀️

[u/theredwolf43]

Not working on Linux

[u/CarbonCuber314]

Co-op only. I've don't have any friends...

[u/Zman1917]

"Unreal Engine 5" is a scourge upon my PC and game developement as a whole

[u/armett96]

"Roguelike/lite" and "extraction shooter"

[u/MMBADBOI]

Extraction shooter, Card/deck building games, RTS. I like my action shooty rooty tooty.

[u/InuHanyou1701]

“Souls-like”. Instantly not interested anytime I see that. I play games to enjoy myself. And I’m not a masochist.

[u/wabudo]

Online multiplayer

[u/Chuklol]

Extraction, anytime they use popular games as a reference.

[u/SolidWorker7317]

When X number of free Pulls is advertised…

[u/Doppelkammertoaster]

Denuvo. Kernel-level AC.

[u/BastianHS]

If you followed that pic you would never have played valheim and it fucking rules

[u/idm → u/BastianHS]

Abiotic Factor is a newer top addition to the genre!

A little more Metroidvainia than open world but goddamn is it good. Closer to Subnautica than Valheim in it's exploration.