All the interesting Steam facts for the week ending August 23

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/28095114

Vapor World: Over The Mind is a Soulslike Metroidvania with an evocative, painterly art style reminiscent of Lies of P and the narrative platformers of Playdead. According to Korean studio Alive Inc, the game had 100,000 wishlists just before its early access launch on August 19, mostly on the strength of a demo available since January 2025.

But what should have been a triumphant early access launch went pear shaped very quickly. At launch, few talked about the quite distinctive worldbuilding or the parry-heavy combat. Instead, all focus was trained entirely on something absent from the popular demo: very obvious AI use.

  • dreamkeeper@literature.cafeEnglish
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    2 days ago

    There’s a billion games like this, it isn’t even niche anymore. That basically describes hollow knight and a bunch of similar games.

    It’s actually annoying how many new games insist on being edgelord-level difficulty because of DS. Silksong made me hate its guts after that mountain section. I’ll never buy another one of their games again because of it

    Same with ER for that matter, it’s a game I’d enjoy if it didn’t force me to fight bosses like 50 times in a row. And no, I don’t want to get git gud. Too old for that shit now.