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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/42408763

So, some friends of mine tried "Fragpunk" last night and dragged me into trying it. Short version - don't bother, I didn't last 2 hours. It's insanely jam packed with currencies and predatory micro-transactions, the most boring character designs I've ever seen in the genre, AI Slop art, insanely ugly weapon models, and it's published by NetEase. That's like a hundred red flags for what is, at best, a competent 5v5 hero shooter.

But one of the ways they talked me into at least giving it a shot was one friend was convinced (by AI lying to him) that Bad Guitar Studios was Canadian. Upon scrutiny that wasn't even a little true but it DID get me thinking, are we making any cool games up here in the North?

I found some stuff with basic Googling. Compulsion games just released South of Midnight and that looks pretty good, though it's owned by Microsoft. Pheonix Labs made Dauntless, I didn't know they were Canadian. There's a bunch of tiny mobile developers. But I thought maybe other people might have more insight. Does anybody have an awesome game made by Canadians that they can point me towards?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I've dropped hundreds of hours into The Long Dark. There is new content quite often and it's a game I go back to and binge every once in a while. Survival/walking sim/atmospheric etc.