To be honest I don’t remember the exact details about the situation, just the huge amount that was spent on it. If I remember rightly they scrapped the engine at some point and started over or something along those lines but take that with a grain of salt because it’s been so long since I looked into it at all.

Piggybacking on your comments towards new world, Amazon spent 1b developing their own engine for the game before they started the game. MMOs being what they are, not being the best profit generators in the industry, it was doomed to fail with that kind of price tag before even releasing the game.

I can’t speak to the scam stuff, but watching the dumpster fire that was that game was some excellent schadenfreude. Expecting to be able to compete with the MMO heavy weights that have been developing for 20 years and the type of rabid content eating gamers that play them, is just an insanely market deaf thing to do, in my opinion.

As a disclaimer, I didn’t play it, just watched it burn from the outside.

As a mechanical game sts(1+2) is superior to inscryption, however do not expect any kind of narrative driven gameplay, gameplay element changes, or real interaction with the opposite side other than fighting.

I really really enjoyed inscryption, but I only played it through once. I currently have around 20 hours in sts2 and I have no idea how much in 1.

All of that being said, I do think that you can get the feel of a puzzler from slay the spire, at least in its most intense moments. Trying to find the right solution to survive. If you enjoyed the card based elements of inscryption, you will enjoy slay the spire.

Also, just skip to 2 instead of playing one. If you have any friends that like the series, try the coop too! It’s really fun and well done.

Edit: I seen you asked for other recommendations, and I would suggest monster train 2. Again, no real story so it doesn’t matter that you’re picking it up at 2.

Unfortunately inscryption is pretty unique in the genre, which is what made it so great.

Sounds like that other area needs to pull up on those bootstraps and make a water machine for its needs then.

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(Hopefully obvious but /s)

Her name ends with an A and during our earlier years together we were around a bunch of goats. So I kept calling her (name)-uhuhuh.

Her name in my phone is now that with a goat emoji because it’s both hilarious and she’s goated.

AI357 as in I’d rather eat a .357? Impeccable marketing

I made my original RuneScape account during classic. That account alone has over a year and a half logged in, and is getting nearly 25 years old, as is RuneScape. It is one of a handful of accounts that I’ve maxed out since. I go back to it probably every two years and play for a good while then stop.

The long dark is probably the game I have the most time in that isn’t an MMO, with well over 1k hours. There are other games that could probably compete but I don’t have any way of tracking or knowing.

Knowing that a single game has been such a significant portion of my actual living existence is kind of amazing to me. If anything I’m definitely loyal to what I like, I guess. I’m also really excited with where they are aiming to take the game because I feel as though it gets a lot of unfair flak in the genre, especially compared to osrs.

Not saying it isn’t, but if the reason why you’re saying that is because of the z/y key, I know one of the EU layouts swaps it. German I think?