ultrasquid

Yes, but it isn’t on f-droid or google play.

I’m not sure if its open source, so technically not FOSS, but Connect is by far my favorite UI and UX wise.

Ultrakill. Sometimes guys will talk to you, but its rare (only before bossfights), can mostly be ignored, and can be skipped after listening to it the first time.

Most are scams, but there are reputable ones, like Humble Bundle and Fanatical.

Meta are performing what is called an EEE attack (Embrace, Extend, Extinguish). Basically, it involves a larger corporation creating a thing that hooks into an open standard, artificially inflating it, slowly adding new, proprietary closed-source features that other members of the open standard cannot use, and eventually removing support for the open standard entirely, forcing other users to enter their walled garden because that’s where all the people are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

Omori is a great RPG with forgettable gameplay but an unforgettable story.

Ultrakill is an excellent shooter with fast pacing, unique mechanics, and difficulty that is hard but rarely unfair.

Satisfactory is a factory building simulator which is pretty similar to Factorio, but a bit more chill and in 3D.

Sea of Stars was the only one I tried, and what they had looked really good.

With open-world games, I usually end up overwhelmed or lost on where to go next pretty quickly, and inevitably move on to something else after messing around a little.

However, Metroidvanias, a very similar genre, don’t overwhelm or confuse me nearly as much, even with some of the larger ones like Hollow Knight. I think something like that is the ideal progression for an open world game - a world that starts out limited and somewhat linear, and eventually grows in scale and nonlinearity as you collect movement options and paths to new areas.

I considered it, but am now avoiding it because they’re going to add a Linux-incompatible anticheat.

According to leaks, there’s going to be a new 2D Mario game (It will not have “New” in the title, thankfully) and a “remake of a SNES Classic” (I believe it’ll be a Chrono Trigger HD-2D remake).