Oh, and if you dig deep enough into the options menus, you find they're collecting data without any kind of warning.
So that's another point against the rat-themed Oxygen Not Included game.
126/?

"Ahahaha, you followed the tutorial's instructions and built where it started you off? Are you a moron? Lmao"
This one was tiresome. I didn't make it through the tutorial.
Other people might say smart things about onboarding failures. I just want to hold the game face down in its breakfast.
127/?

Pick one of three units to hire. Some of them have traits. What do the traits do? NOT TELLING. Pick blindly.
Blerf.
128/?

It was like one of those chinese knockoffs you find at the 2 dollar shop, but of Stardew Valley.
129/?

I Was A Teenage Exocolonist!
A little bit of a life sim thing that gives the player the ability to customise a lot about their character regarding gender stuff.
The story in the demo pulled no punches, just check the list of content warnings.
Wishlisted it.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1148760/I_Was_a_Teenage_Exocolonist/
130/?

The stated premise: Run and restore a train station, potentially with friends.
The reality: Stand there clicking on a lever repeatedly to produce a ticket for each twerp that walks up to your little checkpoint, then throws some coins off to the side.
131/?

Didn't like the mechanics, story, or... well, anything, about that one.
132/?

Okay I need a break. Shaving my head for fun is starting to sound like a good idea.

Oh goody. A depression meter, which is cleared out by eating pizza, 'cause that's how depression works, right?
And I have to constantly clean the floor because it randomly pisses green for no reason.
There's other stuff too, but ugh.
133/?

"The previous iteration of the game had automation elements, but I just felt like it didn't belong in this game."

Okay I guess that's why I can't build a robot in the part/robot/prosthetic manufacturing game and have it do the /fucking tedious/ mining for me.
Or clean up the green piss. I'd ask more about that, but really don't expect to want the answer.
133/?

Why does a single player game lag like I'm connecting to it via dialup?
134/?

This one upsets me because while the graphics weren't what I'd really like, the premise was a top down farming simulator with automation, and so far the gameplay had been mostly good.
Although I hadn't hit the point of actually automating things yet.

Is This Seat Taken?
It's a logic puzzle where you use the stated wants of each piece to figure out where to put them all.
The art style is nice and clear, the little bouncy animations add life without going overboard, the soundtrack is nice and gentle.
The whole thing is just... nice. And on my wishlist.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3035120/Is_This_Seat_Taken/
135/?

Added bonus: You don't have to click and drag pieces to move them, you click on and then click off. Which is nice.
The whole thing is just genuinely nice, which feels a bit weird to me at this point, lol/.

Tiny Bookshop!
Another nice one. Manage a small mobile bookshop, picking up books to sell from the local classifieds, organising them for sale, and moving around different locations while meeting people.
Style and sound are nice, and there are some good accessibility options.
I'd like a pause button, though.
Wishlisted.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2133760/Tiny_Bookshop/
136/?

It's also in a bundle with Is This Seat Taken?, if you view it from ITST's page.

Oh! I forgot to mention the game uses real books! When a customer asks for a recommendation, you can click on the books you're selling to see names, titles, authors, release years, and blurbs! I've seen stuff like Slaughterhouse Five, The Two Towers, and ...a Korean reverse isekai that I've forgotten the name of, something like The Omniscient Reader's Power
136/?

Aaand back to the unmentionables.
Sound options that almost work, and gameplay that... eh. It works, but doesn't feel worthwhile.
137/?

Apathysplosion!
138/?

Another Chinese Stardew Valley.
This one overcomplicated things and added a bunch of annoying minigames that're thankfully skippable. Except when they're not.
139/?

Am amnesiac warrior. Talk to a villager. Villager cuts off halfway through what they were saying and game asks me to accept or refuse.
er... what?
So I accept. I now need to convince a man to sell his treasured pig companion to be killed.
Hell if I know what's going on here.
140/?

That one existed purely to keep people staring glassily at their screen, drool leaking from the corner of their slackened mouth.
141/?

A management game where every item I get appears in a little animation. One after another. And I have to wait for the screen to pause, the animation to play and then clear, and the screen to resume normal appearance for every single one of them.
They couldn't just do one big screen with all the items in a list or something.
And everything else has that same kind of thought put into it.
142/?

An improvement over old HoMM games in that I understand numbers better than "zounds!", but it hides a lot of info, doesn't bother saving intended routes, doesn't explain what a bunch of the new buttons are, and generally feels bad to play.
143/?

Tower defense with info being obscured either deliberately or through incompetence. >:(
144/?

Does it still count as a tower defense if there's no path to place little towers along, or is it a wave defense?
Either way, this one had 30 seconds between waves, but with nothing to do for that 30 seconds. No building or management or whatever.
Bored now.
145/?

I! Do not want to work! At the checkout!
Why! Would I want! To do it in game! Agh!
146/?

Open the settings menu to lower the volume.
Finish what I'm doing.
...There's no way back.
No back button, no close, no save.
This thing is supposedly finished.
147/?

Open the demo. There's only a "play" button available. I click it. An unskippable cutscene at high volume plays.
I kill the game so I don't go deaf.
Gamedevs, I will try to be as clear as I can: Give me access to settings first.
148/?

Load up the next one, check the settings menu, and find that analytics is enabled by default with no warning.
Do not fucking do this.
149/?

From some of the people that brought me The Wolf Among Us!
And if you watched me stream it, you may recognise some of these errors!
My fuckin' mouse disappeared.
It's Dispatch. Not against it enough to say no, not for it enough to share link.
150/?

Look, it's minesweeper. If you're really into minesweeper, to the point that you'll play a dozen or more games of it in a row, you might be into this.
Once you disable the UI wiggling everywhere and the music loop. Maybe.
I'm not.
151/?

One shotting me while I scrunch my eyes to read your game's shitty text is an offense punishable by brick.
>:(
152/?

Perhaps you hear "Game where you try to run a business out of a busted up junker space station and try to repair/rebuild it" and think "That sounds like a game for Zero!"
It does sound like it! BUT THIS ITERATION IS EXTREMELY NOT. AGH.
153/?

What's this?
sniff sniff sniff
I see. Don't care.
154/?

Start with that old newgrounds game with a name like "Doodle God" or whatever it was, where you merged elements to try and make new elements, and then make it a bit more obtuse, and a lot more annoying.
Let me access settings before starting the game. You don't know that I want to jump straight in with everything on default.
Gods, my fuckin' ears.
155/?

Galduen of the void!
Run a space agency on a planet with three moons, three different strains of people, and... quite a bit of writing issues. And the UI needs work. But the potential for a good game is there!
Followed.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3863130/Galduen_of_the_Void/
156/?

I do not care about leaderboards. Why do people keep putting online leaderboards in single player games?
157/?

Yeah, should've trusted my instincts on this one. The execution is fine, but the idea is just... eh.
158/?

I'm about ready to drop this entire style of game. Just keep repeating over and over for what? Maybe a "you win" screen, but probably not?
159/?