A gaming community free from the hype and oversaturation of current releases, catering to gamers who wait at least 12 months after release to play a game. Whether it's price, waiting for bugs/issues to be patched, DLC to be released, don't meet the system requirements, or just haven't had the time to keep up with the latest releases.
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0% new: from 2024 (average 15%)
0% recent: from the last 1โ7 years (average 47%)
100% classic: older than 8 years (average 37%)
I am helped by being limited to an 8 years old notebook laptop currently.
The 5 games I have played this year, all for the first time: Stardew Valley, The Darkeness II, Star Wars Battlefront II 2005, Outlast, Oblivion.
in my defence of new games, couple of the Early Access ones i've seen grow beautifully with meaningful quarterly updates and clear dev maps. i'm especially happy with Enshrouded and i feel like with a full release the current price will double as it's already a massive world and the map is half filled
(similarly how i got satisfactory in early access in a cheap af bundle and now the game is like double the price of the bundle it was in)