Maybe some classic, more phantastical CRPGs with turn-based combat are more your juice than Disco Elysium: Baldur's Gate III, Pillars of Eternity II, Fallout. Planescape Torment, Tyranny, Pathfinder, Pillars I and the rest of the Baldur's Gate series rely on real-time combat with pause which might get tedious when only using the mouse.
Not that South of Midnight is a disappointing game - far from it - but that it's such a shame for it to get so close to being something so genuinely special. This is a game of just remarkable craft - we've not even mentioned the stop-motion style of animation! It's lovely - and likewise remarkable attention, thought, and care. If only just a little more of that care had been afforded to the playing of it.
Of course. But I'll defend Obsidian. It certainly wasn't Microsoft's decision to make Pentiment or still actively support Pillars Of Eternity over 10 years after its release. Talent that made Obsidian great still works there.
I guess modern examples are Psychonauts or Prey (2017). Hundreds of games are released every week. There will be some gems, we'll just never know. Among Us was one of those games before it got successfull by pure chance.
Really good games flopped before because they weren't marketed well. Marketing is budgeted for productions of any size, and influencer marketing in general is very effective for something like videogames. Larger amounts were spent on TV ads, or printing campaigns.
I wonder when WotC decides to turn back the wheels of time and removes any diversity from their products under the new government. They really seem like the kind of company that were more serious about woke washing than being honest.
Last game I played from GOG was Disco Elysium which worked perfectly on the Deck. Most of the original team were pushed out of the studio during a hostile takeover, so can't really recommend to buy right now.
How well does KCD II run on the Deck? I'll take 60fps over visual fidelity any day, but sometimes it's simply not possible.
Maybe some classic, more phantastical CRPGs with turn-based combat are more your juice than Disco Elysium: Baldur's Gate III, Pillars of Eternity II, Fallout. Planescape Torment, Tyranny, Pathfinder, Pillars I and the rest of the Baldur's Gate series rely on real-time combat with pause which might get tedious when only using the mouse.