Ok I guess I realized I have some brief notes for stuff I've played since June that hasn't made it onto here, so let's just do some quick ones starting with the category in my notes for games I played on Steam that I then hid from my library because I don't see myself ever playing them again:
Teleglitch: Sounded interesting forever ago, didn't really like the vibe or the way it played
Ryse: Son of Rome: Incredibly bland and mediocre interactive cutscene with bad dudebro energy
Rise of the Triad (2013): Not interesting enough that I even remember what I did or didn't like
Fallen Enchantress: Same, but also kinda janky
Cultist Simulator: Strong contender for most irritating/frustrating thing I've played this year because the UI sucks and is completely unexplained, and I uninstalled it pretty quick
Arcana Heart 3 LOVE MAX!!!: Came in a bundle, seems like a fighting game that feels worse to play than other options while also being too waifu heavy for me
Wolfenstein: The New Order: Surprisingly boring and unsatisfying for a game where you play as a Jewish person running around killing Nazis, not bad, just bland
Tyranny: Probably has some interesting things in it because it's Obsidian, but I just wasn't feeling it a few hours in (and I have a strong bias against real-time-with-pause to begin with because it's terrible)
Divinity: Dragon Commander: I like the premise and what I saw of the characters and story outside the game, but the game itself feels pretty clunky bad to play
Code Vein: I hit alt-F4 and uninstalled it before finishing the character creator because it made me physically uncomfortable
Injustice 2: The first game was surprisingly fun and had a surprisingly good story, but this one looks uglier, didn't feel great to play to me, and the load times were absolutely atrocious even from an NVMe drive
Borderlands 3: I cannot stress enough how good the gameplay feels and how incredibly awful everything else is. They polished the gameplay really well, made interesting skill trees and added some good mechanics, and just running around doing stuff in the world feels pretty great...but the writing is brain-meltingly awful, I either hate or don't care about every single character I met in the first five hours, and the UI has somehow gotten even worse than the previous games
