General Game Discussion for February 2026

[Colif]

Probably look at this once its out

Sintopia on Steam

Manage Hell. Manipulate the Overworld. Build the resurrection business of your dreams! In Sintopia, you’re tasked with managing the bureaucratic administration of Hell: “re-educate” the sinful, generate profit, play god and expand your hellish empire. All part of a day’s work at Hell Incorporated.

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just don't feel like watching video right now.

 

[Johnway]

Probably look at this once its out

Sintopia on Steam

Manage Hell. Manipulate the Overworld. Build the resurrection business of your dreams! In Sintopia, you’re tasked with managing the bureaucratic administration of Hell: “re-educate” the sinful, generate profit, play god and expand your hellish empire. All part of a day’s work at Hell Incorporated.

store.steampowered.com

just don't feel like watching video right now.

Intriguing. Might get it one day, but i'll wait for the reviews to come in. from what i see in the screenshots, it looks liked its set in medieval times. I prefer if it were a more modern setting. More variety and spice up the action. hell, i wouldn't mind a sort of underworld war where rival hells try to compete in getting more and more of the mortal souls into their hells. So there is this good/bad mechanic. Convert as many mortals to a certain religion and tempt them to commit sin and they fall into YOUR hellish camp.

 

[neogunhero]

if its the first time playing, its probably

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Stuttering… a word that has become synonymous with a painful experience for PC gamers. Today we are diving into what shader compilation is, why it leads to hitching, what Unreal Engine and DX12 have to do with this issue, and how developers can address it.

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I didn't play it, I was going from a video I watched of someone with a high end PC having slow down and stuttering on the release version.

I've known about that, but it seems with this AMD GPU that it takes it a second or third try of launching a game to fully complete. I had this same issue in Darktide, where I was getting terrible microstutters in the hubworld. A single restart of the game fixed that issue and it's ran smoothly ever since. It could also just be placebo, I could have very well experienced it on my old Nvidia card as well.

 

[neogunhero]

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I feel this sense of confidence from the devs that they are absolutely going to deliver. Of course we will only know once its out in players hands, but they have not shied away from showing off their game at all. There is multiple hours worth of raw gameplay footage online over the years, and not many games ever do that. It is probably for the best since this game seems to have thousands of different features but who knows.

Some people may be put off by the overload of gameplay features and mechanics but I personally think it's fantastic. A lot of people like to use food analogies when describing games so I'll throw in this one: This game looks to be a buffet where you can pick and choose your favorite things and avoid the rest. The individual parts of the buffet may not be absolutely gourmet, but the sum of the whole is a very positive experience. That is how I am looking at this game.

There is no way a game this huge and ambitious will have the greatest combat mechanics, greatest loot mechanics, greatest weapon and armor systems, greatest farming and base building features, etc., though I feel the actual experience of playing this game will be very fun. A game this ambitious is absolutely plausible if they keep all mechanics in check and not try to perfect every little thing. As long as everything works and flows together well, it should be a good game overall.

I'm just extremely excited for this game. Haven't felt this level of hype since, well... Starfield... and we all know how that turned out. Just need to be cautious and wait for reviews and player-recorded gameplay.