Greedfall 2 has a free weekend on Steam

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On 5/13/2026 at 7:58 PM, melkathi said:

Greedfall 2 has a free weekend on Steam

Well, this is an excellent opportunity to test how long Steam can go offline.

I did not expect the developers to actually mean it, but free stuff of the free-stuff-appropriate quality is welcome.

Although we hope that our games will still be enjoyed, we would like players to avoid buying the Spiders games published by Nacon: Steelrising and Greedfall: The Dying World. It would reward the group for its actions. We would rather have players get our games through other means, by buying pre-owned games or through other ways.

I've finished the first 2 areas as of now. The game looks and runs worse than the original, has some odd QoL gaps (the over-the-shoulder camera and the interactive items highlight*), and the companion AI is not helpful, but everything else is fine (the controls are rebindable, the saving is actually good, the story and combat are there). The 30GB of the "highres" bloat can be removed only after downloading, like it was with Steelrising, but at least it is 1 file and can be binned without breaking things. It is disappointing to see what the publisher reduced the studio to.

*the last time I had to continuously hold a key to move the camera was with NWN2. Regarding the highlights, it is hard to see anything without it on due to the excessive amount of visual noise and the upscaling (still present even if the Disabled option is chosen). Like, it's the basics of visual design - the player needs to see things, and they still failed it. But the volumetric fog and ray-tracing are in and the performance (on Steam Deck) is poor (<30FPS).

I removed Greedfall 2 from my Steam wishlist after Spiders was shut down by Nacon.

For what it's worth, Frogwares managed to get the rights to their title back from Nacon, so I hope that Spiders will recover, unlikely may it be.

Eurogamer.net

Frogwares now sole publisher of The Sinking City followin...

Ukrainian studio Frogwares is now the sole publisher of Lovecraft-inspired detective adventure The Sinking City.

Warhorse the next RPG studio to go bananas big (unless they majorly mess the actual development up this time around).

Warhorse Studios auf X: „You might have heard the rumours, it's time to reveal what we are working on. 🗺️ An open world Middle-earth RPG. ⚔️ A new Kingdom Come adventure. We’re excited to tell you more when the time is right. #WarhorseStudios #Annoucement #lotr #KingdomComeDeliverance https://t.co/Pcgf9SqW52“ / X

Somebody at Obsidian HQ must be fuming now (in particular at former owner stage), what with first BG going elsewhere. And now it's Tolkien -- was it really Interplay's LOTR Book 1+2 that was the last "major" single-player RPG taking place there? Time flies by whilst you're having too many elves and dwarves and orcs anyway. :D (Tbh, I would have considered this a waste of unique selling point, what with Warhorse's "Dungeons without dragons" tagline. But as simultaneously they're also working on another KCD..)

Kinda weird to think that Obisidian, who I'd considered the "last hope" personally during much of the 2000s and 2010s, are now a sort of "middle of the road" RPG-Like developer. At least in my eyes... Kinda wish they'd specialize more rather than making these "flatter" one size fits all games that seem to by trying to appeal to everyone. It wouldn't need to be Pentiments exclusively. But as once argued, a KCD (historical RPG) would have never been greenlit by Obsidian management, despite the neglected niche (niches and USPs are more important than ever in a market saturated). Josh Sawyer had been fighting for this HARD for decades -- and only could do Pentiment because it was a small-scale project. Else... not a chance.

PS: This recently had me laughing -- the video and Warhorse's reaction in the comments. :D
I Stalked Kingdom Come 2 NPCs for 9 Days (And Lost My Mind)

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PS: Anybody else gonna try Thick As Thieves today? In a better world full of Thief- and Dishonored-Likes, I'd be probably mixed. In this world and for but a fiver, however....
Dishonored 3 Hopefuls Should Try Thick As Thieves - GameSpot

Edited yesterday at 10:05 AM1 day by Sven_

For me, PoE really tanked Obs RPG's. I was incapable of understanding its complexities, and even after years of reading and approving posts in that forum, it seems overengineered to me.