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 Wednesday at 10:05 AM4 days 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.

On 5/20/2026 at 10:53 AM, Sven_ said:

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

The only thing not exciting to me about Warhorse announcement is that two projects like that seems like a lot (unless they work on one while other is in preproduction etc).

I love love KCDs, and it seems they finished with Henry’s story but might do another historical RPG in that vein - I am all for it.

Lord of the Rings - I have never been a fan of the use of the IP beyond the books, but I am curious of Warhorses take on fantasy. Presumably they won’t change their DNA, similar to Larian not changing it for BG3 - and result might be a new fantasy RPG that I love. Maybe it will be what I wish Avowed would be.

Yeah, Obsidian… I love PoEs, but I haven’t been feeling their later releases. It’s like they try to mainstream their titles so hard, they end up generic. I am yet to play OW2 post starting few hours. I am just not interested in it, and I find that somewhat disturbing. I will get to it eventually, I am sure.

I picked up Thick as Thieves yesterday, but played just a tutorial. I liked what I have seen so far, though $5 does the heavy lifting - a single look at options screams barebone release, you can’t even rebind your keys. Also visually light and shadow doesn’t seem very well distinguished - when the game does and doesn’t light up feels somewhat arbitrary - we will see if it will carry on to game proper.

Edited Friday at 02:30 PM2 days by Wormerine

1 hour ago, Wormerine said:

Lord of the Rings - I have never been a fan of the use of the IP beyond the books, but I am curious of Warhorses take on fantasy. Presumably

they won’t change their DNA, similar to Larian not changing it for BG3 - and result might be a new fantasy RPG that I love. Maybe it will be what I wish Avowed would be.

Clearly you have no taste. This is IP usage is solid gold:

Also all the Led Zeppelin music.

Edited Friday at 03:45 PM2 days by Hurlshort

9 hours ago, Wormerine said:

I picked up Thick as Thieves yesterday, but played just a tutorial. I liked what I have seen so far, though $5 does the heavy lifting - a single look at options screams barebone release, you can’t even rebind your keys. Also visually light and shadow doesn’t seem very well distinguished - when the game does and doesn’t light up feels somewhat arbitrary - we will see if it will carry on to game proper.

Yeah the foundations to build upon are there, hope they do (only finished a couple contracts so far). Also made me want to replay Dishonored 2 (last time was six, seven years ago IIRC).


On a slightly related note, last week also saw the release of Sir Kicksalot.
Sir WHO you ask?

The Adventures Of Sir Kicksalot - Trailer

Puzzling how Dark Messiah's madness has never caught on. But then most devs seem again more obsessed with visual fidelity (everything must look cinema-perfect!) rather than physics and the madness that inevitably ensues. :D

Edited yesterday at 01:19 AM1 day by Sven_

My sum experience with LoTR was getting bored watching the extended edition of the first (Jackson) movie and never touching any Tolkien stuff before or since. But I'll probably be happy to give this a go, especially if like KCD2 it ends up on Game Pass.

I think Obsidian are still a bit gun-shy about bigger projects and are wary about committing more than around half the studio to any single game in order to dilute the risk. Certainly they're never going to go all-in on one singular project that Larian had, but then again Larian are privately owned and BG3 involved Swen sinking a fair bit of his personal assets into the budget. I do think the end result was great, but it was great despite being a D&D product, not because of it. Happy they've parted ways with Hasbro, and I would not have liked to see Obsidian (or any studio I'm fond of) picking up that poisoned chalice.

It's interesting to see the big conglomerates being happier to licence out their hoarded IPs lately though - Might and Magic and Wizardry both ride again. Obviously this is no longer relevant to post-acquisition Obsidian but in another timeline it could have been something.

Edited yesterday at 08:07 AM1 day by Humanoid

8 hours ago, Humanoid said:

I think Obsidian are still a bit gun-shy about bigger projects and are wary about committing more than around half the studio to any single game in order to dilute the risk.

I don't think I mind that. But it seems like they try to make games that will advertise like a AAA, just not deliver when you play them. I mean I hear Outer Worlds2 is solid. I didn't get past the first planet yet. Honestly I just wasn't in a mood for it, so I don't trust my judgement 100%. Also I can run it with more acceptable framerate now.

I'd guess that the larger a studio gets, the fewer risks they can take if they increase the production costs. Not wasting funds on "more graphics" or full VA does not seem to occur to them. The only developers I can name off the top of my head who keep their costs in check are Spiderweb Software and The Game Bakers (kind of - haven't played Cairn).

Thanks gaming gods for the indies. ❤️

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On 5/23/2026 at 4:05 AM, Humanoid said:

I do think the end result was great, but it was great despite being a D&D product, not because of it.

Personally for you, sure. But I have no doubt whatsoever that BG3 being the huge financial success it was has everything to do with it being a DnD game (plus carrying the Baldur's Gate name). DnD is huge these days, and most casual gamers like playing games with familiar systems and mechanics.