I made a roguelike for a game jam a few months ago, it taught me a lot!

I’d been making mostly text-based/UI-based stuff before, so it was my first “real-time” and “3D” game.

Also, I concur: Godot is awesome to work with :)

I think Fortnite is pretty fun with friends … if you don’t care about the battle pass or skins.

Overwatch was BIG in my circle of friends when it came out, and many of my friends’ first team-based shooter.

I had been playing TF2 and was deep into the characters and lore, and got a few of them to try it, but it sadly never really stuck. Overwatch just became the default shooter everyone was playing, and that didn’t really change. I still play it with them, and I actually enjoyed the Stadium mode, since it brought something fresh to the game. Some recent updates (Jetpack Cat) are clawing away at that enjoyment, though…

I got a few people to try out Deadlock, which has big problems, but I feel is a lot better than OW. I’m not really into MOBAs, so I honestly hope i can convince some people to give TF2 a shot again.

I haven’t played many games from your list, but I can attest to

The Messenger, Ori & the Blind Forest, Celeste, Hades 1&2

being very awesome games; (I’m also happy you mentioned The Messenger specifically, great game and awesome soundtrack!)

I can picture Adam Something saying this mid-rant :)

Oh I’m sure the government loved taking them, since >Half of all Politicians are corrupt fraudsters.

I run OpenSuse Tumbleweed on my Daily Driver Desktop, Bazzite on my Laptop, Debian on my Game Server