Phunter

Hunt and peck, allegedly.

I agree with most casual reviews that it’s a bit unpolished, somewhat buggy, and needs work in some areas, but on the whole is a decent foundation for a game and most importantly is FUN.

I’d say yes.

Yes

I got extremely bored and frustrated playing NMS. I’m glad other people like it, but for whatever reason it felt like an unrewarding slog for me.

Yeah, it’s a bit like System Shock. If you don’t like monsters jumping in your face then you might want to avoid Prey.

Everyone else though… please play Prey. It was so good and didn’t get the attention it deserves.

Build/test/deploy infrastructure is a genuinely hard problem that needs better tooling, particularly for testability. (Naturally, this is a hard problem, but I think very few developers are working on it.)

Agreed and it’s not treated as one which is a compounding issue. 😬

On the other hand, devs who promote pirating their work are the kind of people I do want to give money to.

There’s pros and cons to having a single standard difficulty. But anyway, you can use mods/editors to make the souls games (or any game for that matter) much easier.