not a real word

engrish lives, monochromated oxford gatekeeper doll ;)

edit: Nevermind...

That you, as you put it yourself, "ragequit after the tutorial" tells more about yourself rather than the quality of the game. Not sure what kind of problem you had with it, but Hob is a good game. According to Steam ratings and Metacritic, Rime and Hob were about equally well received, so it mostly comes down to personal preferences. ( And at that point, the price as well as the behavior of the devs/publisher could be a factor. )
But you're from the US -- you're not in a position to judge what is or isn't a proper English word. :P

This made me chuckle. :D

That's certainly subjective. I found HOB to be an awesome (if flawed) experience that I happily played through to the end, and will probably play again at some point. RiME on the other hand, I found thoroughly boring and quit playing after a couple of hours.

Things like this make me glad I don't follow closely the goings-on of the game development and publishing side of this hobby. I'd find the whole thing a bit of a let-down for a pastime that I really enjoy.

That said, when given the opportunity to be bought out by a larger company and hand over control, well, you're handing over control. Never sell out your passions.

Lead Animator from Runic got 37 email job offers in 1 day! He shared the info on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/Bracksis/status/926944098916773888

Hmmm, their store appears to still be open:

http://merch.runicgames.com/

edit: I have to wonder how many of their employees are now jaded with the industry and will look for something outside the field.

What a sad news...loved both torchlight and torchlight 2. HOB wasn't my cup of tea, but I was still interested due to the story and design.

Hope they will come back soon, or at least, all of them being able to find a job.

Why? If you go to the runic site they've got a deal worked out with GOG to give away free copies for anybody that originally bought through them. I just claimed my copy here. Or over at Humble if you bought more recently.

https://runicgames.com/torchlight2/download/

I just haven't bought it because at the time I had quite a bit of expenses to account for in the real world, and after that the usual massive backlog looming. Now that Runic is no more, don't expect me to pony up more than a fiver for it.

Sadly the massive backlog is a problem we share in common...heck, I just started grim dawn a week ago, despite buying it back in the 2016.

To whom the money would go, should I buy HOB now?

Hmmm, I wish I'd known that before. :P

Oh well, I'll live.

Gigantic isn't exclusive to Windows 10 store. It's also on Steam and Arc, and runs on anything from Windows 7 and up.