I recently have been playing Across The Obelisk and I have been having a blast with the game. The game is basically a mix of Slay the Spire roguelike deckbuilder battles and Dungeons and Dragons.
Instead of controlling just one character like in Slay the Spire, you control 4 characters each with different cards to choose from.
The game has four different classes(Tank, Mage, Scout and Healer) with 4 unique characters for each class with a total of 16 unique characters.
You also have progression elements such as perks and town upgrades which persist after every run.
The best part of the game is that it has upto 4 player co-op multiplayer where each person can play a single character.
It is extremely fun playing this with friends. You can also play with just two or three friends and in that case you have each person or one person control two characters.
BTW, Across the Obelisk is currently on sale on Steam in case anyone is interested in it.
What games have you played recently?
My initial thought was "probably 90% of the people who thought this was all profound in 2001 were screaming at their fellow man to wear masks, 'stay home, stay safe', and get vaccinated".
My second thought was that in the game the blame for the centralized information control is placed at the feet of the AI and the uber-elite Patriots who created it, whereas blame for the centralized information control we have today is far more diffuse. And people actually like it! How many people who thought this was profound in 2001 went on to work at twitter's "disinformation" team or write articles about how twitter needs to do more to fight "disinformation"? Elon Musk comes along and makes overtures toward playing the protagonist of the game and dismantle the centralized information control, and all these people howl in rage over it.
My third thought was one of sadness, as I was in college studying Computer Science when this game came out, and when my cohort (who played and enjoyed this game and its message) graduated they went on to build that centralized information control system.