"Avowed Hates Men"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtFZvRxIffA
To no one's surprise, the game is nothing but insufferable girl bosses, thinly veiled anti-whiteness, and men who are either evil, corrupt, incompetent, cowardly, or just literally homosexual. It's a repeat of Outer Worlds, which shouldn't come as a shock to anyone because the devs are still the exact same leftist feminist dipshits who treat their game dev jobs as merely another opportunity for rank activism.
Outside of the culture war content, everything else is also terrible. The UI is garbage. The game is full of bugs and jank. The combat looks soft and boring. The game's structure is at least 15 years outdated. The story is beyond cliche. Nothing about this woke turd looks good.
An interesting phenomenon is the "console exclusive" bump we always see from such games. There are people out there praising this game for no other reason than Playstation gamers can't play it (right now). Same shit happened with Starfield, not to mention every Sony exclusive ever. These games always have lower scores and player reviews on PC because PC gamers are not ego-invested the same way that console fanboys have always been.
I wasn't even really thinking of issues with hardware or updates causing the game to not run (like a game hating a perfectly fine graphics card for no apparent reason), my experience with PC gaming was reading the necessary specs for a game before buying. Seeing that I not only meet the minimum but actually the recommended ones. And then finding that it still shits itself.
I will concede that the benchmark downloads that are always available for bigger games nowadays are quite the game changer.
To be fair that's because the specs are stupid and irrelevant since most companies do nothing for optimisation anymore. They just throw out a bunch of average specs and go "yeah, that's good enough" and call it a day, expecting companies like AMD and NVIDIA to fix it on their end with driver updates.
That's developer laziness.
That said, I also haven't had that issue in a LOOOOONG time, but I also barely ever buy games at launch, meaning most of the issues get solved by the time I purchase something.