A few too many superlatives in their pitches for my taste. Not a bad idea overall, though the bias in favor of Rust is strong. Did it really become the go-to (heh) memory safe programming language for performance ?

My playthrough lasted 8.5 hours and was well worth experiencing.

Took me five hours start to finish. Not rushing but not trying very hard to find secrets either.

Perfect game pass game that one.

Ordered-ish by recommendation:

• SUPERHOT (it’s the most innovative shooter I’ve played in years)
• Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
• Sayonara Wild Hearts
• Carrion
• Planet of Lana
• Jusant
• The Artful Escape
• The Gunk

Here goes mine roughly ordered by date of completion:

God of War (PC): Excellent action game all around. You can see where all that AAA budget goes.

Doors: Paradox (PC): Charming indie puzzle game, easy and chill.

Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves collection (PC): Finally an Uncharted game playable with mouse and keyboard.

The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos - Back to the Futon DLC (PC): Expansion-sized DLC, more of the same and brings the story to a close.

The Division 2 & Warlords of New York (PC): Full 3 player co-op campaign and expansion playthrough. Not a huge fan, but enjoyable with friends.

Half-Life: Alyx (PC, Valve Index): My second full playthrough. Still amazing, still the very best PC VR has to offer.

Kena: Bridge of Spirits (PC): Beautiful and bittersweet. Not too hard but some optional challenges are.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Switch): Went in without much hype, and spent 200h over 2 months going at it. A strange case where the expansion is bigger and better than the base game 😉

Risk of Rain 2 (PC): Managed a couple successful runs in co-op then stopped. Roguelikes are not my thing, but co-op games are.

Planet of Lana (Xbox): Short and sweet puzzle platformer. Not high fidelity visuals but quite nice nonetheless.

Ratchet and Clank 2016 (PS4): Played this anticipating to play Rift Apart later on. Very good for a newcomer to the franchise like me.

Remnant 2 (PC): Excellent sci-fi Souls-like with very good replayability. Great both in solo and co-op (did ~2.5 playthroughs).

Guild Wars 2 Secrets of the Obscure (PC): Fourth expansion for this 11-year old MMORPG. Best in the genre as far as I am concerned.

Cyberpunk 2077 (PC): Been waiting for years until I heard the game was finally “finished”. Still encountered some jankiness but a compelling and memorable experience nonetheless.

Marvel’s Spider-man Remastered (PC): Had it on PS4 already for the kids for a couple of years, bought it again on PC on sale to get the best experience.

Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart (PC): Gorgeous and bombastic fun, strongly recommend. Surprisingly it’s a sequel of the main series, not of the 2016 reboot.

Jusant (Xbox/PC): Kind of a vertical walking simulator. Eerie and original, does not overstay its welcome.

Dead Space 2023 (PC): Had bounced off the original pretty quickly back in the day. This remake got me hooked all the way to the end.

Endless Dungeon (PC): Odd mix of action rpg, tower defense and roguelike. Not that great, but its co-op support picks up the slack.

Marvel’s Spider-man: Miles Morales (PC): Not as good as the original in my opinion, but tighter and shorter.

Operation Tango (PC): Co-op only short and unusual first-person puzzler.

Also, I will likely be done with Resident Evil 2 2019 and Cocoon before the year is over.

Debatable, likely because Google pretty much killed it.

Here are a couple I played back in the day:

• Oni (Bungie, 2001)
• Remember Me (Dontnod, 2013)

No more RIF means I can’t use it on the shitter no more.

Here are some that I found very useful over the years.

• Barrier: KVM software
• Calibre: e-book management
• Jellyfin: Plex-like media center
• Mumble: VoIP

Oooh that’s going to be really handy.

The only 10+ years old game I still return to for significant lengths of time is Guild Wars 2. Yeah yeah I know, it’s not a single player game, but as far as I am concerned it might as well be. Also I return when there is new content, so I might be cheating there.

Every now and then I return to Magicka and then stop playing after enough crashes. Renegade Ops is also a favorite of mine (did a complete playthrough on Steam Deck last year). It’s been a while since my last run of Crysis but I really enjoy replaying it (just the first game though, the sequels did not do the same for me), spicing up the experience with a couple of mods.

It’s a shame that they half-assed VR support for Odyssey. Elite really shines in VR.

Landing on planets used to require the Horizons expansion. Since 2020 it’s included in the standard edition. Maybe you tried it a long time ago without the expansion ?

Nowadays getting out of vehicles to walk around requires the Odyssey expansion.

I played it on Game Pass when it was available there and found the campaign to be an worthwhile experience with some nice set-pieces. I agree with OP that treating it as single-player is the best way to enjoy this game.

The endgame grind grew tedious real quick and I stopped playing after a couple of hours of that.

I use VSCode myself nowadays, but I have some colleagues who prefer Qt Creator for C++ development (our builds are based on CMake and GCC/CLang). It is open source and not tied to developing with the Qt framework.