For those that don't understand the headline. TIL: "BDS is a Palestinian-led movement promoting nonviolent actions against Israel for violating international law and Palestinian rights." Microsoft is on the BDS boycott list for providing support for Israeli prisons.

Alright that settles it, I'm buying this game

If only more people had morals and supported devs who do this. Buying the game now even if I dont play it.

so many will shit on a studio that chooses to stick to it's values, good on them.

It's interesting that BDS targets are somewhat chosen out of the feasibility of action (eg targetting "Xbox" instead of Microsoft as a whole, whereas AWS has no easy alternative for end-consumers so it's on a less severe list). I suppose it makes it feel like open source software is more important than ever when things like this are popping up, but at the same time it makes the crushing weight of capitalism feel even more inescapable.

I was expecting it to be the smaller install base, but this is a good reason

Just when I thought I couldn't love the game more, they do this!

It's hard to put into words how fantastic this game is. I know of three very different experiences the game offers, each of which is worthwhile on its own.

First, if you play with a kid who hasn't been ruined by the kind of min/maxxing attitude that you develop when you play a lot of video games, you'll get stuff like: "let's go to the top of the mountain because the sun is going down" or "let's stay here to listen to music for 10 minutes" type stuff. It's really hard to facilitate this type of play, and the game does it expertly.

Second, if you play with one other person, you get to get good. After a couple of puzzles you start working together like a well-oiled machine, and it's very satisfying to feel this.

Third, if you play with a large group, you don't become a well oiled machine at all, and every puzzle is a new chaotic mess of miscommunication with 3 people wanting to do x and 3 others y, and this is fun in it's own right. In addition, with this setup, you can lose each other, and get lost and randomly encounter eachother. The game has a host of imperfect remote communication options, and they kind of make for a meta puzzle on their own.

I remember one session where someone joined late (so the rest of the group was already on the other side of the island). Our group knew he was around because he'd shot some fireworks, but we didn't see him for quite a while. At some point we were waiting for the train, and as it approached the bell rang, which it doesn't do unless someone's on it. Our friend was on the train! It felt almost like the riders of rohan arriving at helm's deep or something. Never experienced anything like it in a video game.

Truly, truly a fantastic game.

Considering this is Lemmy.ca and the article is from Eurogamer, perhaps the entire US should be on their boycott list, no? Russia was boycotted pretty eagerly when they started a war.

boycott major franchises including Call of Duty and Candy Crush

O.O candy crush? major franchise??? Excuse me??

But they released on Windows?

They've also released on PS5, and Sony has an official non-position position, so I guess they're not a BDS target: https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/News/Press/202310/23-030E/

Played this all the way through with a friend. Wish I could experience 4+ coop, but my larger coop group doesn't like that type of game

anyway I recommend it!