Snowbreak reminds me of the Cult of Takumi route from Last Defense Academy.

The MC takes some smack that gives him the aura of a Master Love gacha protagonist. Eventually the gacha units stop giving a shit about the MC as a person and only care about how being around him makes them feel good. Then certain unspeakables happen.

Meanest: The Deceit fandom has a high concentration of assholes. The devs have attempted to crack down on the numbers of racists and misogynists with limited success. The fandom is part of the reason half the lobby tends to die in a shootout before the first night arrives.

Weirdest: Snowbreak Containment Zone. The people from China who disagreed with a fictional character cheating on them with another fictional character migrated to this game. Here, the female cast wastes no time in expressing their undying love for the player every chance they get. Regrettably, the Containment Zone could be leaking because the CCP wants to toss the developers in jail for degeneracy.

Nicest: Honestly? The fandoms around small time visual novels. Controversy doesn’t really appear, so they’re quite nice, if rather vacant.

I have spent around 2000 hours in Gmod. A sizable percentage of those hours involved trolling the people who play TTT. Escapades involve kicking off a detective civil war, provoking people into offing half the server, and spamming admin messages and false reports. The gamemode has fallen out of favor these days, so I only really check out interesting Gmod maps and nextbots now.

I suppose you could say KSP counts. You can grab asteroids in that one and move them around.

Another, more relevant one is Star Trek: Legacy. I believe this mission fits your requirements. The game is abandonware, however, so you’ll have to find some means to acquire the game.

Maybe Star Trek: Armada? I remember a few missions where you have to evade some space hazards like asteroids. You can pick it up on GOG.

Maybe Starcom: Nexus? It’s a 2D space game that incorporates drift when you fly around. I don’t remember if asteroids matter all that much, but you can ram other ships to break their components.

Opposite of Starfield I see. I would love the chance to cleanse Paradiso of life.

It sounds like New Vegas in a way. You can kill pretty much everyone you see on the spot, and Yes Man gets you to the ending no matter what you’ve done.

You can grab a fresh copy off Steam for $10 or so.

100 Line goes through a prologue, and then some routes of your choice when the prologue is done.

The Prologue is worth playing. When that’s done, you get to choose what routes to play next.

Thing is, some routes are pretty good (Death Game, Box of Calamity, Cult of Takumi, Slasher) while others are very very shit (Eva’s Route, Box of Blessings, SF, Conspiracy).

The game is also somewhat resistant to modding despite being the perfect game for it. I’ve tried it myself, and getting the game to cooperate with mods, much less multiple mods together, is very frustrating.

So I advise: Play it past the prologue, but when you reach routes that bore you to shit, switch to another route. If you run out of the good routes, stop playing.

Decent gameplay, bad story, that I left because of the story?

• Neptunia Rebirth 3. Plutia got on my nerves one too many times. I couldn’t stand it anymore.
• Rail of Mobius. The MC actually revolted against my attempts to save scum the story decisions. Then the MC gets himself killed because he’s a dumbass, and I made the other character not save him from his stupidity. This apparently was the wrong decision. I stopped playing because I couldn’t stand the characters anymore.
• I quit the Kiseki series in the middle of Cold Steel 4. Each entry (except Trails in the Sky 3) requires you to get points for useful gear by doing the right things in the story. I decided that I was done with using a guide to figure out what to do next, and quit.
• Noel the Mortal Fate. Revenge stories already bore me, and it felt like the story was going nowhere. The gameplay was fine, but not enough to keep me around.
• Forsaker DingDing & Blade. The story feels like AI generated nonsense.
• Siren’s Call Escape Velocity. I spoiled myself on the ending. It makes everything else feel like a complete waste of time, so I stopped early.
• Chick’n Mushroom Soup. Villain Sue.
• Blood Midnight Blossom. Villain Sue.
• キミが消えてしまう前に. I hate the main character. A simp, a pushover, and a moron. I couldn’t stand him anymore.
• Hundred Line Last Defense Academy. I finished all the quality routes, and only crap was left, which included the “canon” endings. Not gonna bother.
• 彷徨之街 The Street of Adrift. Purple prose, and the early story is dogshit.
• Anything by CyberStep. Indecipherable nonsense.
• Shadow of War. I got bored when the elf guy left.

Pokemon Uranium. Poke-Chernobyl went boom and now there’s a new pokemon type called nuclear. Nuclear variants of regular pokemon tend to go berserk and attack everything in sight, though the pokemon native to nuclear can be controlled.

Five Nights at Raiden’s. Genshin Impact fangame where I guess Hoyo made a kids place for Genshin animatronics. But then the animatronics got corrupted somehow and now want you to die a violent death. It covers Genshin versions of FNAF 1-3.

Black Mesa because obviously.

The Jedi Masters mod for KOTOR 2. It’s an alternate continuity that considers SWTOR to be non-canon. While too fangamey to be a true KOTOR 3, it puts the remaining plot threads from KOTOR 2 to rest.

I didn’t get very far in it, but JPDE is an alternate continuity of RWBY, with the point of divergence being somewhere near the end of Season 1. The main character choosing to use a whip for combat is dumb as hell though.

SourceWorld. It’s procedurally generated Half Life 2. Fun.

Escape: Yavin 4. It continues off from the Dark Side ending of Jedi Academy. The fun thing about this one is all the different kinds of lightsabers, and you can pick them off dead people to use them yourself! My favorite is the circle one that has blades coming out through the rim.

The Dark Alliance for Jedi Outcast and Academy. It’s a three parter (The Mainframe, The Dark Alliance, The Dark Alliance II: Vengeance). The point of divergence seems to be between Outcast and Academy. Vader is back in action which kinda shocks the cast.

Galactic Legacy for Jedi Academy. In Fate of the Republic, if you play as Windu, he has better situational awareness than the movies this time. There are a few other interesting alternate timelines packed in it as well depending on who wins certain critical fights in the prequels.

If Steam becomes nonviable, then I will:

• Download my backlog and look into cracking their reliance on Steam, if any.
• Buy stuff on JAST, GOG, itch io, DLSite. Maybe DMM, Patreon, and Epic Games Store if I’m desperate.
• Otherwise, well, you know how I’ll get those games.

A shame. You could’ve seen the people who yell I’M FRIENDLY I’M FRIENDLY before shooting you in the head.

I pirate my music and keep it in my local storage.

I favor saying 行きましょう myself.

Dreamfall Chapters feels like it should be a crossover between Mass Effect and Dragon Age. But it actually plays like a Telltale game.

Mary Skelter should’ve had gameplay like Dragon Age, except you play as the support guy while your party members do most of the fighting, with you calling in when teammates should use their skills. Teammates in Mary Skelter have a habit of going insane, and the only way to calm them down is to have your support guy fix em.

Girls Frontline should’ve been an offline turn based strategy game. The gacha gatekeeps it from too many people.

The AEGIS system in the original really sucked though. It’s the one thing Legends improved.

Bethesda still hasn’t provided the fun of knocking someone on their ass with a point blank shotgun blast. Manhunt did that 20 years ago.

DDLC is pretty tame when compared to the various visuals novels out there. If Google hates DDLC, then I’m pretty sure they would go crazy over any Russian VNs that made it onto the Play Store. Those have a bunch of sensitive material.

I have a grudge against Phyre Engine and Artemis Engine. So not those. I have no issues with other engines.

I enjoy watching oboeshoes play it. He gives Starfield playthroughs some flavor.

Some have already tried that. There are some games where there’s basically zero base game and the devs want the players to fill in the content. Since such games start out with nothing, no one makes mods for them, and so the games die in obscurity. Ever hear of S&box?

That said, the people behind RPGMaker have a lot of this covered. They provide a good stock of assets to let people build stuff out of the box. This lets people create content quick, which eventually brings in the people that know what they’re doing, which results in good stuff.