Long story short, Motion Twin gave the game to Evil Empire around 2019 (iirc) to handle its development, so they are the ones who made every update and expansion from the first dlc onwards.

After like 5 years of DC being developed by EE they released the “the end is near” update, but said that it was not the last update and that they were working on more stuff, including wrapping up the story.

Then Motion Twin announced a new game, and shortly after they cancelled any work in DC. The goodbye posts included some shutouts to the new game, so the cancellation of DC was seen as trying to kill any competition to their new game. One ex-dev said that MT were being a bunch of dicks to EE and claimed that the cancellation was indeed to give more attention to the new game.

Yup, just pirate it at this point. I’ll update that in the list.

Yeah, no prob

• Blasphemous 1 and 2
• STALKER
• Disco Elysium (awesome game, but the studio got into shady stuff and the game creators were booted. Just pirate it).
• Commandos
• Tzar
• Imperivm
• Tropico 3
• Noita
• Satisfactory
• My summer car/my winter car (I personally have not played them but they have good reviews)

Not very indie:

• Europa Universalis
• Crusader Kings
• Hearts of Iron
• the Witcher 1, 2, 3 (the 3rd one is the best)
• Cyberpunk 2077

Great game but Motion Twin are dicks.

KCD might be up your alley, it’s pretty fun if you like RPGs.

The Witcher 3 has nice combat, is 3rd person, story driven without a ton of stats and has nice graphics.

New Vegas has serviceable gunplay (it’s old and not super good as a shooter) but is very good when living in its world, doing quests, etc. There are some numbers, though.

Youa said no Ubisoft, but far cry 2 and 3 are good.

Crysis 1 is awesome and I hate that cryrek COD-ified Crysis 2.