Oh yeah I did that a while ago so I forgot, but yeah I think that’s the case for everyone. Ultimately I think Steam explicitly tells you what info they get and it isn’t that much, but that’s the “price” for a free game.

No worries if it’s not for you though, if your Lemmy client lets you block posts you can set up a filter for Fanatical and you shouldn’t see any more giveaways like this.

What are your combos of choice? I remember having a few good ones committed to memory at the time.

Yeah it wouldn’t install on my phone but would on my old tablet, I wonder if it’s 32-bit only.

Fun fact with these Fanatical giveaways, you don’t actually even need to sign up (and immediately cancel) their newsletter, you get the Steam key and then they send you an email saying ‘please click here to complete your sign-up’ or something, which you can safely ignore!

As nobody has posted it yet, this vibe is often referred to as !liminalspace@lemmy.world

Let me know if there are any good ones! I aim to have an afternoon of trying out a bunch of these sort of games on the Steam Deck every now and again but it’s usually too far after the post to be worth adding any comments.

I enjoyed it solo, though it did become impossibly hard at one point. I don’t know if you need to have friends to help or if I just needed to be better at the game!

FYI for anyone who sorts by new comments, this one is on sale again but can be “claimed” this time

They’re all showing as normally-paid apps that are currently discounted to free for me

They like keeping busy! Seriously though you’re presumably already a pretty active person if you can one day just decide to go for a hike to the other side of the world.

This was going to be my recommendation. Probably not what OP wants, but definitely what they asked for!

The BBC have preempted your joke

It might be tempting to reach for a conspiracy theory or two, not least because it’s hard to hear the name “Skynet” without thinking of the malevolent, self-aware artificial intelligence (AI) system in The Terminator movie franchise.

But there’s no connection other than the name and, in any case, real life is always more prosaic.

There’s loads of Worms games now though they’re all the same sort of thing. I think they just announced an “anniversary edition” of Armageddon, which looks basically the same as the Steam version but ported to modern consoles. Still a banger 25 years on!

The one thing about patent law I know is that you can’t patent something that already exists in the wild (“prior art”), so surely that can’t be the case, and if it is then it’s open-and-shut, right?

Some improvements have even been made in the last ten years

“Bailiffs knocking at the door, eh? Have you considered deploying an ink pseudomorph?”

I am pretty sure I picked up the Android version for free a few years ago and it had The Offspring but I installed it just now and it’s gone. It’s also now talking about ads and data collection so I assume the original build has been unavailable for a while.

Gave this one a quick go, not bad as a quick puzzle

Absolutely love this game, would recommend it to anyone who likes sneaking

The WiiU could run the entire Wii OS, so that’s pretty good for backwards compatibility