I really wanted Darktide to be my comfort game, something I could sink time into, click on heads, and watch numbers go up. I feel bitter when I read comments from delay announcements earlier in the year, so many people who said they were glad the developers were taking time to get it right.

Instead, the people who bought the game have learned it probably needed at least another 6 months in the oven. It's an early access game sold as a full product because I guess someone at Tencent wanted a slightly bigger number for their fiscal quarter.

I have no idea why this one stings. I stay away from most live service games. I don't even play very many horde shooters. I guess this one seemed like it had the production values to scratch a particular itch that warhammer enjoyers have wanted scratched for years.

Anyway now I'm bummed and I want another stupid head-clicker game to fill the void until the Darktide developers spend the next several months patching in the rest of the video game they marketed to everyone.