If I had a penny for every black-and-white indie timeloop rpg that came out in late 2023, I'd have three pennies. Just what did they put into the gamedev water?

what's up, gull and such here, recent "wait there's more than one of us" realizers. whoops!
still giant robot fans, still pmd: explorers enthusiasts. imagine we are wearing a big button that says "ask us about Void Stranger". you should play all the games we like right now. the media backlog continues to grow ever further, and finally fucking continuing Initial D slips further and further out of reach.....
If I had a penny for every black-and-white indie timeloop rpg that came out in late 2023, I'd have three pennies. Just what did they put into the gamedev water?
the era of the "Cinematic Game" is over...... we are entering a bold new direction of video game painted in black and white and cyclical bullshittery
Not just that, but turn-based monochromatic time loop stories in fantasy settings focused on accepting love even when you feel you don't deserve it via acknowledging and learning from repeated failures, featuring a protagonist transforming into something near-divine at the end
And they were all bangers, too???