Last few years I’ve been excitedly waiting for sequels from several small-to-medium sized studios that made highly acclaimed original games—I’m talking about Cities: Skylines, Kerbal Space Program, Planet Coaster, Frostpunk, etc.—yet each sequel was very poorly received to the point I wasn’t willing to risk my money buying it. Why do you think this happens when these developers already had a winning formula?

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[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think CS:2 was far too ambitious, and there were very strange design choices around subsidies which effectively removed any challenge from the game -- at first. I just played it the other day, and frankly it has turned around a lot. Decent game now.

KSP2 was just a corporate shit show -- devs were well intentioned but ultimately were unable to continue based on factors out of their control. It really sucks because KSP1 is one of the best games ever made and KSP2 had a lot of promise.

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

KSP1 also had 0 OG devs by the end so KSP2 was sort of doomed from the start.