There are a lot of AAA titles without all that bullshit and none of them costs that kind of money, on any platform.
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Ratio suggested it was quite upsetting for many people :(
It‘s trying to nail the specific vibe of King’s Field. Edit: it’s even made with Sword of Moonlight, From Software‘s published game maker tool.
Sorry I rambled
IIRC number keys are shortcuts for abilities, so optional.
It’s such an overcrowded genre isn’t it?
Well it's not really a genre, just a mode of perspective.
Disco Elysium ditched combat for an everything-is-dialogue-approach and it is really really good.
Maybe some classic, more phantastical CRPGs with turn-based combat are more your juice than Disco Elysium: Baldur's Gate III, Pillars of Eternity II, Fallout. Planescape Torment, Tyranny, Pathfinder, Pillars I and the rest of the Baldur's Gate series rely on real-time combat with pause which might get tedious when only using the mouse.
Casual driving without pressure or violence? They can’t be the first, can they?