u/b_art — reddlx

Loving this game but lots of issues.

This is the game I've been looking for for quite some time now. I finally feel immersed in something I want to keep coming back to. I go in for a quick session and suddenly 5 hours went by!

But I'm having so many technical issues it feels unfair.

My card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, 6 GB GDDR6

My card Release Year: 2019

Icarus Release Date: Dec 3, 2021

According to some research, my card is ABOVE minimum requirements, although not much admittedly, but notice that my card is not much older than the game's release. So why are the expectations so high?

I could see my GPU core and memory being maxed out at times. Fan is raging.

I tried everything at lowest settings, it looks horrible. After playing around I got good performance balance by simply setting everything default "High" settings, then reducing obvious things like Textures, Resolution, Vsync, etc. And got it where I liked it.

Now a new "update" comes today, and my GPU is raging again. Mouse keeps getting hung up, can't turn left or right, can't aim reliably at anything, basically can't endure any substantial danger.

It's a survival game with weapons!

Still I absolutely love everything about the game and keep trying to fix it. But I have to say it really sucks to have everything working then have the rug pulled out from under me after an update.

At the time of purchase, Steam reviews for this game were very low. An AI bot recommended I avoid it. I ignored everything and bought into it, absolutely loved everything about it, and I even wanted to buy expansions, but so far this is pretty frustrating. Moments of bliss where everything works, but when it gets bogged down it's really bad.

Sometimes the game loads fast and runs fine, then next time it takes 2 minutes to get to the title screen and lags everywhere. I'm on PC. Turned off everything but the game. It's just inconsistent.

I can play. But that input lag!

And honestly no other game requires me to reduce my graphics. Say what you will about my card. It works fine on other games.

Any advice?

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u/b_art — 7 days ago

▲ 5 r/SurvivalGaming

GRIDMAX - A compact, tile-based alien survival game to release 2026.

Gridmax starts as a simple survival loop with life and hunger bars. There are elements flying all over the terrain and you must build shelter and source food. After this loop is secured, some surprises emerge in the crafting tree, it branches out into a bit of a colony sim with exploration features.

Includes a small variety of crafting options, creatures, and terrain types. I think you'll find it to be an amusing afternoon game :)

Gridmax is available for wishlist now.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4830070/Gridmax/

Feel free if you have any ideas or questions!

u/b_art — 1 month ago

▲ 3 r/CozyGamers

Keystone Library - A quiet keyboard-driven adventure.

Hello! Solo developer here. Keystone Library is a game I started for my love of illustration and storytelling.

In Keystone Library you must help restore an ancient, abandoned library by playing mini-games in "the books" and use your "knowledge points" to refurbish the library.

It's 100% keyboard-driven to bring you deeper into the words and language of the stories within the library. You can type to chat with characters, solve puzzles, navigate room-based quests, typing challenges, strategic battle scenarios, and some surprises as you explore the library.

I aim to give it a traditional, natural, relaxing tabletop and boardgame type of vibe. Afternoon coffee and tea at the desktop :D It needs to be quiet to bring out the storytelling.

It's still in Early Access and more content coming, but very much playable now and a free demo is available!

KL is on Steam Summer Sale now at a great discount.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2183340/Keystone_Library/

All illustration is hand-done by myself and a few other artists. Over 90% of the music and sound effects are scored and created by a composer I found to help me.

Sadly, I do have ONE placeholder generated by AI, marked as UNDER CONSTRUCTION, because I don't have the time or funds to replace it right now. But this very much NOT an AI project. The goal is to support real illustration, real music, and real stories all made by humans. Check the date on the Steam page, I started this game long before AI could even make art like it does today.

I'm still working on it, mostly waiting for funding to keep artists busy again, and looking forward to adding many more books to the library!

Thanks for your time!

u/b_art — 2 months ago