Mine is the lag in Stellaris, and lack of options to let me impact it. Like let me disable the ability for the AI to make habitats FFS!
Why the fuck am I eating this rice raw when I could add it to a pot of water on a stove?
Oni: not possible to rebind keys.
As for honorable mentions, Urban Chaos/Attack of the saucerman: I can’t imagine a successful remake.
I… for some reason am seeing red at the idea of a game I am playing not letting me rebind keys? It’s such a bare minimum feature and is so frustrating when you can’t.
It’s Quake II, yes I’m old but they just remastered it and you should check it out. There’s a nice difficulty curve up until the last two levels, which are basically the easiest levels in the entire game. Seriously, the last boss which has been hyped up the entire game just stands in his corner shooting easy to dodge BFGs, and can be killed in about a minute, even faster if you use Quad damage.
Any time I can’t pet the dog.
Factorio: It’s too addicting. You just want to keep going, even though you have better things to do.
Games like that are also notorious, at least for me, where I constantly am like “ooh if I start a new game I can do X differently, I wonder what that’ll be like…”
Okay that’s cool, but after spending 20 hours setting that up… slightly different looking, but in a way that requires you start over entirely?