Feel free to replace “friends” with “anyone you know in real life” or even online groups you trust or are close with.

“They”:

WOM marketing is highly effective as 88% of consumers trust friend recommendations over traditional media.

and my own personal experience; most games I have bought in the past 10 years have been off of recommendations from r/gamingsuggestions before Reddit went to crap and Lemmy came into existence; and even moreso when it is a personal friend recommending things to me.

Mods, feel free to nuke if this feels too close to advertising or better-suited for [email protected] (my own community); I mean it more as a discussion piece but I don’t run the place.

EDIT: The “not” in the title is optional; I’m asking about both successful and failed recommendations.

  • klammeraffe@lemmy.cafeBannedEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    Assuming the (not) is optional, I loved both Soma and Subnaitica. Two great recommendations

    • Elevator7009@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      The not was absolutely intended as optional! I’m wondering if other people are seeing it as required judging by the count of responses talking about negative experiences I got…

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 months ago

      Breathedge has the subnautica kinda feel to it, though it might be tuned a bit on the pain in the ass side (I’m still early in to it and haven’t yet decided if I like it, but it has that feel).

      Or for a game with more of a crafting/building emphasis, Planet Crafter also gives some of those vibes.