Deep Rock Galactic is what I would consider a perfect video game. It has everything that I like: Shooting satisfying guns. Grinding for loot. Advanced movement mechanics. Appropriate use of procedural generation to create unique experiences and infinite replayability. Genuinely funny characters with rich personalities. Intense gameplay that requires your full attention, with perfectly paced downtime to get your bearings. Teamwork that is heavily suggested but not required in order to succeed. An uncharacteristically friendly community (I play in open lobbies 99% of the time, and I can count every toxic encounter I've had in six years on one hand.) Loadout variety. Theory-crafting and metagames. Incredible atmosphere. A distinct and unique visual style. And a banger soundtrack that I will never turn down in the audio settings. Always blasting that ♥♥♥♥.

I love dropping into a cave on Hazard 5, the doors opening to what I can only describe as "Bug Normandy" and diving headfirst into the chaos. I love single-handedly cutting through an entire swarm with Gemini sentries and a tricked out Breach Cutter. I love sitting on top of Dorretta and chucking grenades behind her into the tunnel filled to the brim with bugs and watching them all explode. I love setting up a Driller bunker and filling the chokepoint with green sludge. I love using the RJ-250 to not only nuke an entire group of Grunts, but to fly away to the other side of the cave and placing a fall-damage-reducing platform under my feet just before I hit the ground. I love when I'm just about to get into the drop pod with 60 seconds left, but the Greenbeard Gunner goes down 150 meters away... and suddenly the objective switches from escaping with my life to a full fledged rescue mission because NO DWARF LEFT BEHIND. There are countless things in DRG that are so incredibly memorable, so exhilarating, and so satisfying... I'm constantly blown away by how much content can be extracted from this game.

DRG is the one game that I can always come back to when every other one of my favorite games has some kind of botched update, or fails spectacularly in some way. Over the last 6 years, I've been able to know that if there's nothing good to play tonight, I can always hop on Deep Rock. It's consistently been an S+ tier game for as long as I can remember, and that's an incredible feat in today's gaming landscape. If Team Fortress 2 hadn't already taken my heart and locked it away long ago, Deep Rock Galactic would sit at #1 on my list, no contest. It's just so incredibly good, and the experience never gets old. And they're STILL updating it and adding QoL features that somehow make it even better. Seriously, GSG is quite possibly the most underrated game development team in the history of video games.

Deep Rock just stays winning, forever. Rock and Stone!

ROCK & STONE

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