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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-20T10:30:00.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.rockpapershotgun.com",
  "tags": [
    "Single Player",
    "iOS",
    "PS4",
    "Nintendo Switch 2",
    "Card Games",
    "LocalThunk",
    "Multiplayer Cooperative",
    "Krafton",
    "Xbox",
    "Subnautica 2",
    "Android",
    "Unknown Worlds",
    "Indie",
    "Playstack",
    "Xbox One",
    "Action Adventure",
    "First person",
    "Balatro",
    "Bird view / Isometric",
    "Strategy",
    "PC",
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    "Xbox Series X/S",
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  "textContent": "At Digital Dragons this year I somehow found myself attending a panel about games industry investment and publishing deals, featuring various senior M&A people gathered under the dread banner of \"Capital Reality\". It felt like visiting another planet, occupied by towering creatures of gold and green paper, who spoke an earwax-curdling vocabulary of phrases like \"there's dry powder out there, but I'm seeing dealflop\".\n\nThe best practice when you are stranded on a strange new world is to bond with local lifeforms in the most elementary and primordial terms. In this case, I established a point of connection with Victor Lee, director of Europe investments for Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton. It turns out he is as weary and confused and petulant about the abundance of roguelike deckbuilders as I.\n\nRead more",
  "title": "\"Roguelike can be anything\": Krafton exec is very tired of being pitched \"Balatro with different cards\""
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