TL;DR: “Vigil: The Longest Night” was unexpectedly removed from several platforms due to issues with its former publisher, Neon Doctrine. Concerns arose around a term in the game potentially crossing China’s political red lines. Neon Doctrine took various actions, including unauthorized sales, and Glass Heart Studio initiated legal action. The game’s removal was not by the developers’ choice and they’re fighting for its return. The challenges they face underscore broader issues of political sensitivities and self-censorship in the gaming industry, especially for indie developers like Glass Heart Studio from Taiwan.
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Quoting directly from the developer team themselves:
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Greetings,
We are Glass Heart Studio from Taiwan. Last month, our game “Vigil: The Longest Night” was unexpectedly removed from multiple platforms. We would like to provide an update on the situation:
Will the “fix” for this have an impact on PC gaming? Seems to affect many generations of Intel CPUs and there is a performance degradation
I’m looking for some game where you can just drive around a big world (probably procedurally generated) world, live traffic, nice landscapes, day and night cycle and that’s all - some relaxing game like this.
I know about slowroads but it’s too linear, just one road without turns, and no other cars.
In the past I used driving education games for this but they are clunky with controls and some are ancient (like sierra’s driving ed).
Damn, I even tried ancient Streets of Sim City but it’s car combat, and also really ancient even for me.
Do games like this ever exist?