Ahh I was missing this kind of post from the Games subreddit. Had no idea opencritic had an MD export option
mvu
I think that's the rub if you're coming from a centralized -thing- and move to federated: nobody's doing any work for you (except, you know, hosting and developing).
There's no real incentive to "capture your engagement" since nobody's making money off of you. This was something I've seen a lot of new people on Mastodon struggling with -- without "the algorithm" to do the legwork, users are left to do a little bit of heavy lifting and curate their own feed.
(To be fair, /r/all used to be a hot mess on reddit as well before it was as big as it got)
Right now your best bet is to hit the front page of your Lemmy instance, click "ALL" (instead of local / subscribed) and filter by New. This will give you a real messy look at what communities are active, and let you start subscribing to to the communities that appeal to you.
One of the devs is Grumpy Function!
His other games are good too.
If you're interested in other new games for the Gameboy check out that mastodon instance, the admin released a great game called "The Machine"
I'm still looking myself! The developer looks to be starting a mastodon community (pocketpixels.club) where I found FusionRGamer which seems to have a decent collection of new game news (at least for the gameboy!)
The other one off the top of my head that I've personally tried is Deadeus which was kinda the poster child for GBStudio.
I also really enjoyed Super Jacked Up Tomato Face Johnson, which is much simpler but stays fun.
1000XResist is by Canadian devs if weird not-quite-visual-novel-but-close games are your jam (eg paradise killer, mouthwashing).