I've been playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider and the writing is worse than the complaints led me to believe.
The challenge tombs are still the best part of the game, so far. I haven't revisited the prior entries but I recall them being less busy with resource/crafting garbage.
Pivo504 Owl Boy was okay by me, though I am 99% certain that it was targeting nostalgia for a console I never owned as a child.
My note on my games completed tracker:
I don't recall it being a jarring lighting mismatch but I also didn't play with an old school Doomguy skin.
I remember the default and Doom 2016 skins looking normal in reflections.
Good.
I actively avoided buying the Doom: Eternal Collector's Edition (I have the Doom 2016 one) because it was a bethesda.net key and instead of a day 1 purchase I waited until the game was heavily discounted to buy it.
They see they could maybe get a bigger slice of the pie and fail to...
WWZ with the coop group - we've levelled enough and figured out the game more such that we're getting ready to start climbing the difficulty ladder. Solid co-op horder shooter, I like the weapon upgrade system where all weapons found in world match your unlocked and selected upgrades. Classes...
SnowRunner, some of the LEGO games but they have violence (you said Homeworld though and there's definitely violence in that), Train Sim World 2 if he's into trains, Railroad Tycoon, Rollercoaster Tycoon, Gizmos and Gadgets (might be tough to get running), Dr. Brain, etc.
Escape Velocity or...
There's quite a bit of platforming which can frustrate my wife but I would say the game is generally forgiving. Fail state is usually both characters dying and resuscitation time is short enough the other person can stay alive in that window for the respawn.
This is not [H]ard at all and you can go to Hell!
(I don't manually tweak anything these days, too lazy, and too in love with stability with default boosting)