There are other non time based genres, like point and click games are often not time based, or telltale games where you can disable choice timers, or puzzle games, lots of games don't require pressing buttons under time pressure.

Yep, hence me suggesting that in the video / article as one of the possible fixes.

Either more tags that are more specific, or better allignment of the public name and dev focus for selection etc.

They specifically were looking for trans men and mascs, and I am a trans woman so probably not who the poster is looking for, even if I appreciate the mention.

No worries at all, I'm glad folks feel they can come to me for help, and this is already on my to do list.

Do you mind if I ask what platform they're playing on?

I'll try and have more specific advice tomorrow, but at this moment I have not had time to sit down with the finished game and try to nail down advice, sorry.

In the short term I can only give broad motion sickness advice - Play in a well lit room when well rested, have an open window or fan for some air moving past you, try having ginger suppliments 30 ish mins before playing, slow down your camera sensitivity etc.

So, I didn't experience issues with the second one when previewing it in August, but I hear some folks now are. I've not gone back into the retail version but plan to tomorrow to try and help nail down the causes and ehlp folks dial in potentially helpful settings.

The arguement I am going to make is that the player only sees "Playable without timed input", and that covers a lot more types of timed inputs, and I think this is a factor in a bunch of games right now using the tag in a way that's not useful to players.

Games with a high focus on input mechanics like parries, or things like timed dialogue choices you can't disable the timer on, are tagged as "playable without timed inputs" because Valve's desc makes it sound like so long as you don't have button mashing or QTE sequences you can apply the tag.

I did, but appreciate you sending it anyway. Very much confirms what I suspected it would, thank you.