Would you play Assassin's Creed Odyssey if it had turn-based combat? Maybe with trading cards? My guess is that this would be a serious turn-off for many of the millions of people who bought the game, especially the console versions. But me, I looked at the Steam sale for Assassin's Creed Odyssey, and decided not to buy it because it *didn't* have turn-based combat. I really liked the ancient Greek setting, and the visuals of the large world to explore, but ultimately one spends just too much time in these games in combat for me to be able to ignore that I don't like button mashing.

That isn't just a matter of me being bad at action combat. I mean, yes, I am not great at it, but that can probably be remedied by playing at easy or normal difficulty level instead of hard or nightmare. The problem is more that I enjoy making clever tactical moves in a turn-based game, but in an action game these either aren't available, or rely on you being able to press a button sequence with split second accuracy, not on out-thinking the enemy.

So I ended up buying Dragon Quest XI and Battletech at that Steam winter sale instead. But I really liked the idea of game companies releasing different versions of their big open world exploration games with different types of combat. Too bad nobody does that.