Repentance is out!
However, as the devs decided not to port the DLC to Linux, I have an excuse to ignore it for the time being. (I will of course play it with Proton when I can't wait anymore). Anyway, I am so busy right now that I wouldn't be able to properly enjoy it at the moment.

Despite having this on PS4, Switch, 3DS and barely playing them, I thought give it a crack on PC. My controller wasn’t recognised, so instead of trying to fix it, which I’m sure would be quite straightforward, I just told it to fuck off and asked for a refund.

Might get Rebirth for my steam deck.

DLC wise, Afterbirth and Afterbirth+ worth it?? Repentance not??

So yes that's what I did.

And finally had my first dabble on the deck yesterday. New save. Smashed it straight through and beat Mum, but then immediately remembered that
- I can never remember what any of the icons do... do people just enjoy the fun of randomly trying them and hopefully internalising more over time (despite there being hundreds) or do y'all look stuff up mid run??
- I have no idea about overall game progression... It said I've unlocked the womb but I don't know what that means, I know there are secrets worth stepping on sacrifice spikes and unlocking extra bosses etc - will that kinda become apparent as I keep doing runs at random, or worth more explicit study??

I played "blind" for hundreds of hours, half-remembering what some of the items and trinkets did and being surprised with their effects. It was fun and I made some good progress. But after a while, I became more interested in getting all the achievements and I couldn't leave things to chance. I remember pausing the game and checking platinumgod.co.uk (now I see it's changed to tboi.com) to decide whether I should pick an item. I guess modding the game would be easier, though.