Gameplay settings menus that allow you to turn off gameplay mechanisms you simply don't enjoy, or tune them.

I'm talking about ones that are like one line of code being set to true instead of false etc. That type of thing.

Basically things like that and the Atomfall gameplay/difficulty settings menu

I don't give a fuck if some pretentious asses "artistic vision" requires the player to backtrack half way across a level on every death or thinks a shitty minigame should be played no less than 153 times every play through. I want to be able to just turn off the unfun shit, and leave on the fun shit.

This is a game. I don't care if the developer thinks X Y or Z adds to the experience. If I don't, within reason I should just be able to turn it off.

Pause on focus loss/main menu. It's so simple, but often missing.

Nude mode. We're all grown ups here.

Enterable values for mouse sensitivity.

No sliders.

I'm talking, down to at least the thousandths place decimal, and up as high as I fucking want. This allows your mouse sensitivity to not only account for how you play, but also how everybody else plays.

And if you're one of those devs that has the aiming be different than mouse cursor, or even MULTIPLE mouse cursor speed settings, HAVE ENTERABLE VALUES FOR THOSE TOO!!

Sometimes I'm at 1% and it's too high still.

Sometimes I'm at 1% and it's too low and 2% is too high.

An FOV slider. I don't care if you're a 2D game, you're honoring totalBiscuit

Games with third person peaking should have server options for first person only.

A combined off switch for TAA, Ray Tracing, DLSS, frame generation, and all of that nonsense.

I hate that games now turn to soup when in motion, even with motion blur off.

Local server

Edit: or any server

Adding a reboot button is ONLY necessary if the game isn't made correctly. There is otherwise no reason to ever need to restart the game. I would see the addition of a restart option as lazy or an admission of failure by the dev.

Chromatic aberration and film grain. If your game has either of those and no way to turn them off, I wish you a slow, painful death and I will probably refund it.

An option to choose what controller glyphs I want to use (Xbox, Playstation, Nintendo, directional) and a option to always use those glyphs even when mouse input is detected, so I can use Gyro without the glyphs constantly flickering ☺️

System clock in the top right corner.

Not quite a setting, but every game should be required to tell you how long ago the last save was when you quit the game. I absolutely don't understand why it's only a tiny minority of games that does this, it is such an obvious thing to do

pausing during cutscenes - it's weird that this isn't always an option even in AAA

Everything should be controllable. Give me all the options. Every graphical feature, every UI element, even gameplay mechanics. If it is as simple as adjusting a number or selecting something from a table, give me the option to control it myself.

When I want to quit your game, I mean it.

I do not want to be prompted several times as attempts to keep me in the game when I just want to leave.