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Cardiovorax posted:Grabbed that right away. Goon-made by who? So I know who to praise/complain to if do/don't end up liking it. 
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Donnerberg posted:Souls-like means there's a health bar. this is sadly rather dull except for the art style. The combat is rather slow, sometimes unresponsive and all the animations and timings just mismatch and do not allow a good flow. It's basically the exact opposite of the perfect fast gameplay from Dead Cells.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1372810/Teamfight_Manager/quote:Teamfight Manager is a simulation game where you are the coach of an e-sports team. You must manage players to set them up for matches. Make the best of pick & ban by evaluating the characteristics of the champions/players! A smart strategy can make up for a lack of individual player skills. quote:I was expecting this to be half-baked and no content. I was completely wrong, this game is an absolute banger. There are no reviews in the making of this in english but I will just say I am very very happy with my purchase and be looking to put more hours. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1162570/The_Protagonist_EX1/ Early access quote:The Protagonist: EX-1 is a gripping new turn-based, tactical RPG. You’re a highly trained soldier on a mission to infiltrate an alien space station that goes horribly wrong—find your team and discover the hidden truth. quote:Martial Arts Combat System - customize your character’s close-combat abilities
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1518810/Koi_Farm/quote:Koi Farm is a game about playing with koi ponds. Explore an infinite number of procedurally generated koi patterns by crossbreeding your fish, and discover new mutations as you go along. quote:To the consumer:
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haldolium posted:this is sadly rather dull except for the art style. The combat is rather slow, sometimes unresponsive and all the animations and timings just mismatch and do not allow a good flow. It's basically the exact opposite of the perfect fast gameplay from Dead Cells. That's a bummer. Thanks for the heads up though.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/762840/Maquette/quote:Maquette is a first-person recursive puzzle game that takes you into a world where every building, plant, and object are simultaneously tiny and staggeringly huge. No reviews yet on this one.
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StrixNebulosa posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/762840/Maquette/ Been following Maquette for awhile and it looks so cool, free on PS+ for PS5 this month, but NOT PS4 which is a bummer.
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Zenithe posted:Do you like fireworks but not the fact that are mean to doggos and the environment? Try Fireworks Mania I want this in VR so bad
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I normally just lurk this thread, but I just want to say real quick that I appreciate this thread for highlighting so much cool stuff.
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StrixNebulosa posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1518810/Koi_Farm/ A helpful review that actually makes me want to check out what seems to be a screensaver type of game. Like those weird old "virtual goldfish" games that run in the background. priznat posted:I want this in VR so bad Yeah, VR would be a good fit for this.
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I think horseshoes hotdogs and hand grenades in VR has some fireworks but not to this degree, it's more of a gunsim. It's on my wishlist though.
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I'm exhausted from cleaning up the back yard so have some more new games. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1413000/Jurisdiction/ quote:Take control of a metropolitan police department and run it your way. Recruit, train, and equip officers, then send them to the streets to fight crime and keep peace in the city of Freemont. quote:For a indie team I am impressed by the game. Lots of attention to details, lots of options for customizing and specializing each task force within the department. It feels like a real police simulator / management game. Price is a bit higher than I would recommend it at, but not unreasonable. If it looks like something you would be into go ahead and grab it. If your walking the line, I would wait for a sale. Or my queue will default to showing me games from the 90s, okay. Here are two ancient RTSes that are apparently on steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1292170/Krush_Kill_N_Destroy_Xtreme/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1259380/Submarine_Titans/
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StrixNebulosa posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/762840/Maquette/ So small trip report. The game is very interesting, but it feels like it wasn't playtested enough. I'm at the chapter "gateways" and I've already found numerous points where you can softlock yourself, one puzzle in particular that I "Solved" felt like I was actually just abusing the game's quirks rather than finding the correct solution. Right now even I'm at a particular puzzle, where they is no clear solution, yet several things that will prevent me going any further.
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StrixNebulosa posted:I'm exhausted from cleaning up the back yard so have some more new games. Do you get to beat the poo poo out of Black people? Not realistic otherwise 
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Mayveena posted:Do you get to beat the poo poo out of Black people? Not realistic otherwise On the one hand a police game sounds cool in an abstract kind of way - send a squad of dudes to patrol areas and stop bad guys when they do things, manage their payrolls and appeasing politicians. Kind of like XCOM: Apocalypse without the aliens. On the other hand, this might be the worst possible decade (century?) to make cop games and we've had at least one of them already run directly into this problem. Either way good point, I'll avoid posting cop games in here from now on.
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Roth posted:I normally just lurk this thread, but I just want to say real quick that I appreciate this thread for highlighting so much cool stuff.
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This game is a major nostalgia kick for me
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TheCog posted:This game is a major nostalgia kick for me God, same. I remember playing it a lot but i'm not sure it's actually any good. Speaking of submariners and also X-COM I guess: Stirring Abyss https://store.steampowered.com/app/1178210/Stirring_Abyss/ quote:Stirring Abyss is an indie tactical squad-based game with strong RPG elements in which you uncover the ancient mysteries of the depths depicted in the classic vein of Lovecraftian horror.   
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Tempted by both of these. The EA game is a maybe because i've been burned by so many EA games (i'm looking at you BG3). And who wouldnt want a Koi farm?
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Roth posted:I normally just lurk this thread, but I just want to say real quick that I appreciate this thread for highlighting so much cool stuff. You're doing the Gamer God's work, StrixNebulosa, I've seen so much dope new stuff that would have completely passed me by because of this thread.
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Astronarch came out in January and I've played it way more than I thought I would. It's a run-based roguelite autobattler. You choose your characters (from a large roster) and their path through the various levels, they autobattle, and then you get & assign loot and move on to the next room. One of the most impressive things to me is how diverse the pool of viable builds is without any of them being overpowered, it really is a game of adapting your strategy to the loot you're getting rather than shooting for one specific game-winning combo, and knowing what events/enemies/paths your build can handle. One of my higher Corruption runs was entirely fueled by a druid tank with a massive Thorns item supported by three healers, but I've also done ultra-fast-attacking Berserker shenanigans, Illusionist tanks who tank by vanishing when hit and leaving behind mirror images, an assassin stacking millions of poisons with an alchemist spreading them to other enemies. One of the most impressive things about it is the percentage of players that have non-gimme achievements - more than 44.5% of players have beat the game at least once (That's the percentage that have beat it without losing a single fight) and 12% have beat it on at least 10 consecutive difficulty levels. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAK559ypzos Definitely recommended!
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Sab Sabbington posted:You're doing the Gamer God's work, StrixNebulosa, I've seen so much dope new stuff that would have completely passed me by because of this thread. Echoing this! Strix’s posts are incredibly helpful + impressively frequent. (Everyone else also!)
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tildes posted:Echoing this! Strix’s posts are incredibly helpful + impressively frequent. (Everyone else also!) It's weirdly satisfying to make them! Here, have some more: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1527710/Earth_Elements/ Early access, no reviews, looks SUPER weird and indie quote:Earth Elements. In three words:Dig, Mix, Build. Resource collecting, building and surviving game with not one but a few of game characters. Start with digging of pElements on map, mix in mixers, build new features on map, advance in Epoch, finally reach Portal or collect specific amount to win... quote:You play with group of game characters pObjects. Yours first objective is to modify map in that way so pObject scattered initially on map can work together. They will do tasks: first and most important dig tile called pElements. Every tile on map with some effort could be accessible to digging. Next after that they can mix pElements in MIXERS, BUILD improvements on map for reason to easier access more tiles, use MACHINES which will speed up process of digging. Really fun to watch like those MACHINES are working. pObjects are very busy doing all those tasks, therefore their STAMINA is getting lower. Of course there is solution for that. You need to give them possibility to use RECHARGER, and finally they need to protect that recharger from enemy taking energy for free. To use better game BUILDS, and more efficient MACHINES Yours pObject need to advance in EPOCHs, kind of like Mankind going from stone age to bronze metal, industry age, as a bonus every BUILD group has MONUMENTAL builds, like: Great Kohakia Mounds, Stone Age, Machu Picchu, and of course Great Pyramid. After building MONUMENTAL BUILDS new pObject is added to game as a bonus. All that work of Yours pObject has one main goal: to reach portal or collect specific amount of one tile. That will grant you a title of WINNER of this game. You decide during map generation which winning condition will be in current game. Map Is randomly generated, giving you possibility to enjoy game for long time. Playing session can vary depending on map size from 30 min to a few hours. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1510890/Micro_Annihilation/ Early access quote:Micro Annihilation will place you in control of a secret paramilitary organization called the United Armies. But, their greatest secret is not that they have military forces hidden around the globe... it's that they are miniscule! quote:Game was just released, but there is already enough content that you can play for few hours. It is interesting mix of XCOM / C&C. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1528120/ComPressure/ Early access quote:Design increasingly complex computation units powered by high pressure steam. Each completed design can be used in future levels. quote:I've been one of the beta testers on ComPressure and while initially, the game seemed a bit difficult to get in to; but it is actually an intuitive but deeply engrossing puzzle game in the vein of one of my childhood favourites (Pipe Dream). With the dialogue from famous classical thinkers, the music, and the overall aesthetic design; it also comes together as an enjoyable (and genuine) industrial steampunk atmosphere, somewhat in the vein of Factorio.
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I have mixed feelings about this game after 4 hours. There are some things I really like. The concept is great, mixing pick/ban phases into this format of autobattler is interesting and has a big effect on the way matches play out. Enemy teams react to what champions your players are good at or winning a lot with and will try to keep you from using them, so keeping them on their toes with some secret unrevealed comps for the finals is viable. You need to keep up with (the in-game game's) patch notes to learn about new champions and buffs/nerfs to existing champions, run simulations between different team comps to learn how matchups play out, choose between recruiting new players or training existing players - it's not very deep beyond the picking/banning of champions but there's quite a lot to do and thematically it all fits and is cool. Then there's the pace. It's so slow. It takes several seconds of waiting/loading to pass from one week to the next which can't be skipped, this is fine in weeks where you're participating in the season/tournament but there are times where you're just sitting there passing 5+ weeks at a time without doing anything. You have to sit through long award ceremonies for the pro league that you're not even part of until much later on, and you have to click through all of the dialog in it. There's no way to fast-forward the battle sequences which you have no control over, you just watch. Lots of the content unlocks over time, too, so early on there are only a small handful of champions and you play unexciting 2v2 matches, and you have to make it all the way to Season 2 to unlock 3v3. So overall it's enjoyable but glacially slow and works best as a game that you're playing in the background while doing something else, but that still allows you to pay attention to it so you can get a feel for champion/team comp matchups. Also so far the 3v3 mode seems too easy if you use a tank/heal/aoe comp but maybe the AI teams will catch up to my meta  e: Okay yeah they did, they started using long range keepaway teams that refuse to group up for my aoe. deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Mar 3, 2021 |
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Dominoes, while I'm not the OP I saw your post and here's my take on how to use this thread: post new things in here, as in within the last month, and then impressions about cool new things are great. For anything older I take it to the steam thread, which is much more general purpose. That said, I was really impressed by what little I played of Outer Wilds and urge anyone who thinks the premise of exploring a small-scale solar system is cool to check it out. It has some amazing twists in it just in the first hour, and it's really neat! e: Today I read the OP of this thread and remembered there are rules, thank god I've mostly been following them! 
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Sweet. Moved to Best Games Ever thread.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Or my queue will default to showing me games from the 90s, okay. Here are two ancient RTSes that are apparently on steam: Holy poo poo, I played the hell out of this game as a kid. I doubt it holds up though, it doesn't even have a minimap iirc but it did have an xp system. I used to force my good units to attack my own harvesters to level up.
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Look what's also on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1292180/Krush_Kill_N_Destroy_2_Krossfire/ My brother used to play the hell out of this.
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I played Loop Hero back when it was a game jam prototype on Itch and fell in love with it. Full release is out today on Steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1282730/Loop_Hero/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P58L0AVIEM I'm a big fan of the art and sound, but the gameplay is so fresh. It's roguelite where you get some randomness and each restart is a bit like a blank slate, but your previous run will help you on the next so there's always progression. The game operates in several layers; the largest being a strategic management map where you rebuild a village and engage in some scripted dialog with NPC's, and then an adventure map which is randomly generated each run and where all combat takes place. The adventure maps are made up of all kinds of gameplay mechanics like tile placement, inventory management, skill unlocks via leveling and automated combat. I think part of the magic of the game is that at first you feel as though you have little agency, like a clicker game, but as you start placing and shuffling the game pieces that you control you realize that you have a great deal to do with how an adventure is likely to play out. This is magnified by many small discoveries and accidents that get you understanding the relationships between all the game's elements. There's also a demo available on the steam store page.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Dominoes, while I'm not the OP I saw your post and here's my take on how to use this thread: post new things in here, as in within the last month, and then impressions about cool new things are great. For anything older I take it to the steam thread, which is much more general purpose. 
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1272160/The_Life_and_Suffering_of_Sir_Brante/ The art in this one is really good quote:A narrative-driven RPG set in a gritty world where a person's Lot is determined at birth, while the gods are real and preside over the fates of men. Set out on a lifelong journey and carve out your own destiny. Will you become a judge, an inquisitor, or conspire against the old order? You decide! quote:Find your own path https://store.steampowered.com/app/1259640/Tiny_Room_Stories_Town_Mystery/ quote:Tiny Room Stories: Town Mystery is a puzzle game based within small diorama-esque escape room scenes. The story is chapter based and you play the role of a private detective trying to find out what happened to the small town, where all of the inhabitants are gone. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1445040/Space_Choice_Data_Analyzer/ Free quote:A little experimental game about making many choices quickly. Pick from 3 options, then do it again, and again, and again... Make the best out of a bad situation. Do it as quickly as you can because time is the most valuable resource at your disposal. quote:A really fun fleet combat game. Mechanics are heavily simplified from other games like Gratuitous Space Battle, where you only need to make a decision from a small set of random choices for ship+weapon, permanent upgrade, or temporary boost.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1418540/SEARCH_PARTY_Directors_Cut/ Has a demo quote:Claire's 8-year-old brother is missing. While looking for him during a search party, she finds herself completely lost and alone in the woods. She eventually spots a strange house in the distance... could Daniel be inside? quote:Search for tools and weapons to defend yourself as you sink deeper into a hopeless nightmare of despair.
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At the beginning of this thread I would go through the new Steam releases list every few days and there were always 2-3 interesting effort titles there. It gave me a new perspective of how impossible it must be to break into the industry, the Steam release pace is insane.
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Palpek posted:At the beginning of this thread I would go through the new Steam releases list every few days and there were always 2-3 interesting effort titles there. It gave me a new perspective of how impossible it must be to break into the industry, the Steam release pace is insane. Yeah jesus, and there's always like 30+ new titles in a given genre at any given time, it's ridiculous. I'm currently finding things via twitter and by going here: https://store.steampowered.com/explore/new/ and doing the queue a few times. Going through the new releases list itself is beyond me.
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You're definitively providing a valuable service here. I'm really enjoying that Shadows Behind The Throne game. It's Crusader Kings Lite, except instead of some dink-rear end Irish dynasty, you're Sauron.
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There’s a new big expansion to the F2P card game based on league of legends, Legends of Runeterra It’s by far my most played game of the last year and I have 85% of all the cards without spending a dime. It’s probably the best competitive card game ever made, even surpassing android: netrunner. https://playruneterra.com/en-us/ https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3912283
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