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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1348750/Hearts_of_the_Dungeon_List/ Early access; yet another kickstarter! I backed this one because it was cheap and it looks cute/fun. I won't play it until it's out of EA though. quote:Conquer dungeons, find romance, upgrade the town, build your stats, or just take it easy in this fast-paced turn-based RPG. quote:Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?
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Lakbay posted:Has anyone done a few runs of this? I liked the demo but there's so many deck builder roguelikes Fights in Tight Spaces rules. It is a really nice mix between a tactics fighter and a deckbuilder. I am only on my second run, but I managed to beat the first four worlds. My favorite approach is to play it like Into the breach. Move enemies around to make them attack each other. And then throw them into a deathpit. Apparently I just sat on that game for 6 hours. It's been a while since a game grabbed me in such a way.
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cant cook creole bream posted:Fights in Tight Spaces rules. It is a really nice mix between a tactics fighter and a deckbuilder. I am only on my second run, but I managed to beat the first four worlds. My favorite approach is to play it like Into the breach. Move enemies around to make them attack each other. And then throw them into a deathpit. FITS is really really good and I highly recommend the grappler deck if you wanna pretend you're big boss.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Chorus looks like an arcadey, story-driven space shooter.
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Dr_Amazing posted:I've got 40 hours in Fights in Tight Spaces and really enjoy it. I think this is Gran Turismo's fault
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1289810/Siralim_Ultimate/ Left EA a few days ago; another confession that yes I backed this on kickstarter too quote:Siralim Ultimate is a monster catching, dungeon crawling RPG with a ridiculous amount of depth. Summon over 1200 different creatures and travel through randomly generated dungeons to acquire resources, new creatures, and loot. quote:Siralim Ultimate is a really, really, really big game. For that reason, this store description is extremely detailed to help you get a grip on exactly what you can expect from the game. If you're not up to read it all, though, here's a quick rundown of some of the main features:
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Chorus looks like an arcadey, story-driven space shooter. This trailer is giving me strong Jupiter Ascending vibes and I kinda like it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ckBIXZ044
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madfury posted:Has anyone played it? It screams everspace to me which I loved and it is a full game release (what ever that means nowadays) but it came out of nowhere for me. There are a few streamers playing it and it looks fine. And I get suspicious if everything looks legit.... Its not like 5 hours long, is it? Reviews say it has the opposite problem, it's stretched out too thin over a too empty open world, and there's hours of story segments that drag the game down. But yeah other people have been vibing with it more so it's probably worth a shot.
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Mayveena posted:You'd be spending money up the kazoo if you were a boardgamer!!! Board game Kickstarters are all the rage God, and tabletop RPGs too. Fortunately for my wallet I only back tabletops super rarely and instead go for enamel pin KSes! Currently looking at this one because mothgirl designs: Majestic Realm KS, and the spinner is huge and gorgeous. Random chatter: I tend to collect games, books, Transformers, and enamel pins these days. Though I'm trying to be choosier as my backlog for basically everything is immense.
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Dr. Video Games 0069 posted:Can't you just wear all the pins at once I obey The World Ends With You rules 
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madfury posted:Has anyone played it? It screams everspace to me which I loved and it is a full game release (what ever that means nowadays) but it came out of nowhere for me. There are a few streamers playing it and it looks fine. And I get suspicious if everything looks legit.... Its not like 5 hours long, is it? I have played the demo, it controls like Everspace but the story feels like something out of House of Dying Suns. It seems to be fairly meaty on missions, you start out in a big open map with a bunch of side missions pretty quickly. I really like it a lot.
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madfury posted:Has anyone played it? It screams everspace to me which I loved and it is a full game release (what ever that means nowadays) but it came out of nowhere for me. There are a few streamers playing it and it looks fine. And I get suspicious if everything looks legit.... Its not like 5 hours long, is it? It absolutely owns. I haven't finished it so I don't know how long it is but pretty sure I've been playing it for well over 5 hours and it doesn't seem to be ending very soon. I guess I'd estimate 10-12 hours but I can't find anything online that says exactly how long it takes. Regardless, it's a great game. A lot of the tools they give you are absolutely genius. The various Rites (powers) are all really useful in different ways. And when you finally get the Drift Trance ability it changes the way you fight completely. For my money it's got a good story that keeps me wanting to play, it looks really really nice, and the action is excellent and definitely the highlight. I might wish that there were difficulty levels, some spots can be pretty tough until you figure out what to do but overall it can be a bit easy, even on controller where it's harder to aim. Still I'm blown away. Way better than I honestly expected. Felt like it came out of nowhere after having a trailer with essentially no gameplay at all a year or two ago. Anyways, new games: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1721530/The_Captain/ https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256846545/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1630341015 The Captain looks like an interesting point and click space sim, looks like it's made up of light puzzles, choices, interactions with others, etc. quote:In this retro-inspired adventure game you will have to race back home across the galaxy. Collect new friends on your journey. Make new enemies. You won't be able to save everyone. Who will you leave behind? Which civilizations will you save - or destroy - along the way? https://store.steampowered.com/app/1487390/ANVIL/ https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256838651/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1623583561 ANVIL is a three quarter view action roguelite/shooter that looks like a fun, if kind of standard, arena action game where you use a bunch of abilities to fight swarms of enemies and eventually bosses. Early Access but appears to have quite a bit of content already. quote:Take on the role of a Vault Breaker in search of alien artifacts called “Vaults” and fight against monsters and powerful bosses, you can strengthen your Breakers to explore the farthest galaxy that no one has ever reached. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1433340/Happys_Humble_Burger_Farm/ https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256863258/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1638550444 Happy's Humble Burger Farm is a kind of first person bizarro horror game. Looks kinda fun actually if you're into such things. Probably a great streaming game. quote:Congrats, you're hired! Serve customers and maintain the Happy's Humble Burger Farm restaurant alone on the overnight. But be careful; things fall apart if you mess up! After work, head home and keep your eyes open for a way to escape the Barnyard Buds and their fast food fever-dream.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1579380/Shadow_Tactics_Blades_of_the_Shogun__Aikos_Choice/ The standalone expansion for Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is out now. 
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madfury posted:Has anyone played it? It screams everspace to me which I loved and it is a full game release (what ever that means nowadays) but it came out of nowhere for me. There are a few streamers playing it and it looks fine. And I get suspicious if everything looks legit.... Its not like 5 hours long, is it? I played the demo. It's really pretty and runs smoothly. But I absolutely suck at this type of game. I crashed my ship against the first encounter five times. I think, someone who has fun with flying games would enjoy it a lot. Hwurmp posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1579380/Shadow_Tactics_Blades_of_the_Shogun__Aikos_Choice/ I really want to hear impressions on this one. I liked the original a lot. Even did a pacifist run of the first level. That was super exhausting.
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Hwurmp posted:I've only played one mission so far, but it's more Shadow Tactics. Sold!
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KernelZee posted:So this game is coming out on the 24th, apparently it’ll be rimworld-like but with dwarves also…? Eternal curses to Prison Architect. Fugliest temp-dev-graphics-become-own-"style" I've ever seen and it already ruined RimWorld and now it's ruining another sim game. The graphics of these games don't need to be amazing, but you need to not sneer automatically when you see them. When your bad flashesque blobmen look worse than a tile fake-ascii tilesheet, it's time to rethink your art direction.
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Hwurmp posted:I've only played one mission so far, but it's more Shadow Tactics. This echoes my impression as well, and I fuckin loved the first one. Also, the first one is on sale for 4 (four!) dollars right now on Steam or GoG too so get both on the platform you like Dr_Amazing posted:I liked Shadow Tactics, but I'm so bad at it. From the standpoint of actually doing it right the first time so am I but fortunately this is the only game on earth that actively encourages you to savescum by showing you a timer when it's been more than a minute since you saved haha fast cars loose anus fucked around with this message at 07:06 on Dec 7, 2021 |
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Khanstant posted:Eternal curses to Prison Architect. Fugliest temp-dev-graphics-become-own-"style" I've ever seen and it already ruined RimWorld and now it's ruining another sim game. The graphics of these games don't need to be amazing, but you need to not sneer automatically when you see them. When your bad flashesque blobmen look worse than a tile fake-ascii tilesheet, it's time to rethink your art direction. I could maybe excuse it if the game is at least original, but lmao at this, it's literally a dwarf reskin of Rimworld even down to the UI buttons
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1507780/Space_Warlord_Organ_Trading_Simulator/quote:Buy, sell, and trade organs in a strange and evolving universe. Dive into the quivering innards of alien capitalism in the sci-fi body horror market tycoon game you didn't know you needed. quote:Mature Content Description
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StrixNebulosa posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1507780/Space_Warlord_Organ_Trading_Simulator/ Kinda looks like if you took the stonks part of Cruelty Squad and made it a whole game. I'm interested, will check this out today.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1158890/White_Shadows/ https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256859981/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1636629946 Monochrome adventure puzzle game White Shadows kind of looking like Limbo or Little Nightmares but with a very unique stylized look. quote:White Shadows is a cinematic puzzle-platformer where you play as a little Ravengirl trying to escape a brutal dystopia founded on oppression and violence that puts her at the bottom of its hierarchical social ladder. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1331210/Wolfstride/ https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256863777/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1638895319 ANOTHER monochrome game but with a much different look. An anime-looking RPG mech combat game Wolfstride quote:Get wrecked in this immature grown-up RPG about a trio of troublemakers stumbling their way through a giant mecha tournament. Repair and upgrade the team’s hand-me-down rig, pick up odd jobs to pay the bills, and battle the best-of-the-best all while running from the regrettable choices of the past. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1138850/Heavenly_Bodies/ https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256758822/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1637310207 Heavenly Bodies is another one of those awkwardly-controlling, physics gag games but I like the look of this one better than most and the setting looks great. Single player and co-op, co-op would probably be a lot of fun. quote:Wrangle the hands and arms of a 1970s space cosmonaut and push, pull and twist your way through an increasingly precarious range of physically simulated stellar scenarios, where without gravity, nothing is still, nothing is secure, and nothing is simple.
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Kid Hallowquote:Wear different costumes to get past different challenges in this precision puzzle platformer. Then build your own challenges in the level editor! Another update of an older game from the team that did Robot Wants It All.
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I'm looking forward to people's reports on Space Warlord Organ... I've bought too many first-day releases lately and am going to let somebody else break the frontier.
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grate deceiver posted:I could maybe excuse it if the game is at least original, but lmao at this, it's literally a dwarf reskin of Rimworld even down to the UI buttons How does this ruin Rimworld though? DId they make changes to it to follow suit? Asking because I'm trying to get into Rimworld and don't give a poo poo about (except hating the name, concept, and potentially the execution of) Prison Simulator.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I'm looking forward to people's reports on Space Warlord Organ... I've bought too many first-day releases lately and am going to let somebody else break the frontier. Pretty sure it's on gamepass fyi
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:How does this ruin Rimworld though? DId they make changes to it to follow suit? Asking because I'm trying to get into Rimworld and don't give a poo poo about (except hating the name, concept, and potentially the execution of) Prison Simulator. It ruins rimworld if you really hate that art style, I guess. Personally I find it fits rimworld just fine, but it doesn’t feel like a very dwarfy art style somehow.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I'm looking forward to people's reports on Space Warlord Organ... I've bought too many first-day releases lately and am going to let somebody else break the frontier. I haven't bought it yet but I'm watching a streamer play it on Twitch and it's way more hectic than I figured it would be (maybe in a good way?) The main loop seems to be having a real-time trading window of about 2 1/2 minutes during which you're accepting requests from various aliens (like "I need a lung and a bladder") and then trying to grab those off a scrolling list of parts but there's other AI traders grabbing them too, so you have to be fast. And then you can also invest in stocks for specific organs. Seems interesting, and I'd probably play it on Gamepass (if I had that), but also maybe overpriced at $16.99 so I might wait for a deeper sale price somewhere down the line. Also the music is good.
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https://twitter.com/microtrailers/status/1468246967679655943?s=20 Wow, what a weird blast from the past to release on Steam. Creatures Docking Station was the last release in the Creatures line and came out in 2001. One of the first virtual life type simulators, you get these Furby looking critters called Norns who have their own language, but you can teach them human speak (or there's an object that does it automatically) and they'll move around and do stuff with their own AI, but you can also help them by moving stuff in the environment, leading them by the hand, trying to teach them stuff, typing short commands to try and get them to do something, etc. They age, eventually die, mate, lay eggs which have a mix of the two parents' "DNA". There's also other creatures, these Ettins who walk around and just break your poo poo, and Grendels who like to hit the Norns and cause disease. And there's a genesplicer so you can create horrible Grendel/Norn hybrids. There's also a bunch of different Norn Genotypes with different characteristics, like some are more brave, some are more social, some are more hardy. I always thought it was pretty ambitious for its time, and I spent a lot of time messing with it back in the day. Docking station is a small four room thing which has everything you need to mess with the Norns, and that part is up on Steam for free. The main feature of Docking Station, however, was being able to send your Norns out online for people to use and getting some horrible Grendel/Ettin cross species nightmare back. That's all disabled now since the online servers are dead. But it still works as a free introduction. The important thing is that they have Creatures 3 up as a DLC for $5.99. The Docking Station is small, but Creatures 3 is a big world for them, and you can dock your docking station with it and then there's all these biomes like a jungle where they can catch diseases, and a volcano which they hate, and a beach which they like but they get lonely, etc. The biomes even have a rudimentary ecosystem. Really weird to see a re-release of this in 2021, but if you like virtual life sims and can get past figuring out how to play it (I don't recall any sort of a tutorial but there's a manual PDF available from the Steam store page, and according to the Steam forums, manuals for Docking Station and Creatures 3 are in the installation folder), it's probably worth picking up the free Docking Station part and then if you dig it, getting the full world for six bucks. It also sounds like there's a developer actually working on it and doing patches and stuff, here's the post about what the game has and some of the stuff they've patched in which used to be mods and whatnot: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1659050/view/3103539908188968529 StarkRavingMad fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Dec 7, 2021 |
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Hats Wouldnt Fly posted:FITS is really really good and I highly recommend the grappler deck if you wanna pretend you're big boss. Another voice for FITS, I bought in when it hit EA and loved it then, now that it's in 1.0 I'm back and it's better than ever. Just brilliant. Deserves to be known alongside StS as a time-eater.
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I kind of bounced off the demo of FiTS while it was still in EA, but bought the release version on a whim and have been enjoying it. Just wondering how much intergame progression I need to unlock the grappler deck. e: Just unlocked the grappler deck. Needs level 15 Hello Sailor fucked around with this message at 06:48 on Dec 8, 2021 |
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Palpek posted:Since Archvale got released on the Game Pass I gave it a ago and man it's a really solid rpg so far. It has a very nice combat model with bullet-hell elements - lots and lots of bullets everywhere but also you have an unlimited dodge that makes you invulnerable when active so the thing has a rhythm to it. Normally this wouldn't be my kind of game but thanks to Game Pass I'm hooked. Agreed I like it. Some elements maybe feel a little phoned-in, but it's very solid and a good time and has good dungeons without being overly complex in any area. Also thank gently caress it's not a roguelite.
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Snooze Cruise posted:looks like they are releasing two other games as well later in the month in the line I believe Albian Years was a compilation of Creatures 1 and 2 with some added packs. I think the other thing might have been aimed more at little kids? If I remember right, 3 was the best of the bunch anyway.
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