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ultrafilter posted:The Looker I wanted to play this because I love short parody games but it has zero configuration options. No mouse invert, no key binding, no audio controls, no nothing. The dev has said he'll add some but until then my upside down brain can't process it 
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ultrafilter posted:The Looker Having just come off of finishing this, it's completely worth checking out. It works not just as a parody, but also as a half-decent puzzle game all of its own.
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Thirding The Looker. It's got a few genuinely clever puzzles (and one really bullshit achievement), most of the jokes landed, and the ending was pitch perfect. Took just under an hour and a half, including a bit of dicking around and calling a friend over to watch.
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I didn't bother to make a steam review yet, but I personally recommend it.
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Foul Fowl posted:check out dread delusion Seconding this. I've been keeping an eye on this game since it premiered in that Dread XP Collection ages ago. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1574240/Dread_Delusion/ I'm holding out for it to get a lil' more time in the oven, but anyone with a hankerin' for PSX graphics and/or something that wears its Morrowind inspiration on its sleeve (while very much having an identity of its own), absolutely keep an eye on this game.
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Infinite Turtlesquote:Design computational circuits which defy restrictions of our universe in this open-ended puzzle. Your completed creations become components to solve future challenges. As you design a circuit and can place your design within it, where there is a smaller you doing the same, and so on to infinity. 12 reviews, 100% positive. Lots of comparisons to Zachtronics in the highlighted reviews.
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ultrafilter posted:Infinite Turtles It is interesting, but there are a few negative points - almost every later game level comes down to avoiding concurrency issues, so you have to spend valuable space on putting locks everywhere. This gets even worse when some of your earlier modules worked fine, but you realize once they are part of a larger system, everything gets slightly out of sync. Also, the scoring system seems to take account all the specs of your current submodules, which means if you want to optimize and come on the leaderboards, you can only optimize for one or the other, as you have to change all the modules over to be faster/smaller.
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Mystic Mongol posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA7aG1C5FU0 Just wanted to pop in and warn people that the leaderboards are beginning to bloat up with impossible scores. The game itself is still extremely satisfying and fun to play, but the quest to be the very best is slightly damaged by the fact that there are thousands of completely fictitious times.
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ultrafilter posted:Infinite Turtles Tried the demo. It's a fun concept but the UI is pure assgravy.
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Mystic Mongol posted:Just wanted to pop in and warn people that the leaderboards are beginning to bloat up with impossible scores. The game itself is still extremely satisfying and fun to play, but the quest to be the very best is slightly damaged by the fact that there are thousands of completely fictitious times. I always wonder about these. Every game with a world leaderboard seems packed with them. Simple hacks to submit fake scores?
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Gynovore posted:Tried the demo. It's a fun concept but the UI is pure assgravy. It reminds me of the Factorio pre-alpha UI:  If they had shipped the game in this state, it wouldn't have been such a massive success. Looks like Infinite Turtles wants to prove me wrong.
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Goodpancakes posted:I always wonder about these. Every game with a world leaderboard seems packed with them. Simple hacks to submit fake scores? Yeah probably. People lie about the most meaningless stuff online, it's weird.
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This is related to a pet peeve of mine, games with forced leaderboard submissions. In singleplayer games I sometimes enjoy cheating, and I don't want scores affected by that gumming up the leaderboards. Thankfully these days almost every game with online leaderboards let you decide whether to upload your score or not, but for the few games that don't it's really annoying to me.
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Zachlikes do the sensible thing and simulates your submitted solution. I think Doom used to record gameplay as just your inputs to save disk space, so something like that could work. Otherwise you shouldn't bother having an online leaderboard as it becomes meaningless in days from cheaters.
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Magoquote:Mago is a retro 2D platformer that puts us in the boots of a sorcerer, who was unfortunate enough to eat evil overlords' food. Now he has to rescue his beloved princess from the dinner menu of the evil Gourmet! Nostalgia awaits! Not enough reviews to have a score yet, but the demo is sitting at 88% positive based on ~550 reviews.
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Goodpancakes posted:I always wonder about these. Every game with a world leaderboard seems packed with them. Simple hacks to submit fake scores? Haven't played Neon White itself but it's (usually) trivially easy to do something like freeze a timer in a game using CheatEngine, which people could do for all kinds of reasons like maybe they're going for a specific achievement and sick of a time limit placed on it, or because they have disabilities that make it hard to play games and the time limit is too restrictive for them, or just cheating in general because that's how they prefer to play games. So it's possible that they weren't cheating just to intentionally poo poo on the leaderboards, especially if it's like AG3 mentioned where you can't choose not to submit. But yeah it's mostly that scores and timers are almost always entirely trivial to modify and that any system of preventing leaderboard cheating is generally a lot of work to design and implement. deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 01:48 on Jun 22, 2022 |
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It's effectively impossible to prevent that kind of clientside cheating for a game like Neon White beyond having serverside sanity checks, but even that's merely gonna stop someone from submitting above whatever the maximum high score for a level is. Sometimes even that's a difficult thing for the devs to determine if it isn't completely deterministic; there was a fairly infamous Trackmania cheating scandal that surfaced a year back where the devs were using a cheater's faked times as benchmarks for track target times.
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Mystic Mongol posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA7aG1C5FU0 Can confirm, this game is good. I also sweated pretty hard on it. The writing is absolutely atrocious approaching Borderlands sequels tier but the gameplay is spectacularly fun. 
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Most scoreboard submits are just an API endpoint as well, and usually you can jank up any kind of payload into there if the devs aren't careful with sanity/security checking
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AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative released early I think (should have been 26th originally) and it seems as good as the first one from ~3 hours of playing. The setup is bonkers so it got me hooked real good.
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https://www.gog.com/game/virtuaverse?utm_medium=editorial&utm_source=content&utm_campaign=2022060_summer_sale_gog&utm_term=EN Virtuaverse is free on gog for the next day or so. Maybe not technically a new release but its new to me. And free.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1814170/Lingo/ Not exactly a 'fresh' release, but also a pretty unknown game. Despite the fact that it looks like it was built in minecraft it's got solid gameplay, playing like a mixture of antichamber, the witness, and a crossword puzzle. As one of the 2 people who have actually gotten the mastery achievement, I'd say it's worth the 5 dollar summer sale price. 4/1
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Plebian Parasite posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1814170/Lingo/ Seemed interesting so I picked it up. The controls are a bit wonky. If you press forward and strafe at the same time, then release forward you just stop moving. That really fucks me up for some reason. Some of these puzzles are really obtuse as well. Do the pictures on the wall mean anything or are they just intended for orienting yourself?
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Oldstench posted:Seemed interesting so I picked it up. The controls are a bit wonky. If you press forward and strafe at the same time, then release forward you just stop moving. That really fucks me up for some reason. Some of these puzzles are really obtuse as well. Do the pictures on the wall mean anything or are they just intended for orienting yourself? Some of them are mario style 'jump into them to teleport'. The central room will get more and more portraits to use as fast travel the more of the world you explore.
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Plebian Parasite posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1814170/Lingo/ I gave it a shot after seeing it was word-based, but I don't think it's for me. It seems too abstract for me in how it introduces its various rules, and after looking up a starter guide for some of them I don't think I could keep track of everything that well. I also get the impression that I would just rapidly get completely lost as more areas open up. So, it seems like an interesting idea that I'd recommend looking into, but unfortunately it didn't hook me.
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Pixel Samuraiquote:A journey of a lost samurai. Encounter five samurai and challenge them to a duel. Unleash your katana strike and deflect incoming attacks. Fight for honor or die with shame. 100% positive based on 15 reviews.
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Whomever posted The Shotgun King a while back - bless your heart. It’s so good. It’s so tight. It’s so fun.
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Had Civvie 11 on in the background the other day, and he did a quick blurb on Fashion Polic Squad Only a demo for now, but it's fun and fabulous! quote:Calling all officers! I've got a Fashion Crime in Progress and I'm mobilizing all Fashion Police Squad members. Grab your Belt of Justice and your Tailormade Sewing Machine, we've got some Fashion Justice to dispense!
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The Steam API release date for that is August (along with Cultic) but that's never 100% accurate. the demo was fun, yeah
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madmatt112 posted:Whomever posted The Shotgun King a while back - bless your heart. It’s so good. It’s so tight. It’s so fun. Game's a fuckin' banger
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The 7th Guest posted:The Steam API release date for that is August (along with Cultic) but that's never 100% accurate. the demo was fun, yeah Oh neat, I hope that's accurate since I've played through the demo at least three times now and have been looking for any updates on when it's coming. Out of curiosity, where is it that you found this out? Are there websites that scrape this data or what?
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juicefest posted:Oh neat, I hope that's accurate since I've played through the demo at least three times now and have been looking for any updates on when it's coming. Out of curiosity, where is it that you found this out? Are there websites that scrape this data or what? SteamDB shows details like that as well as the most recent store page update
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[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1969080/A_Building_Full_of_Cats/]A Building Full of Cats[/url]quote:A Building Full of Cats is a hidden object game where you need to pet all the cats in the building. Don't leave any cat behind! 100% positive based on 136 reviews.
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just an update: Fashion Police Squad releases August 15th, Gloomwood releases in Early Access on the 16th.
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I haven't had chance to play it yet, but Neon Blight has just released on steam and it looks pretty swoosh! I don't know if it's an early access sorta deal as the page does not seem to say as much. It's a roguelite shop keeping game where you sell all of the unused weapons you find to pundits in your shop and likely more aside. The eventual goal is to aquire the ultimate weapon, which sounds interesting to say the least. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1360660/Neon_Blight/ Only nine reviews as of this posting, but they are mainly positive.
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Tombot posted:I haven't had chance to play it yet, but Neon Blight has just released on steam and it looks pretty swoosh! I don't know if it's an early access sorta deal as the page does not seem to say as much. It's a roguelite shop keeping game where you sell all of the unused weapons you find to pundits in your shop and likely more aside. The eventual goal is to aquire the ultimate weapon, which sounds interesting to say the least. It's now up to 16 reviews, mostly negative.
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Big Earthquote:In a post-apocalyptic future where Earth's resources have been consumed, Kyle Seed tries to recover capsules containing special seeds and the energy needed to save humanity's future. Big Earth is a platform game with challenging puzzles. 90% positive based on 10 reviews.
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ultrafilter posted:Big Earth Heh, Kyle Seed.
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'Fun game, but hearing the main guy say "Time to spread my Seed...my Kyle Seed....all over this planet" after picking up every collectible it starts to lose its shine'
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Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate got a pc release today, 10 years after it first released on consoles  https://store.steampowered.com/app/1879330/WARRIORS_OROCHI_3_Ultimate_Definitive_Edition/ https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256888473/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1657630825 It likely won't change your mind if you don't like Musou games, but if you're a fan it is absolutely the best, most content-packed game in the series. It's basically the best of all elements of the mainline Musou games (Dynasty Warriors + Samurai warriors) mashed together Through the magic of Mystical Technology Bullshit time travel happens and the cast of Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors get drawn into the same dimension and then united by ancient Chinese mythological figures, all three join forces and then summon historical figures like Achilles and Joan of Arc and then crossovers from other video games like Ninja Gaiden and Soul Calibur. Fair warning: Being an old game the DW/SW rosters are lifted from DW7 and SW3 so they don't have some of the newer moveset improvements from later games but they were all given unique movesets so there are no clones, then there's a ton of unlockable costumes, weapons, mounts, etc. to farm for, grinding for perfect weapons - also you choose 3 characters to play as at a time and freely swap between them in battle. TL;DR: It's the Marvel vs Capcom of Musou games and has a gigantic roster and all of the best systems from the earlier games, tons of stages, tons to grind for if that's your thing.
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