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StrixNebulosa: Feb 14, 2012; You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1009560/The_Tenants/

Early access

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Become a landlord and deal with problematic tenants as you build your rental property empire. Decide how to react to annoyed neighbors or police interventions. Will you rent your apartment to a college couple or an older lady with four cats?

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In this game you are a real estate agent & interior designer who is trying to make money by decorating other people's houses with a dream of owning your own apartments and renting them out to tenants.
Game fills a void that The Sims left behind albeit in this game you are just the decorator and the landlord. So The Sims minus the social interaction parts.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1455660/Out_of_the_Park_Baseball_22/

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Play What The Pros Play! Officially licensed by MLB, MiLB, and the MLBPA, Out of the Park Baseball 22 is the newest in the award-winning strategy series. Fun, authenticity, and depth make it a sports fan�s dream come true - and the only game ever to win Metacritic PC Game of the Year Award TWICE.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/829280/Kaze_and_the_Wild_Masks/

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Go on a journey as Kaze in this 90�s classics inspired platformer. When the Crystal Islands get cursed, Kaze needs to save her friend Hogo while facing enraged living vegetables. Find the Wild Masks to unleash the powers of the legendary guardians and master land, sky and sea.

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Donkey Kong Country - Steam Edition

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1341050/BALAN_WONDERWORLD/

Drops in 2 hours

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BALAN WONDERWORLD is a wondrous action platformer game themed around the Balan Theatre. Led by the enigmatic maestro named Balan, the stars of the show Emma and Leo will use special abilities from a multitude of characterful costumes as they adventure in the bizarre and imaginary land of Wonderworld. Here memories and vistas from the real world mix with the things that people hold dear.
Twelve different tales await our stars in the Wonderworld, each with their own unique quirks. They will explore all corners of these labyrinthine stages, filled with a myriad of tricks and traps, to get to the heart of each story.

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# ? Apr 24, 2024 14:49

Plebian Parasite: Oct 12, 2012

A slightly more inspired roguelike, Looking for Heals is based around the concept of being a healer of an mmo raiding guild, navigating around traps and keeping your team alive through big encounters

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1037750/Looking_for_Heals/

# ? Mar 26, 2021 16:56

Arsenic Lupin: Apr 12, 2012; This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.

I'm having fun with The Tenants. Also out this week, and also fun, is Mr. Prepper, in which you are a prisoner in a fascist United States and are building a bunker system under your house. Your ultimate goal is to build a rocket and get the hell out of Dodge. If you play, always be sure to read your journal after getting a quest; there is information in the journal that isn't given in the quests.

# ? Mar 26, 2021 17:09

StrixNebulosa: Feb 14, 2012; You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

https://store.steampowered.com/app/840390/Spacebase_Startopia/

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Spacebase Startopia captivates with its original mixture of economic simulation and empire building strategy paired with classic RTS skirmishes and a good dose of humor.

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The 10-mission, fully dubbed single-player Campaign will require all your skills as Commander of the Spacebase Startopia as you strive to create one of the most attractive trade and tourism destinations in the known universe.

Each of the three Decks will require your leadership skills, with the Sub Deck containing all of the Rooms vital to survival, while the Fun Deck focuses on your visitors and the flora and fauna found on the Bio Deck provides sufficient Resources for survival as well as a home to the graceful Dryads.

Prevail against your competitors, for you are not alone on the Space Station. Sabotage your opponents' economy or attack them with your Mech Units, conduct trade and beware of Space Pirates eager to board your Station.

The dynamic narrator AI �VAL� reacts to your decisions and is always at your side in both word and deed � and the occasional extremely unqualified comment.

In addition to the extensive single player Campaign, an individually configurable sandbox mode as well as both a competitive and a cooperative multiplayer mode for up to four players awaits you.

!!!! A remake to one of my favorite games is out!

# ? Mar 26, 2021 18:09

priznat: Jul 7, 2009; Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.

Oh poo poo I LOVED startopia!!

I know it was available on GoG etc but some things do not benefit from revisiting so I am always leery of doing that.

Hope this remake is good.

# ? Mar 26, 2021 18:24

StrixNebulosa: Feb 14, 2012; You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

priznat posted:

Oh poo poo I LOVED startopia!!

I know it was available on GoG etc but some things do not benefit from revisiting so I am always leery of doing that.

Hope this remake is good.

So far it's making me want to reinstall the original, the humor/writing is not good. One of the aliens is always wearing boxers with hearts on it.

The gameplay itself is (so far, I'm in the tutorial level) Startopia with some twists. You put food dispensers in berths, for example.

e: :sigh:

I don't like it. This sucks man.

StrixNebulosa fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Mar 26, 2021

# ? Mar 26, 2021 18:37

priznat: Jul 7, 2009; Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.

StrixNebulosa posted:

So far it's making me want to reinstall the original, the humor/writing is not good. One of the aliens is always wearing boxers with hearts on it.

The gameplay itself is (so far, I'm in the tutorial level) Startopia with some twists. You put food dispensers in berths, for example.

I remember Startopia being utterly charming with a really nice art style. I really enjoyed the multiple decks and being able to make a nice garden area in the �greenhouse� as well as giant discos in the level below.

Did it have difficulty to it like you could kill off everyone? I can�t even remember.

# ? Mar 26, 2021 19:10

StrixNebulosa: Feb 14, 2012; You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

priznat posted:

I remember Startopia being utterly charming with a really nice art style. I really enjoyed the multiple decks and being able to make a nice garden area in the �greenhouse� as well as giant discos in the level below.

Did it have difficulty to it like you could kill off everyone? I can�t even remember.

The OG Startopia had difficulty in that you could make people deeply unhappy, and/or you could get into sickness spirals. It was never a hugely difficult game, but if you were careless or built a bad station everything could spiral into unhappy people/sick people leaving or not paying for things meaning you're broke meaning you can't really afford to dig yourself out of the hole you're in.

Also, if you kept the place dirty enough the adorable space cats who visit your station could eat them and infect aliens into becoming giant bug monsters. That was great.

God I love the OG Startopia.

# ? Mar 26, 2021 19:12

5-Headed Snake God: Jun 12, 2008; Do you see how he's a cat?

I played the demo for Dandy Ace. It's not bad, but it does feel very much like a less satisfying Hades. The attack system, at least, is novel. You collect cards and can equip each one as either an attack or as a buff/modifier to an attack. You can also switch which card is assigned where on the fly, so there's room to experiment.

As I said, I didn't think it held up to Hades, but if it interests you, there's a demo. (Also, to the goon who said the quipping seemed annoying, you can turn that down or off.)

# ? Mar 26, 2021 22:13

Rebel Blob: Mar 1, 2008; Extinction for our time

StrixNebulosa posted:

So far it's making me want to reinstall the original, the humor/writing is not good. One of the aliens is always wearing boxers with hearts on it.

The gameplay itself is (so far, I'm in the tutorial level) Startopia with some twists. You put food dispensers in berths, for example.

e: I don't like it. This sucks man.

Unfortunately I think this was inevitable. Realmforge Studios is no Mucky Foot Productions, which had Bullfrog pedigree. It was doomed since Kalypso handed Startopia over the studio that made the Dungeons series, itself inferior in both gameplay and humor to Dungeon Keeper. Though it's inherently disastrous to entrust Germans with humor anyway.

# ? Mar 26, 2021 22:16

priznat: Jul 7, 2009; Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.

Dang sorry to hear it�s not great. Agreed about Bullfrog pedigree, that was a great game studio with fantastic design.

# ? Mar 26, 2021 22:26

KingKapalone: Dec 20, 2005; 1/16 Native American + 1/2 Hungarian = Totally Badass

Anyone know if It Takes Two has local co-op in PC too? One controller, one keyboard/mouse?

# ? Mar 27, 2021 00:35

Fate Accomplice: Nov 30, 2006

KingKapalone posted:

Anyone know if It Takes Two has local co-op in PC too? One controller, one keyboard/mouse?

https://www.co-optimus.com/game/6218/pc/it-takes-two.html

appears so

# ? Mar 27, 2021 01:23

KingKapalone: Dec 20, 2005; 1/16 Native American + 1/2 Hungarian = Totally Badass

ketchup vs catsup posted:

https://www.co-optimus.com/game/6218/pc/it-takes-two.html

appears so

I saw that and wasn't sure how confident I should be in it.

# ? Mar 27, 2021 03:16

Sway Grunt: May 15, 2004; Tenochtitlan, looking east.

5-Headed Snake God posted:

(Also, to the goon who said the quipping seemed annoying, you can turn that down or off.)

I was hoping that'd be the case, that's good to hear.

# ? Mar 27, 2021 10:51

Communist Bear: Oct 7, 2008

Sad to hear that Startopia remake is bad, but i'm honestly not surprised.

I've got the OG one on the steam library. Guess i'll install that if I want some nostalgia.

# ? Mar 27, 2021 11:01

FreelanceSocialist: Nov 19, 2002

Communist Bear posted:

Sad to hear that Startopia remake is bad, but i'm honestly not surprised.

I've got the OG one on the steam library. Guess i'll install that if I want some nostalgia.

Just posting to say that I was listening to the OST on repeat all week and installed OG Startopia this morning after learning that the remake is not good (yet). :smith:

# ? Mar 27, 2021 19:47

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

Morpheus posted:

There's one by the makers of Left 4 Dead, called Back 4 Blood.

Back 4 Blood got delayed till October.

# ? Mar 28, 2021 23:50

StrixNebulosa: Feb 14, 2012; You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1574000/Industry_Idle/

Early access, free to play with paid dlc

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Industry Idle is an idle game that combines factory building, resource management and market trading. Design & build your base, expand & scale up your productions, improve & optimize your economy. Plus all the incremental game goodies: offline earnings, prestige to unlock more powerful upgrades.

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Feature Highlights
- 60+ different factories to build and manage
- 50+ different resources to produce, buy and sell
- Realistic market simulation that challenges your trading skill
- Procedurally generated maps with both hex grid and square grid
- Unlock powerful policies that drastically change the gameplay
- Manage and optimize your economy with detailed charts and data tools
- Offline earning based on your company's valuation
- Prestige and unlock powerful upgrades

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1157700/Pro_Wrestling_Sim/

Early access

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Pro Wrestling Sim is a text-based pro-wrestling booking simulator. Control a wrestling promotion, decide your roster, and create storylines, feuds and matches where the winners and losers are in your hands.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1567480/Realtime_Mining_Simulator/

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Have you always wanted to mine crypto coins?
With the Realtime Mining Simulator this is no problem!

Simulate your success with the crypto currencies in the 3D real-time simulation.

Choose your best choice between various devices and graphics cards and put together a mining plan.

Choose between ASIC miner (Bitcoin) and graphics card miner (Ethereum) in the Early Access version.

Try to get the biggest profile with real-time currency prices, hardware prices and mining difficulty.

Simulate your own mining farm by adding your own graphics cards.

You can save your process and simulate the elapsed time while loading. This is how you get a 1:1 simulation.

# ? Mar 29, 2021 13:55

Cardiovorax: Jun 5, 2011; I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

The strange thing is, Bitcoin as cookie-clicker type game could probably be actually pretty fun. Well, as fun as idle games ever are.

# ? Mar 29, 2021 14:16

grate deceiver: Jul 10, 2009; Just a funny av. Not a redtext or an own ok.

Cardiovorax posted:

The strange thing is, Bitcoin as cookie-clicker type game could probably be actually pretty fun. Well, as fun as idle games ever are.

http://www.beepboopbitcoin.com/

# ? Mar 29, 2021 15:43

Skyl3lazer: Aug 27, 2007; [Dooting Stealthily]

Plebian Parasite posted:

A slightly more inspired roguelike, Looking for Heals is based around the concept of being a healer of an mmo raiding guild, navigating around traps and keeping your team alive through big encounters

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1037750/Looking_for_Heals/

If you like the idea of this but want a more complete version, check out Mini Healer

# ? Mar 29, 2021 21:38

gimme the GOD DAMN candy: Jul 1, 2007

why is the early access game a more complete version?

# ? Mar 30, 2021 01:11

Thirsty Dog: May 31, 2007

gimme the GOD drat candy posted:

why is the early access game a more complete version?

Better design? I dunno, I own mini healer and it's pretty rad, with a surprising amount of depth.

# ? Mar 30, 2021 08:16

Loddfafnir: Mar 27, 2021

Skyl3lazer posted:

If you like the idea of this but want a more complete version, check out Mini Healer

Mini Healer is nice.

# ? Mar 30, 2021 09:22

Cactus: Jun 24, 2006

Anyone played Evil Genius 2 yet? It's still unavailable for me but 6 friends have played it already according to Steam so any early impressions?

# ? Mar 30, 2021 13:20

Skyl3lazer: Aug 27, 2007; [Dooting Stealthily]

gimme the GOD drat candy posted:

why is the early access game a more complete version?

It has more content, both in bosses and healing styles and mechanics and such. As to why that is, idk ask the devs.

# ? Mar 30, 2021 13:45

haldolium: Oct 22, 2016

Shelter 3 came out today.

I wasn't aware that they even were developing a 3rd one until it popped up a few days back in my q.
This time it's with elefants
https://store.steampowered.com/app/977630/Shelter_3/

https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256828000/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1617092524

# ? Mar 30, 2021 16:38

StrixNebulosa: Feb 14, 2012; You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

https://store.steampowered.com/app/700600/Evil_Genius_2_World_Domination/

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A satirical spy-fi lair builder where YOU are the criminal mastermind! Construct your base, train your minions, defend your operations from the Forces of Justice, and achieve global domination!

Anonymous Robot posted:

One funny thing in a review was that the reviewer was complaining that henchmen had dynamic character traits, but were expended when being sent on missions.

No dude, they don�t have traits because you�re supposed to be growing these characters, it�s so you know your man has a German shepherd and likes to play the xylophone when you send him into an active volcano.

# ? Mar 30, 2021 16:46

StrixNebulosa: Feb 14, 2012; You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1546670/theHunter_Call_of_the_Wild__Bloodhound/

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Meet the Bloodhound, your new best friend and the first ever hunting dog in theHunter: Call of the Wild�. Use it to track the scent of blood from injured prey, match its traits to your hunting style, and forge a bond that will last a lifetime. The Bloodhound is the most efficient and loyal sidekick a hunter could ever want.

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Great for dumb clucks like me who lose blood trails far too easily, thanks to a poor sense of direction. Now when I shoot an animal I can just ask my four-legged friend to track and he does all the hard work for me, even barking for me when he finds the animal. He is levelling-up nicely and makes the world feel a little less lonely. Thank you EW and thank you to my new best friend, Titus the Bloodhound.

# ? Mar 30, 2021 16:49

grate deceiver: Jul 10, 2009; Just a funny av. Not a redtext or an own ok.

StrixNebulosa posted:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1546670/theHunter_Call_of_the_Wild__Bloodhound/

Wish this game was about just hiking and taking pictures, or doing some park ranger poo poo or something, because the environments are beautiful, but I just don't care about the hunting part

# ? Mar 30, 2021 21:29

Cardiovorax: Jun 5, 2011; I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

You can avoid killing animals for the most part, if you don't mind never really getting any new gear or leveling up. Since most gear or skills are just useful for killing things better, you wouldn't need them anyway. Just walking around, exploring the environments and taking in-game photographs is a fairly valid playstyle.

# ? Mar 30, 2021 21:32

Hello Sailor: May 3, 2006; we're all mad here

Cactus posted:

Anyone played Evil Genius 2 yet? It's still unavailable for me but 6 friends have played it already according to Steam so any early impressions?

No, but I wasted the whole day at work watching reviews and playthroughs. Looks like a pretty faithful recreation of the original, with updated graphics and good performance.

# ? Mar 30, 2021 23:10

d0grent: Dec 5, 2004

Cardiovorax posted:

You can avoid killing animals for the most part, if you don't mind never really getting any new gear or leveling up. Since most gear or skills are just useful for killing things better, you wouldn't need them anyway. Just walking around, exploring the environments and taking in-game photographs is a fairly valid playstyle.

Hell, you can avoid killing animals even if you're trying to kill animals! They hear you from miles away and avoid you like the plague. I do think a Pokémon snap style game with this environment would be more fun though, where you have someone judging your photos based on composition and level up/get money for new gear based on the pics you take.

# ? Mar 31, 2021 01:02

grate deceiver: Jul 10, 2009; Just a funny av. Not a redtext or an own ok.

Cardiovorax posted:

You can avoid killing animals for the most part, if you don't mind never really getting any new gear or leveling up. Since most gear or skills are just useful for killing things better, you wouldn't need them anyway. Just walking around, exploring the environments and taking in-game photographs is a fairly valid playstyle.

That's true I guess. I tried it for a while but couldn't get into it as purely a hiking simulator, I think I'd like some more incentive and progression

# ? Mar 31, 2021 12:32

StrixNebulosa: Feb 14, 2012; You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1252600/ANOTHER_EDEN/

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Game Overview
・Modern yet classic RPG transcending space and time
・An epic story across the Antiquity, Present, and Future, from master storyteller Masato Kato (Chrono Trigger)
・Including the main theme written by Mitsuda Yasunori, an original soundtrack with over 60 songs performed by orchestras and folk instruments

There's an incredible amount of content including individual character quests, subquests, episodic stories, and mini-games!
Experience a variety of story settings ranging from a dream-like school to the adventures of a wandering cat.

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Do i like this game? Yes.
Is the story good? Yes.
Is the event and side content amazing? Yes.
Is it grindy? YES!!
Is the gacha sucks? Absolutely TRASH!

Do i recommended you to play it? Yes! Just make sure you can control your spending.
Afteralll, you can pass all stages with default unit.

# ? Mar 31, 2021 13:49

champagne posting: Apr 5, 2006; YOU ARE A BRAIN
IN A BUNKER

Cactus posted:

Anyone played Evil Genius 2 yet? It's still unavailable for me but 6 friends have played it already according to Steam so any early impressions?

Hello Sailor posted:

No, but I wasted the whole day at work watching reviews and playthroughs. Looks like a pretty faithful recreation of the original, with updated graphics and good performance.

I've played it a bunch and while it's true to the original it's also pretty watered down. There's a couple of well written negative reviews on Steam with votes and they're spot on, I recommend reading those before buying. That is if you played the original. If you haven't then it's a great take on the villainous lair as a game.

# ? Mar 31, 2021 14:22

Third World Reagan: May 19, 2008; Imagine four 'mechs waiting in a queue. Time works the same way.

The negative reviews made me and my friends want to buy it even more

# ? Mar 31, 2021 16:04

champagne posting: Apr 5, 2006; YOU ARE A BRAIN
IN A BUNKER

Third World Reagan posted:

The negative reviews made me and my friends want to buy it even more

:justbuy:

# ? Mar 31, 2021 16:15

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# ? Apr 24, 2024 14:49

StrixNebulosa: Feb 14, 2012; You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

https://store.steampowered.com/app/944920/Nanotale__Typing_Chronicles/

Left early access

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Something is wrong with the heart of magic. Play a young archivist venturing out into a dying world, cataloging its mysteries and its wonders to unearth the truth. Nanotale is the new adventure from the Typing Chronicles franchise and the spiritual successor to the acclaimed Epistory.

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"This typing adventure RPG is the spiritual successor to Epistory. Cool magic system, nice upgrades, fun puzzles, & the graphics quality has stepped up. Partial EA content has players hungry for more."

# ? Mar 31, 2021 16:47

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