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Nope, it is not even close to something like Hollow Knight or even Sundered. It only superficially resembles the genre because it has the 'find item, open new route' sort of mechanic, but it feels more like a key than a new means of traversal. You literally can't even jump, Ori this is not  If you're only interested in the gameplay, I'd stay far away, there are plenty of games that do what this game does far better. If the setting and weirdness are appealing though, I'd check it out. You can definitely see if you dig it inside the refund window, a first playthrough is probably ~6 hours or so?
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However that sounds like it's for me so thank you! Straight to the wishlist it goes!
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Check out The Eternal Castle as well. It's pretty short - I finished it in 2,5hrs, though there's a new game+ and some hidden stuff, but the style and music is out of this world. The visuals are also pretty cool for being 2-bit color, it's like a super stylish synthwave music video.
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On the subject of Metroidvanias, I've recently enjoyed Cathedral which can best be described as a Shovel Knight take on the genre. Combat isn't especially complex, but the exploration and secret stuff is really well done. Edit: Oops, thought this was the general Steam thread. Cathedrals still worth a look though. Fatty fucked around with this message at 02:31 on Jan 7, 2021 |
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grate deceiver posted:Check out The Eternal Castle as well. It's pretty short - I finished it in 2,5hrs, though there's a new game+ and some hidden stuff, but the style and music is out of this world. The visuals are also pretty cool for being 2-bit color, it's like a super stylish synthwave music video. I've been trying to get into this but I feel like I'm missing something with the melee combat, I keep getting ruthlessly destroyed. Is this a case where my approach is wrong and I need to be wholesale avoiding combat in the screens I get wiped on (thinking the disco/danceclub early on for example) or have you got any tips that might help?
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Mode 7 posted:I've been trying to get into this but I feel like I'm missing something with the melee combat, I keep getting ruthlessly destroyed. It's been a while so I don't remember if there's some trick to the disco part, but combat is pretty straightforward - you should be able to find a weapon somewhere nearby and just mash through them. If you do the city level first (the top right one), there's an item that boosts your melee damage there (and another one for stealth).
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Holy poo poo, GearHead is still going on? The previous ones were pretty cool, you could build some crazy mechs
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i tried playing this one but from all i could tell you could only use mouse and it turn me off instantly, but maybe i am a dummy who missed something. also i don't think it had the jets yet which are my favorite lol. there is something satisfying zooming around a jet fighting mechs.
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The rules don't say you can't promote your own releases, so here I go! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX2DWOwFdsM  https://store.steampowered.com/app/1481960/Death_off_the_Cuff__Remastered/ http://www.sichris.com/Games/Cuff My award-winning interactive fiction game, "Death off the Cuff", is now out on Steam in a remastered edition with graphical interface, music, and never-before-seen extra content. The game involves bluffing your way through the closing monologue of a cozy mystery, without revealing that you have no idea whodunnit.
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Instant buy for me after playing PataNoir. I already love and play a lot of IF, but PataNoir was on Emily Short levels of clever. I also really love the GUI and could spend hours just turning the pages, I wish I had a touch-screen just for that.
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SimonChris posted:The rules don't say you can't promote your own releases, so here I go!
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SimonChris posted:The rules don't say you can't promote your own releases, so here I go! Bought this too to show some support! 
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SimonChris posted:The rules don't say you can't promote your own releases, so here I go! Oh cool, didn't realise you were a goon! I haven't been keeping up with the IF scene for ages but PataNoir was great, bought and looking forward to playing it.
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hexceed, the F2P hexcells, is out!
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StrixNebulosa posted:hexceed, the F2P hexcells, is out! Game looks cool. Download was 180MB, but the install is fuckin 3.7GB somehow o_O
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Glory to Italia!
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EVERSPACE 2 EA, which had been pushed back due to Cyberpunk is finally out today https://store.steampowered.com/app/1128920/EVERSPACE_2/ 
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The first round of user reviews sold me on giving it a go, even though I hardly ever buy $40 games -- especially early access ones.
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StrixNebulosa posted:hexceed, the F2P hexcells, is out! thanks for posting this, already completed the first two worlds and bought the discounted year one pass. puzzles and the new mechanics seem fun so far. not sure why it they needed some sort of 3d engine for this though, now my laptop's fan is very agitated for pretty much no reason. edit: it's also a bit on the easy side if you're already accustomed to the brainbusters of laters hexcells levels. breezing through the levels is still fun and relaxing for me though, but I do hope it gets somewhat harder in later levels. also yes turning vsync on helped with the fans, thanks! Oenis fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Jan 19, 2021 |
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Their previous game, Coloring Pixels, gets my laptop all heated up every once in a while. It's also extremely slow to load and to exit. I think they're just not great at optimization.
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Edit: VSync is in the options, pull the FPS slider down and the fans should stop.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1366540/Dyson_Sphere_Program/ Dyson Sphere Program has been released. It looks interesting - like some sort of Factorio but with planets and alot more automation.   
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"Factorio but you can literally eat planets" sounds like a game I would want to play, but I don't think I'm up for another EA title right now. Looks neat, though. Not a lot of games that will actually let you build a Dyson Sphere to scale.
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https://twitter.com/YachtClubGames/status/1352368039602216961?s=20Communist Bear posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1366540/Dyson_Sphere_Program/ That looks gorgeous but also like the kind of thing I'd be bad at 
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Zaphod42 posted:Shovel Knight devs made a Ninja Gaiden type game?! Sign me up they're only publishing it, but it looks really good
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That dyson sphere game might peel me away from Satisfactory, I am intrigued!
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Zaphod42 posted:https://twitter.com/YachtClubGames/status/1352368039602216961?s=20 It's going to be a tough fight to take the Best Game Whose Elevator Pitch is "Member Ninja Gaiden?" crown away from The Messenger, but I wish them luck. Looks like it'll be on Game Pass, so I'll give it a shot.
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priznat posted:That dyson sphere game might peel me away from Satisfactory, I am intrigued! It's so far so Factorio, even down to the whole having to build research buildings and feeding them blue/red/green things. I think it opens up a bit later on, but so far it feels a bit plagiaristic.
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Well, if you're going to steal, you might as well steal from the best.
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Cardiovorax posted:Well, if you're going to steal, you might as well steal from the best. This seems to be the lesson games studios refuse to learn.
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Boiled Water posted:This seems to be the lesson games studios refuse to learn. Yeah lmao.
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I'm really digging Dyson Sphere Project but I've been on a big Factorio/Satisfactory kick recently. The visuals are great and the camera perspective is basically perfect for this type of game. While it is very similar to Factorio so far I haven't even made it off the first planet and it feels like a lot of the real meat of it is going to be setting up interplanetary logistic chains
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Thoom posted:It's going to be a tough fight to take the Best Game Whose Elevator Pitch is "Member Ninja Gaiden?" crown away from The Messenger, but I wish them luck. Looks like it'll be on Game Pass, so I'll give it a shot. i wasn't as down on the metroidvania half of the messenger as others were but it was a clear step down from the first half of the game
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I never got into Factorio but Satisfactory being very chill with not really much in the way of threats and no penalties for building wrong means it is the ideal relaxing game for me. I don’t care as much for building games that punish you if you go down a wrong path (ie costing resources when you disassemble stuff or closing off research avenues). Is Dyson Sphere game pretty chill too?
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Thoom posted:It's going to be a tough fight to take the Best Game Whose Elevator Pitch is "Member Ninja Gaiden?" crown away from The Messenger, but I wish them luck. Looks like it'll be on Game Pass, so I'll give it a shot. I kinda got more of a Sunsoft Batman feeling from it.
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