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doctorfrog posted:I'm playing around with Noise 1, which looks like a very light keyboard-based hacking adventure game, the kind where you remotely open doors for someone from a terminal, and it makes me wish (and not for the first time), that FPS heist games existed that used this kind of mechanic and role. Quadrilateral Cowboy (currently in the giant itch.io bundle)
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doctorfrog posted:I'm tempted myself, though I have no experience playing these things. I wanna know if you do an LP somewhere. It seems really interesting. It's basically about creating a story and using the mechanics of the game to support that story, so if you're playing by yourself you're basically just writing your own fiction where the results being positive/negative are outside your control. I'm really eager to play it with somebody else and try to create a story together. I think you could translate a solo game into an LP pretty effectively if you wanted to pace each update to end with some big narrative decision and then task the thread with coming up with the next move, then playing a bit more of the campaign out on your own before you reach the next big decision. Though that would largely hang on the writing ability of the OP because, again, you're basically just writing your own story with some light mechanics.
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doctorfrog posted:I'm tempted myself, though I have no experience playing these things. I wanna know if you do an LP somewhere. I've never done an LP before, but that's an idea.  , right?I'll think about it anyway.
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Hwurmp posted:Quadrilateral Cowboy (currently in the giant itch.io bundle) Oh right! Do the hacking and infiltration myself. How could I forget that one? MonsieurChoc posted:I've never done an LP before, but that's an idea.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Woah, solo ttrpg? That's an intriguing concept. It's astonishing how well it works. I was skeptical, but the "Oracles" the game uses to sort of simulate a GM's presence are so elegantly designed that it not only works, it works well. Agent355 posted:Yeah thats the first I'm hearing about something like that, definitely going to check it out. The Roll20.net implementation is excellent, agreed. There's also the Fusake Play Aid which I haven't tried, but have heard good things abouut.
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Just spent about half an hour playing Gutwhale and I am awful at it, but it's really neat. It kind of reminds me of Downwell (mostly due to the way the levels progress) and Spelunky and it's hard as balls. You're going through the guts of a whale for some reason, and you've got one bullet that you can shoot at a time (to start off with at least) to fend off the monsters on each floor. When you kill something, the bullet ricochets off its body and if you catch it before it hits the floor you can get a combo of points going that you can spend on upgrades. I'm going to blame how bad I am at it on my old Xbox 360 controller that seems to finally be dying after like eleven years of use, but I think it's also just loving difficult. It's well worth checking out, though.
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Kevin DuBrow posted:Stuff about Wizard When I read this post yesterday, I was wondering why "pregnancy imagery" would be in with the content warnings. Five minutes ago I just realized. 
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 No More Kings is a chess based puzzle game. The rules: - Kill the king - Before the king is killed, every other piece must be killed - You start as the red piece. You must eat a piece every move. - When you eat a piece, you become that piece and it turns red. Now that piece needs to kill another piece with a move. - So on and so forth until you Kill the King.   Arcade Spirits is an alternate reality visual novel where arcades thrived instead of dying off. You make a character (pronoun, hair, clothes colours of choice) who starts a new job at the arcade, where you meet characters, juggling your responses (stats) with the people you meet (relationship values). I finished a run in a few hours, it's pretty light and easy playing, especially if you keep it running and clicking buttons here and there as you do the work you're supposed to be doingshhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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ive been holding off on posting about games that look good but i havent tried but look at how loving cute this is  https://cardboardkeep.itch.io/puzzle-puppers
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Okay, this is a surprise. Dry Drowning. VN, been on my wishlist for a while.
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Awesome! posted:ive been holding off on posting about games that look good but i havent tried but look at how loving cute this is !! LEAD STRETCHABLE PUPPERS TO THEIR FOOD BOWL FOR HAPPINESS PUPPERS CAN GO AROUND BUT CANNOT CROSS EACH OTHER
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Dischorr_N posted:Okay, this is a surprise. Oh hey, this totally seems right up my alley. How have I not seen it before?
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New Ice York is a super weird adventure game.    Super dope soundtrack. About an hour and a half of total playtime I think. Worth it if you want to experience something bizarre. Downside is that the ending kind of comes out of nowhere and is just as weird as the rest of the game.
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Jordan7hm posted:New Ice York is a super weird adventure game. That's from the folks who made Mealmate, isn't it. Yep. It is.
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Chipmonk is literally Golden Axe but with chipmunks. Weird art but pretty playable. The only thing is that Golden Axe is not the best brawler series to emulate, but w/e. It has the same special attack system from Golden Axe 2 where how many "mushrooms" you have determines the power of the special attack. And like most Golden Axes, there's a part in the stage where special "item drop" enemies zoom around. Thumbs up Fossil Hunters seems like a cute chill game to play with a friend or while listening to a podcast. You run around a small dungeon floor mining/digging away the dirt/rocks to reveal fossils which you then drag around and stitch together with other fossils. There are side objectives asking to create unique skeletons with five spines or a double-head dinosaur, which reminds me a lot of the famous Bone Wars of history between Othniel Marsh and Edward Cope when they were just slapping bones together higgledypiggledy and hipfiring their descriptions out to get famous. Thumbs up Cecconoid is a 1-bit twin stick game, the kind I'm a sucker for. The only problem is that it's crazy hard, your pea shooter projectile is one pixel in size, and there are no continues. Thumbs down until I get good. I don't have the patience for that with so many other games to play. Resistance is Fruitile is a cute twin-stick shooter where sentient fruit have stolen your wedding cake and you have to get it back. It's a slower-paced shooter in the vein of Smash TV, and you can play either the bride or groom. i played as the bride who had a shotgun. upon levelling up you choose a card from a concentration board which gives you a passive perk. matching cards boosts the perk further. it's not a special game, it's just nice. a C+ game i'd say. a thumb up Retromancer is another twin-stick shooter, this one along the lines of Robotron 2084, with a presentation of like a neon-infused Atari 5200 game. This is another C+ one, so it's a thumb up, but it's not going to unseat Nuclear Throne or anything (which is also in the bundle). Zone of Lacryma is definitely a cut above the other shmups I've played in the bundle to date. I still wouldn't call it a grade A shmup, but it's very interesting. In order to both replenish your ammo and recharge your shield, you need to be using the turbo button to go faster through the level. Also, how powerful your shot is depends on how large your combo meter is. And because it's a modern indie game, there's XP and upgrade points to improve your ship's capabilities. Thumbs up, though I still haven't hit upon a top tier shmup in this bundle yet. And All Will Cry Beware is a retro-FPS in a surreal open world. This is the kind of game I'd never buy myself but am glad I played it as a part of a bundle. It actually is pretty clunky and awkward, but charming at the same time. Still a C+ thumb up rather than an enthusiastic review. Factory Hiro is a stressful conveyor belt management game where you have to package things the correct way and send them on to a delivery truck, and throw away the mistakes, by rotating arrows that direct the items where to go. This kind of puzzle game is too stressful for me but it seems like a solid game, and the cutscene art/font is by KC Green (Back, Gunshow). Total # of Games in Bundle: 1059. Games I'm Not Interested In: 122. Games Played and Still Interested: 87/937 (9.3%). Games Beaten: 62/87 e: I've gone through all of the pages and adjusted the game total #, and put 'not interested' on any multiplayer-focused game or game i've already played and given a thumbs down to. also i haven't beaten 62 games THIS WEEK, there obviously are games in the bundle i've already beaten from months/years ago. Games I Will Finish: A Hole New World, Fossil Hunters, Resistance is Fruitile, Soft Body, possibly Retromancer, Golf Peaks, My Rabbits Are Gone, Puzzle Puppers, And All Will Cry Beware, Ephemeral Tale, Zone of Lacryma, Mewnbase The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 13:45 on Jun 13, 2020 |
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I really appreciate how itch.io lets developers theme the content on their store pages. Some of them get very creative with it.
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ErrEff posted:I really appreciate how itch.io lets developers theme the content on their store pages. Some of them get very creative with it. Electric Zine Maker (in the bundle) is great for this: https://alienmelon.itch.io/electric-zine-maker
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Trying to play at least a few of these games. Got linked to here and to a database sorting tool from the SHMUP thread. Xenogunner - The only two mouse-aiming platformers I've liked so far are Abuse and Noitu Love 2. Pretty game, played for an hour or less, never gonna touch it ever again though. Risk System - four levels in of six if the UI isn't hiding more stages. Weird gimmick and the very slow horizontal move speed bothers me, but I do want to finish it once. They weren't kidding about screen flash/flicker in the warning. Dogs Throwing Swords II - Casual romp for a few minutes with cute dog sprites and a customizable dog patterns where you choose any three of the four types, duplicates allowed. Dungeons and Lesbians - Looked like a funny and lecherous VN. Instead it wasn't funny nor lecherous, and was just a dull meme sandwich. Finished one story path in ~20 minutes for a date at a local game store. Deleting it in a few minutes. Hellstar Squadron - Boring SHMUP with too much text, slow bullets, weirdly and drawn faces. Should have quit after the first level.
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Puzzle Puppers is simple but charming. I blazed through the first 30 levels pretty quickly-- 30 itself is a bit of a difficulty spike, and it drops down again afterward. I think I'm up to level 38 or so? Go Morse Go! is delightful and creative but I do wish it kind of expanded upon its concept a bit more. It feels like a demo. Hot Pot Panic makes me very happy that my girlfriend and I both have ADHD and definitely understand if the other person gets distracted occasionally, especially when there's food involved. If a date is as stressful as this game makes one feel, that person probably ain't for you.
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Big Mad Drongo posted:Ooh, I've had my on eye this for a bit. It's from the creator of Pony Island, one of the best "super meta game about hacking the game" games. He does a good job keeping things varied as opposed to making a normal game except you call the mechanics hacking. The Hex loving rules, don't let the fact that the characters look like they were made in GoAnimate scare you off because it's a really creative and funny and at times even emotional game. Much like Pony Island it takes what would have been a really lame end game twist in a lesser work (that all the characters at the bar are video game protagonists existing in limbo after their various games failed and their developer moved on to his next project) and just puts it front and center right at the beginning and instead uses it as a narrative and gameplay device. The gameplay is like a less lovely version of Evoland where each character plays like their respective genre (a turn based strategy game, a JRPG, a first person shooter, etc) and while the core gameplay is serviceable it's mostly used in the service of puzzles, narratives, and jokes. Like the JRPG part has a segment where an ethereal Twitch chat pops up every now and then showing an audience reacting to the game and giving some flavor about the fictional game developer, eventually actually becoming a gameplay mechanic as a poster keeps "spoiling" puzzle solutions for you and warning about glitches and balance issues despite frequent warnings about getting banned because it's a spoiler-free chat. strange feelings re Daisy posted:Anarcute, the riot simulator featuring cute animals, was pulled because there was something wrong with the files but it has been resubmitted so expect to see it soon. The actual gameplay is kind of all over the place but the soundtrack is great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hldGhy2Ot60
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Rock Paper Shotgun just put up a Priceless Play on some of the more obscure games:Kat Brewster posted:Democratic Socialism Simulator: Molleindustria has done it again, folks. In Democratic Socialism Simulator, you have just been elected president of the United States! Congratulations. Of course, as the first Democratic Socialist President, you have a lot of work to get done. Through a series of amusing-but-difficult choices, it’s your job to try and effect change. What will the New Pork Times have to say about your new policies? Will Fox News (run by real, actual foxes) bring your presidency to its knees?????
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Sleeveless posted:The Hex loving rules, don't let the fact that the characters look like they were made in GoAnimate scare you off because it's a really creative and funny and at times even emotional game. Much like Pony Island it takes what would have been a really lame end game twist in a lesser work (that all the characters at the bar are video game protagonists existing in limbo after their various games failed and their developer moved on to his next project) and just puts it front and center right at the beginning and instead uses it as a narrative and gameplay device. The gameplay is like a less lovely version of Evoland where each character plays like their respective genre (a turn based strategy game, a JRPG, a first person shooter, etc) and while the core gameplay is serviceable it's mostly used in the service of puzzles, narratives, and jokes. Like the JRPG part has a segment where an ethereal Twitch chat pops up every now and then showing an audience reacting to the game and giving some flavor about the fictional game developer, eventually actually becoming a gameplay mechanic as a poster keeps "spoiling" puzzle solutions for you and warning about glitches and balance issues despite frequent warnings about getting banned because it's a spoiler-free chat. Can you spoil me on whether The Hex is scary? I got it a while back and that first dark bar setting seems scary and I am bad with horror, particularly jump scares, even when I can predict them.
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All of these are just the obvious games you already know about. Sorry. Interstellaria: FTL but not really. Buggy and unfinished but kind of fun. Not much to do in it. Very sloppy made. Mewnbase: Don't Starve but no danger. Not enough to do in it, but it is solid. Sky Rogue: Pretty good. Shoot mans, upgrade weapons, shoot more mans. Pikuniku: Very good. Platform adventure game with fetch quests and fun characters. Play this. Picky Pop: Very simple puzzle game with good mechanic. Cardinal Chains: Good puzzle mechanic. Play it if you want chill little easy puzzles. Cook Serve Delicious 2: I have no idea what is going on. I think it is some kind of keyboard exercise game. Minit: Great fun adventure game. Play. Odd Realm: Really solid city builder village management thing. But it is way too easy and there isn't really anything to do in it. Probably play in a year or two. Lenna's Inception: Fun zelda game. Play. A Short Hike: Fun adventure game with nice movement and excellent pacing. Super chill. Play. Overland: Solid but kind of shallow. Good to run few a few times. ------------- Eizoku: Waste of time. Sillybones fucked around with this message at 15:01 on Jun 13, 2020 |
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Sagebrush isn't bad. It nails the creepy feeling that walking around a disused cult compound at dusk would give. The graphics are very low-fi which adds to the spoopy atmosphere. The puzzles are basically "find key or code/unlock door to next set-piece", but the game is more about the narrative than the gameplay, so that's fine. The main issue I had with it is that the female narrator's VA is perfectly fine and even somewhat believable, but the VA for the cult leader is just terrible. I'm fairly certain it's the game's author doing it, but...well a cult leader should be charismatic and have a strong voice with a powerful delivery. It should reek of self-confidence. The dev sounds like a 25 year-old kid playing youth minister. It also sounds like he's recording at night and doesn't want to wake the house up, so he's keeping his voice very quiet. It really took me out of the game, unfortunately. Still, worth a gander - it only takes 1 to 1.5 hours.
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Artelier posted:Can you spoil me on whether The Hex is scary? I got it a while back and that first dark bar setting seems scary and I am bad with horror, particularly jump scares, even when I can predict them. I'd rate it on like a 3 or 4 out of 10 on the spooks scale, its got some unnerving stuff towards the back end but no jump scares or going full horror.
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Is there an easy way to sort these by platform? I’d like to sort between PC and mobile if possible. I swear I saw some of these games say they were available on Android as well, probably an APK download from itch.
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Artelier posted:Can you spoil me on whether The Hex is scary? I got it a while back and that first dark bar setting seems scary and I am bad with horror, particularly jump scares, even when I can predict them. There are no jumpscares. It does get plenty creepy at time, though.
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Almost everything I've played has been mentioned in the thread already, but I do have one thing to add: The Sword and the Slime    Short, somewhat puzzle somewhat platformer game. You control a floating sword with the mouse and have a slime following you. Your goal is generally to get both of you to the exit of each level. The visual style is sharp and pretty well-done, with some charming details in the animations and mechanics. The gameplay is unique and quite interesting, but can be frustrating; it sometimes feels like you're platforming with the slime using mouse controls on a two-second delay - which is exactly as fun as it sounds - and while the restart is fast it's not fast enough. I'd still say the game is worth the time to try out, though.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Is there an easy way to sort these by platform? I’d like to sort between PC and mobile if possible. I swear I saw some of these games say they were available on Android as well, probably an APK download from itch. From the random bundle game (which is now also a browser) there seems to be a Smartphone filter, try that? https://randombundlegame.com/browse?inputs=Smartphone
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Going to put a solid rec (or second?) in for Witchway, a cute and really well-designed puzzle-platformer.      It's one of those games that has one core mechanic -- shoot magic orbs at blocks to gain the ability to move and manipulate them -- and explores it thoroughly, with 26 rooms that each has a different variation on one of three core themes. The main path is pretty smooth sailing, but for as short as the game is it's packed with optional (and sometimes secret!) objectives, which can easily double the playtime and which push the difficulty up nicely, though never so hard that it gave me trouble for more than a minute or two. It's charming, elegant and short. Worth playing!
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Artelier posted:From the random bundle game (which is now also a browser) there seems to be a Smartphone filter, try that? https://randombundlegame.com/browse?inputs=Smartphone Awesome, that’s exactly what I wanted, thanks!
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Scrapper - I'm kind of torn on this one. Nice presentation for a 'navigate a messy space at speed' spaceship game. Good number of mission types, the unlocks are just slight variations on ship components. Feels too 'constant attention' especially since there's no reason not to just go straight - more arena is generated ahead of wherever you fly. Despite it being quick to exhaust what it offers I kind of want to play more.
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The 7th Guest posted:only game I can think of is Clandestine, which has middling reviews on Steam Clandestine is wonderful. I think. I don't know, I was drunk the whole time. But it's great, and people should play it.
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Artelier posted:Can you spoil me on whether The Hex is scary? I got it a while back and that first dark bar setting seems scary and I am bad with horror, particularly jump scares, even when I can predict them. There aren't any jump scares in the game, there is a recurring character that is introduced in the second level or so that is incredibly obviously the spooky malevolent figure that knows more than they're letting on but it's not really a scary game. I think tonally the darkest it gets is more akin to something like The Beginner's Guide than an actual horror game.
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Thank you for The Hex info! Will continue my game in bright days then  Jim Silly-Balls posted:Awesome, that’s exactly what I wanted, thanks! I messed around with random bundle game page filters and realised you can select by platform, so you can just do Android straight: https://randombundlegame.com/browse?inputs=Smartphone
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I've been putting things I like into a collection with little blurbs as I try stuff out. There's some things I downloaded pre-bundle in there though. Right now I'm having a good time going through Bold Blade, a action RPG / beat-em-up with a very silly control scheme where your primary means of leveling up is to make your sword bigger and bigger into absurdity. As you go through the stages you get spells and lots more stats to upgrade. It's pretty fun! 
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The 7th Guest posted:only game I can think of is Clandestine, which has middling reviews on Steam Well, that ain't nothing. At least it exists!
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