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This thread knows about this spreadsheet, right? It's still getting updated, with steam review stats and so on.
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90s Cringe Rock posted:This thread knows about this spreadsheet, right? It's still getting updated, with steam review stats and so on. I didn't. Exactly what I was looking for, thanks!
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Jun 13, 2020 20:29
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I wonder how this is going to be as a cultural snapshot. A whole bunch of people just got a huge set of the same games, all at the same time, the vast majority of them being very different from the usual stuff that shows up at a steam sale. In the meantime, other games will come out, which maybe you'll buy or not buy, but a sizable number of people still all have the same 1700 games sitting there. If you don't have the cash for a new game, it's cheaper, faster, and possibly more socially rewarding (?) to just dig through this bundle and bring something out.
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Jun 13, 2020 21:32
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Oh, I fully don't intend to buy any new video games for at least a couple years.
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Jun 13, 2020 21:42
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El Fideo posted:Oh, I fully don't intend to buy any new video games for at least a couple years. Same, this bundle just quadrupled my backlog and *immediately purchases persona 4* poo poo
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Jun 13, 2020 22:24
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It's been mentioned in the thread, but I want to give a thumbs up to Astrologaster  The 'read the stars to diagnose your patient' mechanic pretty much always lets you read whatever you want into a situation, so the gameplay varies between paying attention to symptoms and reading social and political cues. Quite strong reactivity considering the limited scope. The writing is quite fun at times, although there is also some dark stuff there too. Quite worth the time it takes for a run through (the singing and VA is pretty good, too).
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Jun 13, 2020 23:02
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Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, And The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist - great game, thanks to whoever recommended it earlier. I wasn't sure I'd enjoy this as I didn't like the sound of a heist game, but it promised to be over and done with in 15 minutes and it was true to its word - and what an entertaining 15 minutes it was too. Worth pointing out (for UK goons only?) that Simon Amstell voices this. Sembalance - I'd seen this before and was interested. It's a puzzle platformer, and you are able to deform the terrain to solve the puzzles. I really like the concept, but it feels like there's something a bit off with the execution somehow. The puzzles are quite linear - you can only really deform the terrain and solve the puzzles in the intended way, which is fair enough but I suppose with deformable terrain I had imainged something more free-form. There are some good puzzles, but they tend to repeat with the same approach used multiple times so it got a little stale. Enjoyed it for about 45 minutes but I don't think I'll bother to complete it. Witchway - I got this a while ago when it was free, but see it's included now. Really charming puzzler. Not completed it yet but looking forward to going back to it one day. PICO-8 - for anyone who isn't familiar, this is a "virtual console" that you boot up and program games/demos for. It's basically the BBC Micro reborn. You can easily explore other people's creations too, like the original Celeste that was written for this platform. There are even online magazines so you can (re-)experience the days of typing in code from the magazine page and modifying it as you go. I was so excited to see this in the bundle as I've been wanting it for ages, but couldn't justify it because I wasn't sure what time I'd have to devote to learning it. I've been following some tutorials and made some lovely retro clones, and have enjoyed messing around with the sound creator and sequencer. I love that it can export to HTML canvas/JS, as I spent my youth making lovely games in Klik 'N' Play and sharing them with schoolfriends, so now I can carry on. Is anyone else still playing around with this? I need to stay motivated.
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Jun 14, 2020 00:42
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I tried out Last Knight - probably the best game in the bundle
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Jun 14, 2020 01:00
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Trickyblackjack posted:Same, this bundle just quadrupled my backlog and
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Jun 14, 2020 02:39
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Trickyblackjack posted:Same, this bundle just quadrupled my backlog and 
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Jun 14, 2020 02:50
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I poked at Witchway while waiting for osme laundry and it's pretty good so far.
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Jun 14, 2020 03:21
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What rogue likes / lites are in and decent? I don’t care for the ASCII graphics or anything I’m just talking poo poo like FTL, dead cells, etc. anything
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Jun 14, 2020 03:34
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teacup posted:What rogue likes / lites are in and decent? I don’t care for the ASCII graphics or anything I’m just talking poo poo like FTL, dead cells, etc. anything beacon, 100% it's technically in early access and i think all they have left to add is the final level (which is what they're explicitly focusing on now after a patch the other day) but what's there is absolutely fun as hell and getting to experiences the mutations is neat
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Jun 14, 2020 03:36
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If you beat All You Can Eat, that comic-y adventure game, it lets you print out the game as a pdf comic consisting of every step through it you took. A 30 minute game filled up 68 pages of pdf lol
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Jun 14, 2020 03:54
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teacup posted:What rogue likes / lites are in and decent? I don’t care for the ASCII graphics or anything I’m just talking poo poo like FTL, dead cells, etc. anything MidBoss seems really neat.
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Jun 14, 2020 04:34
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teacup posted:What rogue likes / lites are in and decent? I don’t care for the ASCII graphics or anything I’m just talking poo poo like FTL, dead cells, etc. anything Haque and MidBoss
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Jun 14, 2020 04:36
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Midboss is in? Yeah, that's deffo worth five bucks on its own.
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Jun 14, 2020 04:45
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Trickyblackjack posted:Same, this bundle just quadrupled my backlog and poo poo indeed. [Goes back to playing P4G]
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Jun 14, 2020 04:48
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Sky Rogue is loosely a roguelite. Tallowmere is a roguelite platformer. Gun Rounds is a fascinating little turn based shooter with some randomized elements, but it really has nothing to do with roguelites beyond the random upgrades between levels. Have a look though.
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Jun 14, 2020 05:15
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Saoshyant posted:Look at this! I just wanted to point out that ancient SA favorite, Limbo of the Lost, gets a few pages in this.
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Jun 14, 2020 06:56
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I got an ending in Pagan: Autogeny and I have no clue if there's more or what. There's not a lot of info out there. I did get the pretty obvious metaphor going on there.
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Jun 14, 2020 06:58
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I know there's a lot of these "spreadsheets" going around, so not 100% if this one hasn't been posted yet, but it seems useful! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ReIRGAVldZiIqro4E9tO5UAD1w2vUj8cNVzrmNVlgJk/edit#gid=0 Looks like it all sorted by best to worst by reviews, so yeah... pretty self-explanatory. I don't have time to look through it right now but figured
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Jun 14, 2020 08:49
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Also, if you're looking into playing games released this year, for your "best of 2020" list or what have you, these games were released this year, at least going by the itch.io details for the games: 9 Till Void A New Life Affinity Boreal Tenebrae Destructivator 2 Eatgirl Gun Rounds Gutwhale Lenna's Inception Mewnbase (EA) Miasma Caves My Rabbits are Gone Penance Pendula Swing Complete (the individual episodes were released between 2018-2019 but the full release was this past month) Pillars of Dust Reky Retrace Signs of the Sojourner The Lost Art of Innkeeping The White Door: a Rusty Lake game Time Out Tonight We Riot Village Monsters (EA) Xenogunner
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Jun 14, 2020 09:01
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Johnny Joestar posted:beacon, 100% They also need to fix some major issues with the procgen, like it putting in gates and then not the means to unlock them. Other than that, it's another "$5 worth of game" game.
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Jun 14, 2020 09:08
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If any poor goons want the bundle, pm me or quote this with your email address.
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Jun 14, 2020 09:28
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Heavy Bullets is a rogue lite first person shooter that I highly recommend. The main mechanic is that you need to go pick your ammo back up after firing it to keep stocked.
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Jun 14, 2020 09:41
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Spring Falls is a relaxing little puzzler that is just the right mix of challenging and intuitive.  The goal is to lower hexagons to pool/flow water into the right places so flowers on white tiles sprout. Very simple to learn, about 60 levels, and some of them are rather difficult. It has enough mechanics that I would gladly see way more of the same.
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Jun 14, 2020 10:51
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RBA Starblade posted:If you beat All You Can Eat, that comic-y adventure game, it lets you print out the game as a pdf comic consisting of every step through it you took. A 30 minute game filled up 68 pages of pdf lol All You Can Print 
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Jedit posted:They also need to fix some major issues with the procgen, like it putting in gates and then not the means to unlock them. Other than that, it's another "$5 worth of game" game. I found a secret in the 5th level I had to get to by rolling and couldn't get back. That wasn't ideal either. It seems like the 5th level isn't procgen but consistent.
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Jun 14, 2020 10:59
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Another batch.. Lizzi Crossing is a neat prototype but that's all it is. The game is a cross between Minesweeper and Picross, literally. Your job is to get to the exit on a randomly generated grid, and you are given both Picross hints and Minesweeper hints about where the mines are as you move through the grid. It's a cool idea, but it is also not a properly fleshed out idea. No music/sound, no 'levels' so to speak, no animation, you can flag mines but you can't flag safe areas. No progression whatsoever. Thumb inert, but I'd like to see this explored further, could fit it snugly next to DemonCrawl. The Big Wave is another cool idea but I can't recommend it. You surf between radio channels listening in to try and figure out a terrorist's plan and intercept it. Despite being designed for all ages, I actually found this game way too cumbersome. You can't repeat a level, it just automatically takes you right to the question you need to answer based on information you may not have uncovered if you haven't yet found it. Also, the game has softlocked twice in the same exact spot. Thumb down. Affinity is an extremely relaxing jigsaw game where you put objects together. I really, really liked this one and hope that they make another one. Thumbs up Total # of Games in Bundle: 1059. Games I'm Not Interested In: 123. Games Played and Not Nulled: 89/936 (9.5%). Games Beaten: 63/89 The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 12:57 on Jun 14, 2020 |
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Jun 14, 2020 12:53
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BFF or Die seems like a pretty chill couch coop game. My wife and I were enjoying it, not sure how many levels there are but we got to the midteens. You get new items that get used to solve the puzzles, which require you to collect little alien guys, then get back together to high five to complete the level. Repeating a level because you failed is quick and painless, and each level's obstacles are randomized somewhat so you can't just memorize the path.
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Jun 14, 2020 13:50
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Another vote for Golf Peaks. Very mobile game, but a solid little puzzle game. I'm about halfway through.
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Jun 14, 2020 14:03
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Not a single post about Starseed Pilgrim huh? This game came out in 2013 but I still spool it up every year or so. You basically have a set of "seeds" you can plant both in a hub world and in levels where darkness will eat everything. Each seed has its own mechanics, and you'll eventually expand your hub world to unlock new player characters that each have different abilities. It's a very soft, play-to-discover game, but it's a great one.
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Jun 14, 2020 15:18
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i like starseed pilgrim but even i can say it's got some of the most obscure mechanics of any game i've ever tried
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Jun 14, 2020 15:48
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Then you should check out strawberry cubes and have that completely redefined.
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Jun 14, 2020 16:14
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flatluigi posted:i like starseed pilgrim but even i can say it's got some of the most obscure mechanics of any game i've ever tried I was not even aware it had a hubworld and multiple characters.
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Jun 14, 2020 16:16
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Starseed Pilgrim is p cool but it's basically like somebody handing you a new type of puzzle without telling you any of the rules or what you're supposed to be doing.
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f#a# posted:Not a single post about Starseed Pilgrim huh? Weird; I'd swear it was talked about a few pages back which is why I didn't mention it again, but I can't find anything now. It is as others have mentioned a very impenetrable game, and personally I thought that the content you can eventually find was too little too late, but it's definitely an interesting puzzle in its own right. Worth playing for as long as it holds your attention.
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Jun 14, 2020 16:40
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SeXReX posted:Then you should check out strawberry cubes and have that completely redefined. Is Strawberry Cubes even a game? I was under the assumption it's just a glitch simulator sandbox, haha
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Jordan7hm posted:Another vote for Golf Peaks. Very mobile game, but a solid little puzzle game. I'm about halfway through. when i first heard someone describe it as Puzzle Golf, i was expecting a game all about careful kirby's dream course trickshots instead i got Metal Golf Ac!d, and let me tell you, i'm VERY here for it! Skyelan fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Jun 14, 2020 |
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