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Fall of the New Age is the next Indiegala Freebie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_dfMDVgL74 Also, not on the Freebies page, but Cubiscape 2 has been added to the Showcase page. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7KJeWKo_20 FanaticalMilk fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Nov 9, 2020 |
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Stickman posted:Two more 100% off codes from Reddit for Big Fish Games: Last time there were freebies I grabbed a bunch fully intending to ignore them like every other free game I get on Epic or Steam, but I was off work for a few days and bored out of my skull so I picked up one of the hidden object games for a trial run. They are really good for what they are. I stuck with mostly horror/mystery ones as it was close to halloween. Some quick reviews: Maze: Subject 360 was the first one I tried, and it was surprisingly engaging. I'd never played a hidden object game before, but they seem like a natural progression of the old point-and-click adventure games that I loved so much as a kid, interspersed with images that you look around for a list of items. In this one, the main character crashes her car on a lonely stretch of road and ends up in a town where all of the inhabitants are trapped in an unwakeable sleep. It's your goal to try to figure out what happened and get the hell out of dodge while avoiding the creepy supernatural little girl. Not the most original story, and it doesn't get too heavy, but it's quite fun. Apparently there's a ton of entries in this series, which also seems true of EVERY game in their catalogue. I get the impression they pump them out really quickly, which is partially why I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the game. I don't know that I'd have been happy to pay twenty bucks for it, but I still don't think I'd feel ripped off at that price tag either; there's a lot of content here, with bonus games and collectibles and the like. Mystery Case Files: The Black Veil was the next I tried, and while I didn't like it as much as the previous game, I'm not sure how much of that was just because of how new and unexpected the first game was for me. This one is also quite good, and seems to be a very long-running series for the devs. You play as a world-renowned detective, and you find yourself investigating a town that has the population aging extremely quickly. It's an interesting enough narrative, but again doesn't go into anything too heavy, although there was some pretty interesting spooky imagery. This one seemed to lean a bit heavier on the hidden object scenes rather than puzzles like the previous game, but this might again be a biased position from the surprise the first one was. Phantasmat was the next I played, although I stupidly got the regular edition rather than the collector's one that I linked. Not sure what the difference would be, but there were less side games and bonus content, with no collectibles, so that's probably it. Another main character crashing a car in a strange place only to find themselves in a supernatural situation, this time in a strange hotel in the middle of the woods. This game definitely had a bigger focus on the hidden object scenes rather than the point-and-click stuff, which isn't as fun for me, but the narrative of this one is probably the strongest. Not exactly subtle in its approach, it would feel right at home with a Goosebumps book or an episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark? or something, but fun enough. And that's all I've tried so far. I have two more downloaded and ready to go, but maybe I'll try a non-hidden-object one next.
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Nov 9, 2020 22:40
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Victor Vran may not be my kind of game but it is fun to say really quickly
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Big Fish does have a few normal games on there, but you might as well go hidden object / match-3 / time-management if you're getting something from them. I've never tried a modern time-management game, but anything that added more than 10 seconds of plot between the levels would be atrocious. I do like old-school time-management sometimes for sheer brainless clickery - Airport Mania and the original Build-A-Lot are good choices.
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Nov 10, 2020 05:05
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Contract with the Devil is the next Indiegala freebie. Another HOG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWx2W1aUTXs
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Nov 12, 2020 03:17
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FanaticalMilk posted:Next week's game is gonna be Wargame: Red Dragon. Did this actually happen and I completely miss it? Or did it get replaced by something else?
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Nov 12, 2020 04:09
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Got replaced by Dungeons 3. Which is leaving in a few hours I think.
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Hmm I don't remember seeing Wargame there at all either.
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Nov 12, 2020 07:37
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webmeister posted:Did this actually happen and I completely miss it? Or did it get replaced by something else? https://twitter.com/epicgames/status/1323362111125336065 No idea what temporarily means though.
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chadbear posted:https://twitter.com/epicgames/status/1323362111125336065 It means the game don't work most likely.
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Nov 12, 2020 08:30
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Skwirl posted:It means the game don't work most likely. They may have delayed it because of Armistice Day
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Nov 12, 2020 08:38
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Catzilla posted:They may have delayed it because of Armistice Day It took them until the week before to remember something that's been recognized every year for over a century?
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Nov 12, 2020 08:46
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Skwirl posted:It took them until the week before to remember something that's been recognized every year for over a century? I can believe that. These things are probably planned far in advance and nobody noticed the war game was being offered around that time. I’m also not sure how big Armistice day is outside of the UK/commonwealth.
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Nov 12, 2020 10:29
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Catzilla posted:I can believe that. These things are probably planned far in advance and nobody noticed the war game was being offered around that time. Veterans day was Monday in the US, a huge chunk of the country got the day off work and another chunk had to work when they wouldn't because their store has a big sale.
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Nov 12, 2020 10:32
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Skwirl posted:Veterans day was Monday in the US, a huge chunk of the country got the day off work and another chunk had to work when they wouldn't because their store has a big sale. Veterans Day is always on 11/11
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US universities public universities were open, mostly. I grew up in the UK and obviously 11/11/18 is a huge day in Britain, France and elsewhere in Europe, but I always assumed it had a lesser importance in the US because the US was a late entrant into WW1, didn't suffer the apalling casualties of other countries and also the war didn't actually reach North America.
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We still celebrate veterans day by letting every lard rear end in the military wander around town and demand free food from restaurants. I stopped getting free food because 1. The free thing they offer usually sucks, and 2. Seeing the people I worked with go to restaurants all day to try to get free food to go was embarrassing.
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The Textorcist is free on EGS this week Next week is Elite Dangerous and The World Next Door
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Veterans Day in the US began as a remembrance of Armistice Day, but then it evolved to celebrate and remember all military veterans. The other major military remembrance day we have is Memorial Day, for those who died during their service 
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Kill 'Em All is the next Indiegala Freebie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjGM28_aCSU
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Lutha Mahtin posted:Veterans Day in the US began as a remembrance of Armistice Day, but then it evolved to celebrate and remember all military veterans. The other major military remembrance day we have is Memorial Day, for those who died during their service Don't forget Labor day. The day that some use to celebrate the labor the military does.
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Ratmtattat posted:Don't forget Labor day. The day that some use to celebrate the labor the military does. I don't think I've ever seen labor day used in that way. It's mostly just a confusion between what veterans day and memorial day are for. I'm always having to tell people that I'm not dead yet on memorial day.
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FanaticalMilk posted:Kill 'Em All is the next Indiegala Freebie: hey guys, let's give away games to drive traffic and enhance our branding -- people will associate our site with fun! said no one ever at indiegala
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repiv posted:The Textorcist is free on EGS this week Thanks! It's one of those fringe games that I almost always buy but never do. That said, I fired it up and the story is...uh...cringe...isn't it?
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Nov 13, 2020 07:45
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Catzilla posted:I can believe that. These things are probably planned far in advance and nobody noticed the war game was being offered around that time. National holiday in France
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Nov 13, 2020 10:08
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For the next 48 hours or so Teleglitch: Die More Edition is free on GoG. https://www.gog.com/game/teleglitch_die_more_edition
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ilmucche posted:National holiday in France Understandable. The death toll that France suffered in the Great War was staggering. They hadn't recovered by the time '39 rolled around. People love to take the piss out of France's failures in World War 2, but it's hard to wage war when one doesn't have any soldiers.
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:For the next 48 hours or so Teleglitch: Die More Edition is free on GoG. Teleglitch is really really loving hard, but it's also a fun and cool game. I never got to the end but it's got a great moody style and fun lore and tight gameplay. Definitely recommend this.
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JustJeff88 posted:Understandable. The death toll that France suffered in the Great War was staggering. They hadn't recovered by the time '39 rolled around. People love to take the piss out of France's failures in World War 2, but it's hard to wage war when one doesn't have any soldiers. Didn't like the average height of an adult Frenchman drop several inches between the wars because both a lack of access to meat and the only healthy Frenchmen who didn't get drafted were the one's too short to qualify?
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aniviron posted:Teleglitch is really really loving hard, but it's also a fun and cool game. I never got to the end but it's got a great moody style and fun lore and tight gameplay. Definitely recommend this. I only played the free version, but having to hold down one mouse button (for aiming, I think?) a lot wasn't great for RSI, either. It's worth a play for sure and comes with the soundtrack on GOG, so hey, free music.
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Skwirl posted:Didn't like the average height of an adult Frenchman drop several inches between the wars because both a lack of access to meat and the only healthy Frenchmen who didn't get drafted were the one's too short to qualify? I cannot confim or deny this, to be honest.
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JustJeff88 posted:Understandable. The death toll that France suffered in the Great War was staggering. They hadn't recovered by the time '39 rolled around. People love to take the piss out of France's failures in World War 2, but it's hard to wage war when one doesn't have any soldiers. I'm well aware, was just tossing it out there in response to the goon saying they weren't sure if armstice day was important outside of the commonwealth :p end of ww2 is a national holiday as well
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ilmucche posted:end of ww2 is a national holiday as well VE or VJ day?
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Showing Tonight: Mindhunters Incident, another Big Fish HOG is the next Indiegala Freebie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dbVI1i-IsE
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Elite Dangerous and The World Next Door are free on EGS this week Next week is MudRunner
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Ironcast, a steampunk mech match 3 puzzle game, has been added to Twitch Gaming today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHv1Uw0rNA0
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I can vouch for Ironcast being worth the time to try out. The systems are good and the presentation also holds up. The main puzzle is very similar to Puzzle & Dragons, the theme is Victorian times steam powered mech battles, and the base gameplay loop is pretty much what you'd expect from a roguelite. Power up your mech by doing well over a short series of battles to try and take out the final boss.
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