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ultrafilter posted:Gravia It looks a lot like a tech demo I saw some 15 years ago which had the same neat "pick up loads of stuff with gravity and yeet it somewhere"
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Slim pickings today... https://store.steampowered.com/app/720350/Mundaun/ quote:Mundaun is a lovingly hand-penciled horror tale set in a dark, secluded valley of the alps. Explore various areas full of secrets to discover, survive hostile encounters, drive vehicles, fill your inventory and solve a variety of hand-crafted puzzles. https://store.steampowered.com/app/505740/Eximius_Seize_the_Frontline/ Just came out of early access quote:EXIMIUS is a FPS/RTS hybrid that focuses on squad-based combat. The game features an intense 5v5 multiplayer experience with each team comprising of 4 Squad Officers and one Commander.
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This ain't out until summer but it seems exciting: https://store.steampowered.com/app/623280/Dungeons__Dragons_Dark_Alliance/ quote:Coming June 22 e: And one more: https://twitter.com/GreyAlien/status/1371841183215984653 StrixNebulosa fucked around with this message at 16:16 on Mar 16, 2021 |
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That Eximius game sounds a lot like "Nuclear Dawn", which I remember playing a long while back. I wonder if the two are somehow related?
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1363840/Saviors_of_Sapphire_Wings__Stranger_of_Sword_City_Revisited/quote:In Saviors of Sapphire Wings, a fallen hero is reincarnated 100 years after being defeated by the Overlord of Darkness. Bond with allies, explore dungeons, and vanquish monsters in this RPG gem!
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This looks interesting, still early access: Ecosystem quote:Ecosystem isn't just a video game version of the laws of ecology with pre-made fish models. The simulation actually determines the creatures in the game: their bodies, how they swim, and how they think and behave. All the creatures in the trailer evolved on their own in the game; none were hand-edited! Right now, it doesn't appear that there's any goals in the game or anything, just create and watch messed up fish critters, but I've always liked these kind of virtual evolution things.
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StarkRavingMad posted:This looks interesting, still early access: That IS cool, wishlisted! Also I missed this: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1194590/Star_Dynasties/ Early access quote:Star Dynasties is a role-playing sci-fi strategy game set in a divided galaxy following the destruction of Earth. A unique procedurally generated narrative of human drama and feudal politics is mixed together with a light empire management layer. Your choices. Your legacy. quote:FEATURES
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Stolen from the steam thread:Hub Cat posted:Weird, looks like THQ Nordic/Embracer dug up Stubbs the Zombie. It was okay back when it came out, wonder if it holds up at all kinda doubt it.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Stolen from the steam thread: The interesting thing back then I thought was that it used the Halo engine to run the game.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Slim pickings today... Slim pickings my dick, Mundaun looks incredible. https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256793363/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1614952026
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That looks real interesting, kinda reminds me of Miasmata.Diabetic posted:The interesting thing back then I thought was that it used the Halo engine to run the game. I remember it being fun but repetitive and underbaked. Edit: Also will note that people really liked the soundtrack Hub Cat fucked around with this message at 13:11 on Mar 17, 2021 |
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Adios is now available quote:A pig farmer decides he no longer wants to dispose of bodies for the mob. What follows is a discussion between him and his would-be killer. https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256800234/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1599583866
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haldolium posted:Adios is now available I'm really interested in this since one of the people that worked on PARATOPIC worked on this. It's like $18 right now, hopefully someone got it and can tell us if they think it's any good??
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mary had a little clam posted:I'm really interested in this since one of the people that worked on PARATOPIC worked on this. It's like $18 right now, hopefully someone got it and can tell us if they think it's any good?? oh really? I still haven't come around playing Paratopic, I even got it over itch a long time ago. Adios is... oddly compelling. It's 90% carried by very good voice over and dialogue. It's techincal very barebones and leaves a lot to wish for. But the story is nice and keeps me playing and the voicing really makes it belivable. I'm intrigued where it will end. I don't know if I'd have payed 15€ for it as of now, but it sure is worth my time so far.
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haldolium posted:Adios is now available Fun fact: I did about 30-40% of the 3D enviro work for this, including the Root Bear machine
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Dr. Derek posted:Fun fact: I did about 30-40% of the 3D enviro work for this, including the Root Bear machine No way! Congratulations on the launch. Was it as awesome as I imagine it was to get mentioned here after launch without actively promoting?
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Glory to Italia!
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Dr. Derek posted:Fun fact: I did about 30-40% of the 3D enviro work for this, including the Root Bear machine I liked that one, good job  Also congrats for the launch
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ILL Machina posted:No way! Congratulations on the launch. It's always cool to see something I've worked on floating around different places.
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StrixNebulosa posted:That IS cool, wishlisted! They talk about Star Dynasties at length on the latest Waypoint cast. Sounds like a hoot! https://twitter.com/austin_walker/status/1371888949577256963
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mary had a little clam posted:I'm really interested in this since one of the people that worked on PARATOPIC worked on this. It's like $18 right now, hopefully someone got it and can tell us if they think it's any good?? Worth giving it a chance, imo. This isn't actual spoilers just what I thought of the game, but like any review is like a psudospoiler for this kind of thing so whatever: A lot of it is very good, and it feels like it could have been great if it had a bigger budget instead of a two person indie joint. I personally was fed up with it by the end, for both story reasons and cause of bug stuff. I see a lot of people liking it a lot for good reasons. I don't regret getting it, and the stuff that works is really cool, so yea it's worth a chance. One big issue is there's a lot of spaces where there isn't much to interact with, and others where you're supposed to treat it like Gone Home, and I missed some actually important stuff because I couldn't tell the difference.
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Adios definitely feels like a higher budget successor to Paratopic. It's a similar style of going through vignettes while picking dialog options but there's slightly more stuff to click on in a scene.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1220140/Cartel_Tycoon/ Early access quote:Cartel Tycoon is a survival business sim inspired by the ‘80s narco trade. Expand and conquer, fight off rival cartels and evade the authorities. Earn people's loyalty and strive to overcome the doomed fate of a power-hungry drug lord. quote:Key features
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/933820/Endzone__A_World_Apart/ Just left early access quote:Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after a global nuclear disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts. quote:I found this game to be a lot more like Frostpunk than Banished (Banished is way more forgiving).
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1533050/Press_Ctrl/ Press control, then control a character and have him press control, then have your character control another character and have him press control, then have your character's character...
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Hey everybody, the goon-published (by me!) Rogue State Revolution is live on Steam! (And Humble. And Epic. And [checks notes] Green Man Gaming.) It's a political strategy game where you're the first democratically elected president of the fictional Middle Eastern republic of Basenji. Can you keep the voters happy enough to be re-elected? Or will the Basenji Liberation Front overthrow you? Or one of your loyal ministers stab you in the back? Maybe you'll annoy the US so much they invade? Or a political rival might create a giant mech suit to lead an single-handed insurgency against you. Nookrium is playing it right now on his YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTINeSO1Mp4 And Raptor will be playing it later tonight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFzh9LeMdKg If you like Paradox map-staring games or Civ or Tropico or the Democracy series, please do check it out. And if you like it, leave it a Steam review, that really helps a ton. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1145340/Rogue_State_Revolution/ Thanks goons. 
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Plebian Parasite posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1533050/Press_Ctrl/ Steam Review posted:Recommended Looking at the video on Steam, this looks like something that would totally cause my brain to rupture.
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Plebian Parasite posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1533050/Press_Ctrl/ Ha this looks like an (infuriating) hoot, and for two dollars even! Can’t wait to try this soon! Thanks for highlighting it.
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StrixNebulosa posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/951430/Dead_Age_2/ I've been playing this a bunch with the 1.0 release after having it on my radar for a while, and it's proving to be very solid if you like turn-based RPGs, character customization, and base-building. Days are separated into Day/Night and can be taken up with various actions by your survivors either back at your base or by a party that goes out to scavenge for resources on a fairly large map with randomly generated resources. The combat's solid enough with some interesting choices and strategies based on how you've built your characters, and the retro Final Fantasy style 2 rows adds a lot when it comes to who uses guns--and therefore ammo--and who takes the brunt of the attacks and bonks zombies with melee weapons.
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StarkRavingMad posted:Looking at the video on Steam, this looks like something that would totally cause my brain to rupture. Didn't even read the comments, watched the video and immediately wanted to throw poo poo across the room.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/761830/Mr_Prepper/quote:Mr. Prepper is about being prepared. You know something is wrong. The risk of a nuclear war is in the air and you need to get ready for what's coming. quote:The Fallout Shelter Game didn't ask for but deserve. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1508270/Doctor_Who_The_Lonely_Assassins/ quote:Uncover the dark secrets of Wester Drumlins and confront a new evil in a thrilling found-phone mystery from the award-winning creators of Sara Is Missing and SIMULACRA. quote:Building on the terrifying legacy of the Weeping Angels, first encountered in the iconic story “Blink”, Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins is a thrilling found-phone mystery developed by the award-winning creators of Sara Is Missing and SIMULACRA. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1253860/Neurodeck__Psychological_Deckbuilder/ quote:Neurodeck is a psychological deckbuilding card game to challenge your fears. Build your deck & capacities by answering personality tests, visiting rooms or meditating. Face your phobia and defeat them through the power of life-inspired cards. quote:Honestly I am giving this game a thumbs down. I think the underlying mechanics as a rogue-like deck builder aren't bad, but personally I get this feeling like the creators were more concerned with using the source material/themes as a 'costume' for the underlying game without taking any care to talk about or inform (if even a little) about the serious source materials they are pulling from and how people can actually deal with phobias/how phobias affect them. The term "window dressing" comes to mind honestly. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1198210/Dogworld/ quote:Shoot, jump, and slide your way through a ruined, mysterious, dog-filled world as you fight to save humanity from the clutches of a rogue AI named Daddy. quote:This game is the perfect blend of pixel art, rockin' chiptunes and adorable dogs. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1163090/Boot_Camp_Fitness/ quote:Boot Camp Fitness is a home cardio and bodyweight workout app/game, focused on helping you become the fittest, leanest, version of yourself. Including varied exercises and a 154 song playlist. With 13 ranks and 18 exercise locations to unlock. Big haul today!
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has anyone bought "Mr. Prepper" yet? this game looks hilarious: https://store.steampowered.com/app/761830/Mr_Prepper/ curious as to goon reviews, but search isn't turning anything up (I do see the link in the post above)
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pmchem posted:has anyone bought "Mr. Prepper" yet? this game looks hilarious:
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Hamster All Stars is a cheap little game from cheap little game purveyor sokpop, about making hamster race courses, and then betting on hamsters, using your money to get more course features to make more races. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1577750/Hamster_AllStars/ Sizeable is a slightly more expensive hidden object game, based around interactable vignettes where you can increase or decrease the size of objects. Looks cute. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1333910/Sizeable/
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pmchem posted:has anyone bought "Mr. Prepper" yet? this game looks hilarious: I got it yesterday and played for about two hours. It's..okay, I guess? The base building part of it wasn't as robust as I would have liked. So far, really the only things I've built below ground were a place to put my workshop and storage chest and a few farm plots. There didn't really seem to be any reason to build much more yet, although I suppose more things will become available. But it didn't seem to matter much where you put stuff or anything, it was just checking boxes of "I need somewhere to dump this thing." Well, it did matter where I put the lights near the plants, and I placed too many lights which caused all my power to go out so I had to go disconnect a lamp upstairs, that was neat, I suppose. The hunger and tiredness mechanics are kind of severe and I think that's why I didn't enjoy it all too much. You start with some food and you can grow more in your farm plots, but that requires both seeds and water and you have to buy seeds or find them as part of quests. Water you get from the sink except you get a limited supply and they were about to shut off my water for some reason in the game. I could place traps in the forest and that got me a little bit of food, but for the traps I need bait which again, I had to buy. Getting money is hard -- you can sell certain things through your mailbox but money for me was tight which led to food being tight, and constructing something to sell for money took most of the day which meant I was burning food while trying to make money to get food. I could eat blueberries in the forest for free but those didn't give much. You can cook more nourishing meals using the oven but those mostly need water which I also need for my crops. It's all that kind of balancing which I found kind of stressful without being a whole lot of fun. It probably gets easier in the late game once you get the systems down and I made some mistakes early on like letting some food spoil, so it may be easier if you know what you are doing, but this is first impressions. Weirdly, the early part of the game relied a lot more on quests than I would expect. I had to go to a forest and clear some wolves away from a cabin for a lady (the combat in this game is just awful, by the way), and that gave me the seed dealer, and then I had to go to a mine and fix an elevator which opened up the mine and gave me a guy who will sell me stone. These seem to be resource gathering areas. I need to bring mushrooms from the mine back to the herb lady, I haven't found any of those yet, and send a book to some other guy through the mail, and I think I have some other side quest. The side quest stuff isn't bad, but it is also pretty linear, which I think would hurt any replayability. I think the end game goal is always going to be the same, to build a rocket to escape, although I'm not 100% sure on that since the planning board had a slot for what my "inspiration" was and maybe it is possible to get something else to put in there. But you get the rocket picture pretty early and the game points you toward that. Every so often the government guy comes and checks your house, and you need to make sure all your contraband stuff is hidden and you've covered up the hatch to your bunker. I thought I hid everything, but I was still getting a fairly bad/suspicious rating, although not enough to get arrested. It might have been because I disassembled some stuff in the house and also because I disconnected a couple lamps, but I don't know. I did get a letter that was like "we expect you to have this many of these things in the house" but gently caress, I'm not going to go count everything to see what I can use for resources. They do warn you on the calendar when the government guy is coming so you know when to hide your stuff. The political messaging is all over the place. You live in "Murrica County" and the political dictator's signs and stuff have red coloring, so that would seem to be parodying the right, but then you are living in a dystopian world "after the plague" where your freedoms have been taken away and so that feels like more of a far right sentiment. I wasn't sure if all that would put me off, but I think the game is made by people outside the US and it all just seems to be window dressing for the most part without much to actually say. Like, the government agents who come to visit you are generic Men in Black/G Man types, not any clear political affiliation. It can be a little offputting but it didn't seem actively offensive, just sort of dumb. I guess the above sounds pretty negative. It wasn't terrible, and it only cost me $13 or so since I bought it as part of the bundle with House Flipper and I already own House Flipper. For that price, it's okay. But I also see myself maybe playing through it to the end goal once and then not picking it up again unless the late game gets way more interesting.
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Derelict Void https://store.steampowered.com/app/1479340/Derelict_Void/ quote:Derelict Void is a space survival game involving scavenging for resources and base management. You command a ship and crew searching for resources you need to stay alive. Pretty polished and fun, but not very deep or worth the 15€ it's currently selling at. It basically boils down to jumping from place to place, collecting resources to survive, collecting factories to make it easier to survive and advancing the story after a set number of "jumps". The base management part is practically non-existant. It reminds me a lot of Out There, but with a lot less content.
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kalthir posted:Derelict Void Heyyy, the one other person who played Out There. https://store.steampowered.com/app/334420/Out_There__Edition/ Not to be confused with Out There Somewhere https://store.steampowered.com/app/263980/Out_There_Somewhere/ Or the upcoming Out There: Oceans of Time  https://store.steampowered.com/app/1145290/Out_There_Oceans_of_Time/
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