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The 7th Guest posted:Pawnbarian, by j4nw Really looking forward to this one, the demo was really fun. It's a nice little puzzler, it reminds me of that mobile game, Hoplite (albeit less complex). Also, can't wait for Potion Craft.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/852220/Accident/ Left early access quote:Become a journalist who researches old car accident cases. Help victims and perform first aid, obtain evidence and reconstruct the events to discover what really happened. quote:Do not trust this game to teach you how to provide first aid.
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https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/kena-bridge-of-spirits Kena: Bridge of Spirits is an action adventure exploration type game with some nice looking graphics. Available on Epic for 40 bucks. quote:A story-driven, action adventure combining exploration with fast-paced combat. As Kena, players find and grow a team of charming spirit companions called the Rot, enhancing their abilities and creating new ways to manipulate the environment.
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Play posted:https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/kena-bridge-of-spirits This got a rave review from Sam Machkovech which is enough to make me sit up and take notice.
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Osmosisch posted:This got a rave review from Sam Machkovech which is enough to make me sit up and take notice. Skimming that, probably what excites me the most is the author calling the boss fights 'brutal' even at normal difficulty. Looking at the game my biggest concern was probably it being a cakewalk
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1289380/Sheltered_2/ Sheltered 2 basically looks a lot like that one Fallout game crossed with Mr. Prepper quote:A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/938860/Get_In_The_Car_Loser/  quote:A lesbian road trip RPG by the co-creator of Ladykiller in a Bind about fighting for love and justice in the face of indifference, and "discovering yourself" as a useless gay disaster. Released for free with a paid bonus DLC chapter. Note that Steam hosed poo poo up so it's currently set to $0.20 and giving errors when trying to get it, so come back later I guess???
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Play posted:https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/kena-bridge-of-spirits I thought this was an PS5 exclusive. This is out on PC and $40? Whaaaaaaa...?? Watching a stream right now, it looks gorgeous and the animations are very well done (no surprise, coming from a movie animation studio). I will probably wait for some first impressions, but at first glance, this is a no brainer, even if it's an Epic store exclusive. A couple more beers and I might impulse buy anyway.
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mcbexx posted:I thought this was an PS5 exclusive. I've played about an hour. It's really good so far. Beautiful game. Got a whole Pikmin thing going on that I didn't know about going in.
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I'm so excited for Sable I'm gonna lose my mind. I love my shootmans games, but I've been waiting for another game like Journey or Death Stranding where the combat is either completely absent or has a lesser focus that is just as engaging in that way. I played the demo from earlier this year and adored it. Also the soundtrack is by the wonderful Japanese Breakfast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZfcZEIo6Bw
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mcbexx posted:I thought this was an PS5 exclusive. After playing it all last night, it is a solid game. Absolutely gorgeous, feels like you are playing a pixar movie honestly, and you can see how much care has gone into the game which is an important element for me. I like beautiful and consistent art in a game before all else. The main focus is exploration, combat, story, and perhaps some very light puzzling. It's not an extremely deep game but they do give you a good number of abilities in combat which allow you to choose your own strategy. You also often need to split your attention between taking out enemies and destroying the blight flowers or whatever they are. It's open world but so far it seems like there is little backtracking, for the most part you just move forward on the path the game sets for you, with small detours to discover secrets and get more of the two in-game currencies. Maybe that will change over time, but I'm also fine with it. Apparently it is only about 12 hours long, pretty short for a 40 dollar game, but everyone can decide if that is worth it for them. For me it is really cool to basically play as a pixar character, I love how much effort they've put into the visuals, and the combat being a lot better than I expected means it is a good buy.
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Play posted:After playing it all last night, it is a solid game. Absolutely gorgeous, feels like you are playing a pixar movie honestly, and you can see how much care has gone into the game which is an important element for me. I like beautiful and consistent art in a game before all else. Of course I caved and bought it last night, I am in the middle of act 2 right now. Laugh at me as much as you want, but in lovely times like these, playing this absolutely gorgeous game, cleansing the world from corruption and helping spirits to cross over peacefully feels so wholesome and pure, I love it.
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A zach-like The Signal State just released. It has similar vibes to SHENZEN I/O, you're patching modular synths to match the desired output signal.quote:
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Palpek posted:I don't know how they turned a Moeabius comic book into computer graphics but I'm glad they did. Sable is out now. bring a controller
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Ok I played some Sable on the Game Pass and I'm not feeling it. The graphics are the best part (although object/NPC outlines are WAY more defined and visible than in the trailers) but the gameplay itself is pretty outdated imo. They basically sat down and went "so what do you do in open world games? Explore to find some repetitive collectibles and do some fetch quests, right?". You want to get that "probably cool" jet bike? Here are 3 places on the map that you have to get to in order to find the parts for it, there will be a lot of traveling with a slow piece of poo poo starting bike to them and a lot of slow climbing, you will also be sent somewhere else on a fetch quest (collect beetle asses) before you can complete part of the main story fetch quest etc. Maybe Zelda even had similar things in it but it also had enjoyable combat, detailed exploration, puzzles and a few complex systems on top of all of that, it was basically filled with interesting things to do. In this one there's a big empty map with interest points placed here and there, you can collect money and a couple of other collectibles and that's it. Some really great color palettes though that change during the day cycle, overall great work on the visual front.
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grate deceiver posted:A zach-like The Signal State just released. It has similar vibes to SHENZEN I/O, you're patching modular synths to match the desired output signal. surprised they didn't name it "goondad retirement simulator"
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grate deceiver posted:A zach-like The Signal State just released. It has similar vibes to SHENZEN I/O, you're patching modular synths to match the desired output signal. here's my short review from the zachtronics thread after finishing it in 5 hours: quote:cool synth guy Benn Jordan (aka the Flashbulb) did a video on it from a synth-guy standpoint:
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Samopsa posted:here's my short review from the zachtronics thread after finishing it in 5 hours: Well, that sucks. For this price that's not very good.
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grate deceiver posted:A zach-like The Signal State just released. It has similar vibes to SHENZEN I/O, you're patching modular synths to match the desired output signal. its like if Reason was a game. very cool.
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Well I must be a loving idiot because I spent like 1 hour on one puzzle and didn't even beat it yet.
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Shadowlz posted:Well I must be a loving idiot because I spent like 1 hour on one puzzle and didn't even beat it yet. I was just thinking that 5 hours for someone who is good at zach games is not the same 5 hours it would be for me, a certified Awful Gamer at them. Doesn't stop me from trying, but does stop me from seemingly ever improving
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Palpek posted:Ok I played some Sable on the Game Pass and I'm not feeling it. The graphics are the best part (although object/NPC outlines are WAY more defined and visible than in the trailers) but the gameplay itself is pretty outdated imo. They basically sat down and went "so what do you do in open world games? Explore to find some repetitive collectibles and do some fetch quests, right?". You want to get that "probably cool" jet bike? Here are 3 places on the map that you have to get to in order to find the parts for it, there will be a lot of traveling with a slow piece of poo poo starting bike to them and a lot of slow climbing, you will also be sent somewhere else on a fetch quest (collect beetle asses) before you can complete part of the main story fetch quest etc. Maybe Zelda even had similar things in it but it also had enjoyable combat, detailed exploration, puzzles and a few complex systems on top of all of that, it was basically filled with interesting things to do. In this one there's a big empty map with interest points placed here and there, you can collect money and a couple of other collectibles and that's it. Some really great color palettes though that change during the day cycle, overall great work on the visual front. This game has some really good things going on mixed with some pretty bad things. The writing is stellar; the art is incredible (although I do kind of wish for more contrast and some brighter colors occasionally. But the sun coming up and going down, whoooeeee). The world and setting itself is cool and makes you want to explore. BUT, the camera is a freaking mess, there are definitely bugs here and there which I was worried about after getting out of bounds three times in the demo, and it really doesn't have a ton of GAME. The puzzles are incredibly basic, the main game part is mainly deciding how you are going to get up some mountain. Which, at times, the platforming can be pretty fun. But then after you finish you'll spend 5 minutes driving through desert landscape to get to the next place, and the driving just isn't very stimulating. I think you will like this game if you REALLY like super chill games that are good to look at, have nice art and writing, and a strange peaceful world to explore. Gameplay-wise, it is just not very stimulating. I'll probably play some more because I want to see some cool spots that you can find, but I don't see myself finishing this game. Anyways, new game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1315610/Source_of_Madness/ https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256836901/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1622882162 Source of Madness, a 'Lovecraftian' roguelite that looks amazing and boasts a very unique feature: each monster is custom assembled and animated by 'AI', meaning they are all different in some way, at least that's what they claim. It's in early access and is 'very positive' on steam. quote:Source of Madness is a side-scrolling dark action roguelite set in a twisted Lovecraftian inspired world powered by procedural generation and AI machine learning. Take on the role of a new Acolyte as they embark on a nightmarish odyssey.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1552550/Castlevania_Advance_Collection/ https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256847909/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1632445319 Castlevania Advance Collection comes with Harmony of Dissonance, Aria Of Sorrow and Circle Of The Moon. It's also available on Switch and other consoles, where I feel like it makes a BIT more sense because emulating these games on PC is piss easy and you can even make them look better. Still, if you want to be legit, these games are pretty good. quote:Count Dracula is once more back from the dead... Join the fight against Evil in the Castlevania Advance Collection, a compilation of timeless action-exploration masterpieces!
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https://thingonitsown.itch.io/heros-hour Coming to steam in a few months $10 now. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1656780/Heros_Hour/ It's basically a heros of might and magic 3 clone! (the good one) Hero's Hour is an accessible, yet-deep and content-rich Strategy Roleplaying Game. Take control of your hero, explore the world, build up your town, fight fast-paced battles, level up your hero and amass an army large enough to take out the opponents - before they take you out. It's been #1 on itch.io for a few weeks now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tHkNjidg0Y https://youtu.be/5tHkNjidg0Y Protip: you can split your army stacks with shift for better positioning
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Quaint Quail Quilt posted:https://thingonitsown.itch.io/heros-hour A note for fans of HoMM3 - it is a clone of the HoMM3 world map, but fights are autobattler where you can cast spells and have very minimal control over your minions rather than turn based strategy. How much this matters to you, I don’t know. For me, I’ve been moderately enjoying it but not nearly as much HoMM since you can never feel Super Good for being Super Smart in beating a much stronger enemy by playing smart (read: by using ranged units and hiding behind a giant stack of peasants) Still, it has a good bit of nostalgia factor and the different kingdom types seem interesting so far. Just wanted to mention this extra context before anyone rushes to buy it for tactical grid combat and finds out it is anything but.
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Quaint Quail Quilt posted:https://thingonitsown.itch.io/heros-hour You were so close but then you wrote "3" where you should have written "2".
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ulmont posted:You were so close but then you wrote "3" where you should have written "2". Not sure how to parse this... I played both 2 and 3, and although 2 was a good game, 3 was better in just about every aspect.
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Oh I played some of that a week ago, but there is already been new updates cool. I like it a lot but its been a bit buggy for me, i get crashes frequently so heads up.
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Palpek posted:Ok I played some Sable on the Game Pass and I'm not feeling it. The graphics are the best part (although object/NPC outlines are WAY more defined and visible than in the trailers) but the gameplay itself is pretty outdated imo. They basically sat down and went "so what do you do in open world games? Explore to find some repetitive collectibles and do some fetch quests, right?". You want to get that "probably cool" jet bike? Here are 3 places on the map that you have to get to in order to find the parts for it, there will be a lot of traveling with a slow piece of poo poo starting bike to them and a lot of slow climbing, you will also be sent somewhere else on a fetch quest (collect beetle asses) before you can complete part of the main story fetch quest etc. Maybe Zelda even had similar things in it but it also had enjoyable combat, detailed exploration, puzzles and a few complex systems on top of all of that, it was basically filled with interesting things to do. In this one there's a big empty map with interest points placed here and there, you can collect money and a couple of other collectibles and that's it. Some really great color palettes though that change during the day cycle, overall great work on the visual front. I've put about 4 hours into it today and I have had more moments saying "Holy poo poo that's cool" playing it than the entire time I played BOTW. I think if you can just accept that it's about exploring, finding weird poo poo, and seeing awesome landscapes then it's a game made for you. I was annoyed with it up until I finished the tutorial area, and then I stumbled into an area that's PROBABLY intended to be a stark-contrast later-exploration zone because I always comb a map going counter-clockwise instead of clockwise, and I was floored by how starkly contrasting the environments can be. It is definitely a third-person puzzle-platformer with zero combat and just stuff to collect in a wide open area, but I'd put it on the same level of Heaven's Vault in how invested I am in the backstory of this fictional post-hightech nomadic setting. It also has phenomenal sound design, there's a whole section that just seems off and "I shouldn't be here" that has ambient noise that reminds me of when I get low-frequency feedback on my phone's headset at work, but in a good way. It has a wide variety of sound design options that make areas feel distinct. My main gripe is the minimap/compass/thing sucks, so trying to reorient to which way is North fucks with my navigation. I'm riding my wonky hoverbike in circles trying to find out where The Whale is.
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Gynovore posted:Not sure how to parse this... I played both 2 and 3, and although 2 was a good game, 3 was better in just about every aspect. Agree to disagree. Mostly for expansions though tbh.
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On heros hour; You absolutely can tactic the battles, issue general move orders, split stacks and have 2 3 4 stacks of archers behind a wall of peasants, kite, dash in and dash out with some units. It's a bit of a pain to micro, but you'll save yourself attrition if you do some. I started doing the strategy battles to learn more, you get an army of a set amount of gold and complete the puzzle of a battle. The game does crash in it's current state occasionally but it's really good about autosave so you'll never lose more than a turn or battles maybe 1 min of time or less usually.
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Play posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1283410/Tails_of_Iron/ I beat this today! It took maybe ten hours over the course of a few days. I was hoping for more, but I sometimes have trouble playing things all the way through even when I love them so I don't know if I'm actually allowed to complain. I'm very fond of the rats. The movement felt odd for the first little bit, but it didn't take long to click. Combat isn't super complex (dash, roll, parry, block) but it has heft. Last-second catching the ichor-slicked axe of an undead frog three times your size WITH TEETH and then forcing it back didn't get old before the game ended. Also there's like a billion adorable outfits. Don't go expecting anything like actual exploration or choices. It isn't that, and if you want that, no. There's some backtracking and it's obvious when and where and why. You're on the rails, fighting stuff while Geralt tells you the bedtime story of tiny King Redgi. I liked it! But which of the embarrassing number of games in my backlog do I take on next?
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never heard of it before but apparently AWAY: The Survival Series will be out tomorrow Sep. 28 on steam (and later on consoles)quote:Play as a tiny sugar glider in your very own nature documentary. Glide among the trees, fight dangerous predators, and explore beautiful environments as you embark on a high-flying journey to save your family.  quote:PLAY AS OTHER ANIMALS https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256750226/movie_max.webm
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Normally I don't post games that haven't actually come out yet but I'm making an exception here for some games I'm really looking forward to, they're both coming out this week: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1062110/UNSIGHTED/ https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256839093/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1623801886 I played the UNSIGHTED demo (which is still up at the moment) and basically fell in love instantly. A 3/4 view action platformer with deep combat and really nice looking, kind of 'digitalized' pixel art where the whole world looks a bit unreal. Controls wonderfully, has a huge map and very deep RPG customization. quote:EXPLORE YOUR WAY. Awoken to a world ruined by war, Alma must traverse the vast city of Arcadia before the life force of her friends and herself withers away. Time is ticking, and every moment matters. Who will you save, and who will you leave to turn UNSIGHTED? https://store.steampowered.com/app/1372210/Dap/ https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256847562/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1629460423 Dap is a 3/4 view action adventure game with some Pikmin-like qualities and some of the most gorgeous and original-looking art I've ever seen. Looks and sounds somewhat unsettling. quote:Dap is a horror-action-adventure about gathering and protecting a pack of fragile creatures called Daps. Lead your Daps to safety through an eerily beautiful world, fighting off threats, solving puzzles, and avoiding the infection that twists your companions into something alien and terrifying…
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First post in this thread, but I can't find where else to talk about this game so here it goes. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1271280/Rift_Wizard/ Rift Wizard is absolutely amazing. If you grew up on old 80s PC Games, or you had an uncle who had a working C64 and you got to play Temple of Apshai a few times, Rift Wizard is the game for you. Every inch of Rift Wizard is dripping with aesthetic. This is everything I want in a roguelike, without having an RNG push you into a specific build. How many times you launched Slay the Spire wanting to run a Powers/Defect build, only to get dealt room after room of claws? You have your whole spellbook available at the start, and how you spend skillpoints determines your build. You'll get rooms that make certain classes of spells cheaper, but those are in no way required to get you to the wizard of your choice. There are shrines that will enhance your spells, those are random and you shouldn't plan on building around those. But I've seen at least 20 different shrines, many of which add very fun options to your potential builds. It took me 30 hours to get to my first win, and I had fun on every single run up to that point. Since I made the regrettable mistake of popping my head up too high in a FYAD thread, I got my avatar of 17 years changed. Well, so long :cow: hello :wizard: If you like roguelikes, if you like strategy sandboxes, or if you like wizard powertrips, this is absolutely the game for you.
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Grevlek posted:First post in this thread, but I can't find where else to talk about this game so here it goes. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3563643 its talk about a lot in the roguelike thread
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Play posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1062110/UNSIGHTED/ I'm getting CrossCode vibes from this, any truth to that?
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Thoom posted:I'm getting CrossCode vibes from this, any truth to that? yeah, it looked a bit like crosscode and hyper light drifter to me
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Thoom posted:I'm getting CrossCode vibes from this, any truth to that? Definitely, although the combat is much better in my opinion. There's ranged and close up, parrying, blocking, special moves etc. and it just feels good. I also think it looks a little better in terms of art. On the other side of it, I doubt it's got as long or involved a story as CrossCode
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