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Snake Maze posted:Shiren 5 is on steam, it’s the newest one and rescues are cross platform and cross region so it’s still pretty active. Oh! For some reason I thought that series was a Nintendo Thing and wouldn't be on Steam. Thanks, wishlisted.
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ive never been able to get into cogmind despite rave reviews because it just seems too harsh to be fun. there's no learning curve
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juggalo baby coffin posted:ive never been able to get into cogmind despite rave reviews because it just seems too harsh to be fun. there's no learning curve Part of it is because the game needs to make it clearer that new players should treat it more like Sil than Crawl. Most of the time, a new player wants to spend the early game avoiding danger and going to new levels.
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Oct 12, 2021 19:40
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Thirsty Dog posted:Part of it is because the game needs to make it clearer that new players should treat it more like Sil than Crawl. Most of the time, a new player wants to spend the early game avoiding danger and going to new levels. its definitely a big issue i ran into bc i wasnt sure if i was meant to be clearing every level and salvaging everything possible or going onwards. a lot of roguelikes you end up super outlevelled if you just rush the exits so i never know what to do
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Oct 12, 2021 20:01
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The dev has a video on how to survive the beginning of the game on their youtube channel. It's a little out of date I think but I found it very helpful.
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Oct 12, 2021 20:05
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Thirsty Dog posted:Part of it is because the game needs to make it clearer that new players should treat it more like Sil than Crawl. Most of the time, a new player wants to spend the early game avoiding danger and going to new levels. I'm gonna think about that a bit. edit: SavageMessiah posted:The dev has a video on how to survive the beginning of the game on their youtube channel. It's a little out of date I think but I found it very helpful. Serephina fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Oct 12, 2021 |
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Oct 12, 2021 22:07
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Tann posted:Slice & Dice is coming to ios... one day! Building for ios is a pain with no mac so I'm working on some other bits first. Oh sweet, didn't know it was goon-made. Add me to the list of people super stoked for an ios version.
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Oct 12, 2021 23:09
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Framboise posted:I died, mostly because I ran out of mana potions, but drat it if this wasn't the most absurd run I've had so far. Ghostfire + Nightmare Aura(Fever Dreams) + Death Gaze gets really stupid really fast. 
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Oct 12, 2021 23:12
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Kvlt! posted:Is it a good game for "pop in real quick and play a little bit"? I like RLs because you generally can just play for a run without having to worry about where you left off last time, but there's a story mode? You should try Pawnbarian, it's like a pretty simple, loosely chess-based tile-puzzle roguelike that you can do a run of in 15 minutes or less. I like it. The simplicity hides a pretty deeply strategic game actually
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Serephina posted:His videos are informative, but overlong imo. There's about 16 hours of a completed stream to sort through to figure out how he entered a certain stage in such good condition. Someone needs to do a 10 minute version for the first few levels, rattling their mouth off. No argument there. I actually haven't watched the intro one in its entirety. Just the first half or so was enough to at least introduce the basic ideas of how the hell to play the game. It could absolutely have been conveyed much more efficiently.
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Repeating myself Problem: cogmind is bad Solution: rpglike mode
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ExiledTinkerer posted:To keep the theme running, Circadian Dice landed yet another stealthy update just recently~ 2.0.4: -Maximum screenshake is now capped. game ruined
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Play posted:You should try Pawnbarian, it's like a pretty simple, loosely chess-based tile-puzzle roguelike that you can do a run of in 15 minutes or less. I did like the mechanics in the demo, seemed like a nice coffee break game along the lines of Hoplite or something.
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bees x1000 posted:Repeating myself can confirm, finally tried it, it worked.
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Oct 13, 2021 07:34
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can you play Rift Wizard with just a mouse? Or is it keyboard only?
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Kvlt! posted:can you play Rift Wizard with just a mouse? Or is it keyboard only? You can play it with just a mouse (I do for movement because my daily keyboard doesn't have a numpad), but you have to click each spell each time and that's pretty tedious. Having at least numbers for your spells makes the game way more convenient to play.
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rift wizard seems to actually demand you play with a mouse and keyboard, left hand hitting the numbers item effects, right hand aiming and mousing over things. It's the first roguelike I've played that is so overwhelmingly geared towards the mouse that isn't trying to be an accessible, entry-level player's first roguelike.
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Ultimate ADOM's first post-release update now live: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1266820/view/2994322669715965548 -Racial Equivalence with ADOM of old---though the Mist Elf description blurb is a bit strangely worded as that definitely wasn't quite how their distinctions played out? -Some better* balancing/summons actually function/progression/QoL/myriad fixes Not seeing any Surprises to address the core of the game, so I guess the next big update that actually moves the future forward on it is where all hopes rest vs what would've/should've otherwise been a solid sort of EA update as this at least satisfies a fair slice of the pre- Mysterious Happening dev roadmap. Jupiter Hell thus far bolstering more confidence still on the v1.0+ road ahead if you stack the updates shoulder to shoulder.
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Impermanent posted:rift wizard seems to actually demand you play with a mouse and keyboard, left hand hitting the numbers item effects, right hand aiming and mousing over things. It's the first roguelike I've played that is so overwhelmingly geared towards the mouse that isn't trying to be an accessible, entry-level player's first roguelike. You could theoretically get away with some kind of targeting thing crawl style, and there's (usually) not that big an enemy variety to worry about, but it's really really helpful. I personally use 0-9 for spells, manually click items, and use vi keys to move around in combat (yeah I'm old so what  ). After I clear the level though I click tiles to auto-path around and pick up items and check out the rifts.
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Impermanent posted:rift wizard seems to actually demand you play with a mouse and keyboard, left hand hitting the numbers item effects, right hand aiming and mousing over things. It's the first roguelike I've played that is so overwhelmingly geared towards the mouse that isn't trying to be an accessible, entry-level player's first roguelike. It's how I prefer to play. Left hand for menus, right hand for movement and targeting.
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Oct 14, 2021 15:59
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https://twitter.com/panstasz/status/1448704788808470528 world of horror is dope as hell but the dev was radio silent for a long time, but from what i'd heard there had been news from friends of his that he was okay but dealing with moving stuff and maybe some issues related to that along with just being prone to going silent on social media for long stretches of time. sounds like we'll maybe be getting some more news about the game and hopefully he's in a better spot.
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Oct 14, 2021 18:47
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Lost my Brawler lvl 32 to a loving 200 MIND DAMAGE MULTI TURN DOT FORM A WHITE BLOATED HORROR. Never playing TOME4 again gently caress this poo poo.
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Oct 14, 2021 18:49
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i wish I could like tome, there's parts I love, but then the arpg gearing is so inscrutable and everytime I start over is like 45 minutes of the same stuff I've done with very far and few between notable points (odd boss, random interesting loot)
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Oct 14, 2021 18:53
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Johnny Joestar posted:https://twitter.com/panstasz/status/1448704788808470528 I've not heard anything about this but I really like the aesthetic--is this out in some playable format already?
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A Strange Aeon posted:I've not heard anything about this but I really like the aesthetic--is this out in some playable format already? oh, yeah, world of horror has existed for a bit https://store.steampowered.com/app/913740/WORLD_OF_HORROR/ it's basically like a sorta procgen junji ito rpg thing where you're managing your resources while solving mysteries and it NAILS the aesthetic really well. ignore the 'mixed' recent reviews, it's idiots just saying the dev abandoned the game and giving it negative feedback because of that.
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Oct 14, 2021 19:06
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World of Horror owns. I barely understand the mechanics but it's cool as hell regardless. I did manage to beat once, not sure how I did it...
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I loved how it looked but that game was really confusing to me and it turned me off. Didn't love the look enough to look up what the hell was supposed to be going on
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World of horror is neat, I 100%'ed it when it came out, but all the cases are kinda static, so there isn't much variation between each run other than the random encounters. Honestly, I'm not sure I'd call it a roguelike.
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World of Horror's mechanics are extremely thin and basic and there's very little reason to replay it once you've seen all the cases because there's only a couple solutions to each one. It's not really the kind of game you play because the gameplay is good, you play it for the stories and the aesthetic. This isn't a huge criticism of the game, since I like it a fair bit, it's just that I fully agree with it not really being a roguelike in the way most people who post here think of roguelikes.
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Kanos posted:World of Horror's mechanics are extremely thin and basic and there's very little reason to replay it once you've seen all the cases because there's only a couple solutions to each one. It's not really the kind of game you play because the gameplay is good, you play it for the stories and the aesthetic. You unlock some new stuff by getting different endings and fulfilling some challenging conditions, so there's some replayability. I heard it described as the boardgame Arkham Horror with Junji Ito skin and it kinda fits very well. It's a good game, even in current state. The esthetic alone is dope as hell and worth the money.
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I'm hoping badly that a modding community springs up around it
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grate deceiver posted:You unlock some new stuff by getting different endings and fulfilling some challenging conditions, so there's some replayability. I rarely buy EA but this might do it
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Yeah World of Horror is very reminiscent of Junji Ito AH, right down the winning strategies often involving knowing what bad things are likely to happen ahead of time. I got to a point where I could semi-reliably beat it on the normal difficulty by the time I completed most of the existing content, I'm glad to hear it's still going. It's pretty basic but seeing all the endings is fun. If I had one complaint about, it'd be the metaprogression that locks useful city locations behind achievements. If you're going to play it I advise looking up how to unlock them, some of them either make your life easier or are basically necessary for certain endings, or both.
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i don't really know where else to post about it, to be honest. i feel it has just enough of a roguelike-ish structure in how you're managing resources within a randomized event structure to be worth a mention here. it skews pretty heavy on the story presentation and does a really good job of setting the mood, so if you're fine with that in what's straight up the best junji ito game on the market then i highly rec checking it out if it seems interesting enough. if i catch further posts about updates then i'll try to remember to put them here, if the dev is finally back from whatever ordeal they were wrapped up in.
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So I got the "I want to play D&D" itch and I was waiting for Baldur's Gate III to finish updating so I decided to boot up Dungeonmans. Four hours later it's midnight and all I know is that I made my Battle Chicken very happy. The game has aged like a fine wine and it really felt refreshing to play again after a long hiatus. Hell, I haven't even used the Pay to Lose DLC options yet. I think I'll save that option for my next run.
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Oct 15, 2021 08:25
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The best roguelike that's comfortably played with only a mouse (or laptop touchpad) is Urtuk. You don't need a keyboard at all.
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Walh Hara posted:The best roguelike that's comfortably played with only a mouse (or laptop touchpad) is Urtuk. You don't need a keyboard at all. This has been sitting in my wishlist for a while now. Any impressions on it besides that? The trailers etc. make it look a lot like Battle Brothers, which I liked a bunch (although it got hard as hell on ironman and felt like luck played a big part).
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Dropbear posted:This has been sitting in my wishlist for a while now. Any impressions on it besides that? The trailers etc. make it look a lot like Battle Brothers, which I liked a bunch (although it got hard as hell on ironman and felt like luck played a big part). Oh it's really great. I have 130 hours in it so far, which is less than battle brothers got me (197 hours) but still in my top 10. Things urtuk does better than battle brothers: - Combat is extremely well designed and has pretty much no RNG. At first glance it's pretty simple, but the interaction between the stamina system, the focus system, the crit system, and the traits give you plenty to think about. - Unit and enemy variety is pretty good, especially since all factions are playable. To be honest, it goes a bit "oh wow, so many races" to "hmm, it's just the same unit types but with different traits" to "wow, they do play really different and these traits make a huge difference". - The trait system really gives you tons of options in how to build your fighters. - The injury system is perfect to get people to play ironman. - The user interface is incredible. I play it on a laptop with just a touchpad. Things battle brothers does better than Urtuk: - The world map stuff is very minimal in Urtuk, there's no economy to speak off and it's just not that great. - The loot in urtuk is pretty meh. - In Urtuk you often end up using the same units every fight, occasionally rotating one or two. The (lack of) recruiting system is not that great in Urtuk.
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I’m liking despot game so far (more than Gladiator Guild Manager the other autobattler that dropped on the same day) but I feel like it’s missing something. Instead of having set characters you just get generic humans who you equip items on to become units. The problem for me is I don’t think the items have any abilities or ultimates besides stats so you’re missing the funnest part of composing a team. To make up for this you get to acquire a bunch of passives but I haven’t seen any good enough to give a team some identity yet.
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Golden Krone Hotel just a new update. There's a few new possible side branches, some balance tweaks, and a bunch more possible opening floors. I thought the game was basically done, so it's nice to see it getting a bit of love.
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