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An Actual Princess posted:hungry for a lonely game. i want a game with as close to zero other characters as possible. spooky games sometimes fall into this and spooky is okay but it's not what i'm specifically after. ideally, i want to explore a place where people used to be and now they aren't. some games that have scratched this itch:
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Hey folks. I'm looking for something with a heavy focus on single character progress. Not looking for too much party management right now. I like build diversity and playing things in the dumbest way possible just to see if I can slap together some kind of fun gimmick. Some examples of games I've played way too much are Fallout: New Vegas, Slay the Spire, Risk of Rain 2, Pillars of Eternity, Path of Exile, Dungeons of Dredmor, and Neverwinter Nights. Doesn't need to be super story-driven or anything, just something I can tinker with.
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hotdog feet posted:Hey folks. I'm looking for something with a heavy focus on single character progress. Not looking for too much party management right now. Caves of Qud
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Mar 24, 2022 02:10
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hotdog feet posted:Hey folks. I'm looking for something with a heavy focus on single character progress. Not looking for too much party management right now. Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen Nova Drift Hades Jydge Prey 2017 Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages CrossCode
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Mar 24, 2022 02:28
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Kvlt! posted:Caves of Qud Seconding this. Really any quality roguelike will have good single character building, but Caves of Qud has a very wide range of creative character builds. And it has a slick presentation for a roguelike with a number of quality of life features, including disabling permadeath as an option. And phenomenal writing.
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Mar 24, 2022 02:38
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Ellen Ring has a lot of build variety and viable playstyles. It's also hard as gently caress and sucks.
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Mar 24, 2022 02:50
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Ellen Ring This has terrifying connotations
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An Actual Princess posted:hungry for a lonely game. i want a game with as close to zero other characters as possible. spooky games sometimes fall into this and spooky is okay but it's not what i'm specifically after. ideally, i want to explore a place where people used to be and now they aren't. some games that have scratched this itch: Its definitley not for everyone, but The Void can feel extremely opresively lonely at times.
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Mar 24, 2022 03:39
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I apparently already owned Caves of Qud and i can tell I'm going to dump a lot of hours into that mess. I grabbed Nova Drift too because that game looks beautiful. Thanks! Also hard pass on El Ring because I'm very bad at games.
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Mar 24, 2022 03:43
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I can also recommend Dungeonmans as a very solid goon-made roguelike with a well-tuned power curve and a lot of build options.
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Mar 24, 2022 03:50
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Tangledeep is another goonlike that is very accessible. And TOME is all clown shoes murder hobos for as far as the eye can see
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Mar 24, 2022 04:01
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Definitely Hades. Vampire Survivors might scratch that itch in small doses.
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I cannot get into Hades for anything. I haven't even managed to unlock all the weapons. One of those situations where i know there's a great game there but i just can't get my brain to appreciate it. Also just want to say that i played the poo poo out of Dungeonmans and anybody who hasn't bought it really should. Some real love went into that game. Added Tangledeep to the list too. Sincerely appreciate the recs, folks.
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I recently got into Hades after bouncing off it previously. For me, I needed to unlock the second dash and realize it is basically a game of dashing. Moving is dashing. The way you play sword is to dash-attack -> dash-attack -> special -> repeat. Fist is dash-attack -> attackx3 -> repeat. Bow is dash-attack (helps you position and the draw is faster). Etc.
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I couldn't get into Hades b/c I kind of hate isometic action games in general. I really like everything about Hades aside from that which is tough. Looking for jamming neon retro revivals like: - Space Invaders Extreme - Space Invaders Infinity Gene - Tetris Effect - Luxor Evolved - Pacman Championship Edition series - Shatter - Arkanoid DS Or jamming neon puzzle games like: - Gunpey 2006 - Lumines series - Meteos series - Every Extend Extra
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Heran Bago posted:I couldn't get into Hades b/c I kind of hate isometic action games in general. I really like everything about Hades aside from that which is tough. Double Dragon Neon, even has it in the name
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Heran Bago posted:Looking for jamming neon retro revivals like: Nova Drift
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Looking for a good racing game that can run on a lovely laptop. I love playing Hot Wheels Unleashed but my computer is in the shop for a few weeks so I'm looking for a fun racing game I can play on my little lovely school laptop. Any era/art style. Just wanna have fun with fast cars.
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Mar 26, 2022 18:58
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Are there any games centered around acquiring interesting and varied mounts? Don't say mount your friends.
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Mar 26, 2022 20:30
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Splicer posted:Are there any games centered around acquiring interesting and varied mounts? ...Forza?
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Splicer posted:Are there any games centered around acquiring interesting and varied mounts? Do the acquired mounts need to be permanent? If no, then Monster Hunter Rise.
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Mar 26, 2022 20:41
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Splicer posted:Are there any games centered around acquiring interesting and varied mounts? No Man's Sky now lets you tame and mount its various procedurally generated monstrosities edit: "interesting and varied" might be a stretch, they have a variety of looks but all control kind of the same
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Mar 26, 2022 20:47
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Splicer posted:Are there any games centered around acquiring interesting and varied mounts? Legends Arceus. Breath of the Wild.
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Kvlt! posted:Looking for a good racing game that can run on a lovely laptop. I love playing Hot Wheels Unleashed but my computer is in the shop for a few weeks so I'm looking for a fun racing game I can play on my little lovely school laptop. Any era/art style. Just wanna have fun with fast cars. Art of Rally requires a GPU, so maybe Absolute Drift: https://store.steampowered.com/app/320140/Absolute_Drift/
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hotdog feet posted:Hey folks. I'm looking for something with a heavy focus on single character progress. Not looking for too much party management right now.
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Kvlt! posted:Looking for a good racing game that can run on a lovely laptop. I love playing Hot Wheels Unleashed but my computer is in the shop for a few weeks so I'm looking for a fun racing game I can play on my little lovely school laptop. Any era/art style. Just wanna have fun with fast cars. https://store.steampowered.com/app/358270/Death_Rally_Classic/
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Splicer posted:Are there any games centered around acquiring interesting and varied mounts? If MMOs qualify the main thing I hear people go on about when it comes to Guild Wars 2 is the mounts.
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Phigs posted:If MMOs qualify the main thing I hear people go on about when it comes to Guild Wars 2 is the mounts. GW2 has good mounts but I wouldn't say it's centered around acquiring them. They're a feature in an expansion so even if you beeline for it, you're still playing the first few dozen hours mount free. Once you get there, there's only nine of them, and half of them are just handed to you in the course of the story (the other half are mostly cool fun journeys, though, if a tad grindy). The mounts themselves open up a bunch of fun movement options (and they're all pretty different, unlike most MMO mounts which are just a speed boost), and they're well animated and whatnot, but they're mostly a feature to help you do other stuff rather than a core goal themselves.
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External Organs posted:...Forza? I'm looking for a game where your mount type is important equipment I guess? Age of Wonders III or Planetfall would be good examples, where having a mount gives you things like jump attacks or flame breath or what have you. But like, realtime first/third person. Essentially the driving bits of Borderlands except across the whole game and instead of a car it's a dinosaur that spits acid. Jack Trades posted:Do the acquired mounts need to be permanent? SlothfulCobra posted:Legends Arceus.
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Splicer posted:They don't need to be permanent no but it depends on why they're temporary. Ideally murdering them for parts is not a core gameplay mechanic. Murdering other, identical animals for parts is fine. Core gameplay loop of that game is mounting monsters that AREN'T your murder target and using them to beat the poo poo out of your target.
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I have a hankering for a specific feeling from a game: I want to be able to grow a healthy, happy society (city, country, civilization, etc) through investment into its people and means of production. Interaction with neighbors via diplomacy/war is important, though not strictly required. The platonic ideal of this would be something like the Victoria series--you have a state with people, the people have their own living conditions where improvement in their material conditions and the state's means of production leads to a stronger state, the state exists in a world with neighbors, and options for advancement include population growth, internal development economically and technologically, diplomacy, and war. Things I have played fitting this that I've liked: Every Paradox game (Victoria II is good at this and Victoria III is basically what I'm looking for. The further away from the Victoria series you get the less ideal--EU4 and CK2/3 have less internal development) Civilization series King of Dragon Pass and sequel Six Ages Distant Worlds (1, haven't played 2 yet) Crisis in the Kremlin (and related games from that studio) Endless Space 1 and 2 Stuff I liked with caveats: Warsim (ultimately fairly war-focused and not sufficiently satisfying) Realpolitiks 1 (good but not great, weird politics system where social democracy = creeping authoritarianism, lovely war system, didn't try 2) Rogue State and Rogue State Revolution (too heavily story focused and short duration) Suzerain (phenomenal but only lasts 1 presidential term) Total War series (fighting is great but internal development ranges from poor to okay) Democracy series (great internal development but no foreign policy at all, states shouldn't exist in vacuums) Stuff I've tried that I didn't like: Power and Revolution series (not great, horrendously buggy, re-released every year with no obvious improvements) Supreme Commander series (ultimately very war focused without meaningful internal development) I'm not looking for suggestions for games on a smaller scale like Rimworld or Kenshi where you're controlling groups of individual, selectable people. Likewise I'm not looking for games where you're controlling an army with a base building component (eg XCOM, most RTSs)
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Shadow Empire might be a little too military focused but the civ-building side is excellent. You manage your cities, resources, public and private economies, officers and counsels, etc. It's a REALLY great game. War is pretty necessary though, there's diplomacy and other stuff of course but you can't play without going to war. From the games you've described you've liked, I think you'd really enjoy it. I love it.
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Humankind is the newer 4x from Amplitude (Endless Space guys), and is an Earth-bound alternate historical game in the vein of the Civ series.
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Kvlt! posted:Shadow Empire might be a little too military focused but the civ-building side is excellent. You manage your cities, resources, public and private economies, officers and counsels, etc. It's a REALLY great game. War is pretty necessary though, there's diplomacy and other stuff of course but you can't play without going to war. Played it, would put it into the "liked with caveats" section because it's so war heavy, but thank you for the suggestion. grate deceiver posted:Workers & Resources? I suppose city-builders technically fall into what I've described, but not really looking for a city builder. Thank you, though. Sandwich Anarchist posted:Humankind is the newer 4x from Amplitude (Endless Space guys), and is an Earth-bound alternate historical game in the vein of the Civ series. I've had my eye on it, although between Civilization, Endless Space, and Endless Legend, I feel like I've seen most of what this game would have to offer anyway. I'll keep it in mind, thanks. I know I'm being picky, it's just a very specific kind of thing I'm looking for.
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Have you looked into Victoria II mods? Kaiserraich, NWO, and Divergence were the ones I can remember. Might add some freshness to Vic 2.
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E: Whoops completely blanked that Surviving Mars is a paradox game
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Splicer posted:E: Whoops completely blanked that Surviving Mars is a paradox game They didn't mention it, and SM is pretty far removed from what people think of when they think "paradox game". Regardless, I second the recc if it's valid.
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The things that leap to mind immediately are Tropico and Anno. Tropico is a dictator simulator, but it is entirely optional to do any of the "mean" options, and you can just do your best to increase happiness and living conditions and please political factions to get reelected every time. Anno is more of an economic series of games where you're more building a series of factories. The Anno games set in the future allow you to create newfangled paradises, Anno 1800 has more stuff involving dealing with foreign nations. If you're up for older games, maybe Black and White 2? Where you can defeat your enemy gods by just making a city that's so much more pious and happy that other cities just convert on their own. A lot of the other games I know of focus more on the negative side of things. Banished needs you to maintain a stable level of population. Frostpunk is about making your little colony of people out in the frigid wasteland survive the apocalypse, and the game makes a point of trying to push you towards morally questionable things that it will judge you about. There's also a neat little minigame where you send out explorers across the wasteland to acquire supplies or rescue more survivors. There are some smaller scale games you might like such as the Kingdom series, which are about building a little community and steadily pushing back and destroying monsters that attack nightly, but the twist is that the entire game is played as a two dimensional sidescroller where the player is a monarch that goes back and forth plopping down money to recruit peasants and tell them what to build and getting them to generate revenue from hunting and farmingto keep things rolling. Two Point Hospital is about just managing a hospital, but even though you're managing it as a business (which is played more for a comedy angle), you're saving lives. Startopia is about building up a space station. Reus is about building synergistic combos with gods and numbers to grow a little civilization, but you're the only ones on the planet. And I think I've heard positive things about Egypt: Old Kingdom, but I never checked it out.
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Bit of a deep cut, but I suggest giving Hidden Agenda a try. It's a 1988 nation sim that's mostly text-based. You should be able to find it as abandonware (though apparently the dev was sending free copies on request to whoever asked well into the 2000s provided they promised to give feedback afterwards). You're placed as interim president of a post-dictatorship Latin American nation in the late Cold War and you must try to bring the country forward from the shadow of its former tyrant in your limited time in office. The game's infamously hard (you WILL get couped) but you have to fight tooth and nail to wrestle every little victory from the nest of vipers that is your cabinet, from a literacy campaign to a new constitution to prosecuting the death squads, and when you manage to pull off the slightest positive change for your people without setting off a civil war it feels extremely rewarding. Alternatively, get Disco Elysium and play Suzerainty 
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