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Heran Bago posted:To anyone who has played it, how is the post game? I don’t get why the dev haven’t made a sequel but went on to make some generic platformer.
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https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/949600/view/3180113694776921511quote:Anniversary Sale and a Thank You No Man's Fishing Simulator on sale for 6$, which is a steal. It's really chill and fun. 
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StrixNebulosa posted:https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/949600/view/3180113694776921511 I love Intergalactic Fishing. The soundscape really carries it.
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Always been interested in Intergalactic Fishing but never picked it up, looks like now's the time!
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I picked Intergalactic Fishing up, thanks for posting it, looks neat, hope to play it some day as well.
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Heran Bago posted:I was checking out the Steam page for Potionomics and it got me all nostalgic for Recettear. It was published by Carpe Fulgar, who had a brief stint of taking exceptional doujin games and localizing + publishing them in English. Is doujin even the right term? Carpe Fulgur brought over some real hidden gems, especially in a time where these obscure indie efforts would've never imagined seeing sale internationally. They're still in business, but primarily as translators for bigger games- apparently they recently did Super Robot Wars 30. I'd like to see them localize some more doujin stuff over, but who knows when they'll ever get back to doing that.
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Picked up both AI War 2 and Intergalactic Fishing, both sound fun for different reasons 
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Is Arcen making AI War 3 or are they just folding up shop after they're done patching the expansion?
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TOOT BOOT posted:Is Arcen making AI War 3 or are they just folding up shop after they're done patching the expansion? Arcen's been folded up and was just finishing off AI War 2, I thought.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Arcen's been folded up and was just finishing off AI War 2, I thought. Sad if true. I never played many Arcen games, but I liked their work. Valley Without Wind occupies a special place in my heart, despite me being entirely unable to remember exactly when I bought it or how I found out about it.
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Protocol7 posted:Turbo Overkill came out today and it seems pretty good. Instantly love the aesthetic, music and all of that. I'm a bit too tired and sluggish this morning for a fast paced boomer shooter though Took me 30 minutes to complete Level 3. Kept getting lost and couldn't figure out where to go. There's one part where a jump-beam thing has an arrow pointing one direction, towards a raised platform with nothing up there except for a locked door you can't interact with. Turns out you're supposed to go the opposite direction and wall run along a section -.- When I beat Level 2 before closing the game earlier, I clicked Exit instead of Next Level and when I loaded back up earlier this afternoon I had to re-do the second level again. So uh maybe load into the next level and then exit the game just to be safe?
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I haven't heard about anything on AI War 3. This is just the last expansion for 2, at least for now.StrixNebulosa posted:Arcen's been folded up and was just finishing off AI War 2, I thought. They're working on a new project, not folding up. They're stubborn, no matter the financial issues.
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Another voice to recommend Intergalactic Fishing, it's really lovely.
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I've also been playing Hero's Hour which seems pretty straightforward and charming. Tried an Easy game and still got absolutely destroyed by the AI. Still pretty fun overall though.
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Protocol7 posted:I've also been playing Hero's Hour which seems pretty straightforward and charming. Tried an Easy game and still got absolutely destroyed by the AI. Still pretty fun overall though. Yeah I've been enjoying it despite getting curbstomped repeatedly too. Really reminds me of a 2d Total War: Warhammer, right down to the turnbased campaign and real time battles.
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I need more auto battlers. gently caress it, smash my mans into each other
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Benagain posted:I need more auto battlers. gently caress it, smash my mans into each other Darwinia has some semi-autobattler sections
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Benagain posted:I need more auto battlers. gently caress it, smash my mans into each other Singleplayer: Astronarch A ton of class/item/build variety, if the aesthetic isn't too off-putting to you it's the best singleplayer pure autobattler imo https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256779012/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1631596942 Live Multiplayer: Legion TD2 This one is extremely good imo  https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256812015/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1606919858 At its heart it's a game about balancing multiple economies. You earn gold from killing waves of creeps, then spend that gold on either placing/upgrading units, or on workers. You need to keep your units in the field strong enough to hold off enemy waves, ideally for as little gold as possible so that you can buy as many workers as you can. Workers produce Mythium, which you spend on units that attack your paired enemy player on the other team. Spending Mythium earns you passive gold income for the rest of the match. It gets even more complicated by primarily revolving around randomized unit decks, so you don't have predetermined build orders each match, they depend on what rolls you get. It has a steep learning curve and an extremely high skill ceiling but there are a lot of in-game assists and an AI coach that gives you tips based on your performance after every match. It has a singleplayer campaign but I haven't played it, I believe it's sort of along the lines of a challenge mode. There's a ton of depth and high-end play is very strategic, but the community that plays at that level is pretty small (~1000-2000ish people). There's a fun casual mode that has a larger playerbase, and a lot of in-game automated systems that prevent people from griefing and being toxic, and punishing people who are anyway. Asynchronous multiplayer: Despot's Game - play through singleplayer, then enter your surviving party members into a pvp tournament. I haven't played it too much myself but it's popular. Super Auto Pets - this game is good but also incredibly frustrating because your opponent is drawn from a pool of every single player on the same "wave" as you, and it will intentionally try to make you lose, often. It will kill you right when you get your build off the ground 90% of the time. But since you don't need other players playing live at any given time (it's all asynchronous) it's very quick and snappy to play and it gets me stuck in a "just one more turn..." loop deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 02:12 on Apr 23, 2022 |
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Benagain posted:I need more auto battlers. gently caress it, smash my mans into each other Super Auto Pets. Available everywhere including Steam and free (not F2P), free.
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Heran Bago posted:I was checking out the Steam page for Potionomics and it got me all nostalgic for Recettear. It was published by Carpe Fulgar, who had a brief stint of taking exceptional doujin games and localizing + publishing them in English. Is doujin even the right term? More seriously, the dungeon crawl is fine as a change of pace from running the shop, or a chance to score some free items early on when funds are low, but when it's all you ever do (and in the post-game, it is) it's both time-consuming and shallow. Bosses are occasionally interesting, but the vast majority of your adventuring career is relatively mindless maze-navigation, plagued by increasingly monotonous swarms of uninteresting enemies. There is a story component to it. It's alright. Most of the adventurers you meet are charming enough, and have some fun conversations. There are even a few revelations regarding the state of the world and your shop in particular. I'm still not sure if they're worth the slog. If someone somewhere's compiled all the cutscenes on Youtube, I'd honestly recommend that instead. Finally, there's the item encyclopedia. You know, the thing Alouette told you about? "At least complete the item encyclopedia!" She's trolling you. Completing the item encyclopedia is literally the last thing you do in this game, after completing several NG+ cycles and experiencing the dungeon crawl content several times over, which includes grinding for rare items, treasures, and materials which only spawn in dungeons, with no indication of whether or not you're wasting your time (since they could just as easily not spawn, ever), and no real need to claim them other than sheer completionism. Even now the Steam forums are filled with posters who wish this game had achievements, because they're idiots. The devs did them a favor not including them. Recettear is a great little item shop management sim and a painfully tedious dungeon crawler. Stick to capitalism, ho.
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Saoshyant posted:Super Auto Pets. Available everywhere including Steam and free (not F2P), free. It's good but it's indeed really demanding, you don't have all the RNG-induced margin of error that you get in Hearthstone Battlegrounds or similar. That said it is very streamlined and fun and completely respects your time. I can boot up the app on my phone and be like 3 rounds deep into a new game before Hearthstone would even be finished matching me with opponents. Definitely my favorite auto battler.
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Away all Goats posted:Yeah I've been enjoying it despite getting curbstomped repeatedly too. Do you actually control the battles? The trailer made it seem like a cluster gently caress you just watch
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Battles play out automatically but you control deployment before the battle starts, then you can give general orders to units during the fight (move toward this location, go for this target), and you also cast and target spells yourself during battles.
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FuzzySlippers posted:Do you actually control the battles? The trailer made it seem like a cluster gently caress you just watch It is a clusterfuck, but there's actually a surprising amount that you can do between movement orders and spells once you press play. Deployment also matters a lot, specially when you have bigger armies.
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Wow, this is one of the most shameless copypastes I've ever seen. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1811750/VELONE/
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Jack Trades posted:Wow, this is one of the most shameless copypastes I've ever seen. Apparently you also have to watch three ads every time you start up the game too.
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Zil posted:Apparently you also have to watch three ads every time you start up the game too. Jesus christ.
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It wouldn't have taken much effort to package the mechanics in such a way that it didn't entirely look like Zachtronics clone
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Or at least have a friend or two rate the game positively in a cheap astroturfing attempt. One of the few times I've seen 100% negative reviews.
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One would also assume the average Zachtronics fan wouldn't be so easily swayed by some poor man's rip-off.
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Zil posted:Apparently you also have to watch three ads every time you start up the game too. Saw that review too so I checked, it's more like a banner at the top of the main menu that links to Daedalic's other games. 
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Game looks like a shameful ripoff but that's a stupid complaint. I was playing Insurmountable earlier (another Daedalic published game) and they do the same thing and I thought nothing of it.
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My god I even tried to do a 2v2 in Hero's Hour and my AI partner got wiped off the map on day 2 of week 2. This is gonna be a learning experience, isn't it? I did at least learn that buying an early second hero is worth it if only to help ferry new troops to your main hero.
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Regardless of the rest of the game, it's very poor form to advertise for other products inside of the game itself. Yes, other games do it with their annoying launchers, and yes, people loudly complain about it there, too. The pushback is good.
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I kind of like the old games that had ad billboards which no longer get updates, or never updated in the first place so you still see ads for like, Nokia phones, or movies from 2004 or something
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Trackmania 2020 has in game advertising but at least that doesn't have an upfront cost. I still don't love it but I completely understand it for a game that's otherwise free. I think you can turn them off if you pay for an upgrade too.
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Bad Seafood posted:One would also assume the average Zachtronics fan wouldn't be so easily swayed by some poor man's rip-off. Sometimes you like something so much that you'll settle for far less to get a bit more of it.
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Don't most Zachtronics games have workshop support? That's infinite Zachtronics right there, for the price you already paid. You might say, "Well, user-created puzzles will never be up to par with what Zach's got in there already," but this is still technically just more user-created puzzles.
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I refunded Teardown. Was hoping for some Guerilla style smashing but the physics is way off. A whole house can be held up by a single brick and then it just drops down vertically when you remove it. Weird cause they obviously can topple structures - a wooden tower collapsed nicely. Not sure what they were going for with that game. It wasn't much fun.
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