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It's a fresh release and doesn't seem to be doing well at all so I'm going to promote Harmony: The Fall of Reverie https://store.steampowered.com/app/1966420/Harmony_The_Fall_of_Reverie/ https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256951589/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1686243486 quote:The fate of humanity is at stake. Use your gift of clairvoyance to see into the future and stop an apocalypse that threatens the balance between your world and the deities'. 7 reviews not enough to get a rating. From Don't Nod maker of Life is Strange. It's got a really fun preview the consequences of your actions mechanic and if it matters to you the queer content feels much less hamfisted than some of the stuff they've made recently. I'm going to do a bigger write up and comparison in the VN thread but while Mask of the Rose had the potential to be a great game and wasn't, Harmony is an actual good game with a lot to recommend (far from perfect but satisfying to play through). fez_machine fucked around with this message at 04:29 on Jun 10, 2023 |
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grate deceiver posted:They're pretty cool, I spent a combined 50 hrs on them. But I never got any of the big important secrets, because at some point it just turns into repetitive tedium. I'm desperate to play an actual mechanically interesting game in this setting. Your Uncle Dracula posted:Alexis Kennedy is a shithead. Please don't buy his game. Well, good news, I tried the demo of it and it was like Cultist Simulator but worse. I mean, it's possible the final game will be different, but my impression was that it wasn't doing anything Cultist Simulator wasn't aside from having an overworld map that just added an extra layer of frustration on trying to figure out how to do stuff.
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Your Uncle Dracula posted:Alexis Kennedy is a shithead. Please don't buy his game. Wait, is he still affiliated with Failbetter? I swear I read that he was forced out after it was revealed how much of a "nice" person he was and he started his own company. EDIT: Nevermind, I thought people were talking about Mask of Roses and not Book of Hours. 
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Your Uncle Dracula posted:Alexis Kennedy is a shithead. Please don't buy his game. Yeah, I know, was going to torrent it anyway since Cultist Simulator turned out so annoying. StarkRavingMad posted:Well, good news, I tried the demo of it and it was like Cultist Simulator but worse. I mean, it's possible the final game will be different, but my impression was that it wasn't doing anything Cultist Simulator wasn't aside from having an overworld map that just added an extra layer of frustration on trying to figure out how to do stuff. Lmao goddamnit, some people are just allergic to fun I guess.
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fez_machine posted:It's a fresh release and doesn't seem to be doing well at all so I'm going to promote Harmony: The Fall of Reverie I've been enjoying it but I usually don't leave a review until I put a decent amount of time into a game. The voice acting is really great and I like the soundtrack so far.
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https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256950912/movie480_vp9.webm https://store.steampowered.com/app/1740300/Smushi_Come_Home/ "Play as a tiny lil' mushroom who's lost in the forest and can't find its way home. Explore unique areas freely at your own pace, chat with friendly inhabitants, and take on different adventures to get back home!" 45 reviews, 100% positive https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256948303/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1685007324 https://store.steampowered.com/app/1879680/Candle_Knight/ "Never let your light go out. Wield a powerful flame, overcome menacing creatures and explore the shadows of a ruined castle in this compelling 2.5D action adventure platformer which features a unique dynamic difficulty system." 17 reviews, 82% positive (Older candle platformers on Steam: Candleman, Candlelight) galenanorth fucked around with this message at 14:22 on Jun 11, 2023 |
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Dordognequote:Immerse yourself in a unique narrative experience and explore the thousand summer colors of Dordogne as you revisit your childhood to uncover lost family secrets in this touching formative journey. 83% out of 12.
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Early release of Six Days in Fallujah on Steam for PC - 6/22/2023 https://www.sixdays.com/media
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Battlebit is out in EA finally, for a mere $15. It's a low poly FPS Battlefield like game with up to 256 players per map. It looks bad but it has some of the best shooting mechanics for a multiplayer FPS and a pretty good community. The EA has a ton of maps and modes. The last playtest had 30k people playing so should be fairly populated. https://store.steampowered.com/app/671860/BattleBit_Remastered/
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Rusty posted:Battlebit is out in EA finally, for a mere $15. It's a low poly FPS Battlefield like game with up to 256 players per map. It looks bad but it has some of the best shooting mechanics for a multiplayer FPS and a pretty good community. The EA has a ton of maps and modes. The last playtest had 30k people playing so should be fairly populated. I watch this guy's Planetside 2 videos and he's been psyched about BattleBit Remastered for a while: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxZaQo_0CJQ
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Daydream: Forgotten Sorrowquote:In this puzzle platformer, you will embark on a touching journey through the surreal world of a person's mind as a young Griffin and his faithful bear, Birly. Overcome challenges, avoid traps and defeat enemies to help the man find peace. 90% out of 50. 10% launch discount. Fall of Porcupine quote:Fall of Porcupine is a unique story adventure. The collision of work and daily life – an exciting reflection of an unhealthy healthcare-system. Experience the exciting story of Finley and his friends in a lovingly illustrated world and uncover the darkest secrets of Porcupine and its residents. 100% out of 22. 15% launch discount.
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Play posted:I kinda liked what little I played of Mask of the Rose. But I agree, there's not enough drat time and the characters/plot aren't nearly fleshed out enough. I romanced two of them basically by accident. We've done a patch this week which made some quite bold changes to improve this and initial reports are that it's much better, so I hope if you've still got an interest you might give it another go. source: am dev + goon 
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Rusty posted:Battlebit is out in EA finally, for a mere $15. It's a low poly FPS Battlefield like game with up to 256 players per map. It looks bad but it has some of the best shooting mechanics for a multiplayer FPS and a pretty good community. The EA has a ton of maps and modes. The last playtest had 30k people playing so should be fairly populated. I sank a big chunk of the long weekend so far into BattleBit. I never got too deep into the Battlefield series, but this one is a no-brainer at $15. US vs Russia is a bit off-putting due to the war in Ukraine, but development began years before the invasion, and the devs are in Turkey, so I don't think I gave my money to a bunch of Putinistas. The community so far doesn't seem any more immature or edgelordy than any other military FPS, and they do have a quite explicit anti-bigotry policy that seems to be enforced. The vehicles handle well as long as the drivers know what they're doing, although piloting a helicopter with WASD + mouse is probably always going to be a bit zany. The destructible buildings definitely change the flow of the map as time goes on, a building that may have provided a secure hide at the start of the map quickly becomes something rushed through and rapidly cleared. The house to house fighting on some of the maps gets really intense, and you'd better be ready to die in a zerg rush. Coming over from something like CounterStrike, the medium range rifles can reach out pretty far, and there have been a couple times where I was effectively able to play medic and support a team of snipers with just an AK. The one big flaw, and I can't tell if it's an intentional design decision, is that there's no minimap on the HUD. That makes it hard to call out directions, and everybody just tends to randomly rush in the direction of the next objective marker to pop up on screen. I didn't figure out the interface for handling squads right away, either, and I don't think most people did, as they tend to stay with the auto-assigned squad rather than grouping up more intentionally.
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Aliens: Dark Descent, by the Battlefleet Gothic people just came out. It's real-time tactical squad combat with perma-death, persistent maps that you can change and fortify, and supposedly enemy AI that adapts to your squad. It looks promising, though given the track record for Aliens it's best to wait for the reviews. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1150440/Aliens_Dark_Descent/ https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256948959/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1685021796
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Aliens: Dark Descent Steam Description posted:Face off in a gripping original Alien story against iconic Xenomorph creatures ranging from Facehuggers to Praetorians, Alien Queens and many more, including rogue human commandos and a brand-new threat unique to this Alien storyline  When the gently caress are they going to stop putting human enemies in Aliens games? I don't want to be shot at when I'm playing an Aliens game!
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haldolium posted:unless it's the best Aliens game, AvP2
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haldolium posted:unless it's the best Aliens movie, Alien
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Queer Grenadier posted:Early release of Six Days in Fallujah on Steam for PC - 6/22/2023 Six Days in Fallujah Official Discord quote:We're excited to announce the launch of the official Discord server for Six Days in Fallujah!
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grate deceiver posted:Mars First Logistics just came out in EA, physics-based strand-like/runner-like. You build rovers out of lego bricks and deliver cargo to build a Mars base. Do you know what makes it Strand-like? Do your constructions get sent to other users? Two games from my Steam wishlist just dropped, one in EA and one full release. Casino Resort Tower, a management/sim game set in a casino skyscraper.Early access Kingsblood, a "grimdark-RPG autochess".
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The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales is out. I thought the demo was great. In the real world the game is in first person, and the deal is you go in to books (top down perspective) to get items (part of the story). You can go in and out and solve puzzles from stuff you bring in to the book. The demo just had the first mission and I thought the whole presentation was really clever and interesting.
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malnourish posted:Do you know what makes it Strand-like? Do your constructions get sent to other users? After playing it for a bit it's actually much more of a Marsrunner than a Mars Stranding. It's all about building different transporters to carry weirdly shaped cargo. It has very satisfying controls and servo sounds, and also the missions are much more interesting and enjoyable to me than other sandboxy building games where you have to make your own fun.
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grate deceiver posted:After playing it for a bit it's actually much more of a Marsrunner than a Mars Stranding. It's all about building different transporters to carry weirdly shaped cargo. It has very satisfying controls and servo sounds, and also the missions are much more interesting and enjoyable to me than other sandboxy building games where you have to make your own fun. A YouTube channel caller Real Civil Engineer just put out a gameplay video for this game a day or two ago, it's worth watching to get the idea of the gameplay. He's kind of an idiot but a harmless one.
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malnourish posted:Do you know what makes it Strand-like? Do your constructions get sent to other users? I need to issue a correction. There are missions that have you deliver pizza, and you need to keep it horizontal, otherwise it will fall out of the box. So it's definitely a Strand-like.
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