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Unreal_One posted:The classic Dungeon Keepers had a sandbox mode where combat was entirely optional, that might work? They're 90s games so getting them to run might be a pain. Nah, Gog.com is your friend there. Same for any other old PC game, their installers are built to work on modern PC's.
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does anyone know any good turn based Samurai games. Any genre, rpg, strategy, etc. As long as it's turn based and samurai themed (like not Shogun Total War bc its mostly RTS). PC or Switch. Ty!
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Kvlt! posted:does anyone know any good turn based Samurai games. Any genre, rpg, strategy, etc. As long as it's turn based and samurai themed (like not Shogun Total War bc its mostly RTS). Shadow tactics which is on sale for 3.99 https://store.steampowered.com/app/418240/Shadow_Tactics_Blades_of_the_Shogun/
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MarcusSA posted:Shadow tactics which is on sale for 3.99 That isn't turn based at all
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Kvlt! posted:does anyone know any good turn based Samurai games. Any genre, rpg, strategy, etc. As long as it's turn based and samurai themed (like not Shogun Total War bc its mostly RTS). I..don't suppose Shiren the Wanderer would count?
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Kvlt! posted:does anyone know any good turn based Samurai games. Any genre, rpg, strategy, etc. As long as it's turn based and samurai themed (like not Shogun Total War bc its mostly RTS). wandering sword if that's close enough to samurai-based, it's an open world wuxia jrpg.
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Kvlt! posted:does anyone know any good turn based Samurai games. Any genre, rpg, strategy, etc. As long as it's turn based and samurai themed (like not Shogun Total War bc its mostly RTS).
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Kvlt! posted:does anyone know any good turn based Samurai games. Any genre, rpg, strategy, etc. As long as it's turn based and samurai themed (like not Shogun Total War bc its mostly RTS). Sengoku Jidai: Shadow of the Shogun if your tastes go for wargames.
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Oct 28, 2023 12:58
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Actually that Onimusha Tactics game on GBA is probably worth a glance
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I loved that game; later, I loved Pokemon Conquest. I'm full of love for tactics b-games.
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Rogue AI Goddess posted:I'm looking for a noncombat city/base builder with a dark, gothic, or occult aesthetic. Something that lets me build a necromantic fortress, an eldritch temple-city, or a vampire castle, but without having to constantly fight, whether personally (V Rising) or with my units (Warcraft 3 undead campaigns).  How's The Banished Vault sound?
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Rogue AI Goddess posted:I'm looking for a noncombat city/base builder with a dark, gothic, or occult aesthetic. Something that lets me build a necromantic fortress, an eldritch temple-city, or a vampire castle, but without having to constantly fight, whether personally (V Rising) or with my units (Warcraft 3 undead campaigns). https://store.steampowered.com/app/1270580/Mind_Over_Magic/
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I have a loose group of a dozen or so friends, and when we were younger we'd meet to play - role playing games, board games, LAN parties, etc. Now with kids and serious jobs, we rarely can afford to meet. Not even online -- few have time to go raiding together in WoW. So I'm looking for a game that could engage us all regardless of how much or how little time each player has. I make a move (or a contribution of a different kind) now, and X does something at midnight, and Y the following morning... We are in the same clan and are working towards a common goal. An example would be chess. We could create a club on chess.com and play other clubs in one move a day matches, and each of us could choose how many matches they'd join and when they'd make moves. The problem is that a) most of them don't play chess; and b) it's not really cooperative. Commenting on your friend's game is cheating so there's not much to do with your club mates. Any recommendations? 
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Doctor Malaver posted:So I'm looking for a game that could engage us all regardless of how much or how little time each player has. I make a move (or a contribution of a different kind) now, and X does something at midnight, and Y the following morning... We are in the same clan and are working towards a common goal. There's probably some more modern examples, but the first thing that comes to mind for me is Civ 4, which has a "pitboss" utility you can use to host an asynchronous multiplayer game exactly like this. You can have it set up so that, say, each ingame turn takes 1 day, and players can log in to take their turn whenever they want. It's a good multiplayer game too, tons of variation and settings to play with even just in vanilla.
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Sounds to me like play-by-email games would also be a good category to look through. Basically anything that works well in an asynchronous mode that doesn't require quick responses from all players.
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Snake Maze posted:There's probably some more modern examples, but the first thing that comes to mind for me is Civ 4, which has a "pitboss" utility you can use to host an asynchronous multiplayer game exactly like this. You can have it set up so that, say, each ingame turn takes 1 day, and players can log in to take their turn whenever they want. It's a good multiplayer game too, tons of variation and settings to play with even just in vanilla. Very true, but it sounds like OP is looking for something cooperative. OP, are you strictly looking for turn-based? Have you considered setting up a server for e.g. Minecraft or Valheim where players can just come and go as they please and do stuff? I admit nothing comes immediately to mind for turn-based, asynchronous multiplayer, and coop.
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Eric the Mauve posted:Very true, but it sounds like OP is looking for something cooperative. I exclusively played Civ 4 coop with friends 
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Snake Maze posted:I exclusively played Civ 4 coop with friends You're a sick, hopeless degenerate. I like you.
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Doctor Malaver posted:I have a loose group of a dozen or so friends, and when we were younger we'd meet to play - role playing games, board games, LAN parties, etc. Now with kids and serious jobs, we rarely can afford to meet. Not even online -- few have time to go raiding together in WoW. If you mean co-operative... how many friends are we talking? Splicer fucked around with this message at 00:29 on Oct 30, 2023 |
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Oh, duh. Board Game Arena has a ton of board games, and supports multiplayer including asynchronous multiplayer. And co-op board games exist. Mind you, they tend to involve a lot of discussion about strategy, needing fairly close coordination between players, but you can do that over email. edit: a bunch of the games are locked behind a subscription, but only one person needs a subscription to create a game and invite their friends to it. And the subscriptions aren't terribly expensive. TooMuchAbstraction fucked around with this message at 01:08 on Oct 30, 2023 |
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Doctor Malaver posted:I have a loose group of a dozen or so friends, and when we were younger we'd meet to play - role playing games, board games, LAN parties, etc. Now with kids and serious jobs, we rarely can afford to meet. Not even online -- few have time to go raiding together in WoW. TooMuchAbstraction posted:Oh, duh. Board Game Arena has a ton of board games, and supports multiplayer including asynchronous multiplayer. And co-op board games exist. Mind you, they tend to involve a lot of discussion about strategy, needing fairly close coordination between players, but you can do that over email. Seconding this. BGA is a pretty good service that I use a fair bit, and I have been dipping my toe into async games more and more lately. The only thing I will say is that games over a certain complexity are much more difficult to learn on BGA, even considering the existence of tutorials, and that system will enforce rules and not let you cheat. There are not tons of co-op games on there, but some good ones include Hanabi, The Crew, Burgle Bros and Pandemic. I've played the first two non-async and BB on Tabletopia once ages ago, but honestly I think Pandemic might work best async because of the player turn structure. If you have any questions about BGA, feel free to come visit us in the Board Game thread.
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Splicer posted:Diplomacy Dominions
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I'm looking for something from the past ~3-4 years along the lines of an investigation/mystery/detective-ish game that has good music and kinda just leaves me to do my own thing and uncover things at my own pace. Paradise Killer is what I most recently played and is what I'm really looking for more of, I've been playing Broken Reality and it matches the vibes I want but I'm just not having a lot of fun. I played Road 96 a few months back and that also fit pretty well into what I'm looking for here even if it's not as strong on the investigation element. having a little more involved gameplay than those three games is also cool but I don't want anything with combat. I want to have an actual world/physical space to explore and roam around in so from my understanding, all of the Ace Attorney games are out of this discussion some other stuff I'm going to look into already but is maybe a little off from what I want: Cloudpunk, Detective Di: the Silk Rose Murders, Return of the Obra Dinn because I've never played it, Tangle Tower, Growing My Grandpa! thanks folks
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Aye Doc posted:I'm looking for something from the past ~3-4 years along the lines of an investigation/mystery/detective-ish game that has good music and kinda just leaves me to do my own thing and uncover things at my own pace. Paradise Killer is what I most recently played and is what I'm really looking for more of, I've been playing Broken Reality and it matches the vibes I want but I'm just not having a lot of fun. I played Road 96 a few months back and that also fit pretty well into what I'm looking for here even if it's not as strong on the investigation element. having a little more involved gameplay than those three games is also cool but I don't want anything with combat. I want to have an actual world/physical space to explore and roam around in so from my understanding, all of the Ace Attorney games are out of this discussion Obra Dinn is what you want Disco Elysium Outer Wilds Heaven's Vault maybe, although the exploration is kind of janky Hypnospace Outlaw if surfing an internet counts as exploring Hwurmp fucked around with this message at 16:38 on Oct 31, 2023 |
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Detective Di is a straight-up point and click game. It's good, but if you go in looking for an open world detective game you'll be disappointed.
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Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One might be an option? It's got some really janky combat sections but the difficulty can be turned down and most of it is optional. The majority of the game is spent running around the island chasing clues.
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Aye Doc posted:I'm looking for something from the past ~3-4 years along the lines of an investigation/mystery/detective-ish game that has good music and kinda just leaves me to do my own thing and uncover things at my own pace. Paradise Killer is what I most recently played and is what I'm really looking for more of, I've been playing Broken Reality and it matches the vibes I want but I'm just not having a lot of fun. I played Road 96 a few months back and that also fit pretty well into what I'm looking for here even if it's not as strong on the investigation element. having a little more involved gameplay than those three games is also cool but I don't want anything with combat. I want to have an actual world/physical space to explore and roam around in so from my understanding, all of the Ace Attorney games are out of this discussion Shadows of Doubt will be this in future I think. It's in EA just now though, so I'm not sure how complete it feels right now.
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Shadows of Doubt is a pretty fantastic open world detective game.
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Aye Doc posted:I'm looking for something from the past ~3-4 years along the lines of an investigation/mystery/detective-ish game that has good music and kinda just leaves me to do my own thing and uncover things at my own pace. Paradise Killer is what I most recently played and is what I'm really looking for more of, I've been playing Broken Reality and it matches the vibes I want but I'm just not having a lot of fun. I played Road 96 a few months back and that also fit pretty well into what I'm looking for here even if it's not as strong on the investigation element. having a little more involved gameplay than those three games is also cool but I don't want anything with combat. I want to have an actual world/physical space to explore and roam around in so from my understanding, all of the Ace Attorney games are out of this discussion Painscreek Killings and its spiritual successor Scene Investigator Gone Home and Tacoma Everybody's Gone To Rapture Wayward Strand Hadean Lands The Forgotten City The Norwood Games The Invisible Hours Scanner Sombre Elsinore Everything below: Hwurmp posted:Obra Dinn is what you want fez_machine fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Oct 31, 2023 |
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Hwurmp posted:Obra Dinn is what you want I endorse this list, particularly Obra Dinn and Disco Elysium if you haven’t played them already. I will also say the Sherlock Holmes series is somewhat hit or miss but I liked SH: Crime and Punishment when I played it.
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I've been playing a lot of open-world games recently and have been disappointed by a lot of them. So many of them just don't let you explore. Spider-Man, Cyberpunk, Cloudpunk, and some others just plop dots all around your map so you don't really interact with the map and just move from point A to B. On the contrary, I really liked Ghostwire: Tokyo because it was the opposite. The game was a bit light on side-content but the collectathon aspects felt good. Same with aformentioned for different reasons Paradise Killer. Are there any more games where you can explore around and find stuff like that? I also did like Starfield's few initial hours of running around, discovering landmarks and new weapons before realizing that every landmark feels nearly the same and that the game is way too large for its own good. Obviously such a thing is also present in imsims like Thief or Prey, where you need to carefully examine a smaller map, look for secrets, pick stuff up... Obviously I'm familiar with platformer collectathons and recent Zeldas. It's a really vague ask, but I hope there are some people here who get the desire to just collect poo poo within a finely crafted enviroment.
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Breath of the Wild and Morrowind are two of my favourite exploration-focused open worlds, but they're pretty obvious choices and you might have played thrm already? Xenoblade Chronicles X also really activated that part of my brain and looks real nice upscaled on an emulator, but the game really falls apart in the last third
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Vookatos posted:I've been playing a lot of open-world games recently and have been disappointed by a lot of them. So many of them just don't let you explore. Spider-Man, Cyberpunk, Cloudpunk, and some others just plop dots all around your map so you don't really interact with the map and just move from point A to B. Hwurmp posted:Obra Dinn  Elden Ring maybe Talos Principle 2 comes out tomorrow Jusant whichever of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games was best Subnautica Dying Light 1 The Ur-Quan Masters Hwurmp fucked around with this message at 14:14 on Nov 1, 2023 |
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Oh yeah Subnautica is a really good call too!
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Hwurmp posted:Elden Ring maybe Subnautica kinda loses me with abundant crafting mechanics, though. Same with No Man's Sky. The moment I'm asked to craft a different tier of crafting material or something to that extent I just can't care. I'll look into Dying Light too, because I think survival horror games do tend to scratch that itch, but I feel like I've played many of the best ones. No Dignity posted:Breath of the Wild and Morrowind are two of my favourite exploration-focused open worlds, but they're pretty obvious choices and you might have played thrm already?
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Open/semi-open world games with handcrafted details are few and far between unfortunately. Apart from what's been mentioned which I mostly agree with: Gothic 2 - from the same era as Morrowind. Controls are jank but it packs a crazy amount of detail into every nook and cranny. Dark Souls series - Perhaps above Elden Ring, because the open world aspect gets a bit formulaic. There's always at least a couple different directions to go exploring in, the environments are novel, sometimes labyrinthine, and there's a ton of little hidden things throughout. STALKER - Shadow of Chernobyl and Call of Pripyat are both good. Clear Skies has issues. People go on about mods and new ones keep coming out - I'd suggest going to the Stalker thread and just asking what's best for a light weight vanilla playthrough to iron out any bugs.
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Vookatos posted:Subnautica kinda loses me with abundant crafting mechanics, though. Same with No Man's Sky. The moment I'm asked to craft a different tier of crafting material or something to that extent I just can't care. Dying Light's exploration is all about farming crafting materials unfortunately; the parkour is fun at least
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Vookatos posted:I've been playing a lot of open-world games recently and have been disappointed by a lot of them. So many of them just don't let you explore. Spider-Man, Cyberpunk, Cloudpunk, and some others just plop dots all around your map so you don't really interact with the map and just move from point A to B. Knytt Alba: A Wildlife Adventure Crystal Project The Supraland Games Morels: The Hunt Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicle Eastshade Umurangi Generation Minit Mirror Moon EP Maybes Submerged Hidden Depths Death Stranding The Pathless Miasmata Broken Reality AER: Memories of Old Abzu Fract OSC Anti-Chamber
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fez_machine posted:Knytt I thought of this too - unsure if OP is cool with Metroidvanias but exploration is one of the things that genre does best.
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