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20 Minutes till Dawn dev announced a new game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2578510/20MTD_Emberpath/ They refer to it as a spin-off but it seems to be an spiritual succesor? Still, legit hyped. Diephoon posted:Our time has come: https://store.steampowered.com/developer/ravenage/sale/bulletheavenfest Battle Grid is... disappointing? I'd put it in the same category as God of Weapons - great idea, decent first impression, terrible staying power. The premise is fun and the idea of combining a bullet heaven title with an autobattler's market is pretty novel but there's a severe lack of variety and feedback. The game just didn't do well enough to justify further development apparently, which is a shame.
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# ? Nov 7, 2023 05:46 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 01:39 |
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Ember Path already has my interest just by having a way more readable art style.
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# ? Nov 7, 2023 05:55 |
I hope Ember Path has way better balance than 20 mtd.
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# ? Nov 7, 2023 05:57 |
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Battle Grid exists in this unfortunate area of not only are there better survivor-likes out there but also it is completely overshadowed by mechabellum when it comes to mecha autobattlers.
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# ? Nov 7, 2023 06:00 |
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The autobattler mechanics in Battle Grid mean you spend way much time on upgrades and unit placement instead of fighting. It'll probably speed up when you've played the game more and can tell the units apart without hovering over them, but it's a real turn off in those first hours. The graphics are more about style than giving visual information. At least it was like that in the demo. It definitely didn't sell me on the full game.
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# ? Nov 7, 2023 09:58 |
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Monsters 'til Midnight is alright, but I feel it should have more health pickups in the early game. Maybe I'm used to being overpowered as hell with late game characters in Vampire Survivors, I dunno. I'll stick with it though because, as posted earlier, one of the characters is a dog in a suit, and the game is $3 on Steam so even if I give up on it at some point I'm only out $3.
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# ? Nov 7, 2023 10:05 |
Mierenneuker posted:The autobattler mechanics in Battle Grid mean you spend way much time on upgrades and unit placement instead of fighting. It'll probably speed up when you've played the game more and can tell the units apart without hovering over them, but it's a real turn off in those first hours. The graphics are more about style than giving visual information. That was my impression from watching the video too. I kept thinking wow this is a lot of time in the upgrade screen for 20 minute survival time.
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# ? Nov 7, 2023 12:06 |
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Mierenneuker posted:The autobattler mechanics in Battle Grid mean you spend way much time on upgrades and unit placement instead of fighting. It'll probably speed up when you've played the game more and can tell the units apart without hovering over them, but it's a real turn off in those first hours. The graphics are more about style than giving visual information. they did thankfully remodel half the robots so they are easier to tell apart at a glance, but comparing the weapons still eats up time
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# ? Nov 7, 2023 13:17 |
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Witchcraft Survivors seems to be one of the more potent potential bearing of the new crop on aesthetics and beyond: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2443370/Witchcraft_Survivors/ quote:Witchcraft Survivors is an action roguelite rpg where you slay hordes of monsters while enhancing your characters with more and better spells and upgrades to kill even more foes! Instead of dodging bullets of your enemies, you play as the powerful bullet hell that fills the screen with your spectacular witchcraft!
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# ? Nov 7, 2023 13:47 |
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i bought renfield and witchcraft survivors in the sale renfield is neat, it has a macabre theme and good art so that's always a plus for me, the xp pickups being bugs to eat is funny, and the weapons are all weird stuff. I haven't got that far in it because it seems pretty difficult in terms of how much health gets doled out. witchcraft survivors seems like it could be a heavy hitter in the genre if its not abandoned. each character has their own unique weapon set and a separate skill tree from the usual metaprogression store, so its a bit more elaborate than the stock VS clones. it also has the weird mix of jank menus and decent in-game art like VS has, which is probably a promising sign. more time seems to have been spent on gameplay than presentation, and given the number of nicely presented VS clones that get immediately abandoned that may be a good thing
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# ? Nov 7, 2023 15:36 |
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Renfield is top tier presentation and horrendously badly placed unlocks. Like astoundingly bad.
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# ? Nov 7, 2023 15:44 |
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Diephoon posted:Our time has come: https://store.steampowered.com/developer/ravenage/sale/bulletheavenfest Battle Grid has recently limped to a 1.0 finish. It’s still quite fun though, and has a flavor of buy 3 for upgrades
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# ? Nov 7, 2023 18:22 |
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Tell me more about this Mechabellum thing tho
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# ? Nov 7, 2023 18:23 |
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Captain Foo posted:Tell me more about this Mechabellum thing tho it seems very mp focused
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# ? Nov 7, 2023 18:30 |
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juggalo baby coffin posted:it seems very mp focused That is not what i want from a survivors game
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# ? Nov 7, 2023 18:35 |
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Captain Foo posted:That is not what i want from a survivors game It's purely an autobattler (but a very good one)
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# ? Nov 7, 2023 18:41 |
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Captain Foo posted:That is not what i want from a survivors game Mechabellum is decidedly not a survivors game and I would say it’s wholly mp-focused, bots are the only single player mode and aren’t really challenging or interesting to play against. As far as auto battlers go though, it’s pretty sweet and has a fair bit of depth to it imo.
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# ? Nov 7, 2023 19:28 |
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/2185990/When_the_Light_Dies/ This is cool, slower paced, survival mechanics
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# ? Nov 8, 2023 04:45 |
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I'm enjoying slime 3k. Being a preconstructed deck game really enhances the unlock challenges.
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# ? Nov 8, 2023 10:15 |
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Someone made a spreadsheet of all survivors-likes and uhhh https://survivorslikes.com/
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# ? Nov 8, 2023 21:10 |
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771 games, 769 are in early access
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# ? Nov 9, 2023 01:54 |
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Azran posted:20 Minutes till Dawn dev announced a new game: Looks pretty good. although kinda wish it was same arcade style.
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# ? Nov 9, 2023 01:55 |
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A lot of those are a big stretch to describe as VS-likes. Nova Drift, Risk of Rain 2, Loop Hero, Path of Exile. VS-likes have for sure become a genre overnight, by merit of being crowd pleasers that are relatively straightforward to make but a lot of the games on that list just don't resemble VS in pretty critical ways.
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# ? Nov 9, 2023 11:39 |
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I think this is my fault for calling damage-aura weapons in games that are not survivor-likes as garlic, sorry gang.
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# ? Nov 9, 2023 11:44 |
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juggalo baby coffin posted:i bought renfield and witchcraft survivors in the sale Renfield has been one of my favorites, even with the lovely slow unlocks. I wish they made the characters' starting weapons comparable, though. Renfield's starting claw slash is so much better than the cop's pistol. Check out the movie if you get the chance, too. Every power and most of the weapons are references to it.
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# ? Nov 10, 2023 03:10 |
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Played Pathfinder: Gallowspire for the first time in multiple patches. Noticeably improved. Level up options are now all the same rarity so it is more of a choice instead of just going with whatever rolled the highest. You can now have 6 passives and there are more passives to choose from. Also they added in a new card system that will spawn randomly around the map like chests do and give small meta progression upgrades. Also a hyper mode option, which as far as I can tell just speeds everything up a bit, which is nice. Still not as much content as many other VS likes but they are putting in effort
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# ? Nov 10, 2023 20:19 |
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Vampire Hunters is surging ahead after a decent amount of nibbling updates with A Big One, ironically the "Survivor" update: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2206270/view/3811794911352158139 Many Details/Outlines of Details Within quote:Hello, Hunters!
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# ? Nov 10, 2023 22:41 |
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lol I read that wrong, I thought it was a vampire survivors update. I clicked on that link and saw the video and I was like "Vampire Survivors added an FPS mode???"
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# ? Nov 11, 2023 01:27 |
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3 Varying Bits: Coming Soon: EA begins proper for BloodDome99 as updates consolidate of late. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2351890/BloodDome99/ quote:15 years from now, in the distant year of 1999: Coming Soon*: Vampire Hunters only gets so much time out front with their new mode, as PSYCHOFINGER appears to be gunning Hard. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2617870/PSYCHOFINGER/ quote:PSYCHOFINGER is a fusion of a fast-paced FPS (Ultrakill, Doom) and a horde survival roguelite (Vampire Survivors, Brotato), with a cryptic story about SCP-like bureau. Finally, somehow completely under the radar up to now, Hero of Fate is already quite a thing and then some with a free DLC Expansion on top of the rest of late---utilizing the clear and apparent power of "Rougue" https://store.steampowered.com/app/2332410/Hero_of_Fate/ quote:Hero of Fate is a cool and smooth "rougue" game with "survivor" as the core gameplay, on the basic of traditional "survivor" gameplay, we added the multi careers partners and the great beast system to fight with you together. Each battles can carry up 4 teammates and a angel, so you can experience 5 times the fun of rougue in the game!
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# ? Nov 11, 2023 14:57 |
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Spellbook Demonslayers will soon have... Not-Demifiend from Not-SMT3? ^Not-Dante not featured
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# ? Nov 11, 2023 15:05 |
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This tracks with the Malice & Greed heritage~ Rest of the update sounds duly kickass as well, with any luck this'll be among the greatest covid comeback stories since Spirit Hunters. Which also recent finally got a Turbo mode of sorts: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1914580/view/3690179419231978183?l=english
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# ? Nov 11, 2023 15:08 |
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Gunlocked: Who the gently caress thought this menu system was okay?????
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# ? Nov 11, 2023 15:40 |
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In Nomad survival, do you really have to do the constant obnoxious turning to aim or is the game just piss-poor at explaining itself? Trash either way, but I'm curious.
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# ? Nov 11, 2023 18:27 |
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That is the first character's main attack, not all of them are like that. The second character has an aura, later on you've got a rat archer for which you need to aim your attacks.
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# ? Nov 11, 2023 18:41 |
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So there's no way to separately control your facing direction or lock it in? That's probably enough for me to never give the game more than the 30 seconds I played it for. Inherently unfun in a survivors game.
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# ? Nov 11, 2023 18:47 |
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You can't change it, so if you don't have the patience to level and get other weapons as upgrades (and eventually unlock other characters), yeah, that's the end of the road for you.
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K8.0 posted:So there's no way to separately control your facing direction or lock it in? That's probably enough for me to never give the game more than the 30 seconds I played it for. Inherently unfun in a survivors game. It's literally how multiple characters work in Vampire Survivors.
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# ? Nov 11, 2023 22:29 |
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Somehow I missed this late October HoloCure teaser. The dev pointed out the pumpkin is pretty misleading, it was not meant to be a Halloween-themed
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# ? Nov 12, 2023 03:36 |
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OutOfPrint posted:Renfield has been one of my favorites, even with the lovely slow unlocks. I wish they made the characters' starting weapons comparable, though. Renfield's starting claw slash is so much better than the cop's pistol. I really liked the movie and am now retroactively sad that it flopped. I also really like the game but keep running into an issue unlocking the gore golem; it seems like the elites in the endless mode gain super insane hp scaling after wave 30 so every round ends in me grinding away a hp sponge ive got pinned in the corner. then the boss at wave 48 just cant be killed in the time limit you have because of the hp scaling, and it takes like an hour to get to that point so after two losses at wave 48 im maybe gonna wait for a patch to try again.
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juggalo baby coffin posted:I really liked the movie and am now retroactively sad that it flopped. I've also been having a good time with Goobies. The progressions are a bit slow but the gameplay is very smooth. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2294130/Goobies/
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