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An Actual Princess posted:are there any games focused around exploring or being in places where people used to be or should be and now they aren't, for one reason or another. genre not super important but i'm not mega into survival poo poo and i know there are a couple games that would hit the vibe in that genre. There's a ton of 'backrooms' themed games on steam.
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An Actual Princess posted:are there any games focused around exploring or being in places where people used to be or should be and now they aren't, for one reason or another. genre not super important but i'm not mega into survival poo poo and i know there are a couple games that would hit the vibe in that genre. Try Hyper Light Drifter. It's a game entirely about exploring all the hidden and forgotten corners of a ruined alien world, goes really deep into secret areas and finding places off the beaten path
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An Actual Princess posted:are there any games focused around exploring or being in places where people used to be or should be and now they aren't, for one reason or another. genre not super important but i'm not mega into survival poo poo and i know there are a couple games that would hit the vibe in that genre. You got a lot of good suggestions, but this is literally exactly what INFRA is - you wander around abandoned places like factory, waste treatment plant, power plant, and travel through service tunnels and sewers. The few times where you move aboveground it's usually during the night or everyone is evacuated for some reason, so through the entire game you do not encounter a single person (outside the opening sequence).
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An Actual Princess posted:are there any games focused around exploring or being in places where people used to be or should be and now they aren't, for one reason or another. genre not super important but i'm not mega into survival poo poo and i know there are a couple games that would hit the vibe in that genre. Broken Reality has you exploring the mostly abandoned remains of a virtual representation of the internet and it is very good and has great music
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No Dignity posted:Try Hyper Light Drifter. It's a game entirely about exploring all the hidden and forgotten corners of a ruined alien world, goes really deep into secret areas and finding places off the beaten path
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An Actual Princess posted:are there any games focused around exploring or being in places where people used to be or should be and now they aren't, for one reason or another. genre not super important but i'm not mega into survival poo poo and i know there are a couple games that would hit the vibe in that genre. Give Lethal Company a go. The interiors are semi-liminal because they're randomly seeded, and there is an alternate roomstyle that is rare but will feel very liminal. The Mansion
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An Actual Princess posted:are there any games focused around exploring or being in places where people used to be or should be and now they aren't, for one reason or another. genre not super important but i'm not mega into survival poo poo and i know there are a couple games that would hit the vibe in that genre. The Martian Chronicles .
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Deliver us the moon is a puzzle game/walking simulator about exploring a moon colony that has gone dark. You can get it cheap on sale and it's about 6 hours long.
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My wife inherited my Deck when I upgraded, and she's been using it to play her game -- Megaquarium. A few nights back she asked me if she could play Minesweeper on it. For some reason I was doubtful that there were any implementations available on Steam. Turns out, there's loads. Anyway, in the off chance that anyone here has played any of them, are there any that come recommended?
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Demoncrawl is a minesweeper roguelite that is, by far, my most played game on Steam. It might not be the best choice if you want a "pure" minesweeper experience but the various mechanics laid over it are what keep me playing it.
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Party Boat posted:Demoncrawl is a minesweeper roguelite that is, by far, my most played game on Steam. It might not be the best choice if you want a "pure" minesweeper experience but the various mechanics laid over it are what keep me playing it. Wow, this person played for almost 300 hours and left a negative review. https://steamcommunity.com/id/sensual-hermaphrodite/recommended/1141220/
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Party Boat posted:Demoncrawl is a minesweeper roguelite that is, by far, my most played game on Steam. It might not be the best choice if you want a "pure" minesweeper experience but the various mechanics laid over it are what keep me playing it. I like the gameplay but it has probably the worst metaprogression I've ever seen. Some people like that sort of thing though.
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Demoncrawl is pretty fun but I really dislike some of the choices it makes with cursed items / stage effects doing like "interface screw" poo poo. I wish they just stuck to affecting the minesweeper part. Like there's one that makes it so you can't open your inventory to see what items you have and one that makes stages "dark" so you can only see a bright circle of light around your mouse (but can still move the mouse around).
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Jack Trades posted:I like the gameplay but it has probably the worst metaprogression I've ever seen. Oh yeah unlocking everything is a real hard road. I mostly just play the daily challenges now.
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The Hexcells series is excellent in the minesweeper-adjacent genre. It starts with pure minesweeper gameplay (well except it's hexes instead of squares), and then adds a few extra hints/mechanics. There are three games in the series: Hexcells, Hexcells Plus and Hexcells Infinite. The first two only have a set of fixed levels, the third has its own set of fixed levels too but also comes with a random level generator. The fixed handcrafted levels are very good though, and arguably the main point. They can all be cracked without any guessing involved.
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14 minesweeper variations is pretty fun. I've only played the demo but there's been a lot of time sunk into it
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/709920/Tametsi/ Tametsi is an excellent Minesweeper game, and has the "gimmick" that you never need to guess. You may need to check ahead a number of steps, but there is always guaranteed to be at least one uncovered square that you can conclude with certainty has no mine under it. The game comes equipped with a pretty nice "draw on the level" feature you can use to test out various choices and conclude that, hey, whichever way I choose this square over here ends up without a mine under it or whatever. The levels are not all just grids, they come with various shapes and sizes, and the level will specify whether the numbers include diagonals or not. It's very nicely done. It is pretty drat difficult, though. It took me around 200 hours to complete all 160 levels legitimately. If she's looking for something more casual, I'll second the recommendation for the Hexcells series. cmndstab fucked around with this message at 09:53 on Dec 17, 2023 |
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moosferatu posted:Wow, this person played for almost 300 hours and left a negative review. Add a zero and you have the Elite Dangerous experience.
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FishMcCool posted:The Hexcells series is excellent in the minesweeper-adjacent genre. It starts with pure minesweeper gameplay (well except it's hexes instead of squares), and then adds a few extra hints/mechanics. Seconding the Hexcells series. I played them many years ago and then again recently, good puzzle games.
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can i get a recommendation for a game about trading? like, you go into a port of call, buy goods, travel to another port, sell those goods for a profit, buy more goods, repeat it can be either a space setting (as in Elite) or a historical setting (as in Merchant Prince) what I'm looking for is that it has to be relatively contemporary in terms of UI/UX
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gradenko_2000 posted:can i get a recommendation for a game about trading? Sailing Era
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gradenko_2000 posted:can i get a recommendation for a game about trading? This pretty much describes either the Patrician series or the Port Royale series. Patrician 3/Port Royale 2 are generally considered the height of the series but are pretty old; Patrician 4 and Port Royale 3 are still decent though.
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Ah, the Drugwars genre
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gradenko_2000 posted:can i get a recommendation for a game about trading? Does anyone have this + an iOS port/version suggestion?
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tildes posted:Does anyone have this + an iOS port/version suggestion? Star Traders Frontiers. It isn't JUST trading, you can do lots of other stuff, but trading is a big part of it and is a pretty robust system
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gradenko_2000 posted:can i get a recommendation for a game about trading?
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gradenko_2000 posted:can i get a recommendation for a game about trading? Might not be what you want but worth tossing out: Space Organ Trading Simulator or whatever its called was a lot of fun!
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Are there any good card battlers with single player modes? I finally got off the Marvel Snap train (decided it took wayyy to much of my time) and I thought I really like the experience, but just want it "complete" in a single player campaign/set of challenges, if that makes sense. Doesn't have to be purely single player, but it should be beefy. Bonus points if matches are relatively snappy. Off the top of my head I assume there's probably a Yu Gi Oh variant or a Magic variant that does this, but I'm not familiar with the franchises so not sure which one(s) have good solo play, and also which can onboard me. Also open to other games/series I guess to be clear, I want that one on one with another guy who made a deck from the same collection feeling, and not like, say, Slay the Spire (which I am still playing and love). Artelier fucked around with this message at 04:13 on Dec 19, 2023 |
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Legacy of the Duelist has a shitload of cards and content but it also has the presentation and polish of a mid-2000s flash game Pokemon TCG 2 for GBC and Shadowverse Champions Battle on switch are both very good though
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Artelier posted:Are there any good card battlers with single player modes? I finally got off the Marvel Snap train (decided it took wayyy to much of my time) and I thought I really like the experience, but just want it "complete" in a single player campaign/set of challenges, if that makes sense. Doesn't have to be purely single player, but it should be beefy. https://store.steampowered.com/app/481180/System_Crash/
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gradenko_2000 posted:can i get a recommendation for a game about trading? Sailwind is the one you want! Focused with exhaustive detail on exclusively three things: sailing, navigation, and trading. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1764530/Sailwind/ also Vagrus: The Riven Realms, StarTraders Frontiers
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Artelier posted:Are there any good card battlers with single player modes? I finally got off the Marvel Snap train (decided it took wayyy to much of my time) and I thought I really like the experience, but just want it "complete" in a single player campaign/set of challenges, if that makes sense. Doesn't have to be purely single player, but it should be beefy. The single player component of Legends of Runeterra is really good. A top tier experience.
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gradenko_2000 posted:can i get a recommendation for a game about trading? Startopia. Get the original on GoG, not the remake, it sucks.
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gradenko_2000 posted:can i get a recommendation for a game about trading? Sailwind is in EA and does this.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Startopia. A true and correct post, but OP specified a modern UI and the 2001 version's UI is, well, 2001. I never heard of Sailwind before yesterday. It looks cool and I may pick it up in a year or two if it continues to develop. But it appears to be a game about handling a sailing boat/ship which might be more involved than OP was hoping for?
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IMO Startopia has a perfectly fine UI. I don't remember anything being particularly awkward to do.
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moosferatu posted:My wife inherited my Deck when I upgraded, and she's been using it to play her game -- Megaquarium. A few nights back she asked me if she could play Minesweeper on it. For some reason I was doubtful that there were any implementations available on Steam. Turns out, there's loads. Anyway, in the off chance that anyone here has played any of them, are there any that come recommended? Not Steam, but https://www.puzzle-minesweeper.com generates minesweeper-like puzzles of a variety of difficulties. Two main differences from classic minesweeper are 1)blank spaces are not necessary zeros, and 2) the game starts with enough clues visible that you will never need to guess. The site also has a lot of other types of grid puzzles
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which is the better of the 2 switch monster truck games?
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Looking for some more ideas for lan gaming over xmas. For context, we'll have 5-10 people, a range of machines, a big range of gaming experience. In the past anything competitive hasn't really worked, co-op generally good, drop-in drop-out helps, cheap / gamepass helps. in the past this group has enjoyed: terraria, killing floor, mindustry, factorio, valheim, grounded (limit of 4 was annoying), AI War, tf2 bots, warframe, artemis, bf1942 stuff that we bounced off / didn't get enjoyed much: lfd2, darktide, vermintide Currently considering: lethal company (i see there's a mod to play with more than 4), v rising, empty episilon, worms.
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4+ player co-op is rare but maybe Sven Co-op? Necesse?
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