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Snake Maze posted:A Monster's Expedition is a really good, chill puzzle game, I'd recommend it if you're looking for something to fill a similar niche to Talos or The Witness. I'll check it out, looks really cute! fez_machine posted:Seconding A Monster's Expedition, there's also the newly released Islands of Insight which is very chill but does have some optional sound puzzles. These all sound interesting enough, I'll look into them. My IRL job involves dealing with logistics so it might be fun to play a gamified form of that. SlothfulCobra posted:Far: Lone Sail and its sequel might interest you on the chill side of things. Technically you could call it a sidescrolling trucking game, but it's got a a fairly unique premise. There's also Journey, but that's pretty short. Maybe Subnautica could get you more into survival games (although unlike most survival games, it's not a randomly generated world, so it's kind of on the fringe of the genre). I have the first Far: Lone Sails game and played it for about an hour ages ago. I remember liking it and I'm not sure why I stopped playing, so I'll give it another look. I've beaten Journey, Subnautica, Control and MGSV and liked them all, but am not really interested in replaying them. Mmmmaybe MGSV? Putting together an army and upgrading my base was really fun, and the gameplay felt good (I also love all the MGS games), but the open world was not varied enough for my taste. I haven't played an AC game since 1 and 2, so I might check Origins out. I liked 1 and 2 but felt like I had gotten my fill of the formula, so didn't continue with the series. I've also heard that Black Flag is a cool pirate game with fun ship mechanics? Hollow Knight is another good suggestion, I still need to finish it and it's been a while since I played! I could start a new game and it would probably feel fresh enough. That's why I like revisiting The Witness occasionally, I always forget how to do many of the puzzles and so they feel somewhat fresh. I also love the colorful world and how quiet/peaceful the game is. ilmucche posted:art of rally might be good, it's pretty chill rallying game and there's no co driver so you can just drive Not looking for racing games right now, but I like playing them sometimes and I like the art style/graphics on this one. I might try it sometime. Party Boat posted:You don't really "explore" (although there's a variety of areas) but Powerwash Simulator is up there as podcast games go Also not quite what I'm looking for, but I might grab this on sale sometime because powerwashing is definitely satisfying.
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Rogue Legacy 2 with the music off might be a worthwhile choice here. Or even the original (which regularly goes on sale for like $4 these days) if you don't want to deal with any story stuff at all. Also there's Stardew Valley or Factorio or of any of 50 management/colony sim type games after the Banished or Rimworld traditions. Or Anno with no or super passive AI opponents. Eric the Mauve fucked around with this message at 03:30 on Feb 18, 2024 |
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Oh yeah if you just want to explore some procedurally generated spaces and lightly engage with some gameplay systems there's always No Man's Sky
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Queering Wheel posted:I'm looking for some more single player games that are mostly quiet and good for listening to music/podcasts while playing. The ones I currently play are still great, but are getting a bit overplayed, so I'm looking for something new. Also KSP1 is IMO the platonic ideal of podcast games.
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Party Boat posted:You don't really "explore" (although there's a variety of areas) but Powerwash Simulator is up there as podcast games go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F-Yq5YXL9c
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I like the look of Snowrunner and Mudrunner. Is Snowrunner better to get because it's more recent, or should I just choose whether I want to see more mud or more snow?
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Danger - Octopus! posted:I like the look of Snowrunner and Mudrunner. Is Snowrunner better to get because it's more recent, or should I just choose whether I want to see more mud or more snow? Snowrunner has a better sense of progression and impact on the world, but people have said Mudrunner is still a good time getting stuck and unstuck delivering heavy items.
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There's still plenty mud in Snowrunner, so that seems like the better game to go check out unless you're trying to stay cheaper. I think the damage system isn't in Mudrunner? You could also go back further to Spintires. To confuse things further, you could even wait a couple weeks and play the new game in the series: Expeditions. It's supposed to be less about hauling and more about exploring.
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what is the absolute best Bomberman game to play single-player? I used to love that fun little guy as a kid, but I feel like I can barely remember the games nowadays. I suppose what I'm most interested in is mixing up the mechanics for puzzles, weird twists on the gameplay, powerups. I know some of the Bomberman games are action RPGs with exploration and leveling up and/or permanent upgrades. That kind of stuff doesn't necessarily make a game better to me. I have no issue with it, but I'm also completely cool with just being dropped into a level and losing all power-ups when I die.
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Queering Wheel posted:I'm looking for some more single player games that are mostly quiet and good for listening to music/podcasts while playing. The ones I currently play are still great, but are getting a bit overplayed, so I'm looking for something new. I like Streets of Rogue a lot as a chillout podcast game I will often use it as a wind-down after work
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Hey this is going to be a real long shot but does anyone know of any newer(~20 years) games like Triplane Turmoil? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KMiH4x7WTk&t=237s Basically side scrolling flight simulators: you take off, land, rearm, refuel, bomb/shoot objectives, rinse repeat all with actual flight issues like stalling and whatnot.
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Deakul posted:Hey this is going to be a real long shot but does anyone know of any newer(~20 years) games like Triplane Turmoil? Luftrausers and Jet Lancer have gravity, but none of the other stuff there's a shmup called Aircraft Evolution whose trailer shows similar movement and shooting to Triplane, but no landings or takeoffs Hwurmp fucked around with this message at 01:33 on Feb 20, 2024 |
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Altitude is a 2009 multiplayer 2D air combat game. I dunno if there's still active servers, but it's free now, so it's worth checking out.
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Fighting Elegy posted:what is the absolute best Bomberman game to play single-player? Probably one of the TurbographX ones like Bomberman '93 then? Though the Bomberman R games are actually quite fun if you don't mind the different art style.
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Bomberman 64 is cool because it's secretly a puzzle platformer
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Fighting Elegy posted:what is the absolute best Bomberman game to play single-player? Bomberman World (EU) for the absolutely insane voice acting
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Deakul posted:Hey this is going to be a real long shot but does anyone know of any newer(~20 years) games like Triplane Turmoil? We used to play this game all the time. So much fun
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I'm looking for a game which I'm pretty sure doesn't exist, but maybe there is something that ticks some boxes: - Open world, maybe a story somewhere but you can dick around as much as you want. - Create and build up your own mercenary company/business/trade empire. - Probably military-ish, but open to other stuff. - As you advance in the game, and that's the important bit, the scale changes. What I mean is that at the start you begin with a small group of dudes/a single truck/a factory that produces chairs and as you go on you build armies/a base/automate trade routes/build a stronghold and send adventuring parties on their own... Basically I want a Battle Brothers/Mount&Blade/Factorio/X/Patrician/Fantasy General abomination. Yes, I've tried Kenshi.
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X4 or the prior X3 Albion Prelude are exactly that, but in space. Start in a single spaceship, build a nest egg through trucking/odd jobs/piracy until you can afford some trading and mining ships. From there, get a fleet of traders, upgrade to a better ship capable of taking on tough fights and outfit a wing of fighters to follow you. Build some factories as soon as possible and you can start a trading empire and amass your own fleet of capital ships. There are a bunch of story arcs with missions that’ll give you some decent ships to get started, or crazy money and time sink engineering projects. The endgame is pretty varied. Make a criminal empire smuggling drugs, construct your own self sustaining fabrication and supply chains and become a mega corporation or build your own ships and munitions and conquer some of the alien invaders or another faction. The games are very janky and have an incomprehensible UI, but you’re probably used to that in the genre. X3 Albion Prelude is relatively cheap and the most polished iteration of the X3 series, so try that out if you’re leery of the price tag for X4 Fruits of the sea fucked around with this message at 10:51 on Feb 20, 2024 |
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Fat Samurai posted:I'm looking for a game which I'm pretty sure doesn't exist, but maybe there is something that ticks some boxes: Amazing Cultivator Simulator? You don't scale as much in terms of numbers of dudes you control, but by unlocking new insane mechanics and progression systems.
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Fat Samurai posted:I'm looking for a game which I'm pretty sure doesn't exist, but maybe there is something that ticks some boxes: Yeah, I got one. It's called Palworld.
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Dwarf Fortress is probably close. You can even dip into Adventure Mode using your own fortress (I think we're getting the big adventure mode update soon?) for that Mount and Blade feeling of stepping among what you've built up
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:I think we're getting the big adventure mode update soon?
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Fat Samurai posted:I'm looking for a game which I'm pretty sure doesn't exist, but maybe there is something that ticks some boxes: Starsector is pretty good for this as a top down space Mount & Blade. But yeah, the only games that do what you're really asking for are M&B and X.
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Fat Samurai posted:I'm looking for a game which I'm pretty sure doesn't exist, but maybe there is something that ticks some boxes: The closest thing to that (Songs of Syx) unfortunately comes at it from a city builder perspective, starting at the smaller Dwarf Fortress scale, then going up to the Total War scale. HerpicleOmnicron5 fucked around with this message at 09:04 on Feb 21, 2024 |
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Scale changes as the game goes on sounds like Terra Invicta but I'm not sure it does anything else you want.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Altitude is a 2009 multiplayer 2D air combat game. I dunno if there's still active servers, but it's free now, so it's worth checking out. Hwurmp posted:Luftrausers and Jet Lancer have gravity, but none of the other stuff Nice suggestions guys, I actually already have Luftrausers and Altitude from waaaaaay back in the day but I haven't tried them again in many years, both of them slap really good. Especially Luftrausers, Altitude is a bit too multiplayer centric for me(and dead sadly) and the bots are braindead unfortunately. Jet Lancer and Aircraft Evolution both look extremely my jam though!
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Fat Samurai posted:I'm looking for a game which I'm pretty sure doesn't exist, but maybe there is something that ticks some boxes: Songs of Syx scales really well from a bunch of crazy settlers to a continental empire, with new mechanics at some of the stages. It's a Dwarf-Fortress like so probably not what you're looking for.
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Deakul posted:Hey this is going to be a real long shot but does anyone know of any newer(~20 years) games like Triplane Turmoil? This isn't going to be what you're looking for, but you reminded me of a pair of Flash games based on the Tupalev series of aircraft. The first, which I haven't played, seems to be military-oriented, while in the second you are piloting a passenger plane. It has the flight mechanics you describe, including takeoff and landing (though I never succeeded at that part). In the second, you also have to contend with occasional mechanical issues that can be a real problem if you're in a critical phase of flight. Downloads are on The Internet Archive but you can also still find them on flash game sites as well.
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So I am super hit or miss with action/adventure RPGs I recently picked up and enjoyed Granblue Fantasy Relink I've also enjoyed recently several of the Souls titles, but I need to be in the right mindset for those. I also took off basically all of 2012 - 2022 from gaming so I've probably missed a lot, as I've only played a limited backlog of stuff in the last couple years. Is there anything with a similar feel to the campaign of Relink? Monster Hunter jumps to mind, but I was hit or miss on that one (though I suppose I could try again, it's been a while so I cant recall what didnt jive for me).
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Walked posted:So I am super hit or miss with action/adventure RPGs maybe the Ys series, especially 7, Memories of Celceta, VIII, and IX
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I've tried out Factorio and Dyson Sphere Program and while I really like the concept and feeling of starting really small and scrounging for supplies and building and iterating until I have huge planet-spanning enterprise going on, the actual nuts and bolts of the gameplay where I'm setting up conveyors and robotic grabby arms and stuff feels annoyingly fiddly and tedious for me. Any suggestions for games - not necessarily in the same genre or anything - that give a similar feeling of starting with nothing and spiraling into something ridiculous?
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Idle games come to mind, e.g. Cookie Clicker or Universal Paperclips.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Idle games come to mind, e.g. Cookie Clicker or Universal Paperclips. I do like those (my review's in the trailer for NGU Idle!) and that's definitely the sort of feel I'm going for. I liked that Factorio and DSP gave me that same feeling except as an actual game that's more involved than just going through menus, but the actual gameplay of laying down arms and conveyors just doesn't click for me.
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garfield hentai posted:I've tried out Factorio and Dyson Sphere Program and while I really like the concept and feeling of starting really small and scrounging for supplies and building and iterating until I have huge planet-spanning enterprise going on, the actual nuts and bolts of the gameplay where I'm setting up conveyors and robotic grabby arms and stuff feels annoyingly fiddly and tedious for me. Any suggestions for games - not necessarily in the same genre or anything - that give a similar feeling of starting with nothing and spiraling into something ridiculous? The Riftbreaker
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Walked posted:So I am super hit or miss with action/adventure RPGs Monster Hunter World or Rise certainly jump to mind, as do some of the other Monster Hunter-likes, such as God Eater, Toukiden, Wild Hearts, Dauntless, and so on. If you're fine with losing the hub quest structure, certainly could look through some of the more hack-and-slash action RPGs such as Fate Samurai Remnant, Nier Automata, Ys VIII-IX, Scarlet Nexus, Trials of Mana, Tales of Arise/Vesperia/Berseria, Star Ocean Second Story R, Yakuza/Judgement, and so on.
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garfield hentai posted:I've tried out Factorio and Dyson Sphere Program and while I really like the concept and feeling of starting really small and scrounging for supplies and building and iterating until I have huge planet-spanning enterprise going on, the actual nuts and bolts of the gameplay where I'm setting up conveyors and robotic grabby arms and stuff feels annoyingly fiddly and tedious for me. Any suggestions for games - not necessarily in the same genre or anything - that give a similar feeling of starting with nothing and spiraling into something ridiculous? Seconding Riftbreaker. Maybe Stardew Valley? You start with basically nothing and eventually build up a huge farm making tens of thousands or more a day. Maybe not the genre you're looking for though. For a more fighty experience, maybe Vampire Survivors? You'll die horribly the first few runs but eventually each run will end with the entire screen covered by your attacks. Supposedly X and Medieval Dynasty are good at building up too, but they've never grabbed me the way Factorio and Stardew Valley did.
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garfield hentai posted:I've tried out Factorio and Dyson Sphere Program and while I really like the concept and feeling of starting really small and scrounging for supplies and building and iterating until I have huge planet-spanning enterprise going on, the actual nuts and bolts of the gameplay where I'm setting up conveyors and robotic grabby arms and stuff feels annoyingly fiddly and tedious for me. Any suggestions for games - not necessarily in the same genre or anything - that give a similar feeling of starting with nothing and spiraling into something ridiculous? The Logistical series? Especially Logistical 3: Earth
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garfield hentai posted:I've tried out Factorio and Dyson Sphere Program and while I really like the concept and feeling of starting really small and scrounging for supplies and building and iterating until I have huge planet-spanning enterprise going on, the actual nuts and bolts of the gameplay where I'm setting up conveyors and robotic grabby arms and stuff feels annoyingly fiddly and tedious for me. Any suggestions for games - not necessarily in the same genre or anything - that give a similar feeling of starting with nothing and spiraling into something ridiculous? Helium Rain, it's like a smaller scale X3 sorta, and it's freeware now.
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