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chainchompz posted:Ok this is gonna be a weird ask: are there any games in a similar life sim vein as stick rpg where you kind of start off at zero and then slowly but surely acquire wealth and build a community or whatever. Yes I've already played stick rpg 2, stardew valley, etc. Might as well fill out some more of that etc. A Dark Room (free), Graveyard Keeper, Dragon Quest Build (has a demo). Then I guess it depends what kind of building up you want. Merchant of Skies has a lot of numbers to go up, but not much characters or stories. Punch Club has you building up your character's stats and really climbing that ladder as well as some neat characters and a little story (and no actual combat). Cook Serve Delicious has the actual gameplay of tapping out a bunch of button combos for everything you serve at your diner, but you also tactically climb your way up the restaurant ladder to get more and more money.
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Is there a game like monster hunter that's not monster hunter (or dauntless)? Where you fight a boss and learn its moves to farm materials to get stronger to fight the next boss? Multiplayer optional.
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chainchompz posted:Ok this is gonna be a weird ask: are there any games in a similar life sim vein as stick rpg where you kind of start off at zero and then slowly but surely acquire wealth and build a community or whatever. Yes I've already played stick rpg 2, stardew valley, etc. Check out Dinkum, which combines Stardew's scrappy newcomer homesteading with Animal Crossing's build-a-community. The downside is that they do a collect-the-nature museum bit, but the curator isn't my perfect friend, Blathers.
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chainchompz posted:Ok this is gonna be a weird ask: are there any games in a similar life sim vein as stick rpg where you kind of start off at zero and then slowly but surely acquire wealth and build a community or whatever. Yes I've already played stick rpg 2, stardew valley, etc. Are you familiar with our lord and savior My Time at Sandrock?
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Tagichatn posted:Is there a game like monster hunter that's not monster hunter (or dauntless)? Where you fight a boss and learn its moves to farm materials to get stronger to fight the next boss? Multiplayer optional. God Eater? Or is that too on the nose
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Tagichatn posted:Is there a game like monster hunter that's not monster hunter (or dauntless)? Where you fight a boss and learn its moves to farm materials to get stronger to fight the next boss? Multiplayer optional. There are tons of Monster Hunter imitators; out of the ones I've tried I enjoyed the Toukiden games the most.
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Toukiden 2 is pretty alright as far as MonHun clones go.
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Thanks everyone, for giving me a lot to look through.SlothfulCobra posted:Might as well fill out some more of that etc. A Dark Room (free), Graveyard Keeper, Dragon Quest Build (has a demo). I'll look up punch club! Shine posted:Check out Dinkum, which combines Stardew's scrappy newcomer homesteading with Animal Crossing's build-a-community. The downside is that they do a collect-the-nature museum bit, but the curator isn't my perfect friend, Blathers. Jack Trades posted:Are you familiar with our lord and savior My Time at Sandrock? chainchompz fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Apr 20, 2024 |
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Graveyard Keeper certainly has a certain kind of attitude that you either buy into or you don't, and a bit of a weird main gameplay loop. Punch Club is more straightforward and lighter. Punch Club 2 has a demo to check out, but it's also doing some weird cyberpunk thing, so it's weirder than the first game.
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Tagichatn posted:Is there a game like monster hunter that's not monster hunter (or dauntless)? Where you fight a boss and learn its moves to farm materials to get stronger to fight the next boss? Multiplayer optional. Are there any other farming/business/life-sim games like Sakuna that are the anti-Stardew Valley? By which I mean instead of a hundred different simple things it just goes one thing but goes in-depth the way Sakuna does with rice-growing (which asks you to control planting spacing, water-levels, fertiliser levels, weeding, fertiliser mix, milling and grinding and husking)? Pierson fucked around with this message at 14:30 on Apr 21, 2024 |
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Jack Trades posted:Are you familiar with our lord and savior My Time at Sandrock? Coming from Stardew Valley, how does this compare to SV and Coral Island, another game a friend of mine is recommending to me in the same vein? Reviews have me leaning toward Sandrock, but does anyone have experience with both (or all 3)?
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GunblazeGriffin posted:Coming from Stardew Valley, how does this compare to SV and Coral Island, another game a friend of mine is recommending to me in the same vein? Coral Island is decent but is currently unfinished, they ran out of funds and slapped a 1.0 on it to get the release boost. Sandrock is a hefty chunk of content but isn't really focusing on farming far more on gathering, building and quests. (The stories are arguably better than Stardews, definitely more fleshed out) Nothing will be as good as Stardew Valley
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I finally had a weekend to break the spell of Warpforge (a 40K not-Hearthstone) that has been my go to breaks/small session game. I’m looking for a mobile game that is turn based, can have meaningful progress or decisions in a short amount of time, and ideally isn’t a monetization nightmare. Card games are ok, but I prefer turn based tactics, roguelikes, RPGs.
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Naramyth posted:I finally had a weekend to break the spell of Warpforge (a 40K not-Hearthstone) that has been my go to breaks/small session game. I’m looking for a mobile game that is turn based, can have meaningful progress or decisions in a short amount of time, and ideally isn’t a monetization nightmare. Card games are ok, but I prefer turn based tactics, roguelikes, RPGs. Into the Breach
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Hwurmp posted:Into the Breach I’ve played the biological limit of into the breach on like 4 platforms 
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Hwurmp posted:There are tons of Monster Hunter imitators; out of the ones I've tried I enjoyed the Toukiden games the most. Jack Trades posted:Toukiden 2 is pretty alright as far as MonHun clones go. Thanks! I'll check it out.
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Can I get some recommendations for RPGs that give you space to roleplay and have good reactivity for your choices? Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous was exceptional about it in almost every regard, both giving you tons of options to play the kind of character you wanted to play and also having a buttload of reactivity for it. Games like Disco Elysium are also okay, despite you playing a specific person with an established backstory it still allowed you to make the character your own, so to speak, and had plenty of reactivity to your choices. EDIT: Also, for reference, while I liked Baldur's Gate 3 a whole lot, I thought that it's character's options while better than most still weren't that fantastic. I really struggled to figure out how to make the kind of character I wanted to make. Jack Trades fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Apr 22, 2024 |
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Jack Trades posted:Can I get some recommendations for RPGs that give you space to roleplay and have good reactivity for your choices?
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Or Planescape: Torment?
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Jack Trades posted:Can I get some recommendations for RPGs that give you space to roleplay and have good reactivity for your choices? for greater or lesser values of "RPG," "roleplay," "reactivity," and "and": Alpha Protocol Open Sorcery Slay the Princess Magical Diary Pyre The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood
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Jack Trades posted:Can I get some recommendations for RPGs that give you space to roleplay and have good reactivity for your choices? Pentiment, especially if you're into medieval Europe. It's an interactive fiction game like Disco Elysium but a bit more room to define the character's backstory. 40% off on steam right now too.
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Jack Trades posted:Can I get some recommendations for RPGs that give you space to roleplay and have good reactivity for your choices? Rogue Trader is by the same folks who made Pathfinder, and I just finished it over the weekend. I thought it handled choices well enough.
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anilEhilated posted:Have you tried Tyranny? I saw a good review on it that praised a lot of it but also tailed about some of the core systems being flawed and the ending being extremely unfinished/rushed. The latter in particular makes it difficult to want to invest time into it unfortunately. ultrafilter posted:Or Planescape: Torment? Hwurmp posted:Alpha Protocol I watched a playthrough of Planescape and it had a lot of cool moments. Alpha Protocol seems like a really cool game...somewhere underneath the jankiest gameplay I've ever played. Hwurmp posted:Open Sorcery Slay the Princess is amazing. The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood...has some really cool ideas and worldbuilding, and I really enjoyed playing about half of it before it pulled one of the weirdest and the most confusing narrative 'gently caress you''s I've ever seen in a game. Does Pyre have uhh...roleplaying and reactivity? I admit I haven't seen much of it, and I know that you're making a particular set of choices through it but I wasn't under the impression that it affects the narrative in a meaningful manner. Open Sorcery and Magical Diary don't look like the kind of games I would usually give a second glance to but I'll give them a shot now.
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Tyranny's ending is perfectly fine, and has a good few variations depending on what you did. No, it doesn't explain/conclude the entire setting, but the story of the Conquest of the Tiers is told in full. The combat isn't great, with a not-terribly-good mix of RtwP with cooldowns which heavily encourages/favours ability spam. But it works, and the spellmaking is neat. And well, the setting and local stories are top tier imho. It's not every fantasy game that makes your character an actual Big Deal and has the world react to you in consequence.
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Jack Trades posted:Open Sorcery and Magical Diary don't look like the kind of games I would usually give a second glance to but I'll give them a shot now. I'm a bit less certain of the Magical Diaries but Open Sorcery is really good
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FishMcCool posted:Tyranny's ending is perfectly fine, and has a good few variations depending on what you did. No, it doesn't explain/conclude the entire setting, but the story of the Conquest of the Tiers is told in full. I was under the impression that the state of the ending was much more dire than that. I suppose I should give it a shot then.
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Jack Trades posted:Does Pyre have uhh...roleplaying and reactivity? I admit I haven't seen much of it, and I know that you're making a particular set of choices through it but I wasn't under the impression that it affects the narrative in a meaningful manner. It's pretty reactive, yeah. It even has a cool take on ending slides - the credits song talks about what happened to your party members after the game, and there are a bunch of alternate verses that get swapped in dynamically depending on how things went in your playthrough. (This is in addition to more conventional ending slides that go into a bit more detail)
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Naramyth posted:I finally had a weekend to break the spell of Warpforge (a 40K not-Hearthstone) that has been my go to breaks/small session game. I’m looking for a mobile game that is turn based, can have meaningful progress or decisions in a short amount of time, and ideally isn’t a monetization nightmare. Card games are ok, but I prefer turn based tactics, roguelikes, RPGs. Battle for Polytopia is a great little simplified 4x and would fit the bill.
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Tyranny's final act is brutally truncated but the ending itself is an extremely cool encounter and basically exactly this: quote:give you space to roleplay and have good reactivity for your choices Beyond the reactivity and roleplaying, it does some innovative stuff in the CRPG space by playing around with a spellcrafting system, the way skill checks effect encounter composition, affects stat gain, affects skill checks... lots of feedback going all around. Plus a memorable and weirdly appropriate moment of 4th wall breaking. If you're approaching it from a systems-based viewpoint, you're going to get really frustrated with the game's shortcomings at times. It tries a lot of stuff and probably would have nailed most of it if Obsidian had an extra year to work on it. As usual  although this time, most of what they were trying was totally unlike their previous games.
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Does anyone have any opinions on the various "HD-2D" games out there (e.g. Octopath Traveler 1/2, Live A Live, Sea of Stars, etc.)? I want to try something with that HD pixel art style and a good narrative, but ideally not too challenging.
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Octopath Traveler 2 is a real treat. You don't need to have played the first, and it's an improvement in every way. Live A Live is one of the all time greats. Definitely worth a play, and it doesn't even feel as old as it is. Sea of Stars looks pretty but that's about all it has going for it unfortunately.
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GunblazeGriffin posted:Does anyone have any opinions on the various "HD-2D" games out there (e.g. Octopath Traveler 1/2, Live A Live, Sea of Stars, etc.)? Octopath 2 is very, very good.
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Are there any good games for turning off your brain with and just chilling after a long work day/overtime? Balatro is a good example, but doesn't necessarily need to be a card gme.
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Teriyaki Koinku posted:Are there any good games for turning off your brain with and just chilling after a long work day/overtime? Balatro is a good example, but doesn't necessarily need to be a card gme. Grindstone!!
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Weird request, but what's a good game that's easy to pick up and play and then pause/stop immediately? Basically, what's a game I can play on Steam at work when it's slow and the boss isn't looking? Vampire Survivors is still kinda the king for me. I can get in and play a session very quickly, a full session is only 30 minutes, and I can pause it anytime I need. Same with Binding of Isaac. Open to many genres. I like turn-based games, sims, city builders/management, RPGs, puzzles, platformers, survivor-likes, roguelikes/roguelites; really anything. FPSs or things that require a lot of attention (or a controller) is probably out. Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 15:16 on Apr 24, 2024 |
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Teriyaki Koinku posted:Are there any good games for turning off your brain with and just chilling after a long work day/overtime? Balatro is a good example, but doesn't necessarily need to be a card gme. I use vampire survivors for this. Pairs well with a podcast or long video on another monitor
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Franchescanado posted:Weird request, but what's a good game that's easy to pick up and play and then pause/stop immediately? Basically, what's a game I can play on Steam at work when it's slow and the boss isn't looking? Slice and dice is on steam now isn't it?
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Chemical Sort and Cherry Creek are fantastic coffee break games.
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Franchescanado posted:Weird request, but what's a good game that's easy to pick up and play and then pause/stop immediately? Basically, what's a game I can play on Steam at work when it's slow and the boss isn't looking? Baba Is You Cobalt Core A Little to the Left Five Finger Death Punch Into the Breach ISLANDERS Jets 'n' Guns LYNE PowerWash Simulator YEAH! YOU WANT "THOSE GAMES," RIGHT? SO HERE YOU GO! NOW, LET'S SEE YOU CLEAR THEM! Deadly Rooms of Death has a bunch of free episodes probably any picross game; good ones on Steam include Pepper's Puzzles, Paint It Back, Murder by Numbers, Voxelgram, Logiart Grimoire, and Khimera: Puzzle Island but the internet's got tons of free picross too Project Warlock is an FPS but most of its levels can be cleared in five minutes or less
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