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Carecat
Apr 27, 2004

Buglord
The Legend of Bum-Bo - The Binding Of Isaac prequel finally comes out. A puzzle based deck building rogue-like prequel, all the buzzwords!

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Carecat
Apr 27, 2004

Buglord
https://store.steampowered.com/app/912570/BEAUTIFUL_DESOLATION/



A 2d isometric adventure game from the people who made dark sci fi horror Stasis.

It's not quite Disco Elysium, with the quality level swinging between polished and budget jank but it's one of these rare examples of the combat free* isometric adventure genre at a low price

*or at least, not the gear and character stats kind of combat of Fallout/Baldurs Gate

Carecat fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Mar 1, 2020

Carecat
Apr 27, 2004

Buglord
So Monster Train is a legit Slay The Spire kind of deck builder with enough of it's own ideas about adding a little tower defense and a lot of polish.

Carecat
Apr 27, 2004

Buglord
PCGamer mentioned this one, I, Dracula Genesis

Just watch the video :eyepop: (when it actually starts 20 seconds in...). It doesn't play like other twinsticks, closest to Enter The Gungeon. Most arenas are very small and it's quite chaotic. Some bugs right now but with the amount of effort here I don't think they will ditch it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6OHPpGQITo

Carecat
Apr 27, 2004

Buglord

teacup posted:

How is sea of thieves these days? It looks beautiful but I heard it had basically no gameplay.

If I wanted to just play it solo is it worth it? Do you have to spend big on IAP?

It's barely playable solo. Two is the real minimum, three is better.

From memory at launch it had

* Two ship sizes
* Three factions with basic quests to level them up to 50 and unlock cosmetics
- Solve a location puzzle to find the chest missions
- Find an animal/cargo
- Find and kill a skeleton captain and their mates
* The above quests from finding notes in bottles
* Skeleton fort with 10~ waves of skeletons
* Very basic wrecks with crap loot
* Storms

Basically a prototype :eyepop:

Since then they have added

* A tutorial
* A medium sized ship
* Arena PVP game mode
* Tall Tales, linear multi stage quests with voice acting, scripted events etc
* More advanced cargo quests
* A lot more types of loot
* A new region with a harder set of quests
* Rowboats
* Harpoons
* Cooking (very basic)
* Fog (this is a feature?)
* NPC ghost ships (yes there were no NPC ships at launch)
* Kraken boss fight
* Megalodon boss fight
* More skeleton types like golden, plant, shadow
* Boss skeletons to skeleton forts
* A raid version of the skeleton fort
* Fire and fire bombs
* Magic cannonballs with status effects
* Fishing
* Legend system for getting to level 50 with three factions
* Four new factions for PVP, hunting/fishing, legend rank players and misc faction with a special currency to purchase convenience boosts
* Alliance system
* Emissary system where you raise and level a faction flag for better rewards but can be sunk and stolen

This is great and they have done a good job with everything they added but it's a No Man's Sky situation where the game has taken four years to get what it should have had at launch.

Carecat fucked around with this message at 11:51 on Jun 8, 2020

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Carecat
Apr 27, 2004

Buglord
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1092630/Rogue_Glitch/



Bouncy survival platformer. It's free to play, rather than being a "F2P" business model this seems to be a more traditional marketing move. The only paid element is online.
Looks charming enough for free.

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