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Azran posted:Hey thread, got told to ask this here too so here it goes: Cozy Grove? Not sure there's anything quite like that Tsuki one, it looks adorable
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e: Ah missed the bit about no pixel graphics. Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles could be good perhaps, it's somewhat like Portia without fighting, but it does feel a little shallow. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Apr 22, 2024 |
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OK, decided my time is done with Stardew, here are some thoughts~ Want to parrot the previous post about crafting. That screen is definitely clutter. Also, I guess this is probably a more personal preference thing, but I vastly prefer dedicated workstations in these games. They just feel more deliberate. Which is one of the appeals of the genre in general. Here are the decisions I am making, what I am choosing to do today and how I have laid things out. Workstations fit into that. OFC Stardew does have all the machinery stuff still for post processing. The farming feels a bit plain to me, but tbf that is true for a lot of these games lol. Like I know not everyone is going to want Rune Factory's soil mechanics but I love that stuff. But this does seem like its hitting more a casual vibe so yeah. The community center is a really good guide mechanic for the game. The characters still just feel flat to me. Like there is more to them at first glance and I seen people talk about the stuff going on with them but the actual writing to me just feels so... lifeless. Anyway its still not for me. But I spent longer in the game than last time and I can actually see why people like it so much. Snooze Cruise fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Apr 22, 2024 |
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All the characters being super flat is exactly my problem with Stardew as well. It's exactly why I consider Sandrock to be way ahead of every other game in the genre, because it actually characterizes all the characters in your town very well.
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Yeah like as much as I like RF4 like, those characters, while I would say don't feel flat or lifeless, are ultimately just cartoons. Sandrock at first glance has a similar feeling but there is just so much odd about them that isn't just cartoony but like genuine human weirdness.
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Snooze Cruise posted:Yeah like as much as I like RF4 like, those characters, while I would say don't feel flat or lifeless, are ultimately just cartoons. Sandrock also has the characters do more stuff together and interact in a more "human" way. Your fellow builder runs around collecting stuff, the tree patrol go out to check on the trees and the water sources, the peacekeepers ride around town and the surrounding wilderness, families visit each other, there are concerts, speeches, donation drives, storytelling events, the church, and so many other little things that just happen around town to make it feel lived in. Contrast that to games like Stardew Valley and you see how little the cast actually does around town. RF4 suffers from it a bit as well, but it helps a lot that the town is small, so characters do hang out together a lot, and they shout hello as you walk by. You see people doing things like fishing or eating, and families trade off shifts at their stores so that their counterparts can go out around town.
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I'm pretty sure every single character in Sandrock reacts to every single main story event, and it's a long loving game. They really went above and beyond with the writing in that game.
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Sunhaven is on sale on steam, it's been on my wishlist for a minute now and is rated very postive. Anyone here play it?
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Sun haven will give you RSI from spamming the space bar. They make you walk abysmally slow and then immediately give you a dash move that you need to spam to get anywhere. Also your watering can upgrades only increase capacity not area or speed .
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Soonmot posted:Sunhaven is on sale on steam, it's been on my wishlist for a minute now and is rated very postive. Anyone here play it? It will definitely amuse you for a while. I enjoy levelling up the different skills and I like the fantasy setting. The character art is all fuckin *hideous* to me and that was the main reason I dropped the game after my most recent attempt to get into it. I feel like it's a game that could be a lot of fun for the right person but I have never gelled with it. For reference if it helps I love Stardew and Graveyard Keeper but have never managed to really settle into Portia or Sandrock.
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I liked it but there are some dumb decisions like walking speed and watering.
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Do everything you can to grind out to the watering spell as fast as possible. Also do not ignore scaregrows they can give you xp in other skills for harvesting crops and boost fishing and combat without you ever having to touch it. Sunhaven btw.
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HopperUK posted:It will definitely amuse you for a while. I enjoy levelling up the different skills and I like the fantasy setting. The character art is all fuckin *hideous* to me and that was the main reason I dropped the game after my most recent attempt to get into it. I feel like it's a game that could be a lot of fun for the right person but I have never gelled with it. I like all of those games! Well I haven't gotten sandrock yet, but I enjoyed portia. I'm using a controller to play, so my spacebar is safe. Wish me luck!
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You know what, for all the poor mechanics and decisions in AWL, being able to name the gen 3 hybrid crops is loving cool.
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in other news, the Gollum game might have forever tainted the name of any licensed LOTR release, but against all reason i still dare to dream of this one being good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAQQVGwzrj0
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Anime Store Adventure posted:Obenseuer rules and while I had originally thought it was going to have a new major content patch by now, it’s at least a solid half of a game on its own. I wish I was at my desktop so I could take some pictures of my downright comfy slum apartment. It’s a neat game in a neat world (also occupied by the fantastic puzzle/exploration game INFRA) and worth a look if the idea of renovating an apartment block and decorating your own space appeals to you. Obenseuer *did* just get a patch, but it is not quite the 'major' patch I hoped. I'm sort of hoping that it'll be a dripfeed of new content (since I've blown through pretty much every corner of the existing game.) Mostly I came back because I wanted to share pictures of my current apartment and workshop. For those that haven't played, everything here is placed with the exception of ceiling lights/switches, curtains, and the heaters. Those all come from different levels of wall upgrade. The rest is all placed and customizable.  My living room. The big screen TV is hard to fit in this tiny apartment and have seats far enough back! I actually blocked a bit of the entrance off which is actually shelves facing the other way with lots of tchotchkes stacked on it. I'm not sure if its my favorite, but its cute. I should have gotten a picture of it from the front.  My kitchen. I am still sort of organizing and rearranging, I want to make the pantry shelves look a little nicer and I think overall I can organize it better. The meat grinder, coffee pot, dishwasher, microwave, and oven/range all have recipes you can actively use. There's not a *ton* of point for a lot of it since you can basically survive off of candy bars, beer, and bread from the convenience store - but I guess this game mirrors real life in that way. Don't you prefer a homecooked meal? (And by that I mean cooking 30 sandwiches at a time and freezing them.)  The bedroom. I love the Grandma's House style wallpaper. Needs more bits of crap on the shelves, but I lined up all my trade union flags. (You get these from getting to the max level of the various skills in-game.)  The spare room/office. Sadly the laptop doesn't do anything yet, but they did tease a picture of a computer with a browser open on it, so maybe down the line. I have some fish in a tank behind me but I didn't think they warranted their own picture. You can raise and slaughter them for food! (But currently their recipe gives you max food and you'll immediately poo poo your pants upon eating one.)  Where the magic happens! This is my workshop. It looks shabby to me now that I've upgraded the basement to be much nicer. The makeshift tarp walls just end up blocking lights and I think I want to reorganize it a little now that I've expanded it as well. Notice my organized totes of storage on the shelves to the right! I'm proud of that. Wish I could label the totes.  Brewing and distilling! I don't have anything going right now because my basement was just under construction for a week.  My currently dormant growboxes. I have a rooftop greenhouse now and as mentioned just lost access to the basement for a bit so its all empty/turned off, but its a neat set up for growing tons of sugar beets for Kilju, or making turnip wine.  The chemistry station, where I can do junk with the weird mushrooms and extract yeast from mash to be fully self-sufficient in homebrewing. So yeah! I didn't think the game presented the customization/decoration piece well enough, so I wanted to show mine off. It still wants for more of everything: Decorations, furniture, customizations like different wallpapers, flooring, etc, but there's still a lot of fun to be had if you're like me and enjoy decorating a space. I haven't even started working on my front and back enclosed porch/'bonus' rooms in my apartment. Mind you this is pretty deep into upgrading on an extremely long save- your place will be much much shabbier for a very long time, but there's a lot of 'charm' in those stages too.
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Gorgeous stuff! I must do a proper playthrough of Obenseuer this year.
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Cool! I wish it had coop support so you could show off your cool spaces in game.
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The current playtesting patch just added maybe an hour or so of the next bits along the 'main' story and dropped a few super cool breadcrumbs for the way the 'plot' is going and it makes me hope they can finish it. Like INFRA, the game just has impeccable vibes. e: You know, on top of making GBS threads your pants and then making psychedelic mushroom poo poo kilju, if you want, I guess. Anime Store Adventure fucked around with this message at 02:10 on Apr 24, 2024 |
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SexyBlindfold posted:in other news, the Gollum game might have forever tainted the name of any licensed LOTR release, but against all reason i still dare to dream of this one being good I hope it's good, though the hobbit character models are really off-putting to me
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Kynseed had a big update recently that allows farm customization. I started a new playthrough on it and it's definitely gating story bits a bit more, a lot of families only move in after you do a community project to fix the housing. My main issue with the game back then, and now, is that the entire concept of the Kynseed and generational play just isn't that core to the game. It's trivially easy to avoid giving up years and time doesn't really pass very quickly. The pacing is very off as well now because you can almost immediately become mega rich in the new version.
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Steam Farming Fest until May 6. Might be a good time to pick something up.
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Zesty posted:Steam Farming Fest until May 6. Might be a good time to pick something up. I have an eye on 'Before the Green Moon' and 'Echoes of the Plum Grove'.
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Snagged Echoes of the Plum Grove, has good reviews, looks like Harvest Moon and Paper Mario had a baby. Anyone have any deeper recommendations for things on sale that aren't idle farmers or Early Access? Leave a penny, take a penny: If you've played through all the mainstream, highly rated farm / farm-adjacent games and are looking for something, I'd recommend Kynseed, it's pretty, has a lot of things to do and had some interesting plot things going on back when I last played it. It definitely *feels* a little weird though, something about the game is just odd. Looks like they dropped a big update a while back, I'll have to jump back into it and try again.
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Does the thread have an opinion on Clanfolk? I seem to recall that people disliked Traveler's Rest.
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Zesty posted:Steam Farming Fest until May 6. Might be a good time to pick something up. I picked up Rune Factory 3 Special. The timing was good. I was running out of things to do in this run of Stardew. I went into the forest and instantly got owned by some goblins. Heck yeah.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Does the thread have an opinion on Clanfolk? I seem to recall that people disliked Traveler's Rest. I didn’t hate Traveller’s Rest but I couldn’t honestly give it a recc. It’s just kind of crappy - doesn’t feel like it’s quite there. I like Clanfolk a lot. The weird mishmash I’d describe it as is Rimworld meets Vintage Story - it’s Rimworld in that you manage a colony, but it’s vintage story in that survival is several steps to get anything that’s not very primitive, and the game is sort of a loop of becoming more productive and easier to survive. It looks like the end goal will be making a successful village/inn/whatever, but I put it down before I explored that and I know a lot of that still needs time in the oven. I didn’t feel like it was too early to enjoy, but it’s definitely not a complete experience, so I would judge it based on your own tolerance to that.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Does the thread have an opinion on Clanfolk? I seem to recall that people disliked Traveler's Rest. Traveler’s rest s fine. Good for a single play through. Like Stardew, time in each day is limited so you might be tempted to hurry, but you can mostly play at your own pace. Clanfolk is my favorite of the colony builders. Until recently it had no violence at all, and what there is now is pretty minimal. It is EA and being actively added to, but there’s enough there to play through a full game year, which is the point you’ve beaten most farming games by anyways.
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So I'm digging Sun Haven, but it's almost as if there's too much to do. I'm am flooded with quests that give minimal direction, there's a million crafting stations to build, and despite all that it almost seems directionless. Having said that, I'm enjoying my time with it, even though my anxiety is telling me I should be progressing the main quest or some poo poo. It's interesting. If I hadn't also just bought the werewolf cyoa, I'd probably grab something from this sale too.
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Soonmot posted:So I'm digging Sun Haven, but it's almost as if there's too much to do. I'm am flooded with quests that give minimal direction, there's a million crafting stations to build, and despite all that it almost seems directionless. Yeah them giving you two other farms to manage was a huge loving miss, I mean they give you ways of growing the other crops at your main farm but its was a bad idea.
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socialsecurity posted:Yeah them giving you two other farms to manage was a huge loving miss, I mean they give you ways of growing the other crops at your main farm but its was a bad idea. Yeah I haven't even gotten to that point yet! I've just been loving around and I think this is another game like Wylde Flowers where finished products can be sold for less than the combined cost of their ingredients.
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I've been enjoying travellers rest but I'm also playing it as something I half pay attention to while watching something. The main issue I have with it is that hiring employees mean the fun frantic bartending is automated away and the sloggish crafting/farming/mining is left. It does have a craft from chest (if chest is in the configurable work area) which is nice. Plus the sprite work is great. I think they have plans on adding a town area in the next major update? It does need more time in the oven but it falls into the "bland" category more than "bad".
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Soonmot posted:So I'm digging Sun Haven, but it's almost as if there's too much to do. I'm am flooded with quests that give minimal direction, there's a million crafting stations to build, and despite all that it almost seems directionless. If you hadn't just bought the what?
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Did any of the updates do anything for Fae Farm? I still dig the style of the game and want to check it out now it’s a bit cheaper but I know the initial reception was tepid at best. Going to give an opinion on Plum Grove now. It’s very cute! I’ve barely scratched the surface but I enjoy the base level interactions so far. The NPCs are very clearly just filler and have been given a random line to spout when you chat with them which is a bit of a pity but I usually tune out npc dialogue in these games after a while anyway. You can barter with anyone basically and it’s nice. I grabbed some seeds from someone tending their plot before I discovered I had some in my storage in my house. The steam deck controls are fine. I’m just using the trackpad as mouse for all interactions and it’s not an issue at all. Excited to see what sort of controller implementation we might get though.
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Umbreon posted:If you hadn't just bought the what? the werewolf cyoa
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Umbreon posted:If you hadn't just bought the what? https://store.steampowered.com/app/2402280/Werewolf_The_Apocalypse__The_Book_of_Hungry_Names/ I imagine It's by Kyle Marquis who's very good at writing these. (He wrote VTM: The Night Road, if anyone else here CYOAs.)
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Zesty posted:Steam Farming Fest until May 6. Might be a good time to pick something up. There's a similar https://www.humblebundle.com/games/down-on-farm?partner=cozyteagames (that my therapist just sent me) Umbreon posted:If you hadn't just bought the what? Choose Your Own Adventure (I assume)
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socialsecurity posted:Yeah them giving you two other farms to manage was a huge loving miss, I mean they give you ways of growing the other crops at your main farm but its was a bad idea. I think it would have been fine, except that all 3 towns are completely separate and siloed from one another. There's even separate currencies for each area, forcing you to start from square one in each zone. It reeks of early access development where each stage was added to give veteran players some more to do in their saves that had already done everything. Fast travel between the farms is also nontrivial, as is any degree of automation. That all being said, it does do some cool stuff. The game is very sandboxy, and the three areas do give you a lot of content. Food items give permanent buffs based on how many you have eaten, so you are encouraged to grow different crops, make new dishes, and chow down for more stats. That's your progression that carries over from zone to zone - you become much stronger over time. The magic is mildly interesting, and there's some hilarious stuff you can do with the bubble spell that catches fish. Overall though, I'd give it a solid 7/10. It's not a bad game, but I'd rather just play Rune Factory 4, as that series has much better dungeons, much better mechanics, and more interesting characters (even 5 blows Sun Haven out of the water). Or My Time at Sandrock, which is less farming focused, but is a hell of a lot of fun and has great NPCs.
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Has anyone given any of the VR farming games a try? They're usually pretty terrible but hope springs eternal and Across the Valley looks like it at least tried to solve many of the common problems.
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