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Megazver
Jan 13, 2006
I would recommend Potion Craft and Strange Horticulture as lovely genre-adjacent games.

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Megazver
Jan 13, 2006
(Most of them) are pretty cute, sorry!

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006
https://twitter.com/caylenb/status/1569713936328716288

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006

Hihohe posted:

Thats where youre wrong fucko! Im playing all these loving Farm games!

I posted it for the list. But yes, I am playing a lot of these as well lol.

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006
https://twitter.com/_wholesomegames/status/1576984475262939137

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006
Tried the Potionomics demo in the current Steam Next Fest.

It's incredibly cute and it looks like the gameplay will be... perfectly fine. I hope they improve the load screen situation, though, I can see that being an issue.

https://twitter.com/potionomics/status/1527332366271668256

https://twitter.com/potionomics/status/1568272410171801601

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006
https://www.pcgamer.com/potionomics-review 87

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006
who's ur waifu/husbando

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006
Just send this to the dev. They've already released one patch, this can go into the next one.

https://twitter.com/potionomics

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006

A Sometimes Food posted:

Anyone see any streams/reviews of Harvestella up yet?

Got 8/8/8/7 on Famitsu, apparently.

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006
Have you played Stardew Valley or My Life at Portia?

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006

Jinnigan posted:

I did like Stardew Valley but I never really went all the way in on it, fundamentally because I don't really enjoy video game farms I guess. alas. maybe its cuz ive got esports brains but i do need some kind of hostility to play against, whether its environmental or enemy creatures or something

It has a pretty extensive dungeon crawling aspect to it that becomes more prominent further down the line, but sure.

Try My Life At Portia instead, there's barely any farming in that one. Oh, and Dragon Quest Builders 2.

In fact, Dragon Quest Builders 2 should probably be in the OP, it's great.

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006
How complete is Dinkum at the moment?

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006

Count Thrashula posted:

Aside from Stardew and Portia, what good lifestyle/chore sims are on the switch?

I have a newborn, so ideally something I can sink a ton of hours into in the middle of the night while I'm up with him

https://www.nintendolife.com/guides/best-nintendo-switch-life-sims-and-farming-games

Forager, Graveyard Keeper, Littlewood are all enjoyable.

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006
Kynseed hit 1.0, apparently.

Anyone know how is it?

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006
I see. Thank you!

I'll maybe grab it on a sale.

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006
Sandrock should be pretty good when it's finished, but it's not finished yet. The story just cuts off right now.

You don't need to replay Portia for the story. There is some very minor crossover, but that's it.

In the meantime, play Dragon Quest Builders 2 if you haven't before.

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006
I googled it and apparently they removed Denuvo in 2020.

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006

Phigs posted:

I found Dragon Quest Builders 2 to be extremely slow and restrictive. I felt like you couldn't really do anything without the game giving you explicit permission through quest advancement. And the quests themselves were horrible. There's one where you're supposed to get 3 versions of the same item (a seed I think) from islands. But you don't get to just grab the 3. You need to go back tot he quest giver after every one. And you need to talk to someone at the island every time as well. It felt so on rails.

It is very charming though, so if the hand holding and lack of freedom doesn't bother you I can imagine it would be quite fun. But if you like freedom in your games it will drive you mad.

There's room for improvement and some rough edges, like in Portia, but neither of the games' flaws bothered me that much.

Megazver fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Dec 28, 2022

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006
It does ease up on that a little, as I recall. Eventually. After a few days of playing.

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006

Jack Trades posted:

I'm slightly exaggerating for effect but there's a quest where the journalist want you to get a camera and the only person with the camera is the researcher and the researcher wants you to go on an explicitly romantic date and make them happy before they give you the camera.

yeah, slightly

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006
Forager is pretty fun, even if its dev is a huge rear end in a top hat.

I played a bit of Stranded Sails and quit after getting wall-stuck in some rocks several times in a row.

Haven't tried the others.

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006
Neat looking RPGMaker merchant lifesim just came out:

https://twitter.com/FinalProfitRPG/status/1632833433909985284

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1705140/Final_Profit_A_Shop_RPG/

There's a demo; I'll check it out eventually.

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006
Yeah, all the publications already reviewed it:

https://opencritic.com/game/14348/dredge

Looks pretty fun.

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006
Well, they scratch the same itch but they each do their own thing.

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006
cough also try Dragon Quest Builders 2 cough

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006

LLSix posted:

Much like it's currently EA sequel, My Time at Sandrock, My Time at Portia started out as an EA game so it's possible it was glitchy at one point. I've played it through twice in the last few years and haven't noticed any glitches.

I enjoy the movement options. You can walk, run, or roll. There are jumping puzzles and twoish types of mounts. One of which is a cute colored lama and another is wearing absolutely ridiculous sunglasses. That's more than most of these kinds of games offer.

The characters got more fleshed out over time, but I wouldn't say the writing changed substantially. If you didn't like it then you probably won't like it now, and that's fine. People can like different things.

It's definitely somewhat janky and I hear the console ports still have a lot of issues that will now remain unfixed, but I played on PC and I am willing to tolerate a bit of jank from a first-time indie dev.

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006
Has anyone played Fishing Paradiso? Or Luna's Fishing Garden?

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006

Anime Store Adventure posted:

Moonglow Bay is a fishing game I really enjoyed but it kind of feels like a single playthrough. It’s not super short but not crazy long either. Apparently it is plagued by bugs on PC that are not well attended to - my experience was lucky in that it was bug free.

It seemed, honestly, pretty easy if you’re tolerant of the cooking mini games (QTE style things) and it was super charming to me. I’d love if someone took its legs and made it slightly more, I dunno. Creative/managey/in depth instead of mostly a story and some wacky/fantasy (if really cool and arty, though) settings.

It definitely flew under the radar but I’d recommend it honestly.

I played it for 15 minutes and the way its camera swiveled (I think) it made me extremely motion sick. But it looked at.

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006
Sandrock isn't going to be story-complete for a while, so just play through Portia for now.

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006
I didn't really notice it? There's one obligatory jerk rival like in Portia, but he's kinda funny tbh and the other NPCs run a similar gamut to Portia, IMO.

The environment is a desert and everyone lives in a very vulnerable oasis that they take great pains to protect and sustainably use. I thought it was neat.

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006


oh god what to choose

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006

The Lone Badger posted:

Obvious zeitgeist answer would be an AI-raising game. You work on it for five years, including using it to earn money so you can develop it further, then it escapes the lab and makes 100 trillion paperclips / destroys humanity with a robot army / explores Alpha Centauri / insert various endings here.

If you haven't played this, it's great btw:

https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006
Humble has a new cozygames bundle featuring APICO, Wytchwood, Lake and some other stuff I haven't heard of before that looks neat.

https://www.humblebundle.com/games/whitethorn-games-showcase

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006

Talorat posted:

Anyone got any recommendations for a good chill numbers go up game? I played and liked Stardew Valley, Dredge, Potionomics and Dinkum. Did not like potion permit or Story of Seasons Olive town. What would be the best game to play that won’t feel stale or like a rehash of what I’ve played before?

Dragon Quest Builders 2, Graveyard Keeper, Forager

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006

Arsenic Lupin posted:

Has Roots of Pacha been pulled from Steam? Even the official link from their page doesn't work. https://rootsofpacha.com/ Also, what was the name of the sinister fishing game everybody was raving about last month?

The fishing game is Dredge.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/stardew-like-roots-of-pacha-removed-from-steam-after-the-developer-and-publisher-disagree-over-the-rights

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006
https://twitter.com/myPotatoGames/status/1663298705879969792

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006
https://wholesomegames.com/

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/wholesomedirect

Wholesome Direct 2023 happened a couple of days ago and there's been a lot of cozy-rear end games shown. I'm more of a 'I want my game to be a game' type of guy and a lot of those games looked really cute, but a bit on the narrative non-game side, but they still showed a lot of games I was interested in.


Just came out:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1896700/Wylde_Flowers/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1561040/Diluvian_Winds/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1403650/Everdream_Valley/

Coming Soon:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2142790/Fields_of_Mistria/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2195120/GoGo_Town/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2133760/Tiny_Bookshop/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1658150/Moonstone_Island/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2111170/STORY_OF_SEASONS_A_Wonderful_Life/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1906830/While_the_Irons_Hot/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1536570/The_Last_Alchemist/

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006
Oh man, Nova Lands (Forager meets Factorio) is coming out in like a day.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1501610/Nova_Lands/

Brut posted:

Just spent a couple days playing through DREDGE, really enjoyed it, I don't usually go for the creepy writing stuff but this one just nailed it, mechanics were solid as well, I really have no complaints. Wonder if there's any similar releases I missed over the past few years, closest I can think of is Graveyard Keeper, though the corpse quality system in that game was quite frustrating. Oh and Spiritfarer, which was fantastic.

I dunno, man. Uh um.... Sunless Sea/Sunless Skies? Subnautica?

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Megazver
Jan 13, 2006

Brut posted:

Oh yeah I did everything there was to do in both Subnautica games, those are great. Haven't really heard much about those Sunless games, glancing at the Steam page doesn't quite give me the vibe that it's necessarily what I like games to lean in to, which is a solid progression of upgrades (Whether it's the town/farm/automation in Graveyard Keeper or just the expanding inventory size/fishing capabilities in Dredge), but maybe I should just give it a shot and see if I like it. To be clear I don't really need it to be creepy/horror themed, if anything, that's usually a negative for me.


They're more like text RPGs about a ship captain travelling back and forth between ports. TBH you don't miss much if you read a good text LP of Sunless Sea instead of playing it.

If you just want a fun lifesim/survival game... Forager, Dragon Quest Builders 2, My Life at Portia/Sandrock, Stardew Valley, Dinkum, Travellers Rest, World End Diner, Roots of Pacha, Coral Island?

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