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Hawk, do gaming w Looking for games with unique core mechanics

I really love Terra Nil.

You basically have to restore a wasteland back to lush, green nature.

Much like a city builder, this is achieved by putting down buildings. The twist is that at the end, you can’t leave a trace so you need to demolish everything again.

It’s not a long game, but I thought it was very satisfying. A relaxing puzzle/city builder with soothing music.

samus12345, do nintendo w Super Mario Bros. Wonder Fire flower
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If the Toads have no problem with Mario literally consuming one of their heads as a power up, why would the flowers?

Xylight,
@Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev avatar

Good point.

aka_oscar, do gaming w State of gaming on immutable Linux distros?

All my games work the same as a non inmutable distro. Steam, Lutris, Heroic, Bottles, Retroarch, all those apps are on flathub, so ive never felt limited in that regard.

An annoyance i had with steam flatpak is when you configure multiple locations for installing games on the same drive. Steam will just show them all as “/var/cache/” no matter what youve actually set them to.

From what ive read, Steam flatpak is not an option for you. Bazzite is a variant of Silverblue but it has set up an arch container with the latest version of steam. They did this bc they considered it to use too many undesirable workarounds. Maybe that could work for you.

eroc1990, do piracy w Torrebting security.
@eroc1990@lemmy.parastor.net avatar

What do you use as a torrenting client? Most popular ones give you the ability to choose a specific interface over which it will allow incoming/outgoing connections to other peers. Your ProtonVPN should have its own interface you can select from your client. That should make it much less likely for that to happen again if Proton crashes, since if Proton crashes, that network interface disconnects.

Stuka,

Using Qbittorrent, I didn’t know about that feature when the leak happened, but its been enabled ever since.

Pulp,

That feature is the most important one. No matter what data is only sent through VPN

wildbus8979, do piracy w Torrebting security.

Use a layered approach. Have one container act as a VPN client and router. VPN off > nothing gets routed. Put your torrenting in another container that is behind that router.

Stuka,

I’m not using containers at the moment, can you link me to more info on how to set that up? Specifically asking for the VPN / router bit. Think I can figure out the basics of containers.

wildbus8979,

It’s all just iptables (or nftables if you wanna get fancy). I don’t have a specific guide for you.

superkret, (edited ) do gaming w Looking for games with unique core mechanics

Stanley Parable

You’re an office worker bee who one day realizes the office you work in is deserted except for a voice that narrates what you do and gets frustrated with you if you do something else. There really isn’t a point to it apart from discovering your word surroundings and trying to break the game apart.

Also, there’s a Steam achievement you get by not playing it for 10 years.

Exec,
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Also, there’s a Steam achievement you get by not playing it for 10 years.

Wasn’t that 4 or 5 years?

superkret,

In the original, yes. The super deluxe version currently on steam made it 10

Exec,
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Ah, but that’s a different game technically

superkret,

It also includes Stanley Parable 2-n.

apotheotic, (edited ) do gaming w Looking for games with unique core mechanics

Tunic is incredibly unique and I can’t say I’ve played anything like it. On the surface it’s a classic dungeon crawler zelda inspired thing, but once you play… Really any amount of it, you start to see past the veil and the real game is revealed to you. Even after completing the entire game and all achievements, there is technically more of the game available to be explored.

Outer Wilds (not to be confused with Obsidian’s Outer Worlds) will be an absolute bliss for anyone who enjoyed portal or superliminal. It may be the single greatest puzzle/exploration game ever made, with no exaggeration.

Return of the Obra Dinn was a game that I could not put down. I played it in one sitting beginning to end. I was enthralled and I felt like Sherlock fucking Holmes. It is a very unassuming game but by God, you will be gripped. It stands up there with Outer Wilds as being a game that absolutely propelled itsself up to one of the best of its genre (this one being Mystery/Puzzle)

Spood_Beest,

Bump for Outer Wilds. Genuinely an amazing and unique game. I’ve never seen another “found knowledge” game mechanic like this.

frank,

I so wholeheartedly agree with Tunic. It absolutely blew my mind to complete. I’d love to experience that again.

apotheotic,

@Spood_Beest @frank

If you haven’t played either of the other two games I mentioned, I think you’ll thoroughly enjoy them. All 3 of the games are absolute masterclasses in how to hand the player knowledge that transforms their experience of the game, over and over again.

frank,

I’ve heard great things of outer wilds, just wishlisted it. I hadn’t heard of Obra Dinner but it’s Lucase Pope! The Papers, Please creator. Instant buy from me.

Thanks for the suggestions, my SO and I are stoked to delve into more mystery and confusion

apotheotic,

If you remember me when you’re done with the game(s) I’d love to hear what you think! Have fun!

frank,

Thanks! Playing through Return of Obra Dinn now. Really enjoying it so far. What a cool concept and it’s so pretty!

apotheotic,

Oh man, you weren’t kidding about getting right on that shit! Glad you’re enjoying!

frank,

Okay! I’m not sure anyone else will see this but Obra Dinn was fantastic.

Music was down and has been stuck in my head since. It’s a cool murder mystery with such amazing imagery/creepy depictions of sea monsters. I really enjoyed how subtle some of the hints were and we felt like geniuses when we got something right

apotheotic,

So glad you enjoyed! Did you 100% everything/get the “true” ending?

The music is SO good! And yes, 100% agree on feeling like a genius when you connect the more subtle dots!

frank,

We sure did. The endings besides that were not gonna work for this completionist household haha

apotheotic,

Truly awesome. I know I am only an Internet stranger, but if you do play Outer Wilds I’d be thrilled to hear you and your partners thoughts!

frank,

I appreciate your recommendation, internet stranger, and I’m gonna pass it forward.

We will! Tis wishlisted :)

icicle, (edited ) do gaming w Looking for games with unique core mechanics

Before Your Eyes

The recently deceased Benjamin Brynn is on his way to the afterlife. The player must interact with Brynn’s memories through an eye-tracking webcam to progress, as the game reads and responds to the player’s eye movement and blinking - from Wikipedia

It tries to emulate life flashing by your eyes as you are dying. I haven’t gotten around to play it but, the concept is cool nonetheless.

Found about it from this video - www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTI1WCopTsg

Cheskaz,

When I saw this thread I thought of the exact same game, which I heard about in the exact same video

bernieecclestoned, do piracy w Megathread removed Edytjedhgmdhm
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No one could spell it

hogart,
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Big brain move if I ever saw one!

VraethrDalkr, (edited )

Here’s how it’s pronounced: /ɛdɪtʃɛdʒm̩dʰm̩/

bingbong,

Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.

VraethrDalkr,

Oui

JaymesRS,
@JaymesRS@midwest.social avatar

Seems like a simple acronym to me:

Everyone Do Your Thing, Just Episode Downloads (for) Home & Great Movie Downloads. Happy Media.

m0darn,

Everyone Do Your Thing, Just Eat Doritos, Hershey’s, Green Mountain Dew & Happy Meals.

TheLongPrice, do gaming w Looking for games with unique core mechanics

Death Stranding

I’ve never played such a unique big budget game. The core mechanic is terrain traversal to make deliveries, and the game continues to give you tools throughout it to accomplish that.

amazing2,

I loved the traversal mechanics in Death Stranding. Kind of made me realise that in all other games the characters are actually gliding and not walking.

I didn’t however like that the game gets a bit too actiony toward the end. And the MULEs and the terrorists stop being a threat when you get upgraded weapons, and the BTs once you have that golden handcuff thing.

I hope they address that in the sequel. The BTs should have been a lot scarier and the stealth a bit more refined.

Still an amazing game. I loved just doing the deliveries. There’s a meditative quality to it that I only previously saw in Shadow of the Colossus.

Comment105, (edited )

The BT’s were scary enough that I couldn’t keep playing, I got to a bit after the part where you get the exo legs.

amazing2,

Well, if you want to try again at some point, I can tell you they get progressively less scary as the game goes on because you’ll get a bunch of tools to deal with them. In the last third of the game even getting caught by one is nothing because you’ll have blood grenade launchers that can easily kill them. And for those who like the stealth way better, you’ll get a special tool to sever the BTs umbilical if you get near them (the game is very liberal in what it counts as near).

Willem, do piracy w Using Edytjedhgmdhm

Bit late but the site got removed from the megathread, does that mean it is no longer considered safe?

Pxtl, do gaming w Looking for games with unique core mechanics
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Battlezone '98: One of the first notable RTS/FPS hybrids. You drive hovertanks and you build bases and you command other tanks. Set in a secret live war on the Moon, Mars, and Venus between the USSR and the USA during the cold war.

wombatula,

I don’t see a unique core mechanic in that, there are lots of RTS / FPS hybrids, both single and multiplayer.

Limeaide, (edited ) do gaming w Looking for games with unique core mechanics

Neon White: A parkour FPS puzzle game where you cards are your weapons

Rollerdrome: Best way I’ve heard is described is: Doom x Tony Hawk

sapphiria, do gaming w Looking for games with unique core mechanics
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Life is Strange - At least the original, the sequels are not quite as unique. It’s an interactive story (though still in 3D) where you can rewind time to redo conversations, effectively making “save scumming” a core mechanic. The designers use the fact that you deliberate on your own actions quite well. The story is also pretty unique, but unfortunately there isn’t a good way to explain why without spoiling any of it.

Inscryption - On the surface, this seems like your run of the mill card game. But once you get familiar with the mechanics, some other genres start blending with it.

Edit: Should also add:

A Normal Lost Phone - The premise is that you find a phone that someone has lost, and you can use it to slowly uncover the story of the person who lost it and why.

dudinax, do gaming w Looking for games with unique core mechanics

Ancient Art of War. Really old RTS where food, morale and exhaustion are all-important. You’d think it’d be a micro-management nightmare but it plays smoothly. Unfortunately not multiplayer and never remade or even imitated, for some reason.

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