Woohoo!! 💛 I’ve been curious, I know some of them didn’t make it until the new year. How’s it been? They recently asked devs if they wanted to test web request support so it’s exciting times!
My partner and I got Baldurs Gate 3 and it has been a delight. We pass the ps5 controller so we each get an npc during combat and do splitscreen for the world. She’s a dragonborn paladin and I’m a tiefling warlock, we spent the weekend clearing out a dungeon of goblins!
We pass the ps5 controller so we each get an npc during combat and do splitscreen for the world.
Is local coop different from online coop? I’m playing through the game with a friend right now, and we both have our own small party, and control two characters in a fight. Or maybe I just misunderstood what you meant.
It is different, at least according to the threads I found! In split screen they’re all from Player 1’s party and the second player only controls their character. local multiplayer is a little janky, sometimes player 2 turns invisible and the only way to fix it is to force a cutscene
It’s been awesome! Despite seeing videos and images I was seriously not prepared for how small and cute it is 😍. The crank is so awesome too haha. Mainly I’ve checked out the 2 Season 1 games I have access to off the bat, and I obviously had to buy Mars after Midnight. Damn that game is awesome. Also wow web request support that’s so cool! It definitely seems like a really vibrant community :)
MAM is charming and so well put together, the dev’s interview on the podcast was a fun listen too, if you’re into that! Enjoy the rest of the season 😄 you’ve got a looot coming up
Elite Dangerous: Best space travel, strap on your VR, put on a virtual monitor playing star trek into your cockpit and stand in awe of how gigantic planets truly are. It has fallen under mismanagement and its mid to late game is terrible. But for the price it’s great.
X4: Space sandbox game from the legendary studio behind… the x series. Fantastic galaxy sim where you can do whatever. Hunt bounties, be poor space trader who converts all their life savings to silicon wafers only to find out nobody is buying them or become ceo of the entire space. Only negative for me is it would be the perfect game if it had open space and orbiting planets and all.
Star Sector: basically mountain blade in space. Not on steam.
Space Engineers: Build your own spaceships and do whatever. The resources are more befitting of an automation game and you can automate.
More niche games: Astrox: Even online but singleplayer. Objects in space: Abandonware that takes an interesting approach to space travel. Delta v: rings of saturn: hardest sci fi space mining simulator around the rings of saturn. Starship EVO: very early access but has the best ship building system I’ve seen so far and ring worlds.
I dropped Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire for the time being. It’s good, but I just don’t feel it right now. The ship travel does suck though.
Then more coop Baldur’s Gate 3. We are now in Act 3, about to go into the city.
BG3 is part of the reason I stopped playing Pillars 2, since I got a lot more into it than I thought. That’s why I started another solo run, trying to make it through Honor Mode. So far, I died twice in Act 1. First time was the three Intellect Devourers shortly after the tutorial. Second time was to the Gnolls that siege the two dudes in a cave. That one, I could have survived, but did some dumb misplays and paid the price. The current run is going pretty good, although I had some really close moments. The Spectator fight almost took out my party, same with the Robots in the Underdark Tower. If I die again, I’ll probably change to a custom difficulty, where I can save, just to learn the game and fights more, before I try again. I severely overestimated my game knowledge.
I also beat Windblown a few more times, and moved up to the final difficulty, but barely did any attempts since then.
I’m about 160 hours into Pathfinder: Kingmaker and I can’t say for certain if it’s a good game or not. It’s certainly captured my obsessive attention, and there are parts of it that I really enjoy. However, the game is also frustrating and messy and the two halves of CRPG on one side and kingdom management sim on the other really don’t mesh well. It’s also a complete nightmare for any completionist with the huge amount of timed quests, many of which never announce their timer publicly. The encounter design also doesn’t feel great and the difficulty is often unfun - though there are some menu settings that can mitigate some of that.
If you enjoy Slay the Spire and are interested in more rogue like deckbuilders, I’m a big fan of Griftlands.
It’s pretty small in scope but it has some fun ideas and three base characters/decks with their own stories you follow. It does have some meta-progression if you care about that. I find making builds in it really fun and it’s incredibly satisfying to see a deck come together and just destroy everything in your path.
Yeah I wasn’t sure if the art is for everyone so I didn’t mention it but I love the entire style, as well as the addition of the fake languages that the audio is done in. It really enhanced the immersion.
I should get back to Great Circle, but I dug my 3DS out recently and started Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy. My first time playing the series and I'm enjoying it.
Also slowly making my way through the Sega Ages version of Phantasy Star - a game I've been enamored with since the SMS days, but never given a lot of time. The Ages features make it so much more accessible.
I’m thrilled that Into the Breach is available on Android, massively disappointed that I cannot purchase it. But at least that means patched APKs exist…
They annoyingly have some proprietary licensing. Cozy Grove 2 was Netflix only. I only have it because my spouse’s comfort show is on Netflix, otherwise it’s going to be gone
I just use Djipi’s 3DS Experience + Skilar’s Art Plus Link. V4 just came out and it covers seemingly everything. It also seems more authentic and fun to make a proper desktop icon to launch the game if you haven’t tried that.
The VA work is amazing, and it controls a lot like Dishonored, but there’s less emphasis on stealth and more on playing how you want. I’ve been able to blend stealth and regular gunplay, and it still feels nice and balanced. The AI seems to have much more awareness and combat ability, so picking how and where to pick people off or start a gunfight is fun!
And since the game is based around time travel, choosing not to kill some people might open up future paths. It’s great!
If you’ve got interest in deep simulation mechanics you can check out Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead. It’s FOSS and, last I checked, still has an active developer community.
You can set it up fairly easily the Steam version of DX and the Revision Mod, which at this point is basically all the most popular DX mods, reconfigured to play nice with each other and be as mutually compatible as possible.
Someone already mentioned Caves of Qud, that one is amazing, Noita is really good, also StarSector is functionally a roguelike but in space.
Also No Mans Sky is basically a rogue like if you turn on permadeath, kick the difficulty up.
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