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Agent_Karyo, (edited ) do games w Day 296 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing
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I really got to try Daggerfall, some of the mods radically improve the coherence and depth of the open world.

For some reason, I really like the graphical style (probably nostalgia).

Wizard_Pope,
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The style also kinda has a charm to it.

Agent_Karyo,
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I agree. I love the style. But that being said, I have some younger family members (in their 20s) who are into gaming and they think this is some old school stuff that’s unappealing (they like modern RPGs).

MyNameIsAtticus,
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The general vibe i really love. The NPC portraits i don’t really care for but everything else looks gorgeous. I especially love the snowy region

QubaXR, do games w Stop Killing Games needs EU citizen signatures!
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Done it and reshared a lot back when the campaign started. Can’t believe the “gamerzzz” are so freaking lazy to reach the needed goal. The campaign makes it such an easy step be step process…

sunshine,

Can’t believe the “gamerzzz” are so freaking lazy to reach the needed goal. The campaign makes it such an easy step be step process…

The issue is that a lot of people are not hearing about the campaign as Ross has contacted quite a few YouTubers who have unfortunately mostly ignored his letters when they could’ve made a massive difference in exposure. Shame on them for not seeing the bigger picture :/

The campaign definitely deserves way more attention with how good the posters are for it.

pivot_root, do games w Steam Deck / Gaming News #14

Another great post as usual!

For people interested in what’s been going on with Limited Run, here’s a 90-minute video that goes into a lot of detail about the sketchy stuff they did before this latest controversy:

youtu.be/MvkZkgmpg2w

PerfectDark,
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Thank you so much for the follow-up, it’s always nice to have more depth on this kind of thing. Much appreciated!!!

redwattlebird, do games w What is your favorite indie game?

Balatro. It’s a great Maths game.

sugar_in_your_tea, do games w What is your favorite indie game?

Here are a few, hopefully they aren’t mentioned yet:

  • walking simulator/light puzzle game - Firewatch, What Remains of Edith Finch, INSIDE, A Juggler’s Tale, Abzu, Nuts
  • puzzle - Manifold Garden, The Case of the Golden Idol, GNOG, Gorogoa
  • misc - Inscryption, Pony Island
  • 3d platformer/adventure - Yooka Laylee
  • metroidvania/platformer - Blue Fire
  • programming - Human Resource Machine, TIS-100
  • souls-like/boss rush - Furi, Titan Souls

Some of these might be AA, it’s hard to tell the difference sometimes. I have plenty more where that came from. :)

jacksilver,

I feel like blufire never got the recognition it deserved.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised by how good it was. It’s not the best game of its genre, but it’s better than most.

Lightsong, do games w What is your favorite indie game?

Valheim. Bought it late January and already got almost 400 hours on it. Play it vanilla first then modded. I played it with friends, beat final boss on Day 997, we took our times, building and all along the way. Then I started over solo with x3 resources, no raid, and move metals through portal. I just wanted to see if I could solo all game and today I just finished basically everything. So right now, I’m just collecting resources for gears and buildings. Going to make few houses across the map.

DoucheBagMcSwag, do games w What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games?

Most 90’s and late 80’s point and click games (Sam and Max, Full Throttle, Monkey Island, The Dig, Loom, Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Zack McCraken and the Alien Mindbenders, Kings / Space quest, Dark Seed, Beneath a Steel Sky)

Machinist,
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Dark Seed was old school hard and explained nothing. Gave up multiple times, wasn’t playable for me. Sucked because I’m a huge fan of H.R. Giger.

Rhaedas, do gaming w The whole album has a clear, crisp sound.
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Pictures that you can hear.

SocialMediaRefugee, do games w What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games?

The old text adventures where being able to solve a puzzle required hitting the right words. “Oh, twist, not pull.”

mysticpickle,

Dear God those text parser adventures. I remember playing Hugo’s House of Horrors and trying for the longest time to remove some screws from a grate.

Okay screws np.

UNSCREW SCREWS

I don’t know how to do that.

REMOVE SCREWS

I don’t know how to do that.

Reeeee… Turns out it only responded specifically to UNDO SCREWS

SocialMediaRefugee,

It is like a game designed by a bitter English teacher.

andros_rex,

I don’t understand how anyone beat things like Zork or the Hitchhikers Guide.

The Babel fish shit had me in tears.

HollowNaught, do games w What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games?
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Subnautica and Hollow Knight spring to mind

Excrubulent,
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Wait, open world, specific upgrades needed to access new areas and progress the story… I think Subnautica is a secret metroidvania. It’s just most of the upgrades are “you can go deeper now”.

stephan262,

Subnautica’s art direction does give me Metroid Prime vibes.

captain_aggravated,
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That’s what a lot of the upgrades boil down to, yeah. Air tanks increase endurance, fins and seaglide increase movement speed, rebreather eliminates an endurance draining effect at depth, seabases and submarines allow you to start your dive from greater than zero depth. Pretty much all of that boils down to “dives to this depth are now practicable.”

Other than that, the knife allows you to harvest plate coral for making computer chips, kelp for making fabric, and seeds for plants. The scanner is required to obtain the blueprints for several other required buildables. The mobile vehicle bay is required to build the Cyclops. The Cyclops is required to make the shield module. A radiation suit…I think speedrunners don’t use it and just tank the damage with medkits, but I consider it a requirement.

There is one straight-up key you have to craft; there are several others for required or optional doors but you only have to craft one to complete the game and two to unlock all doors.

There’s a tool that is like Half-Life 2’s gravity gun, which can be used to move heavy obstacles out of paths, but it’s never outright required for anything. I usually don’t bother with it.

The laser cutter is required, You have to cut through one of two doors in the Aurora to gain access to the Captain’s Cabin.

setsneedtofeed, do games w What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games?
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Fallout 1: If you play it going in blind and don’t look up help, a first playthrough can be stressful early on if you don’t know how much progress you are making on the time limited main quest.

Kenshi: The game doesn’t have quests or main goals, so it is up to the player to figure out what they want and how to get it. Certain game areas are lethally dangerous, factions can be angered if you don’t figure out their customs, and even in less lethal areas being beaten and crippled by bandits is a real problem.

Peffse,

I hate timers on games that give you little guidance. People claim that Fallout 1’s timer is too lenient, but I ended up replaying (and failing) the game twice and still not coming close to finding the water chip. Also, the game constantly reminds you “We’re all dying, hurry up! Every minute you take is an other life lost!”. Same reason I dislike Lightning Returns.

Sanctus,
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The Gang Gets Abducted by Religious Slavers for Not Joining The Book Readings.

Quetzalcutlass,

The funny thing is being enslaved by the religious zealots is one of the best starts you can pick in the game. You’re stuck in a quarry doing backbreaking work (which levels strength), are fed just enough that you won’t die (acquiring food is normally a nightmare in the early game), and most importantly the guards won’t (intentionally) kill you, only knock you unconscious if you misbehave. Which matters because taking damage is how you train toughness, making it one of only a few places on the entire world map where you can train it without a high risk of death.

And it gets better. Every night after your shift you can sneak out and practice lock picking on doors and slave shackles and assassinating sleeping guards (since failure only results in a beatdown), which combined with the strength and toughness grinding leads to you becoming a ninja powerhouse by the time you escape.

10/10, would lead a slave uprising again.

TriflingToad,

hell yeah kenshi mentioned. Honestly the game feels like ‘slop’, but is fun as hell also in an old-school RuneScape type of way

excited for the 2nd game on unreal engine (but small dev team, might take couple more years)

Justdaveisfine, do games w Looking for a local co-op game to play with my SO (Steam Deck)
  • A Hat in Time
  • Trine
  • Spiritfarer
  • The lego games
  • Knights and bikes
  • Human fall flat
  • Cassette beasts
  • Chariot
  • Octodad
  • Monaco

I don’t remember these being particularly violent but maybe are worth a look:

  • Pit people
  • BattleBlock Theater

I also liked Moon Hunters and Children of Morta but those are harder.

Divinity Original Sin 1 is also good but definitely falls into the violent category. Its kind of goofy too so it could be worth considering. The second game + BG3 are significantly more violent and serious so are harder to recommend with that criteria.

Edit: hmm it seems the formatting is funky in Voyager, should be fixed now

atomicpeach,
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I’ll add a +1 to Battleblock Theater! Such a well done game that can be true co-op or “co-op with shenanigans” if that’s more your vibe. The story is entertaining and lighthearted and the levels introduce new mechanics throughout.

Arkhive,

+1 for the LEGO games. Sort of my go to sleeper pick for surprisingly good games. The humor is good, gameplay is decent though I have to go on big breaks between playing through one because gameplay game to game can be a bit samey.

mjhelto,

Dude, Octodad in the random arm-leg mode is so fucking funny. My wife and I had so much fun with that game. Too bad the game is so short!

pathief,
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Trine

I do own the first 2, I totally forget about this game. Definitely gonna give it a try.

Spiritfarer

I already played and loved SpiritFarer, it was an amazing journey. I don’t want to say too much but I just can’t repeat it any time soon.

The lego games

I forgot to mention in the original post that we did play the lord of the rings lego game and I really hated it. I found the gameplay so boring…

Knights And Bikes

This one looks intriguing, I’ll check it out!

Monaco

I do own Monaco, maybe i’ll give it a try!

Thanks!

Nikls94, do games w Recommendations for "girly" games?

Well there’s lot of shovelware girly games out there. Your best bet would be cozy games cozygamereviews.com/cozy-games-on-steam/ maybe try a dating sim or two? The KFC Dating sim …steampowered.com/…/I_Love_You_Colonel_Sanders_A_… is free and one my absolute favorites. Granted, it’s stupid, it’s cheesy, it’s anime, it’s taking itself a little bit too serious, but I like it. One of my friends recently loved house flipper 2 store.steampowered.com/app/…/House_Flipper_2/ a game where you clean houses, sell them, later even get to design your own houses. Also one of my new favorite cozy feel good games is little kitty big city store.steampowered.com/…/Little_Kitty_Big_City/ I just love the writing and the atmosphere of this game! Oh, and the Style-Boutique game series on the Nintendo 3 DS! If you know a tech savvy person who can Mod a 2DS or 3DS you can get the console for cheap and put the game on there from the internet. My wife and one of my coworkers loved these games!

[I totally want to start a thread about how Red Dead Redemption (GTA but it’s the wild wild west-era with cowboys) has the best horse riding experience in any game until now and how a horse riding game with the mechanics would be amazing, but I’ll just plant this seed here and hope for some game-dev to see it.]

sapientpotato,

Can second Little Kitty, Big City, but would recommend getting it on sale. There’s not a whole of content or replayability for the regular price, imo.

Nikls94,

Totally! I think $15 is fine though

simple,

House Flipper 2 is great. I wish missions were less linear, but it’s probably the best “home designer” game out there.

Elevator7009,

www.themanequest.com is all about horse games, by an equestrian game dev. You might enjoy it. I am not a horse person but the articles are a fun read.

emb,

My niece introduced me to LKBC, and so far it seems like a lot of fun!

Detren,

Check out Windstorm! It’s an upcoming game that is basically what you describe, just set in Mongolia.

makingStuffForFun, do games w Looking for a local co-op game to play with my SO (Steam Deck)
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Check out Kingdom Two Crowns. Absolutely brilliant

pathief,
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This one looks for me, actually :P

makingStuffForFun,
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The whole series is great. But two Crowns is multi player. But, thinking, might only be split screen on one device?

HollowNaught,
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I second this. I’ve played it with three mates now and they all loved it

Hazelnutcookiez, do games w Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators)

its kinda useless without Voice, TeamSpeak however is making excellent progress. im hoping we just gi bsck to forums and stuff like TeamSpeak and vent.

PerfectDark,
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Sure! It’s great that there is other options, too. So people have options available to them if they want to explore those.

I’m not promoting this as a end-game solution to everything. It’s not even my server.

I’m just sharing this in case people who enjoy gaming and Linux and the people behind the projects, they might want to join in.

ArtificialHoldings,
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Revolt has voice channels, and video is in active development

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