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ginko, do games w Are there any good casual/low-stress mobile games that aren't filled with microtransactions?

You should download Mini Review

It is a currated version of the Play Store with many filters including paid/free, IAP, genres, …

The reviews are very thorough and always include a paragraph about the “presatoriness” of IAP if any

8000gnat, do games w Are there any good casual/low-stress mobile games that aren't filled with microtransactions?

desert golf and its follow up golf on mars are big hits at my house

do_not_pm_me, do games w Are there any good casual/low-stress mobile games that aren't filled with microtransactions?

Rodent Rush, it’s similar to Chips Challenge from back in the day but a bit different, and imho it’s a better game.

It’s only on iOS though as far as I can tell.

Father_Redbeard, do gaming w How to get good at FPS with a controller, coming from a PC gamer?
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Play all the fallout games. V.A.T.S. doesn’t care if you suck at aiming.

Only half joking. I played all but the 1, 2, and Tactics on steam deck and it worked out decently. Didn’t even bother using the touchpad aiming because it felt worse to me than the analog stick.

tal, (edited )
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For those who haven’t played the series, VATS is an alternate aiming mode where one can pause (or in later games in the 3d series, greatly slow) the game, select a certain number of targets depending upon available action points, and then have all those shots taken in rapid succession, with the game aiming.

I’d say that VATS is kind of a “path” than a purely alternate input method in those games; you need to make a VATS-oriented build, though it’s true that it makes it possible to play the game with minimal FPS elements. Like, in Fallout: New Vegas, VATS provides major benefits close-up. While VATS is active, there’s enormous damage reduction applied to your character, IIRC 90%, so for short periods of time, they have enormous damage output and little risk. They can also turn rapidly and target multiple enemies, probably better than a player manually-playing could. At close ranges, VATS is just superior.

But VATS suffers severe accuracy penalties at range. Whether-or-not a target is moving doesn’t affect VATS accuracy, but range does a lot, whereas with manual aiming, whether-or-not a target is moving makes a big difference and range doesn’t matter much. As a result, VATS isn’t great for sniping, which is also an aspect of the game. You can do it (especially, oddly-enough, with pistols, in Fallout 4, where the Concentrated Fire perk lets later shots in a flurry of pistol shots at range be very accurate.

In Fallout 76, VATS provides such dramatic damage benefits that I’d say that it’s impractical to play a non-VATS build – VATS is required to get damage up to a reasonable level later in the game.

Father_Redbeard,
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VATS build with Deliverer pistol in FO4 is OP as hell. Almost to the point it’s boring.

Faydaikin,
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Tell me you mean that you have played 1 & 2, just not on the steam deck.

Anything otherwise would be a shame.

Father_Redbeard,
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I tried the first game years ago and couldn’t click with it. I should try again.

a_wild_mimic_appears, do games w Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals

Fury Unleashed 2,92€ instead of 19,50€.

Metroidvania with roguelike elements and metaprogression. Graphics are timeless (the game plays inside of a comic book, which is a nice change), very tight gameplay, tons of weapons and cool bosses.

Smooth working 2-Player-Coop!

MajorHavoc, (edited )

Fury Unleashed is charming as hell, but it’s the buttery smooth controls that make it so replayable.

As an old-school platform and bullet hell player, I don’t play many modern platform or bullet hell games, because I’ve been spoiled by tight controls from the 8-bit era, and so many modern games don’t match the responsiveness.

But I found Fury Unleashed incredibly accessible, mostly because the controls are so responsive.

9point6, do games w Are there any good casual/low-stress mobile games that aren't filled with microtransactions?

Shattered pixel dungeon has been a mainstay on my phone for what feels like a decade now

fpslem, do games w Are there any good casual/low-stress mobile games that aren't filled with microtransactions?

I really liked Lara Croft GO. It’s better than Hitman GO or other GO games.

owatnext, do games w Are there any good casual/low-stress mobile games that aren't filled with microtransactions?
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I have a 2048 clone from F-Droid and a Solitaire-like games collection from F-Droid that keep me busy on flights, etc. No stress, easy, entertaining.

CharlesReed, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of June 30th
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I have only four more objectives to finish the season journey in Diablo 4: Season 4. Right now I'm balancing between running through nightmare dungeons to level up my glyphs and taking on Helltides.

I finished the main story line for Mad Max and only have to clean up the rest of the map. But I won't do that now, will probably just pop in every few days to do stuff.

Still Wakes The Deep came out recently, and I didn't know much about it other than it takes place on an ocean oil rig near Scotland and is Lovecraftian in nature. I was really looking forward to it, because usually Lovecraftian games center around a detective MC, so this taking place on an oil rig seemed like a refreshing concept, but I ended up extremely disappointed. It started off like Amnesia meets The Thing meets Alien Isolation, but unlike Amnesia, there's not any puzzles. And unlike Alien Isolation, there's not any combat or action. Just go here, pull lever, sneak there, have a little chase, flail through awful QTEs (and jesus, there were a lot of them). It made for a very boring ride with bland and shallow story where nothing is explained. The accents were fun though.

I picked up Subnautica again. I'm determined to actually finish it this time. I think my issue in my previous attempts was spending too much time working on building a massive base, so my plan is to just build necessities this round. I think it's working so far? Right now all I have is a moonpool with some storage, a fabricator, and a med station. I'm not sure how long to "story" is, but I feel like I'm making good progress.

Kongar, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of June 30th

Frostpunk - seems fun. Played a few hours.

Armored core 6 - um I died like 4 times in the tutorial. I was shamed and put it down.

But ya - it’s been Elden ring pretty much 90% of the time.

Keegen, do games w Getting the Skyrim itch again... Any mod recommendations to freshen it up?

While it’s not a gameplay mod, LORKHAN will freshen up your Skyrim experience all the same. It’s a complete soundtrack replacement mod created by the legendary young scrolls himself. It’s a stark departure from the original Skyrim’s soundtrack while still fitting in perfectly with the game.

datendefekt, do gaming w Steam/GOG Summer Sales
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I was pretty surprised by the price Disco Elysium is going for.

Ajzak,

i am obligated to say that the publishers screwed over the devs for that game, so if possible you’re better off getting a cd key than supporting those thieves

but convenience is convenience

Gerudo,

Just saying, that an athletic girl that has a passion for reducing the size of install packages might have a solution.

datendefekt,
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This riddle has me at a loss and I will not search the internet for passionate athletic girls.

Lemzlez,

Here’s some hints:

Another word for athletic is “Fit”

Reducing the size of installers is done by “Repacking” its contents.

truffles, do parlamentarna w Wspólne stowarzyszenie Pauliny Matysiak i Marcina Horały: hit czy kit?
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Nie miałum pojęcia co to za jeden ten Horała. Trochę za grubo jednak, nie wiem czemu w ramach depolaryzacji społeczeństwa musi wybierać współpracę z największymi konserwami, już wcześniej robiła sobie śmieszki w internetach z Sośnierzem.

obywatelle,
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Lewackie piękonduchowstwo, wychowanie w bańce i potem przekonania typu “warto rozmawiać”, “oni na pewno mogą zmienić zdanie jeśli skonfrontować ich z faktami” itp. Brak zrozumienia że polityka to gra cyników, a jeśli ktoś nie umie w tę grę grać, to jest rozgrywany.

scarbeque,
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Nagonka na Matysiak to tylko dyscyplinowanie wewnątrz koalicji, której cały program sprowadzał “odsunięcie PiS od władzy”. A jako że niewiele się w sumie od tego PiS różnią to trzeba zakazać wszelkich kontaktów, żeby się nie wydało

Tropper, do games w Q: Do I need Geforce Experience to make use of "Game Ready Drivers" (Nvidia)?

The only optimisations that only Geforce Experience can do is changing the graphics settings for the games. At least that’s the only optimisations I know of from Geforce Experience.

eratic,

That’s what I suspect too, thanks

JustEnoughDucks, do gaming w Riven (2024) Review Thread
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I love the absurdity of game reviewers 😂

  • “This game is the pinnicle of its genre”
  • “This is the 1 game I would bring to a desert island”
  • “one of the most captivating puzzle games ever”

85%, 88%, 70%, a C to a B. That is just above average.

Meanwhile you get an absolute broken AAA piece of crap that barely functions, incoherant story, generic and boring and those same reviewers say “70-80%”. So there is a <10% difference between absolutely mastering a genre and releasing straight garbage?

sarsaparilyptus,

IGN and its consequences have been a disaster for video game journalism.

“This game barely works. I had multiple game-breaking bugs during the tutorial. The art style is ugly, the music is annoying, the gameplay is generic and not fun at all, the graphics stutter constantly, and it tried to make me drink a can of mountain dew on camera to verify my purchase. We give it a 7… point 1.

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