What's a game you've played that you're surprised isn't really popular?
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I mean when promoting.
Yeah, 'google en passant' is an r/AnarchyChess joke.
Unless you are in on it, in which case damn, you're stone cold.
In theory, you can always promote to a rook just to show off. I have no idea if it's considered a bad mannered move.
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DotAge. It's a rogue-like turn-based strategy game where you try to build a village on cursed land, where you have visions of upcoming doom events and the eventual apocalypse. You have to balance stacking resources for growth and basic survival against efforts that will improve your chances of surviving doom events.
The board obviously is different every time. The factors you have to weigh and plan for are just complex enough, and just enough of the future is beyond your sight and control. The gameplay mechanics also change just a bit every time, due to a new mix of buildings and resource gathering methods, as well as new random events that can sometimes have a huge effect on your strategy. You're not just accounting for randomness in your strategy--you have to adjust how you play the game all the time.
Just when you think the game is getting easy, the next chapter drops, you start doing the math, and realize you have overlooked something that may doom your village, depending on whether the RNG punishes you sufficiently. There's definitely a big luck factor, as there is in real life. But you can make your own luck if you see far enough into the future and play well.
It's a very well-made game that can run on a potato, and I'm a little obsessed with it.
Bought this game and forgot about it. Going to try it tonight thanks bro
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I thought Slice & Dice was going to take Steam by storm but it kinda just came and went. Amazing little roguelike dice battler
The biggest factor for me was that it just felt better on a handheld platform. I put dozens of hours into that game on my android
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Bought this game and forgot about it. Going to try it tonight thanks bro
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An indie 3D platformer game from a couple years ago called Hell Pie. You're a low-level demon who gets an angel chained to him, and you can use it to do things like spin him to launch yourself and swing on stuff. If you like classic 3D platformers and toilet humor, it's really very good, and pretty novel.
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An indie 3D platformer game from a couple years ago called Hell Pie. You're a low-level demon who gets an angel chained to him, and you can use it to do things like spin him to launch yourself and swing on stuff. If you like classic 3D platformers and toilet humor, it's really very good, and pretty novel.
I just looked at pictures and I fell in love with that artstyle I'll add that too my list thx
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I just looked at pictures and I fell in love with that artstyle I'll add that too my list thx
Nice! Don't expect anything super polished, like an old Ratchet and Clank, or anything, I think it was a small Unity or Unreal project, but I really enjoyed it.
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I mostly play co-op games and I am tired of the "everything is dark, ugly, and evil, and chaos is rampant" with a souls-copy aesthetic. I crave colorful games and fun co-op mechanics.
Nine Parchments is casual, fun, and beautiful. The point IS that there is friendly fire because the challenge is to get the enemies without getting your friends. Played also by up to 4 people on a single screen.
Coridden is very home-made but has cool mechanics of turning into beasts or riding your friends when they turn into animals. Fun isometric rpg-ish game that can be played on a single screen.
Pizza possum. Steal the food and don't get caught. It's casual, chaotic and hilarious. Co-op as well.
Spiritfarer is a great game. Not sure if it's popular or not bc idk what's popular. No killing, very therapeutic if you've lost someone, is a journey about loving and letting go. Co-op allows you to play the cat.
And go play bombsquad with friends, it is the best and my go-to if I have videogame-comfortable guests at home
Love you all. Keep being nice people
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Yeah, 'google en passant' is an r/AnarchyChess joke.
Unless you are in on it, in which case damn, you're stone cold.
In theory, you can always promote to a rook just to show off. I have no idea if it's considered a bad mannered move.
Ah I see. Thanks for explaining. I wasn't in on it heh.
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Quake Champions is pretty great, surprised it's not at least a little bigger
I'm content with OpenArena, so Quake 3 with open source graphics so you can install and play it anywhere. What does champions do that I'm missing out on?
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Plasma - a wildly programmable physics game where you can build just about anything in a fairly accessible manner. The devs eventually just made it free because it wasn't getting much notice.
BPM: Bullets Per Minute - at some point everyone thinks 'what if you combined an FPS with a rhythm game so you had to shoot on the beat?' BPM is that, nailed. Others have tried but BPM got it right.
Crypt of the Necrodancer is probably my favorite weird rhythm game; I may have to give BPM a try, sounds right up my alley!
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Kunitsu-Gami. I tried the demo and spent 8 hours on it trying to get everything perfect, which made me realize I should just buy it. It was a total delight. I didn't expect it, never even heard of it honestly, but I can't stop recommending it.
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I'm content with OpenArena, so Quake 3 with open source graphics so you can install and play it anywhere. What does champions do that I'm missing out on?
I'm not familiar with Open Arena so hard for my to say a lot, but QC def feels way more modern than the other Quake's in a way I appreciate a lot.
The graphics, audio, cosmetics, etc are all awesome. SyncError is also an excellent map designer and I love the maps he releases
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Meinkraft
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For video games, Ostranauts. It's the perfect space survival sim IMO. You wake up on an industrial salvage station and get a ship. Then you fly to derelict ships and scrap them for money and parts. Build up your own ship and travel farther and farther out. It's jank as fuck to learn but once you get it down it's the type of game where you put on music then just go for hours and hours. It's early access and a lot is changing but the core gameplay loop is so addicting already.
For tabletop games, Infinity. It's the best miniatures skirmish game I've ever played. The rules are deep but tight. The number of minis you put on the table is just right to me. List building is the best of any game I ever played. The rules are free. The app is free. The miniatures are the best out of any wargame I've ever played. It's just a shame that people are so locked into Games Workshop that they don't see other games as an option. Like I had a couple friends get hardcore into it but never more than that. And at the height of it's popularity at our store we had one of the best players on the East coast play in a tournament. That was a sight to behold. Like I'm not a tourney player at all for any game. Watching the number 1 east coast player do his thing was the most inspired I ever was to become a tournament player.
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For video games, Ostranauts. It's the perfect space survival sim IMO. You wake up on an industrial salvage station and get a ship. Then you fly to derelict ships and scrap them for money and parts. Build up your own ship and travel farther and farther out. It's jank as fuck to learn but once you get it down it's the type of game where you put on music then just go for hours and hours. It's early access and a lot is changing but the core gameplay loop is so addicting already.
For tabletop games, Infinity. It's the best miniatures skirmish game I've ever played. The rules are deep but tight. The number of minis you put on the table is just right to me. List building is the best of any game I ever played. The rules are free. The app is free. The miniatures are the best out of any wargame I've ever played. It's just a shame that people are so locked into Games Workshop that they don't see other games as an option. Like I had a couple friends get hardcore into it but never more than that. And at the height of it's popularity at our store we had one of the best players on the East coast play in a tournament. That was a sight to behold. Like I'm not a tourney player at all for any game. Watching the number 1 east coast player do his thing was the most inspired I ever was to become a tournament player.
Ostranauts still needs time to cook but there's nothing quite like getting your first torch lit, nearly starving during the trip to Venus and then spending days stuck in a crash couch while your earther pilot supervises the burn that nearly kills you. Definitely room to grow.
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Battletech should be the king of tabletop wargames. But no, everyone just wants to play 40k because of the sunk cost.
Battletech is insane but the 40k universe is a much bigger hook because it's somehow even more insane. Also I grew up with it, didn't really look much into the battletech universe until the other year.
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Battletech is insane but the 40k universe is a much bigger hook because it's somehow even more insane. Also I grew up with it, didn't really look much into the battletech universe until the other year.
Yes I understand, im talking from a mechanical perspective
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Ostranauts still needs time to cook but there's nothing quite like getting your first torch lit, nearly starving during the trip to Venus and then spending days stuck in a crash couch while your earther pilot supervises the burn that nearly kills you. Definitely room to grow.
I agree that it still needs a cooking, but what's there is already so good. Salmon is great raw or cooked.
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I got into the Battletech universe from the Mechwarrior PC games. Which...long story short, MW2: 31st Century Combat and MW4: Vengeance were really bad at indicating there was a whole franchise behind them. I learned it was a whole big thing from guys I met on MW4's online multiplayer. Who here remembers MSN Gaming Zone?
I tried to pick up the BATTLETECH game on Steam not too long ago, on the understanding that it's a computerized version of the tabletop game's rules...and bounced right off it. First of all, it has like, a Campaign mode and a Career mode? How are those different? Then both launching the game and starting a career play an intro cinematic longer than the Lord of the Rings franchise. I mean fuck, Tex of the Black Pants Legion doesn't talk this much about mechs. The story is, to me, the least interesting thing Battletech can do: You're some nothing fuck mercenary working for some nothing fuck duchess on some nothing fuck periphery planet.
Three and a half months after the Steam return window passes, I finally get into the game to play the tutorial mission. It's popping up text on the screen to teach how to control the game, meanwhile there's a voiceover saying different things trying to tell the story of the Nothing Fuck Roughriders and their quest to avenge Lady Nothing Fuck of Nothing Fuckersville. It hit me with both simultaneously.
Software I hate does not stay installed on my computer.
Its a great game though
