The new update of 7 days to die
yea it’s not perfect, but if played with friends and some settings are tweaked, it’s pretty fun
Noita!: I agree with many in dubbing it my favorite single player game.
It is a pixel art alechemy and magic roguelike where every pixel is physically simulated and destroyable. Find spells and wands and combine them in programmer like ways to multiply their power. Many tricks in the game are so strong they feel like cheating, but the game has been built with challenges that surpass every trick.
It is the epitome of endlessly repayable. Especially switching between the few mods that drastically change the map.
I can easily have a god run last me 5-10 hours. But I still have a lot of fun with the more common 30min-2hr runs.
It is something I have always been undecided about. The whole spell creation thing sounds like something I’d love, but I’ve heard the game can be frustrating, and aside from !hades@lemmy.zip roguelikes are not my thing. I should probably see if it has a demo or watch some early gameplay…
Definitely watch some gameplay. The super early game is quite self explanatory, but noita quickly escalates to puzzles so hard a community needs to get together to solve them.
Playing Noita with all the knowledge of the wider community has made so many cool bosses actually beatable, and made the whole game a lot more fun for me.
That’s pretty cool! I never heard of it before but it’s on my Wishlist now. I’m definitely curious to check it out.
Its great! It will not hesitate to kill you until you learn it.
Binding of Isaac has a bit of invincibility after every hit, and that works for the game really well. You need to be able to recover and not die immediately.
Noita has no invincibility frames like that. You need to be able to die immediately. An instant death is essential for the game tone and balance.
I have no issues with dying repeatedly to learn a game. The modern FromSoftware catalogue are my favourite games ever. Maybe it’ll go on sale during the steam summer sale in a few days and I can pick it up then.
I wanna look into playing all the FF but I don’t know which of all the versions out there to play.
Try FF 7 and 8. FF 6 gets recommended a lot.
Oh, not each FFTitle but like. There’s 20 different releases of FF4 for example. I’m kinda lost
Finally got time to play Battleblock Theater after finishing Castle Crashers
I used to love playing BBT on the 360 with a friend of mine. Enjoy, it’s a very entertaining game
Can’t wait for Painter’s Paradise
Tony hawk pro skater 2, played it often when it first came out and hearing about the 3/4 remake coming out soon reminded me of the games and it’s been decades, I wanted to see if it holds up. It’s showing some age in the fighter combo style tricks and arcade style levels, but the soundtrack is still good, and progression with unlocking stats and levels through goals is fun and wanting to beat a goal after failing a couple times keeps me coming back.
I picked up mirrors edge again after some weeks without playing it and i cleared a level yesterday. Was going to do a session now as well, but now my save had been wiped. Probably related to me struggling to figure out lutris and heroic and messing around abit yesterday evening. It a little of a bummer but at the same time i found the game a little too frustrating - a good idea not executed well enough to be a truly enjoyable experience in my opinion.
I am abit indecesive at the moment. I fired up both tales of symphonia on gamecube and final fantasy 7 on ps1 yesterday, kinda want to start another jrpg but at the same time not quite where i want to commit myself to a long game. Also installing fallout 3 now so hm…
I fired up theme hospital for some fun this week as well though, that was a welcome nostalgia trip :)
Have you tried Two Point Hospital? It’s the same thing, just better. Even has the insane PA announcements from Theme Hospital.
Never tried it but recetly picked it up for free from epic store so will give it a try this summer!
Battlefront 2 multi player has come back to life for the moment.
borderlands pre sequel
Mostly Jurassic Park Evolution 2, offered by Epic a few weeks ago. Fills the little kid in me with joy, who loved dinosaurs after watching og Jurassic Park back in the day.
Antimatter Dimensions. Free, I have 1,000+ hours. Incremental/idle game though.
Heh. How is that a game? I ran it for a couple days. There wasn’t a whole lot going on.
But I have a similar pursuit. I have 396 (56%) achievements in Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms.
Most of it is offline time, of course, but it says I’ve played 6,323 hours.To me, it’s a game. I get some people might not think so because the game is all menus and numbers, with minimal other graphics (not counting achievement backgrounds). But for me, it’s fun. A lot of people like these number go up games where the mechanics are about increasing the numbers fast without much other intermittent gameplay. !incremental_games@incremental.social. It’s a whole genre. https://paperpilot.dev/garden/guide-to-incrementals/defining-the-genre/ might have some discussion on whether it’s a game or not, I forget, but it sure is a nice read about incrementals.
Also, there’s more, but it does take time to unfold.
I’ve played one other idler. It was more like Antimatter, put some time into, and it annoyed me enough to remove it from my Steam history. I bought one called 64 that I barely started. The only one that I’ve actually enjoyed is Idle Champions, but boy do I have a lot of time into that one.
I finished Deus Ex: Mankind Divided this week, and I’m now trying to decide whether I want to push through the DLCs or not. I’m kind of done with the game but if I don’t do them now I probably never will.
Overall I found MD to be good, but uneven. The main story overall suffers immensely from being the second game in a planned trilogy, but the side content is very very good. Gameplay was a step up from Human Revolution in most regards and there were some pretty good level designs strewn around as well. The final mission felt absolutely awesome to me and was one of my favourite Deus Ex missions, and Golem City was another highlight. The running theme of apartheid was also extremely well executed and the climax to that arc with martial law at the end felt very impactful.
Overall I think Human Revolution is probably better as it’s a more self contained and complete experience, but the highs of Mankind Divided are definitely higher than those of HR, in my opinion.
Completely ignoring the plot in Fallout 4 as I help yet another settlement
Stealth archer?
Less stealth and more “I’m hopped up on goofballs and nerd rage lets goooooooo”
Slay the spire (again), trying to climb to A20 with Watcher now. Was never a huge fan of her deck, since most of my winning runs can be distilled into Rushdown and Mental Fortress. Maybe someone can tell me about other possible builds for Watcher
I finally got Final Fantasy Tactics working on my Steam deck, so I will be going between that and finishing Pokemon Brilliant Diamond.
Giving Outer Wilds another go from a new save. I played 5 years ago but got stuck and gave up.
Man. I got about 5 minutes into that game.
I think I closed it and started a second runthrough of Stray. Wanted the kitty, not the spaceship.
I should eat some mushrooms or something and give it another shot.You should. It’s very unique and special.
Thanks. I’ve kept it installed. I’ll pick it up.
I did the same with Obduction, and Stray too, now that I think of it. Yup, and with Talos Principle.
Puzzle games have to grab me. But I can be grabbed. I finished the first two.I sure worked on Talos, but I got tired and just watched the end at the top of the tower on youtube. I did buy Gehenna, played it a bit. Never did Talos II, and Reawakened does not look good to me.
Mmm. And then there’s the abandoned puzzle game. Turing Test. Ya, its uninstalled. Apparently I completed Chapter 3. I don’t feel a shred of interest at this moment, either.
While outer wilds could don the moniker of puzzle game, I think of it as the evolution of point-and-click. By that I mean there’s a fleshed out world to interact with using your intuition and innate interest in mystery rather than a set of tasks to complete.
I hope it clicks with you!
