Comment on Anon misses flash

• procapra@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As if flash games weren’t 75% dressup games, tower defense, and shit platformers. We still got plenty of that slop don’t worry, we just have other kinds of slop to go with it.

  source

  • TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I remember a horrible tower defence with dinos and ugly towers, maps and really strange upgrade designs. Rated one star on some old flash games website.

    However absolute masterpieces like fancy pants man are forever good.

    source
• Samskara@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There are lots of other games as well. Let me recommend a couple:

  • What remains of Edith Finch
  • A short hike
  • Outer Wilds
  • Disco Elysium
  • Feather
  • Gris
  • Journey of the broken circle
  • Sayonara Wild Hearts
  • Untitled Goose Game
  • a dark room

  source

  • Juice@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Your “couple” is a whole extended polycule

    source

    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Disco Elysium by itself is an extended polycule.

      source

      • Juice@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The polycule is a state of mind

        source
• mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There was a lot of lazy copies with flash games too

  source

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Some of the best games are copies of earlier games that flopped, because they were poorly implemented or lacked good marketing or were just ahead of their time.

    source
• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They definitely skew to the pixel games and the rogue-likes, due to the limitations of a cell phone interface. But Idk if I’d call stardew valley boring.

  I had a lot of fun with Slay the Spire and Balatro. There’s a bunch of indie board games that are on mobile as well, Root being one of my favorites. And then there’s all the digital CCGs (basically the only way I play MtG anymore is on mobile).

  I would say the bigger problem with finding good indie games is the nightmarish volume of bad games (both indie and otherwise) that crowd out everything in the marketplace. I learn about the ones I like through word of mouth. Anything I just randomly install and fool around with, I inevitably hate.

  source
• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah there’s a lot of copycats, though even within that there’s some great stuff. My wife has been loving fields of mistria. But also I’m currently playing slay the spire 2 and loving it. You’ve got games like cult of the lamb, Rogue Legacy (1&2), every supergiant game, Cassette Beasts, and less well known ones like Song of the Deep. Flash games were their own thing and it was awesome, but with limited time for games these days I’d rather be playing modern indie games. But I understand why some people would feel the opposite

  source
• TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  the time commitement bit is real.

  source
• YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  :: looks around nervously as someone who loves those specific games::

  source