Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before

Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Katana314@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

This might be a slightly unusual attempt at a prompt, but might draw some appealing unusual options.

The way it goes: Suggest games, ideally the kind that you believe would have relatively broad appeal. Don’t feel bad about downvotes, but do downvote any game that’s suggested if you have heard of it before (Perhaps, give some special treatment if it was literally your game of the year). This rule is meant to encourage people to post the indie darlings that took some unusual attention and discovery to be aware of and appreciate.

If possible, link to the Steam pages for the games in question, so that anyone interested can quickly take a look at screenshots and reviews. And, as a general tip, anything with over 1000 steam reviews probably doesn’t belong here. While I’d recommend that you only suggest one game per post, at the very most limit it to three.

If I am incorrect about downvotes being inconsequential account-wide, say so and it might be possible to work out a different system.

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KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
In Grotto, you play the role of a soothsayer living in a cave who is occasionally visited by members of a tribal society living nearby. They come to you with problems, and they want you to present your opinion, but you can’t speak. You have access to constellations of stars, which each hold different meanings, and you must present your answers in the form of a single constellation, which the petitioners are left to interpret.

You’ll feel a bit of frustration as your intended message is missed completely in favor of something that the petitioner wanted to hear, and the same constellation might mean different things to different people, but that’s just part of the game. The story unfolds around you and its progression is communicated to you only through the explanations your petitioners give for their visit. Each is a uniquely unreliable narrator, so what you believe is for you to decide.

Two endings, and an interesting story with some occasionally unexpected consequences that might make you feel bad, so if a game giving you a case of the sads is unappealing, maybe take that into consideration.

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- match@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  fantastic game by the makers of Laika, check out their whole ludography
  
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KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Ooh, I’ll play.

Final Profit: A Shop RPG is an RPG about a deposed elf queen who opens a humble shop and slowly advances through the ranks of the Bureau of Business with the eventual goal of defeating Capitalism from within. It’s unique. It has some incremental game like mechanics, and can get a little repetitive in the mid-game, but it has a surprisingly compelling story and a lot of unfolding mechanics that keep it interesting all the way through.

Roughly a 30 hour playthrough with many endings, NG+ and some optional challenge modes that remove or change some of the most obvious strategies for advancement, so if you finish it and still want more, you can play through again with a somewhat different experience.

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- ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I really can’t handle the RPGMaker look of it.
  
  I’m willing to give it a try though
  
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  - KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It’s unfortunate that RPGMaker games have such a consistent and distinct aesthetic, it’s really obvious when a game was made with the engine, and a lot of the reviews mention it, too.
    
    That said, this is definitely one of the best RPGMaker games I’ve played. They really stretch what’s possible with it. Can’t get away from that look, though.
    
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- shrodes@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Man this made me feel guilty downvoting. Great game, a real surprise packet for me, think I got it in a Humble Bundle and tried on a whim.
  
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  - KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The dev is also very responsive! I left a (positive) review with some critical feedback and they commented on it very quickly and had a bit of a dialog with me about the comments I’d made; they ended up revising the Steam page based on review feedback (mine and others), too, which made me want to support them even more!
    
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Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Occult Crime Police is a fantastic free offering for those looking for a bit more Ace Attorney. It mostly follows the gameplay of Ace Attorney games, in which you investigate murder scenes involving strange, paranormal phenomena, and then discover contradictions in people’s witness accounts to uncover the culprit. It’s a bit easy, but maintains some great humor and charming animation production value.

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- Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Adding one more to the Ace Attorney spinoff block:
  
  Tyrion Cuthbert: Attorney of the Arcane is a well-written fan spinoff of the AA formula, taking place in a fantasy universe where magic is real, but mostly the domain of the nobility. Trials are a form of theatre, where the nobility knows how to tip the scale, but your mentor knows how to tip them back.
  
  It introduces some very enjoyable mechanics, in which knowledge of each spell’s effects and conditions constitutes its own evidence. Tyrion bears his own magical ability that lets him view the thoughts of witnesses. He is also accompanied by the defendant of his first case, a mercenary-mage named Celeste, who gets a lot of investigation banter with Tyrion, much like Maya and Phoenix.
  
  Five cases in all, and none of them are shortened crapshoot cases, nor is there a downer ending; all the major threads conclude with satisfying endings, and the developer hopes to make a sequel from the world they’ve built.
  
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DrowningInteger@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I don’t have any suggestions but I do like this prompt and I see a lot of games I’ve never heard of

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- helloharu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I don’t either but this is such a great discussion. I’ve come across quite a few interesting sounding games here. Thanks OP.
  
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Jordan117@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
ECHO (2017)! It’s an indie game with AAA-feeling production quality from a tiny Swedish indie studio that sadly went bankrupt after the game only sold a few thousand copies. I played it during lockdown on an old recommendation from MetaFilter and it has since become one of my favorite hidden gem titles.

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You play a bounty hunter named En (voiced by Game of Thrones star Rose Leslie) who wakes from hibernation when her spaceship arrives at a legendary artificial planet said to hold the secret to resurrection and eternal life. When she arrives on the surface, she soon discovers that its interior is a vast, abandoned baroque Palace, straight through to the core. As she wanders the infinite halls guided by her witheringly sarcastic AI London (voiced by Nicholas Boulton), she is surprised to find the Palace generates hostile clones of herself that hunt her down and copy her actions in a unique spin on the stealth genre. Gameplay consists of trying to navigate through various beautiful, byzantine concourses, collecting artifacts and unlocking elevators that lead deeper into the secret at the heart of the planet.

You may or may not enjoy this based on how you feel about stealth games with minimalist combat, but for me the challenging adaptive gameplay combined with the evocative score, compelling voice acting, intriguing story, and gorgeous environmental/sound/UI design made this a really nice surprise. (And while the studio might be dead, I’m really hoping the plans to turn it into a movie eventually rise from development hell.)

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- kautau@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  This is an incredible game I highly recommend, but I had to downvote because rules
  
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- waxy@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  When a publisher goes bust, who gets the money from game sales after that point?
  
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pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Quest Master. Mario Maker meets Zelda dungeons, done well. It deserves way more attention than it’s currently getting, and it’s pretty fun with huge potential despite being early access.

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- shrodes@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  This looks rad!
  
  On a similar note I Wanna Maker which is more or less Mario Maker but free and tonnes of developer created and user created levels to play through.
  
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  - pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Oh, that is great. I have fond (painful) memories of I Wanna be the Guy, and this seems right up my nostalgia alley.
    
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- ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I like this stuff and I wanted to get either this or Super Dungeon Maker.
  
  But kinda hard to pick a side since they both look like they have overlapping small communities. And games like this, communities are the only reason to play.
  
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  - pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Pick Quest Master. The developer is extremely active and responsive to community feedback and requests. There’s even weekly content updates.
    
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setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The Precursors.

A first person scifi FPS-RPG. Developed in Ukraine. Very unique. High slavjank tolerance required.

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ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Magnetic By Nature is a 2D platformer where you are generally using either attract or repel mechanics. I came across this game on the PAX East show floor, and it really wowed me. I may be one of only a few hundred people who ever played it. There’s a bonus chapter, after the credits, that was kind of bullshit, but the 7 or so hours of gameplay before it was fun, challenging, and unique.

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silverchase@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Moonlight Pulse (83 reviews)

Metroidvania with character-switching

This 2D platformer metroidvania has memorable characters and very cool worldbuilding. You switch between characters to match their abilities to the right situations. They live on a living, planet-sized creature and are fighting off the parasites that are slowly killing their creature-planet. You’ll swim through its blood vessels and explore its organs.

It’s not super long—I finished the story in 9 hours. It’s just about the right length to satisfy.

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Teddy@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Copy Editor: A RegEx Puzzle Game

It’s a word-puzzle game that incrementally teaches you how to use Regular Expressions (RegEx) to find & replace text. Some of the puzzles add silly restraints for you to work around, and the game has charming NPC coworkers that introduce each challenge.

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- ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Ah yes, a game that taunts me about my shitty regex-fu.
  
  After a decade, I don’t think I’ll ever remember how to regex without a cheat sheet.
  
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- Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Never heard of it, and sounds awesome, regexes are the sort of things that need lots of practice to be good at, a game seems like a great way to keep the skill alive
  
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ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Cannon Brawl is a unique kind of RTS where it’s sort of like StarCraft meets Worms. You need to expand something like “the creep” from the Zerg in StarCraft in order to build, but you can also destroy the terrain under your opponent like in Worms. I kid you not when I say this has been one of my go-to local multiplayer games for a decade, and it rules.

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- Devorlon@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  This is the first comment I’ve found talking about a game I’ve played. Had a lot of fun playing cannon brawl it feels wrong to downvote your comment.
  
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superkret@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Pioneer is a great remake of the original Elite Space Sim.
It simulates the entire galaxy (core systems are hand-built, everything else procedurally generated), allows landing on planets, trading, combat, etc.
It features the original game’s Newtonian physics, so actually arriving safely at your destination is a challenge in itself, similar to flying in Kerbal Space Program. But the HUD gives you all the info you need for that.

Oh, and it’s fully open source and moddable.

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- hardcoreufo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Isn’t it a remake of elite ii? Oolite is more like elite 1
  
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shrodes@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Tametsi - store.steampowered.com/app/709920/Tametsi/

Simple premise is basically Minesweeper, but all the puzzles are handcrafted with some neat designs and concepts that will stretch your puzzle solving to the limit. Also importantly, no guessing required to solve!

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- yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Piggybacking off of this comment, if you happen to enjoy Minesweeper, I recommend:
  
  14 Minesweeper Variants
  
  No guessing is required to solve any puzzle either, despite some variants seeming completely impossible.
  
  Fun fact: There’s an achievement for stumbling across a level with a conpletely empty starting board, without any spaces being revealed to be mines or non-mines. Yes, that can be solved without guessing.
  
  Fun Fact 2: I’d argue there are more than 14 variants.
  
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Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Gridworld - a simulation game made up of a grid, as the name suggests. You can control the size of the grid, and what spawns in it. The core of the game are these tiny creatures that each take up 1 square. They have varying nodes on them that represent traits and abilities. Under the hood the game says these have to be “wired” correctly by the neural network to make a creature act right. So basically you let this thing run for hours and eventually get little square creatures that eat plants and maybe each other to live.

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Mad_Punda@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Calcium Contract is a boomer shooter with a pretty unique rewind feature. Humorous with old school feels, but for a modern time. It’s a one man project.

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silverchase@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Taiji (906 reviews)

Nonlinear discovery-based puzzles

If you liked the puzzle design of The Witness, you’ll enjoy Taiji as more of that but with scenic pixel art.

Instead of a linear sequence of tutorials and puzzles, Taiji is open-ended. You can wander wherever you want, solve the puzzles you stumble upon, and ultimately discover this place’s secrets. Sometimes you find a puzzle that you don’t understand, so you’ll just have to leave it for later, when you’ve learned more puzzle mechanics. It’s like a metroidvania but gated by knowledge instead of abilities.

All the puzzles are built on grids of tiles that you can turn on or off. There are no tutorials; you have to figure out the puzzle mechanics on your own, hinted by environmental details.

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- shrodes@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Taiji was waaaaay harder than the Witness for me personally, but great choice. The vibe and music and what not is super chill also
  
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  - pyre@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    definitely scratches the same itch more than games like the talos principle. there’s like one group it completely fails to properly tutorialize imo, and one that kind of falls short (although having played the witness will make your assumptions more accurate i think). other than that it’s a brilliant game.
    
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ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The Masterplan is a true heist game. You know that fantasy of playing out a heist from Heat? This is that game. It’s top down, and you control all of the members of the crew. You pick your time to initiate the heist, you hold up people at gunpoint, you prevent them from being a hero, and you try your best to get out with the best score that you can. It’s a real bummer that this team never got to make another game.

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KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Heaven’s Vault is a game about archaeology and translating a dead language. You explore a unique solar system and discover ruins, in which you uncover artifacts, and bits of text. Through context clues, you translate the passages to uncover the storyline. It’s not difficult, so if you’re looking for a puzzle, this won’t really do it for you, but it’s more of a narrative experience. If you aren’t sure about a word or phrase, you can give it a guess (based on assigning words from a collection of possible translations to specific symbols), and the game will remember that choice and let you slowly revise your translations as you find new text that rules out prior incorrect guesses. There’s an interconnected storyline with multiple paths to follow, and a very unique world - haven’t seen anything like it in other games.

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- Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Never heard of it, but I own it so I’ll install it.
  
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- Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  This game is so unique and so fantastic.
  
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  - KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    If you enjoyed it, you might also enjoy Chants of Sennar! It’s also about translating languages; it’s more puzzle-oriented and less story-based; there’s a story to uncover, but it’s not as clear-cut and narrative driven. Still a great game, however!
    
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tlo@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Cozy Space Survivor is a short (few hours) cozy survivor-like indie game. A run is only ten minutes, so it works also for people with not too much time. It is developed by a single person and it is his first release.

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- ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’ve bought so many Survivor games and many are so bad.
  
  This one looks like it’s trying something unique. I’ll take it for a spin.
  
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  - shrodes@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    What are your picks of the genre?
    
    I’ve also tried a whole bunch, my favourite is probably Rogue: Genesia, I really like the challenges and metaprogression over some of the other titles I’ve tried
    
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MissGutsy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Encased is a CRPG, heavily inspired by the classic Fallout games, bringing it’s mechanics into the modern age. It’s story is based on the classic book “Roadside Picknick” (known for being the inspiration of the Stalker series) and is very well written. It has a story narrator, similar to the Divinity: Original Sin games and a very in depth character creation. At the start you choose a department of a research company to work in, which will change the way you interact with many characters, adding some replay value. Anything more I could say would be a spoiler, but the entire beginning (first half to one hour) is an absolute banger.

It’s my favorite indie game of the last few years and at the time of writing this, it is currently 90% of on steam, an absolute bargain

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- DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I may have to try it again some day. I thought the story and world was interesting and engaging. I played without guides and despite trying to explore and do everything while following the main story line, I soon found myself extremely underleveled to enemies. I thought it was hilarious that each person in the game is assigned a color based on their role in the colony so sometimes you meet someone who is introduced a being “a black”
  
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- pfjarschel@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Your description got my attention, so I opened the steam link to consider buying it and… Hey, it was already in my library!
  
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- daddy32@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It is also currently on sale, for historic low price.
  
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- Rehreh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  God I love this game! Have done since a bought it a few years back.
  
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ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I think this is the only thread where I actually haven’t seen any of the games before.

Another game I enjoyed was The Eternal Castle (remastered). It’s a remake of a game from 1987. The animation is great and the visual style is really cool.

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ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
[www.myabandonware.com/game/return-fire-bau](Return Fire) was a head-to-head military shooter, with a choice of four different vehicles of destruction, and is played split-screen on PC with one keyboard. I think I only ever had the demo but it was fantastic.

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- ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  This was the 3DO game.
  
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randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
AAAAXY. AAAAXY is a nonlinear 2D puzzle platformer taking place in impossible spaces. You can take a walk on a Möbius strip, try to find the platform with your train at the train station, and play a piano that makes the Shepard tone. It will be a bit confusing at first, but I promise it will eventually get fun.

It’s not on Steam, but it’s available for download on the website for free. Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS. Also on F-Droid and FlatHub. give it a try im begging you

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vasus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The Last Sovereign is an 18+ RPGmaker game. The basic premise is this: What if you had a setting with a bunch of hentai tropes lumped together and played straight, with no porn logic or stupid characters?

You play as a middle aged, very competent army veteran who gains the powers of an incubus, and reluctantly uses them with the aim of making the world a better place, slowly developing a harem of well realized, cool characters along the way. There’s sex scenes, obviously, but you very quickly forget all about them as you are plunged into an underdog story where you have to manage your fledgling armies + resources and have to constantly make tough decisions.

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- HollowNaught@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It speaks volumes that this is the only game in the comment section I have to downvote
  
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- 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  This item is currently unavailable in your region
  
  Piss off Steam, this sounds hilarious
  
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  - vasus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The game is free, you can also get it on the author’s blog or through itch.io
    
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  - 9bananas@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    f95zone has it almost certainly, if not, request it in a request thread, done.
    
    works for pretty much any NSFW title ;)
    
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ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The Black Pool is a game I decided to try recently. It reminds me a lot of Returnal in terms of visuals and gameplay, but I don’t expect the story to evolve much beyond the initial “kids lost in the woods trying to get home.”

It’s a 4-player roguelike where you get to choose random elements to slot into different abilities, namely a Primary, Secondary, and AOE attack as well as a jump, dodge, and once-per-world ‘rally’ buff. Each element makes the ability act differently, like a light primary is a slow charging piercing laser while wind is a projectile with knockback, and you also get to upgrade your elemental abilities after each stage you clear. I’m only about an hour into it so far, but I definitely think it deserves a little more than the 29 player peak it got right after it launched.

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Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This one isn’t super new, but Druidstone. It’s a story based tactics game with some RPG elements and it’s just excellently done. I’ve never heard anyone else mention it and I think more people should know about it.

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- Reach@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  …steampowered.com/…/Druidstone_The_Secret_of_the_…
  
  This one :)
  
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  - Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Thanks for doing what I didn’t have time to!
    
    Also available on GOG for those who prefer.
    
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- SandLight@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It was pretty good, but I got stuck on an annoying mission and dropped it. Really wish that dev had just made grimrock 3, but I respect not wanting to do the same thing over and over…
  
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Teddy@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Tin Can

Tin Can is a space survival simulator, where you are trapped in an escape pod after the loss of your ship. There are a few systems in your escape pod, and each system has components you need to look after. Your pod regularly flies through astoroid fields & other space phenomena that break these component parts forcing you to repair, replace or do without the systems keeping you afloat.

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- Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Downvoting per the rules, as I spent months obsessed with this game, having notes with the codes open on my second screen. Excellent game.
  
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  - Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I did mention in the rules, if it was good enough to actually be your game of the year, you can make an exception. (I’m trusting that doesn’t mean we see Baldur’s Gate 3 on top or something)
    
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- sparr@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Requisite downvote, but also mention that the devs of Tin Can are about to start alpha testing of their multiplayer sequel named Space Chaos.
  
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BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Avorion - In which you command and build a spaceship designed by yourself (or others on the internet). Soon you have AIs you command and space stations you own. The game allows you to lean as much or as little as you want into the fleet command and economy aspects. If you want, you can just pilot one big-ass ship and do it all alone.

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- AdNecrias@lemmy.pt ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Oh no, avorion is getting down votes!
  
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  - BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Seems it is better known than I thought!
    
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Blaster_M@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Sulphur Nimbus: Hel’s Elixir, a $6 (currently) game on itch.io. It started from the idea of an MLP fangame, but early in development evolved into an original setting.

This is a 3D physics platformer adventure with a flying character. Your hippogriff, Sulphur Nimbus, is an aerial photographer aboard a cargo ship, which is passing a mysterious atoll on the way to their destination. The crew want you to get pictures of the island, which has a castle that’s been abandoned for decades. Unfortunately, after flying over there, a nasty storm builds up and you get zapped by lightning. After a flashback tutorial on how to fly, you wake up on the island shores, your wing is injured, and you have to run to safety, finding out this place is dangerous… so dangerous a resident dogicorn (like a hippogriff, but it’s half dog and half unicorn instead of half bird half pony) has to rescue you when a lovecraftian horror tries to take you down into presumably Hel. Waking up in a castle room, your wing is healed, and you can fly again.

Now the game begins. Clear the boss monsters and rout them out of this island, area by area. Break the curse that binds you to this island. Find out what happened here.

What’s unique about Sulphur Nimbus is the movement. Running, fighting, and jumping has physics to it, allowing for some parkour stuff to be possible, like running up steep inclines and wall jumping. Flight is realistic. There are no arbitrary limitations, other than a regenerating “flap” stamina. If you can get enough speed to take off, and if there’s enough room to maneuver, you can fly. Level designs include lots of caves and enclosed spaces, but also lots of open areas, so being able to fly is a requirement to get through it, while also a challenge. While the game is designed for kb and mouse controls, honestly, a gamepad works very well with this game and is preferred. It also is cross platform, as it is made in java, and includes Windows, Mac, and Linux. The source code is on sourceforge and allows you to build the whole game yourself if you are so inclined.

There’s no other platforming adventure game that attempts this, and I have tried every “become birb” game out there. They all are either bird simulators or use flight as a fast travel, but not as a core gameplay mechanic like this.

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Aviandelight@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Maize, a point and click/walking simulator/puzzle game about a secret military project to create sentient corn. Quite possibly the silliest game I’ve ever played.

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- ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Link doesn’t seem to work for me because the parentheses breaks the link.
  
  Here’s the steam link for anyone else
  
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  - Aviandelight@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s weird. The link should be to the Wikipedia entry but thanks for making a steam link too!
    
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