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- Comment on Clips from what I’m playing 🐈🍞 CATO | cat + toast = puzzles 13 hours ago:
Oh hey, nice to find you on a different corner of Lemmy! Thanks for the in-depth review, we need more OC on Lemmy like this. I’ll probably check it out because of you.
Might want to crosspost to !puzzlegames@lemm.ee and the much more active !adventuregames@lemm.ee which has also decided to include puzzle games, despite its name.
- Comment on Need feedback for my video! 17 hours ago:
Something about it seems just so weirdly self-promotional, instead of “normal” engagement with the community. I never pay attention to usernames but I have noticed this kind of content from the guy on this community several times, and just checked his posts and it’s all YouTube promotion (although I admit the ones mentioning “Dani” might not be his, not 100% sure). No regular engagement with the community as just another gamer I suspect that’s why the community does not seem to generally like these posts. It is why I certainly don’t. However, it is on topic and I don’t make the rules.
- Comment on (my first time here sorry) prison review and suggestions 2 days ago:
I have not played this game but someone at !tycoon@lemmy.world might be able to help you.
- Comment on Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety 2 days ago:
you might be interested in !cozygames@lemmy.world then
- Comment on Video game genre communities on Lemmy 3 days ago:
I feel if I spontaneously quit all my niche gaming communities and posted everything I’d post there on a general community instead, I’d annoy everyone with a bunch of Steam links for games they probably do not care about. People in the niche communities are more likely to care about a link to a game in a genre they already like. Also, for most of the small communities I’ve got at least one other poster sometimes, and that’s better than nobody! Despite all the trouble with incremental.social and federation, when I can get on there we do have a few regulars chatting there and that’s nice.
contains gender politics
There’s also just fans of a certain genre being used to backlash from the wider gaming community. I did get mostly upvotes when I posted !otomegames@ani.social, which is mostly romance visual novels for women who like men, to !newcommunities@lemmy.world. I appreciate it. But I am not sure how posting these games to !games@lemmy.world would go over, especially when I suspect Lemmy to be male-dominated. Visual novels already suffer from the “it’s all just hentai” stereotype. Now add the “media for women, especially romance media, is stupid and vapid and silly” prejudice. And even for those who just live and let live, I suspect most of the general !games@lemmy.world community would be disinterested in otome game posts, which is fair because I’m disinterested in romance and/or sex visual novels aimed at men who want to date women (although they should definitely be allowed to exist and people should be allowed to like them in peace). So both to avoid any backlash, and to avoid annoying the wider community, I don’t want to post those games to this general community. I still want a space for it on Lemmy though, so I made that community. I have one other regular poster and sometimes people drop in and comment.
You could make the argument that I’m simply posting low-quality content, and I’d just have to raise the bar for !games@lemmy.world to accept my posts, and that I just want my niches back, to which I say: fair. But unfortunately I’m no video game expert or connoisseur. I play and enjoy. The lovely guide and wiki makers usually get there before I can. I’m not too good at coming up with fun discussion questions that are better than what I’d consider low-tier engagement bait back on Reddit like “name one good thing about [noncontroversial character]”. So link posts it is, better some on-topic content than none at all. And even if I did write a wonderful in-depth review or guide, if it’s not for some big mainstream appeal game but something that only genre enthusiasts really like, not sure how well !games@lemmy.world would take to it. So that’s my rationale for having these niche communities. You’re still very free to think I’m wrong ;)
- Comment on Video game genre communities on Lemmy 3 days ago:
- !baldurs_gate_3@lemmy.world has some activity thanks to @PugJesus@lemmy.world
- !stardewvalley@lemm.ee has activity thanks to @sag@ani.social
- !factorio@lemmy.world has some posts
- !infinitynikki@discuss.tchncs.de has three people including myself There are probably more for some really big games, but these are the ones I know of.
- Comment on Video game genre communities on Lemmy 3 days ago:
On one hand I understand this, but on the other hand I’d like to post games I find that fit these subgenres or talk about that subgenre without making myself the biggest spammer in !games@lemmy.world, and I think (time will tell!) I do have the stubbornness necessary to scream into the void until people come along. Maybe I should crosspost the ones I think are most likely to have mass appeal…
- Comment on Video game genre communities on Lemmy 4 days ago:
- !sffgaming@sffa.community
- !the_talos_principle@lemm.ee
- !residentevil@lemmy.world
- !gamemusic@lemm.ee
- !tipofmyjoystick@retrolemmy.com
- Comment on Video game genre communities on Lemmy 4 days ago:
You’re probably right, but most of these do exist already, so I figure not why not continue trying to use them (and to direct attention from this big community there)? Also probably doesn’t help a lot of instances have general games communities. We’re pretty splintered. Now that I think about it I should probably crosspost to some of the bigger ones.
- Submitted 4 days ago to games@lemmy.world | 21 comments
- Comment on I'm making a hedge maze in Inzoi - Check my work? 4 days ago:
So pleased to have seen this on my feed. Loved doing mazes as a kid.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 - The Final Patch: New Subclasses, Photo Mode, and Cross-Play 5 days ago:
I’m always surprised these posts go to general gaming communities but nobody thinks to post to !baldurs_gate_3@lemmy.world
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 - The Final Patch: New Subclasses, Photo Mode, and Cross-Play 5 days ago:
While we’re here, !crpg@lemmy.world definitely could use some love (and by love I mean posters).
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #10 5 days ago:
Hey, thanks for your effort again!!
Looked into Metro, completely disinterested, but Image. I always figure if my tastes do a 180 or a friend wants to play some games (it is pretty likely our tastes will not be identical) it never hurts to have.
I guess we’re total opposites, I usually avoid physicals because I know myself. I want to keep things nice and pretty and pristine, I’ll never subscribe to “the flaw/crease/spillage adds to its charm!”, and I know I am too clumsy to actually keep it as nice as I’d like. Less objects to clean, to lose, to cry over when they inevitably get messed up.
Have been playing Antimatter Dimensions, an !incremental_games@incremental.social, and various Steam demos to see if I’ll like the game or not.
- Comment on American Truck Simulator is adding a road trip mode where you drive different vehicles, 'say, a powerful pickup or even a sports car' 1 week ago:
Eh, to each their own, to me it wasn’t funny at all. Not in a this is offensive way, I can appreciate dark humor, but the impression I personally came away with was “annoying snarky comment” and less “incisive, witty, funny and topical joke”. Of course, my impression is probably extremely colored by my feeling it was just barely on-topic and a conversation hijack away from American Truck Simulator to American Politics, but I also have seen American politics comments that I found funny and this wasn’t one of them.
- Comment on Lines of Battle: An deeply tactical browser game 1 week ago:
Hello!
I think !strategygames@sopuli.xyz, !strategy@lemmy.world, !turnbasedstrategy@lemmy.world, and !turn_based_tactics@lemmy.zip might like this post too. Might want to crosspost there.
- Comment on Simcity 3000 Retrospective/Mini Review & Screenshot Walkthrough 1 week ago:
If you like this genre come visit us at !citybuilders@sh.itjust.works!
- Comment on American Truck Simulator is adding a road trip mode where you drive different vehicles, 'say, a powerful pickup or even a sports car' 1 week ago:
Watch Lemmy turn one of the few apolitical posts about something American into something political in 3… 2… 1…
Politics is important but sometimes I just want to play a video game without someone turning the conversation to politics when that wasn’t the topic at hand at all. I’m super angry about all the things my country is doing now too, but I also sometimes want to enjoy what I have left instead of being constantly stressed about it and bringing up the horrors happening at every opportunity—especially with just a snarky comment and no links to taking action. (Here are a few, albeit aimed at Americans: indivisible.org for finding a local group, 5calls.org for calling your local representatives, www.mobilize.us for events in general, action.aclu.org/give/now for donating to a group suing illegal things the current admin is doing.)
On the other hand, people have to vent sometimes and I guess I need to build up tolerance and a thicker skin to that, even when it shows up in a place marked Games and not US Politics.
- Comment on New Steam Games with Native Linux Clients, including Sandwalkers and Aground Zero - 2025-04-09 Edition. 1 week ago:
Will always cheer for more native Linux support.
- Comment on [DCSS] I did it! I touched the Orb... 1 week ago:
For curious onlookers like myself out of the loop, this is Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. Best wishes OP
- Comment on After 8 years, I'm finally releasing my first video game today: Game Over - A Musical RPG?? 1 week ago:
Nice to see devs on the Fediverse. Best wishes!
- Comment on The Triple-i Initiative 2025 - Indie games for 2025 1 week ago:
The only AAA games I’m looking at are ones released 5+ years in the past. Grabbed a lot more indies closer to launch. So glad Timberborn and shapez 2 made it here.
- Comment on Suggestions for mouse only games? 1 week ago:
You did say “just right hand,” there was a thread before asking for one-handed games in general
- Comment on Suggestions for mouse only games? 1 week ago:
!visualnovels@ani.social can help you out with way more visual novels. Including ones that do not have sex scenes or romance, if I recall correctly Fate has both.
(and if you do want romance in your VNs, but from a female perspective, !otomegames@ani.social has you)
If you end up liking Crusader Kings 3 you might also like Crusader Kings 2
- Comment on Path of Exile 2's disastrous new update reveals the core tension at the heart of its design: How do you make a game with meaningful combat when everyone just wants to blast monsters? 1 week ago:
Big fan of idles and incrementals, you have inadvertently advertised PoE2 to me haha. Thanks for your thoughts and explanation!
- Comment on Path of Exile 2's disastrous new update reveals the core tension at the heart of its design: How do you make a game with meaningful combat when everyone just wants to blast monsters? 1 week ago:
Not a big ARPG person, just an onlooker. I searched “idol game mechanics ARPG” and got nothing, what is that?
- Submitted 1 week ago to games@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on BDS calls for boycott of Microsoft and Xbox gaming products over alleged Israeli military connections 1 week ago:
I game on a former Windows 11 laptop that now runs Linux. I have never owned a “real” gaming PC in my entire life and do not intend to drop any money on one. However, not having enough money to drop on a new laptop to run Linux because you have a more pressing need than gaming to have to still use Windows is still understandable. It’s less than the full-blown fancy gaming PC with its GPUs, but it’s still money.
Not really facing any jank myself thanks to the whole Steam Deck compatibility thing, but I also did have to tinker with one game a bit to make it work. I have had one game demo for a small indie not run so far. Other than that, very smooth experience.
- Comment on Quite a Ride: Official Reveal Trailer 2 weeks ago:
No, I mean a single game that is intended to be run while cycling, not the game + a separate cycling app.
- Comment on Quite a Ride: Official Reveal Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Clicked hoping for train game, instead found horror biking game.
Pedal through the fog, but never look back.Trapped in a constantly shifting horror, you must ride, conserve your phone’s battery, and decode cryptic messages to escape. Explore, survive, uncover the truth.
—Steam description, link here.
I remember there being some game on iPhone with a title like “Zombies, run!” where they somehow locked progress behind real-life running—that was the whole point of the game, to get you to work out in real life. I think it’d be cool if: if this game succeeds, if a spinoff or adaptation where your progress is locked behind real-world biking was released.
