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20210129 Olija
20210129 Gods Will Fall
20210128 Tohu
20210128 The Medium
This dungeon-crawling, roguelike ARPG is all about resurrecting slain baddies to fight alongside you. Your sword is both deathbringer and lifegiver, as you can stroll over to any beastie you’ve just killed and bring them back from the dead. On top of your magic blade, you can only have three other items (yes, the sentient departed are considered “items”) on your person at any one time, so choose your reanimated friends wisely. You do have access to other weapons to help you go deeper underground, too, all of which should be different thanks to the game’s procedural weapon generation system. If you want to try before you buy, you can download a demo on Steamright now. 20210128 Sword of the Necromancer
20210128 curious expedition 2
20210126 Ecnodya
20210126 Cyber Shadow
Take your perceptivity to a new dimension in a relaxing low-poly isometric puzzle game. Find the differences in the beautiful, fully rotatable, and zoomable 3D environments. Can you find them all? 20210122 Tiny Lands (Hidden Object, Relaxing. Puzzle)
Redout: Space Assault is arcade space battle, coupling the trademark Redout adrenaline with the thrill of combat. Outsmart, outmaneuver, overpower, outclass your opponents in lightning-fast, adrenaline-inducing single-player space combat. 20210122 Redout: Space Assault (starfox-like, space fighter, sci-fi)
Rain City is a point-and-click adventure game. The player is taking the role of a cat who comes to the Rain City - where it rains all year round - to find his missing sister. During the journey, the player will meet different people and witness various, bizarre stories. 20210122 Rain City (narrative, point and click, adventure)
Home Behind 2 is a Roguelike RPG which takes place in Scaria, a country engulfed in a civil war for 10 years. Lead a patchwork group of revolutionary fighters into the depths of the government's territory as you struggle to overthrow a brutal authoritarian regime! 20210122 Home Behind 2 EA (Strategy Tactics RPG Simulaton)
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire. 20210121 Dyson Sphere Program EA (factory builder, strategy, simulation, management)
Guide 'Skul' on his quest to single-handedly take on the Imperial Army and rescue his King from captivity, in an action-packed rogue-lite 2D platformer for the ages. 20210121 Suchart Demo (painting, drawing, free-form, art, creative)
Guide 'Skul' on his quest to single-handedly take on the Imperial Army and rescue his King from captivity, in an action-packed rogue-lite 2D platformer for the ages. 20210121 Skul the Hero Slayer (action roguelike, platformer, adventure)
Embark on a grand adventure in Phoenotopia! An action-adventure puzzle platformer inspired by the great classics. Meet charming townsfolk, brave the dungeons, and thwart evil in your quest to save your family. 20210121 Phoentopia (adventure, platformer, metroidvania, crafting)
As humanity’s elite space trooper, you take on a heroic, action-packed adventure throughout the galaxy. Explore planets, protect colonies, and be the first to meet the unknown! Dive into the original story inspired by James S.A. Corey’s The Expanse series... 20210121 Orange Cast (sci-fi, action, RPG, exploration)
Ocean’s Heart is an epic top-down action RPG in which you explore a beautiful archipelago as a young woman named Tilia. Take on contracts to fight monsters, descend deep into ancient dungeons, defeat menacing foes, and unravel the mystery of Ocean’s Heart. All done in beautiful, bright pixel art. 20210121 Ocean's Heart (Action RPG, Zelda-like, exploration)
20210121 Ender Lilies
Death Awaits. Agent 47 returns in HITMAN 3, the dramatic conclusion to the World of Assassination trilogy. 20210120 Hitman 3 (Action, Single Player, Stealth, Murder, Funny)
20210119 Jumpala (2D Fighter, platformer, puzzle, PvP, Competitive, Fighting, Arcade)
EVERSPACE™ 2 is a fast-paced single-player spaceship shooter with deep exploration in space and on planets, tons of loot, RPG elements, mining, and crafting. Experience a thoughtful story, set in a vivid, handcrafted open world full of secrets, puzzles, and perils. 20210118 EverSpace 2 EA (open world, space, combat, RPG)
A sci-fi turn-based, tactical RPG that focusses on combat missions and team building. Combines classic tabletop game mechanics with dungeon crawler-style character development. Lead your team on the battlefields of an alien planet with the support of devastating armored vehicles and combat mechs. 20210115 Strike Team Gladius EA (turn-based tactical, RPG, squad, sci-fi)
"Sunlight is a short, vibrant and thought captivating exploration game, from the creators of Among the Sleep, Mosaic and The Plan. Journey into the uncharted forest, guided by the harmonised whispers of the trees. Each tree with different voices, genders and dialects, speaking as one. 20210114 Sunlight "
(Adventure, Experimenta, Walking Simulator, narrative)
"Rediscover the beloved 2D arcade-style beat 'em up inspired by the iconic comic book series and movie Scott Pilgrim vs. The World in this Complete Edition!
This Complete Edition includes the original Scott Pilgrim vs. The World™: The Game, as well as its original DLCs, the Knives Chau and Wallace Add-On Packs.
Play as your favorite characters – Scott Pilgrim, Ramona Flowers, Knives Chau, Stephen Stills, and more. Level up and learn new awesome abilities, unlock secret items and modes, summon powerful allies, and more!
Team up with friends and combine your skills to battle your way through waves of tough enemies, or compete with them in awesome mini-games like Dodgeball – all on your way to defeat the League of Ramona's Evil Exes!
" 20210114 Scott Pilgrim Vs the World (2D, Beat-em-up, Funny, UPlay)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/973450/Ancient_Abyss/ Ancient Abyss is a 2D Zelda-like action game where you will explore mysterious and hidden events in a randomly generated maze. As you progress, you’ll gain more power and collect items to help you reach further into the maze. 20210114 Ancient Abyss (early access) (action-adventure, roguelike, action, rpg)
Play as Skippy, the square, flexible skeleton in this cute Action-RPG, to keep a heartbroken court magician from destroying the world with his army of monsters and undead! Change out your body parts with those of enemies and friends and become the hero of Cubold Kingdom! 20210113 Skellboy Refractured (Action RPG, 2.5D, Co-op)
20210112 Yaga
"In Iron Conflict, you assemble a squad composed of three types of historically-accurate war machines (units) to fight on hand-crafted battlefields supporting up to 10 players on each side. Command a fearsome fighting force with unmatched firepower and put your strategic might to the test in this addictive online strategy and tactics game powered by Unreal Engine 4.
Real Weapons Of War
Iron Conflict features military vehicles ranging from the end of World War II up to present day. Crush the enemy with a Type 99A2 tank or soar across the unfriendly skies in the F-35 Lightning II!" 20210108 Iron Conflict (online, RTS, MOBA, military)
Choose a side, master your moves, and embrace your destiny in an epic beat 'em up adventure inspired by the hit show. Take control of 8 playable characters with deep movesets, combos, progression, real-time character swaps, ultimate attacks, and much more! 20210105 Cobra Kai "
(Beat 'em up 2D Fighter Martial Arts Fighting)"
LET IT BE KNOWN:
After the usual early-January lull, it appears that Videogames have once again returned, in this, the two thousand and twenty first year of Our Lord.
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It's a damn fine 4X, one of the more inventive in the genre, it's real real good
keep recommending me smoochable games, folks
If you arrange 4x games on a spectrum of "mostly tactical" to "mostly strategic", with Heroes of Might and Magic on the left, Civilization on the right, and Master of Magic in the middle, Endless Legend is well Civ-ward of Master of Magic and has less complexity in army battles than you'd typically expect of a fantasy 4x. But it has probably my favorite city-building system in the genre and the military mechanics appeared to be less tedious and busted than Civilization's always end up being, so it does well in its chosen niche.
My wife very much loves the Dragon Age games (but especially Inquisition). She dug the Mass Effect games, too, but to a lesser degree. Huge Stardew fan.
I say all that because I want to make a recommendation that doesn't fit that mandate, exactly, but that tracks with "somebody with seemingly-similar tastes also enjoyed this"
Yakuza 0.
It seems far afield, I know. BUT, for my wife, she felt like she had a lot of control over Kiryu and Majima. For her, the side activities were a way of defining a character. She'd only do disco dancing with Majima (he has a whole dance-fighting style, after all), and would only do karaoke with Kiryu ("because he really feels the songs"). She got to have the agency she likes, but she also felt like all the characters had real PERSONALITIES, in a way games often lack.
For her, part of the appeal of game romances is that they make the world feel more alive, more responsive, and more recognizable. With a world that is naturally more alive and responsive and recognizable, she didn't mind that the specific mechanic she normally digs was absent.
But a lot of that's maybe me reading too deep into motivations. Suffice to say, my wife who loves the games you listed also loved Yakuza 0, even if it doesn't seem like it tracks at first blush. She has become a Yakuza 0 evangelist, bullying both of her sisters into playing it, and now they're big fans as well. There's something that connects lines, I swear.
solitaire?
yakuza 0 is a dragon age game only fun, and instead of magic you just hit dudes with motorcycles
There are certainly growing pains though. The translation is spotty still, keybindings are weird and having to fuel the mech is an odd choice, but easy enough to overcome that it makes it odd to include.
I love the look and feel of the game though. Planets are small enough that long conveyors will have a curve to them, the art design is great and I cant wait to go solar and then galactic scale.
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What's a good action game I could play on a laptop? something with controller support and such? something that isn't to big to install until my new drive comes in?
The translation is wonky and the tech-tree makes no sense, but I just got automated titanium set up on another dang planet and that shit is cool as fuck.
yeah, that's how it works
Steam // Secret Satan
The story of Hitman does not matter. It’s a puzzle game
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I think the thing I want the most is mineable asteroids. There should be a point in the game where mining on the planet isn't viable anymore, and you need to build super structures around asteroids and mine the main raw materials that way, then you send vessels full of resources to your manufacturers.
Hell the real end game should be everything built on space platforms in orbit, that you build. Give me some space elevators and planetary rings as I build my way to the Dyson Sphere.
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It doesn't matter, but the story in 2 is actually kind of neat. For standard spy nonsense stuff.
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3 has some kinda neat things with how it incorporates the overall story into some of the setups as well
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If they want more Bioware romances, there's a whole bunch of them in The Old Republic, with the caveat that they are pretty minor occurrences compared to the dozens, if not hundreds, of hours it'll take to get through the story.
And if they don't mind too much about the character and partner choice, I really enjoyed the romance options in Telltale's Batman games. The only option is Batman and Catwoman, but their relationship is a lot more central to the game's story than the typical Bioware romance.
You also get to either encourage or sabotage Joker and Harley's relationship in the second one.
@Brolo this may be obvious, but has she tried...Jade Empire? That's a 3D Bioware game with romances (a couple queer ones, even, although one of them is with the guy who did Leonardo's voice, and he always sounds like Leonardo, which may or may not be someone's boner).
@Uriel what do you mean by action? Would like a run-and-gun platformer or side-scroiling Metroidvania type thing fit?
Anyway, a few ideas off the top of my head
- Shadow Complex on the EGS (it's a very good present-day Metroidvania with you as a regular dude exploring a survival bunker full of mercenary soldiers)
- Dead Cells
- Bloodstained (Ritual of the Night is the Symphony of the Night one, and Curse of the Moon is a good Castlevania III riff)
- Bionic Commando Rearmed
- the Mega Man collections
idk, maybe this is totally off base. I'm just trying to think of things that won't tax a laptop.
And with the caveat that I don't actually know how much performance they actually require. They don't look like graphical powerhouses to me, but hell if I know what's needed under the hood for what they are doing.
Axiom Verge
Sundered
Steamworld Dig 1 & 2
Salt & Sanctuary
Blasphemous
Iconoclasts
La Mulana 1 & 2
Risk of Rain
Mark of the Ninja
all the Shantae games
Timespinner
and a couple beat-em-ups
Sacred Citadel
Final Exam
Yeah, that last bit really bums me out. I was a PC gamer as a kid, which means a) I didn't really use gamepads until much later and b) the games I did play I did with the keyboard.
So consequently I found, and find, multi-directional inputs to be obtuse to the point of impossible. Like, something simple like a fireball motion, I have a 50% chance of pulling it off. In training. When all I'm doing is just trying to do the move. So when playing a fighting game I am not only expected to understand everyone's moves and ranges, I am also expected to precisely time multi-input moves on a reaction? And I will add, this is after spending two decades trying, repeatedly, to get into the genre.
And then Pokken rolls around, and all moves are just "one direction" + "face button". And guess what? I can actually fucking play Pokken. Except no, the fighting game community seems to be so in love with the multi-directional inputs they not only have to be the gold standard, many of them will get upset when games offer "bind special input to a single button". Just... *frustrated arm throw in the air*
it's just that ethan winters is 5'7 and it be like that
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(There is a very minor penalty in doing it this way, usually in the form of a very slightly longer cooldown on the attack, but it is generally such a minor difference that if you are using the shortcuts it won't matter to you)
- - Bastille, guarding a bonfire;
- - Dragon Aerie, guarding a cave; and
- - Shaded Ruins, near Tark
- All three seem pointless. I have two branches left.
- I've been around the world several times and I cannot find a key to
- - a door in the Gutter, near the circle of torches. There seems to be a related one in the access shaft to the Grave of the Saint.
- - a door guarded by a respawning Dragonrider in the Shrine of Amana.
- - a couple locked doors in Aldia's Keep
- - the Sunken City
- I've been more or less out of Lockstones for a while, and there are still a dozen or so between the Grave of the Saint and Doors of Pharros. Should I assume I can't get any more?
- The Giant Kinship key-item claims it opens the "throne room under castle" [sic], and that doesn't seem to make sense; granted I didn't try the entrance to the Throne of Want without it, but usually key-items are more, "you have used this item here."
- On the fast travel screen, there's an area I'm missing to the right of the Dragon Shrine. The remaining six seem to map to the DLC zones.
- I have found another Estus Shard, but I cannot upgrade the flask further. This strikes me as very weird and I do not know what to do with this information.
Wait is this actually what it is? They put a ton of those Yakuza games on Game Pass and I've been eyeing them up but I had no idea where to start, but this description sounds like exactly what I want out of a video game.
Btw Dark Souls 3 is on sale now on humble bundle just in case you want to grab it
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
(seriously, Peas, thanks so much!)
I'm playing through it once now and I'll figure I'll play it again with the additional content going with a different build