Starker on 8/12/2019 at 11:33
Oh yeah, forgot about that. I thought it was more of a roguelike like FTL where you travel on an overhead map and resolve combat encounters on a static screen but looks like it was more dynamic than that.
henke on 8/12/2019 at 12:58
About Phantom Doctrine, I picked it up for Switch recently. Seems like it would be my thing, turn based stealth/tactics, with a minimum of random dice rolls determining combat outcomes, but it's not really grabbing me.
Tomi on 4/1/2020 at 11:59
January Humble Choice games are here, this time there are 12 games to choose from:
Inline Image:
https://cdn1.imggmi.com/uploads/2020/1/4/d6756209a7ae1d7ff4e6d250e5e42a34-full.jpgMiddle-Earth: Shadow of War / Graveyard Keeper / Two Point Hospital / Dirt Rally 2 / Street Fighter V / Bad North: Jotunn Edition /
Trailmakers / Unrailed! / Whispers of a Machine / Them's Fightin' Herds / Mages of Mystralia / GripSome interesting games here.
Dirt Rally 2 alone is worth the monthly fee, I almost bought it during the Christmas sales and I'm so glad now that I didn't.
Shadow of War... hmm. I didn't find
Shadow of Mordor particularly great - the story was nonsense, the locations rather uninspiring and ugly, and the nemesis system was hardly as revolutionary as I thought it would be - so, is SoW just more of the same or is it more than just Assassin's Creed Uglyland now?
Graveyard Keeper is a game that has caught my interest earlier too, a lite RPG with some resource management thing going on.
Two Point Hospital could be the spiritual successor of
Theme Hospital or something, and it seems that some former Bullfrog people have been working on it - definitely worth checking out!
Mages of Mystralia looks like a rather generic fantasy adventure, but there's something quite charming about it that makes me want to try it.
Bad North looks cool but I think it was a freebie on Epic not too long ago?
The rest don't seem bad either, but will have to go further down on my ever-growing to-play list.
Whispers of a Machine looks really good for a point & click adventure with its nordic noir sci-fi theme, but it's a point & click adventure and I don't usually like those. I never cared about pure beat-em-up kinda games so I doubt that
Street Fighter V is my thing either, especially when I got some
Soul Calibur game last month that's probably pretty much the same.
Them's Fightin' Herds is another beat-em-up game but with characters that could be from
My Little Pony - I think I'll pass. You get to build all sorts of vehicles in
Trailmakers which sounds fun enough, but there doesn't seem to be much else going on judging by the gameplay video that I watched.
Unrailed! looks like a cute railway building game but it's apparently multiplayer only.
Grip is an old-fashioned action racing game that could be fun if the physics feel right - I guess I'll give it a try anyway.
Sulphur on 6/1/2020 at 15:26
RE: Mages of Mystralia, it's apparently fairly creative in terms of spell-slinging, from what I've heard. I really should play it someday. Also of note is it has an (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3Aw4fgMXEU&feature=youtu.be&t=2255) absolutely lovely orchestral soundtrack.
Shadow of War is essentially SoM, but turned up to 11. There's more everything, with incremental improvements to combat etc., but no real attempt to address the weaknesses of the previous game. It's still a power base grind, it's still painfully repetitive, and yes, the story is even more ridiculous. That might be a good thing, though, for fans of the original.
Tomi on 7/2/2020 at 19:09
February 2020 games:
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https://cdn1.imggmi.com/uploads/2020/2/7/c647c1024f59f646d3d55d4ab237c0c4-full.jpgFrostpunk / Pathfinder: Kingmaker / Book of Demons / Cryofall / Okami HD / Eliza /
Shenzen I/O / Project Warlock / The Hex / Warstone TD / Underhero / Night CallKind of an underwhelming bunch of games this month really.
Frostpunk is a game that I've been eyeing for a while with mild interest, and I'll probably try out
Pathfinder: Kingmaker too when I hit that RPG mood again, but apart from that I don't see anything particularly interesting on the list. I didn't care about
Okami around ten years ago on the Wii, but I'll give the HD version a chance.
Book of Demons looks somewhat interesting; it seems to bring something new to the ARPG genre, but I don't like the art style.
Project Warlock has potential to be fun, it looks ugly even for a retro FPS though, but if the level design isn't too retro, it could be worth my time.
Well yeah, that's about it for this month.
Starker on 8/2/2020 at 05:10
- Frostpunk is great, a real fun small city builder with a strong theme. Haven't had as much fun since Caesar 3/Pharaoh/Zeus.
- Okami is more of an acquired taste. It's not difficult in the slightest and runs a bit long, but on the other hand, gorgeous art and fun relaxing gameplay.
- Pathfinder: Kingmaker seems like a throwback to Baldur's Gate, including all the frustrating aspects of it. Way down in my list, currently.
- Shenzhen I/O is a Zachtronics game. Nobody does open-ended engineering puzzle games quite like they do. Very distinct, very brainy. Quite liked SpaceChem, but most of their other games seem like I'd be liable to get quite frustrated with my inefficient solutions.
- Eliza is a visual novel that's also from Zachtronics, curiously enough. I'm not much into visual novels generally, but for someone who has worked in tech, this one seems intriguing, especially as the very first I heard of it was through Steam recommending it to me as a game similar to Papers, Please.
- Project Warlock made some small waves a year ago or so as a very retro FPS. Seems interesting enough for a try at least, but so far playing Doom wads or replaying those old FPS games has been quite enough for me to sate that particular appetite.
Don't know anything about the other games.
demagogue on 8/2/2020 at 06:54
I've played some of Eliza. It's a visual novel with choice options basically every couple of sentences, and the story looks like it sometimes cares what option you pick, so it plays more like a game, although it's playing with the idea that "freedom" is an illusion in interactive fiction/life generally to begin with, in both the game and the story. The story itself is kind of interesting; it's about AI-human interaction. I like it anyway. But I'm a sucker for cyberpunk settings and stories. It's nice to see the genre playing out of its stereotype.
Tomi on 19/2/2020 at 18:44
Some new bundles available:
Digital Tabletop Bundle 2
€1+
* Gremlins, Inc.
* Reigns
* Reigns: Her Majesty
BTA (€5.90)
* Terraforming Mars
* Armello
* For The King
€9+
* Slay the Spire
Some potentially interesting games there. Reigns looks fun, and so do Armello and For The King. With games such as these it's hard to say though. Slay the Spire I've played before; I loved it for the first couple of hours, managed to get through the story with all three characters, but after that it felt like I've seen everything that the game has to offer, and I haven't felt like playing it again.
Humble VR Bundle
€1+
* Cosmic Trip
* Smashbox Arena
BTA (€13.19)
* GORN
* Budget Cuts
* Space Pirate Trainer
€13.50+
* SUPERHOT VR
* Moss
I'm still stuck in the past and have no experience in VR games, but Moss looks like a lot of fun! Superhot too, I guess. If you're interested in any of the games in the middle tier, I think it's worth investing those 31 extra cents to get the last two games... The VR bundle is only available for less than a week now.
P.S. I apologise in advance if the formatting of this post looks terrible - I tried the WYSIWYG mode and noticed that it kinda sucks
Tomi on 19/2/2020 at 18:51
Oh, and there's also Humble Train Simulator Bundle featuring Train Simulator 2020 and tons of DLC, starting from €1 as usual. :cool: I wonder if that game is meant for hardcore train enthusiasts only - I mean, I'm sure that operating a train engine takes some skill, but it just doesn't sound all that fun... I'm tempted to find out what it's all about.
WingedKagouti on 20/2/2020 at 11:01
Quote Posted by Tomi
Gremlins, Inc.IMO a quite fun game about immortal corrupt little bastards trying to be on the top of the social/economic ladder. The game manages to both reward and punish risky plays (often as a single event) as well as keep a balance between the cards that screw over other players and those that don't cause trouble for others.
The devs are quite active and constantly updating the game with new cards and balance changes, they've been releasing 2 new cards every calendar season so far. The community is also fairly active and helpful and from what I've seen the tournaments and ranked play are well populated. Something to note about ranked play is that the game has two servers, Amsterdam is for FFA ranked while Singapore is for 1v1 ranked.
All DLC is purely cosmetic and the base game comes with every gameplay feature. You also get an offline singleplayer version called Gremlins vs Automatons for free.