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on Wednesday April 10 2019, @03:41PM
from the epic-protest-from-the-comfort-of-my-spinny-chair dept.
from the epic-protest-from-the-comfort-of-my-spinny-chair dept.
Off-topic review bombs are something I've really noticed taking place on Steam over the last year. Steam is working on ways to counteract the off-topic reviews, while also trying to let people's opinions be heard. It seems to be working somewhat, but it's far from perfect. Off-topic review bombing isn't helpful in the slightest, when trying to decide whether the current product is any good. Yet, how else should a consumer let others know that a company is going off the rails?
Personally, I would love an option to also rate the developers/corporations behind games as well. Perhaps a second rating for a game is needed? One rating for the game, and one rating for the publisher.
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The Official Colorado State Vegetable is now the "state legislator".
(Score: 2) by Alfred on Wednesday April 10 2019, @04:46PM (12 children)
My shortlist usually includes:
Factorio
SpaceChem
Braid
You can probably do a good psychological profile on me from that list.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 10 2019, @05:16PM (1 child)
Factorio definitely. Rimworld is a similar premise, but much different game.
Recently, I found Baba Is You, which is short but fun. Play it if you liked SpaceChem.
Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection is free/open source and included in Debian, but also can be played on the website, or on Android.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 10 2019, @07:33PM
Not to mention a very different website and acquired taste.
(Score: 2) by bryan on Wednesday April 10 2019, @05:40PM (1 child)
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Wednesday April 10 2019, @05:56PM
Subnautica is such a weird game that's good too. Why the heck is swimming around trying to grab a floppy weird fish and eat it before a giant eel eats you so compelling?
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday April 10 2019, @05:52PM
Terraria - Co-Op/Multiplayer, RPGish, Platformer/Minecraft like 2D clone in a good way, Tower Defense tie in with a special event, I really have no idea how to classify this game, but it's really fun. Kinda steep learning curve, make use of Wiki for help, no good help in game. Need wiki for things recipes / crafting ingredients. Dig, build, hunt for treasure, fight bosses, make houses for NPCs to move into, some NPCs are also vendors, and tons of fun with a friend. Very much sandbox like, because there's no story line, but there's definitely progression. There's normal mode and expert mode (tougher, but bosses drop unique loot bags). Then there's a thing called hard mode. Hard mode is unlocked after you beat the boss at the bottom of the world. Once that's unlocked. It peppers the world with 2 new biomes and you get a hammer to go smash some altars with. Smashing them unlocks 3 new ores that you can dig for, while also spreading/expanding the 2 new biomes a bit. Guess, I'll stop here, as this is getting to be too long of a description.
7 Days to Die - Open World Sandbox with Zombies FPS (Co-Op/Multiplayer. Early Access, still I think.)
100% Orange Juice - Anime Board Game (Co-Op/Mutliplayer)
Dungeon Defenders - Tower Defense/RPG/FPS/Hack'n'Slash/Shop Keeper (Co-Op/Multiplayer)
In Your Face TD (VR) - Tower Defense (Free, "abandoned" by creator.)
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Wednesday April 10 2019, @05:54PM (2 children)
MechWarrior 4 Mercs. It's free now BTW.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @05:39AM (1 child)
Free as in? (beer vs liberty)
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Thursday April 11 2019, @01:48PM
Both, I think. A group called Mektek was patching it for a while.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 1) by negrace on Wednesday April 10 2019, @06:27PM
Desktop Dungeons. Single-player resource management puzzle game styled as a dungeon crawler.
(Score: 2) by Taibhsear on Wednesday April 10 2019, @07:57PM
Terraria
Don't Starve Together (can be infuriating if you don't tweak the game settings to your liking first though)
I find that the games I spend the least amount of money on I play for the longest amount of time.
(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Thursday April 11 2019, @04:06AM
Here's the indie/non-AAA games I've enjoyed in the relatively-recent past:
Pumped BMX+ (try to perform bike tricks or find new ways to "kill" the kid)
Fez (puzzle adventure where a seemingly 2-d world can be rotated like a cube to reach ladders etc.)
Journey (interesting artistic adventure, for lack of a better description)
(Score: 2) by Webweasel on Thursday April 11 2019, @08:31AM
Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead. Free game, ascii/tileset, survive the zombie apocalypse. Great fun, brutally difficult to get started.
Priyom.org Number stations, Russian Military radio. "You are a bad, bad man. Do you have any other virtues?"-Runaway1956