This is a clever turn-based building game set on Mars. Be warned: It’s pretty tricky, and unless I’m missing something in the mechanics, it currently plays like a game of jumping over increasingly high hurdles, desperately hoping after each one that you’ll recover the energy for one more jump… until you don’t. It’s still in development, but seems to me to be worth keeping an eye on. And at $5 right now, it might be the time to snag it:
sorry, forgot to thank you for the explanation
MrTibbs
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VirtuaVerse, a cool looking cyberpunk point-and-click adventure game, is releasing May 12. The last adventure-style game I enjoyed was Night in the Woods, but I’m kinda interested in checking this one out.
Have you been playing DemonCrawl. I have been there last couple of days and there’s a staggering amount of stuff crammed into this game. Items and classes to unlock. Modes to unlock, etc. it’s infuriatingly hard at times, yet I keep playing
Nor little or indie area two of those, what is going on with those weird releases!
Slitherine “published” Master of Magic. Intriguing.
See the giveaway thread. @Sonoftgb has a slitherine coupon. Not sure if it can be used with this.
Sonoftgb
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Slitherine coupons are only good at their store. I don’t know if they are making it available that way.
also sort of wasted on a 5 dollars game ;)
Just saw your message, and sadly I can’t run Windows Steam on my Mac anymore, so i haven’t been able to check it out.
They’re making the new one, so it makes sense to re-release the old one.
Ah, that nugget had passed me by
orald
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" Additional Notes: Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility"
Another deckbuilding roguelike I ran across this morn:
I’ll vouch for Deck of Ashes, after having purchased it in July 2019. It’s obviously a Slay the Spire type game, but it has some unique mechanics. Personally, it’s more challenging than StS. But take that with a grain of salt, since I haven’t progressed very far in StS.
Bobtree
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I played the KUF2 free weekend and absolutely hated all the MMO-itis filler, what a wasted opportunity. This one is a straight console port, with a 30 FPS limit. Maybe worth a look for Bladestorm fans.
orald
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Bulgarian CYOA gamebook is a thing?
Tman
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With the recent square enix sale, I picked up the Turning Test for $2.99 and had a fun 7 hrs with it.
It’s a puzzle game that is set on the Jupiter moon, Europa. It has about 70 puzzles. I found most of them fairly challenging, making me think. There are some “side” mission stories that I attempted, but I’m not sure I solved any of them - I made some progress but gave up / backed out to the original opening / which I think was intended, but again, no clear ‘you’re done’ moment, so unsure if I really solved them.
My one big problem was the story is told through audio logs and they are really difficult to hear, for my older ears and I gave up on listening to them completely about 1/2 way through because of the poor quality, but the setting was portal - esque and the puzzles move you along. You can get most of the story through the omni-present AI who talks to you and through some of the written things, so maybe the audio files weren’t that important.
