4361

How many hours would you say I might play it for? Replayability is kind of what I look for in this sort of game, but for the price it’s at currently (Epic coupons!) I might be able to overlook that, because it sounds very interesting.

Edit: Edwin Evans-Thirlwell of Eurogamer, who despite his picture I am positive based on his name goes around constantly monocled, says 8 hours.

4362

I’d estimate it’s about 6-8 hours to play through the whole game. If you really like it, then I think you might be up for playing again and choosing a different kind of build–your population’s new needs appear in pairs, so for instance you can choose to provide light to people by putting down lots of little lampposts to light up the walkways, or instead you can provide faith via minaret buildings. You can also research the ability to stack buildings of the same type, meaning you can build upward or outward depending on whether you want to spend your time and resources on those technologies or others. That kind of thing.

4363

Haha, I like the idea that if you ever run out of gas for your stupid flying city concept, your entire civilization will come crashing down, literally.

Is staying afloat a big concern? Or is it just a fake problem?

4364

It’s not fake, but supplies of coal are pretty plentiful and there are technologies to make your city use it more efficiently and to stockpile more. So of all the things that can cripple your city, it’s the most fundamental but the least threatening, I guess? You’re more likely to run out of food or to just run out of materials to build that next thing you want. But if you lose track of your coal reserves, you will have the brief thrill of trying to remember where the last coal field you saw was and wondering if you can get there in time!

4365

I’d already wishlisted that because it looked lovely but it sounds really interesting too. Will probably pick that up in the Epic sale!

4366

This might be the wrong thread, but if one uses the Epic coupon does the developer still get the same money from the Epic store (including the $10 that the coupon offsets)? I know the store takes a certain percentage too (~12% for Epic?). Is Epic subsidizing the coupon difference here?

Just wanted to ask since Airborne Kingdom sounds like a very small dev team.

4367

Great question. Wish I knew the answer, as I have wondered the same thing. I feel guilty as hell for buying hades for 10 bucks. My hope is that Epic is subsidizing here, as there are cases where I can’t imagine the publishers being on board (like Airborne Kingdom for 10 or Fenyx for 30).

4368

Yes, it’s Epic’s money subsidizing it.

4369

Nice, thanks for answering! :-)

4370

Wattam has left early access.


4371

I don’t think Wattam was in early access, but it was only on Epic for the last year or so. It’s goofy and weird and kind of pointless! I liked it!

4372

https://www.onelonelyoutpost.com/

Dude it’s Stardew Valley in space with MP. I am going to check this out when it comes out, probably.

4373

Is it lonely outpost because it’s by itself in the world or because you don’t have a romantic partner?

4374

I assume because you start off all lonely until you attract more peeps!

Start out with just an ancient space-RV, your handy tech gauntlet, a handful of potato seeds, and work to build up your colony. By growing enough crops to attract colonists,

4375

“Epic exclusive’s just another word for Early Access”
(somehow sung to the tune of “Me and Bobby McG”)

/flee

4376

EA’s just another term for still a bug or two
Buggy, that’s all my purchase got me
Finishing is easier when there’s nothing to do
But finishing is good enough for me
Good enough cause EA’s really buggy

4377

4378

Everyone who likes Tower Defense/RTS and Deckbuilders should check this game out.

It just came out of EA and is definitely my game of December. It’s a 2D Tower defense game where you use card to lay down units and buildings. There are 6 different fractions and each of them have a different style of playing.

4379

It has the whole indie word salad, but it has anthropomorphic rats, so I’ll give it a pass.

Except… even the whole anthropomorphic animal indie game is starting to be done to death. Still, I like the look of this one.

What’s the town building part? Is it permanent metaprogression roguelite stuff?

4380

Man, find me something that hasn’t been done to death,