Ooh, that does look interesting. Reminds me a little aesthetically of 16-bit Mars city-builder Utopia, though I doubt it plays much like it.
Yeah I am really liking what they are showing so far in Farlanders.
I played an early prototype of Farlanders (I swear it was called something different, but I can’t seem to figure out what it was) on itch.io while back. It was definitely good, and pretty tricky. The kind of game where I would get an hour in and then I would want to start over because I had messed up so many little things along the way and I knew I could do better at laying a stronger foundation for my colony. Then an hour into my new game I’d feel the same way again.
Benhur
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I’ve got a problem. I like WW2 tanks, but I don’t really like anime girls, or whatever the kids call them these days. However, there’s a game that combines both. It looks like this is a sort of light sim game that has armor penetration modeling and crew management. The tanks are also crewed exclusively by anime girls. Who’s taken the plunge?
Panzer Knights on Steam (steampowered.com)
It’s a whole genre. Don’t worry about the anime prepubescent girls: they are really just nazi officers in disguise. What a wonderful world we live in!
Nothing went wrong the last time Japan and Germany cooperated on a militaristic venture!
Have not played Ciradian Dice yet, but just watched a video and it looks freaking amazing:
Pay what you want on itch. A steam release is planned at a price of…$3, which blows my mind for how great this looks.
Like a deckbuilder, but you have dice which you can manipulate the faces of. There are also different abilities for each of the seven classes, as well as a bunch of different relics to unlock. There are some crazy things like the ability to capture enemies, which give unique benefits to the die it is captured on, as well as chain icons that act as multipliers if you have them on multiple die faces, and lots more. Tons of depth and tactical choices.
This probably deserves its own thread, but I want to actually play it some.
Gameplay:
That description sounds, and the bit of the video that I’ve watched looks, like it’s in the same general vein as One Deck Dungeon. Have you given that a go in the past?
JoshL
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I started to watch the video Misguided posted, but I didn’t feel like I was learning anything about the game by watching him read the subtitles in the intro video, then I noticed the video was an hour long. I can figure out if I like the game or not MUCH FASTER by just playing it, so I plunked down the $3 mainly just so I don’t have to watch that video. Dear god.
I don’t really care for One deck dungeon, personally. This is quite different from what I recall.
@JoshL lol, I like retro a lot, but I like watching other people play games in general (which is why I included it). I can certainly understand your POV there, though. And yeah, it’s free to download, so ¯_(ツ)_/¯
JoshL
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Ok, this game (Circadian Dice) is pretty good. Lots of stuff to unlock, fun gameplay, the individual runs only take a few minutes (at least, the ones I’ve done, it seems the later runs will have more rounds). Kind of a Dice Forge meets Slay the Spire type of deal. I’m not sure it has hundreds of hours of gameplay in it, but 10-20 seems likely. For $3? Recommend. See how that took less than an hour to read?
Oh, re: One Deck Dungeon. It’s… not entirely different, but almost. You roll dice to defeat monsters, so in that sense the same, but other than that, no. There’s no deck, for one thing.
Unexplored 2
I remember reading about the original - the way it procedurally generated the levels was interesting to learn about. Seems like they are doing way more this time around, the video on epic has commentary by the developer.
Just picked this up, thanks for the reminder.
To clarify, the game is a free download (pay what you want). The dev had mentioned in their 2.0 update possibly pricing it at 2.99 on steam when it gets there (which is insane).
Also, there are longer roguelite-style modes that unlock after beating the scenarios.
JoshL
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That’s correct, thanks for the clarification. When I clicked to download it the suggested price was $3. I am a cheap, cheap man, but even I couldn’t lower that tiny amount :)
Can you go back and give them more money after you download?
JoshL
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Seems like if I click ‘download now’ again (even from my library) the pop-up shows up again to enter an amount. So it looks like you can, yes.
Cool, thanks. Still need to get it downloaded. I got caught up yesterday doing some buildcrafting for magic: legends 🤪
jsnell
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I just happened to read this article on how they designed their skill check system:
It looks pretty neat.
Looks like they’re good at designing new takes on game systems - I’ve not played either 1 or 2, but here is the article I remembered reading back in the day
How Unexplored generates great roguelike dungeons | Rock Paper Shotgun
