Thanks for sharing this! I was just wondering why Seedship wasn’t spun out into a bigger game. I played this to the end and really liked it.
The thing that frustrated me with the original was how much was outside the player’s control, to the point that it was more of a toy than an actual game. There weren’t many meaningful decisions – you could pick the least bad option when the game gave you a pair of choices, but you couldn’t influence the dice rolls that gave you those choices.
Beyond the Chiron Gate is all about risk management. There’s still a lot of randomness but it lets you mitigate that risk in a number of ways. Discovering how the risk economy works is much of the fun, but broadly speaking you can make yourself better at certain challenges, and you can find ways to avoid challenges you know will be difficult.
Most importantly, both your crew and ship have replenishable health so it’s usually safe to absorb a few failures. Much of the game’s tension comes from choosing whether to push your exhausted crew to make one more discovery before returning to base.
Definitely recommended if you liked Seedship.
Ubistore is having their summer sale too apparently. “Up to 80% off”.
ledshok
6253
An interesting little dice-based worker placement game. A bit ‘dry’, but there’s a demo available.
I looked at the demo. It’s no Axes & Acres :).
Sounds like I need to check out Axes and Acres!
SamS
6256
This looks very cute - haven’t played the demo yet but one is out for kickstarter backers at the $1 level
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ronintrail/ronin-trail
Skillup played a few dozens demos from the Steamfest so here it’s a video about the most interesting ones
SweetJP
6258
Mulling around the idea of picking up this John Wick-like top-down shooter during the Steam sale.
I like the DMC combo meter, and the animations/overall vibe seem really well put together. Still in early access, with an update focused around melee and close combat on the way.
Saw a playthrough of this on my Youtube feed. It’s a puzzler city builder in the same vein as Mini Metro. By the same (Ukranian) developers who are working on Ostriv. Just a couple off bucks.
Here’s the video I saw - the pieces you get are randomly generated so no real spoilers here.
Hmmm, hadn’t heard of this or Ostriv. Thanks for bringing them to my attention!
Tile Cities is an interesting little puzzler. Only issue I’ve found is that the mouse pointer is hidden which makes navigating the menu a little tricky…
geggis
6261
There’s a day or so left on PUNKCAKE Délicieux’s mega bundle sale. 10 games, all of them look and sound interesting to me:
They’re like the Sokpop Collective producing regular bite-sized experiences. These are in the bundle:
Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate “Rogue-chess with a shotgun”
Ecstatic “Spider mecha rave-synced bullet hell”
Rush for the Ages “Fast civilizational card game”
Metavaxx “Cellular Minesweeper Shooter”
The Wratch’s Den “Roguelike Dungeon Builder and Defender”
Spectrum Forces “Shoot-em-up with a tactical twist!”
Scavenger of Dunomini “Match-3 Trash Pile Defender”
Damocles Gaze “Radical 12-min roguelite action shooter”
Shroomchitect “Cute & Relaxing Mushroom Settler”
Antecrypt “single-stick arena shooter on mankind’s last hard drive”
Oh, cool. I had run across Shroomchitect before. Several others seem really interesting, too!
JoshL
6263
Circadian Dice is now on Steam, with improved graphics and new content compared to the earlier versions on itch:
If you are person of class and distinction who bought it on itch, you get a free Steam key. And your progress is maintained in the Steam version!
From afar, this looks a lot like one deck dungeon, without the physical origin constraints?
I loved buying from itch, but they made it a real pain for people geographically located in Europe since last year. From what I get, they won’t fill the tax papers, so they put it all on the developers and the buyers.
JoshL
6265
I guess it’s not entirely dissimilar from One Deck Dungeon, but instead of just getting more dice, you’re improving the dice you have (well, you do get more dice, but just from 2 starting dice to 4 max dice).
It’s not the deepest game, but it is quite good for clicking around for a few minutes to complete a dungeon, which is pretty much exactly what I want a lot of the time.
And there’s even a demo!
Oh that sounds like it requires a lot less dedication than One Deck Dungeon (a single complicated dungeon could take well into an hour)… which made me look it up for the iPad, but sadly it’s not available there, yet!
I’ll give that demo a try if my memory doesn’t fail me like it did for that computer card game, the one that Tom said was the best thing ever in 2021…
geggis
6267
So I’ve had Circadian Dice on my itch watch list for a while and I always get it confused with another game involving dice called Slice & Dice:
I heard really good things about it from someone who I trust, but I can’t remember who.
Also @Left_Empty: yeah, it is a pain to buy on itch now unfortunately. I tolerate it for the greater good but it does make me roll my eyes each time I have to fill in the same tax form. I should probably plug the info into my Bitwarden just to eliminate that step!
Haha, Tom killed the I Played This Little Indie Game and You Should Too thread for probably the third time. I guess I’ll finally take his preferred approach and start stand-alone threads for little games that two of us will actually check out and three of us will have comments about. Honestly, I think it might be better after all.
Honestly feel like throwing them the 5 clams
JoshL
6270
I have, in fact, actually played Circadian Dice, and you should too! (If you think you’d like it. There’s a demo!)
It cool that my save game progress carried across. Although honestly every time I come back to this game I want to start over, since the later dungeons get pretty hard :P
