Stacklands got a big free update:
Unsure about good, but this could be cathartic, at least.
The game follows the fictional story of a global pandemic that engulfed the world and is being ignored by fanatics who do not believe that the disease is real. It is up to the main characters, 4 common citizens adequately protected with gloves and masks, to deal with these fanatics and solve the situation with the force of their own fists.
EARLY ACCESS EARLY ACCESS EARLY ACCESS
Ex-Zodiac is finally available beyond the simple demo.
EARLY ACCESS EARLY ACCESS EARLY ACCESS
Not my cup of tea, I don’t think. But I do need to give Stardew Valley another shot.
I posted about this in the digital boardgame thread, but it will probably get more eyes here.
Very good implementation of the miniatures game. There’s an adequate tutorial, but also challenge missions to introduce more advanced concepts. I like the way the FOW is implemented - you know when you’ve hit a target, but not how much damage, unless it’s so-called “special” damage (pilot injured, fire, etc.)
The two issues I think most will have is the limited plane selection (only 4 available for each side right now. DLC incoming!), but they are all somewhat customizable. Plus you can’t have more than 3, anyway. In addition you can assign a pilot from a selection of “Aces”, all of whom come with a perk of some kind,
Also there’s no campaign. It’s all stand-alone missions, but you can choose from 4 basic scenarios - dogfight, bombing, recon, and trench run. Since you can toggle more advanced rules on and off, there’s some variety, but a dynamic campaign would definitely be an improvement.
Recommended.
JoshL
6316
Have you had a chance to try multiplayer?
No, I’m a single player sort of guy.
Shards
6320
I don’t know if you trust my opinion, but I think that Slice and Dice is an excellent game!
Will happily recommend it to anyone
Another entry in the “low price arena auto fighter” genre, whatever it will turn out to be called.
Just King in EA on Steam since a week ago.
This one is more in the direction of the great (despite insane dev) SNKRX rather than Vampire Survivors.
You traverse a Slay the Spire node map with combats, elites and other events. Earned gold can then be spent in a auto-battler shop for units and items. Those units have individual attacks and abilities and two traits that provide synergies to your whole team if you have several units with that trait (Two units with “tough” give all your units a chunky HP bonus, four units with tough give another huge boost).
Combat itself is SNKRX-ish as well. Your fighting party uses their abilities automatically depending on their class and items, you control movement and orientation of your team in a limited wave-based arena with occasional environmental effects or boosts.
After a couple of runs I like the general approach quite a bit.
It is notably less active than the also great 20 Minutes Till Dawn. Several other factors like the limited arena and the large (evolving over a run) skills of your party make it much more interesting than the samey runs of Vampire Survivors to me.
According to their roadmap they have most of the planned classes and synergies (17/21) and three out of the five planned zones available in the current build.
Content-wise this is pretty good already IMO, it does have some balancing and QoL work still to be done.
It has a demo.
I just saw a YouTube video from Splattercat about Just King yesterday, if anyone needs to see the game in action.
Bobtree
6323
Afterthought has left early access. Speedrunning 2D platformer, great soundtrack, has a demo.
Splattercat had a recent video that featured Zero Sievert, which looks like a single player, top down, pixel art version of Escape from Tarkov and Stalker.
The game is supposed to be released via Early Access in several months, but there’s a limited time demo that can be played now during Steam’s survival theme sale.
Was looking for more mecha since I’ve recently (finally?!) got caught up in Battletech, and I saw that this game was on deep sale because it’s about to imminently going to be removed from Steam(?!) and then multiplayer removed in a couple months(!) Definitely red flags (looks like there’s a good chunk of it that is requires online servers - reviews say that includes the single player campaign?) but there’s jazzy music combo’d with FTL style one-on-one combat and cute animal pilots. Anyone know if the offline bits (there’s a roguelike “Metaverse mode” that’s for sure offline?) are worth it for the long term? Then again, it’s not a huge gamble for $2…
Edit - this was “Volta-X” and it is indeed gone.
KR777
6326
Designed by a board-certified psychiatrist…
You might want to specify the name of the game you talk about in your messages, especially when as you specified, the game is now off steam. Just a thought ;)
In what country are there board-uncertified physicians :O
DrDel
6329
There are lots of board uncertified (board eligible) physicians in the Americas… and then there are DO’s (which are not MDs)…
Kolbex
6330
DOs are still, by and large, board certified. They generally take the board exam in whatever their specialty is just like MDs do. Kind of shocking to me that 15-20% of physicians are not board certified. I guess if you’re going to open your own clinic you can do whatever you want, but I’m going to guess that not being certified would be a real impediment to getting hired at an organization of any real size.
That is indeed bitchin.
