I just got the Woodo game. Couldn't put it down till I finished it. So stinking cute and peacefuk

Planet Life, someone linked it here on lemmy a few days ago and I couldn't put it down

Beloved Rapture, I don’t even really like the gameplay but the characters and story have me hooked to the point I just wanna know more.

The Last Caretaker

You play as the last functioning robot in a post-human flooded Earth with the goal to restart humanity by growing and sending them into orbit with a rocket.

You explore the entire world on a small barge going between massive abandoned platforms with the last remaining infrastructure that you need to utilize the send the rockets to orbit. You spend a lot of time recycling the leftover scrap into better equipment to protect and power you and your ship.

It subverts a lot of my least favorite tropes of factory and survival games and just has a great sense of discovery. My favorite game design choice is that almost all of your enemy interaction is offensive instead of defensive so you have the opportunity to prepare before going into a big fight and can easily retreat.

It admittedly has a long way to go in terms of performance and stability. One thing that was counterintuitive is that turning on all the raytracing options significantly improved performance for me. But the gameplay loop is like nothing else out there. There is also no multiplayer yet, although the developer has said it’s not off the table in the long run. They’ve also openly stated that there will never be paid DLC. All future content is included with the purchase of the game.

It has a demo and is definitely worth checking out.

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The Banner Saga series. I have had the first one in my library for perhaps a decade, tried to start it a few times and never got into it.

Until a week ago, that is, when I got past the slow start and oh my does it pick up from there! Currently nearing end of the second one and I’ve been devouring these games, outright unhealthily to be honest, but I’m going to let it take me, I think the third one ends the saga, so this has a natural end and I’ll let myself go wild until that.

It’s pretty amazing how much one can do with so little, kind of. When the story is good and writing too, and the art style works, it doesn’t need all that much in terms of technical fidelity to be amazing.

Edit: If anyone has suggestions for other games like this, I’d be more than happy to hear them. I hear king of dragonpass and its lineage is almost a perfect fit, and I remember trying one of the newer ones a decade or so ago and having a blast but never finished. Are there others?

Myst. I will beat it. I will not look anything up. I will be playing until I die. Literally. Cuz im too dumb for this lol

hell yeah! then on to riven. remember that every puzzle has clues in the world, there is basically no trial-and-error at all in that series.

forgive me father, for i have sinned.

i have once again fallen into the factorio hole.

surely this time i can beat space age.

Because I am so invested as an F2P account, Fire Emblem Heroes. Only game in the series I have really ever touched. Looking to buck nintendo, but that really is my one holdout since I don't really play other mobile games anymore and ~98% of them are just money grab shovelware anymore.

Elite dangerous. It is so vast and there's so much going on that it doesn't feel like a game, it's a second reality. I've been playing for months and I still have a bunch of brand new things to try out and master, which are going to be super fun.

I've got a big expedition coming up soon too, if I play enough I'll see another 0.01% of the wonders the galaxy has to offer.

It fulfils my childhood dreams of exploring space, and there's just so much it's hard to stop

Life

Slay the Spire 2. I'm attempting to beat all ascensions in a row without dying, and my best streak is A8 defect. I am 400 hours in the game.

The problem is I suck at defect. It is a character I find really difficult to play and according to my stats it has killed my runs %45 of the time, which is a lot when you consider there is 5 characters.

I forgot this one. When released, it had some serious performance problems that got worse and worse as you explored the ocean. Dropped it and totally forgot about it.

Need to revisit, because it was good, long as it worked.

Approximately Up

Once I start, it's really hard to put down. My only gripe is that you never have enough signal cable. It limits all the cool stuff you could build.

I want my bottle, I don't want my bottle.

I want my bottle, I don't want my bottle.

the trick is to keep your save files for the next time you fall into the hole

This week I put another 20 or so hours into Vintage Story. Recently got back from a trip to Ireland and am now recreating the ruins and castles I saw in-game

Ballionnaire

Roguelites are my weakness. This is so dumb and simple. I just enjoy finding synergies that get ge breaking scores.

Even while I'm trying to get to Silksong act 3 right now, I still keep jumping back to Ballionnaire.

Batomon showdown. I generally find rougelikes very addicting but something about this even more so.

Maybe the cute pokemon - esque designs?

Call to Arms: Gates of Hell

Easily my favourite RTS game. S-tier if you're a WW2 nerd like me.

Same.

I've just gotten to Aquilo with a higher SPM in every other science than I've ever had before. This time it won't just be a kludged together base that always locks up, it'll be a functional one with a reasonable output.

Then imma streamline all the bases into big base blueprints to try to get all the speed achievements.

At first I thought you were talking about this game - Forgive Me Father

Do you like the tactial RPG gameplay, or the story and elements around maintaining and building up your clan?

For example Final Fantasy Tactics has you building up a team as you progress through a story with tactial rpg combat, but not as much about management decisons about keeping your party alive.

There are also games like This war is mine, which has no tactical RPG elements, but is about making hard decisions trying to keep a group of people alive during war.

Ninigrams on my phone. Nearly finished the hard puzzles and not looking forward to going cold turkey

Who would want to fix all those production lines past me thought to be a good idea?

Oh yeah this war of mine is actually another one in this very same realm I believe, good catch! Been intending to play it, perhaps now’s the time finally

Deadlock, it's become a proper addiction at this point

Currently I wanna say Retro Rewind. First time really getting into one of these business management games and I can't stop thinking of all the ways I wanna improve my store.

I played Rimworld again last night for the first time in months, and now I just want to get back to it.

Valheim

Palworld. Just need a few more materials to build the thing to unlock more things to collect materials for....

I think I'm too stupid for that game. It's fun, but I can't get anywhere with it, my colony of like 8 people is just stagnating in a place of barely alive and I can't figure out how to get more resources because it won't let me explore new regions more than once and I can't figure out how to go into a region once, gather resources and get back to my camp without dying of starvation or have everyone in the exploring party suffer a total mental breakdown and go on a murdering spree. I think the concept is awesome and I'm clearly missing so much, it's just way over my head. Maybe I need to start over from fresh and see if I have better luck.

future you, once the bug bites again. in the meantime if it works it works.

Recently had a renewed addiction to binding of isaac. It's been so fun and hair pullingly frustrating lol

Rimworld, always Rimworld

Just tried vintage story for the first time last week. I have like 15 20 hours in 2 or 3 sittings.

4-day edit: fucking hell, make that 30 hours in 5-6 sittings. Stay tuned for 6-7

It does have a steep learning curve, and I do think it is more enjoyable the more you get familiar with the systems. Yeah, sending caravans out can be very risky early on for many reasons.

For a first run, maybe choose a slightly easier difficulty (Community Builder), use the Phoebe Chillax storyteller, and pick a location on the planet that has a year-round growing season. And when choosing your starting colonists, I recommend someone with shooting, someone with construction, and maybe someone with cooking or plants. This way you can be relatively self-sufficient without needing to caravan.

Once you can caravan, I recommend trading/gifting to other factions to build goodwill. This will keep them from attacking you, and once you have a comms station, you can call them in to help with defense in a pinch. Note that some factions are always hostile, though.

When you do get raided, make sure your colonists are always firing from behind cover. When possible, try to gang up on isolated enemies and melee them down to increase the chance they are incapacitated (not killed), so you can capture them. Prisoners can either be slowly converted and recruited, or released for goodwill with their faction (or used for other fucked up stuff).

Good luck!

Satisfactory. I'm a Factorio native, ~1k hours. It's been really fun to see the drastically different approaches to things, in terms of designing a factory game. Factorio will always be my true love, but every time I play Satisfactory I find myself just oogling the beauty of the game. The sense of scale is overwhelming, the 3d aspect gets rid of a lot of restrictions that I'm accustomed to and makes building a factory feel more like art than I ever thought it could be.

Satisfactory is also a much younger game than Factorio, so I'm excited to see how it matures. I really love the early access update experience.

Just finished Big Walk, which was the most fun and unique co-op experience I've ever had. Also just finished onimusha which is like sekiro easy mode. And started the wow forever Beta. Good gaming this month. Also I started another Celeste play thru for reasons I myself do not fully understand.

Try dwarf fortress if you haven't yet

My own- working on an early access release for the first 2027 Steam Nextfest. Designing levels and balancing the movement mechanics has got me playing these levels dozens (sometimes hundreds) of times!

It is good advice, thank you. I hardly dare to. Several thousand hours has gone into Rimworld already

You've gotta try Peglin if you haven't.

Thanks. Wishlisted. Video makes it look like it's exactly my kinda game.

I played that for a while after it first came out, but the power creep just got way too annoying without spending money, and I realized just how much time I was dumping into it.

Yeah, it is absolutely not in the best shape in terms of power creep right now. Feels like every new major banner they create a new set of OP units that immediately powercreep everything else. But I still find some level of enjoyment. Also played since book 1, as a F2P this whole time.

Powercreep and tryhards are why I avoid basically all PVP besides doing 5 rounds of arena for the free summon ticket and an orb.

Though, I find the powercreep is normally somewhat palpable in the story mode and paralogues now with the F2P OC for book 10: so far best Alfonse.