>What the heck is this/indie/ is the general for all indie games, such as Age of Decadence, A Hat in Time, Axiom Verge, Baba Is You, Battle Brothers, Battlerite, Card City Nights 2, Cave Story, CrossCode, Cultist Simulator, Darkwood, DashBored, Dead Cells, The Desolate Hope, Disco Elysium, Environmental Station Alpha, FTL, Guacamelee!, Hollow Knight, Knytt, LISA, Lobotomy Corp, Machinarium, Middens, Monolith, Monster Train, Noita, OFF, OneShot, Rimworld, Rain World, Slap City, Slay the Spire, Starsector, Subnautica, Sunless Skies, Tooth and Tail, Underrail, VA-11 HALL-A, Yume Nikki, etc., as well as other games that just don't fit in any other general such as Atelier, Pillars of Eternity, Rayman, and Valkyria Chronicles. /jrpg/ is welcome. Idle games are cool too.Mobile or consoles, Flash or Unity, freeware or early access. This place is a home for the indie game community and indie and obscure games that don't have a home. So be free to talk and share all your hidden gems, forgotten games and starving devs here.>Can I talk about games that already have a general?We mostly discuss games that are not popular enough for their own threads, however, all indie games are allowed. So talk about them if you want, but don't overdo it since you already have other generals for that.>Recommendationshttps://pastebin.com/ZbG0JPSn>Booruhttps://indiegame.booru.org/>Steam Grouphttps://steamcommunity.com/groups/indiegamesgeneral>OP's pastebin:https://pastebin.com/JqqcnEHCPrevious thread: >>584922013
You're gonna play his game next week, right?
also why are the first 20 pages of the booru literally just signalis fanart jesus
Is he /indie/?
>>586059195>I forget, do the crab pots give fishing XP?I don't know. I'm grinding my cooking.
Fuck this shit, write a proper changelog
>>586062181If your cooking is total ass you get a few levels for free by looking at the pot of solder in the foundry, but you seem to be past that point. Honestly I found that once you had an automatic water station you could make greyeb wraps with eyes and lettuce at the cooking table and those were so easy and plentiful that nothing else mattered. The special effects for some of the weirder soups are nice but not worth the hassle of carrying around containers and shit.
This thing is totally adorbs.>>586062679I just want the perk that increases health ticks. Even if I have the slow healer perk.
>>586060556Of course
>>586059334>Heat Siggy OPHell yeah
>>586063346Small tip for the laser gun, you can carry a laser-charged battery station with you. Have a second at base recharging from a beam while you're out and about, and now you can reload in the field.
>>586064113By endgame a lot of my tactics devolved into hijacking an unrelated small ship to use as a breaching charge on the ship I was trying to get into. Still a great game, I wish Tactical Breach Wizards had hit for me in the same way.
>>586064868>Small tip for the laser gun, you can carry a laser-charged battery station with you. Have a second at base recharging from a beam while you're out and about, and now you can reload in the field.Tried it at the Praetorium. I kept getting weight down all the time, so I gave up and decided to carry two blue laser pistols.
>>586059965Ackthsually the 1st page has no Signalis fanart. They also stop on page 16.Only 2 pages are literally just Signalis fanart, the rest of the 13 pages has other games mixed in.
>>586065405I kept it in my hotbar because I had the perk where those items weighed less, but I get that. I might've also had an accessory that helped with item weight by then.
>unusual facial expressions>inconsistent fashion>stilted speech>capable of hacking encrypted communication channels>vaxxedThey want me to shoot autistic people now?
Played probably stolen for 8 hours after doing 17h in the demo in september.I've come to resent gunsmithing.water merchant was tedious but it was honest work.gunsmithing you just have to accept random events. I took agoraphobic because I had no idea I'd have to supplement my smithing with my own scavenging, but this debuff kills any joy I could have. I'm stuck crafting tier 0 60 credits guns.At least interacting with the illegal side of the game is way more fun.Tomorrow it's queen domaining time.
Captain picard died bros :(
>>586074519Not only Picard. It has been a bad week.
>>586065451sex with this lanky dork
>my parents, 25 years ago
>>586077514>playing literal garbage I have to agree
Imagine trying to kiss Malady and getting your eye pocked out
https://x.com/OnirismThegame/status/2115855000945779126CHOCOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
>>586083489why are you so weird and gay
>>586084072I would risk my eye tho, don't worry
>>586084056I don't have shitter
Ah, Earth Dancer! Your dance has brought me joy and happiness. In gratitude, allow me to bestow upon you this recipe.
I'm playing a non-general related game. Don't die until I play a general-related game.
>>586094421are you playing an admiral game?
>>586095176No. Cataclysm: Bright Nights with a shitload of sci fi and magic mods.
Anyone here try out Superhero Simulator? Pretty fun imo, but it is buggy
>>586094421I'm playing Cyberpunk, just because of the akimbo update
>the title "Mesmalie" is made up of the 3 witches' namesGot baited by /v/ into buying this game and it's actually pretty good. One of the better games that I've beaten this year (which is 3), gonna get the remaining game overs for the last achievement todaytoo bad there's no ending where you live a long happy life with Mesmer
>>586102339Good, good. Breeding sex with Mesmer
>>586101504No but that does make me want to boot up Champions Online for the first time in 15 years.
ah. uriel septim's dead.
>started horripilant at midnight>it's almost 6 in the morning still playing it>have work in 3 hoursFuck
[HUGE BREAKING NEWS!!!!!]Project Zomboid now officially had CLIMBABLE LADDERS
>>586110761>now>hadTime is... Convoluted.
>Onirism>get to the mansion part of the cursed forest>entire game is broken because if the ghosts can't pathfind to you the game breaks completely and you can't progress>known bug for months and hasn't been fixedYeah sorry, no. This game is actual fucking garbage.
>>586077514Rude.
>>586110761Doesn't it already have climbable ropes?Why did it have that but not ladders?
>>586085340Carol is doing tricks on it
>>586112549has*oops>>586114378YES but nowyou can climb LADDERSWe are SO close to experiencing the perfect zombie sandbox game (est: 40 more years)
>>586113031what did you expect from a game like that?
>>586114498she's literally moving left and right.you pedophiles are deranged.
Waiting for the new Culdesac game to go on sale on Rutracker.
>>586113031>checks onirism wiki>the page for that area was created in 2025Yeah you're not supposed to play it yet. It'll probably work by 2027-2028.Thanks for betatesting it tho.
/indie/ is dead. Long live /indie/!
What could it mean?
>>586133142New handholding scenes
>>586133142The long awaited sex update is imminent.
>>586136947real and true
>>586134179why did they have so many cages
GOG's giving away weird stuff you've never heard of. Again.
>>586063702Spiderfag gonna FREAK>>586149408That's nice of them. I guess.
>>586149408But i have heard of that game, ross scott said it sucks i think
>>586117618This game would be so good if it was good.
>>586153830I end up playing a lot of things where that's applicable
I finished the story campaign of Creeper World IXE. It was mid.
>>586149408Thanks for telling me. I try to check every week.
>>586172267Creeper World is nifty series.
>>586134179>>586136947>a bunch of new puzzles and an achievement Maybe next patch
>>586187806Problem is, there is a limit to how many reactors and how many of each unit the player can build in each map, unlike the mainline CW games, so it ends up playing more like a puzzle game. Energy and ore is never a issue and it was too easy. I think PF suffered from a similar design, but I remember finding the PF more epic and harder, or more of a slog.
World of horror update!? Who would have thought that the update that was teased months ago would release on halloween like most other updates!
Vegangsters might just be the most unforgiving roguelike deckbuilder I've ever played.
gonna ask this again:was going through my backlog and saw this>twwrwr - (top down tower climbing)but i can't find it literally anywhere. does anyone know what the fuck this is
>>586202091nvm i found it are you fucking kidding mehttps://emlise.itch.io/twwwrgoogle search is just awful man. can't solve a simple misspelling
>>586202424>>586202091>why doesn't google recognize my string of random letters for this game no one has ever heard of?You are so dumb, man
>>586202815>google can't find a game that has ONE letter extra as a misspelling when you add "tower climb game" even though that's explicitly in the descriptionit's on steam too by the way, faggot
>>586202424>bullet hell platformer slop
>>586196383I hate games that update for ten plus years. Just make a new game.
>hole punch cocktail demointeresting vision (beer goggles)
>>586166437Examples?
>>586223669The one that comes most recently to mind is https://store.steampowered.com/app/2405060/KIBORG/ . Slavjank roguelite brawler should be a slam dunk but the punching is dogshit in a game that's 95% punching. I also played https://store.steampowered.com/app/3040220/Captain_Blood/ earlier this year and it's truly rancid but so close to being a very fun very stupid pirate-themed God of War knockoff.
>>586200751>only 17.9% of all game owners have won a single runPretty insane.
what do you mean hardcore deletes my save file after dying? I just grazed the funny ceiling plant. fuck
>>586232589>What do you mean Hardcore does what Hardcore does in basically every gameAnon...
>>586232589>Survival mode with only one life.It's your own damn fault.
>>586232589What did you expect to happen?
>>586235649lose the current progress, not the whole save. Like in dead space
>>586232589You don't want to play hardcore in any game with wonky physics
is mayonnaise an indie game
Of all the rougelikes, in which one is your success or failure most dependent on RNG?
>>586232589
>>586240735Peglin
>>586240735How do you tell which is luck and which is a lack of mastery though?
>>586242408Mastery will tell you whether luck was a deciding factor or not. Experience and skill allow you to mitigate misfortune and discern whether an outcome was due to luck or your handling of the situation.
>>586242408By looking at a game's winstreak statistics.If top players can't play consistently, it's down to luck.
Post spooky.
>>586248050
>>586249085I wish they made more games like that one.Which reminds me I haven't finished my The Red Solstice 2 campaign.
Alright, only 2 challenges to unlock and beat, 600 coins to put in the greed machine and 700 in the donation machine and I'll finally be allowed to play the game!.. Actually I should also unlock all the characters I can and finish greedier mode with all of them just for the sake of it...I could technically go further by getting very lucky and getting access to the cathedral early and use an ankh to become ??? to unlock D6 before everything is terrible. But considering I only saw a single ankh in over 30 hours, I'm not counting on it. And I really don't want to just "throw" runs because I couldn't get access to sheol/cathedral.
>>586249085Spooked
>>586250592I respect the dedication.
>hear Synergism removed corruptions>about fucking time, they've been the worst thing in the game ever since their release>start playing again on my file which was on singularity 3>they're not gone as such, just clumsily changed into a single level that you pump>progress is a lot faster than it was though, this is okay>less than 48 hours later I'm on singularity 5 and I've already remembered why I quit in the first place: Nothing fucking changes and the dev is allergic to automating lower layers, so it's a ton of repetitive clicking in the exact same sequence over and over>endgame is STILL fucking cubes - the cope post the dev made to the Mostly Negative reception (it's fallen back to Mixed now) said he's working on nonaracts as "new" contentI've quit yet again now. It's kind of annoying that this game would have been known as the all time greats if the dev had just put an ending at the point where he ran out of ideas instead of stretching it out for years. It's everything wrong with idle games.
>>586259727>Nothing fucking changesThat's part of why I've recently fallen in love with Idle Obelisk Miner.Mobile/emulator-only, but this shit's got so many fun moving parts and is regularly getting updated.
>>586261550I got a bit into stargazing and stopped. it's just too slow. Maybe if I played on emu and could leave it open all day, but just checking it a few times a day on my phone, things just took forever.
>>586265067The "start" of Stargazing, like some other mechanics, is more of a "you aren't quite ready for this" system. Like Drone Fuel, Archaeology, and Fishing.The intended progression is to keep pushing Veins and shit for a while, buy up numerous important upgrades in Stargazing, then start actually interacting with it more.I originally unlocked Stargazing around a month ago and can now can rack up around a hundred Super Stars in an 8-hour idle.I won't say it's a well-designed system, but it works in its own way of "figure out what works."And 9 times out of 10, what works is "grind Gems, retard."But at any rate, the game got a bit of a rewards revamp and Obelisk floor clears are way more impactful now, giving you more Gems (substantially more starting at like 29) and supplemental materials (Gifts, regular/Relic chests, bonus effects). And old players can double-dip and claim all the new rewards with no penalty.I'd say give it another look-see, solely cause it is a great progress boost/progress improvement.
>>586261550>Idle Phallos MinerSeems kinda gay.
>>586269735Surprisingly, despite being the main name of the game, the obelisks are a fairly small "content gate" instead of the centerpiece.You stack damage, blow up the Obelisk in a few minutes (sometimes instantly even), unlock some rewards, sometimes a new mechanic, then get back to doing all the other shit (mainly digging up ores and things connected to it in some way).
>>586240735Unironically Enter the GungeonNot getting a good gun on the first floor is basically a death sentence
>>586271051Major skill issue. Good etg players can reach basically infinite win streaks.
>>586272571Alright, let me rephrase thatNot getting a good gun is a death sentence by fucking BOREDOM
>>586272676that's why you start hunter and get carried through the first three floors by crossbow
>>586243264That gives a little too much credit to games where minimizing the chances for variance to fuck you constitutes "skill" i.e. snowballing is inevitable so long as you don't get one-shot so just knowing which chunks of the game to avoid outright.
Need indie horror
spooks
Don't die i still have to play the Onirism Halloween update
Finished Hell is UsExtremely kino exploration and investigation, mediocre combat, cool settingWould love a sequel
>>586299859Same. I was very surprised with how much I ended up enjoying it.
>>586299859>Extremely kino exploration and investigation,Seriously?Most puzzles are solved by simply reading piece of papers 3 meters from the puzzles and using just 3 neurons to put 2 and 2 together.Also lol'd at the sequelbait, that shit ain't getting a sequel.
>>586299859You were lucky to play it after the year 1 patch, imagine that but with maybe a half-dozen enemies across the entire game.
>>586249085Why is there no filename?
>>586305075it's just you.
>>586299260I'm skillissueing on the lava part. I know there's an upgrade for the hair dryer but I can't find it. Also holy back tracking this game has.
>>586306502Dammit, 4chanX must be bugging again. So what's that game?
does anyone play Degrees if Lewdity
>>586307685Outpost Haven
>>586313261Looks fun. Is it?
Hey Anons, Queen Domain is out, and it is pretty fucking dope for a 20 buck game. Honestly kind of shocked at the amount of content, and all the levels until now seem nicely designed with a ton of secrets. Also has an insane variety of enemies and weapons for some reason, like pretty sure every single weapon has an evolution if you level it to lvl10 and they seem like genuine upgrades.
>>586319416Looks like Monomyth but meh.
>>586319416Fuck it, I was already strongly considering getting it and I'm between games right now. Let's rock.
>>586240735Risk of rain 2 comes to mind, if you arent lucky with drops, mid to end game high threat basically become impossible you just cant do enough damage before getting overwhelmed.
>>586319416>pretty fucking dope for a 20 buck gameYou mean $5 game when I'm done waiting to buy it.
>>586323357Slut.Ripe for anal.
Epic DS2 reference bro
>>586325361>DS2 invented skeletonsOkay, retard.
>>586313879It and its sequel and the spinoff are fun but only accessible on some flash sites that still host it.https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/586969https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/604534https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/629531The second mainline game's expanded version briefly made it onto steam but has since been delisted and I don't know how you'd acquire it if you want, maybe there's a torrent somewhere.
>>586331946>>586331946Oh, they're flash games. Shame.
>>586332173They're still playable, very advanced as far as flash games go.
>>586332271>>586332271Yeah, but still. I wonder why the other game was delisted.>mouse keeps clicking twice when I only click onceAnnoying!
>>586332412Developer dissolved, presumably nobody with any rights to the game decided to maintain the steam page.
>>586336217Shame, that. Thanks for the links tho senpai ngl
I like this but fuck why are 90% of indie games just "slay the spire but x" or "balatro but x"Indies were good because they weren't derivative like AAA, now they all feel the same too
>>586339901It's a lot easier for your game to be visible if it has a clear mechanical identity that can piggyback off a popular trend. Unique and weird shit still gets made, finding it is just harder.
>>586339901The biggest change is that now when they put an overpriced piece of garbage that copies an already oversaturated trend, they also complain that nobody is paying 40€ for their 50 minutes getting over it rip-off.
Just found out that deadlock is a valve game. I thought it was another shitty moba shooter by gearbox or some shitty company like that.I guess Gaben's obsession over cultist simulator was a strong hint...
>>586325551shhhdo u her thatits the sound ofgetgud
Dead cells for 11€ or 22€ with all dlcs. Worth it?
>>586345790Hard to say. The most fun I had with Dead Cells was at a very particular strata of its early access and the game went in a weird direction past that point. The base movement and combat isn't terrible but it really feels like they should've made an actual metroidvania at some point between the second DLC and the most recent Castlevania, because the roguelike elements get in the way of the actual level design.
Is Wo Long any good?
Shards of Order's final boss is fucking bullshit and i'm not afraid to say it
RATA RATA RATATAN
FUCKING DEAD, LET'S GOOOOOOOfirst time I beat that boss with bunny ratatan
Murder!
fuck that boss though
Damn, these bosses are tough.I might have to do the dishonorable thing and turn on easy mode.
>>586354529Is that a rhythm game?
>>586354601Kinda? It's a rhythm/roguelite game.Very lite on the rogue aspect. It's pretty much Patapon-lite, with similar things to that knight game. Rogue Legacy. As in, you can NOT win on your first try.
Are you bros excitedhttps://youtu.be/upnkhFNuD_w?si=0ciAOBBguT8w3Q4s
>>586357386I'm very aroused, but not thanks to Bitchwrook.
>>586307982Sure
>>586307982Not in a long time. It's gotten too silly with the adult orphans from the adult orphanage going to adult elementary school and playing at the adult schoolyard. But that wasn't enough for the discord trannies in charge of ruining the game. Bad ends have also turned into cringy donutsteel oc romances, and mundane events have developed into embarassingly chuuni chosen one stories.
>>586359341Well what a bummer.Trannies ruining things again.
>>586359430There are forks that restore/fix some of the messed up content and the gameplay fundamentals are still pretty good for a twine game.But yeah, DoL's heydays are over.
>>586359607Another cool thing ruined by the anti-fun brigade.
>>586323550Rude.
>>586307982never went very far on it, because its kinda boring, I just hate the "combat" on this game and some other bullshit
>>586280108I mean that is a "skill" of a sort. Not the type of skill that I'd particularly want a game to resolve around, but in the context of whether success or failure in a given game is luck based I think it counts.
I am here contemplating if I should start a new Graveyard Keeper save, or just play Stardew Valley. Having two ongoing saves, on similar games that are very time consuming, may be a bit overkill. But I am never going to "beat" Stardew any time soon (nor do I want it), taking how open ended it is, and how much content there is.I probably overthink my videogames too much.
>have a list off 300-odd games of varying genres and styles I want to try >keep getting myself dragged into the same style of timesink sandbox citybuilder/survival-crafting/engineering autism games
>>586367768Graveyard Keeper. Finish all the DLC quests too, they will either explain or set the bases for GK2. Which will make you go "Ah, so that explains why X, Y and Z happened". Also you may want to install either QoL for GK1, as it is very slavjanky, or unofficial patches. Same for GK2.>changed to a new SSD and forgot to back up all the screenshots I did
>>586367896You are in a rut then. Try to break it off.
bump
>>586372341its not like the story wasn't already spoiled by the internetI ended up booting up my current Stardew save. I planted fruit trees on my greenhouse, gave gifts to people and stole another egg hunt victory from the little kids. Life is good.
>>586325361Found this one too.Kind of evil.
Fuck you cuntYou will never be a Dark Souls boss
>>586390709>Heart, lungs, liver, nervesEhehe
>>586299859>Game takes place in 1993>Lymbic Invasions happen every 33 years
>Queen's Domain forbidden archive book puzzleEither I am retarded, or there are more than 6 books in the game, because I cant figure out the book order at all, despite most of them going in obvious spots. And because the game is still fresh, cant find any solution online.
>>586392067I'll get there soon enough myself, thanks for leading the vanguard.
>>586384628>its not like the story wasn't already spoiled by the internetWell, at least blogpost about SV. Haven't touched it since '19.
>>586392149Speaking of,>There's nothing here, what the h->E on the weird-looking pot>Well alright then.
>>586393478I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean.
>>586405290My post or the description?Cause my post is just a blogpost.>Dash over a gap to a little nook in the world>Oh, there's nothing here, why?>Hit E on the pile of pots because one of them doesn't look normal, a habit I quickly picked up when I found my first fake wall>Proceed to pull pot up and out of the ground and add to inventory, cause it's a pot on a stick that was buried in the ground
Good nighty.
>>586393157>blogpostI am not very good at that. Well, I am now trying to come up with better colors for my farm buildings. Since I am on the river farm, I thought about using a blue theme. Sadly, we can't color the silos.There is a bunch of the new stuff that I don't remember seeing last played, in 2023 and are probably new. Like there are books now that give permanent buffs and a bookseller, some new cheap crops, like carrots, new farm types, 2 minor fishing events. Every NPC uses different clothes now on winter too.
Sulfur's fun but for some reason I recall the guns feeling better in early access. No sense of impact whatsoever.
>>586412757How does it compare to Selaco?
>>586417354Haven't tried Selaco but much less emphasis on gunplay and movement. It's more of a dungeon crawler with guns than an FPS roguelite.
>>586422081I meant for the weapons impact thing. Guns in Selaco (and Boltgun) feel extremely strong.You know your gun's good when it sends a fully armored baddie flying off.
>>586367896>anon discovers he has a preference
>>586422285I think part of it is the game isn't doing much to make it feel like I'm shooting a gun vs. pressing a button that deals damage to an enemy I'm pointing at. Very anemic, and the art style doesn't help even if it does have mild part damage.
>>586427426Ha, I see what you mean. Kinda like Dusk or Doom where you shoot monsters and they barely flinch.
strongly considering rat game despite having other games I've already bought this weekend
>>586435154I'm weak
>>586435154embrace the rat
>>586449605she's a good rat, that's for sure
>>586449696
diana
The Caestus is fucking hilarious in Queen's Domain.Excellent potential sequence-breaking tool.
what kind of mechanic or feature always gets you interested in a gamei have a weak spot for games that have a sanity/madness meter
Welp that was a solid 7/10. Could have been so much better with a bit of polish but the lack of it really did drag things down.Also the final bits of the plot were confusing, and not in a good way.Why exactly is an adult Carol leading the Corporation? Where/when did she even come from and what's supposed to be the sequence of events here? The generals all act like she's been around for ages but it's not something where all of them are from the future, just somehow her or something?And what the fuck is Umbra supposed to be? I was under the impression she'd be the Corporation Carol but she's like some weird sort of daughter cat homunculus that adult Carol has?For that matter who is Ullr supposed to be? All the other generals have alternate identities but he's just... there?There's ideas here that are interesting and I want to like it, but god you can tell it was written by an ADHD french man who needed an editor badly. Half the time there's mechanics and characters and everything that just don't show up but the game can spend time on that stupid fish captain and the one joke they repeat indefinitely. Like where the fuck did Meng even come from? There was no introduction cutscene for her.
>>586464667Funny, I didn't play the full game, but I had the same impression that this was essentially a melting pot of everything the dev liked, without someone to pass after him and help him focus on the original plan of the game.
>>586465080Yeah by the end of it the game was just a mess. I knew Adult Carol was meant to be the main villain and I was like "oh so she took the rabbit to give it to her kid or something?" but it's Umbra (who again, who the fuck is she? she's some sort of kid but she can control the Nightmare and the game seems to want it to be that she's the one bringing you in and out of it the dimension but she only shows up once?)Like the timeline of events doesn't make sense. It's like the dev just wanted a twist.I feel like it's not even a case of the game being too ambitious anyway. You could rework these elements easily. The dev's just dumb and wanted to recreate Metroid Prime 2, right down to the Ing Emperor's first phase.
>>586465297I didn't push that far, honestly, I found out pretty quickly that while I love FPS, I really dislike third-person shooters, so as far as I know, Onanism is just a game about a girl that dreams of violence and chaos.I'm confused why you bring up Metroid Prime 2, though. And since I really like Metroid Prime 2, I'm going to sharpen my pitchfork and order torch oil in case I need to burn a bitch at the stake.
>>586465468It has a first person mode, I played the entire game that way.It's Metroid Prime 2 because there's an entire level that's just the Sanctuary Fortress, it also has a Dark World you can't stay in for too long unless you're near points of light, and requires you at the end to find six keys in this dark world while fighting dark boss versions of ing-style enemies, and pretty much all of them are copies of Metroid Prime 1 or 2 bosses (chykka, thardus, etc).
>>586464436Viable necromancy/lifesteal
>>586465297Anon you aren't actually supposed to play the game.
>>586465757Oh, that. Yeah but I liked that part. A lot of investigation.
>17.5% won one campaign>1.6% won the second campaign that unlocks upon beating the firstI don't know why I myself put up with it.
>>586461867Fuck yeah. I was already looking forward to it but I love pankration and I love janky sequence breaks due to attack animations. I was going to start tonight but I spent all evening playing Selkie's Salvage instead.
>>586471135>I don't know why I myself put up with it.Because the game was fun perhaps? Just maybe
>>586472754F...Fun?
>>586472779Yes anon, i personally finish only games i find fun, shouldn't it be the...norm?
>>586473190What is fun? I only know of redpilled, and woke.
>>586474126Fun game is when big boobies
>>586475146So not HiT and not Onirism?
>>586475226>and not Onirism?Ironically Onirism has a lot of big boobies.
>>586478636But butts beat boobs.Say that five times quickly.
Thinking of moving most of my crafting stuff inside my house and keep the cabin only for kegs and preserve jars.Once I build more rooms I could have a room for the workbench and furnaces, another for fishing stuff (worm bins, fish smokers, etc.), another for cyrstalariums. Or I could do the other way around and have the house choke full of kegs, it would be close to the cellar.
I've been learning french for a year now and I still think I'm not good enough to play a game like onirism.
>>586482662Onirism is like A2 minimum, more like B1.
>>586482662I don't need to know a word to enjoy Carol's voice acting.
>>586479772>But butts beat boobs.Boop Boop Beep?
I am noiticing a new fad of slop 3d incremental games, following that meme haystack game and bury berry, or whatever.
>>586494113did you see the new big anime tiddy girl pachinko following that trendhigh roller penny or whatever
>>586486029To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Onirism.>>586486279But I want to understand French culture.
>>586494312>high roller pennyTITTIES :D
>>586494696big titties, yeahit's crazy how much you can sell a game if it has big bouncing 2d breasts
>>586495194>find game with cute girl/girl with big titties character>i instantly buy it or wishlist it>repeatYes, i'll eventually buy the big tittied sonic game when it will release
>>586495574my boy will never escape samsara like that
>>586482641its a work in progress
Back on the Queen's Domain grind.Got to the first major boss. It is.. a lot. So I'm grinding a bit (mainly just stocking up on heals).Caestus may be awesome, but it's not super useful in this boss fight, sadly.And while I do wanna keep leveling my Pandora Blade, the fact is it does terrible damage, so it's getting ignored for now in favor of this beastie.
>>586465297He's too busy adding another giant janky tales level to have proper translations sorry
>>586499098Okay yeah, proper weapon use made that miles easier.
Finished CrossCode. Now what?
>>586501302DLC
>>586501663I finished everything, including DLC. I am feeling empty.
>>586501737Ruminate for a while, then move onto something else.Some time of peace and passivity is good for the mind.
>>586501302Good ending?
>>586501737Doesn't that dev have a new game out?
>>586503773It's in EA, so many in like 6 years.
>>586501302>Now what?Lea.
>>586501302Nothing else has scratched quite the same itch for me. Great game.
>>586468274I played it through because, if nothing else, the actual gunplay and movement is really fun.
>>586502572Good.
>>586501302wait for 1.0 of Alabaster Dawn like the rest of us
>>586501302
>>586505430butt
>>586499098I am now in the tower.Some of these monsters are getting pretty brutal to deal with.And I am starting to lose hope in this damn thing ever being useful.
>find video about vintage story>stop at one moment>check logOkay, either this game is brutal as fuck or these people barely talk in the chat. Since they all seem to have microphone and proximity chat, maybe the latter, but still, it's fun to see a log full of players deaths.
>>586513719You never played? Animals and enemies are very bullshit.
>>586517342Nope! I know it's some kind of autistic Minecraft clone, I didn't know monsters were actually dangerous in it.
'MEMBER THE DREAMCAAAAST!!!!
>>586506010relentless sex with this thing
>>586521137you've been too online, that's a human woman
>>586521263no that is a very white woman
Okay, finally tried the Scots in Age of Empires IV.Uncunningly, I picked the Order of the Dragon as an opponent.Pic related. I'm on the left if you wonder how it went.
HOW HIGH DOES IT GO???
>>586461867I'm almost certain it's intended for that purpose, I've gotten to places there's no other way to reach and found shit there
>>58653058187% of 5 is just 4.
>>586530905Ye. I'm exploring the tower now and this place is awesome and terrible. On the 3rd? floor now.Really wish this fucking sword would level cap/ascend/whatever it's eventually gonna do cause I wanna use a better weapon.
>>586319416I have no horse in this race, pirate the thing for all that I care, but I'm going to really second this. Exploration feels REALLY rewarding, the design has some weird charm to it. Dunno it's one of those games that actually do feel like an adventure.
Did not finish the last straw of Hollow Knight (I think last two bosses). Do I need it to play Silksong?
>>586536187No?
>>586536187You're not going to understand the very last minute of the true endingThat's it
>>586536187Not at all, the stories are not that related, Hollow Knight gets referenced a couple of times but honestly, unless you paid plenty of attention to the lore you'd be better watching a couple videos.Now, if you didn't finish HK because it was too hard, you are going to get turbofucked in silksong.
Thank God nothing interesting is coming out this month, i'll prob spend all my free time playing Queen's Domain to make sure i don't forget anything
>>586357386Wow, I remember signing the newsletter years ago, seems to have changed somewhat. Surprised it is still in development, a decade now? My fear for this type of game is the DEI/left garbage direction, and seeing how "diverse" the cast is... Well, we will see when it releases.
>>586472754It was fun, but in a masochistic way. The RNG is just way too skewed, and most of the decent shit is hidden behind EXP unlocks. The mystery events are usually a net negative. There is almost no story whatsoever to be ascertained."It's kind of hard" is just about all it has going for it.>>586473190>Yes anon, i personally finish only games i find funI am not very in touch with my sense of self, so it is entirely possible that I hate it. I'll have to ruminate on it for a few weeks to come up with the answer.
>>586536753I watched many videos and speedruns already.>>586536875>because it was too hardWell, it was too hard, but it was more likely my attention got taken away from the game before I finished. Three times. In the last run, I did manage to finish the colosseum. I think I stopped by the circus bullshit boss before attempting Hollow Knight and Radiance. Are you telling me Silksong will have even more reaction time bullshit? Fuck...
>>586539241As someone who beat HK twice I can say that Silksong is much worse for that, yes.
>Mesmalie has what seems like Red's voice message to Mesmer at the very bottom of the jukebox menu>voice pitch implies that Red is not a guyrip
>>586541287I'm baffled that anyone is surprised of this whole thing. Witches are inherently women. Like, no shit they are women, witches are women.
>>586542080You're new on the internet, no?The bitch who played Rey in Disney's Star Wars complained that her character was called a Mary-Sue, claiming that it was a sexist insult.
>>586542080but he looks like a dude.
any good indies released in 2026?
>>586545819Probably Stolen, Kingdom Inc., Soulmask, Graveyard Keeper 2.Pic not related.
Sell me on Graveyard Keeper.
>>586542080In this game witches are a gender-neutral term. I thought it was made specifically to fit a male protagonist into the narrative
>>586550976Deliberately frustrating Harvest Moon variant. Various NPCs are only available on particular days and the early game is full of wasted time. Shit like being gated on Tuesday by an item at a shop who doesn't open until Friday. Dreary color palette. If you want to fuck around doing errands play Ever Oasis instead.
>>586545819MewgenicsEsoteric EbbTitanium Court if you want to love how a game is made but hate how it's playedMina if you actually don't even like videogames but like to pretend you do and that you are "in"Order of the Sinking Star if you think "Hey I totally would like to play like one fucking thousand sokoban puzzles that sounds like a good ideaQueens Domain is good, as others mentioned here.
>We want to provide the best experience possible with Colossus, and aim to release the final version in its best state. As such, we expect Early Access to continue until around the end of 2027.What the fuck? Early access is a disease. More than a year of expected EA should not be EA.
>>586557650I agree with you. EA has become a public beta and most 1.0 releases are in the state EA was intended before. Even genres where early access makes no fucking sense like metroidvanias or narrative-heavy games where the start is expected to change heavily as design is ironed out are going into EA a year or more in advance. At this point I only buy shit after several months unless I'm effectively willing to kickstart a project that may never exist.
>>586561354>At this point I only buy shit after several months unless I'm effectively willing to kickstart a project that may never exist.Or just look at the state of the game before you buy it?I buy EA games fully expecting the dev to run away with my money after I click buy.>where the start is expected to change heavily as design is ironed outThat would depend on whether you believe that dev vision should be supreme over all else, including player satisfaction. Otherwise this is imo what EA is good for.Though you are also paying to playtest so if that's what you mean then okay.After all, not every game is like Stellaris where it seems like they just change the entire game occasionally. If you have limited resources, you want to know early if your customers just heavily dislikes something.
I'm trying to play In Stars And Time and it's got me so conflictedOn one hand the art is cute, the gameplay is interesting, I like time loop plots, and some of the jokes are good. The party is endearing overallOn the other holy shit dude everything feels so slow and tons of the writing is either obnoxiously twee or levels of tumblr that makes Undertale look like Mein Kampf, I don't mind gay shit at all but ramblings about the merits of being genderfluid do not add to the game and neither does Bonnie overreacting to something for the third room in a row
>>586572207>ramblings about the merits of being genderfluid do not add to the gameThis is very much a "not the target audience" scenario. Said target audience fucking LOVES arguing about the merits of preferred genders and sexualities.
>>586573001I dunno man, it's not the gender stuff itself that bothers me, it's just how heavy-handed it gets sometimes and that applies to a lot of the dialogue in general. Like it's not just that there'll be a gag, it's that there'll be a gag and then the next three lines of dialogue are about how there was a gag there and explaining it to make sure you know there was a gag there.
>>586572207Despite the accolades I also heavily struggle with anything that has that sort of tone. It's a shame because there's a lot of stuff I'd know I'd like if I didn't dislike it, if that makes sense.
>>586544529In some scenes you can see she has boobs.>>586541287I think the protag was originally meant to be female, but was changed last minute to gender neutral for self insertion.There's also one extra scene where the protag is referred with "they".
>>586572207I get you, Siffrin is cute and I want to bent her against a tree and fuck her until she begs for forgiveness, but the whole fantasy land where people can mutilate themselves is creepy.
>>586581516>hersiffrin is a boy with a small and cute dickthe rest is true however
>>586582446girls can have small and cute dicks now, read the patch notes
>>586582446>siffrin is a boyNah, that's a girl. With a deceively round and plump (but not fat) bottom, perfect for holding on while having sex outdoors sex.
>>586582570why must such a cute fruit be stuck in such a tedious game
>>586583485Because if she was in a good game, she'd be all over Rule34, bent over a fallen log in the wood with a thick dick shoved in her ass while she moan.
>>586572207>>586573001>>586581516I thought it handled that subject in an alright way when normally any hint of it is something I can barely stomach at the best of times. It actually integrates it into the setting with literal bodyshaping magic and bothers to go into some of the negative consequences of such a thing being easily available, though if it does clearly lean towards a positive view.
>>586584546I mean, I tried to play the game, but the pronouns just filtered me, I had to refund it.Nowaday I'm a lot milder with that bullshit "they/them", but the idea of a world where you can freely shape yourself still makes me uneasy.
>>586584546It's just a bit much to me
>>586586780That looks annoying to play.
half of my wishlist is "coming "soon"" or TBA and I hate waiting more than almost anything else
>>586587003It kinda is, but it's kind of the point? I mean, the whole game is mostly a narrative game, think Oneshot with some RPG mechanisms.And also the character you follow is a foreigner with big self-esteem issues, so make sure she's finding local customs to be weird.
>>586587287>It kinda is, but it's kind of the point?Why would you play an annoying game in your free time unless you already were in agreement with the game's (seeminlgy) very hamfisted narrative?
>>586587403For the exotism? I don't really care for the American Civil War, but I still enjoy playing Gettysburg.Why do you care so much about narrative in a game meant to introduce you to new fantasy world? Is your comfort area so small that any game that doesn't take place in your hometown, featuring local values and local figures, makes you uneasy?I feel like you're watching a game about spelunking and complaining that it feels claustrophobic.
>>586587660Well it's a shit narrative. Most fantasy games aren't built upon a glaringly shit narrative.
>>586587660>For the exotism?The what? That's not a word.Are you saying it's exotic? Different? That it gives you a different perspective?>I feel like you're watching a game about spelunking and complaining that it feels claustrophobic.It's more "why would you play a game about spelunking if you don't care about spelunking."I literally don't know or care about what this game, all I saw were people bitching about how everything about gender was hamfisted and you were like "yeah it is, but that's the point" and surprised when I said I thought it was annoying and I didn't understand why you'd want to play it.That looks annoying to play. I wouldn't play it. That is my statement. Feel free to do whatever you want with your own time and money.
>>586587768I disagree but you're entitled to your (wrong) opinion.
>>586587768Maybe. But personally, if it's fantasy and it acknowledge it's fantasy, I don't mind it.I'd be more annoyed if the game was meant to be realistic but gender change was still easy or instant. I mean, it's a fantasy world, of course it's going to make allegory to real stuff, like how the Klingons were meant to be a stand-in for communists, with the explosion of their moon meant to mirror Chernoblyat, but I do like how ISAT still has one character being made uneasy by how easily people change themselves in this country.It's "just" local customs, you don't have to agree to it, and clearly it's considered unusual since Siffrin and the other woman need it to be explained.
>>586587973That most fantasy games aren't built upon a shit narrative?
>>586587003It is but mostly because it's a game about time loops and the text fast forwarding function is inconsistent as fuck as to when you can actually use it and there's apparently a lot of permanently missable shit (somehow) and there is a LOT of textFor me at least, it's less an ideological thing and more the gameplay stopping for dialogue once every 30 seconds and each dialogue sequence feels the need to really hammer in whatever it's trying to say even if what it's trying to say is Bonnie acting wacky about snacks for the nth timeLike from what I've played you could probably cut out about a full third of the text without compromising a single detail or joke
>>586588240ah, these are the wok games I've been hearing about.
>>586588240
>>586588240little girl armpits
>>586588258i smiled
>>586587003>>586588240It's designed to make you as tired of things as the protagonist is by the end but that does have the obvious effect of being tedious at times. Something that might be mildly amusing the first time you see it rapidly becomes annoying, and like the protagonist you turn into a bitter asshole actively rushing through things in search of an end.
>>586588643your honor, the terrible writing was in fact, fully intentional and crucial to the story.
>>586588643The fun part is that other characters will notice Siffrin is nodding off and call him out on it.
>>586588643I didn't like the game jerking me around on purpose when Omori did it and I don't like it now but I'll try to push through because I actually AM interested in Siffrin, but this game better have some real payoff for it or I'm gonna be pissy about that review score
>>586589046>this game better have some real payoff for itI think it did, I was very impressed, but then again, this discussion has been nothing but people disagreeing with me, so I'm not sure.
>>586589109maybe you're just the target audience.
>>586589176Nah. As I explained previously, the pronoun shit turned me off and filtered. I could stand the whole body modifications, but pronouns were too much.
>>586589329maybe you just have a tf fetish
>>586589450Turn off the projector, this is embarrassing.
>>586589471>being that defensive yeah you're gonna find yourself gooning to tf porn in a few weeks
>>586589450As someone with a tf fetish if I wanted to play an rpgmaker game to get off to it there are way easier options out there
>>586589471You struck a nerve, he immediatley projected even more.
lol
>>586589450As someone with an actual tf fetish I have to say that is not a reason to play this game. All the transformation is just background stuff rather than something that ever actually happens on-screen.
>>586539241circus is optional and probably harder than hk/radiancesilksong is harder than either from about the third region
>>586550976get a refund
I need more games like Heat Signature that let me fuck around in space while playing as an individual
>>586591961I hate Heat Signature.And I dunno, maybe Rebel Galaxy? You pilot a ship, but you clearly are alone onboard.
>>586591961WTF
>>586592156>I hate Heat SignatureDo you have ANY idea how hard it is to find a game that allows me to get on a ship, walk around it, kill everyone onboard, and take ownership of it and fly it around myselfHeat Signature, Mace Griffin Bounty Hunter, and fucking Starfield are the only candidates I can think of, maybe Space Engineers too even though last I checked all the "NPC" ships just have a control block and fly in straight lines
>>586592293WTFAlso Empyrion if you're fine with 3D ego shooters instead of top down
>>586592293Yeah, but I still hate it. I played a character who wanted to free his mother.I fucked up, and he died.
>>586592691>I fucked up, and he died.That's what's going to happen to most of the characters you play though.
>>586592945I just hate that he tried to save his mother, and I fucked up and he died, and likely so did she.I just can't deal with that.And I can't redo it and make it right.
>>586592519>>586592181wtf does WTF stand for?
>>586593776It's a topdown game like Heat Signature where you play as an individual, build huge spaceships, capture them, walk around them (and stations) and sometimes try space walking and die.
>>586594118>and stationsI'm extremely horny, is it on Steam or what because google is just giving me Waifu Tactical Simulator
>>586594118OH.I was dead sure you were just trolling. Do you have the same game, but with horror elements where you need to clear ships from insane crewmates and horrors?
>>586594380>>586594875Did I mention it also has much better ship damage model than even Starsector? And you can design/tweak your ship internals block by block if you aren't happy with standard hulls. Really cool systems where you have to route power across the whole ship hull, etc. Hell you can even draw your energy shields pixel by pixel. Any part of ship can be damaged in combat or you can even cut ships in half.And yes, it is on steam.The catch is that it's been more or less abandoned by the dev for a long time. You won't find a bigger case of wasted potential. Wayward Terran Frontier.
>>586594957>last patch was 2 years ago>even Steam warns that game has been almost droppedDamn, you know it's bad.THE MONKEY PAW CURLS
>>586594957apparently it's still being updated as of July 2026 but only on the unstable branch
>>586594957>spoilerIt is being updated on the beta branch. Last update was in August and last blog update was this month.It will be finished by 2033 or so.
>>586595112>>586595367Yeah, the game only got buggier in the updates since I last really played it half a decade years ago and nothing of note actually got added.
If your game has a bleed debuff, BUT it scales with your attack stat, do you have an autistic freakout and refund the game because it makes no sense or just continue playing the game
>>586595823You mean >inflict bleed>damage it does is based off your attack statbecause that makes perfect sense, or>receive bleed>damage it does is based off your attack statbecause that's fucking deranged and i have to ask what game
>>586595823Are you talking about Queen Domain bleed status? Im like 20h into the game and I've yet to understand what its supposed to do.
>>586595962>>586597867Okay let's say a giga muscle minotaur pokes you with a needle that does 1 damage but instead of doing 1 bleed damage over time or per turn, it inflicts 9999 damage and kills you because his strength/attack is maxed outLet's also say a weak princess slashes you with the Shadowforged Sword of a Thousand Harvested Souls, dealing 50 damage but instead of doing 100 bleed damage over time or per turn, it does 1 bleed damage over time or per turnSame can be applied to your character as wellWould you still be okay with that
>Want to follow the game developement? There is no devblog anymore. Join the discord.>"Oh, the devs only list to feedback on this EA game on discord." There are no oficial foruns, steam ones are useless.>Bug report? There is no channel for that, not even e-mail. You must report on discord.
>>586604460grosses me out but yeah
>>586604460And discord is among the worst ways to do any of these things.
>Click on a video about Onirism>Pic related in the recommendationsI don't know how to feel about that...
>>586607692is that french for "I felt heads over heels for a pedophile"
>>586607692I am sensing a theme here.Also weird to keep pedo on an older vid but call it predator in the new one.
>>586608129it's the same video dumbassthe title was changed
>>586607692>tu jouses avec datres gens que?Imagine having friends.Anyway now I'm going to have f*minist fr*nch p*litical bs shit on my recommended. >>586607951>is that french for "I felt heads over heels for a pedophile"It seems so, yes.
>>586608129>>586608326Youtube has a system where youtubers can put up to 3 thumbnails and titles at the same time for group A, B and C in order to test which one is the most successful. You guys are just in different groups.
>>586608326...no it isn't, you dear silly person>A pedo at my job, 4 months ago>I fell in love with a predator>>586608705I tested with a few different IPs and it said predator still, I figured she had just changed it because of bullshit
>>586608129good lord she looks insufferable already
>>586607951"I fell in love with a p*dophile" is literally what it says.>>586608872I have the same title as >>586607692.
>>586608872Nah, works for me. It's AB testing.
>>586609109This is why you go for hags and little boys and leave little girls alone unless you're a sociopath who knows exactly what he's doing.
>>586608129cute frogzoomer, would groom>>586609513i always know what im doing
>>586609904if you did, you wouldn't be here
>>586587660I care for games aesthethics.
>>586519573No, actually.
Haven't touched GK2 in like a month or so. There's now Halloween decorations for all the map. There are even some extra cute effects.
>>586604460Shit like this makes me think AM had a point
>>586591961I've heard that some people like 3030 Deathwar Redux - A Space Odyssey but it might not be what you're after.
>>586608129>bumps into her accidentally>"I ALMOST GOT KILLED"
>>586635358should I play GK1 before this, or can I just skip to 2?
>>586650656It tells you the story of GK1 enough to know what is more or less is happening. But the expects you to have played 1 first. Also if you are gonna play 1, install some QoL mods. GK1 has far far far less content, and is a bit more grindy for what you get.
mkay first Queen's Domain ending doneNow i gotta do the giant levels
>>586655321I'm late to the party, I'm only an hour in. Very glad I found the throwing knives. Right now I'm trying to cheese some shit with the aerial movement you get from secondary attacks to make up for the fact I don't have the dash yet.
how's tears of metal?
>>586595823Slash you with a knife, shallow cut. Slash you with a sword, better material, heavier, deep cut, you become vagina man. Woman stabs you with a sword, she is a fucking woman so the perfuration is shallow. Man stabs you with same sword, pulls the sword out and starts running away because he know you'll faint from blood loss in just a few seconds.
>>586656346It's fine (i played the demo for 15 minutes)
>>586656346It's fine as long as you're fine with the very diverse scotts.
>>586662746Same, I hoped someone tried the actual game.>>586662904I mean, I see all Scots as beneath me, so I don't care whether they're highlanders, lowlanders, midlanders, dreamlanders, or sandlanders.
Bump
Thinking about going for Hyper Light Drifter, any thoughts?
>>586678161I think I hate Worst Premade Ever, all because of one person in that team.
>>586678161Phenomenal game, and one of the best soundtracks I've ever heard. I listen to it as an album fairly often. It's a little sparse and simple by modern indie standards but the exploration is good, the pixel art is evocative, and chaining dashes is better than sex. I can't recommend it highly enough. Shame about the studio.
I can continue blogposting with my end-of-month review snippets when we need bumps but recent reactions have been pretty milquetoast so I imagine there isn't much interest.
>>586678853I mean, if the general is dead, stuff like that won't revive it.
>>586679736Fair. There were a couple of times that it's sparked questions or discussion but it doesn't help I'm one of the people more terminally online and I'm not so far as to respond to my own shit. If no one's here no one's here.
>>586679968I mean, for once, I like talking about games, but they're games, you're meant to experience them yourself. It's not like tabletop games where everyone will have a different experience, we'll all end up facing the same monsters and the same dangers.
>>586680221I get where you're coming from but at that point why discuss things at all? People talk about books all the time. People talk about movies. Those are even more linear but still convey subjective experience as the audience interprets them. Someone saying "I played this game and it was busted as hell but I had an okay time" isn't a replacement for playing it but it can introduce you to a thing you wouldn't have heard of otherwise.
>>586682414>>I get where you're coming from but at that point why discuss things at all?I mean, that's pretty much why /indie/ is dead so often. Too many games at once. I could go on an autistic rant about Thief's lore and how I think it's tied to Dominions, but who cares?
>>586678853I will literally never complain about hearing a thought-out opinion on a game someone has actually playedEspecially in the case of indie games which need all the publicity they can get>>586682668>how I think it's tied to DominionsAs in the 4X game?
>>586682883Yes.Anyway, going to get an aspirin. Who would've though that ignoring a headache doesn't make it go away?
why do I have to be so shit at the games that interest me the most
>>586684225elaborate
>>586687743No.
>>586688349pretty please?
>>586687743soulslikes often have interesting stuff to em but I'm total dogshit at themcitybuilders look cool and I like seeing things be built up from nothing but I cannot into civil planningeu4 just takes a steaming piss on me the moment I open the game
>>586689113I'm lucky I don't like the idea of 4X games because I expect I'd also be ass at them. For soulslikes I just had to cut my teeth on them, I have no issue being methodical or stubborn but it takes a while to learn that many of them despite being punishing are kind of easy. You can't be impatient but the good ones reward you for playing at the game's pace.
