Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing?
Trail@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A little bit of Brotato and Slice and Dice because I need to be one-armed when holding the baby and is sleeping on my shoulder.
Otherwise, a bit of Dota2 lately. I have to finish up on Tainted Grail on the backburner.
cod@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We just found out a couple weeks ago that my wife is pregnant with our first child, I suppose I’ll need to start looking for games I can play one-handed
Trail@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Congratulations!
Anectodally from other fathers in my cycle, roguelikes are the genre for dads now. Especially things like Slay the Spire, Monster Train and the like.
You are generally a bit sleep deprived, because you have to sacrifice sleep for entertainment, therefore you tend to prefer one-off games then end in about an hour or so, instead of story rich games like bg3, because you don’t have the energy or mental capacity to remember what’s going on every time you begin a gaming session.
After a while, about a year in, things settle a bit and you start more complex one-off games, like dota, path of exile and so.
Second child and on, maintain same pattern because you already know how to handle things with the kids. It’s a lot easier.
cod@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Thank you!
Fair enough. I haven’t played many roguelikes before, I suppose I’ll have to get into them. I know there were two you mentioned in your comment, are there any more you’d recommend? Specifically for someone without much experience in the genre
Trail@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Eh, it is not a genre by itself, I was referring to roguelike as more of an archetype of short, repeating game loops that have progression by unlocking things and increasing difficulty.
As for the genre itself, you can have many different types of games. As I said, slay the spire is probably the best deck building game, monster train is similar in some ways but is more tower-defense like and more combo-y, slice and dice is tactical dice-based, Brotato is more arcade-y rpg-like combat. Hades is tactical arcade combat, but needs two hands. Balatro is poker-card-based combo-y puzzle. Dungeons of dredmor is a bit older but very fun actual Rogue-like game. Caves of Qud is similar but very complex and deep and harder. Inscription is another fun card-based game, but is more of an one-off mysterious experience rather than repeatable a lot.
You can certainly find something that interests you.