What game is a guilty pleasure of yours?

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Theprogressivist@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

What game do you absolutely love that you know yourself is bad, but love it anyway?

For me, it’s Callisto Protocol. Loved that it was just more Dead Space. Not good by any metric but I liked it.

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CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Sometimes I want to blow things up and get headshots. So I’ll see if there’s a Call of Duty on sale and just play the single player. It’s rare though, and at the moment my blowing things up itch is being scratched by Space Marine.

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- FatVegan@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Have you played Titanfall 2? That game is often on sale for 5 dollars and it’s the best single player campaign i have ever played.
  
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  - YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Don’t worry BT I’m not going anywhere
    
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  - CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Yes it’s an excellent game, I enjoyed it thoroughly and played the co-op defense for a while as well!
    
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- dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  This is whybI play Ravenfield. Sure, it’s bots. But an hour session usually scratches the itch for a few months. Plus I don’t have to deal with awful lobbies and trash talk.
  
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  - CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Oh I’ll have to try it out! Added to my wishlist.
    
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ButteryMonkey@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Random my little pony and other young kid games. Hate to admit it but even the paw patrol games are entertaining in this way.
They are short and easy, and kinda junk, nice palate cleanser, and often very cute and encouraging. You don’t know a silly morale boost until you play something that says “you’re doing great!” periodically on the easiest thing you’ve done all day.

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nfreak@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
For a bit it was Destiny Rising, I quit D2 over a year ago but DR does genuinely do a lot of things much better than the base game and directly addresses a lot of my core complaints that made me quit after 10k hours in the first place. Stupid mobile gacha game with predatory monetization out the ass, and I was shrugging aside the handful of AI NPC voicelines.

Needless to say I came to my senses and dropped it entirely on a whim. Can’t support the AI bullshit, I found I’d spent much more than I thought on the game already, and the endgame is entirely just p2w or get a handful of mats you need every 2 weeks.

That entire franchise is just a warehouse full of monkey paws

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EonNShadow@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Love me some Far Cry games

It’s the only time I’ll ever get an Ubisoft game, and usually I’ll pick them up on deep sales

But for whatever reason they just scratch a particular itch

I hated the ending of 5, but it was otherwise alright

6 was whatever, but overall not as bad as the reviews made it out to be imo

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Freakazoid@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Pokemon pinball for the GBA anyone?

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- VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  My god, that game is a masterpiece.
  
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  - Freakazoid@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Indeed, it didnt get the respect it needs.
    
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kazerniel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I guess Genshin also counts. The monetisation is horrible, the character designs are facepalm-worthy, the localisation is so bad it makes me wince, Paimon is the worst, but damn, I love the exploration gameplay, landscapes and music 🤷 (Also it helps that I’m f2p, so at least I’m not supporting Hoyo’s predatory practices…)

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REDACTED@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Escape from Tarkov, but single player (SPTarkov, not the paid upgrade). Lots of controversy surrounding the game, but I quite enjoy it playing at my own pace and difficulty

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- SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  If you got friends, grab project fika mod and enjoy pve with friends. It’s a ton of fun and works great.
  
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- andxz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Same same. It’s a whole other game when you can progress at your own pace and don’t have to worry about resets.
  
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vortexal@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’ve been playing the android version of Bit Heroes. It’s terrible for multiple reasons but I’ve been playing it because the game can be played semi-passively, meaning that I can multitask while playing it. In fact, I’m actually playing it right now while I’m typing this comment.

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Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Recently it’s been Chaos Zero Nightmare on my phone. Yeah, it’s a gacha. Yeah it has some absolutely ridiculous gooneriffic character designs that makes me roll my eyes. Yeah it’s poorly translated and the story is garbage.

But you know what? The actual roguelike deckbuilder game mode is actually a ton of fun. The characters are well balanced enough that I’ve never felt like I was behind on power even with comparably “bad” pulls from the gacha. The game has been generous enough anyway that I have a lot of pulls saved up too. And the mutability and variety in the roguelike mode is just amazing. Tons of combos, tons of variations of every card and tons of opportunities to make niche builds work just because you happened to get one specific rare upgrade variation on one specific card while also stumbling upon one specific neutral card to add to your deck and stuff like that.

And all for the price of free? I can’t complain.

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jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I still say Enclave was a great game. The reviewers at the time absolutely misunderstood it.

Most of the complaints from 2003 are things people love about the Souls games now…

HD version:

cogconnected.com/review/enclave-hd-review/

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Greenbeard@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’ve wasted so many hours looking at tiny circles go up in Game Dev Tycoon

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ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Hentai games are my guilty pleasures in that regard

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- FatVegan@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Are they like good at all or is it just anime girls?
  
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  - ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    There are a few that are actually fun as games, Tifa Tanx2 being the only example that comes to mind, it’s a fun Kung Fu (NES) like beat’em up with easy combos. There are even some work-safe gameplay videos of it on YT
    
    A lot of the games are visual novels, this is where you find a decent variety of styles, though a lot of them use daz3d models, which I don’t like. I’d wager that hentai games are like 60% VNs, 30% RPG Maker, 10% everything else
    
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  - Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    It’s also squids.
    
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zergtoshi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Heroes of Might and Magic III, although I don’t think the game is bad.
What’s bad is that there’s really nothing new to it and yet from time to time I sink lots of hours into a new campaign.
It’s a kind of time machine bringing me back to more innocent times…
For the same reasons I need to beat some computer opponents in Broodwar on Big Game Hunters every once in a while.

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- FarmTaco@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  have you played HoTA? its a community made expansion rebalance of HOMM3, I found out about it this year and I have lost soooo much time to it, new towns new maps new artifacts…
  
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  - zergtoshi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I haven’t and truth be told I wasn’t even aware of it.
    Thank you for your support in wasting some more time with HOMM 🤗
    
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- pathief@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I played a bunch of HoM 3 but I don’t think I understood how to really play the game. That game is a lot more complex than it initially seems and it’s not trivial to me when to add new heroes, explore and split your units.
  
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  - zergtoshi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    What puzzles you is the core of each campaign and highly depends on the layout of it.
    You gotta try and if you fail, try a different approach.
    
    Saving the game from time to time helps avoiding catastrophic failures without having to start from the beginning.
    
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Shotgun_Alice@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Links Awakening, it’s just been a favorite of mine since I was a kid.

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- bravesirrbn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’d downvote this comment because it’s not a guilty pleasure at all, but I’ll upvote it instead because Link’s Awakening is a beautiful game, and I had it as a kid too :)
  
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s3rvant@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Polarity

You’re essentially just trying to make less mistakes then your opponent but the semi-hovering magnets have an awesome table presence

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undeffeined@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
For me is Dragon Ball Dokkan Battle. Its a Gachal so it has its share of nasty monetization strategies and dark patrerns but since its PvE only, its not as agregious as other titles focused on PvP. I really enjoy the Character attack animations and the team building.

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postmateDumbass@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Pocket Pool.

Not to be confused with pocket billiards.

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Tedesche@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Skyrim. Load up some new mods, play a completely different character. The magic of Bethesda’s old games is that they leave the player free to imagine what they are. The upside of having the PC have no personality is that you get to project whatever personality you like onto them. Don’t initiate the main quest, don’t bother with dragons, play pretty much the entire game as if it is your own sandbox. It’s grand.

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kazerniel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
all those Artifex Mundi hidden object games :D

They’re essentially reskins of the same simplistic gameplay and weak stories for like 15 years, but sometimes I still get in the mood for one :D

I love the better ones’ environmental art, but I’d be wary to pick up ones made in the last few years bc I’m pretty sure they started to use AI as soon as it became available, due to the conveyor belt nature of the genre.

EDIT: Ok apparently I was wrong, and they just altogether stopped releasing their games on PC since the pandemic O.o

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urandom@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Lego Tower. It’s a silly game with almost nothing to do. And I put more hours into it than anything else

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thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It’s interesting to see what people genuinely consider to be bad, or maybe they just missed that word? 😅

For me, it would have to be Under The Skin; a solid 6/10 game, in a world where 7/10 is considered average!

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- SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I think some of the people posting comments don’t know what “guilty pleasure “ means.
  
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jaycifer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
2-5 times a year I get really into Enlisted. It’s a really grindy free to play game, it feels like 90% of my teammates fail to work toward the objective, and every other round there’s an enemy player that paid for overpowered equipment wiping us out.

But man, it is a thrill to charge through whizzing bullets to get into the midst of the other team before firing round after round from a lee enfield bolt action. And if I am playing with friends there is constant strategic and tactical chatter that makes it so engaging.

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- murmelade@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Hah! That game is such a mess. It is so ridiculously mismanaged I doubt it will ever leave beta. There’s no matchmaking, most of the lobbys are 50%+ bots and the bots are laughably bad in all the worst ways, every single update they break something and introduce new bugs so every update has a follow-up “oops” update trying to fix what they broke. Oh man I could go on and on but despite everything the actual gunplay and the buildable spawn point tactical meta game is actually very fun.
  
  Oh and the community! A janky Russian f2p with low moderation? Yep. It’s bad. Really bad.
  
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northernlights@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Schedule I. I did everything the game has to offer at the present moment but i still go back to spend an ingame day or 2 making silly drug mixes, selling, doing dumb stuff like pickpocketing cops… It’s just pleasant.

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hpucks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Wrestling games.

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