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- Comment on GitHub - scallyw4g/bonsai: The procedural generation voxel engine 5 hours ago:
Foundry.
- Comment on New Tomb Raider Games Recast Lara Croft With A Gaming Veteran 6 days ago:
2009 onwards.
- Comment on What are some good games to play while sick? 6 days ago:
If you’re majorly sick, I recommend playing a visual novel. They usually do not require much movement or thinking on your part; most only need you to click you mouse or tap spacebar to advance. You can look up a VN that suits your needs here: Link If you want a VN that has a particular genre or theme I can give more specialized suggestions.
Aside from that, you can play some simple automation or puzzle games. territorial.io works well for this. shapez 2 is also a good option.
- Comment on Any games I missed in the last 21 months? 6 days ago:
Sorry about that. Fixed.
- Comment on Why do you hate AI? 1 week ago:
Oh, that’s me. Microsoft gave me backdoor access to your computer so I can play against you.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 1 week ago:
If HL3 ever comes out, it will be a looter shooter with a strange story. In the time skip between 2 and 3, the rebels and Combine sued for peace because it turns out the Combine really are here to help humanity somehow. And most of the game is spent assisting the Combine with invading the very evil Race X homeworld.
- Comment on Any games I missed in the last 21 months? 1 week ago:
I specialize in finding obscure good games.
Alice’s World - Mix between Doki Doki Literature Club and an adventure game.
Astro Colony - Satisfactory in space.
Days Without Incident - Fun small game make by the same guys who made Nightmare House 2.
I also recommend keeping an eye on Fractured Blooms, The Oversight Bureau, Cycle of Struggle Ardengrad, and Advent Dawn. They’re only demos at the moment though.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I personally stick to searching by specific tags to find the hidden good stuff.
- Comment on steam vs gog, which game store to buy from? 2 weeks ago:
I use a decision tree to determine which platform to buy from, by going down this list and selecting the first platform that fits my requirements.
- Steam: If the full game is on there, buy. If the game needs an extensive patch to provide all the content, buy from another platform.
- itch: If the full game is on there, buy.
- GOG: If the full game is on there, buy. If the game needs an extensive patch to provide all the content, buy from another platform.
- JAST USA: If the full game is on there, buy.
- DLSite: If the full game is on there, buy.
- DMM: This platform is annoying to buy from since they dislike foreigners. If the full game is on there, buy.
- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 2 weeks ago:
I nominate DLSite and JAST.
- Comment on It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it 2 weeks ago:
Harry Potter and Sorcerer’s Stone for PC was pretty good.
- Comment on I'm doing a public playtest of my game based on one of the most disturbing real life experiments in psychology! Need playtesters, please leave a comment if you want to sign up in Steam 2 weeks ago:
I’ve requested access. Looks promising.
- Comment on Palworld dev isn’t impressed by "so-called" AAA, prefers indies since they "include the kind of systems you can’t find in other games" 2 weeks ago:
I don’t really do racing games, but Distance is the best one I’ve played.
- You get community maps from the workshop.
- There are some very cool jumps to do.
- You can also train your gripfly skills. Basically, it’s where you flip your car and use the thrusters to fly. Gripfly is a useful technique, but hard to master.
- An excellent soundtrack.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I know of a major gameplay innovation in the past 5 years, though it’s incredibly unpopular to many.
AI2U features NPCs that are run by Azure AI. The goal is to make the ChatGPT NPC do what you want so you can solve the escape room.
This gameplay feature hasn’t really caught on, but I’ve only seen it be used recently.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I’m a Latino? How exciting!
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
When you lose your job in the US, you lose your health insurance. You’re screwed if you need an operation done when you’re unemployed. And people in a union tend to be the first to go for talking back.
- Comment on What the democrats just did. 5 weeks ago:
I hear stocks on spelunking equipment is going up.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 5 weeks ago:
I read a Chinese visual novel where society actual DID manage to eradicate humanity’s greed/lust for power.
The biggest issue with the depicted society is that people live out their lives in ways deemed safe by the state. No one who lives in the society sees any problem with this, since their needs are cared for, and they’re allowed to freely pursue interests the state considers safe. The society determined that any culture that existed before their rise to power has to be destroyed or locked up - introduction of such items can have a majorly destabilizing effect, and bring greed/lust for power back.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 5 weeks ago:
Fallout 4. I could never bring myself to finish it. The furthest I ever got was just before the Mass Fusion mission between the Institute and the Brotherhood, with the Railroad already dead. I just couldn’t summon the will to continue. In ever playthrough after that, I rush to Nuka World, finish a few parks there, and call it quits again.
- Comment on ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Is Postponed Again — to November 2026 1 month ago:
If I do, I will probably play it for around two weeks. That’s when I expect anti-cheat to get me.
- Comment on Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 1 month ago:
“The players are obviously insane and confused. The AI is always right.”
- Comment on Some hidden gem demos and games I've found on Steam (2025) 1 month ago:
Yeah, connecting Fractured Blooms to DDLC is a bit of a stretch. The only connection I can see would be the voices Angie gets in her head. The best way I would describe it would be Animal Crossing meets SCP Foundation.
- Comment on Some hidden gem demos and games I've found on Steam (2025) 1 month ago:
SCP - Entity from the SCP Foundation franchise
MC - Main Character
DDLC - Doki Doki Literature Club
VN - Visual Novel
- Submitted 1 month ago to games@lemmy.world | 13 comments
- Comment on For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big? 1 month ago:
I say density, though Elite Dangerous puts a spin on how large the map should be.
In Elite Dangerous, most of the galaxy is unexplored. The Bubble (human inhabited area) is fully explored, which steadily dwindles as you go to about 1k ly outside the Bubble. Out there, you’re basically on your own.
When you explore and map unexplored areas, you actually get some money depending on the quality of your finds. If you find some Earth-like planets, for instance, you can get a lot of money from exploring. There is also an inexhaustible supply of systems to explore, so there’s no need to worry about running out.
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 1 month ago:
Another game with interesting worldbuilding is White or Black (by ZeroCreation).
In that one, humanity nearly destroyed itself after an incredibly devastating WW3. Therefore, to avoid the constant Cycling of Empires, a band of philosophers and religious people tried to make one final civilization that lasts forever, which completed its rise to world domination in the late 21st century. Some interesting tidbits about this final civilization:
- The final civilization restricts learning and innovation to things it deems safe to consume. It considers certain works to have a destabilizing effect on people, so it only allows trusted individuals to use them to achieve the civilization’s goals.
- The human species in the far future now engages with symbiosis with another species. As far as I can tell, these future humans mainly photosynthesize.
- Emotion is considered to be an outright SCP. The final civilization allows some of it, but too much can make areas uninhabitable.
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 1 month ago:
The Pegasus Expedition
The worldbuilding is mostly based around the Pegasus Galaxy and how humanity wants to exploit it. The premise is this: Humanity is getting torn apart by an aggressive alien race called the Colossals, so they sent three fleets to the Pegasus Galaxy to get some resources and reinforcements. These fleets consist of the Middle East, the US, and the EU (the EU is playable); the Chinese fleets are instead holding the line by Earth.
When humanity enters the Pegasus Galaxy, they get a very frosty reception. They appear in an organization’s territory who immediate try to push the humans back to their portal. The organization is instead wiped out by the humans, and the organization’s bosses - resembling the Roman Empire - tells humanity to back off or the Empire will kick them out.
There’s some politics stuff that happens in the Middle Eastern and US fleets later on, as well as a Flood/Thing-esque crisis that shows up. In the end, the EU gathers up all of its new friends in the Pegasus Galaxy to push through Flood/Thing turf and rescue the humans on Earth.
The gameplay is a bit dodgy but I think the worldbuilding and story are rock solid.