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It’s over a decade old and hasn’t had an update in equally as long, but I really like playingMe And My Shadow from time to time. It’s a 2D platformer where you have to control 2 characters, but the darker shadow version of you can only move if you record their movements by pressing the space bar and moving/interacting with objects and pressing space when you’re done to see it move.
It also has a built in level editor and a couple of levels/level packs made by other players.
What’s the name?
I’m confused. If you’re talking about the name of the game, I had said it’s Me And My Shadow. If I didn’t make that very clear, that’s completely my fault.
Haha I just thought you were describing the plot of the game. My bad!
Little fighter series
Factorio. Sure, it’s universally hailed as a great game, but I still call that underrated. Yes, I’m a cracktorio addict, how could you tell?
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I *sort of *understand what you mean. Factorio is a complete labour of love. I can’t think of a developer who respects their playerbase more than Wube. The fantastic optimization, the way they’ve handled mods and bugs, the FF blog and overall communication, just everything about them is awesome. So maybe I’d agree Wube is underrated? Factorio sold extremely well and has great reviews, so calling it underrated is just strange.
That game is definitely not underrated
Stacklands. Card based colony builder. Cheap, simple premise, but loads of fun
That looks interesting. I’m going to get it. Thanks.
Everything by sokpop is amazing and really cheap
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead. It’s a free, classic-style roguelike that has a massive amount of options. The game takes place in the near-future following an apocalyptic event that has turned most people into zombies. There’s also Lovecraftian horrors, Fallout-esque military installations guarded by robots, the ability to be a furry (like, with a full costume. Or you can get mutagens and transform yourself into an animal hybrid.), vehicle and structure building, and you can even milk cows. It’s updated daily if you want to play the latest test builds, or you can stay with the latest stable build. There are various overhaul mods and loads of single-feature mods. It’s one of my all-time favorite games, and I tend to go back to it every few months.
Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure.
It’s a very cute action RPG made by the developers of the Ys and Trails series.
I replay EV Nova (Arpia plugin, of course) every few years and just absolutely love it.
I’ve been playing Endless Sky recently which is a FLOSS clone of EV. it’s good but I really can’t get the hang of the combat.
This one is a real lost gem for me, I haven’t thought about that game for probably 15 years.
It’s still around! And there’s a little discord full of super nice people who still play it and mod it and maintain a new forum.
Could you give some details? Maybe an invite link? I can only seem to find expired links to any EV Nova discord that google turns up.
https://discord.com/invite/uNYFHHf6
Snowrunner. A great combination of both chilled-out & stressful, driving massive diesel trucks at 5mph through woods and rivers delivering logs or girders.
The fact there’s no big story and almost zero dialog, just assignments and map markers mean it’s a superb ‘podcast’ game - something you can put it on while you listen to some podcasts / audiobooks.
Not that the game is boring or just a distraction. It’s incredibly satisfying finding the best way to navigate through a horrendous woodland or swamp and get all your cargo through safely.
Plus, it has some of the best landscape physics out there. Rushing water really feels accurate. Mud paths get distorted so that it’s harder to get through on your way back than before you churned it all up.
A great game. 100s of hours I’ve sunk into that thing.
Their upcoming game looks absolutely amazing by the way.
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Love SnowRunner, and i do play it mostly with podcast or stream open on second screen. Wish I could have a real manual transmission with clutch and all, chassis flexing and better asphalt friction. These would make it even more amazing
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Lunacid. Been following this game for a while now and managed to get the true ending a while ago. Phenomenal game. 100% recommended if you enjoy the King’s Field games.
Evoland 2: A game paying homage to the history of rpgs, and has a fairly solid set of main characters.
Lenna’s Inception: A 2D Zelda clone about the world glitching out and you taking the place of the main character.
Bastion: First game from Supergiant Games (makers of Hades). Fantastic music and voice acting. Fairly good story too.
I will be checking that out, thank you for the tip.
I hope you enjoy it! Fair warning ahead of time it does have multiple endings, and the good one will probably take a second play through, though it’s not particularly long.
I think it’s worth noting that Lenna’s inception is procedurally generated, for better or worse.
It’s somewhat randomized, but not procedurally generated in the typical sense. There’s a set number of dungeons that will appear in the same general regions each time. Along with a set order of doing the dungeons.
I feel like Bastion is probably appropriately rated, given that it is very popular, and I think made it onto atleast a few game of the year lists when it was released.
As someone who replayed it recently, I also feel like it did not age gracefully.
That’s a bummer to hear, what stuck out to you as aging badly?
I feel like I remember it not seeming super replayable, because of the whole narrator doesn’t repeat lines schtick.
The gameplay. Aesthetically the game is fine. But the actual hack and slash elements feel very barebones. It almost feels like a mobile game. And the vibrant chunky isometric graphics, level design, and town building lite elements kinda sell that feeling further.
Ooh, this is my favorite topic to discuss! But I’ll keep this short because it’s late and I should be asleep by now).
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If you like Lunacid, give King’s Field: The Ancient City on PS2 a look, it’s by FromSoft, and you’re definitely a lot less mobile in that game, but the styles are very similar.
Valheim has some hump.
The 2008 Prince of Persia.
What was expected to be a start of a series revival, flopped and ended up with a kinda messy PC port, platform exclusive DLC epilogue and eventually abandonment in favor of return to sands of time mythos.
Meanwhile it is my favorite entry in the series - with amazing art direction, and lovely character development and vocal performances by two main characters. The gameplay is a cross of guitar hero and parkour - it’s much more rhythm based and perhaps less expensive, but pulling off a perfect run feels soooo good.
I love the game so much that even though I’m not a YouTuber, I created a full playthrough and published it - just so I can stop wanting to play it again every few years.
And a quick, lore-correct “quick-load”. Ut feels really good to try again without gaving to explicitly reload.
I had a game breaking bug that prevented me from getting into the end game boss area. I was disappointed. The rest of the game was fun from what I remember
Although loved by all that play it, I haven’t seen much about Rhythm Doctor. If you like rhythm games, this is a must play.
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in front of your link. It’s messing it up. I think that’s only for image links.This is what I see:
Thanks!