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It’s top down Noita, or BoI+Noita. I have 1k hours and am still discovering new effects and combinations every run, it’s nuts!
Pro tip: I wanted to milk it for all its got, so after reaching endgame content, I started a new toon and limited myself to 2 wands and no upgrades to life mana, starting stuff like keys or coins. Just “tentacle girl” updates and it’s been really good. I die because of mistakes, not because of balance. Otherwise, you’ll get a bit too strong and steamroll every enemy and boss at some point (100 hours in or so).
Striving for Light. It’s the only real hybrid I have found between an arpg and a roguelite. A bite-sized PoE if you will.
Otherwise, in more or less the same genre, Magicraft (my GOTY 2024) and a tiny bit of Hellclock, tho it has yet to hook me because so far it’s boringly easy - I’m still very early in the game.
I tried it when it was free, and had a hard time climbing the wall in the tutotial because full stamina was JUST enough to make it. If I was asked why I put it down after an hour, that would have been up my list.
I get stamina and sometimes think it makes the game better, but in a parkour fantasy, IDK, surely didn’t make it more fun for me.
It’s so good I stopped playing half way and installed mods to make it harder, imposed some self-restrictions and made it work in VR (Vorpx) so that I can be fully immersed in the experience, reading all the logs which I never do in games and try to milk every bit of this masterpiece. I have not finished it yet, but it’s still the best game ever made in my book.
And to think I took like 4 years to buy it and thought the trailers made it look boring as hell - I was new to immsims back then…
I’ll say it again: masterpiece.
Planetside 2.
The whole game is an anomaly, plagued with some pourly addressed design challenges and a bit of jank, BUT, it is also wonderfully unique, has everything you could want in a shooter, instant action, high skill ceilling and it ruined gunplay for me with its longer TTK and deep shooting/bullet mechanics (most other shooters are just point and click by contrast).
Unless you start using Vorpx, then you get a lot of masterpieces to play in VR. As much as I lived Alyx and other real VR games, I have a hard time putting it down with racing games like Burnout Paradise and Carx (with VR and wheel), or Prey which actually feels like it was made for VR.
I truly don’t recall playing a real VR game in the last 2 years.
Any format that ensures I can play it today or in 10 years. Most games I buy on Steam and when the GOG or pirated verson gets released - even if it’s years later - I get a backup.
Recently Last Epoch, which currently has a full offline mode, might not stay that way for long with the acquisition from whatstheyface, so I still play the Steam version but have a fit girl I know provided me with a nice fallback if I ever need it…
They are ok with murder and war simulation then? ROFL Smells like another religious pressure group tbh, haven’t looked into them yet.
They should go after all violence in games and media then; we’ll see how well they can fend of the pressure… Not sure if they have the ressources to survive that, so I would LOVE to see them try.
Thing is, if you ever have to reinstall it or forget to put Steam in offline mode, you’re getting the update.
I wonder if it can launch directly from the exe, so we can just keep a copy until a future update removes that option. I’ll check it out when I get home.
It’s my goto arpg, so if things turn to shit, I sure don’t want to lose access to it.
While you wait, get Lossless Scaling, an app that generates frames for your ganes when they dip. That way, you can get much higher fps even on mid-low tier hardware.
It’s the best $10 I’ve spent on Steam.
Just run it on adaptive, cap your games at 30-45 fps and turn vsync off. Boom: you’re rubning at your monitor’s maz hz 99.9% of the time (165 fps here).
Shit live services, don’t give them money for it or say goodbye to owning games.
Some really nice games on that list too!