The old Deus Ex and Endless Space are the ones I listen to the most.

It’s review, but written in similar looking Cyrillic letters.

Katawa Shoujo is a great game, it helped me a lot with my depression.

They’ve been eating Paradox’s lunch for a while now.

To be honest, “If it’s not giving me what I wanted out of this transaction, then it’s bad.” is a heuristic that works well for most things we buy. If I buy candy and it doesn’t taste good, it’s bad. If I buy a car and it breaks down, it’s bad.

I think the real problem is that some people see games as a product and others see it as an art piece. Some games fail at being either, some succeed at both.

I wish you managed a dynasty of people sort of like CK, but with more emphasis on life rather than war.

Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic flashbacks intensify.

Good guy Steam.

Yes, but it is also possible to buy the IP without buying the company.

Well then, maybe they shouldn’t have bought them to begin them?

Just finished my 260 hour Xendar’s mod playthrough on Factorio.

Thinking of playing Pyanodon’s, but my start is giving me second thoughts.

This game will be either very good or very bad.

Just got Snufkin: Melody of the Moomin Valley

Originally for my wife, but she got annoyed by the movement too fast. My favourite review of the game so far:

"In this game you will play as the world famous criminal and ecoterrorist Snufkin.

Snufkin is unemployed but charismatic traveller-musician helping various interesting creatures of Moominvalley, all while sabotaging typical autocratic right-winger Hemulen’s plans on making up mundane rules and destroying everything good and beautiful.

Cops in the game are represented evil and stupid, as they are in real life, so I would recommend the game for the whole family as educational game.

On the serious note: Gameplay is fine for this type of game. The core is in the atmosphere, dialogue and sound design which all are great. So far the experience has been smooth, fun and relaxing. Would recommend, but adults should not expect much challenge here."

Seems like current game companies either blow millions on marketing a broken game, or spend nothing on it and then bitch and moan about how nobody knows about it.

Brew a bunch of Fortify Intelligence potions, drink them, brew some more, repeat. Later make Fortify Strength potion, gives 1000+ strength for over an hour, one hit kill everyone.

I have played that game in early access and it was pretty good. The devs really listened to the players to make it better.

I think India landed a probe on the Moon for less money than what was spent on SC.

The older I get, the more things this is true for.

I did those changes myself to make the game a bit easier.

Xendar is a lot like Bob’s mod, but even more realistic. Instead of iron ore, you get a banded iron formation. Instead of copper, you get a porphyry copper deposit to mine, etc.

Instead of a straightforward advancement through tech, where you mostly upgrade the electronic circuit, you also have to make and upgrade alloys and electric motors, some materials and products have more than one recipe, typically a convenient one and an efficient one, etc.

For example, I am currently making rubber from wood and sulphur, but I am planning to make it from BTX, an oil product, and sulphur, because you can’t farm trees in this mod and having vulcanised rubber leads to red belts and a better first tier electric motor recipe.

I am playing with the Xendar’s mod, richer ore patches, no creepers, just built blue science, now planning to upgrade my plastics/oil/rubber setup.

I think that the steep price doesn’t help. 50 euros for a turn-based strategy game when a lot of older, better known games are available is hard to justify. Steep competition from cheaper indy titles like Xenonauts 2 is not helping them either.

If I get the game it will be when it has a large discount.

:D

every ad I see somehow makes me want it less.

That is called reactance bias. Being advertised or pressured to do something leads to want said thing less.

I play it on PC. I don’t think I could beat it on mobile either, it is hard enough to keep track of counters on all these cards as it is.

My personal favourite that fits the description but was not mentioned yet is Cultist Simulator.

A thing, a place, an attribute, a person or feeling: all of these are cards.

Talk, work, travel: those are special containers called verbs.

And this simple setting gives you a lot of freedom. Upgrade your abilities, hoard esoteric lore, recruit people into your cult, raid vaults for goodies, summon an alien demon to get rid of your annoying boss and try to become immortal.

Takes a bit long to master due to how opaque some parts of it are though.

This is my most anticipated game of this year.

P.S. Buying on first week means you will get all future DLC for free.

I am going to buy Book of Hours on release day because I really liked Cultist Simulator and it’s lore.

Businesses should automate the executives instead of labor.