I still gotta beat Gerson and finish ch. 4 tho πŸ™ƒ

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[–] 1 point 4 months ago

Isnt it fun how most of these are indie games

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    [–] 92 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    It's amazing just how much better games have been from indie devs and smaller publishers. I don't see a single game from EA, Ubisoft, or Activision on there.

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  • [–] 37 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Indie devs don’t have to deal with interference from suits who are obsessed with cost cutting and wholly out of touch with what people want

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  • [–] 24 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Cost cutting and designing for the lowest common denominator. Suits are afraid to take risks, because they want to sell to the widest possible audience. So they end up playing it safe and making bland milquetoast games that all feel exactly the same.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago

    In fairness even if a big studio released a great game, enough people would either try it and not like it, or just give a bad review because it's EA, that it wouldn't make this list.

    Indie games don't have that problem.

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  • [–] 35 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    I'm a little shocked by how few of those I've even heard of

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    The fact that Wolfquest, an educational game from the 2000s is on there, is absolutely mind blowing to me. I remember playing that game as a kid with my sister and it being beyond a buggy fun mess lol.

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  • [–] 25 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    honestly surprised so few people mentioned deltarune during the GOTY discussions

    maybe because it’s not technically fully released yet?

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    Personally, I hate partial releases so I haven’t played it yet, despite loving Undertale.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    Hate to say it, but you might be missing out on something you won't ever be able to experience again afterwards. It's like with episodic releases of TV shows, half the fun is sitting with friends discussing and overthinking what just happened while you wait for the next episode. Being there too long after community wide revelations, you can't experience that head space of mystery and surprise again. Deltarune handles the episodic releases very well honestly, I'd understand if it was a series of bad partial releases.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Agreed, as much fun as I've had playing the game itself, there's a lot of fun and magic talking with my kids about it and sharing theories and stuff, watching videos about theories and discoveries, anticipating what will happen next, all that. Then again I'm older, so the wait doesn't feel as long as I'm sure it does to younger folks

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    wait tell me about bongo cat

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    It counts the keyboard taps & cursor clicks (optional) that you make, and your desktop pet cat taps whenever you type/click. As a reward for your tippity tappity productivity, you periodically get random cat costumes and skins. You can also buy/sell the costumes & reskins on the steam community marketplace.

    It doesn't work on Linux for me (mint btw), but I use it on my school laptop

    I'm not sure how segregation/listening of inputs works between software in Linux, but if there's a way around it to get bongo cat to work... πŸ‘‰πŸ‘ˆ

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    X11 lets any window constantly monitor keyboard input in the background, but in Wayland, only the active foreground window can by default. I unfortunately don't know of a trivial workaround to allow that currently.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago

    This is a fine list of games to play.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Rhythm Doctor is a good rhythm game. My only real complaint is that it's short. I would have liked more levels that gradually increased the complexity of newly introduced mechanics. You get a short tutorial and then it's straight into the frying pan! And some mechanics are only in a single level!

    Other than that though... Loved it. Great game. I get the songs stuck in my head a lot!

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    If you need more, there're A LOT of custom levels.
    You can find them in either https://rhythm.cafe/ (better levels overall) or the Steam Workshop integration. (is more shitty).

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Oh yeah I know that. I meant as a progression sort of thing. There's little ramp up to new mechanics most of the time. Sometimes there's tutorials for new mechanics on the boss levels!

    But like I said, I still love the game. It's just something I noticed.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    That makes perfect sense. I can't imagine anyone who wouldn't like it would try it

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    There are some insanely random games in there

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Warms my nub to see Nubby at nubmber 9 πŸ₯²

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Haha, Wobbly Life.. my kid picked it to spend Nintendo gift card money on. It's like GTA for kids, big open city map, drive cars around, do little jobs, respawn quickly when you get thrown across the map because you got hit by a train

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago*

    Am I missing something about wobbly life? All the reviews are great on xbox and its mad popular. I tried it and its just so much nothing. Worse than nothing, janky controlled nothing.

    But then like its so popular and well praised that im sure im wrong here.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Clicked on steam "parallel story to Undertell".

    Cool. I've heard of Undertell before, I should maybe get that first to play. "Click". "This game is already in your steam library".....

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Oh wow, its amazing you've never played it yet. Go in blind. A life changing game.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    I usually try to go in pretty much blind to anything I play or watch, but I watched a gaming related YouTube video that flipping ruined what I really would have wanted to not know about undertale.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Not expecting dream bbq! It's not the most mechanically complex game but big ups to joelg

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    I keep expecting to find some gnarly shit like was in the previous game and I haven't found it. IDK if it's just not there to find, or if the shit is even more esoteric than before.

    I'm also quite confused by the fan tributes and favorites. Not against it, or anything, I just don't understand things like why Mr. Tenna is so popular. πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    If you're looking for gnarly shit, I highly suggest playing the weird route. When you start a new chapter 2 save file, backtrack

    spoilerwhen noelle first joins your party. Then try using her ice magic.

    The deltarune wiki has an article detaling exactly how to get it (you will get mildly spoiled): https://deltarune.wiki/w/Weird_Route/Chapter_2

    Chapter 3 doesn't really have content exclusive to this route, and in chapter 4 it will be obvious what you beed to do.

    I agree about Tenna. Most of the fandom's favourite characters are secret bosses or incredibly obscure and mysterious. If you don't do a 100% playthrough you don't get the full story of deltarune, it's sad.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Nice. I've played two of these (Schedule I and Abiotic Factor).

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Suit for Hire is my GOTY

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Nice. I heard it was a good game

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Who the hell out there is leaving a negative review on Schedule I? Are there actually Drug Dealer Sim fanboys?

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    5k ish negative reviews and they seem to come in two flavors, multiplayer bugs and too repetitive.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    It may indeed be repetitve but Its so satisfying. Yesterday at midnight I told myself I would just sell some more Sweet Smegma and call it a night but next thing I know its 2 AM and it only felt like 10 min.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    WolfQuest RP servers were not what I thought they'd be. They are definitely not playing the season through cooperatively but without using the chat.

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