Chess
Runs on Linux… my arm hurts
The graphics aren’t smeary… My arm fell off but it’s still jorking it
Escape from duckov
Just bought this. Really looking forward to diving in
Plenty of those TBH. Only a few dick companies add micro transactions, easy to avoid.
4/5 are irrelevant to most games I play tbh. Factorio story is simply automate the extermination of the bugs.
Trainsaw. Always trainsaw
Story Characters and Looks. I count three irrelevant metrics. What is the fourth? Have you not found Factorio yet or have you downloaded the pirated version with added microtransactions? 😄
I meant 4 and 5, but yeah agree with looks as well actually. Really the most important is that the gameplay is fun, and I find microtransactions significantly reduce how fun a game is to me.
I often return to playing ESO and the ingame shop is the main cause of me quitting again. Never bought anything in it, repeatedly seeing “buy this for premium money!” and after a while I just want it to fuck off and uninstall again.
congratulations you found indie games
Knowing my luck it would turn out to be a PvP game.
Bless your soul for including the meme template!
Still sends you to gulag.
I didn’t know Jesus was a commie smh my head
He doth shareth
Beat me to it! thank you!
You might be interested to know this scene is a homage to the Looney Toons short, Feed the Kitty (apologies for the YT link)
Game must be for DOS with all those green flags
First thing that comes to mind, last game I played: Hades 2.
Absolum is fantastic too. After my first 3 or so runs i loved it, but thought that the game hasn’t enough to offer to keep me playing. And i’m still playing, i almost 100% it, which isn’t something i usually do a lot.
And suddenly you notice you’re back in 1995
This is me after modding out all the elements of Cyberpunk I hate.
Its weird, but Cyberpunk took such a while to grow on me because the gameplay near the start is super unfun because of how weak your starting weapons are and how spongy the enemies are.
Like if you play on the easier settings, the AI are just brain dead stupid, but at very hard, the enemies at first take forever to kill and its just a boring game of shooting, hiding behind cover and healing, waiting for your heals to recharge behind cover, and repeat.
The game basically only starts to truly be fun in my opinion in Act 2, which is kinda the majority of the game without any spoilers.
spoiler
I will never meet Hanako at Embers
Atomfall was a bit of fun though. Clearly not a game of the year candidate but fun, no MTXs and the best difficulty settings I’ve ever seen. You get so many options to remove or add things that you find fun or don’t find fun.
Like, I realized I wanted to collect all of the [thing I don’t want to say for spoilers sake] so running out of breathe while running just became annoying because it was never a combat constraint in the first place, so it only served as a minor realism boost. Turned that off pretty quickly.
No Man’s Sky and Satisfactory keep me coming back. Cozy and itch scratching without being harassed for the latest microtransaction.
That said, if a game does have microtransactions without jamming them at my eyeholes, and I’m not missing anything without them, also acceptable.
I felt this way with Baldur’s Gate 3.
100% I first 🏴☠️my way through bg3, then was like “bruh I genuinely wanna get the achievements this is so good wtf” and ended up buyin*on steam, but even was still so over satisfied that I sprung for the deluxe upgrade
My first thought was “I haven’t experienced this since Final Fantasy XII,” but you’re right.
Edit: wait, it says “story is great,” disregard my FFXII comment 😆
Hades
Also Hades 2
