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Humble Choice - September 2024
September 2024's Humble Choice is now available with the following eight Steam games.
| Steam Page | Opencritic | Steam Recent/All | Operating Systems | Steam Deck | ProtonDB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy | 82 | 91/94 | Win | ❌ Unsupported | 🟨 Gold |
| Stranded: Alien Dawn | 82 | 82/85 | Win | ✅ Verified | 🟨 Gold |
| Coral Island | 83 | 83/87 | Win | ✅ Verified | 🎖️ Platinum |
| SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake | 70 | 90/92 | Win | ✅ Verified | 🎖️ Platinum |
| Lost Eidolons | 70 | 68/71 | Win | ✅ Verified | 🟨 Gold |
| Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles | 87 | 90/92 | Win | 🟨 Playable | 🎖️ Platinum |
| InfraSpace | N/A | 82 | Win, Mac | 🟨 Playable | 🟨 Gold |
| You Suck at Parking® - Complete Edition | 70 | 81/88 | Win | ❓ Unknown | 🎖️ Platinum |
Does anyone have experience with any of the games and, if so, would you recommend them? Is there anything in here that you're particularly excited to play?
I've said this before, but I feel like Humble Choice is a great litmus test of how Proton is doing with Linux compatibility. This month in particular is a perfect example of just how far Proton has come and how great it currently is: not a single native Linux game in the bunch, but we've got 4 platinum and 4 gold games according to ProtonDB!
The only one I've played is You Suck at Parking. I can give it a soft recommendation. It's got a cute aesthetic and a novel idea: you have a limited amount of time to park in all the different parking spots in a level. It's much more of a "precision driving" game than a "racing" game -- properly braking to not over/undershoot a parking space it its own essential skill.
The levels are inventive and quite challenging. Skilling up in the game feels good. I didn't put too much time into it, but if you like the formula, then there's a lot to like here.
The gameplay itself is probably better than its review scores let on -- there are a large number of negative reviews criticizing the game's monetization strategy and microtransactions for cosmetics. I think (but am not sure) that those were removed for the Complete Edition.
With that title, I honestly would probably have turned down You Suck at Parking without even looking at it. It does sound really fun.
Sadly the only other game I'm really interested in is Lost Eidolons, but to be honest it's more of the idea of the game than the game itself. The graphics look nicely polished for the most part (minus some dead eyes), but the art is so dang bland. Tactics games in general have been letting me down lately. I just haven't had the mindset for complicated ones and simple ones are too simple. So really, it's just a me thing.
Guardians of the Galaxy is excellent! Not at all connected to the MCU and they did a great job with the characters. The story was interesting for sure, though the shooting was... a bit lackluster. Would recommend if you haven't played it yet.
Coral Island is on my wishlist and the $12 for a 1 month sub is about half the game's all time low. Now to remember if someone on here recommended it, a friend, or if I just hit wishlist when I was on a cozy game kick...
I have played Marvel's GotG and had fun with it. May revisit it with the new graphics card if I grab the pack, it had some stunning visuals. I think it was an Epic freebie?
Astrea looks unique enough to sell me on it even though I'm starting to get tired of the deck builder roguelike. The introduction of dice and the dual damage system seems like a fun novelty, the art is appeals to me, and 90+ on Steam ain't nothing to scoff at and suggests to me the novelty isn't a boring gimmick.
I have played 50 hours of astrea and recommend it!
Having dice instead of a static effect really gives you a lot of deck building creativity. After most battles you get to choose between risky, balanced, and safe dice.
A risky die has 2 powerful effects and 4 drawbacks, and you could make a deck full of these plus many ways to reroll your dice. Or mostly balanced and safe dice and just focus on synergy.