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12 votes
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What slow-burn game is worth the time?
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
The game didn’t grip you immediately, but eventually it did.
What changed your mind? What made it good? Why should people stick it out if they try it out?
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Funny, crazy and silly mods
Just a random thought as a friend browses Nexus Mods. What are some of the funniest, craziest and wildest mods you've come across? I see plenty of talk about QoL mods and the like, but I feel like...
Just a random thought as a friend browses Nexus Mods. What are some of the funniest, craziest and wildest mods you've come across? I see plenty of talk about QoL mods and the like, but I feel like there's a lot of fun stories to be had with forgetting you modded some enemy to look like the Cookie Monster or custom weapons that shoot fish.
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Tildes Game Giveaway: June/July 2024
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It’s time for annother edition of our biannual Game Giveaway topics! Share games with the community; get rid of those extra bundle keys you have lying around; maybe do a cool The Price Is Right-style game?
Before you participate, please make sure you read the rules below.
Rules
-Gifters
Post your available games, the platform and method of delivery, rules for your giveaways (e.g. first-come first-serve, random draw, etc.), and any additional info or requirements. Feel free to get creative!
-Giftees
Request giveaways. Please make sure you follow the gifter's posted guidelines.
-Guidelines
Anyone can choose to be a gifter, giftee, or both! Giveaway rules are set by individual gifters, but there are handful of guidelines everyone should follow:
- No grey market keys! Only give away games from reputable sources. If you're not sure what this means, please ask.
- Requests for games should be done in this topic, but if the gift is a key, those should be delivered by PMs only. Please don't post keys publicly in this topic, even obfuscated ones.
If you're new to these, check out previous giveaway threads to see how these usually go.
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What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
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The Steam Summer Sale 2024 is live (runs June 27 - July 11)
Quick links: Steam Store IsThereAnyDeal SteamDB Sales Tool Hidden Gems recommendations topic Share noteworthy deals! Ask for recommendations! Discuss what you bought!
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Modern Warfare: How Call of Duty 4 changed a genre forever
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Steam Summer Sale 2024: Hidden gems
Inspired by the recurring topic every Steam sale over at /r/GameDealsMeta: What are some lesser-known Steam games that you recommend? Are there any genres you’d like hidden gem recommendations...
Inspired by the recurring topic every Steam sale over at /r/GameDealsMeta:
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What are some lesser-known Steam games that you recommend?
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Are there any genres you’d like hidden gem recommendations for?
If you're interested in previous Hidden Gem topics, you can find them here.
For popular recommendations and general purpose sale discussion, please use the main Steam Sale topic.
An update for this topic: I've always used the number of Steam reviews for a game as a rough proxy for the game's audience size. It's not perfect, but it works well enough. Steam effectively made this canon in one of their recent sales. They had a Hidden Gems category and then broke the game list out into different tiers based the number of reviews each one had. I saved their taxonomy so I could use it here.
Feel free to tag or group your recommendations based on these if you like:
Category Maximum Review Count Shockingly Overlooked 20 Under the Radar 50 Buried Treasure 150 Underrated Great 500 Cult Classic 1000 Gem Graduate 1000+ All the categories above, except for the last one, are how Steam defined their different tiers. I have some qualms with them using "Cult Classic" there, but I'm going to follow suit for consistency's sake.
I myself added the last category, because I think there are plenty of games worth mentioning with more than 1000 reviews that still have a solid Hidden Gem vibe but have since found bigger audiences and "graduated" from the label.
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Save Point: A game deal roundup for the week of June 16
Add awesome game deals to this topic as they come up over the course of the week! Alternately, ask about a given game deal if you want the community’s opinions: e.g. “What games from this bundle...
Add awesome game deals to this topic as they come up over the course of the week!
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I tried turning games into text
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Humble Choice - July 2024
July 2024's Humble Choice is now available with the following eight Steam games. Steam Page Opencritic Steam Recent/All Operating Systems Steam Deck ProtonDB A Plague Tale: Requiem 83 86/90 Win ✅...
July 2024's Humble Choice is now available with the following eight Steam games.
Steam Page Opencritic Steam Recent/All Operating Systems Steam Deck ProtonDB A Plague Tale: Requiem 83 86/90 Win ✅ Verified 🟨 Gold Ghostrunner 2 79 81/83 Win ✅ Verified 🟨 Gold Starship Troopers: Terran Command 74 88/88 Win 🟨 Playable 🎖️ Platinum Sticky Business 78 95/97 Win, Mac ✅ Verified 🎖️ Platinum Zoeti 72 80 Win ✅ Verified 🕙 Awaiting Reports Figment 2: Creed Valley 72 100/94 Win ❓ Unknown 🎖️ Platinum Heretic's Fork N/A 71/86 Win 🟨 Playable 🎖️ Platinum HYPERVIOLENT (Early Access) N/A 78 Win 🟨 Playable 🕙 Awaiting Reports 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?
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Linux gaming and the Steam Summer Sale: What are your favorites?
I've gamed my entire life on Windows until about a month ago, when I switched due to my dissatisfaction with it as an operating system (another thread, another time). After years of hearing that...
I've gamed my entire life on Windows until about a month ago, when I switched due to my dissatisfaction with it as an operating system (another thread, another time). After years of hearing that gaming on Linux was improving thanks to Steam Deck and Proton, I took the plunge and installed Pop!_OS on my desktop and loaded my favorite games. Holy smokes, it's amazing. I haven't found a game yet that's required any custom tweaking; download the game through Steam, let it install whatever it needs to on first run, and away they go. I'm blown away.
However, I want to start exploring Linux-native titles in a more deliberate manner. Do many others here game on Linux, and if so what are some of your favorites that you would recommend now that the Steam Summer Sale is on? I mostly gravitate towards builders and colony simulators, RPGs, and 4X games, but I'll take any recommendations that people are excited to share.
[Edit to add:] Thanks for your recommendations everyone! I'll definitely check out several of these.
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One Million Checkboxes - a silly little game where (un)checking a box (un)checks it for everyone
49 votes -
Game studio co-founded by Dr Disrespect ‘immediately’ terminating relationship with the streamer
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Save Point: A game deal roundup for the week of June 30
Add awesome game deals to this topic as they come up over the course of the week! Alternately, ask about a given game deal if you want the community’s opinions: e.g. “What games from this bundle...
Add awesome game deals to this topic as they come up over the course of the week!
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Rules:
- No grey market sales
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What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
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Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon- game review
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Save Point: A game deal roundup for the week of June 23
Add awesome game deals to this topic as they come up over the course of the week! Alternately, ask about a given game deal if you want the community’s opinions: e.g. “What games from this bundle...
Add awesome game deals to this topic as they come up over the course of the week!
Alternately, ask about a given game deal if you want the community’s opinions: e.g. “What games from this bundle are most worth my attention?”
Rules:
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Xbox gaming coming to Amazon Fire TV: Play more games, no console needed
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Recommendation for a Goodreads for video games?
Over the past year or two I've been writing "reviews" (mostly a short paragraph or two) on Goodreads for books I've read, and I enjoy looking back on what I've read and what I thought about it. So...
Over the past year or two I've been writing "reviews" (mostly a short paragraph or two) on Goodreads for books I've read, and I enjoy looking back on what I've read and what I thought about it. So I would like to do the same for the games I played, and also better organize my backlog so I know what's next to play. So I've been looking for a Goodreads-like for video games and found some alternatives, but I thought I'd check here if anyone has any recommendations.
What I'm looking for is:
- Being able to rate and review games played
- Some way to create lists (much like Goodreads "to read" shelf and the like)
So it's not a large wish list really. After a short search I've found a few sites that seem to fulfill those requirements and they look fairly equal, so I can't really decide which one to commit to (if any):
Since 95% of all games I play are on Steam, just using what's already there could work as well I guess. Collections could be used for backlog management, and the Steam reviews handle rating and review. But for some reason I'm apprehensive about rating games on Steam, probably because it feels very public and I'm doing this only for myself.
Another approach is to use an excel sheet (or similar) to keep track of everything, but it feels... Boring, I suppose? But owning your own data is always nice I suppose!
Do the people here on Tildes have any experience using any of the methods above and can recommend one? Or do you do something completely different than what I've listed here that's working well for you?
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Riven (2024) | Launch trailer
36 votes -
Steam users have spent $19 billion on games they’ve never played
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Steam Superheater: Fix old and broken Steam games with a couple of clicks
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Dustborn hands-on preview: PAX East 2024
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An update on Steam Input and controller support
25 votes -
The original Resident Evil trilogy is releasing on GOG
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Decades later, John Romero looks back at the birth of the first-person shooter
18 votes -
What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
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What gaming genre could use a renaming?
What gaming genre could use a renaming? Why? (What makes its current name a bad/imprecise/clumsy one?) Also, an optional follow-up: What would you propose as a better name for the genre? Why?...
What gaming genre could use a renaming?
Why? (What makes its current name a bad/imprecise/clumsy one?)Also, an optional follow-up:
What would you propose as a better name for the genre?
Why? (What makes it better?)30 votes -
The Steam Deck now has over 5,000 Verified games
According to SteamDB, at the time of this posting: There are 5,006 Verified games. There are 10,240 Playable games. I thought this was a noteworthy milestone worth sharing -- The Little Linux...
According to SteamDB, at the time of this posting:
- There are 5,006 Verified games.
- There are 10,240 Playable games.
I thought this was a noteworthy milestone worth sharing -- The Little Linux Handheld That Could now has a definitive library of >15,000 games!
(The actual library size is significantly larger when you consider how many games run on it that don't yet have a rating, and even that's saying nothing of non-Steam games and things like ROMs as well).
69 votes -
How generative AI could reinvent what it means to play
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4d Miner: 4th dimension Minecraft
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Less than a month after the highly anticipated life sim Life By You was delayed without a new release date, Paradox has announced that the whole project has been cancelled
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Let’s write a video game from scratch like it’s 1987
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How Embracer's cuts killed a potential Red Faction sequel and gutted a promising studio
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What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
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Taskmaster VR is a faithful recreation of the TV show that series fans should really enjoy
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Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree embargo lifted
The embargo on Shadow of the Erdtree lifted yesterday. Codes were sent out last week some reviewers were able to complete the expansion while others spent their time exploring. General consensus...
The embargo on Shadow of the Erdtree lifted yesterday. Codes were sent out last week some reviewers were able to complete the expansion while others spent their time exploring. General consensus is glowing (95% on metacritic).
Below are some reviews I enjoyed. Light spoilers in most, IGN spoiled the most. I skimmed the review where they discussed some things I want to discover on my own.
- (Ars Technica) Shadow of the Erdtree has ground me into dust, which is why I recommend it
- (Kotaku) Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree Review: Massive, Menacing, And Magnificent
- (New York Times) Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree Review: Faith, Meet Futility
- (Rock Paper Shotgun) Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree review: yeah, it's basically a sequel
- (Eurogamer) Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree review - a visually resplendent living text made less alive
- (IGN POTENTIAL SPOILERS) Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree DLC Review
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The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom | Announcement trailer
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Sekiro vs Elden Ring design philosophies
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Metroid Prime 4: Beyond | Announcement trailer
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Co-op game recommendations
Edit: This community is amazing, thank you all for all of your suggestions. Feel free to keep them coming. I have a Google doc full of ideas with my comments that I'm going to drop on him. I was...
Edit: This community is amazing, thank you all for all of your suggestions. Feel free to keep them coming. I have a Google doc full of ideas with my comments that I'm going to drop on him. I was trying to respond to everyone and then discovered that Tildes will rate limit you. So if I don't respond to you, I'm sorry but I definitely read your comment and checked out your suggestions!
My friend suffers from depression and lives 6 hours away from me so the happiest I see him is when we are regularly gaming together. The problem is that I haven't been able to find a game we both wanted to play for a while.
I just cannot get into all the survival crafting games that seem to dominate co-op gaming these days. I am looking for suggestions for anything else. Also, it needs to be an online co-op instead of a couch co-op.
His computer isn't the best so that needs to be a consideration, nothing wrong with older games. Ideally we are talking about PC games on Steam.
Examples:
- we played a ton of Risk of Rain 2, probably the last game we played a lot together
- we have played through Halo co-op a bunch of times.
Who has ideas for me?
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Is Tetris really forty this year?
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TETRIS: Heavenly Scrolls (1989)
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Pieces Interactive, the Embracer-owned studio behind the recent Alone in the Dark remake, has seemingly shut down
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Save Point: A game deal roundup for the week of June 9
Add awesome game deals to this topic as they come up over the course of the week! Alternately, ask about a given game deal if you want the community’s opinions: e.g. “What games from this bundle...
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Suggestions for games with addicting skill mechanics that you can play while listening to an audiobook or podcast?
Alright, so one of my favorite things to do at night is throw on a great audiobook and play a video game...but it has to be a very specific type of video game. No meaningful dialogue or plot, no...
Alright, so one of my favorite things to do at night is throw on a great audiobook and play a video game...but it has to be a very specific type of video game. No meaningful dialogue or plot, no math or strategizing, and lots of hyper addictive gameplay that you can almost do subconsciously.
Here are the games I've found like this so far:
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Trials Rising (and it's predecessors). I've actually made some global leaderboards in this game. It seems so simple when you start the campaign mode, then you learn about ninja mode and it's suddenly a different game.
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Olli Olli world
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Skater XL, Session, Skate series, Tony Hawk series
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Lonely Mountains Downhill
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Descenders
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Any multiplayer shooter (COD, Fortnite, etc.)
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Trackmania - not my thing but it definitely scratches this itch for a lot of people.
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Mudrunner and Snowrunner series.
Here are some that did not work for me.
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Sekiro - I just get too into it. Can't multitask.
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Vampire Survivors - just not into it.
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Rogue likes - never enjoyed them.
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No Man's Sky - amazing game but I prefer to play it co-op. Already conquered it anyway.
Any other suggestions?
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Getting over that game making hump?
Hey, so I'd really just like to get an idea that's been in my head for god knows how long out into a program, even if it's just a demo of what I've imagined. But I never had enough knowledge in a...
Hey, so I'd really just like to get an idea that's been in my head for god knows how long out into a program, even if it's just a demo of what I've imagined. But I never had enough knowledge in a particular engine to just get the idea out. My main programming knowledge is from Java classes, and I've dabbled in enough in HTML/CSS, Javascript, SQL, Powershell, etc. enough to get through classes, projects, small scripts, deployments, etc, so I have programming experience from a conceptual point. But I've never really worked with GUI elements in a serious manner outside the Cocoa IDE handling all the heavy lifting. Any time I get the itch to tackle this I give GameMaker or Godot or something else a try via some tutorial, I never get to the end of it. I figured learning by example would help, but I forget most of the basics on how I'm supposed to set up an object or attribute... Then I try it the other way around where I try to learn it bottom-up and I get overwhelmed if I lose my way in the middle of a process... It's extremely frustrating, I swear I've been through this about three times in the last seven years or so.
I'm curious, has anyone had this much trouble with this? What did you do, what was your in?
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Guess I'm still young enough to be angsty over a stupid game jam
I was working on a VR experience showing wealth inequality in true scale. By a habby coincidence I discovered a game jam with the rather blatant title Fuck Capitalism Gamejam 2024 which just...
I was working on a VR experience showing wealth inequality in true scale. By a habby coincidence I discovered a game jam with the rather blatant title Fuck Capitalism Gamejam 2024 which just happened to end in a time span where I'd might be able to finish off my game. So, great, now I have a deadline! I began to plan what I could reasonably expect to finish within that time frame.
But today, I read the game jam page a little more closely. Turns out the deadline is for voting on the submitted games. The game jam had run out a long time ago. So, no deadline. And of course, I became aware that submitting it to said gamejam wouldn't have mattered much anyway.
Guess I just have to keep working on the stupid project. Everything just feels so pointless, because, well, I guess it is. And trying to build up some pretend excitement gets a bit stale.
Anyhow, how are you folks dealing with the good ol' what's-the-point-of-it-all feelies? Is life just a yo-yo movement between hopelessness and semi-engaged pretence of meaning, or are there other roads to travel?
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Mirror's Edge Catalyst and empty worlds
23 votes