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What Should I Play Next? Because I don't like making my own decisions.
- Thread starter Johnny Unusual
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Johnny Unusual
(He/Him)
I'll go with Inscryption then
Violentvixen
(She/Her)
Inscryption is good but a thing I think is worth noting (I dunno if this is even a spoiler but the game is such an experience might as well) is that you are supposed to lose a lot early on, it's how a few things unlock. I did not understand this and ragequit the game. It wasn't until a month or so later when I learned a bit more about the structure that I changed my mindset and it's now one of my favourites.
Yes, that's a good note. It is essentially a roguelike in that way.
Violentvixen
(She/Her)
Yeah, I think interpreting what "roguelike" meant for a card game and especially this one was part of the problem for me, even after people said that I still didn't quite get what was going on. Really neat structure though, so happy I returned to it.
Yeah, it definitely pays off if you stick with it! And there are some real layers to the gameplay that require a lot of iteration to really uncover.
Violentvixen
(She/Her)
So I have one week until I go back to work, and want to knock out some of the short Steam games I've accrued in bundles or whatever but haven't played yet. What would people recommend from this list:
Baba is You
Strong Bad Episode 1
Kids
You Have to Win the Game
Solar 2
Rusty Lake Hotel
Say No! More
Finding Paradise
Emily is Away
Also, I'm playing on my laptop in bed, so if any of these require a mouse/won't work with a trackpad that's something I'd like to know as it won't work for me right now.
Baba is You
Strong Bad Episode 1
Kids
You Have to Win the Game
Solar 2
Rusty Lake Hotel
Say No! More
Finding Paradise
Emily is Away
Also, I'm playing on my laptop in bed, so if any of these require a mouse/won't work with a trackpad that's something I'd like to know as it won't work for me right now.
FelixSH
(He/Him)
From the ones I have played:
Baba Is You is amazing. Might be my favourite puzzle game. It's also hard as hell. I'd say try it, and go as far as you make it. At least you will find out what it's about, which is fun in itself, and you might find the more interesting parts (all parts are interesting, there are just parts that are even more so). Highly recommended, if you are in the mood for hard, clever puzzles.
You Have to Win the Game is a fun mini-metroidvania. It's that free game, right? Pretty short, I think it takes one or two hours? Pretty fitting for knocking out.
Emily is Away I haven't played in forever, but I remember it being a nice sort-of visual novel. Like, it doesn't look like one, but it's mainly about communicating with another character and not doing much else but reading, at least as far as I remember. Shouldn't take too long, probably fine for a lazy afternoon.
Baba Is You is amazing. Might be my favourite puzzle game. It's also hard as hell. I'd say try it, and go as far as you make it. At least you will find out what it's about, which is fun in itself, and you might find the more interesting parts (all parts are interesting, there are just parts that are even more so). Highly recommended, if you are in the mood for hard, clever puzzles.
You Have to Win the Game is a fun mini-metroidvania. It's that free game, right? Pretty short, I think it takes one or two hours? Pretty fitting for knocking out.
Emily is Away I haven't played in forever, but I remember it being a nice sort-of visual novel. Like, it doesn't look like one, but it's mainly about communicating with another character and not doing much else but reading, at least as far as I remember. Shouldn't take too long, probably fine for a lazy afternoon.
Violentvixen
(She/Her)
I will start Baba Is You tonight then, thanks all!
Huh you're right, I went to the store page and it is free. I'm usually pretty good about keeping track of these things but have no idea where this one came from.
Johnny Unusual
(He/Him)
Strong Bad is the only one I've played. I really enjoyed it back in the day but mostly it's more about the fun of navigating a realized Freecountry USA than awesome game play. It's a fun adventure game with funny dialogue.
jpfriction
(He, Him)
I’d call Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People the best of the classic Telltale games, but that’s just on the strength of the source material.
Sam and Max season three is probably a better set of games but I petered out after a couple of chapters. Easy to burn out if you try to do a full season together, individual games are quick.
Sam and Max season three is probably a better set of games but I petered out after a couple of chapters. Easy to burn out if you try to do a full season together, individual games are quick.
Becksworth
Aging Hipster Dragon Dad
Kids is fairly short too. Like 30 minutes to an hour I think...
Johnny Unusual
(He/Him)
I finished Inscryption so now what. I'm eyeing
Metroid (played it before but in the mood for a replay, which I started on my last vacation so I'm already a good ways in. I killed Kraid)
Wonderful 101 (at this point, maybe I should just start over)
Infinity Runner (no idea what it is but I got it as a gift)
Age of Wonders III (got this for free. I don't play these kinds of games often but I always think I'm missing out).
Metroid (played it before but in the mood for a replay, which I started on my last vacation so I'm already a good ways in. I killed Kraid)
Wonderful 101 (at this point, maybe I should just start over)
Infinity Runner (no idea what it is but I got it as a gift)
Age of Wonders III (got this for free. I don't play these kinds of games often but I always think I'm missing out).
Becksworth
Aging Hipster Dragon Dad
I'm sick of seeing Wonderful 101 in this thread.
Play it already!
Play it already!
Johnny Unusual
(He/Him)
A'ight.
Violentvixen
(She/Her)
Wow you were not kidding that got tough fast. I told my husband I was going to start the game and he didn't realize I owned it and was excited, we've ended up playing it together. Despite both of us thinking about these we're stuck on the second world and are missing one level on the first lake one. Hoping we'll come back and it'll just click though.
Oh dang I didn't realize they were that short, probably will try to knock them out then. Thanks!
Honestly I'm kind of hoping it's more Strong Bad and less adventure game-like so this sounds good.
FelixSH
(He/Him)
With "stuck" you mean that you haven't solved enough puzzles to get to another world, right? Just for the record, if you are stuck at a puzzle, leave it for later. The game is made in a way, that there are, most of the time, a lot of puzzles to do at all times. But, considering you have a puzzle in the first world left (which is pretty impressive, I think, that only one is left there), you probably know that already.
I'll just say that I hope you will get far enough, to try the levels of the overworld that are behind that lock, that requires seven flowers (the ones at the middle of the top of the island). They are quite interesting.
Also, while hints are always a slippery slope for me, when it comes to puzzle games (I tend to use them more and more, which defeats the point of the game), there is baba is hint. It's a hint site for the game, where the first hint is very vague, and the more hints you open, the more explicit it gets. If you have more restraint than me, you might be able to just use it in single cases where you are truely stuck, at least to open another world.
Violentvixen
(She/Her)
Ooh this is perfect, thank you! Yeah, we have two or three open levels at this point and are stumped. We were both lamenting having to look stuff up to move on last night so just a hint is great.
Johnny Unusual
(He/Him)
Finally finished Wonderful 101. Slow playing during a school year. Anyway, now I have choices
FTL - All I know is it's a spaceship game with... micromanaging, I guess? Sounds interesting.
Stellaris - Another space ship game, maybe?
Mighty Bomb Jack - I mostly know this as a reference.
The Legend of Zelda: The Breath of the Wild - It's this the game all the kids is talking about these days, what with their fidget spinners and their Ricks and Mortys and their laurel/yannis?
Which should I play?
FTL - All I know is it's a spaceship game with... micromanaging, I guess? Sounds interesting.
Stellaris - Another space ship game, maybe?
Mighty Bomb Jack - I mostly know this as a reference.
The Legend of Zelda: The Breath of the Wild - It's this the game all the kids is talking about these days, what with their fidget spinners and their Ricks and Mortys and their laurel/yannis?
Which should I play?
I really like FTL, buuuuut you mentioned BotW, so that one
jpfriction
(He, Him)
I like FTL but I’ll never beat it.
“Johnny Kryptonite” is my favorite Otto Binder character
I like Stellaris, but it is minimally about spaceships. Its a Paradox Grand Strategy game, with all the plusses and minuses that entails. It probably shares an evolutionary ancestor with Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. If JBear says it is kryptonite, i'd believe him.
Violentvixen
(She/Her)
Breath of the Wild became such an influence on design of other games I think it's important to play at this point just to see that. Also it's just plain great.