It’s me, or there’s an Evercade VS on top of the table? Curious if it’s on all versions of the game, or just in this physical edition for Evercade.
And managed democracy!
I’m playing a lot of Helldivers 2 and The Talos Principle 2, and I’m having a great time from both games.
I’ve bought a bunch of Wadjet Eye games; Unavowed, Gemini Rue, Primordia, Strangeland, Shardlight, Technobabylon and The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow.
And aside from that, Return of the Obra Dinn.
I’ve already played Gemini Rue, and I’m finishing Unavowed.
Alien, that’s a game that caught my attention.
And also Aquelarre, is a game set in medieval Spain, where legends and gods are real. The game describes itself as a “Demonic medieval rpg”, and their rules are based on BRP, so it’s quite familiar on the basics.
I’m liking it a lot. I’ve never finished Bioshock, but I’ve played a few hours of it, so it may not be a fair comparison, but the environment feels bigger and more convoluted, everything is less linear. It’s more similar to Prey than Bioshock.
Also, the progression of the player is based on gadgets and weapons, there are no powers to level up by using points.
And with Baldur’s Gate I’m playing a thief which a master on almost every skill, but not the best in combat jajajaja.
Finnished Call of Cthulhu the past week, finally finished Prey this one (I’ve abandoned it for about a year), and between all of this I’m playing Baldur’s Gate 3. Now I want to play again the System Shock remake, I’m far in the game and I think I can finish it without much time.
Dead Cells is a game I always have installed just to pick it up in bursts of 30 minutes or an hour.
It’s a roguelike, it’s challenging and it’s easy to pick up any time.
Even though it has levels, the intended way to play it is in runs. You start the game, start a new run, and try to go as far as you can, you die and repeat.
Multiple paths to choose, so it never becomes boring, and the levels are generated, so you can’t memorize everything.
I think I’ve been lucky building an horror atmosphere, because the only one I played was for Call of Cthulhu and was with a combination of casual DnD players and new players to TTRPG in general. So, explaining to them the kind of game keep them on the mood since first minute, since CoC has pretty hard rules about sanity and the posibility of dying, and there is a lot of emphasis on not beign combat focused.
Then, the adventure I played had a lot of elements that create a build up for the sessions. Things I can identify that helped where:
This may be too much specific, but could be translated in other contexts by using those kind of barriers and immediate unavoidable problems that felt real, that augment a normal spooky scene you can imagine, supported by a game system that danger is a real threat in the rules.
Alien! I’ve got it on my hands a few days ago at my local store. I’m probably going to buy it by Monday or shortly after.
I’ve only read good things about it so far.
What I like about it is that I don’t need to delve into second hand shopping to get some old classic games.
I’ve always wanted to get into getting retro games, and I would get different consoles, but as a matter of money and space I’ve found it difficult unless I get into only one system, and I find the evercade as a compromise for getting a variety of collections from different systems.
Of course, emulating ROMs would give almost the same experience, but the physical releases with their little manual got me.