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Steam Summer Sale is on! Discuss deals in the comments and recommend some great games! (store.steampowered.com)
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Edit: it looks like the banner is incorrect. On the front page of steam it’s the right dates and says summer, but when I click on it to see all the sales it says spring with the dates for the spring sale. It’ll probably get fixed soon.

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 8 points 14 hours ago

Guardians of the Galaxy was surprisingly good. More so than the movies, the game gives all the characters their due time.

Just make sure to stop when people speak, otherwise you'll go past the invisible point that makes them stop and then you'll miss out on the dialogue.

Could have taken some notes from God of War there.

[-] KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Yeah truly an excellent gaming experience

[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Can anyone recommend a game that can be played over zoom (preferably in a web browser) that isn’t:

  1. Jackbox
  2. What the Dub
  3. Rifftrax the Game
  4. Papa’s quiz
  5. Use Your Words
[-] silverchase@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 hours ago

Tic Tac Together is team-based recursive tic-tac-toe. When both teams try to claim the same square at the same time, they have to fight for it by playing a subgame. Or a subsubgame. Et cetera. It's surprisingly strategic. How much board control should you give up to secure a contested square?

I've heard good things about Sunderfolk but haven't played it myself. It has hex-grid tactical combat with co-op done via smartphone, so only the buyer of the game needs to share their screen.

[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

I’ll check those out and thanks!

[-] Mythmopth@feddit.org 6 points 16 hours ago
  • Antichamber
    Physics puzzler with mind-bendy environments
  • Monster Sanctuary
    Metroidvania creature collector where new creatures give you new movement abilities
  • CrossCode
    Reminds me of the older Zelda titles but with more parkour and bouncy balls
  • Ender Lilies
    Metroidvania, small girl uses the souls of fallen enemies to fight for her
  • Trinity Fusion
    Metroidvania-Roguelike in a multiverse
  • Cassette Beasts
    Cute creature collector with neat elemental interactions and fusions
  • Tactical Breach Wizards
    A bunch of idiots try to prevent a coup by means of defenestration
[-] cash@sh.itjust.works 3 points 16 hours ago

+1 for tactical breach wizards. description is on point.

[-] silverchase@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 hours ago

I will back up Cassette Beasts for having a strategically interesting turn-based combat system.

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 5 points 18 hours ago

Titan Souls is a fantastic boss rush game where you die in one hit but the bosses only take a few hits as well. You only have one arrow to shoot and you need to go pick it up or stand still to recall it to yourself before firing again.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/297130/Titan_Souls/

[-] BurntWits@sh.itjust.works 3 points 16 hours ago

That’s a neat concept, and it’s got a cool art style. I’ll be checking this one out for sure.

[-] Bravo@eviltoast.org 12 points 22 hours ago

Note: GOG is also having a sale

[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 5 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Anything of note? I am considering A Plague Tale Collection at 65% off. Dishonored: Complete Collection is also 80% off. I'm considering buying it to replay on PC, I only have it on PS4 and the performance wasn't great.

[-] Bravo@eviltoast.org 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Europa Universalis IV 90% off. Alan Wake 90% off. Prince of Persia series 80% off. Devil May Cry 1-4 67% off. Various Hitman games 90% off - the original is going for 79 cents. I could go on but I dunno what you'd be into. They have more recent games too, like Baldur's Gate 3 20% off.

Anyway, mostly they're the same discounts as on Steam at the moment so I dunno if it counts as "of note". I just mention it because if you buy with GOG you get the game DRM-free, plus some people prefer to spend their money with the EU (as opposed to the USA) these days for obvious reasons.

[-] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago

Can someone recommend a bunch of good couch coop games I've never heard of

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I know the 2 games below have 2 player couch coop. Not sure if you can play with 4p local on EDF

  • Dynasty Warriors 8 - beat up soldiers by the hundreds while watching Romance of 3 Kingdoms as a 3D anime. "Complete Edition" but still has fuckloads of DLC skins which aren't worth it. Or just buy and pirate the actual complete thing later.
  • Earth Defense Force 5 - Kill giant insects and aliens with building-destroying firepower. The story and narration in 5 takes itself too seriously, but it has many quality of life improvements over 4, which is overall a funnier game with the best infantry sing-along
[-] Bigfishbest@lemmy.world 0 points 8 hours ago

Relevant?

[-] silverchase@sh.itjust.works 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Which ones have you heard of?

[-] avattar@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 12 hours ago

Tinkerlands. I just got it together with Novalands (which is a good time sink on switch). Haven't started playing it yet, but it seems similar to terraria, but topdown and with more focus on coop.

[-] MrBobs@lemmy.one 5 points 20 hours ago

If you can forgive the self promotion and enjoy platformers. Our game has (an admittedly challenging) couch coop mode.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1771200/Cat_Box_Paradox/

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[-] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Damn dude. The AAA games are still expensive, but I don’t think I’ve seen these kinda sales for indy/niche games in years.

Probably not a great economic indicator though.

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[-] Dutczar@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago

I already bought them a week ago, but Furi and Blasphemous since a friend got them, and we already beat Furi together. Gorgeous game, though the walking sections make me not want to play again, especially since my Furier difficulty save reset.

Also Bloodstained to go with Blasphemous in a bundle, since I was thinking about it for a while, and Beastieball, since I saw some posts from one of the devs on Bluesky a while back and they seemed cool. And the game seems to have great reviews.

[-] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago

I loved furi, but damn those walking sections just made me roll my eyes. Developers think they can just get away with forced slow walking to build atmosphere.

[-] mohab@piefed.social 1 points 23 hours ago

What's with the cynicism? Game is a boss gauntlet, what do you mean "get away" like they're some AAA developers getting away with a lazy design choice? You can enable auto walking in those segments and go refill your water or something, but that was a creative choice, not a "let's cut corners—they won't even notice" choice.

[-] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 17 hours ago

I mean "get away with" as in they think they can do it in a half-assed manner. In a movie, as you mentioned the director is a wannabe film director, you don't just throw in sad music and expect the audience to 'buy into' the quality of the scene. You have to craft the previous scene, and set up the flow into the current scene, and have decent dialogue, decent acting, decent lighting, decent sound, etc. etc. etc. If you just half-ass it and throw in sad music, the audience is going to either realize you're just trying to jank with their emotions in a sloppy manner, or be completely pulled out of the experience.

The walking in furi may have been okay if it was just in one section, or had waaay better dialogue rather than eye-rolling pseudo-philosophical wanking that was actually interesting to pay attention to during the walking... but making it a repeated thing? It was annoying. It ruined verisimilitude. It made me angry that I couldn't make the character decision to just stab the dude cosplaying as a rabbit right in his rabbity face.

[-] mohab@piefed.social 1 points 17 hours ago

Yeah, but it's a boss gauntlet from an indie developer… the whole point is the boss fights—this is where all the resources went. Everything you demanded above requires more development hours (more money) or better creative choices. For an indie game, pumping money in any place other than your core gameplay experience is not an option most of the time, and poor creative choices aren't always made out of laziness.

You talk like you know they had the resources but decided to "half-ass" it, which's an odd assumption to make about a trivial part of the game. I agree these parts should've been skippable from the get-go, and I understand how frustrating walk-and-talk segments can be in action games and I agree they don't belong there at all, but none of this justifies the cynicism.

[-] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 16 hours ago

Well, either the thing should be done well, shouldn't be done, or, if put in the game and it isn't a good part of the game, it should be criticized.

They decided to put it in the game, full stop.

It was a terrible portion of the game, and I'm criticizing it. As the other fellow said, the developers put it in to craft a certain feeling, and it absolutely sucked at creating that feeling AND dragged my enjoyment of the game down.

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[-] mohab@piefed.social 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Speedrun mode in Furi auto skips walking segments.

[-] Dutczar@sopuli.xyz 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Does it still give you the ranking at the end for achievements? Or just seeing how much I got KO'd?

[-] mohab@piefed.social 2 points 17 hours ago

No ranking, IIRC.

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