A time travelling robot is never late. Nor it is early. It arrives precisely when it means to! This week is the second great roguelike by Subset Games: Into the Breach! A bug-punching, timeline jumping, city saving tactics puzzler sure to tickle that brain of yours.
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PSA: If you enjoy old school #roguelike games in the vein of #Nethack, and you've been wanting a mobile option, try Pathos, a.k.a. #PathosNethackCodex. It's free and ad free, developed by a single programmer (Callan Hodgskin), and features a few different 'codices' (gameplay modes), though I find the classic Nethack version to be the most enjoyable. Excellent touch controls, simplified gameplay that retains plenty of challenge, and 4 tilesets. Android, iOS, Linux & more!
MarshalldotEXE on the r/RoguelikeDev Discord server sharing a shot of the #roguelike they've been silently working on for a while, here experimenting with a more extreme lighting system.
Rogue-Like Developer Dylan White is releasing Rift Wizard 2 in Early Access on Monday. Here is the audio from an interview I am working on for youtube.
The video version of this interview will release on Monday along side of the games release.
Hey Folks, here's another trinket coming in the next update to Shattered Pixel Dungeon.
The parchment scrap increases the chance of finding both enchantments/glyphs and curses on weapons and armor! This makes it much easier to get enchanted gear, but you'll have to be wary of the increased risk as well. This is slanted toward positive effects though, especially after being upgraded.
#roguelike I always sleep listening to podcasts or YT videos. Last night (in my sleep), I enjoyed a 4 hour livestream of #nethack from Larry Fluckiger and woke up when he made it to the bottom level. Somehow deeply relaxing and exciting all at once. #sleepstudy https://youtu.be/be3z-TL9gD0?si=EEn8WvhSeX4fM2lU
One of my major hobbies is dying and losing the game in Demon's Tier+ just on tier 1, forever and ever, for all time, never making it to tier 2. Tier 1 must be good enough. 🤣
Hack (newthack) roguelike for Apple Newton? Sounds awesome! And yet...
Shame so many of the full versions of these awesome old programs are locked behind dead registration schemes, never to be opened or played fully again…
I'm not one for "New Year's resolutions", but I am one for overly ambitious projects.
For 2023, Project365 is "One New Game Per Day".
Given that I have 634 unplayed games in my Steam account and {mumble} unredeemed bundle Steam keys, there's a reason my unplayed collection is tagged "Pile of Shame".
I'll pin this to my profile, and give a brief summary here each day (or x, if I miss x days due to work or stuff).
I'll play 15-30 minutes of (at least) one new game I've never played before (or played less than 15 minutes of). I'll give every game at least 15 minutes, even if I hate every minute of it.
I'm also open to suggestions; if you reply to this thread with a game, I'll schedule it, or tell you what I thought of it.
One of the things that's come up is that I have a bunch of games that I've played once, and not touched again.
Dead In Vinland is a 2D resource management & survival game with some roguelike elements.
A Viking family barely escapes a raid on their village. Mum, dad, daughter, and mum's sister-in-law escape in the raider's boat, and find themselves shipwrecked on an island.
I played through one entire loop of the game, from landing on the island until one of the characters died.
Once on the island, you need to send out the characters to explore the island, build things, gather food & water, as well as managing their encampment, and upgrading it.
Each character has five categories to manage: Fatigue, illness, hunger, dehydration, and depression.
Occasionally the camp will be raided, which leads to a turn-based combat stage.
The dialogue is incredibly hit-and-miss, with the angsty Viking teenager being more like a 21st century teenager in the way she talks to the other characters.
The game ends if one of the character's five status meters hits 100%, and the teenager unalived herself when her depression unexpectedly spiked before I could find anything to try and offset it during exploration.
The gameplay loop was just enough to keep me going, but the narrative was so disheartening, that playthough of Dead In Vinland was enough to push me from "meh" to:
Galactic Glitch – Action-Roguelike від німецького розробника отримає українську мову (tayemnakimnata.com) Ukrainian
Гра Galactic Glitch: Infinity's Edge від Crunchy Leaf Games отримає українську локалізацію та навіть більше. Ігри українською.