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PaperclipPerfector  2mo ago (text post)   1977 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for June 28, 2024

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Personal indie-adjacent recs in no particular order:

Raft is a good mid-length survival-ish experience solo and a great one in co-op. Very chill pace but has enough action/exploration to stay interesting throughout.

Not for Broadcast is a singleplayer narrative adventure which I think people are blatantly fucking sleeping on, basically Papers Please but your new job is a cameraman for CNN. Text-heavy but cheap on sale and I expect it to hit very close to heart for many mottizens, especially with election season on the horizon. If you check one game from this list, make it this one.

Gunfire Reborn is an FPS that successfully distills all the great parts of Borderlands (minus the cringe) into a roguelite format. Tailor-made for kicking back and shooting shit in co-op. The discount isn't big but imo it's very much worth it at full price, it even still gets DLCs/updates.

SYNTHETIK is a fairly difficult but very satisfying roguelite top-down shooter, it's somewhat old at this point but it's like 5 bucks on sale and is great value for the price. Has janky but workable multiplayer for the premium friendly fire experience. The sequel is also great but I think it still needs some time in the oven.

I will never stop shilling Chrono Ark, a roguelite deckbuilder with extremely autistic mechanics and (unusually for roguelites) an actual plotline with enough despair to make Gen Urobuchi blush. It's... an acquired taste but if you already beat Slay the Spire on Ascension 20 definitely give this one a try. The cultured swimsuit DLC is entirely skippable.

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