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PaperclipPerfector  4mo ago (text post)   2424 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for November 22, 2024

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I played a boardgame called Dune: Imperium for the first time recently. It's a worker placement game. And it vastly surpassed my expectations. I could see myself getting obsessed with it and sinking a lot of time into it.

The mobile app is also decent. I've been playing it a bit with friends.

The mobile app costs half what the game costs on steam. Hmmmm...

I have noticed that with a lot of games with publishers, I assume it's a lack of communication. Square Enix are particularly odd about it - a game like actraiser renaissance or trials of mana you can get on android for $15 cheaper than steam, but the ff pixel remasters cost the same on both platforms and then you get paranormasight, which is more expensive on android than steam.

I grabbed a copy of dune on android, it seems like a straight port so why not?

Wait, I thought you were talking about a physical boardgame.

It's a physical boardgame that has digital releases.

So there's both a physical and a digital release? Or Steam sells physical objects now?

Dune: Imperium was originally released in physical format at brick-and-mortar stores in year 2020. A digital version entered Steam Early Access in 2023, and was fully released on Steam, Xbox, Android, and iOS in 2024.

(Note that Steam has sold first-party physical objects for quite some time.)

Thanks.

I hate it. (digital boardgames. It's such a lazy stupid thing to make. You've got a computer that at present can ran entire digital brainlets. Why not use said computing power to have an interesting game)

It vastly opens up the amount of the game you can play when you dont have to herd cats to your house!

I've even payed this one solo twice and it was enjoyable. I think the deck building is a bit underfocused for my preference but the worker placement aspect, which I officially don't like, is fun.

For deck building I just love the designers other big game: Clank catacombs.

Have played this game several times and quite enjoyed it. Feels like the different components of worker placement, deck building and (very) light combat work together nicely to create tension.

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