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      Heh. How is that a game? I ran it for a couple days. There wasn’t a whole lot going on.
      But I have a similar pursuit. I have 396 (56%) achievements in Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms.
      Most of it is offline time, of course, but it says I’ve played 6,323 hours.

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        To me, it’s a game. I get some people might not think so because the game is all menus and numbers, with minimal other graphics (not counting achievement backgrounds). But for me, it’s fun. A lot of people like these number go up games where the mechanics are about increasing the numbers fast without much other intermittent gameplay. !incremental_games@incremental.social. It’s a whole genre. https://paperpilot.dev/garden/guide-to-incrementals/defining-the-genre/ might have some discussion on whether it’s a game or not, I forget, but it sure is a nice read about incrementals.

        Also, there’s more, but it does take time to unfold.

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          I’ve played one other idler. It was more like Antimatter, put some time into, and it annoyed me enough to remove it from my Steam history. I bought one called 64 that I barely started. The only one that I’ve actually enjoyed is Idle Champions, but boy do I have a lot of time into that one.

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    Noita!: I agree with many in dubbing it my favorite single player game.

    It is a pixel art alechemy and magic roguelike where every pixel is physically simulated and destroyable. Find spells and wands and combine them in programmer like ways to multiply their power. Many tricks in the game are so strong they feel like cheating, but the game has been built with challenges that surpass every trick.

    It is the epitome of endlessly repayable. Especially switching between the few mods that drastically change the map.

    I can easily have a god run last me 5-10 hours. But I still have a lot of fun with the more common 30min-2hr runs.

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      That’s pretty cool! I never heard of it before but it’s on my Wishlist now. I’m definitely curious to check it out.

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        Its great! It will not hesitate to kill you until you learn it.

        Binding of Isaac has a bit of invincibility after every hit, and that works for the game really well. You need to be able to recover and not die immediately.

        Noita has no invincibility frames like that. You need to be able to die immediately. An instant death is essential for the game tone and balance.

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          I have no issues with dying repeatedly to learn a game. The modern FromSoftware catalogue are my favourite games ever. Maybe it’ll go on sale during the steam summer sale in a few days and I can pick it up then.

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      It is something I have always been undecided about. The whole spell creation thing sounds like something I’d love, but I’ve heard the game can be frustrating, and aside from !hades@lemmy.zip roguelikes are not my thing. I should probably see if it has a demo or watch some early gameplay…

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        Definitely watch some gameplay. The super early game is quite self explanatory, but noita quickly escalates to puzzles so hard a community needs to get together to solve them.

        Playing Noita with all the knowledge of the wider community has made so many cool bosses actually beatable, and made the whole game a lot more fun for me.

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    I’m grinding hard on Fantasy Life i. I think I’m going to get 100% achievements, which is a rarity for me.

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    Slay the spire (again), trying to climb to A20 with Watcher now. Was never a huge fan of her deck, since most of my winning runs can be distilled into Rushdown and Mental Fortress. Maybe someone can tell me about other possible builds for Watcher

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    I picked up mirrors edge again after some weeks without playing it and i cleared a level yesterday. Was going to do a session now as well, but now my save had been wiped. Probably related to me struggling to figure out lutris and heroic and messing around abit yesterday evening. It a little of a bummer but at the same time i found the game a little too frustrating - a good idea not executed well enough to be a truly enjoyable experience in my opinion.

    I am abit indecesive at the moment. I fired up both tales of symphonia on gamecube and final fantasy 7 on ps1 yesterday, kinda want to start another jrpg but at the same time not quite where i want to commit myself to a long game. Also installing fallout 3 now so hm…

    I fired up theme hospital for some fun this week as well though, that was a welcome nostalgia trip :)

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      Fuk ya man. DOOM will never die. I still open up DOOM 2016 and play that first level on arcade nightmare, just to get a kick.

      I’ve got a folder of all the D1 and D2 standard and freedoom wads. I copy it onto any new linux machine, and I install Boom or whatever.

      I have a project that I keep picking up and abandoning for a DOOM OS. Its purpose would be to spin up on a vm, search for a local game, and join a bot to a deathmatch. Each vm would add to the load on the server. How many vms can it run? That’s the DOOM quotient. But I’m not very serious about it.

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    The Alters has been insanely fun the last week or so. Pretty interesting science fiction space survival, resource gathering, base building. Some of the mechanics around quantum computing is quite unique.

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    I wanna look into playing all the FF but I don’t know which of all the versions out there to play.

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    CTA Gates of Hell Ostfront

    I’ve been going through the campaign mission on hard and hardcore which requires a lot of micromanagement and they take ages to complete!

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    Tony hawk pro skater 2, played it often when it first came out and hearing about the 3/4 remake coming out soon reminded me of the games and it’s been decades, I wanted to see if it holds up. It’s showing some age in the fighter combo style tricks and arcade style levels, but the soundtrack is still good, and progression with unlocking stats and levels through goals is fun and wanting to beat a goal after failing a couple times keeps me coming back.