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Blaze of Storm (demo) Caravan Medalists
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Game of the Month
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🏅: Sundray (1cc, Mild)

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🥇: ErableEreinte
🥈: hobbssc


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Hey folks! I'd love to hear about what you're playing this weekend. I'll be digging into the Steam version of Earthion -- anybody else?

Now, about Game of the Month... the last GOM, post got no comments even though it was posted pretty far in advance of the end of July. It's totally fine, but it does suggest that people aren't really into the idea.

So I'm putting the GOM posts on ice while I invite the community to suggest some stuff that they'd rather see in its place, or a better way to handle it. Feel free to pitch in! I'd love to hear from y'all!

Have a great weekend!

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[–] SurfinBird@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Latest Star Valor DLC. Gotta start over though, so it’s gonna be a while before I get to any base building.

[–] Serdalis@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You can start in "tower defence" mode then switch to a normal game to unlock the badger which will help boost you up. Building a base is easy, start with a mining base on a big asteroid, upgrading it is the harder part from there

[–] SurfinBird@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

Thanks for the tip

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 1 points 6 days ago

Looks fun! Very interesting game, but I think my brain might be too smooth to keep up with it though 😵‍💫