Patient Gamers

Anything of note? I am considering A Plague Tale Collection at 65% off. Dishonored: Complete Collection is also 80% off. I'm considering buying it to replay on PC, I only have it on PS4 and the performance wasn't great.

If you can forgive the self promotion and enjoy platformers. Our game has (an admittedly challenging) couch coop mode.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1771200/Cat_Box_Paradox/

Which ones have you heard of?

• Gauntlet Slayer Edition
  • Good old dungeon crawling. 2014 revival of an 80s arcade classic.
• Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
  • Defuse a bomb with your friends
• CATO: Buttered Cat
  • Puzzle platformer featuring that joke about how cats and toast land when dropped
• Mosa Lina
  • Aggressively randomized puzzle platformer
• Assault Android Cactus
  • Arcade-style twin-stick shooter with pumping soundtrack
• Pizza Possum
  • Very soft stealth game about stealing and eating lots of food
• Moving Out 2 (or 1 if you're fine with local only)
  • Drag and move furniture onto a truck

I know the 2 games below have 2 player couch coop. Not sure if you can play with 4p local on EDF

• Dynasty Warriors 8 - beat up soldiers by the hundreds while watching Romance of 3 Kingdoms as a 3D anime. "Complete Edition" but still has fuckloads of DLC skins which aren't worth it. Or just buy and pirate the actual complete thing later.
• Earth Defense Force 5 - Kill giant insects and aliens with building-destroying firepower. The story and narration in 5 takes itself too seriously, but it has many quality of life improvements over 4, which is overall a funnier game with the best infantry sing-along

Tinkerlands. I just got it together with Novalands (which is a good time sink on switch). Haven't started playing it yet, but it seems similar to terraria, but topdown and with more focus on coop.

Tic Tac Together is team-based recursive tic-tac-toe. When both teams try to claim the same square at the same time, they have to fight for it by playing a subgame. Or a subsubgame. Et cetera. It's surprisingly strategic. How much board control should you give up to secure a contested square?

I've heard good things about Sunderfolk but haven't played it myself. It has hex-grid tactical combat with co-op done via smartphone, so only the buyer of the game needs to share their screen.

+1 for tactical breach wizards. description is on point.

I will back up Cassette Beasts for having a strategically interesting turn-based combat system.

That’s a neat concept, and it’s got a cool art style. I’ll be checking this one out for sure.

That's a steal. It's a great game

Dear God no. Refund Disco Elysium if you can. Some shady asshole ended up stealing the game from the original creators so any purchases you make ends up lining the pockets of the thieves.

https://medium.com/@artofrostov/to-fans-of-disco-elysium-concerning-the-situation-at-za-um-3e6bc46ea9c

The original creators have actually encouraged people to pirate the game instead.

!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Check the mega thread here to get started. The game is excellent, just don't give your money to the slimy suit that stole the game.

Two of my favourite games being mentioned? I have been summoned.

Disco Elysium is an absolutely amazing visual novel+. Treat it like a novel whose pages you can read in any order. It doesn't really behave like a classic RPG, the dialogue options are very un-punishing. Feel free to explore them, feel free to be weird, feel free to commit to wacky ideas. The game rewards that. Lastly: the murder case exists as scaffolding, not purpose. Don't tunnel vision on it, enjoy exploring the world building, the characters and the protagonist.

If you're only playing one of those two Fallout games then New Vegas should be a no-brainer, especially if you haven't played its DLCs. Those are, in my opinion, the very best content New Vegas has to offer and should definitely not be missed. Each DLC is extremely different, and they're all so good that I can never decide which is my favourite.

I mean, after that third movie he wasn’t doing so hot so I suspect Murphy’s pretty cheap…..

I loved furi, but damn those walking sections just made me roll my eyes. Developers think they can just get away with forced slow walking to build atmosphere.