I think I’ll be finally picking up Project Wingman and Black Mesa in this sale.
What’s on your list?
Not sure how well known it is, but on a friend’s recommendation I bought Cassette Beasts. I just got a second hand Steam Deck and it’s a fun combination. It’s basically a Pokemon-like game, but with its own charm. Instead of pokeballs you record monsters with cassette tapes. It’s quite a goofy game and I’m enjoying it so far.
If you do get it for the Steam Deck, you should play it with compatibility mode set to Proton 8, because then it somehow uses 40% less battery or something.
Cloudpunk and a DLC for the crazy good Not for Broadcast game.
Just in case you haven’t played them, I’d highly recommend Papers, Please and Headliner Novinews.
Those would be right up your alley.
Cattails. It’s like Stardew Valley but with cats. I played the first game on Switch and just picked up the sequel to play on Deck.
- Shattered Pixel Dungeon
- Sunset Overdrive
- Your Only Move is Hustle
- Death’s Door
- Super Woden GP 2
Super Woden GP 2 looks really interesting and I never heard of it. Going on the wishlist.
Picked up The Ascent and Dead Cells this time around.
I like The Ascent! That’s a fun game. I’ve heard of a lot of jank, but not experienced much myself. Other than some crashes when loading between areas.
Good for you! Dead Cells is one of the best games ever made if you ask me.
Heartbound - indie game in constant development
Caves of Qud
Necesse has been fun
Nothing here, but Black Mesa was outstanding. Could not put it down.
Cruelty Squad is very often overlooked because of how it looks, but it’s genuinely one of the best indie games I have ever played
For less than $5 CAD, I picked up Maiden & Spell, an excessively cute sidescrolling shooter a la R-Type, except it’s a levelless boss rush with Story and Versus modes. It’s got a very Touhou aesthetic (i.e. rather than spaceships or dragons or something, everyone is cute girls).
Story mode is basically a Touhou boss rush, where your character fights 4 monster girls and 2 out of the other 3 human girls, with no level in-between, it’s just bosses. There’s a threadbare but acceptable story linking them, with each playable character giving a different perspective on the same story, and then there being an epilogue chapter and a bonus extra boss. Story mode has 4 difficulties, the easiest of which is called Cute Mode and is basically unloseable, so even if you’ve never played a game like this, you can give it a go.
Versus mode is basically a 1v1 fighting game. You and one friend each pick one of the 8 girls and do bullet hells at each other until you see who wins. It’s not complex, but it is kind of tactically deep.
The same author is currently working on a sequel, Rabbit & Steel, a very similar game except rather than a versus battler, it’s a coop roguelike inspired by MMO raid mechanics. A sneak-peek demo with online multiplayer is available, and it’s really fun!
I picked up Forager. It’s kind of addictive…
Eidolon
Can someone help me remember the name of a certain game? I heard about it in an LTT video. Apparently it’s a really cheap 8(+?)-player Steam game that is a sort of magic/wizard free-for-all game that’s lots of fun with little strategy. I’ve been racking my brain trying to remember the name of it.
Isn’t Black Mesa called Half Life?
