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So what are you playing this week?

I started playing Ring of Pain. It’s a deckbuilder-ish roguelite. There isn’t really a deck, it’s more of a loadout-builder (or tableau builder in boardgame terms). Meteorfall: Krumit’s Tale is the closest thing I’ve played before. RoP is sort of like a 1d version of that. Fun and fairly unique mechanics, smooth implementation. Runs great on the steamdeck too, good controller support.

It’s been mostly comfort foods: Slay the Spire and Binding of Isaac.

In Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime you have to save the Space Bunnies!

Some I don’t see mentioned yet:

• Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection ported to pretty much everything.
• Nethack (and its variants), Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup and Brogue are great roguelikes.
• For boardgame fans the original Keldon AI for Race for the Galaxy is open source and works very well on Linux.
• Fish Fillets NG is one I have fond memories of from many years ago.
• The Ur-Quan Masters is Star Control 2, another classic.

Everybody is completely safe while rolled into the Katamari, the King of All Cosmos makes certain of that. It’s sort of like an amusement park ride. You can even buy funny photos of yourself screaming as you are getting rolled up.

Thanks, yeah that’s the sort of thing I had in mind. To clarify sensible edits that improve the flow are totally fine as long as they are not the popular-youtuber types with flashy transitions, cutting to memes, screaming or making a face etc.

Side question: what are your favorite “non-obnoxious” ones?
No youtube-edits, no memes, no forced jokes, just good gameplay and game discussion.

• Brotato, you play with a single stick much of the time. Only need to push buttons between stages when you pick upgrades.
• Superflight, also single stick, you can make it as casual or risky as you want
• Dorfromantik, if you play casually and just make a pretty landscape

They all play great on the Steam Deck.

Shattered is my roguelike of choice on mobile (along with Hoplite if that counts). On desktop I play DCSS and Brogue. Used to play a lot of Nethack too. Never ascended in any of them but that doesn’t make it any less fun.

What irks me is that it associates the genre with the wrong generation for the sake of being catchy. Should be “Gen-X shooter” if anything but I guess that doesn’t roll off the tongue.

You might want to skip forward about 40 more years to be on the safe side.

I don’t normally use iOS devices so when I borrow my friend’s ancient iPad it is to play a couple of digital boardgame implementations that are available for iOS but not Android: Finished!, Dead Man’s Draw and Zombie Dice. So I guess those are my favorites. Probably not very relevant for most :)

Finished! in particular is pretty addictive and very satisfying when you finally get that win.

For word games I really like the app version of Paperback. Originally a boadgame but the app is great too for those of us who like deckbuilders as well as word games.

I like the followup Hardback even more but haven’t played the app version of that yet.

Brogue is worth a try. I like the back-to-the-genre-roots minimalism and the hybrid-ascii aesthetics. I alternate between DCSS and Brogue these days.

Picked up Deep Rock Galactic based on recommendations in another thread, not very good at it yet but it’s a lot of fun!