There’s still a couple days left and I’m curious to hear what others have been playing.

A couple standouts I’ve played:

Tropico 7: I’m a pretty big fan (~360 hours in 6) so I was very excited to try the demo. It’s more Tropico, which is what I’m looking for! Some of the gripes I had with 6, like managing buses, have been smoothed over and I like the better visibility of how much money each citizen makes. I’m looking forward to the full release.

Beastfolk Barber: I tried this more to recommend to a couple friends since visual novels aren’t usually my thing, but this game is so cute! Customers come in, you spend a minute getting to know them, pick out some haircut options, then chat more while cutting their hair. I like that no customer overstays their welcome before leaving, and a couple of them were really endearing. I likely won’t play the full release myself, but I know a couple people I may gift it to.

What have you been playing?

  • I_Jedi@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Yeah I’ve been playing a bunch. I’ve learned how to find the good stuff among the dogshit. I’ll share some of the good ones I’ve seen so far, along with some notable bad ones that pissed me off.

    • Undershroom - It’s pretty obvious that this is going to have a story kinda-sorta like Layers of Fear. That said, the Bog is fun to explore. “Watch out for the Wild Teeth!”
    • MIA: Memory Fragments - This is a game that attempted to silence talk of its AI usage. I can’t prove it, but I’m pretty sure this dev put up AI disclosure on the main page after I exposed him during Next Fest. Demo still doesn’t have AI disclosure though, so there’s that too. It’s also a shameless MiSide ripoff.
    • Magical Girl ER - Very excited for this one. After Tsumimi Time turned out to be a flop, I feel immense confidence that this one will turn out to be good. I explained what I liked about it in a previous post, so you check that or the game out if you’re interested.
    • Shadow Mate - It looks like Dead Space but anime girls. It’s a third person shooter where you gun down supernatural beings. The boss fight in the demo is rather fun, though the lag is pretty annoying.
    • Quest for Choices - I don’t even know if I can call this one awful. The story in it so far is just people having a product meeting before getting ready for a QA test. Very mundane.
    • Bit-Broken Identity - Skynet evil humans good, but Skynet is an anime girl who wants to mess with the MC in particular. Plot feels like a joke so far, though I like the art quality.
    • 1999 Tokoyo Building - Anime people amusing themselves in a supernatural building. I must say, I enjoyed provoking the easily angered anime girl in this until she deconstructed my skull. The game’s alright, though it’s a visual novel mixed with some short dungeon crawler segments.
    • The False Alice - Visual novel of fanfiction incarnations of Alice (yes, that one) who think that wiping out the others will make the winner the Alice of the IP reboot. It makes me want to see Harry Potter fanfiction characters fight to the death to see who gets to be canon. It shows some promise.