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PaperclipPerfector  1mo ago (text post)   2912 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for March 15, 2024

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Video Game Thread

Often happens anyways. Share what you have been playing.

For me I've been hooked on Nightingale recently. A survival crafting game. Their twist on the genre is to have different "realms" or maps where you can explore and collect stuff. The realms can be upgraded to be more difficult and thus provide more resources.

The game feels like a bit of a slog at times, but that is also what I was sorta looking for. A game I could play semi-mindlessly while listening to podcasts. The main frustration has not been gameplay, but a developer decision to make the game always online. Most of the bugs I have encountered are server related. Which is an extreme frustration since I'm basically playing the game like its singleplayer. I am confused why they made the server requirement a thing at all. It just seems like extra crap to maintain.

I've been playing Card Survival: Tropical Island. Basically you're some variant of Tom Hanks in Castaway, washing up on an island with nothing but some clothes and forced to fend for yourself.

The simple card style UI hides an incredibly complex status system where your mental/physical health is tracked under the hood (all the way down to parasite count for camp fever/malaria and derealization meter etc). It is a turn based game, but different actions take different amounts of time and the management of time is the most critical thing about surviving. Can you dig a well before the dry season comes? Can you find or farm enough spider lily plants before you succumb to Camp Fever? Can you train in spear fighting enough to fight a boar (or better yet trapping so you never have to?) Can you build and stock a raft with enough provisions to escape the island while struggling with loneliness and starvation?

I found it highly addictive and strongly recommend it for those who like in depth survival/base building/exploration games.

It is currently 30% off in the Spring Sale on Steam, but there is also a free demo of the first days available here.

Is this Cultist Simulator but for Castaway?

Cultist Simulator was real time (with a timer on card interactions). Card Survival is turn based. You can just stop and take as long as you want to think about what to do next, eg 'It's one hour to sunset. Do I try to spear a fish to fill my starving belly, or do I play it safe and head back to camp so I'm not trapped in a pitch black jungle until daybreak being eaten alive by malaria carrying bugs?'

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