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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 48,881 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Retr0gamer


    Can only comment on subnautica but can confirm it's an absolute gem. Definitely pick it up. Thought I'd hate it as I don't like survival crafting games but this one has enough structure and story to differentiate itself and survival elements aren't intrusive


  • Registered Users Posts: 199 ✭✭ petejmk


    Thanks for the American Fugitive recommendation. Looks great.


  • Registered Users Posts: 28,690 ✭✭✭✭ Zero-Cool


    petejmk wrote: »
    Thanks for the American Fugitive recommendation. Looks great.

    It's 8 euro on PSN at the moment, great price for it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 973 ✭✭✭ TheRepentent


    Guacamelee 2..great mexican wrestler based platformer..justa 5er on steam at the moment. The first one was excellent too. recommend both

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  • Registered Users Posts: 28,690 ✭✭✭✭ Zero-Cool


    I absolutely love both Guacamelee's, can't recommend them enough.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 7,211 ✭✭✭ Grumpypants


    I played stranded deep way back in pc early access and it was early but enjoyable.

    You crash land on a desert island and have to gather resources to try and escape. There is no zombies or other players ruining it.

    I got to the point where I built a little house and had a raft to go from island to island. Looking at the trailer it looks like it has come on a good bit.


  • Registered Users Posts: 28,690 ✭✭✭✭ Zero-Cool


    I forgot about this thread, currently playing Road 96 which is incredible. Finished Hollow Knight last week, wow I can't believe I missed out on that for so long. Currently waiting on Punch Club 2 to release. Lake is out tomorrow as part of PS Plus Extra. Will be getting Dredge in the next couple of weeks (need to finish a couple of other games first). Also ordered Surviving the Aftermath from Amazon. It dropped in price to a fiver for a couple of days but I had to wait over a month for the stock, arriving in the next 2 weeks.




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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,683 CMod ✭✭✭✭ pixelburp


    I'd been following the dev of this (one of those one-man jobs), and while in Early Access seems to be getting a bit of enthusiasm and buzz. An immersive sim gone overboard: it generates a random city each playthrough filled with murders and crimes you, a gumshoe, must solve. It emphasises a lot of manual detecting; reading phonebooks, putting together the evidence yourself, all that kind of thing. Buggy as hell but has a lot of potential.




  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 28,029 CMod ✭✭✭✭ johnny_ultimate


    It's an intriguing idea for sure, and always happy to see immersive sim ideas expanded.

    Proc-gen mystery-solving does give me pause, though. As a lot of the best 'detective' games recently - Obra Dinn, Outer Wilds, Golden Idol etc... - have proven the importance of a properly authored story with twists, revelations and interconnectedness is central to the genre. Hell, a century or so of detective pulp fiction has also shown that! Not sure at all that that's something that could ever come close to being replicated with any consistency in a game where the jigsaw is randomised.



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