My current addiction. It’s kind of like a slot machine but you can get better at winning.
There’s something about how distilled this game is. No narrative or world building, just the pure game mechanic and the tight rougelite gameplay loop. Kinda mathy because you need to do some multiplication in your head to figure out if your hand is gonna create a big enough score, but I’m very sucked in trying to make the ultimate broken combination of cards/jokers.
Scores potentially can get so big they need to be represented with scientific notation. I haven’t played too many other card builder games, though I did love Inscryption.
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if you like deck builder games this is for you, if you don’t like deck builder games this also might be for you (i wasn’t into them until this one)
poker themed but no need for previous poker knowledge, and truly addicting!
(also it’s on sale rn on steam till april 1)
Mar 29, 2024
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Card:
-The Mind - card game where you act as One Mind and silently try to arrange cards numbered 1-100 w/o speaking. very quick simple and bonding
Other:
-name that tune - find a random “guess the song” playlist on Spotify, hit shuffle, keep score!!!
Video Games:
-return of the obra dinn - maybe the best video game of all time, you solve the deaths of everyone on board a ghost ship. Super collaborative, actually stunning, perfect to play in a weekend!
-unraveled two - you play two little guys made of yarn who are tied together and help each other get over obstacles. Made me cry!
Feb 18, 2024
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Jan 25, 2024
Ate this for the first time last night because it’s been rec’d a bunch of times on here and im in Boston for the week. Borderline psychedelic. This sandwich is insane. You’re all insane. I’m kinda craving another somehow.
Feb 8, 2024
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You trusted someone with your money or your heart or both, and then that person surprises you by fucking you over. fuck!
This sucks a lot and might mess you up pretty bad and make you lose faith in people, but on the other side there is the potential for new found strength as you now have *experience*.
Trusting people is such an essential thing, so after getting scammed when you eventually find ways to trust people again, you’ll do it with a better sense of who to give it to and how much to give and when. That’s a powerful thing, and not easy to understand until you’ve been burned.
Keep trusting, keep getting burned, but hopefully a little less so each time.
Feb 15, 2024