I played the first three minutes of 1000x Resist and utterly hated it, and turned it off. Something drew me back and now I’m an hour in and it’s incredible. Play it, and push through the first few minutes as they really aren’t what the game is actually like.
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I have also been playing Planet Crafter, rather like Subnautica in that you’re exploring in first person with limited oxygen, but you’re also terraforming the barren planet you’re on. Watching it transform before my eyes has made me happier than I can remember in a game recently. Strongly recommended if you like relatively chill games.
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It is possible to run out of time, but you really have to constantly be poking obviously irrelevant things to do so.
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Playing Mewgenics, the horrible cat tactics combat game by the Binding of Isaac guy and someone else, and it’s OK.
The way it randomises your team and equipment every run, and prevents the same team running twice, solves a lot of problems I have with the genre. Keeps things fresh, supposedly makes teams more disposable and encourages experimentation. In practice though, I’m a fair way in and still haven’t encountered any significant hurdles or come close to losing a fight, which is not really what I want from the genre. Into the Breach was a lot more challenging, iirc. Good fun for a light and breezy tactics game with a horrible theme, if that floats your boat (most of the cats you breed end up handed off to various people that abuse them).
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I saw that and heard the praise for it but I just don’t vie with the Binding of Isaac art style. Don’t need to play every (good) game 
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For anyone who enjoyed Opus Magnum. I should really play again. I can usually barely solve the journal puzzles let alone optimize anything
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I do enjoy the solves, mostly, until they get too hard in the extended game. Rarely feel the need to optimise everything though.
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There’s new DLC out soon!
And a Switch release so I thought I might pick it up there and start from scratch.
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I thought the developer had closed its doors?
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They did but they came back as a different company and are doing more stuff.
Also it’s not clear this is zachtronics doing this. The publisher of opus magnum on the switch is not a name I recognise - although they have also published Eliza on switch (also by zachtronics) - so they might just be a spin off crew.
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Dug around a bit and according to the steam forums it’s a collaboration between some of the original devs and fans:
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Slay the Spire 2 is in early access now on Steam. (Just saw it on my way to playing something else) I thought some of you might like to know how to spend your weekend 
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I am planning on it when I get a moment! Have you tried it?
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I only just got it this afternoon. I had one run so far. It is very similar but subtle differences are everywhere from cards, to opponents, abilities and debuffs. New location styles, etc. I suspect the more I play the more differences I find.
I have not played the original in quite a while though.
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I’m have been playing a bit of monster train while my daughter goes to sleep, and that got me back into playing the original sleigh aspire, which remains great. Also, my dictation software is working brilliantly, as you can see above.
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Dictation leads to fun new typos. But at least they are interesting. Unlike what my phone does to my texts I think I am up for another go. I already have a few unlocks now that are new to me and I could now of course also try the Silent again which was my fave in the first one.
edit: and I died on floor 8 because I forgot in a moment of pure greed that defense wears off after the turn. But “Gain 50” just sounded so good.
edit 2: Aaah, shivs! How I missed those 
edit 3: Made it to the top with the Shiv deck. The Ironclad remains a mystery to me. But he seems to do fun things with exhausting cards now.
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I binged on StS until I got all the achievements and a20 heart kills on all classes… but I’m not sure I want more of a similar game right now. Maybe after early access.
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I’ve just had a run of Slay the Spire 2 and it’s pretty great for an unfinished game. Looking forward to playing more of this, but I’ll be slow and give them time to work on it.
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I just wrecked another nicely started Shiv run by gambling in a ? room to lose an artifact I thought I was “done with” because I had used the 3 trainings to obtain 3 strength and exchanged it for two random ones… but with the artifact went my strength and my shivs were back to … 4 damage. Meh. (Slay the Spire for those who don’t play that game. And no I still haven’t played the boardgame. )
edit: I feel I see more references to other games here? I’ve only known the Doom mechanic from Soulstone Survivor previously.
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I just learned it doesn’t have local coop in any form. Very disappointing.