Yes you can, but you can't play the same game at the same time, like if your family member plays Helldivers you cant play it until theyre done playing, unless you also have a copy of helldivers.
Loop Hero is a good one
Steamworld heist
This one might be too hard to play with one hand but it says it's controller able-er: Cloud Garden
lots and lots of point n click adventure games like monkey island series or amanita design games.
The Trails in the Sky rpgs can easily and comfortably be played with mouse only, and are turn-based, meaning interruptions don't matter.
(Some of the later sequals require controller, but the Sky games are nicely standalone - you can play the first two and stop)
Nine Nights is quite good. I had a bug that kept sending me back to an earlier area, but it actually worked in y favour, b/c that area contained a chest with 1 of the 5 beads I needed to upgrade my HP bar- and each time I'd get kicked back to the bottom of the mountain, the chest would respawn, allowing me to grind out extra HP.
Once I actually got past that finicky section (the booting me back was happening when I'd die in a certain section, the game went far smoother. Though it then introduced giant eagle riders as minibosses, and I gotta say, FUCK EAGLES. They're always above you, so you can hardly see them, and they are always flanking you whenever you you stop moving, or even just launch into an attack combo on one of the ground enemies. They interrupt your jumps, and the eagle riders took the page straight out of Warcraft and throw thunder hammers at you. Eagles are evil. Wolf riders also suck, but the eagles are pure evil.
Other than that, it's pretty solid. Had to fight another swordmaster, and that fight takes 5-7 minutes each try, because my specials don't work on him, so I gotta keep blocking until there's an opening to combo him back and maybe get a few hits in to chip at his HP. Sword Saint's got nothing on this guy in terms of annoyance.
it's really earning its "challenging" moniker, but my initial impression of "Prince of Persia, but you're a Chinese sworsmaster-assassin" largely holds true. There's a bunch of skills to unlock, but the only one you really need is "jump and then do air kicks". That one nails most minibosses, but there's a few other skills good at clearing adds so that you can deal with the big guys with AoE attacks.
Once I actually got past that finicky section (the booting me back was happening when I'd die in a certain section, the game went far smoother. Though it then introduced giant eagle riders as minibosses, and I gotta say, FUCK EAGLES. They're always above you, so you can hardly see them, and they are always flanking you whenever you you stop moving, or even just launch into an attack combo on one of the ground enemies. They interrupt your jumps, and the eagle riders took the page straight out of Warcraft and throw thunder hammers at you. Eagles are evil. Wolf riders also suck, but the eagles are pure evil.
Other than that, it's pretty solid. Had to fight another swordmaster, and that fight takes 5-7 minutes each try, because my specials don't work on him, so I gotta keep blocking until there's an opening to combo him back and maybe get a few hits in to chip at his HP. Sword Saint's got nothing on this guy in terms of annoyance.
it's really earning its "challenging" moniker, but my initial impression of "Prince of Persia, but you're a Chinese sworsmaster-assassin" largely holds true. There's a bunch of skills to unlock, but the only one you really need is "jump and then do air kicks". That one nails most minibosses, but there's a few other skills good at clearing adds so that you can deal with the big guys with AoE attacks.
Still making my way through Cyberpunk 2077. Love much of the game, but I don't really enjoy sneaking around warehouses/clubs in the more stealthy missions. Does anyone have any good recommendations for perks/abilities/cyberware/weapons to make them a bit more fun, or just make me silly overpowered? Except for going full bruteforce and just shooting everyone.
So like, I'm not sure how, but I actually messed up on this because I'm realizing just now that the bundle offer is gonna expire before the giveaway does, which means I won't be able to give away the bundle at this rate.
In light of this, I've decided to just go ahead and gift the bundle to all three current entrants. For the relevant parties, if you see this in the next 4 hours, kindly give me the email associated with your Itch.io account via PM. If no one manages to do so, I'll let GiftBot do its thing and gift 1000xResist instead on your preferred platform once it comes out or something.
Sorry for this, guys.
Special K can override this.
It can either try to force a game to run in borderless fullscreen mode, or you can use its "fake fullscreen" mode.
Fake fullscreen mode is especially useful for games that do work in borderless mode, but might only activate features like HDR in "fullscreen exclusive" mode.
This also prevents that HDR from breaking when alt-tabbing away from the game - as was common in all the Resident Evil games before RE4 Remake.
Consider point & click adventure games. The majority of those are not timing-sensitive and could be mapped to either the touchpad or analog stick on Steam Deck.
There are some good recommendations of classics here:
Classic Point and Click Adventure Games
I've been playing through some classics lately and wanted to discuss the genre. Monkey Island is like the gold standard. Perfect game. Monkey Island 2 - Holy obscure puzzles, Guybrush! The green drink/spit thing is just... how did anyone ever figure that out? And Ive read that Europeans had...
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And there's a massive ongoing OT here:
Point & Click Adventure Thread - Pixels Walk With Me
The last few years have seen the rise of crowdsharing platforms like Kickstarter, Indiegogo & fig, as well as the rising influence of digital distribution, which combined has led to a resurgence in both the number and quality of P&C games, as it's now easier to fund, and cheaper to distribute in...
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I'll check out Brotato and XCOM
Sadly, no mouse.
I do own Loop Hero, so I'll definitely check it out.
SteamWorld Heist would be a good time to replay as well with the sequel coming out, thank you.
Consider point & click adventure games. The majority of those are not timing-sensitive and could be mapped to either the touchpad or analog stick on Steam Deck.
There are some goods recommendations of classics here:
Though there are maybe two puzzles in the first Monkey Island that are timing sensitive enough that it could be a problem for you.Classic Point and Click Adventure Games
I've been playing through some classics lately and wanted to discuss the genre. Monkey Island is like the gold standard. Perfect game. Monkey Island 2 - Holy obscure puzzles, Guybrush! The green drink/spit thing is just... how did anyone ever figure that out? And Ive read that Europeans had...
And there's a massive ongoing OT here:
Point & Click Adventure Thread - Pixels Walk With Me
The last few years have seen the rise of crowdsharing platforms like Kickstarter, Indiegogo & fig, as well as the rising influence of digital distribution, which combined has led to a resurgence in both the number and quality of P&C games, as it's now easier to fund, and cheaper to distribute in...
I haven't tried any point & click yet, I'll be looking through those threads and see if I find something. Thank you.
Can the first game also be played with a controller? As I can't use a mouse.
Because what people did was buy 10 years of PS+ at the old rate instead of cancelling 🙈
It's funny how other platforms have no written reviews and show very, very little interest in adding them. You can't have democracy without democratic tools. All (most) other gaming companies do as much as possible to limit visible feedback on their stores/products. GOG is good as well.
As I play only the hottest new games, I started up Gears Tactics for the first time.
First impressions are very good. It's a hell of a good looking game, that's for sure. Loving that three action economy with bonus actions getting racked up through executions. Lots of good tactical play going on.
It was slightly amusing that it started off with a trailer for the Enhanced/Xbox version of the game.
First impressions are very good. It's a hell of a good looking game, that's for sure. Loving that three action economy with bonus actions getting racked up through executions. Lots of good tactical play going on.
It was slightly amusing that it started off with a trailer for the Enhanced/Xbox version of the game.
Also wrapped up some games.
Blue Fire
Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair
Really enjoyable games. Blue Fire has some rough edges, in particular the combat and some late game backtracking, but the platforming feels great. Yooka-Laylee is pretty much a Donkey Kong Country game in all but name. Sure, it isn't quite on the level of a DKC: Tropical Freeze, but its still really good, and the soundtrack is excellent. It also has one of the most fun and inventive overworlds in a 2D platformer, and I really dug the concept of every level having two versions.
Both games were also flawless on the Steam Deck. Great games to switch between PC and Deck from session to session.
Blue Fire
Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair
Really enjoyable games. Blue Fire has some rough edges, in particular the combat and some late game backtracking, but the platforming feels great. Yooka-Laylee is pretty much a Donkey Kong Country game in all but name. Sure, it isn't quite on the level of a DKC: Tropical Freeze, but its still really good, and the soundtrack is excellent. It also has one of the most fun and inventive overworlds in a 2D platformer, and I really dug the concept of every level having two versions.
Both games were also flawless on the Steam Deck. Great games to switch between PC and Deck from session to session.
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As I play only the hottest new games, I started up Gears Tactics for the first time.
First impressions are very good. It's a hell of a good looking game, that's for sure. Loving that three action economy with bonus actions getting racked up through executions. Lots of good tactical play going on.
It was slightly amusing that it started off with a trailer for the Enhanced/Xbox version of the game.
I enjoyed it for a couple of hours but I think I just kind of stopped after a while because it felt like every level was blurring together. It's been an issue with a lot of X-COM-adjacent strategy games, I think - the lack of variety really starts to hurt it after a bit.
Fun mechanics, decently well-designed but I felt like it was lacking in staying power.
Gears Tactics is a legit good game that actually expands on the XCOM model, not just copies it, it just didn't have the staying power. You play it once or twice and then move on, unlike XCOM where you say, "well, this is my life now".
It's a well thought out game.
It's a well thought out game.
That just tells me you haven't played The Case of the Golden Idol and you should play The Case of the Golden Idol.
It's amazing, and finishing it yields you all the achievements. Also on sale now. You should all play it btw. I know it's ugly.
View: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1677770/The_Case_of_the_Golden_Idol/
It's actually the second one I "perfect" after Zero Time Dilemma (well that one sucked) for the same reason
Same. The closest I've ever come was The Wolf Among Us and I still missed 3 of them.
Looks like my perfect game is the first Telltale Batman game, which I'm guessing was one that you just got all of the achievements for by playing through it all the way.
I need 3 more for Helldivers 2. Haven't gone back yet since the bullshit from Sony. May play again this week with it being retracted.
I'll have to take a look at it. I know these aren't normally my thing, but my partner could be up for it. She loves mystery types of games. She does, however, have several finished games with all achievements haha.
I want to get it but I am really really bad at any sort of puzzle type stuff. I had to look up Obra Dinn answers in the end.
I never bothered with it, like I did on PS4. The last run of first-party games made it pretty easy to get the platinum. It also didn't help that the Steam achievement system was fairly unappealing until recently.
That said, I'm only 3 or 4 achievements away from 100%ing Remake Intergrade, and I can't even stand the game. Help.
It's a really pretty game, all things considered. Like, the asset quality isn't always amazing, but the environments and the lighting more than make up for it.Playing Indika.
Real beautiful, weird game. Loving it so far.
As I play only the hottest new games, I started up Gears Tactics for the first time.
First impressions are very good. It's a hell of a good looking game, that's for sure. Loving that three action economy with bonus actions getting racked up through executions. Lots of good tactical play going on.
It was slightly amusing that it started off with a trailer for the Enhanced/Xbox version of the game.
I really like Gears of War and I really like tactics games, but I didn't care much for this. Once the novelty of it being Gears focused wore off, I realized it was pretty meh as a tactics game.
These same people actively say they want reviews gone. It's stupidity.
Xbox actually does have written review sections, I think. That might be a Windows-only thing, because the Windows Store is based on mobile app stores and those have user reviews. They do absolutely make reviews harder to write and find compared to Steam.
I thought it was quite a lot of fun, did a good job of translating Gears into a tactical setting. Though the forced secondary missions to pad out the campaign got quite annoying towards the end.
I still have nightmares from pushing that cute NPC down the cliff. 🙈
I started to watch a Let's Play yesterday. Went in totally blind not knowing, what to expect. The fuck?
My first thought is the catholic answer to Hellblade.
Originally I wanted to watch a review and check out the OT here, but now I want to continue watching a walkthrough knowing nothing instead.
Orthodox, not Catholic.
It is very what the fuck though. Very original work
The trailer for Indika simultaneously sold me and unsold me on getting it eventually, because it was surprisingly funny but also left me wondering if the game actually was a trip or if it was all cheeky marketing.
GOG reviews are so short though (there's like 2000 character limit, I think)
Not, bad, but usually not enough to really get into what I think about a game. Especially games I like, but I realize have flaws.
Yeah IMO the tactical combat in Gears Tactic is as good as Xcom, the main issues with it are there's not much of a strategy layer, and the mission types eventually become too samey. Alhough I feel that's an issue Xcom also runs into late game where while you're just waiting for the next big story mission/or research to finish and you're constantly hit with random UFO missions that aren't really challenging any more but you get penalized for ignoring them so you can't skip them either.
Gears tactics corporates the Gears world/mechanics really well and overall is a super solid foundation that would make for a killer sequel that will probably never happen.
team reviews haven't steered me wrong before.I have picked up many a random game based on Steam reviews that have barely gotten a mention here. Everything that is Overwhelmingly Positive is worth a go if it is in a genre you like.
I don't think it's really hard, and even if you're looking up some answers it's still a good story worth your time imo. Especially at that price. And since it basically tells you how many things you got wrong you can guess again real quick
