For curious onlookers like myself out of the loop, this is Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. Best wishes OP

I admit I found this because some people on Lemmy were talking about a “Blue Prince” video game, I’d heard about it before and figured I should see what the fuss was about, and in the Steam results for “Blue Prin” were Blue Prince, Blue Print, and Blueprint Tycoon. But it looks like a cool little gem.

Ooh, how are they different?

As someone who has never played Mini Metro but heard good things about it, graphics give me Mini Metro vibes but with electric grids instead of public people transportation. A bit less minimalist.

Rift Wizard!

Part of me is so pulled by games with customizable characters and good magic systems, but roguelike… oof. But it calls to my childhood self. Maybe I’ll watch a playthrough to try to see if it’s for me.

Props to your friend for making and finishing a game at all, let alone the reviews said one lots of people enjoy!

TL;DR: either one of these

1. Ash dies of old age, prior episodes probably would be looking back fondly on his childhood (maybe not having as good memories later on in life), wakes up again at 10 and starts over, something about learning to coexist with others and reincarnation

2. Pokémon uprising, realize they are being forced to fight and exploited

Nice to see devs on the Fediverse. Best wishes!

The only AAA games I’m looking at are ones released 5+ years in the past. Grabbed a lot more indies closer to launch. So glad Timberborn and shapez 2 made it here.

You did say “just right hand,” there was a thread before asking for one-handed games in general

!visualnovels@ani.social can help you out with way more visual novels. Including ones that do not have sex scenes or romance, counter to the stereotype of all VNs as sex games.

(and if you do want romance in your VNs, but from a female perspective, !otomegames@ani.social has you)

If you end up liking Crusader Kings 3 you might also like Crusader Kings 2

Big fan of idles and incrementals, you have inadvertently advertised PoE2 to me haha. Thanks for your thoughts and explanation!

Not a big ARPG person, just an onlooker. I searched “idol game mechanics” and “idol game mechanics ARPG” and got nothing, what is that?

Just checked the links, since you said you did not crosspost.

It’ll say it was crossposted if it is the same link, even if someone else posted it and it was years ago. This is not perfect of course, sometimes I have posted the same link in three relevant communities and you would think each post would have two links: one for each other community, but each post only has one link.

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I game on a former Windows 11 laptop that now runs Linux. I have never owned a “real” gaming PC in my entire life and do not intend to drop any money on one. However, not having enough money to drop on a new laptop to run Linux because you have a more pressing need than gaming to have to still use Windows is still understandable. It’s less than the full-blown fancy gaming PC with its GPUs, but it’s still money.

Not really facing any jank myself thanks to the whole Steam Deck compatibility thing, but I also did have to tinker with one game a bit to make it work. I have had one game demo for a small indie not run so far. Other than that, very smooth experience.

Clicked to ask if you crossposted to discounted game communities, was pleased to see I didn’t actually need to ask because you have already done that.

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Thanks for the notice!

Trying the demo to see if this stays on my wishlist or gets unceremoniously booted.

Graphics appeal in a… “sciencey” way I guess? I like them, but I’m not sure how to describe what about them is tickling my brain in the right way.

Tutorial:

Welcome Unit Gr0_P1uS. Let’s run a test protocol on your sensors. Try adjusting your camera:

(and then it lists camera controls for me)

I guess I’m a computer lol. Oddly charmed by this.

I made a big mistake already by placing things in the wrong rotation, and wasn’t sure how to remove them or rotate them again, and the game sure did not tell me, so I just started the tutorial all over.

Controls say I can use T to mirror when I’m putting stuff down. My T key is functioning but T does not seem to actually do anything. Maybe that’s for things I unlock later? Will report it if I go through the whole demo and it still appears to do nothing. It works on the Harvester Pad, so maybe the other things were just symmetrical enough for me to not notice anything.

This might just be a “me and my small display and the fact most people don’t actively prefer smaller screens to bigger ones” problem but tutorial text is great and legible normally, but after completing a tutorial the colored text shows up sooooo badly. Went and reported that.

Some of the tutorial had me a bit confused for a few seconds, not sure what to do, but I figured it out. But overall I feel too stupid for video game tutorials nowadays, so YMMV.

After the tutorial is a little picture of tubes with “GOOD SPAGHETTI” written in it.

The GNN doesn’t appreciate inefficient design, don’t make a mess.

Definitely a playful jab at spaghetti factories, appreciated. Although the picture is a bit confusing to me, my assumption is that because “GOOD” and “SPAGHETTI” are separated there would be an example of good organization near GOOD and bad near SPAGHETTI, and instead it’s just tubes with the phrase GOOD SPAGHETTI.

Game seems fascinating and fun enough (especially configuring/entering the Cutter module!) for me to excuse the problems I did have, but I am not too good at describing them. It stays on my wishlist!

The original creator helping out the new guy with the remaster is pretty heartwarming. Might look at this just because it seems to be able to serve as edutainment. Love the idea of keeping complexity but making the game more accessible UI/UX-wise.