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I'm guessing most of you have have come across the Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality sometime in the last days. If not, it's still going on for a day and a bit so if you feel like having an absolutely staggering amount of stuff. I'm also guessing that those who bought it couldn't possibly sort and judge 1600+ items (it was like 760-ish when I got it, how did this happen) if they had all the time and energy in the world, so I figured we could have a thread for recommending and non-recommending stuff you do end up trying. Please consider that a lot of the items are essentially amateur work (although Celeste and a few other high-profile things are in there), and that there are some asset bundles in there (and who knows what else) but I feel like "is it worth one's time" is a decent rough judgement. Mind that your and another's time might have different value. To start, what I've tried so far: Recommended: Sky Rogue It's the roguelike treatment applied to the plane dogfighting genre. It looks cool and it's hard not to do things that look cool, what little of a soundtrack there is is good and it's pretty fun. It's fairly lenient on the roguelike aspects as well, letting you start at a couple of later points, switch between unlocked planes and loadouts frequently, and the only in-run improvements are weapon and plane upgrades. The one gripe I have with it is that it's a bit too easy to die; Crashing into things that aren't small planes is instant-death and some of the harder enemy planes eventually get pairs of missiles that eat half the health bar of even your beefiest planes. Meh: Abomination Tower I'm pretty sure this is more or less inspired by Super Meat Boy (never played that, no interest) and it feels quite like a flash game in several ways. The issue is that it feels uninspired: You go up towers pieced together procedurally, but I found pieces repeating within a single 10-lives run and they're very much of the we-must-fill-all-the-space-with-twisty-corridors variety. I think once or twice it's given me situations that were impossible as well. The unlockable heads you can get (by collecting enough eyeballs in a run, I got up to the first 4 heads) aren't that interesting either, but maybe if you're fond of Super Meat Boy you'll like it more than I did? Don't bother: Mass Warfare It's a very simple strategy game where you direct a bunch of space ships to conquer planets that periodically fart out more ships, of the kind that I know there's at least a dozen floating online but can never find again. As with a lot of strategy games the main deciding factor as to whether your "strategy" wins is how lucky you are with where you start; Ships can take over multiple planets at once if they're in range, so whoever starts near a clump of planets tends to win while you're doomed if you start in spread out region. Anything less than full control over a planet stops it from producing, which is easy to abuse or lose games to. It's missing QOL stuff as well like quitting to menu mid-game or choosing your side's colour (it's randomised when you boot up the game). Don't feel like you have to limit yourself to the video games for this thread, if it's in the bundle it's fair game. I'm just not expecting much else (if anything) to get posted. Contrast of links on my layout isn't that great is it? ____________________ "Rusted old machines should stay home and play with their toasters!" |
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