Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: jensAls far as I remember, there were four elephants between the giant turtle and the disc :)

But what about The Fifth Elephant?

That was a Bruce Willis thing, right?

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I'll be honest, the trailer doesn't grab me. The whole thing seems like a more generic looking take on the Wandering Village concept, except you don't have as much interaction with the creature you're on.

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I really like the option of changing individual sliders, which can be more fine-tuned to your needs than a preset mode. Although having both is even better.

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Okay, that's funny. They pushed a patch just as I was typing that last post, and now I don't even get as far as the starfield opening. I can get to choosing to load or start a new game, after a considerable wait and sometimes the graphics don't load for the options, and then it just dies on me.

Great work, folks.

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Hmm, not working for me. I've tried three times to start the game and it ultimately fails just as it's (finally) getting out of the starfield startup thing. Guess I'm going to have to wait for a couple more patches down the line.

Checking the Steam forums, it looks like a lot of people are having the same problem. Right as soon as the world/character is supposed to appear, the game vanishes and I'm back to Steam. Hopefully they'll address whatever's causing it soon.

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I like the idea a lot, but I think the voxel style really isn't my thing. Although the mechanics and setting may win out in the end, we'll see what the reviews are like about how immersive and fun it gets.

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Okay, tried a few more and I have thoughts.

Townseek - Very bright and appealing. Good art style and the world is whimsical. But it throws a LOT of information and tasks at you right away which can be overwhelming, and it's kind of hard to get to know the characters since you're so busy with quests and trading. World seems very....small, given you're in a pretty fast airship. Could be a gem with some development. Didn't work properly with Steam Controller.

Dungeon Drafters - Pretty standard mystery dungeon with a deckbuilding mechanic. Kinda cute and mechanics seem solid, although I didn't know there's no reshuffling your deck. So when you run out of cards, I guess you just wait for the monsters to kill you? Frustrating in that sense. Didn't recognize Steam Controller.

Planet of Lana - Very pretty. Solid mechanics, characters seem likeable and well animated, puzzles make intuitive sense. A lot in common with games like Out of This World and Limbo, but not nearly so gruesome, even though you can die fairly easily. When I tried to alt-tab to another window, when I came back I got sound on a black screen that I couldn't get rid of without forcing Steam to quit. Not happy about that.

Plan B: Terraform - Same problem as Philadelphus. Unresponsive black screen (same as when alt-tabbing on Planet of Lana) on startup. Adding the startup command he did seemed to solve it, although I wasn't using Proton Experimental. As to the actual game, about what it says on the tin. Build industry and then terraform. Good mechanics, although the tutorial isn't as helpful as I'd like (why do I need to build 10 extractors all at once?).

Radio the Universe - Solid post-apocalyptic action-RPG with robots. Very mysterious setting and only one surreal cutscene for background. Great mechanics. Lo-fi, glitchy aesthetic so can be hard on the eyes, but a lot of fun.

Desynced - Worked great out of the box. A lot of mechanics reminiscent of stuff like Starcraft (set up mining, make drones, etc.). I think the real focus is on automating your drones and production, although I barely touched on that. Very nice style, fun once I started to figure out what was going on. Someone smarter than me (a low bar) would pick it up pretty quick, I think.

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Tried Townseek, and there's a lot good there. But it throws a lot of info at you immediately, and has really annoying chat and UI sounds that just irritate the hell out of me. I think maybe it's a bit dense on the text for an otherwise cute and chill game.

Also tried Dungeon Drafters. It's also pretty cute, and seems to have some good ideas, but I ran afoul of the fact that there seems to be no re-deal mechanic. Basically once you've used your cards, you just have to sit there and let the monsters kill you I guess.

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Tiny Life has been on Itch for quite a while now, I've had my eye on it. Not that I ever played The Sims in the first place, but this seems like a good implementation of the idea.

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Quoting: Luke_Nukem

Quoting: NezchanIf the dev went back and overhauled it the way the No Man's Sky devs did? I'd still be willing to give it a chance, after all this time. But it'll take a little more than what this update has to offer.

The dev struggles with money flow in many cases - I'd be very surprised if they could do what the NMS team managed.

Obviously I'm not talking about the scale of what they did. I mean the concept of coming back and picking a system, overhauling it and releasing that change, bit by bit.

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