DoomR... Jupiter Hell that is!

Played one of the free weekends a month ago, but the voice over added for the early access launch made all the difference in terms of sound immersion.

Knowing what the dev did with its precursor, it will surely be one game I'll go back again and again.

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Quoting: KohlyKohlI like the genre but I don't care for the time only moves when you move gimmick.

@KohlyKohl What genre are you talking about? I ask because all the roguelikes I have played have the "time only moves when you do gimmick".

I wasn't even thinking about the roguelike aspect but rather as a top down shooter.

Ah thanks for explaining. I was really confused.

Also, like its predecessor, it should be a perfect entry point into this turn based rogues. The turn based aspect really fit it like a glove, if you never tried it.

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In the last weeks I have played:

• Everspace - Got it in the summer sale to play in BPM but can't seem to get the hang of it with a gamepad. I'll try to get back my Steam controller and try a custom config later.


• Jupiter Hell - Tried the free weekends. It got the feel of DoomRL just right. Sound effects are not as good as Doom, but everything else about it is top notch. It will be an insta buy later.


• AER Memories of Old - Backlog cleaning. Flying around floating islands on a bit screen is such a magical experience


• Basingstoke - Everything this small indie studio does has a great atmosphere. It's really bad it didn't succeed commercially, as it won't get further updates. Bought it in the summer sale along with the Slayer Shock Buffy-like from the dev of Eldritch which suffered the same fate. Is it indie apocalypse saturation, bad promotion or are the games too niche?


• Minit - This small B&W 1bit ground-hog day fantasy is truly a masterpiece


And every once in a while Magic the Gathering Arena.

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This is one of those indie devs that you can see slowly building up experience in a few small projects to then tackle a bigger one successfully.

I've got his Survive the Zombies, and it really showed that he built a concept, then a road-map with a limited scope, which he threaded along delivering frequent updates till the end where he wrapped up and moved to a bigger project.

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Lovely! It really is DoomRL++ it all 3D glory! ^_^

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPI get what you are saying. It makes for a simpler transition.
But then it begs the question, What is the point in using 2 OS'?

Because I'm also a chronic dual booter I can say some of them:

• I work in IT with different clients with different OSs and its good to have more than one installed in case something has to be done/researched at home or just to keep practice;


• Time is spent half on a family computer (windows) and personal (Linux) and because of traveling and time issues its not always feasible to bring/boot the Linux one;


• There is that important file/app/etc that only works in windows and the we boot just to use it, but since I'm already there I want to use all the other apps I'm used to.

When I started the trip into the Linux world (when the Ubuntu was orange and gnome2 was a thing) I found out that that most of the open source applications I used in windows were there on Linux and so it became a very familiar environment (where the printer actually worked without needed to fully install the OS again). In that area I also relate very much to this issue. I would very much HATE Linux exclusives much like windows ones.

Though Lutris actually makes installing a windows game as trivial. Script is created once (probably my the community) and reproduced in every install afterwards. But sure what I would want is some kind of multiplatform game launcher that could access both windows and linux installed games and navigate through them via gamepad. Like having Lutris on Windows or Playnite on Linux.

The people in lauchbox said they're main app could 'easily' be ported, but their bigbox (the steam BPB equivalent with gamepad support) couldn't' be done without major rewrite... That's a deal breaker for me.

That's why my main launcher actually ends up being steam BPM in windows and steamos-session on linux. As for the games/apps that don't work in one platform, I'll actually stop using them naturally since when I go back to the OS they could be installed I just don't remember about it.

EDIT: Formating and typos.

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And lets not forget that Magic the Gathering Arena (the grandaddy of TCG) had their open beta released just before Artifact, being both f2p and extremely user friendly compared to last online iterations.

It also works fine installing through Lutris. I was hyped and going to buy Artifact, but when I finally got to install MTG (in linux too) I never came back.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPI'd use it if it wasn't Linux only.
As it is, Lutris is almost as useless to me as that Windows-only equivalent (forgot the name).

Which one btw? Playnite or Launchbox (AKA big box)?

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For those that like video game music, the OST will be by the same composer of Roguelands and Magicite: Boishiboizu (bandcamp [External Link]), so maybe it will have that sweet electronic vibe like the previous games.

EDIT: If you listen to the Town 1,2 and 3 songs from Magicite and look at this new game pictures, you can really imagine the scene coming to life. :)

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Also, be sure to read each game page carefully, 'cause some of them actually mention that you get a steam key either after the purchase, or when the game is fully released.

It might help :wink:

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