Reminds me of Iron Lung by the creator of Dusk. This one seems like more of a retro and hands-on experience, whether Iron Lung is more like experimental and short indie dread simulator. Both are water based. Well, Iron Lung's version of water is the "ocean of blood", but let's not get technical here. There's also Soma. Hope this one will also deliver.

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Nateman1000, It's a can of worms you're opening. The most popular answer on any such question is that this is all a fabrication, fake news, no such thing, you are lying, it's staged, never in a million years, it's impossible. Also: USA bad.

Why are you trying to argue with someone, who suggests disabling comments when there's "a pattern" in a discussion about some particular company. There's no good faith here from the start.

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Kind of expected that the only apology of Kaspersky in the comments is literally "USA bad".
Kaspersky (the man) himself is a KGB-school graduate and for YEARS held the most idiotic positions publicly. Such as destroying any vestages of anonymity on the internet, for example. He argued that everyone should be represented by their formal government-issued identification on the web. So, nicknames and silly avatars should be banned, essentially. In Soviet Russia, the internet connects to YOU!

He loved to applaud any soviet-style initiatives of the current government and jumped through multiple hoops to signal how he loves the Party and the president.

Then they had some switcheroo with his ex-wife in the CEO seat, tried some damage control, smoke and mirrors tactics, but I won't believe anything. This company is rotten and was that way from the start.

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Hey, wouldn't you want to upgrade your monkey vision with the state-of-the-art 30fps next-gen FullHD uberOLED pancake lensed cordless box of warm and fuzzy gaming joy? Step right up! We will screenshot your monitor forever, get your location, bio, medical and personal info in a secure place in a very professional manner. Get your NFT collection in order with microsoft's own copilot++ enabled and bing enhanced search on the blockchain technology in VR AR VRR 3D-accelerated app.

To hell with them. It seems that Big Tech is in some kind of degradation spiral, they sprint and stumble and crash into each other trying to deliver the most useless and invasive feature, but with all of the buzzwords of today.

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Liam, sorry for off-topic and kind of a personal question, but for the year or so you switched multiple distros as far as I can see. You tried fedora and endeavourOS if I remember correctly. I switched to endeavourOs partly because of you and the discussions here. Do you intend to share your experiences and thoughts on the state of the distros today and what was those things that kept you moving? Thanks!

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Also you can run an old version of the game through Luxtorpeda [External Link] (it's a project that swaps the engines of certain games to a modern and native ones). I tried it some time before, seeing that they're modernized and opensourced the engine. Worked fine, but the gameplay seemed like a dated slog, even though I have a good memories about the game. Anyway, the game was and still is revolutionary and has very interesting ideas and mechanics that seem fresh to this day, especially considering that the whole RTS genre degraded and died soon after.

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I find the town addition a bit undercooked and not very engaging. There's various systems in place that were introduced just on release and had no proper public testing it seems and arguably it bloated the whole experience. Before that it was very close to the Slay the Spire formula - it was so lean. Now the main gameplay loop is almost the same, but there's this town and building and unlocking mechanic that gives player options, but introduces a bit of a headache with the cancerous mobile-web-idle-gaming resources collection. Technically it's okay, no screaming bugs or inconsistencies. It's still a good game, but I think they should have left it on the development stove for half a year or so.

Basically, just imagine playing Slay the Spire, but after each run you are forced to play some 10 year old knock-off gardening game from facebook where they are force-feeding you some dialogue about some chicken and a frog. It's still a good game, just because the main gameplay is great. Doesn't make the facebook gardening addition worth your time, though.

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This is THE BEST news. I encourage anyone to play Dungeon Keeper and this project makes it so much approachable. Old Bullfrog games were exceptional and ground-braking, Dungeon Keeper is just in another league anyway. Ignore the second one or any other stuff (except War for the Overworld, which is a very good faith stab at the formula, but it lost some of the essence in the process I think).

Sadly, DK suffers heavily from UFO Defence/XCOM syndrome - none of the sequels, remakes or attempts to modernize were in vain. Yes, the new XCOM from Firaxis is very popular and a good game, but it's completely different to the original.

Something was lost in the game design from that time. I get the critique of DK and XCOM: there's many dated design decisions, cheesy tactics, imbalance that redesigners are trying to fix for some reason, but I think there's some genius element in all of the messy designs of old that was discarded in current game making. Or maybe I'm just an old chunk of coal in nostalgia coated glasses. That's for you to decide, but I would strongly recommend playing the original Dungeon Keeper if you haven't seen it. There's something uniquely meditative and zen-like in it for you, there's the great mess and stress of minion control if you want. There's a soul of Bob Ross painting approach in it - "There are no mistakes, just happy accidents". Not so happy for the king's clergy, but that besides the point.

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Quoting: wvstolzingI wonder if the scary sections look more or less scary now.

... and yes, the lower-res it gets, the more eerie & disturbing it looks in certain sections; I'm not kidding.

I agree, but I feel that this move may attract some new folk to the genre. Ones that never played doom or quake and was dodging it because of the dated graphics and stuff. Just because it looks old it may be considered as lame. Also, let's not forget that texturepacks are all the rage usually. If this modding option will be accessible, then modders will deliver in spades and more people will be exposed to the game. So I think it's an awesome move overall, despite my purist stance on the old-timey-looks front.

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Quoting: cjr

Quoting: voxHave anyone played it? Can someone share their experiences with the game? I wishlisted it some time ago, thinking that it would leave early access soon, but it doesn't and will not be AFAIK in the foreseeable future. I'm a fan of Terraria, Valheim and their designs if that's saying anything. Should I consider getting it now?

I haven't played Terraria, but compared to Valheim, Necesse scratches a somewhat different itch for me: it doesn't offer as much in the way of exploration/discovery, doesn't aim for a coherent theme or atmosphere, and doesn't really do the ADHD-friendly "let's get lost in the game world somewhere and work our way out of this crazy situation that we've gotten ourselves into" all that much. It does have plenty of "what the heck is this for?" moments and does reward "boldly going" to new places (with generally less severe punishment than Valheim). It's also a fair bit more playful in what it offers and in what it throws at you. But the particular thing that it offers that I haven't seen elsewhere yet is a worthwhile base-building experience and plenty of quality-of-life features that help reduce the grind. (Note that I haven't played Dwarf Fortress yet-- waiting for the Linux release, so I can't comment on how that one would compare to Necesse).

Having (and quickly returning to) a home base is crucial for some of the game elements, and while I personally don't enjoy the process of coming up with base designs as much in Necesse as I do in Valheim (or in Minecraft, though I haven't played in a while), Necesse offers a much greater reward for putting effort into base building. Raids on your base are also a more central and better-balanced part of the game than the other games that I've mentioned; for example, messing up during a base raid isn't going to set you back for days (though it will be painful enough that you'll want to get better at protecting your base).

IMO, the game's greatest strengths are its quality-of-life and automation features (centred around the home base), and the ways in which those features make the NPC villagers actually useful.

For me personally, the game offered more than enough fun and novelty to warrant the purchase. I haven't tried converting my friends to it (as I did with Valheim), but the solo developer behind Necesse has delivered a steady stream of content and balancing, and seems to have just hired two artists (and another developer?), so I'll keep my eyes on it as a candidate for future online game nights.

In summary: if you enjoy the base-building part of survival games and are happy with what you see in the trailer, I'd recommend Necesse.

What a lovely and detailed review! Thank you very much. Bought it instantly after reading!

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Have anyone played it? Can someone share their experiences with the game? I wishlisted it some time ago, thinking that it would leave early access soon, but it doesn't and will not be AFAIK in the foreseeable future. I'm a fan of Terraria, Valheim and their designs if that's saying anything. Should I consider getting it now?

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