It's not a Paradox game, but the recently-released Terra Invicta [External Link] (by the studio created by the guys who made the Long War XCOM mod) is a grand-strategy game which fits that "early solar system exploration with alien combat" theme to a T.

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I can absolutely recommend PlateUp! [External Link] (sic). It's fantastic, especially with friends – a little roguelike restaurant management game where you have to serve customers and customize your restaurant as the difficulty ramps up over time. It's got very simple mechanics – just a few buttons – but combines them in all sorts of novel and interesting ways to represent making a huge variety of foods and performing various duties around the restaurant. It's also got some really fun automation aspects; as time goes on, the only way you'll be able to keep up with the increasing numbers of customers is by starting to automate your food-production workflow, and in extreme cases people have built restaurants that are entirely automatic, creating food and sending it around on conveyor belts to customers' tables and clearing and washing the dirty plates without having to lift a finger. :grin: (That remains my dream.) Plus, the lone developer is pretty active; the game released on August 4, and it's already had multiple content updates adding new foods, cosmetics, balancing passes, and themed updates for Halloween (where you could get guests who'd randomly set the table on fire after eating 😂) and Thanksgiving. Oh, and the music is absolutely top-notch too. I really can't praise this game enough. :smile:

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Multi-track level crossings to keep road vehicles from stopping in the middle of the crossing.

I'm not sure what that means, but it sounds interesting!

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Based on the title I thought "your wallet running away from you" was going to be the gimmick of this sale (as in, the little minigames and themes and stuff they do). :grin:

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Fixed issue where Steam would be unable to connect in some cases after suspend/resume

That's my main happiness point with it! Often losing WiFi contact when resuming.

Nice. I just ran into this issue for the first time this past week and was really confused.

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I think I tried docking mine to one of my monitors once for the novelty, then haven't been interested since. I already have a beefy desktop (with the most comfortable, ergonomic chair in my house) that can do anything I could do on my Deck easier and with less hassle, so to me it's basically a way to play games when I'm away from my PC. (Honestly one of the biggest draws of the Deck for me was simply having access to some of my Steam library on long airplane flights, of which I take more than my desired number of zero practically every year.)

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If anyone wants to try it out, it's been released as a mod for Tabletop Simulator. A friend and I went through it today (dying to The Champ in Act 2 with a Silent/Defect combo). There are definitely a bunch of changes that have been made to accommodate its new form, but it does capture the feel of the original pretty well.

Quoting: Purple Library GuyI wonder if that makes poison more powerful.

It is, and it isn't. It doesn't reduce over time, which is cool, but you also apply less of it, numerically speaking. The Silent with poison is my favorite way to play, and I didn't notice it feeling either significantly over- or under-powerful compared to the original in this run.

The Defect has a straight-up upgrade, since you no longer have to worry about order in orb slots, you can choose which one to evoke and you can choose the target of lightning orbs. Between my poison and my friend's lightning we'd regularly be doing 2–6 times more damage as end-of-round actions than we'd done during it. :happy:

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Currently backing at the $100 dollar level since I've got a gaming group that will likely appreciate it (though shipping's going to be ~50% on top of that since Hawaii is "rest of the world" apparently). It's not cheap, but it's including literally hundreds of cards and other components which appear to be fairly high-quality, so I don't think the asking price is absurd prima facie. The co-op mode is the big draw for me, makes me want one in the video game now. (There's probably something with mods, I haven't looked.)

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Wider rivers? Color me interested! I don't understand that first bullet point though. How do you build things "over an era"? :huh: Oh, wait, is that supposed to be "area"? (Honestly not sure if that's a typo.)

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: PhiladelphusI'm (happily) surprised to see Potionomics is fifth by daily average user count. :happy: It certainly works fine on the Deck, I just wish they'd add actual controller controls.

No useful user control schemes available?

There are some*, but I mean there's no controller controls in-game and no rebinding controls either, so they're limited to emulating a mouse. You can't use a joystick as anything other than moving a mouse cursor, for instance. Given how the menus play out I don't think adding controller support would be too difficult, so hopefully we'll see that added before too long. And there's always the touchscreen in the meantime.

*And to be fair I hadn't thought of that.

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