It's a great game and I wouldn't argue the point much, but I get why some people don't call RotT a tower defence game. It breaks lots of traditional TD rules. The main one is that there are no routes in RotT. You're told that an attack will come from... vaguely over there, and then you build some emplacements to stave off the alien horde.

It feels more like an unusual RTS to me, even if you don't actually command moving troops, only towers.

I never actually finished it. If you do badly enough in the early levels, the game becomes near-impossible in later levels. And the ghost-aliens basically ruined the later levels for me (99% of your towers ignore ghosts, but you can build a manual laser tower to take them down - manual, as in, you have to aim/shoot the ghosts with mouse-clicks. It's tedious having to constantly scroll back to these towers to see if there are any ghosts attacking).

Got my money's worth though!

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: slaapliedje

Happy GoL cake day, slaapliedje!

Does your name mean "sleeping song", btw?

Wow, sure enough, Google Translate tells me that your name means "lullaby". I didn't know that...!

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Quoting: gustavoyaraujoFirst comment!

Jesus, calm yourself. This isn't reddit. Chill. :)

Really happy that the mouse-pulldown is addressed. I'll give that a shot this weekend - it was killing my Subnautica joy for a long time, so I guess I need to re-install that and give it another shot! (although you could always stick mouse acceleration to a very low number in game to get around it, mostly)

Will do some testing all round, I think! Love seeing these updates pour in.

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I played an hour or so of this, but ended up just getting stuck, surrounded by loads of portals which led me round in circles. Shame, because the fighting is pretty fun and now that there's a shield, hopefully a bit more forgiving.

I'll give it another try.

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Love this. If you liked Slay the Spire, you owe it to yourselves to try this too. I purchased on Itch, and noticed recently that it wouldn't start on that platform. Steam seems to launch okay though. Not sure where the discrepancy comes from - I reported the issue, but didn't get any feedback. Maybe the Itch issue is fixed with this update?

But basically, buy it. Immediately! :)

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Quoting: Nezchan

Quoting: einherjarHmm, to be honest, there is not one title, that is interesting for me.

I'm more or less in the same boat, most of it doesn't really grab me. Zed looks kind of interesting, and We Were Here Together would be good for a couple of streamer friends of mine to play together, but that's mostly it. None of it's going on my wishlist at this point.

Ya pair of cynics. Get out! :)

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The performance on Minetest, last time I tried it, was fantastic. The only thing that put me off playing more of it was exactly what they've fixed in this release - getting it from "engine" to "game" was pretty tedious. Now that they're bundling multiple mods under the "game" banner, I can't wait to give it another shot.

You're never too old to appreciate a game like this! :D

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Honestly, if all I get from that list is Iron Marines, I'll still be happy! :)

I was also looking forward to playing The Last Night, but after a couple of years of limbo, it looks like the studio is struggling financially. Also, I wasn't aware that their creative director, Tim Sorret, was a big gamergate/anti-feminist asshole back in the day, so I've cooled on that one anyway. Wouldn't surprise me if Epic or Microsoft stepped in to make this one happen, but drop Linux and/or Mac support as a result. Shame, because it looked quite pretty, with its bladerunner-y aesthetic.

As for Into the Breach, I don't regret buying it, even if I have to use Proton to play (it's perfect now that the fullscreen issue is resolved by the latest Proton), but the gameplay is just so incredibly unforgiving that I've largely lost interest in it. I've got my money's worth at 30-odd hours, but when you sink two hours into a run, only for it to fall apart because of one-misclick, or one error of judgement, it's not like you can "just have another quick run". I might dip into it a little here and there in future, but it's no Slay the Spire, and certainly no FTL, both of which I have 100+ hours in.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: KuJo

... works great in Steam Play

... until EAC is implemented ...

Sorry, but a burnt child dreads the fire. It´s a multiplayer game and it is Early Access. Remember

SCUM
Paladins
Apex Legends (not Proton, but Wine)
...

I put it on my wish list, though. And I'll keep an eye on it.

This is a PVE co-op game if I'm reading this right. It may not need an anti-cheat which is a lot more needed in competitive PVP scenarios.

Yep, PvE only, there's no player v player here. And you can also solo every mission (naturally that's quite a bit harder at times). What makes this game stand out is that each character really has to work together to get the job done. Four scouts won't have the fire power to stave off a big wave of enemies, four engineers would like find themselves running out of platform gun ammo before everything is mined, four... you get the idea. I like that some duplication isn't a bad thing - nothing wrong with two gunners, for example, at the expense of a scout or a driller perhaps, but it works best when you have a good mix.

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Ended up buying this at the sale price after playing it over the weekend for free. It's really engaging. The voice acting is a bit over the top and cringy, but that's maybe because, as a Scotsman, they sound very "fake Scottish" to me. But, hey, they're dwarves. They can have a fake Scottish accent if that works for them.

Great game though. Lots of levelling, perks, classes, equipment upgrades. Nice combat, nice variety in mission objectives. Yeah, I really like it!

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