Games that need a Boost

>>514400983

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>>514400993Story?

>>514400993goddamn this pisses me off. it was a damn good shmup too.

>>514400983I remember seeing a trailer for that and putting it in my maybe list years ago

>>514401197Short version is:>person who made it is a Holla Forums autist like us>would occasionally check in on the development of the game here>publisher fucks them over every way one can get fucked over

>>514401167>>514401083At least in Aztez's case this wouldn't work since they need the sales figures for a console port

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>>514398227Zeroranger is the sickest shityoutube.com/watch?v=CSO3jV0Gz_0Try Infinos Gaiden tooyoutube.com/watch?v=1QsARAPLNB4

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>>514401353>>publisher fucks them over every way one can get fucked overyou've missed the most important part of the story faggot

>>514401504>>514401167>>514400983Why does Holla Forums always have such a boner for Aztec culture?

>>514401504

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>>514401529Enlighten the thread then, I'm leaving.

store.steampowered.com/app/311930/Tinertia/

>>514401604It's pretty metal, not a single "good ending" in any story, everyone dies horribly always.

>>514401670>>514401604Do they? I know I do and infodump about it a lot but I wouldn't say the board as a whole does

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Hellsinker still has sub 100 reviews. Guess a lot of people played it in the years it wasn't on steam though.

>>514398227store.steampowered.com/app/264240/CONSORTIUM/Slightly over 500 reviews, but this game deserves it for the big balls ambition the devs have. This game (the first of the planned games) captures the feeling of a star trek episode better than Star Trek games do. It's like a murder mystery star trek episode except with a ton of branching dialogue paths and lore stuff to discover.

For me, its Fates of Ort because its an inde RPG with some decent writing and weird mechanics that work very well together. You play some guy who's been gifted with the power to use magic (that draws from your health instead of a mana pool) in a land that hasn't had magic for thousands of years. Also time moves only when you move like superhot and it has lot of cool choices in the narrative that can really change how you play the game.

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>>514402157I'm interested, checking it out.

>>514398227store.steampowered.com/app/630310/The_Mummy_Demastered/The Mummy Demastered. Plays a bit like Castlevania with guns. Nice pixel work and animation.

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store.steampowered.com/app/476530/Children_of_a_Dead_Earth/

>>514404049Good attempt at metroidvania but the experience is soured hard by souls-like item recovery when you die and artificial difficulty.

Spark the Electric Jester 1 is pretty much 2d Sonic x Kirby x MegamanX; wheras the sequel is that but as Sonic Adventure 2 in 3d. Both are great and underrated.Spark 2 even has the same sort of cheesey rock music with vocals, it's greatyoutube.com/watch?v=U1sIGMnV4_oAlso the levels have way more split paths and such then the videore or these webms imply; there's a ton of stuff totally out of the way in the background you can get your way to and back and forth between oin a lot of stages

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>>514401679He's asking how the publisher fucked over the dev. But the answer to that is more than likely dev didn't read contract.

shoutout to my boy All Day Dyingstore.steampowered.com/app/1186160/All_Day_Dying_Redux_Edition/

>>514405637considering he was an user, a lack of reading comprehension wouldn't surprise me.

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>>514398227The dev got fucked and won't see a cent of that money. Play Terra Feminarum instead if you want a SHMUP, it's a passion project by some Finns and it has cute anime girls. Also it's free.store.steampowered.com/app/796380/Terra_Feminarum/

It's at slightly below 800 reviews, but I think that still qualifies as a small project since it went on Steam in 2014.GearCity is a car tycoon game and the most in-depth business simulation I've played. I have to say straight away though that it's quite an ugly game. It doesn't hold your hand but the dev answers everybody on the forums, usually within 12 hours. There's also a demo, so you can try it before you buy (or pirate and then try it, of course).>Early AccessIt is off-putting, but Early Access is nearly over. I think the dev is currently making video tutorials since the game is very close to completion, so he can finally make tutorials that won't be outdated within a few months. The game should be out of EA this year.store.steampowered.com/app/285110/GearCity/

>>514402157Added to my wishlist.

>>514405852>>514405408

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>>514402157Wot, was about wishlist it, why have I owned this game since 2016?

canyon capers

store.steampowered.com/app/846110/The_friends_of_Ringo_Ishikawa/

>>514400993He tells people to pirate it rather than buy it because of this.

>>514405408can gurantee you if they made Spark an attractive character or had some sort of attractive side character this woulda sold more. It's sad but you just gotta make people wanna fuck the characters and you'l get sales

>>514405637Tthere's so many issues that people managed to compile them. Many of the dev's complaints is more about mismanagement, intentional or otherwise, that resulted in delayed payment and missing earnings, with Dangen coming up with bullshit excuses in attempt to justify why a company that handles publishing in Japan isn't familiar with Japanese laws until it smacks them in the face.techraptor.net/gaming/news/dangen-entertainment-former-ceo-accused-preying-indie-developers

store.steampowered.com/app/369440/Immortal_Unchained/TPS soulslike that actually manages to capture that DS feeling of exploration. That alone makes it worth a playthroughHard as balls, a bit janky.

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>>514400865>>514400771Alright what's the story behind this?

>>514408359>techraptor.net/gaming/news/dangen-entertainment-former-ceo-accused-preying-indie-developers>thetrinOH GOD, dangen is run by neogaffers.>Ben JuddOH GOD.The absolute worst choice of publisher.Can't they just make a "new game" and break away from their contract?

>>514401528ZeroRanger is fucking sick and kino as fuckI'd say its the skullgirls of shmups

>>514409267this game feels like shit to play. Guns are peashooters, your giant meat person sludges through the terrain and everything is this goopy foggy low contrast mess.Remnant:FTA is better but still not great.>>514400983Good game. The toughness filtered me for now. Will return to it eventually

>>514410341Remnant is trash, it has level scaling and level design is just randomly generated trash thrown in together.>Guns are peashootersits not about guns>everything is this goopy foggy low contrast messIt's called art direction and there is plenty of variety in areasBut you don't know that because you're just a shitposting retard who couldn't even finish a tutorial

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>>514401528>got a whole new game mode for freeBased devs.

Hardspace: ship breakers is the best early access game I've played in years (also because it's the only early access game I've played in years). Speaking as someone on furlough it's weirdly nice to have a vidya game job.

>>514410838you might like vicera cleanup dutyit was a popular fotm a while back. if you make a thread maybe people will join and start playing again

>>514410665I was so disappointed by remnant from the ashes. I liked the unique setting but it felt like the opening tutorial of most looter shooters but yet that was the entire game. I feel like there's a solid skeleton of a game there but no meat on its bones at all.

>>514400993>smiles we couldn't protect

>>514410665>it's not about gunslmao. Why include them then? Why does your review start with the phrase "'TPS' souls-like"?>its called art directionThe 'art direction' is shit. And your variety amounts to different colored highlights to smushy featureless terrain with smushy featureless humanoid tar people.>couldn't even finish a tutorialI did you pathetically assmad faggot- I didn't play much longer afterwards though. But maybe the pricepoint is really good for someone desperate for more 'souls like'. Wouldn't know, pirated it.

>>514409829They could but it's already a sunk cost, and I imagine it's pretty depressing to have some kike publisher hold your IP hostage and as an indie dev you probably don't have the resources to fight a legal battle to regain rights to your work.

>>514398227store.steampowered.com/app/304850/Worlds/>Dev fucks themselves over by naming his game something that makes their game very low on search lists>Had to hear about it via word of mouth in some random Holla Forums threadThis game has S O U L but it will never achieve success because of the name, it needs to be changed. I actually really like the surreal atmosphere this game gives off.

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Dead Hand store.steampowered.com/sub/378358

>>514412221I know they're supposed to be greys, but the characters look like Thing Thing characters.

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>>514412573Agreed.

All Day Dying, its like mixing Quake with Tony Hawk

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>>514400993>literal twitter whores can end multiple careers>the hacker known as Anonymous can't do shit to help his own

>>514412932Negativity and lies are stronger forces than positivity and truth. That's just the shit world we live in.

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>>514411967Because its TPS soulslike and not just TPS you retarded niggeroid.Shit opinions all around, not even going to read that dumb trash you wrote with your little bitch hands.This is the worst kind of faggotry when someone is so bad at videogames he blames everything but himself after getting buttfucked by the game.Kys faggot and don't talk to me ever again

>>514412865ReDie is fucking great, the devs ended up making it free, but I am glad I payed for it, it was still a cheap game l and the devs really deserved better for making a very solid Hotline Miami like game>>514412221And seconding this, it's such a work of love, it will remind those games from new grounds that had a shitload of work behind them made by some passioned dude

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Don't buy devil engine unless you want to give kike pedophile neo/era stolen money. Just paypal the lad if you want to give him money.

>>514405637dangen managed to miss deadlines repeatedly and the game was delayed because of the head spends his time molesting ugly women in the industry. They then just didn't pay them and lied over and over again about getting the money to them and made excuses as to why they couldn't pay.

>>514405408So...Nights?

>>514402219this looks like something I'd really like. thanks for the recommendation

How are you even supposed to sell your game nowadays? This sale made me realize how many decent, not good but alright, indie games there are on steam. Why bother making a game if nobody's going to play it?

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>>514398227Guys, The one who made this thread is the Devil Engine Dev himself. He's a huge fucking autist that samefags and tries to drag down Bug Fables every chance he gets. I've seen this mother fucker so many times where he comes out and tell everyone that he's the Devil Engine Dev just to tell his big sob story about how he fucked up his relations with DANGEN and blames Bug Fables for being successful while his generic ass game stayed forgotten. He enters Bug Fable threads and tries tearing down and denouncing Bug Fables every chance he gets because they made it and he didn't. Fuck this sore loser.

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>>514413895Pay a popular streamer to play it.

>>514413976Fuck off

>>514413986both of these games are shit, who cares>>514412221this game better be good, user

Voidspire Tactics. One of the best SRPGs ever made IMO, dismissed because of its artstyle (I assume). It's like final fantasy tactics meets divinity original sin but with a bit of souls-ish world exploration thrown in. You can use nearly all of your abilities while exploring the overworld to get to new places and find secrets, and there's a ton of synergy between everything. Want to get across a lake? Freeze the water and run across. See something up above? Grow a plant and climb it like a ladder. You can lay down a turret, and then use a short range teleport to warp it behind the enemy and shred them from inside their formation. Douse a group in water and electrocute them all at once, freeze it under them, you get the idea. It offers tons of flexibility. You can dualclass too for even more choice.

>>514413986>falseflagging BugNigger

>>514398227I can recommend Devil Engine too. Good game.

>famous people getting canceled left and right for the slightest accusations with headlines everywhere coming the day after>mainstream vidya journo outlets barely give the issue of Dangen and Ben Judd being greedy fucks any attention despite the amount of receipts provided in the accusationI cannot believe this shit

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>>514413986There's no way the devil engine dev would ever suggest giving that shitty publisher money. He'd literally rather you pirate than buy it.

>>514413986Fuck off BFdev, you were booed out of Paper Mario threads for a reason, because your game is shit and a game Holla Forums still laughs at to this day.

Play Strange Telephone

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>>514400983The thing about Aztec is that there is no reason to go stylish. Generic 1234, launcher, 1234, airdash, shield, 12345 will kill most enemies with ease. And since I wasn't paying attention to the store page and only went off webms the fact that it has strategy elements as a main selling point threw me off. The elements are poorly fleshed out and it would've been better if it was replaced by actual campaign.

>>514414606is it actually good

>>514405408Spark 2 feels unfinished. Cutscenes are a joke, main menu looks like a placeholder, half of the music is from Spark 1 and spics sure do love their DBZ references. But god damn it, it has the best physics since Sonic Adventure. So fucking good.

>>514414676>pixelshitNo it isn't.>>514413986Fuck off BFdev, maybe make an actual good game next time instead of a knockoff of a game that was never good to begin with.

>>514404049Mommy demastered more like

>>514412221I tried and can not find this game myself just using the steam search tools, it's a wonder people find any hidden gems using this shit, but is it actually worth buying?

store.steampowered.com/app/779590/Scavenger_SV4/a whopping 200 reviewsuse a drone to explore and map out a planet's surface, while floating around on your ship in low orbit doing research and managing radiation levels. roguelite so expect a lot of failed runs. can get spooky.

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It's a freeware game, but I'm going to suggest people play Space Funeral. It's a short surrealistic JRPG that was a bit ahead of its time. If it had come out when shit like OFF and Undertale were popular it would've garnered an extremely annoying cult following that would give it a bad name despite it being a good game.

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>>514414945I was in until you said roguelite. crafted experiences are always better.

>>514414676Do you like exploration games? Just make sure you go to the number in the book at the start which I accidentally deleted from the logbook when I played so I didn't unlock the stage previews and number saving for a fair while. Pirate it if you don't want to pay but I feel the SOUL was worth it.>>514414829>Pixel = badWash your mouth out with soap you cretin.

store.steampowered.com/app/463700/Super_Cloudbuilt/I'll shill Super Cloudbuilt until company comes back from the dead and finishes SkyTracers.

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>>514414918If you like stealth games and N64 style hub based worlds yeah. It won't be for everyone and it's not a AAA game, but it's got charm in my opinion.

not sub 500 reviews but neoverse is a fun slay the spire like with its own mechanics

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>>514415148Sorry but that FoV is disgusting

>>514415253You can always decrease it and play like a console pleb.

store.steampowered.com/app/459090/Masquerada_Songs_and_Shadows/It's basically a super-linear indie Bioware title. No story or dialogue choices (preset protagonist with his own backstory), but a similar style of combat, with a good amount of different skills to choose between and upgrade, and respeccing is free and easily available, so you can experiment a lot to see what skills you like. Also like Bioware, there's a massive amount of worldbuilding, including a thick codex with pages upon pages of history and character bios to read. My only complaints are that the party AI is kinda dumb, so you have to micromanage them a lot in battles, and while the ending does feel satisfying, there are a good number of unanswered plot threads, and considering the game flopped hard, chances of a sequel are pretty much zero. Still, it's worth experiencing at least one time.

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I'm looking for games with cute boys, any suggestions?

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>>514415146I'm down for pixel games, but the heavy filters are a potential red flag. Most of these indie low res games look and play nothing like older games, and are inconsistent with their limitations. I'll check out the store page and maybe give it a shot. Thanks for the rec user.

store.steampowered.com/app/975150/Resolutiion/Great game with rocking soundtrack

>>514415064i get it. im not a fan of them either, but it works for this one. the runs are generally pretty long. not like a binding of isaac. its definitely not an action game.its just so wildly different from any other game i've seen, and i think more people need to experience it.

>>514398227by same guy who made Mothlight which might be a name you recognize if you are somewhat familiar with indie ganes. Another rpg maker game with cool presentation and general charming weirdness to it.

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>>514407597Definitely getting this, looks fucking awesome.

I have £3 in store credit. Anything I can get with it, or should I put it towards something bigger? Already got most of the well known classics etc so something niche and/or indie would be nice.

>>514415417>but the heavy filters are a potential red flagThe filters apply the further you walk from the point you 'enter' at (the room corresponding to the number you dial) so you can't just walk forever in one direction. It's filter light for the most part and you can turn most of them off in the menu, I just liked having them on (the CRT warping and fake scanlines meme)

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>>514415518I appreciate it, I've never heard of it before. Love the style.

>>514398227Both sequels to The Cat Lady.Equally depressing and just as good.store.steampowered.com/app/364390/Downfall/https://store.steampowered.com/app/593960/Lorelai/

>>514415417While I agree that a lot of that shit looks gross and much of the appeal of pixel art is through what you can accomplish in spite of the limitations, not all pixel art games are trying to emulate

>>514398227I don't like how DANGEN operates,

>>514415610Hope you like it, it truly nails the mood they were going for.

>>514415673it looks comfy>>514415781my main issue with modern indie "retro" games is when they have inconsistent pixel density. some sprites emulate 8 bit, others 16 bit in the same scene.

>>514415673Wait, is that...?

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>>514401528I'm still working on Monolith!

store.steampowered.com/app/439310/Until_I_Have_You/Cyberpunk noir. One of the best and most stylish action games I've ever played. The soundtrack (one of the best parts) is even free.

>>514413986>fucked up his relations with DANGENBen Judd shouldn't you be sexually harassing some ugly chicks right now?

>>514415994Yes, it is. It's one of the few secret endings.

>>514405408Wasn't Spark made by Treasure?

>>514416338No, it started as a sonic fangame.

>>514408359The only way the dev could get through all that is highering a lawyer to sue them for contract violations and fraud. Or reporting them to the FBI or BBB.

>>514409829The guy is a 1man dev who spent a shit lot of effort making a game that's on par with games that would have been considered AAA back in the arcade era, "make a new game" is basically throwing away a masterpiece that took years to make.

>>514416848>on parArguably better. It's my favorite shmup of the last decade.

>>514413986I think you are besmirching both devs for kicks!

>>514407597It's alright. The game doesn't hold your hand and expects you to figure shit out on your own. It's also a bit heavy on the life sim elements for a side scrolling brawler. The dev's not japanese but at least he's not american so there's no ironic weeb shit. He almost nailed down the japanese culture part which I can only guess he got from anime and manga but since the story feels sincere, you can tell he's from europe or something (people not behaving japanese etc.)

>>514412221start played itvery good game but the stealth part is a bit junky

>>514404965The peak of engineering autism games.

>>514415243and cute girls.

>>514404965This game is amazing but you actually need to be an engineer unironically to enjoy it, not a fake engineer like factorio/kerbal etc.

store.steampowered.com/app/1184840/Chaos_Galaxy/Chaos Galaxy is pretty cool. It's basically a cross between Nobunaga's Ambition and Super Robot Wars.

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Buying Devil Engine the moment the dev gets the rights back.

>>514418507how is chaos sector ?

>>514415492if it's half as good as Hyper Light Drifter which it's very obviously ripping off, I'll have to give it a try...is it?

>>514416649Better Business Bureau is not a government agency. It's just a pre-internet version of Yelp where they make money off of having businesses pay them to remove bad reviews.

>>514418229it's what pulled me at first but I stayed for the mechanics

Planet alpha, it's platformer like Limbo & art like No Man's Skygog.com/game/planet_alpha_digital_deluxe

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recommend a good indie game for $5

>>514418719Very similar, but the map is much smaller, there are only 3 factions and you can only attack bordering planets like you do with provinces in Nobunaga's Ambition and similar games, whereas in Chaos Galaxy you move your fleets around on the overworld map instead. Galaxy really just expands on everything from Sector.

>>514418507Did they tone down the CHINA NUMBAH WAN ALL OTHA NUMBAH TWO OR LOWAH shit? I was gonna pirate it, but forgot about it till just now. On topic: Lunatic Dawn: Passage of the Book is some classic artdink weirdness and has a translation patch that came out not too long ago.

>>514419291I will wait for galaxy to be on sale

>>514419056Read the thread, lots of seemingly good shit in here

>>514414440Not even the moralfags at Resetera gave a shit, infact they shat on DEdevs for posting on 4chan and cared more about the sexual allegations.

>>514398227>boostgo the fuck back to twitter or reddit

>>514419056store.steampowered.com/app/391540/Undertale/

>>514419664this looks cool :)

>>514419056store.steampowered.com/app/428750/Neon_Chrome/its ugly as shit but good

>>514405408>>514405852Spark the Electric Jester is good as fuckthe first game is 16 bit and the sequel is basically sonic adventure but good

>>514418981Also on steamstore.steampowered.com/app/485030/PLANET_ALPHA/

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>>514398227>>514419056store.steampowered.com/app/463700/Super_Cloudbuilt/It's merely the best 3D platformer ever made

>>514419982it's a really good game. I second this. Play it with a friend.

>went to look for a game i was really enjoying that had only 10 reviews >can't find its steam page>turns out the retard dev removed it because of the BLM stuff ok retard well there went any chance of me shilling your game

>>514414440>indie dev>publisher>indie dev publishercould of just shilled his game in schmups general

store.steampowered.com/app/886900/Chef_A_Restaurant_Tycoon_Game/it's areally fun tycoon game. it's not over complcated though.>>514419056store.steampowered.com/app/310700/Super_Win_the_Game/try this one as well.

>>514419056>>514420350Seconding this. And it's effectively unshillable because the studio is ded.

>>514414440Friendly reminder that Jason Schreier literally told him he didn't want to cover the story because he's friends with ben judd.

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>>514405408>>514412865Nice ones

>>514418981>limboso you hold right for like half an hour and then do a little puzzle?

Super Daryl Deluxe is essentially a vidya version of Napoleon Dynamite with absolutely fucking insane setting where a nerd confronts the evil principal experimenting on students, creating pocket dimensions from their thoughts.Gameplay-wise it's kinda reminiscent of Muramasa, you have two sets of 5 specials on cooldowns you can string together into huge combos, every ability can be upgraded and it visually changes the look of that ability.Also has a fantastic main themeyoutube.com/watch?v=dCwUGEPAqS0I'm actually surprised Holla Forums slept on this one.

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>>514423598SDD is fantastic, everyone should give it a try.---Demoncrawl is a Minesweeper rougelike. I actually didn't think it would be that good, but I've decided to bite the bullet. I'm now 80 hours in and nowhere close to being tired of it. It can be slightly bullshit from time to time, but as you go deeper into a run, you end up performing some galaxy-brain tier moves and somehow you realize you've just spent 2 hours clearing increasingly harder boards. It may be hard to convey in words how a Minesweeper clone can get you into a zone of consecutive masterstroke moves, but once you get a hit of that shit, you'll be addicted for life.The devs also added a massive free expansion and it's currently 25% off. This game's probably not for everyone, but if it clicks for you, you will get A LOT of bang for your buck.It also helps that the presentation is compelling. You go through boards with a lot of different themes with some fantastic background music.youtube.com/watch?v=WJEjA-z-Vw8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXMiApztRFQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3EdHXbmlQIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUvXRF0FT-0

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2000 reviews, but fuck it, I love this game too much.store.steampowered.com/app/252030/Valdis_Story_Abyssal_City/