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What's the game you play when nothing else sounds good? (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 week ago by perishthethought@lemm.ee to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
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Do you have a game you play over and over, when nothing else fits your mood? That game that is infinitely re-playable, somewhat the same every time and somewhat new and interesting?

For me it's the games in the Orcs Must Die series. But mostly OMD 3. I play the mode called Scramble, where you have to beat 5 rounds of orcs, and they get harder and harder as you progress. There are random things to make it harder (nerfs) and you can choose 1 thing per round to make it easier (buffs). I've probably played that something like 300 times now since I beat the main game + DLCs a long while ago. I go into a special mental state while playing, since I know it all so well, and just zone out for about an hour each time.

Patient gamers, what's your "I will keep playing this game for the rest of my life" fallback?

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[-] cRazi_man@lemm.ee 43 points 1 week ago

Rogue-lites are basically made to be infinitely re-playable and if I find one I like then I keep going back to it. Enter the Gungeon is a game I've played for years. Then there was a while this spot was taken by Slay the Spire and Balatro in turn. Now I'm back to Enter the Gungeon.

[-] perishthethought@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago

Enter the Gungeon

I had to look it up but that looks cool! Thanks for the idea.

ETG

[-] cRazi_man@lemm.ee 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A warning before you jump in: it's crazy difficult. It took me about 70 hours of gameplay to be able to finish a play through...but after that it became pretty repeatable once I had learnt how to do it. This is pretty standard, but the failed runs are all fun and the gameplay is excellent and hilarious. I can give some generic starter tips if you want, things I wished I knew before having to learn the hard way (equally learning the hard way is the way rogue-lites are intended to work, so up to you).

The enemies are bullets that are holding guns and shooting bullets at you. You can unlock a gun that looks like a bullet, that shoots bullets that look like guns, that shoot their own bullets. Everything in the game is a pun.

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

Also see Voidigo, Blazing Beaks and of course Nuclear Throne!

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

One of my favorite artists ever, Doseone, did the soundtrack for the game!

[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Fucking love Enter the Gungeon. My favorite rougelike/roguelite

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