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@canonj Lotta great stuff in there!

HOT GAY BRO DRAGONS
A game about telling your boyfriend (who is a dragon) about how much you love him

That Puzzle Game Everyone Knows
It's that puzzle game, you know the one.

KISSING COMRADES
200 word LARP of anti-fascist makeouts

Okay, Hero
A series of essays on the Metal Gear Solid games


(but of course it also has some acclaimed games like Celeste, Minit, A Short Hike, Super Hexagon, Catlateral Damage, Nuclear Throne, and more that I've actually heard of!)

@canonj

I saw that the other day. I browsed through the list but it seems like mostly shovelware, or first-attempts-at-gamemaking trying to get some money for stuff that should be done for practice and improvement. I'd rather either donate to a good cause if it is really for charity or get something of value back as an incentive. A collection of 10 great games would be worthwhile, a collection of 1000 mostly terrible ones is a chore. It almost feels like a punishment to be "given" 1000 games of varying quality (99% being "low") and then have suddenly an even larger backlog than ever before.

Maybe someone ought to do the same thing in reverse. "Donate $5 or more and I'll go through your Steam backlog and remove crappy stuff for you" lol.

So far I picked up BoxBoy + BoxGirl and Knights and Bikes for all my co-op needs. Any other co-op games in there I should look for?


@J.K. Riki

You can just download the ones you think look good or that are recommended to you. Unless I'm missing something, they don't just automatically get added to a list of stuff you own which, on the one hand, is good because you get less backlog anxiety, but on the other hand, is kind of inconvenient?

@nate38

Big Ocean, Short Jacket is also on there, and shouldn't be overlooked!

With the number of games in there, I just kind of assumed it would also have Turnfollow's other games, but it doesn't seem to be the case. Oh well.

A Short Hike is AMAZING, basically combining Animal Crossing charm with Breath of the Wild gameplay, with visuals that really work for me.

@Guillaume

I want A Short Hike on Switch so bad! I used to always push people to try out little indie games on PC even if they prefer playing on console, but so many that I imagined would always be PC exclusive have since comes to consoles that now I just plan on waiting.

@Secret_Tunnel

Yeah, A Short Hike on Switch seems like a slam dunk to me. I know porting to Switch isn't as simple as pressing a button, and that just one guy is behind this game, but given that it can run on the most modest of specs, I have a hard time imagining what would prevent a port. It's made for Nintendo fans (or at least clearly made by one) while still being its own thing.

@Guillaume Degrees of Separation is a pretty neat co-op puzzle-platformer that we felt utilizes its mechanics pretty well. While it lacks an "ultimate endgame" type of puzzle which pushes them to the limits, it has enough variety to keep things interesting to the end. At its sale price of $1.99 USD, it's definitely worth a try.

@nate38 At first I thought you were listing some games from this Switch sale.

I leave disappointed.

@nate38

LOL.

@J.K. Riki

Guillaume is right. You can pick and choose which games are added to your library.

Also, I went through a list of recommended games and I already have 50 games in my library that look interesting to me. They are still adding games to the bundle, so I'm sure when it's all said and done there will be at least 100 games that I want to try. But even if there are only 10 good games in that list, it's still a great deal.

Well, I bought the bundle, and I'm definitely going to play Minit, A Short Hike, and Super Hexagon. Anything else in there that's definitely worth checking out? (I already played and loved Celeste)

@nate38
Here's a list of about a dozen suggestions, and a lot of them look neat to me! Now my bundle backlog includes...

Minit
A Short Hike
Super Hexagon
Wide Ocean Big Jacket
Ethereal
Far From Noise
The Supper
Sidewords
Signs of the Sojourner
EDIT: Pyre
EDIT: Quadrilateral Cowboy
EDIT: Pikuniku

@nate38
and Pyre got added, too! I've been meaning to play that sorta!

I was about to pick up Minnit in the Switch sale, and then realized that for the full price of it on there I could just get the Black Lives Matter Bundle... so I did! Looking forward to trying out A Short Hike and few others!

Overland is "for sale" for 18 bucks on Switch right now too... suckers! 😁

Bundle games! (presented worst to best)

The Supper -- 20 minutes of mostly unremarkable point-and-click adventure. Good creepy pixel art, I guess.

Golf Peaks -- Use cards to make moves in short puzzles/mazes. Simple, clean, not a bad time waster for your phone maybe.

Super Hexagon -- The most intense three seconds of your life, lived over and over again!

Wide Ocean Big Jacket -- Short story (an hour-ish) about a family going camping where not much happens to some nice characters who I like.

Sidewords -- The standout so far for me, what a neat little word game! Would be perfect on my phone, but the Bundle site only has a Windows download. For three bucks, I'll probably buy it on the Android store at some point.

I actually kind of wish I played games on PC! This is amazing!

I do see the points though of people who don't want a huge bundle. I just bought Firewatch on Switch for $1 MORE than this 1600+ game bundle costs. Obviously not as economically wise. But I played it for a few hours last night and really got into it. When I get bundles, I jump around between a lot of games aimlessly without a clear sense of what I'm doing. Sometimes it helps to just get 1 at a time.

Yeah, I'm no PC gamer so I wish Nintendo would do Switch deals like that. Well, kinda? There is the whole brilliantly-observed time vs money thing I came up with! Well, parroted from people smarter than me anyway.

I picked up Stick of Truth and am enjoying it! It's a fun deconstruction of RPGs with that trademark disgusting sense of humor. The ridiculous scenarios actually remind me a lot of Conker, and the fact that it looks just like the show (complete with tons of voiced lines) is one of its biggest strengths. It's a bit unpolished at points, largely in the controls/input lag area, but not a big deal. Worth the money so far.

I wonder if that's worse on Switch? I don't know if it had any lag on PC. But I will say that 60fps kind of made it look less like the show. Still very cool. Glad you're enjoying it!

@PogueSquadron

I'm not quite sure if it's lag or simply kind of rough controls, but it still feels a little janky picking from the radial command menu (I wish the directional input would "snap" to the commands) and the spellcasting/farting.

Okay, so hooowwwww is Stick of Truth not rated AO?? I remember games like Conker feeling like a "hard" M, and this thing is way beyond Conker! I just did a sequence where I battled foul-mouthed gnomes on my character's parents' bed while they were having raucous, very explicit sex, for crying out loud! And hot coffee would've made GTA AO, apparently. Pfft!

@TriforceBun

Yeah, it's crazy what's in M-rated games nowadays! It was only 13 years ago that the PG-13 sex scene from Mass Effect caused the huge SEXBOX controversy. And hot coffee is just Barbie doll dry humping!

@Secret_Tunnel

AO never really even made sense to me as a numbers thing: apparently 17 is the limit for M, but 18 is for AO? Is one year of maturity even something that can be measured by any degree of accuracy? And despite there being only a year gap, there're like five AO games in existence and a zillion M ones.

It definitely should be AO. You haven't seen anything yet in this game btw. I don't want to spoil anything but yeah, it honestly feels even way beyond things they've ever done on the show.