Hollow knight. The gameplay, the smoothness of the controls, but also the universe, the atmosphere, the fantastic music. Absolutely wonderful game.

I’m a heartless monster who forgot about my brother so I could sit in my boat and gawk at my surroundings at sunset. Mileage may vary.

It does have moments that stressed me out, but since I spent so much time exploring and taking screenshots, they’re not what left the strongest memory.

Not yet! I just grabbed the second one, actually, can’t wait to play it!

I fell in love with Submerged when I played it. It’s an exploration game set in a flooded city, where you play a young girl looking for supplies for her injured brother. Lots of navigating between buildings in a little boat, climbing around, and taking in the scenery. Incredibly relaxing to play.

Chrono Trigger is a must-play. Stellar game. I don’t know how the PC port fares, though.

Summer in Mara was so cute!

Have you tried Ankora: Lost Days and Stories of Mara, too? They’re on my list and I’m curious about other people’s opinions!

Duly noted! Thanks for the advice!

Honest questions: What worthwhile alternatives exist already? If there are none, what can be done? What can be built to improve discoverability of authors while moderating what is visible?

With my track record at killing even cacti, I am going to suck at this game. It does sound interesting, though (and “great story” is enough to make me face the rice farming).

It definitely sounds unique, which is exactly was I was hoping for when I made the post! Thank you!

Oh gosh, it’s so cute. I’ll keep an eye out for it when rummaging for used 3DS games.

Graveyard Keeper is a really good game (the DLCs vary in quality, but still worth playing imho). I liked the dark humor and err, questionable morality. The NPCs are terrible people and I loved it. It was quite refreshing after playing mostly wholesome games!

I’m with you on the time investment. Getting started in it is brutal, with most of what you can sell being near worthless at first (and, if I remember well, prices drop when you sell too much of something? It’s been a while). It takes time and effort to get yourself established, which makes it very satisfying!

(I also ended up drowning in stuff. Once you get the collection of resources going, it doesn’t stop.)

Podcast addict is both incredibly customizable and feature rich. Absolutely worth trying.

Or it becomes mostly unmoderated, near a major election, at the same time as twitter turns into disinfo central.

Did anyone here play the original? The video has me really interested, it looks nice, the portraits are gorgeous… Was the psx version good, story wise?

… This better not be a trap. *starts clickling*

I forgot about RF! I got high recommendations for those games back before they were on steam, and they looked exactly like my thing.

I just threw them all on my steam wishwatchlist since there should be sales soon.

Go for it! Time on Stardew Valley is time well spent!

I find the farming sims that have a plotline are easier for me to stop, even if I get obsessed, because you finish the story, befriend everyone… And then there isn’t much left to do unless you just want to chill and collect things. At which point you can move to My Time At Portia or any of the hundreds of similar games and start the whole process all over a… I have issues, don’t I?