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Hints for the next two!

#37 - This is a sequel to a game that notoriously dropped a lot of "content" from earlier games in the series - for this one, they brought a lot of that "content" back.

#36 - Still the latest entry in this sub-series, but after a very long wait, that's soon to change.



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Mnementh said:
drbunnig said:

I'm confident that's Eternal Darkness

Nope, never played Eternal Darkness.

Oof... confidence misplaced.

Are you the user doing the indie game list?



Mnementh said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:

#43 - A base-building game where your handful of people must survive the end of the world, as hell has taken over.

  1. First you just need to survive, but after a while your group of survivors will do things like farming, crafting, both scientific and occult research, build shrines for rituals and an alchemic table complete with a philosopher's stone.

#43: Whatever this game is, I want it. :)

Bofferbrauer2 said:

#43 - A base-building game where your handful of people must survive the end of the world, as hell has taken over.

  1. First you just need to survive, but after a while your group of survivors will do things like farming, crafting, both scientific and occult research, build shrines for rituals and an alchemic table complete with a philosopher's stone.
  2. Research needs sometimes some specific items that you can scavenge, as in scientific books, research kits, scientific data to progress in that tech tree.
  3. The more survivors you rescued and the more buildings you constructed, the more the forces of hell are aware of you and will attack your base more often.
  4. Each survivor belongs to a class, but they will also have some additional talents that can influence a survivor in different ways.
  5. Last hint for this game: All the maps and survivors are procedurally generated

#42 - A very long turn-based Fantasy game with clear influences at Civilization, Master of Magic and Heroes of Might & Magic.

  1. The game world consists of a planet that has been blown to bits to avoid the forces of chaos to take it over, and the main story consists of assembling those shards and combining them with yours to recreate the planet.
  2. This game has been made twice, once in 2D and then immediately they recreated it in 3D, although to this day with piss-poor performance.
  3. Battles are turn-based in a manner similar to Heroes of Might & Magic, but every unit is singular instead of a group of troops and the hero is actively fighting along with them. Also, how many units one can bring along depends on the hero's command skill, and how high this can go depends on his class.
  4. In the campaign, you fight for shards of the planet that once was and got broken up into many little maps. Each fight over one of those shards, no matter how many turns it took to conquer it (or get defeated and booted from it), counts as one turn in the grand scheme of things, and depending of the difficulty level chosen you'll have up to over 50 of those "turns" which each can take as long as an entire Civ playthrough.

Looks like nobody found out #43, and I doubt somebody will find out #42, either, so I'll reveal both games now.

#43 is Judgement: Apocalypse Survival Simulation. Since you seemed psyched for the game @Mnementh , here it is:

#42 is Eador: Masters of the Broken World. It's developer made the game in 2D first, then named Eador: Genesis, hence they made the same game twice.

And when I said the game is very long, I really meant it. This playthrough for instance has a total of over 500 videos.



Mnementh said:

Let's give it additional hints before revealing and go to the next batch so I can catch up:

#44: Hack isn't enough anymore, you need to slash.
Still as text, except with a tileset mod.

#43: Adorable dating sim... where one of the character really, really wants to date you. Doki Doki Literature Club as guessed by haxxiy.

#42: The grandmother of colony sims got a fresh layer of paint with this. Dwarf Fortress (Steam version) as guessed by UnderwaterFunktown.
We need our mushroom beer!

#41: Kittens will take over the universe!
From humble beginnings in the catnip forest to space travelling and time manipulation.

#40: You really need help sometimes. (not: It takes Two)
This is cozy multiplayer.

#39: Each year a new task for you to solve, while the machines take over the world.

#38: Lovecraftian horrors await you in this mansion.

#37: Collect coins to build defenses and attackers - but in the 80s.

#36: Pen&Paper Roleplaying game turns board game turns video game.

#35: Go on an epic quest, visit the Sorcerer's Lair, while encountering the Paranormal and meet a Shaman and draw Excalibur.

# 44: NetHack Slash'em?

# 38: Darkest Dungeon?



Since 2 games left the list, here are 2 new ones plus additional hints for the other games:

#40 - A Pinball game with 3 tables that would be pretty much impossible to make in reality

  1. It has a halloween/dark fantasy setting
  2. "FEED ME!" says the castle
  3. The names of the three tables are "Castle", "Dungeon", and "Laboratory".

#39 - Stealth, Sniping or big guns, whatever approach floats your boat in this game is possible.

  1. When it came out, the game was absolutely lauded for it's story and storytelling, and it's only real gripe among reviewers was that the graphics were a bit outdated.
  2. It's a bit of a meme that people hearing about this game again makes them immediately re-install it on their PC.

#38 - Thwart an Alien Invasion with a team of soldiers and some researchers trying to reverse-engineer the alien tech into something useable by humans.

  1. You start in the late 1970's and with according tech and weaponry, just somewhat adapted for your specific needs. Later on, you'll research laser weaponry, plasma rifles and coilguns, but psionics won't do anything.
  2. Your alien foes are made of Sebillians (a race of fasr-healing and very strong but short-sighted lizardmen), Caesan (basically the Greys, good sight but mediocre health), Reapers (turns your soldier into a zombie if he hits you in melee), Androns (robotic infantrymen with a total disregard for cover), Drones, and the Praetor who are leading the invasion. 

#37 - "It is a world, of darkness"

  1. The quest of this RPG plays over a timeframe of about thousand years, which is foreshadowed in a discussion early within the game.

#36 - This series is one of the most-cited successors to the classic DOS game Master of Magic.

  1. The first game of the series was totally broken and got 6 patches within the first two days, but the core mechanics were not really good, so it got a successor that entirely replaced the first game, which itself got an expansion that replaced the previous replacement. We're talking about the last one in the line.

#35 - You lead the development of new video games for a console manufacturer

#34 - Careful what you build here, because those living in your facilities might get violent, kill each other or even their hosts, riot, or leave the complex you're building for them entirely.



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drbunnig said:
UnderwaterFunktown said:

Decent guess but that's Live and Learn, this one is a little later and shares it's title with the game

So I guess it'd be Sonic Heroes then?

Correct!



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Bofferbrauer2 said:
Mnementh said:

#43: Whatever this game is, I want it. :)

Bofferbrauer2 said:

#43 - A base-building game where your handful of people must survive the end of the world, as hell has taken over.

  1. First you just need to survive, but after a while your group of survivors will do things like farming, crafting, both scientific and occult research, build shrines for rituals and an alchemic table complete with a philosopher's stone.
  2. Research needs sometimes some specific items that you can scavenge, as in scientific books, research kits, scientific data to progress in that tech tree.
  3. The more survivors you rescued and the more buildings you constructed, the more the forces of hell are aware of you and will attack your base more often.
  4. Each survivor belongs to a class, but they will also have some additional talents that can influence a survivor in different ways.
  5. Last hint for this game: All the maps and survivors are procedurally generated

#42 - A very long turn-based Fantasy game with clear influences at Civilization, Master of Magic and Heroes of Might & Magic.

  1. The game world consists of a planet that has been blown to bits to avoid the forces of chaos to take it over, and the main story consists of assembling those shards and combining them with yours to recreate the planet.
  2. This game has been made twice, once in 2D and then immediately they recreated it in 3D, although to this day with piss-poor performance.
  3. Battles are turn-based in a manner similar to Heroes of Might & Magic, but every unit is singular instead of a group of troops and the hero is actively fighting along with them. Also, how many units one can bring along depends on the hero's command skill, and how high this can go depends on his class.
  4. In the campaign, you fight for shards of the planet that once was and got broken up into many little maps. Each fight over one of those shards, no matter how many turns it took to conquer it (or get defeated and booted from it), counts as one turn in the grand scheme of things, and depending of the difficulty level chosen you'll have up to over 50 of those "turns" which each can take as long as an entire Civ playthrough.

Looks like nobody found out #43, and I doubt somebody will find out #42, either, so I'll reveal both games now.

#43 is Judgement: Apocalypse Survival Simulation. Since you seemed psyched for the game @Mnementh , here it is:

Thanks. Currently installing. That is totally new to me, but yes, it is a colony sim and I dig the setting. Let's see how well it does in real play.



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drbunnig said:
Mnementh said:

Nope, never played Eternal Darkness.

Oof... confidence misplaced.

Are you the user doing the indie game list?

Yes.



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my greatest games: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

10 years greatest game event!

bets: [peak year] [+], [1], [2], [3], [4]

Bofferbrauer2 said:
Mnementh said:

Let's give it additional hints before revealing and go to the next batch so I can catch up:

#44: Hack isn't enough anymore, you need to slash.
Still as text, except with a tileset mod.

#43: Adorable dating sim... where one of the character really, really wants to date you. Doki Doki Literature Club as guessed by haxxiy.

#42: The grandmother of colony sims got a fresh layer of paint with this. Dwarf Fortress (Steam version) as guessed by UnderwaterFunktown.
We need our mushroom beer!

#41: Kittens will take over the universe!
From humble beginnings in the catnip forest to space travelling and time manipulation.

#40: You really need help sometimes. (not: It takes Two)
This is cozy multiplayer.

#39: Each year a new task for you to solve, while the machines take over the world.

#38: Lovecraftian horrors await you in this mansion.

#37: Collect coins to build defenses and attackers - but in the 80s.

#36: Pen&Paper Roleplaying game turns board game turns video game.

#35: Go on an epic quest, visit the Sorcerer's Lair, while encountering the Paranormal and meet a Shaman and draw Excalibur.

# 44: NetHack Slash'em?

# 38: Darkest Dungeon?

Correct on both!



3DS-FC: 4511-1768-7903 (Mii-Name: Mnementh), Nintendo-Network-ID: Mnementh, Switch: SW-7706-3819-9381 (Mnementh)

my greatest games: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

10 years greatest game event!

bets: [peak year] [+], [1], [2], [3], [4]

drbunnig said:
Mnementh said:

Nope, never played Eternal Darkness.

Oof... confidence misplaced.

Are you the user doing the indie game list?

*Looking in the mirror* I think he's not the only one