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  1. 🎂 On this day in 1997, #DungeonKeeper by #Bullfrog Productions was released!

    This #classic #RTS and #ManagementSim turned strategy #gaming upside down by letting players build a twisted underground empire instead of the usual hero role. Manage your minions, build lairs and torture chambers, mine gold, and research spells to defeat the forces of good.

    The unique feature of possessing creatures and seeing the dungeon from their eyes set it apart in #RetroGaming. With an 89% critic score and a loyal fanbase, Dungeon Keeper remains a shining example of #ClassicGames blending dark humor and clever mechanics.

    You can buy it #DRMfree on #GOG

    #games #gaming #retro #retrogames

  2. Starbirds demo was great! 🏆 It was short but I enjoyed it. The graphics are awesome and I liked how I could play the game at my own speed.

    Adding optional goals like hyper-optimizing the supply chains was a cool idea and including the rover to collect some extra resources was quite toughtful too.

    store.steampowered.com/app/357

    And Space Odyssey memes 😍

    #starbirds #kurzgesagt #linuxgaming #managementsim #casualgame

  3. Starbirds demo was great! 🏆 It was short but I enjoyed it. The graphics are awesome and I liked how I could play the game at my own speed.

    Adding optional goals like hyper-optimizing the supply chains was a cool idea and including the rover to collect some extra resources was quite toughtful too.

    store.steampowered.com/app/357

    And Space Odyssey memes 😍

    #starbirds #kurzgesagt #linuxgaming #managementsim #casualgame

  4. Starbirds demo was great! 🏆 It was short but I enjoyed it. The graphics are awesome and I liked how I could play the game at my own speed.

    Adding optional goals like hyper-optimizing the supply chains was a cool idea and including the rover to collect some extra resources was quite toughtful too.

    store.steampowered.com/app/357

    And Space Odyssey memes 😍

    #starbirds #kurzgesagt #linuxgaming #managementsim #casualgame

  5. January 3, 2024 - Day 368 - NewPlay Review
    Total NewPlays: 403

    Game: Two Point Campus

    Platform: Steam
    Released: Aug 9, 2022
    Installed: Jan 3, 2024
    Unplayed: 0d
    Playtime: 60m

    Rating: 3 - OK

    Two Point Campus is an isometric business management sim, with a cartoon vibe.

    January's Humble Choice bundle dropped this morning, and this is the second game, because (unsurprisingly), I've already got the first.

    I'll come to that tomorrow.

    In the meantime, Two Point Campus has a kind of goofy outer layer covering a business management sim.

    It's the kind of thing that could probably suck me in when I'm in the right frame of mind, but I already own the predecessor to this (Two Point Hospital), and after a couple of hours it lost me, and I haven't been back since.

    Two Point Campus is OK.

    #TwoPointCampus #Isometric #ManagementSim #HumbleBundle #Gaming #ProjectONG

  6. December 31, 2023 - Day 365 - NewPlay Bonus Review
    Total NewPlays: **400**

    Game: Dave The Diver

    Platform: Steam
    Release Date: Jun 28, 2023 (PC)
    Installation Date: Dec 31, 2023
    Unplayed: 0d
    Playtime: 43m

    Dave The Diver is a 2D sideways-scrolling pixel-art* game that's part management sim, part fishing sim, part restaurant game, and part action-adventure RPG.

    When Dave the Diver first showed up on Steam a few months ago, I was still very much of the "pixel-art-no-thank-you" mindset, so it was a pass.

    Then I saw some folks raving about how good it is, and then the free Dredge DLC was announced, and I went back and added it to my wishlist.

    As they're currently offering a "Dredging & Diving Bundle" on Steam which meant the game was cheaper than the sale price (by a couple of bucks), I decided to add one more game to my pile of shame, and then take it off again, and what a way to finish this project out.

    It is REALLY hard to categorise, because it pulls gameplay aspects from multiple different genres, and it's probably best if I lay it out.

    Firstly, to address that asterisk against pixel-art, the game uses pixel-art for the gameplay, but uses vector art for the UI, which is a great way to make the game feel up-to-date.

    The game opens with Dave relaxing on a beach, drinking a beer, when his phone rings, and he gets a job offer. Queue plane & map intro cut-scene.

    A guy named Cobra has offered Dave a job diving in "the Blue Hole", which is a procedurally generated environment that is different on each dive.

    After a tutorial sequence, where you learn to catch fish with a harpoon (fishing sim!), you learn that you've been roped into managing a sushi bar as well (management sim!).

    Dive twice during the day to complete quests (RPG gameplay!) and catch the fish that you then use at night to set the nightly sushi bar menu.

    Oh, and you're also the sushi bar waiter; this takes partial gameplay ideas from cooking sims like "Cook, Serve, Delicious!" in that the various customers will order the things that you've added to the menu, and the cook (thank goodness!) prepares each meal, as you run back and forth serving them, and cleaning up after some detty pigs, as well as another mini-game where you need to pour green tea and fill the cup perfectly.

    Some of the RPG gameplay elements like equipment upgrades and weapon upgrades are handled through unlockable "apps" on an in-game "smartphone", and given that there are a number of preloaded apps on the phone with locks on them, looks like there are more mini-games as well.

    Somehow, though, the devs managed to pull this off in such a way that it all fits together seamlessly, and is a lot of fun as well.

    So, there you have it; for my final game review of 2023, Dave the Diver is:

    5: Excellent

    #DaveTheDiver #2D #SidewaysScroller #FishingSim #ManagementSim #CookingSim #ActionAdventure #RPG #Gaming #Project365ONG #Project365 #NewPlay

  7. Maybe if I slowed down and paid attention to more things, maybe I’d enjoy games like these more.

    It was definitely cool to play an 80s anime, though.

    MajorOffline: Jumplight Odyssey Demo majorlinux.com/majoroffline-ju

    #Anime #ColonySim #JumplightOdyssey #ManagementSim #PC #Space #Steam #SteamNextFest #YouTube #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi

  8. Maybe if I slowed down and paid attention to more things, maybe I’d enjoy games like these more.

    It was definitely cool to play an 80s anime, though.

    MajorOffline: Jumplight Odyssey Demo majorlinux.com/majoroffline-ju

    #Anime #ColonySim #JumplightOdyssey #ManagementSim #PC #Space #Steam #SteamNextFest #YouTube #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi

  9. June 7, 2023 - Day 158 - NewPlay Review
    Total NewPlays: 175

    Game: Honey, I Joined a Cult

    Platform: Steam
    Release Date: Nov 4, 2022
    Library Date: Jun 7, 2023
    Unplayed: 0d (0d)
    Playtime: 19m

    Honey, I Joined a Cult is a top-down tycoon/management sim, in which you create a cult.

    When June's Humble Choice bundle dropped today, I went through and added the 5 games I didn't already have to Steam.

    With the idea of reviewing the bundle over the next week.

    This is a tycoon management game about building a cult. I really did not think this through.

    For those of you new to my story, my family & personal history is intertwined with two separate cults. This game was starting off from a long way behind, and literally started causing me anxiety.

    Firstly, the music. I didn't get around to turning it down, but disco funk is somewhere below Kenny G for me, and definitely didn't not enhance my calm, or gameplay experience.

    Secondly, the game visually feels a bit like The Escapists but with vector art graphics instead of pixel graphics.

    Finally, coming off a city-builder management sim last night into this was like jumping off a moving bullet train into a push wagon. It... was not pleasant.

    I wanted to give this a chance, but at 19 minutes, it was all a bit too much, and I was out.

    Honey, I Joined a Cult? Actually:

    1: Nope

    #HoneyIJoinedACult #TopDown #ManagementSim #HumbleChoice #MastodonGaming #Gaming #Project365ONG #Project365 #NewPlay