sev

Even with my new personal rule of "only buy one itch.io bundle a year" I have plenty of indie games, both tabletop and computer.

I am deeply over-peopled lately, so I've been poking around in the video games that I've picked up in various bundles over the years. Starting with the oldest.

In this first batch, three games with procedurally generated challenges. (continued in thread.)

Feb 24 at 2:15amWeb
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1) Orion Trail. It's ... Star Trek meets the Oregon Trail game? Deeply silly, chock full of cultural references. The chiptune-esque music is pretty varied -- I even turned the sfx down so I could hear the music better, which is very much not the way I usually interact with games.
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2) On a similar theme - procedurally generated space - but much less silly is Beyond the Chiron Gate. It's mostly text-based, and the exploration feels a little Stellaris-like in its thoroughness. I got sucked into this one for a very long evening and found it was just deep enough to have me want to keep going.
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3) finally, right now I'm playing Overland. Post-apocalyptic road trip, where the mood is tense and the real danger is *noise*. It was several bumpy games until I realized that the apparently high difficulty I was experiencing was because my roadtrippers were making too much noise.

So now we're going to sneak across the country in a series of stolen cars? Sure, sounds like fun.

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What hidden gems have you found in an itch.io bundle?
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4) Crescent Loom - build creatures like in Spore, and then wire their neurons. This is deeply fascinating to me! I want to make creatures whose brains do weird things for no good reason.
Show threadMidi MacFeb 24
@sev ooo this sounds fun
Show threadsevFeb 24
@midi_mac I've enjoyed it so far! It's at https://schellgames.itch.io/orion-trail if you're interested in pursuing it further.
Orion Trail by Schell Games

Become famously incredible or incredibly dead in this choose-your-own-space-adventure!

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