13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

Been playing A Game About Feeding A Black Hole while doing rote testing.

It's a mouse-movement interaction based incremental game in which you have to break up asteroids to feed them to a black hole.

Anyway, I pretty immediately was compelled to fully clear the asteroid field into my hole because I started buying any modifiers to increase the number of asteroids and render this need impossible to fulfill.

Fortunately, there was a gameplay and upgrade path that catered to this, and I even got a somewhat uncommon achievement for it.

#HauntedGameReviews #IncrementalGames #LinuxGaming

Apr 6 at 9:06pmWeb
Show threadtautology3d ago
@HauntedOwlbear is this a game that would make my astrophysics brain twitch by showing an unrealistic implementation of black hole gravity?
Show thread13 barn owls in a trenchcoat3d ago

@tautology yes, definitely. And I'm delighted that you popped up, because incremental games always make me think of you, after years of seeing your Now Playing popups on Steam :D

(I've recently been getting more into them and keep meaning to hit you up for recommendations.)

Show threadtautology3d ago

@HauntedOwlbear I thought I was invisible on Steam?

Anyway, I normally "play" them because it gives me something to do with the motor side of my brain so that I can watch videos / listen to audiobooks with the other bit of my brain. I've been trying to distract myself with other game types this year, only leaving a couple which I can finish.

Most of them are really similar, do stuff, reset, do more stuff, superreset, rinse, repeat. A lot of them I just abandon because they're not that interesting. I do find them quite forgettable.