There’s still a couple days left and I’m curious to hear what others have been playing.
A couple standouts I’ve played:
Tropico 7: I’m a pretty big fan (~360 hours in 6) so I was very excited to try the demo. It’s more Tropico, which is what I’m looking for! Some of the gripes I had with 6, like managing buses, have been smoothed over and I like the better visibility of how much money each citizen makes. I’m looking forward to the full release.
Beastfolk Barber: I tried this more to recommend to a couple friends since visual novels aren’t usually my thing, but this game is so cute! Customers come in, you spend a minute getting to know them, pick out some haircut options, then chat more while cutting their hair. I like that no customer overstays their welcome before leaving, and a couple of them were really endearing. I likely won’t play the full release myself, but I know a couple people I may gift it to.
What have you been playing?
Gravhounds has been a very fun coop DRG-like, very focused on turret defense. By completing objectives, you earn up credits to build turrets, or find turret modules by exploring. It has a lot of little inventive systems based around Gravity Guns each player gets.
Some objectives were a bit confusing, but fun to figure out. Might be nice if they can introduce a lower-difficulty mode for some coop partners.
I tried it solo for a bit today and it does seem like it would be really fun in a group! Unfortunately nobody was online today.
I played that one for a bit, and it’s pretty fun to build your defense and railway. It seems to still miss a good part of the “fun” in tge long run, but i like a simplistig drg like game.