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Hey I love Balatro too!
Oh solitaire? You see what you can do with that 10 right?
throws deck of cards in the fire
See this: Ultimate Book of Card Games
Saw it on a friends shelf, read it, bought it for my kid and me.
Solid book for 1 deck of cards. This book has so many card games that can be played with a single deck, some of these I grew up knowing, but most I’d never heard of. There’s one solitaire game me and my kid love playing from this. Don’t recall the game, only you set out cards one by one in a 4x5 grid making poker hands trying to get the highest score. Pretty fun tbh.
As a new dad, single player games with anytime saving have been a life saver
Here's some dad advice for you:
Handhelds are there only way to get some gaming time in most of the time (Steam Deck, Retroid Pocket console, Switch, etc).
Roguelites are there best type of game. Single player. Can put down easily. Short bursts of play with progress in each run (not a 90 hour saga that takes a year to complete).
Slay The Spire and Hades have been huge timesinks for me when I can't commit time to sitting at the computer for a huge JRPG. Anything you recommend?
Balatro kept me sane through the first couple months after mine was born. I'd also say Risk of Rain (1 and 2), Enter the Gungeon, and Vampire Survivors
Hollow knight was great for these exact reasons! Very easy to pick up and put down. Also gives you something with a longer term progression. Oh and backpack battles too. Fantastic little game. These three games basically entertained a party of my brain through the first 2+ years of fatherhood
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Balatro - card game
Monster Train - turn based deck builder (if you liked Slay the spire)
Dead Cells - action hack and slash side scrolling
Binding of Isaac - GOAT twin stick shooter
Enter the Gungeon - other GOAT twin stick shooter, more modern
Cult of the Lamb - hack and slash, with farming
Moonlighter - action, with shop-keeping simulation
Children of Moira - action
Curse of the Dead Gods - action hack and slash
Faster Than Light - spaceship command, mix of real time strategy with time pause for planning
Risk of Rain 2 - 3rd person shooter
Brotato - single stick shooter
Vampire survivors - single stick shooter
Don't Starve Together - survival, farming, crafting, combat
Synthetik - top down shooter. Can be played with M+KB, but I prefer it as a twin stick shooter with controller
Crown Trick - top down combat, single action at a time
Spelunky 2 - very difficult platformer/simplistic combat
Deep rock Survivor - single stick shooter with mining
MatchR - I like gem matching, this was amusing for a short while
Windblown - top down hack and slash
Roboquest - FPS roguelite
Blazing Beaks - twin stick shooter
Cursed to Golf - golf
Nuclear Throne - twin stick shooter
Crypt of the necrodancer - rhythm
Dungeon of the Endless - tower defense, mining
Dome keeper - mining + asteroids type base defense
There are loads more......depends on what flavour you like
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Agree on handhelds. Disagree with roguelites and roguelikes, though I guess that depends on the person. I personally like to learn the map and the lay of the land.
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Here's sone new dad advice for you: The baby needs good soil and plenty of water
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There's a real important question here: do you have solar panels?
Otherwise I think it's gonna be board games...
Solitaire it is!
And 'Mansions of Madness: 2E', I guess
Hell yeah, board games! And no single use board games either - I'm looking at you, Pandemic Legacy.
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Dynamo-bike!
Pedal faster, kid! I nearly beat the boss!
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If there’s an apocalypse that doesn’t just wipe us all out, people who are capable of collaborating and forming communities will do much better than people who think they’re going to hunt and scavenge and play games on their own.
I think he means games that requires constant Internet connection straight up won't work.
If the entire Internet is down then so too is power.
Ain't nobody playing video games after the lights go out.
Some people think they can run on their own generators indefinitely.
Find a mechanic to keep the Genny working and a chemist to set ut a biofuel facility and you can run it untill you run out of spare generators to cannibalize or vegetation/dead bodies.
If you want to join our community you need to win at street-fighter 2
multiplayer games that can run p2p on intranet will be even more valuable
"You wanna piece of me, boi??"
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Metro but the russians are still playing CS professionally
Yes. Because you’ll have food, water, electricity to run a computer, and leisure gaming time during such a time.
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You'll have better things to do with your time in an apocalyptic than playing video games.
Meh
Like what?
Like not die, unless your into that, in which case, you won't play video games for long.
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When I was a kid, pre-internet, there was a "computer club" that was basically a massive pirating event held once a month.
TV and Amiga in the car, large room in a hotel in Dublin city. You set up and swapped cracked games with all the other people there, copying floppies. It was so exciting to little me.
Best game ever!
Wow. Cool picture. Instant transportation to kid me.
The latest versions of it were the hottest thing doing the rounds at those meet ups.
I don't plan on surviving any apocalypse. Also, the electrical grid will probably be one of the first things to go.
But not electricity itself.
I plan to relocate near a hydro dam,
Take a laptop, charger, and offline portable wiki on a flash drive.
I think its fresh water, food and than maybe way down the list, its single player games.
Agree, multiplayer games over LAN > singleplayer
Just find 9 other people (zombie or otherwise) and get a local CS match going.
Or find 99 people and get a tournament going and forget about this cruel and dying world for a few Hs.
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Even worse than that. A lot of single player ones have to check in with the Internet eventually. This will restrict the set even further. PlayStation will become useless after a couple years.
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My Famicom is ready!
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
That also means that Steam won't work.
STEAM OFFLINE MODE!?!?!?
That werks rite? Or have we been (not bean) lied to??
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Ghost of Tsushima will be sold at fine art rates
I recently set up a raspberry pi with retropie so i have 1000s of games that dont require internet connections now :) fun project and tonight once my new ssd arrives im setting up linux mint on my desktop (dual boot) and am going to try to transition away from windows. Because its fucking shit.
The pi sparked the drive i needed to make it happen. Really enjoyed my intro to linux.
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