Been playing one of the Aeon's End Legacy games, at the final nemesis now. It's pretty great, although I feel that compared to the one Pandemic Legacy season we've played, it doesn't achieve the level of harmony between theme and mechanics. There's no explanation of why we get two tries at fights for example

I was trying for the second time to enjoy animal well. I kind of see how it's a great game, but playing it feels like torture to me. I'm constantly second-guessing myself whenever I'm stuck, I don't know if I haven't figured out the puzzle, suck at platforming, or missing a tool.

Thinking about playing Hades again next week.

I have a decent amount of hats, although none of them has quite sufficient size or flair...

I'm mostly happy with it, I like nice looking games, i like nice feeling components. In general i don't think there's a point in having those without great gameplay, but then again I bought Wyrmspan for the sole reason of 'ooh pretty dragons!' and was honestly surprised that I enjoy playing it too. Not that I expected the gameplay to be bad, I just don't like competitive games.

I think the trend is simply game creators adapting to the market. There are more people who like and are willing to pay for nicer prettier games right now, that's all. There are presumably also games being made that focus on mechanics only, just less than before?

I was telling a colleague about how my department started using Rust for some parts of our projects lately. (normally Python was good enough for almost everything but we wanted to try it out)

They asked me why we're not using MATLAB. They were not joking. So, I can at least tell you their reasoning. It was their first programming language in university, it's safer and faster than Python, and it's quite challenging to use.

Only got a little time over the weekend, we played Crime Zoom: His last card. It was very enjoyable, perfect amount of complexity for us.

Probably? As I understand you won't see anything on a community until someone on your instance subscribes, when the instance refreshes it'll load the new content

Very very slowly playing the Stanley Parable. It's pretty nice, I often feel mocked by the narrator.

I definitely get the concern, it does not have any real replayability, being puzzles that you destroy as you play. I remember us talking about the price to playtime ratio after the first game, and deciding that it was "cheaper than going to the movies, and more enjoyable". For us it's like a treat, we usually buy one when we go to the board game shop, we're excited about it on our way home, and we finish it that evening.

This was our third exit game, we've been getting the same nominal difficulty. We're a bit more familiar with the common tricks now, and we finish the game a bit faster, but every game has something different and interesting, the individual puzzles have pretty consistently nice quality, so it's still very enjoyable to play.

Bought an Exit game and Aeons End Legacy of Gravehold. Played the exit game first day, but we're going to go through a few sessions of other games we own before we dive into the Legacy game.

Currently in the middle of Intrepid, playing as Canada and Russia.

Managed to play some SkyTeam while waiting at the airport, it was great. Finishing up our second Sleeping Gods campaign today. ::: spoiler spoiler for Tides of Ruin expansion we got to the underworld but couldn't figure out how to get out, luckily we timed it so that the game ends right after we explored everything ::: Not sure what we'll play next. I'm thinking Robinson Crusoe or Intrepid.

I've wanted to pick the game up a few times, but kept ending up buying something else, sometimes there's a game we were more excited about, or something suited our budget better... I'd love to see more on the topic

We got SkyTeam last October. It's a two player, limited communication game where each person has four dice to play on the game board.

After about a dozen sessions, we had to look up a rule and noticed that we were supposed to take turns placing one die each, we've been placing all four at a time... Some other rules are making much more sense now too 🤦

Started the Stanley parable, haven't gotten far yet, but it's rather interesting.

Was playing Sleeping gods for two weeks but put it away to make room for visiting friends. Haven't pulled it back out yet due to some life stuff. Going on holidays next week so I'm looking forward to getting some SkyTeam going (maybe on the plane)

This inevitable ruin The audiobook is just fantastic and adds to an already amazing book series.

Wind and Truth

Empire of Ivory

Sleeping gods with SO. Been waiting for the local shop to restock Tides of Ruin for our second play-through, and they finally did two weeks ago. Having a great time this week.

I love the video game, got over 300 hours in it. Was hesitant but bought the game because I wanted to share it with my SO, who couldn't play the video game. We have played about 10 games so far and loving it. The OP broken deck feel is, if anything, even stronger. Because the numbers are smaller in the board game to make calculations easier, buffs and debufs are more impactful (e.g. strike does 1 damage so 1 strength brings it to double damage), so at the end of the game you are often playing cards that do something like 50 times the damage of starting strikes. I know it's possible in the video game too, but I've rarely achieved that.

Disclaimer: I've been playing (and failing) A20 in the video game, but playing A0/1 in the board game, so there is a difficulty disparity there, not sure how much that contributed to the OP feeling

It's been so long that I'd forgotten the name of the game, turns out I got it confused with a game with extremely similar mechanics, only realised today when I found the sequel to the game I played. The game that I've played and loved is called Lapse. It's free on Google Play store.

Let me know if you do. Haven't ever done any game dev, but I'm mostly a programmer, so maybe I can help with it.