A Long Journey to an Uncertain End
Not looking good, Captain. That holo-influencer you sent Matias to guard has been “upstaged”. Putting a former drag queen before every camera in the verse? Not the best idea. And the anti-sentience rally we sent Aylah to… that’s a riot now. Not saying it’s entirely her fault the audio drones were hacked but, you know. Probably didn’t help.
On top of that Truly and Denny are nowhere to be found. Any chance of keeping a low profile is out the airlock. Now there’s an incoming message from… your ex?
All in all, a quieter day than most.
A Long Journey to an Uncertain End is a narrative focused Space Opera that’ll have you flying around the universe assembling an unruly crew from an eclectic cast of characters and taking any job you can to keep one step ahead of your abusive Ex. The twist: you’re not just piloting a ship… you are the ship.
Supplies don’t come for free in the verse, doubly so for outlawed sentient spaceships. Every planet, moon and space station is a valuable source of jobs and their precious rewards. Assign crew tasks based on their skills, and help their decisions along the way. If everything pays off you’ll have what you need to escape, and if not…well, you can call in those favors you’ve been saving.
A Long Journey to an Uncertain End presents a unique vision of the future, a universe of inclusivity and diversity tainted by uncertainty and fear. Build a family within your crew. Every crew member has their own story, every planet its own history, and even your own adventure remains unfinished.
Sentient ships have been outlawed for centuries. With the help of your holo-companion C.O.R.G.I. and your (mostly) loyal crew, you managed to evade capture. Now there’s an entire galaxy between you and freedom.
So…where to next, Captain?
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Fly across a unique galaxy, from the dust-bitten badlands of the Rim, to the techno-industrial megacities of the Core…and Beyond.
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Recruit an eclectic crew from a diverse cast of characters with their own stories and varied skill sets.
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Explore planets, moons and space stations as you put distance between you and your abusive ex. Match your crew to jobs and decide their actions along the way. If all else fails, you can always rely on a favor or two.
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Manage your resources to keep your crew happy. Boosting between worlds can take its toll, as can failing at jobs. A happy crew is a productive crew… most of the time.
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No One Can Ever Know
No One Can Ever Know is quite possibly one of the best examples one can point to when making an argument for the merits of video games as an interactive medium. This is not a “fun” game in the traditional sense and neither does that seem to be the intention. No One Can Ever Know is a difficult, sometimes frustrating experience because it wants the player to know what its like to be in the creator’s shoes and by extension what it’s like to suffer from gender dysphoria. This is something only games can do, because while films and text can adequately convey emotions and ideas, they can’t quite put someone in the shoes of another individual in quite the same way a game can and I think for that reason, No One Can Ever Know is a huge success despite being a humble little title.
– Real player with 2.1 hrs in game
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Open your eyes and close them and open them again….How many are looking through your eye(s)….one….more than one then there is only a number and the number of them is ONE number…. Be glad you are who you are and you are the only unique special person (number) of you that is!!!!!!! Do not lose hope and take your game elsewhere because if you go you will ruin it for me…. I need you to play so that the game of all lives can continue….everybody who ever and what ever and celebrate every precious moment
– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game
Lakeburg Legacies
Lakeburg Legacies is a social-based village management sim focused on pairing up your townsfolk to make the best, most effective families in order for your kingdom to grow and thrive. Make couples between your favourite villagers and create the best lineages generations after generations so the families can be as effective as possible in their jobs, which earns your village prestige!
Be careful though: each character has their preferences and their little flaws that you will need to discover, or else Lady Sophia the wealthy duchess will end up marrying the poor but handsome Alfred the farmer…
From small village to flourishing kingdom: manage your resources to thrive!
Make couples! Pair together the lovebirds of your town and find the perfect matches to create the strongest, happiest settlement around.
Write your legacy: happy couples will have children who will inherit their parents’ characteristics.
Drama! Navigate tricky, randomised events that will introduce chaos in the love life of your people. Try to keep them in check!
Everything procedural: every playthrough of Lakeburg Legacies is different - what kind of ruler will you be?
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Blush Blush
I am not gay or a furry but Volks do be having nice hair doe, but not in a gay way, because I’m straight and not a furry. I feel like some of you think that I am gay/furry, so I just would like to make it clear that I am not gay/furry. The nude DLC is fairly priced, if you are into that sort of thing, which I am not because I am a straight non furry person. I purchased said DLC to support a small indie company and not for sexual pleasure of any kind. One last time just in case you think that I was joking, I am not a gay furry, I am straight and have seen the shit out of Criminal Minds.
– Real player with 1276.5 hrs in game
I hate myself for playing this.
It’s an idle game so I just leave it running all night so I can get money and raise my skills. Just so everyone knows why I’ve amassed so many hours in this game.
The art is quite nice. I like otome games that are cute and sweet and innocent, and sometimes this game gets more risque than what I want, but overall, the characters are cute and it’s fun to read their dialogue. (As you can imagine, I am NOT interested in the 18+ content, so I’m glad that’s a separate DLC. I wouldn’t have downloaded the game if the 18+ content wasn’t optional.) It’s a really silly, light-hearted game with lots of jokes. So far, there’s nothing deep about the plot or anything, but the characters are a lot of fun. I originally wasn’t very happy about the reset feature and was going to try playing the game without resetting, but you’ll definitely need to use it. It speeds up your job and hobby progress, and you have to have a certain reset boost to make progress with Dmitri.
– Real player with 321.7 hrs in game
Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game
Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game is a historically-grounded fantasy homesteading game about finding your way after loss. Accompany the Callahan Siblings, Shane and Áine, as they learn to cope in the wake of the complete upset of their lives - journey through magic, intrigue and small-town politics to resolve the sudden appearance of dangerous, magical beasts.
Release plan : Beta test early development [✓] – 2-3 hour demo of game so far [✓] – Interactions on feedback from the demo [] – Early Access version [] – Full Game []
Farm, Forage, & Hunt to Survive
Living in the desert isn’t easy, but the magical abilities that force the protagonists to isolate themselves also helps them make the most of the environment. Farm, forage, and hunt to scrape by in the sparse desert of Eastern Oregon.
Unravel a Mystery
Guide Shane and Áine through the twists and turns of their search for answers about the monster attacks that threaten their fragile livelihood. Where will this undertaking lead these unlikely adventurers?
Forge Relationships
Survival isn’t just about finding food and shelter. It’s also about making life worth living. The support and attention of loved ones, romantic and otherwise, will bolster your spirit and give you strength.
Fight & Prevail
A homesteader isn’t usually well-equipped for armed struggle, but desperate times call for desperate measures. Stand shoulder-to-shoulder with your sibling to defend your homestead against magical monsters.
Cook & Craft
Frontier cuisine is more about filling bellies than making an impression - scrape together what you can to conquer scarcity. Overcome challenges with tools and handicrafts that you create.
Hodl Simulator
RIDE WIFE, LIFE GOOD
WIFFE FIGHT BAK, KILL WIFE,
WIFE GONE, THINK ABOUT WIFE
REGRET
– Real player with 3.3 hrs in game
the achievements are broken for stock mode and it says my highest score is “infinity”
– Real player with 1.5 hrs in game
Dead In Vinland
I finished this game because I wanted to like it. Its story, art, characters, relationship dynamics, crafting, and exploration elements are interesting enough. It’s also an indie game made by a few devs, and I wanted to be able to review it positively. I kept thinking that, eventually, the positives might outweigh the negatives. For example, I thought that maybe the ending might redeem it, or maybe that it might have a plot twist. After all, when you dislike a game then the common argument is “you didn’t even finish it!”, because sometimes it’s worth doing.
– Real player with 99.5 hrs in game
A fun and challenging survival game. You start as a small Viking family - Eirik, a noble and peace-loving man, his loyal wife Blodeuwedd, their snarky teen daughter Kari, and Blode’s nerdy and sarcastic sister Moira. They barely escape with their lives after being betrayed and due to a powerful storm crash their ship on an island. That’s when you take control, as the family starts to rebuild their lives in an attempt to survive.
You get to handle many aspects of survival as each character comes with a tonne of stats. Firstly there are 5 general condition stats: Fatique, Hunger, Sickness, Injury, and Depression. Various activities and events will increase or decrease these. If any of those gets to 100, the character dies. Ideally though you’d want to keep these as low as possible, because they in turn cause penalties on the skills. Now the skills are all to do with some aspect of everyday life - harvesting, hunting, fishing, cooking, chopping wood, mining, exploring, and so on. The higher the skill, the more resources the character brings when doing said activity, and these skills improve over time if the character continues to do the activity. You also have some passive skills such as strength, agility, wisdom, and so on. These come into play as skill checks during certain events.
– Real player with 53.1 hrs in game
Nocked! True Tales of Robin Hood
The game Nocked! has you taking on the role of Robin Hood set in a world where myth and magic still has a foothold. You start out as a runaway who takes to Sherwood forest to claim their future.
The game itself contains elements of interactive fiction (think choose your own adventure) as well as resource management. In fact, this was the stand out portion for me.
The first thing you will notice is that you can choose the gender of your Robin, and even some limited background choices which will have some game affects. Additionally, the character of Maid Marian even has some variation which can affect play.
– Real player with 324.1 hrs in game
A really nice CYOA game. It actually reminded me of Mass Effect 2, in that you have a base and companions, and your choices have long-term impact (otherwise it’s entirely dissimilar to ME2; see any screenshot).
There are healthy doses of whimsy in the setting and humour in the writing, and it mixes classic Robin Hood story beats in with more fantastical stuff. It’s comfy and tense, and perfectly paced. The music is also wonderful.
My only gripes are minor (despite this being the biggest paragraph): some of the art is quite bad (the character silhouettes work well, but some of the other stuff looks like programmer art) and the overall graphic design could use work. This is all just window dressing though and doesn’t really matter*. A bigger annoyance is that the checkpoints are a bit far apart for more my liking–I appreciate it discouraging save scumming, but there were a couple of times when I misunderstood an option so badly that I felt unfairly shafted by choosing it, in which case I rolled back and lost lots of progress. The last thing that left a bad taste was the ending: it felt like I had no way of knowing the implications of some of the choices.
– Real player with 32.6 hrs in game
Cruise Ship Manager
Fulfill your dreams of watching over a beautiful vessel, a large crew, and all sorts of passengers in Cruise Ship Manager!
Take cruises to a next level in this unique management game. Choose how you want your cruise ship to be built, make sure everything runs smoothly, set the prices for the passengers, and become a legend of the high seas!
Choosing the layout of the ship is up to you! Decide on the layout, where to place a canteen for your crew, and where 5-star restaurants should be. Does a casino strike your fancy or maybe an open pool? And don’t forget about rooms for your passengers! Make sure everything is well connected and that you keep enough money for food or fuel.
Pick your crew wisely. Their skills will lead to your success or failure. Once you leave the dock, you’re stuck with the people you chose so make sure you don’t regret hiring an untested rookie over an experienced veteran.
Once you settle on the amenities and prepare the necessary equipment, you can finally search for passengers to invite onto your ship. But there’s a catch - it’s not up to you who buys your tickets. So price your tickets accordingly. You might charge a premium if you do, your passengers will feel entitled to the best service there is and it won’t be easy to satisfy them. On the other hand, you could sell the tickets at a low price and improve your budget through other means. For instance, by charging extra for fancy cocktails.
As your renown grows, more people will want to experience the thrill of signing up for your cruise. Build your brand and reach a point where people will pay any amount of money, just to say they were on your cruise ship!
You have the power to choose the route your cruise ship shall take. Would you rather make some quick cash on a routine, 2-day cruise? Or maybe a long journey through the Bermuda Triangle is what strikes your fancy? You might be paid more for trips to exotic places but beware of the storms. Lives could be at stake if a fire breaks out or engines malfunction. It will be your task to end such a crisis - before it’s too late.
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A cruise ship of your own that you can customize to your liking
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Resource management (fuel, food, etc.)
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Incredible variety of unique passengers with different expectations and behaviors
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Random events
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Crew members that have their own needs
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Route selection
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Many unique rooms to add to your ship
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Unlimited fun!
Actor Tycoon 2
I have enjoyed this game a lot, but please please please add more stuff to do otherwise replay value goes down. I am having a blast playing this game and loved the first one, but I really would like more to do.
– Real player with 13.6 hrs in game
The game has virtually no content and very quickly becomes repetitive. While there are a bunch of different countries they all play pretty much the same and the handful of events in game have no real impact on anything. If you’re just looking for something mindless to play while you’re listening to a podcast it kind of works but I wouldn’t pay more than 2-3 bucks for it.
– Real player with 8.9 hrs in game