Acquisitions
Challenge Me!
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Off-Peak
1.6 hours playtime
6 of 6 achievements
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Dungeon of the Endless
7.2 hours playtime
6 of 33 achievements
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Outlast
16.1 hours playtime
6 of 14 achievements
Off-Peak
I won the Norwood Suite from Blue Lighting, so I decided to play this free game the dev says Norwood is "the successor" of. I'm not sure if it's directly connected, which is why I played it. I guess I'll find out soon.
It was a fast, easy game to complete. It reminds me of JazzPunk, though it's much shorter and limited to a train station. And more of a walking simulator. You walk around in a weird world looking for pieces of a torn-up train ticket.
The station is full of interesting stuff to look at.
.Dungeon of the Endless
Tower defense roguelike with RPG elements that I won from a Playing Appreciated giveaway. You search through rooms, building defenses, while looking for the exit. After finding the exit, you have to grab your crystal (your tower) and run like mad with it towards the exit, because all hell breaks loose as soon as you pick it up. I never felt like I had enough resources to really get into some of the game's systems, like research and building more advanced modules (modules are guns, bonus to resources, passive support, etc Just the stuff you build). There are some other (presumably more difficult) "pods" you can play in, so maybe they give you more of a chance to use that stuff.
I was screwing up a lot, not by my people being killed, but by accidentally leaving them behind when I moved floors. lol. That kind of sucked, but sometimes it left a space open for a stronger character I found along the way. I'm leaving it installed for now because I will at least play again to mess around now that I've beaten it once. But this is one of those games I know I'll never be able to 100%, much like the next one...
Outlast
A Challenge Me! game. I had no idea what to expect at first other than that it was a horror game that I don't have the DLC for. At first I thought looking through a camera the whole game would be annoying, but it wasn't. I was too freaked out at first and ended up missing some early notes & documents that would have all been easy to get. Actually most things got easier once I realized I could run a bit then crouch in a shadowy area most of the time. I wish I had started over early on, but alas... I may try again if I ever get the DLC. I will not, however, attempt to do a one-sitting perma-death speed run for an achievement.
Welcome to Mount Massive Asylum
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I enjoyed Off-Peak. I was always curious if it would find an audience. Especially enjoyed the odd dangling narrative bits: the backstory chat about the pizza chef, the plight of the giants. It made me especially interested in Norwood Suite. Weird fun!
The DLC for Outlast is an odd one but liked the overall direction, hope you end up enjoying it as much as the main game. Shame you didn’t get it while it was free on HB. :/
Ah, ‘Dungeon of the Endless’ is in my backlog as well. I played it shortly a few years ago and remember it as quite hard, fitting your description of your experience. Did you have fun for the time you played it?
After my first play session, I kind of dreaded playing it again. So I put it off for a little while. When I got back to it, I had more fun than I was expecting. I liked it more than most tower defense games because it felt more active. I think I’ll at least check out what these other “pods” are and how much they change the gameplay.
Thank you for your reply. This gives me hope, maybe I should move it up in my backlog list :)
I was eyeing Dungeon of the Endless today when deciding what to spend my points on on a point gathering/exchange for game site. In the end I decided to go with Party Hard instead of it. It does look and sound like a good game, I’m just not sure if I’ll be able to play it for long since I’m not usually that good with rogue-like games. Do you keep any sort of progression at all besides the new characters you found? And how’s the tower defense aspect of it? I never found tower defense games to be enjoyable so was kinda iffy about that part.
Also FYI the steam store link to the game is wrong. :P
What site are you referring to? I used to use similar-sounding websites that closed after a while. Honestly, when I got far in I used a trick (copied my save file and renamed it with the new save file’s name) to keep my progress, because I suck too and didn’t want to risk losing my progress. I didn’t notice the tower defense aspect so much since I was focused on finding the exit and making a secure path to it.
The one I was talking about is Opium Pulses, but I do use some other sites like that. :P
So you lose everything when you die? That sucks. :o How often do you backup your save? I probably will need to do that too if I play just to not make myself angry.
I just did it when I started a new floor.
If you can get the DLC for Outlast cheap (I think it goes up to 80 % in sales) I would say go for it. On the neutral side, it is more of the same. On the positive side it does a good job to complement the main story by giving more details what happened before and after the main story. On the very good side it doesnt end with one of those annoying cliched horror games endings. It also has one of the most disturbing enemies I’ve seen in a game.
As for the “No Death” achievement ….. yea, I don’t like them too. And in Outlast you have the problem that Insane-Mode not only makes you more vulnerable but also enemies faster. And you have at least two annoying jumps in the game where you can die easily. There are also a lot of scripted events which makes suceeding more difficult and sometimes also easier. But I understand why people will skip them.
Mmmm! You know, I never would have put the two together, but Off-Peak and JazzPunk really are similar in ways I never expected, like the abstracted out-of-time weirdness of them. That’s a really interesting way to look at it.