It’s my penultimate Thinky Stream. Friday, September 13. I’ll be turning autumn brown while surrounded by:
- Million Monster Militia (Space Capsule Games, 2024)
- MAZAICA (Hamster On Coke Games, 2024)
- Nauticrawl (Spare Parts Oasis, 2019)
- The Banished Vault (Lunar Division, 2023)
The stream will blossom at 9PM UK, 10PM CET, 4PM EST and Saturday 6AM Sydney. The Thinky Games Twitch channel can be found here: twitch.tv/thinkygames.
I’ll add the videos for each part of the stream here as they get published on YouTube.
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I see The Banished Vault is “a run-based strategy game” with “[p]rocedurally generated solar systems.”
This comment feels like a subtweet, Matt. It’s got that odour.
I was going to speculate that they had refrained from using the r-word because they are afraid of me but I couldn’t think of a good joke so I just hit “post.” (“Roguelite” is in the tags though.)
Oh also is it good?
I think I might have used the word roguelikes at some point, so I wasn’t sure if you were aiming the cannons at your beautiful host.
Is The Banished Vault good? It’s difficult for me to pass comment. I didn’t have enough time to get into it before the stream and, boy, you need the time. It’s all about careful resource management while up against a clock and the resources have overlapping uses – very knotty.
Vfig was not impressed, seeing it as a maths heavy game. I reserve judgement. Some ppl LOVE it
Oh right! I was definitely subtweeting your use of “roguelike” in the stream! Which I had totally watched before leaving that comment! I’m sorry, you know how I am about videos.
I guess if I want a taste of the experience I should watch. My instinct is to say “maths heavy? no problem!” but that is not how I really experience, er, tactical combat games. Also I do not one tiny bit really need another such game at the moment.
(Status: Inkulinati still in stasis through what would be the final run in the arc if I win it which I probably won’t, Darkest Dungeon also in stasis–it was somewhat ironic that I got into it after complaining about Inkulinati’s length but it predictably got shelved when the semester started–and mostly I worked out how to get Realmspeak running again and am playing that a ton instead of even Brogue or Slice & Dice, don’t worry about what Realmspeak is it is an eccentric interest of mine. Also playing Cato: Buttered Cat which is very charming except the boss fights and I’m told you can skip those eventually? Also bittersweet because of a recent tragic event in our household.)
(btw I’m not sure how I managed to assume an alternate identity two posts up)