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Suggestions for a top down game that is genuinely different to all the others? (fedia.io)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's such an overcrowded genre isn't it? I mean it's ridiculous how many top down games there are out there... I've played so many now, they just blend into each other.

Are there any top down games that do something different (or the same but really really well). For example, my last really positive experiences with this format were Desperados 3 and Shadow Gambit The Cursed Crew.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I forgot the name of it (Ex Machina? 🤔), but there is a top down diablo-like game with somewhat QWOPish controls and physics based combat. You control movement normally (assuming you're standing), but you have to actually swing your sword around with the mouse and because it's a top down view, this becomes a real challenge. It's also presented as a soul like, so the AI is generally actually good at combat, and it's also slow, and heavy feeling.

I don't think it ever got finished, though. It was semi-popular for about a week before I never really saw it anymore.