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Tip of my Joystick - Find games by describing it.
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This community is to find that game you can't remember. Like it's on the tip of your tongue.
This community is mainly for finding a specific game title. If you are looking for game suggestions, !videogamesuggestions@lemmy.zip is the place to be.
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[Platform][Estimated Year] A short description of the game.
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[NES][1980]A man jumping on mushrooms
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I haven't tried Zomboid yet. I might have to move it up the priority list.
It's surprisingly decent. I avoided it because I really don't like isometric games and it seemed really janky for a modern title, but it was pretty fun once I got the hang of it. Unfortunately it's not quite finished and missing a decent amount of features. The next beta adds a ton to the game but multiplayer isn't stable yet and thus isn't available without mods, which is unfortunate because the game is much better with friends.
If the game is the sort of thing you're super into, it's worth picking up now. Otherwise waiting for the stable beta 43 would probably be the play.
To be fair, calling Project Zomboid unfinished is like calling Dwarf Fortress unfinished. Zomboid's feature set in its current state for Build 41 is already much higher than the feature sets of a lot of "finished" games on the market, so even though the developers consider it unfinished, an average player could have a hard time seeing it as unfinished.
If an update dropped that said something like:
That's the kind of update you expect from a game like Dwarf Fortress, Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead, and Project Zomboid.
The thing I took issue with is the crafting system is NOT fleshed out in b41. I spent so much time gathering materials and leveling up tailoring, and now I can... Add patches to clothing. There's hardly any equipment you can make for yourself, forcing you to scavenge everything. I know they added a ton in b42 and I'm hype for the stable, but right now once you hit a certain point the game feels hollow.
This is a good disclaimer for what is, at the end of the day, an unfinished project. It's well worth it for me though, but then again I don't mind playing solo.
I'd really recommend diving heavily into Zombie. I keep meaning to. Vein feels like the 1st/3rd person version of Zomboid, except that Vein is not nearly so feature-rich (yet).
My ideal would be a game that feels like the exploration and scavenging elements of The Walking Dead. I don't especially need fast crazy zombies, but I do want them blend in with the debris of the world when torpid, furniture like bookshelves knocked over and possibly Zs hiding under there, etc. Can't just walk into a bookstore and have easy sightlines through half the place and spot every foe before having to deal.
While I'm wishing, the group/colony dynamics of State of Decay 2, base building that at least lets me reinforce/fortify stuff and scrabble up some walls...