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  • Re: Humble Choice May 2025

    From JAB@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Thu May 8 07:28:19 2025
    On 06/05/2025 18:41, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
    * Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew https://store.steampowered.com/app/1545560/Shadow_Gambit_The_Cursed_Crew/
    This one seems to be a cross between a traditional RPG, a
    "Commandos" style stealth game, and "Pirates of the Caribbean".
    Find the cursed artifact that has turned you and your crew
    into undead scalawags. Looks interesting, and the reviews are
    very favorable; I'm a bit less sanguine since those sort of
    stealth-games never really appealed to me, and I'm not a big
    fan of the pirate genre. Still, maybe I'll give it a try.

    I wouldn't describe it as an RPG as although you do have character
    improvements by they are just this is your special ability and you can
    get the enhanced version of it. There are character stories but these
    are really just there to give extra content in terms of completing missions.

    The best description I'd say is a tactical stealth game with the
    emphasis on stealth. Unlike I believe Commandos there really isn't an
    option to fight it out and if you get spotted it's press that reload button.

    I really enjoyed it (I've played the first two in the series also) as
    there's a nice challenge, but not frustrating, in looking at all the
    view cones, and movement, of the enemy and then working out how you
    slowly pick it apart. It also has a shadow mode where you can queue up
    actions for multiple characters and then execute them all at once. The
    can be really fun.

    Unlike the first two I never ended up finishing it for two reasons, The
    first is they introduced a ship which you do things on and it really
    isn't intuitive of what you're supposed to be doing so very much nice
    idea but not such a good implementation.

    The big one though, unlike the previous games it reuses maps (islands)
    over multiple missions just with different enemy placements and mission objectives. The problem I found was that after a while you think not
    this map again.

    I still feel I got my monies worth though with probably twenty hours of enjoyable playtime.

    The shame is that on around the release time the developers announced
    that they were shutting up shop with the reason being they had been
    doing this for years and the whole keeping everything together,
    including funding, had taken a toll on them.

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  • From Werner P.@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 13 15:10:43 2025
    Am 06.05.25 um 19:41 schrieb Spalls Hurgenson:
    * The Thaumaturge: Deluxe Edition https://store.steampowered.com/app/1684350/The_Thaumaturge/
    I don't know much about this game beyond what it says on
    the store page. It says its a third-person RPG, and that
    you -the eponymous Thaumaturge- have the magical ability
    to see into the minds of others, and you use this power
    to solve mysteries. Sounds intriguing, but I'm not sure
    how much fun it actually is. Combat is apparently something
    of an afterthought, and most of the game revolves around
    dialogue choices; the game itself is fairly linear and
    it's rather slow-paced. I'm not sure the implementation
    lives up to the ideal, but it's worth giving it a shot,
    I think.
    Thraumaturge is awesome, it is basically a mixture between JRPG fighting mechanics and Disco Elysium playing in the early 20th century!
    I have started this game recently and really love it.

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  • From Werner P.@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 13 16:11:06 2025
    Am 13.05.25 um 16:04 schrieb Spalls Hurgenson:
    On Tue, 13 May 2025 15:10:43 +0200, "Werner P." <werpu@gmx.at> wrote:
    Am 06.05.25 um 19:41 schrieb Spalls Hurgenson:

    * The Thaumaturge: Deluxe Edition
    https://store.steampowered.com/app/1684350/The_Thaumaturge/
    I'm not sure the implementation
    lives up to the ideal, but it's worth giving it a shot,
    I think.

    Thraumaturge is awesome, it is basically a mixture between JRPG fighting
    mechanics and Disco Elysium playing in the early 20th century!
    I have started this game recently and really love it.

    Well, that makes it slightly more likely it'll get moved into the
    'played' column one of these days. Thanks for the review.


    Here is a good review on the game https://www.reddit.com/r/rpg_gamers/comments/1bq6a3h/review_the_thaumaturge/
    it went a little bit under the radar probably also because it is slow
    paced just like Disco and from a small polish studio and not a big
    publisher!

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Werner P. on Thu May 15 20:00:09 2025
    Werner P. <werpu@gmx.at> wrote at 13:10 this Tuesday (GMT):
    Am 06.05.25 um 19:41 schrieb Spalls Hurgenson:
    * The Thaumaturge: Deluxe Edition
    https://store.steampowered.com/app/1684350/The_Thaumaturge/
    I don't know much about this game beyond what it says on
    the store page. It says its a third-person RPG, and that
    you -the eponymous Thaumaturge- have the magical ability
    to see into the minds of others, and you use this power
    to solve mysteries. Sounds intriguing, but I'm not sure
    how much fun it actually is. Combat is apparently something
    of an afterthought, and most of the game revolves around
    dialogue choices; the game itself is fairly linear and
    it's rather slow-paced. I'm not sure the implementation
    lives up to the ideal, but it's worth giving it a shot,
    I think.
    Thraumaturge is awesome, it is basically a mixture between JRPG fighting mechanics and Disco Elysium playing in the early 20th century!
    I have started this game recently and really love it.


    This sounds like SUCH a cool game, I wish there was a demo tho so I
    could see if it runs well on my computer... especially since it looks
    pretty graphics intensive from the trailer.
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