Hi,
Am I missing this genre? I see Inscryption is on sale cheap and it
got overwhemingly positive Steam reviews.
Wha ts the point of games like this? How are they played?
Are they fun?
-pw
Hi,
Am I missing this genre? I see Inscryption is on sale cheap and it
got overwhemingly positive Steam reviews.
Wha ts the point of games like this? How are they played?
Are they fun?
-pw
Wha ts the point of games like this? How are they played?
PW wrote:
Hi,It's more of an aqquired taste. I would go first with something simpler
Am I missing this genre? I see Inscryption is on sale cheap and it
got overwhemingly positive Steam reviews.
Wha ts the point of games like this? How are they played?
Are they fun?
-pw
from the same dev, like Pony Island, before Jumping to Inscription.
But to attempt explaining it, You don't know how they are played, and
that's part of the fun. You think you are playing a typical game and
know the rules, then the rules start to be broken, subverted, changing,
and becoming something entirely different you were not expecting.
I'm not sure if they called it "meta genre" or something like that,
before facebook started appropiating the word.
Hi,
Am I missing this genre? I see Inscryption is on sale cheap and it
got overwhemingly positive Steam reviews.
Wha ts the point of games like this? How are they played?
Are they fun?
On 24/10/2023 03:02, PW wrote:
Hi,
Am I missing this genre? I see Inscryption is on sale cheap and it
got overwhemingly positive Steam reviews.
Wha ts the point of games like this? How are they played?
Are they fun?
It's not normally a genre I like but I have enjoyed Twilight Struggle
and Gloom Haven where cards are front and centre.
Wha ts the point of games like this? How are they played?
I thought I would hate Gwent in Witcher 3, but after some initial
confusion enjoyed it quite a bit!
On 10/25/23 04:58, JAB wrote:
On 24/10/2023 03:02, PW wrote:
Hi,
Am I missing this genre? I see Inscryption is on sale cheap and it
got overwhemingly positive Steam reviews.
Wha ts the point of games like this? How are they played?
Are they fun?
It's not normally a genre I like but I have enjoyed Twilight Struggle
and Gloom Haven where cards are front and centre.
What do those games do ?
On 25/10/2023 17:09, candycanearter07 wrote:
On 10/25/23 04:58, JAB wrote:
On 24/10/2023 03:02, PW wrote:
Hi,
Am I missing this genre? I see Inscryption is on sale cheap and it
got overwhemingly positive Steam reviews.
Wha ts the point of games like this? How are they played?
Are they fun?
It's not normally a genre I like but I have enjoyed Twilight Struggle
and Gloom Haven where cards are front and centre.
What do those games do ?
Probably best to read some reviews that will be able to explain them
better than I can but as a brief overview. Gloomhaven looks like a a
TRPG but pretty much everything is driven by the cards you hold and how
you play them including the very basics such as move and attack.
Twilight Struggle is all about using politics in the Cold War to gain dominance. Again it's very much card based so you can trigger world
events that are overall beneficial to you or increase your influence in target countries.
What both of them share in common is that the strategy you're using is
very much driven by the cards and not just I do this or I do that. In
many ways it feels like the natural progress that started many years ago
with TT boardgames. Yes you had all of the normal mechanics but cards
where introduced as another layer. That's now become cards are the
dominate strategy.
Both I think are worth a look.
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