West of Loathing is also a genuinely fun and clever RPG, with classes like the Beanslinger and Cowpuncher instead of genre standards.Īs we wrote in our West of Loathing review: "Flush a toilet for an XP gain, search a haystack for a needle or dig through a mine cart for a hunk of meat ore (West of Loathing has a meat-based economy), and insult yourself in a mirror to gain a combat buff because you angered yourself so much. They're in every corner of the world, and even in the options menu, and it's a joy to discover them. This is a game you explore for jokes, not loot. The funniest game of 2017, and maybe the funniest RPG we've ever played. Release date: 2017 | Developer: Asymmetric | Link: Steam A game about traveling the world is perfect when you're traveling the world with a laptop. Beyond the changes you make, the sheer range of scenarios and potential outcomes means you’ll discover something new on every run."įor more wonderful writing in a game that leans more heavily towards interactive fiction with fewer survival mechanics, check out the sublime 80 Days, too. It helps that death means something, because that elevates the stakes when you’re one direct hit from a yawning hole opening up in your hull and some hideous monstrosity is circling around for another attack. It earned a 90 in our review, "because of how brilliantly its disparate elements combine to produce exciting stories, from scrapes you survive by the skin of your teeth, to moments where your own hubris gets you killed.
Like Sunless Seas before it, Sunless Skies is part roguelike adventure, part interactive fiction. Release date: 2019 | Developer: Failbetter Games | Link: Steam But if you climbed out of the money hole of collecting Magic cards in a book full of plastic sleeves back in the day, this is a safe way of re-experiencing that without going broke." Darkest Dungeon You'll still need to drop money for whatever perfect deck's dominating the meta, or if you can't be bothered grinding daily quests for gold. It is much more generous than tabletop Magic. "When you buy a booster pack, whether with cash or gold earned in-game, you earn wildcards which can be traded for any card of an equivalent rarity (replacing the typical dusting and crafting systems of other digital CCGs).
"It's free-to-play and generous," we wrote in our Magic: The Gathering Arena review. And its recommended system specs belong to 2011 hardware-any modern laptop will handle it no problem. The eternal collectible card game has gotten plenty of bite-size videogames over the years, and limped along with the bigger, messier Magic: The Gathering Online, but this one is finally the real Magic experience, and it's still a lot of fun. Release date: 2018 | Developer: Wizards of the Coast | Link: Official siteįinally, the digital adaptation Magic deserves.
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