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[Il Palazzo]

You must be way better than I am at StS, if it doesn't take too much thinking

I mean, at some point you're just doing stuff mechanically, whether winning or losing. (there's a 4th act now?)

And yeah, Sunless Sea was a slog with regards to economy. Try Sunless Skies - it's much improved in that regard (but still in EA, for a month more).

[Aoi]

You must be way better than I am at StS, if it doesn't take too much thinking

I mean, at some point you're just doing stuff mechanically, whether winning or losing. (there's a 4th act now?)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

As I'm lead to understand, and I could be wrong... you first need a normal win with each class (since the December update), then collect a key in each act, then finish the A3 boss. That opens act 4, which is really short and is basically just an elite and The Heart. Which is designed to counter almost every build.

[Sime]

Kenshi or Starsector?

[Kagus]

Do you like hunting chromosomes for your deyenerates?

Then Kenshi.

[JimboM12]

do you want one of your ships to emulate red five and get split off when he could easily stay grouped up and get destroyed?

then Starsector

[red_squirrel]

It would be nice if smb could recommend me a game about aliens-mutants. Need something strange and a bit scary to play.
Thanks!
P.S. text games and visual novels are welcome!

[High tyrol]

I am looking for a chess engine designed with variant play in mind. Preferably it would be possible to modify piece movement to make computerized versions of new chess variants.
Having AI would be nice but is not essential.

I am also looking for turn based strategy games where movement options provides extra depth. An example of this would be a tactical rpg where each unit has defined movement patterns.

[Sime]

Thanks, I've decided to go with Starsector rather than Kenshi since it runs well under Linux.

 I always feel dirty rebooting into Windows.

[heydude6]

I am looking for a chess engine designed with variant play in mind. Preferably it would be possible to modify piece movement to make computerized versions of new chess variants.
Having AI would be nice but is not essential.

Tabletop simulator is your go-to for that. Essentially it's a board game simulator that allows you to design your own boards and pieces and cards and whatever. There is no AI and you play by manually moving pieces  according to the rules of whatever game your playing. It even gives you the option to screw the rules and just throw things around. There is support for online play and the feature list is very robust, allowing you to quickly shuffle cards as well as hide things from your opponent.

With your example, you can load in a chess board with the pieces, and you can then decide to move the pieces according to the new rules you made up. It does confuse me that you need a program for that. You can technically do that with a real life chess board and pieces. Tabeltop simulator is mainly meant to be a universal solution to the problem of playing board games online.

I am also looking for turn based strategy games where movement options provides extra depth. An example of this would be a tactical rpg where each unit has defined movement patterns.

"Into the Breach" might interest you then. You command a squad of mechs who are trying to defend a city from kaiju like aliens called the vek. Each turn, you will be informed of what the Vek are planning to do and you can do all sorts of things to disrupt their plan. You can damage and kill them of course, but you can also knock them around so they attack the wrong target (including other Vek), afflict them with CC so they can't do anything, or even have them run into environmental hazards.

[Ulfarr]

I 've been itching to play a card game lately. Slay the Spire fits perfectly in what I'm looking for but it is only available through Steam (or other retailers who sold steam keys) which I don't want to use. So I'll have to look for something else.

Any suggestions? (CCG or deck building are either fine.)

[( Tchey )]

I 've been itching to play a card game lately. Slay the Spire fits perfectly in what I'm looking for but it is only available through Steam (or other retailers who sold steam keys) which I don't want to use. So I'll have to look for something else.

Any suggestions? (CCG or deck building are either fine.)

Hi,

Do you know Argentum Age ?

http://www.argentumage.com/

It's open source, too

[Ulfarr]

Hi

I didn't know about it, thanks for the suggestion. I have to admit that the whole "Build from source" left me a bit intimidated but I found a version on itch.io that I guess is ready to install.

edit: At least according to their reddit, it seems like they dropped support for the ich.io version. I'll see if it can at least serve as a demo when I get back to home. Until then the search continues.
edit2: itch.io version updated itself to v. 1.0.684 (which is the latest I think), I ve been playing for about 4hours and I don't think I like it. It feels too clunky some of the mechanics are downright frustrating.

[Retropunch]

I 've been itching to play a card game lately. Slay the Spire fits perfectly in what I'm looking for but it is only available through Steam (or other retailers who sold steam keys) which I don't want to use. So I'll have to look for something else.

Any suggestions? (CCG or deck building are either fine.)

Why don't you want to use steam? I hate the pushing for everything to be on a platform as much as the next person, but steam is pretty harmless and is unfortunately the only way to get most games.

If you're worried about privacy you can always use a VPN, set up a new account and buy the game through a key retailer using cash prepaid card ( let me know if you need help doing any of that, although I honestly can't imagine why anyone would be paranoid enough to need to do that). If it's just on a moral standpoint that they're rubbish to developers etc., you could always send a message to the devs of Slay the Spire and tell them how you feel.

Honestly though, Steam is a very lesser evil.

[Mephisto]

I 've been itching to play a card game lately. Slay the Spire fits perfectly in what I'm looking for but it is only available through Steam (or other retailers who sold steam keys) which I don't want to use. So I'll have to look for something else.

Any suggestions? (CCG or deck building are either fine.)

This plus Night of the Full Moon. I've heard the latter described as basically being Slay the Spire on Android.

Or if you have an Android/iOS device, just use it instead.

[Ulfarr]

Why don't you want to use steam? I hate the pushing for everything to be on a platform as much as the next person, but steam is pretty harmless and is unfortunately the only way to get most games.

Spoiler: this is a bit of a rant (click to show/hide)

It's not about privacy. I decided against using it because I don't agree with some of Steam's policies/actions, namely:
1. You need to spent money on steam before you or your friends can find each other, which I think it's bad enough by itself. It also means you can't recieve "gifts" from them (we did try* to buy some
    games through a friend's account)
2. I don't like how they push for a monopoly even through mods. Granted nothing (technically) stops the mod creator from uploading their mods on other sites but the way mods work on steam games has
    already centralized some modding communities to the point they can be considered a steam feature (point in case: Kenshi ).

* At that time I had no way to buy it directly by myself, because even through prepaid cards I needed to have an account (for the prepaid service provider) that was linked with my bank acount.

This plus Night of the Full Moon. I've heard the latter described as basically being Slay the Spire on Android.

Or if you have an Android/iOS device, just use it instead.

Thank you.