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[Dutchling]

Honestly, buying early access games is a bad idea in general.

It's like pre-ordering a game without expecting to ever get it.

[Rolan7]

Though Cave Story you can also get for free. Steam and fancy graphics are just a bonus imo.

It also lets you play as Curly, has optional orchestral music, some challenge modes, and the "hardcore difficulty" as an actual mode.  All just bonus stuff, but there's quite a bit of bonus.

[Sirus]

Though Cave Story you can also get for free. Steam and fancy graphics are just a bonus imo.

It also lets you play as Curly, has optional orchestral music, some challenge modes, and the "hardcore difficulty" as an actual mode.  All just bonus stuff, but there's quite a bit of bonus.

To be fair, Curly mode (from what I remember) is basically the normal story with the roles of Curly and Quote swapped, and Curly occasionally speaks. That's it.

[BigD145]

Honestly, buying early access games is a bad idea in general.

It's like pre-ordering a game without expecting to ever get it.

In general, yes. I had no problem buying KSP for $8 on release. It had plenty of features and Squad seemed to know what it was doing. They have proven themselves to be trustworthy with every release. Prison Architect was an easy choice because Introversion knows what they are doing. They have a history of good games. On the other hand, Castle Story doesn't seem to know what they are doing.

Community choice on Steam is Star Wars II Battlefront with no multiplayer servers. Woot? No. No woot. Battlefront games are designed for multiple players.

[Frumple]

Waking Mars is a metroidvania? I picked it up in an indie bundle once, but in the hour or so that I played it came across to me more as a as a point-and-click adventure than a metroidvania... (It's not quite parallel with actual P&C games, buts exploration and clicking.) Maybe I didn't get far enough?

Disclaimer: I feel combat is an intrinsic necessity for any "metroidvania" label.

There's combat, of a sorts, in Waking Mars. Stuff starts shooting at you and/or exploding and/or trying to eat you fairly early in the game (I think it's fairly early, anyway. I've got about 2 hours sunk in the game, going somewhat slowly, and things started trying to kill me about half way through that.). It's actually closer to what you might get if you mixed a metroidvania with a puzzle game to anything else, I say, but it's got most of what I'd consider requisite. Fairly expansive, open map, exploration, item acquisition based progression (sorta'), largely action based -- and yeah, a bit of combat.

And yeah, dust, la mulana (if you're a masochist, anyway ), both good. Fortune Summoners is excellent, imo, but it's also closer to something like the old Monster World games (Or perhaps Popful Mail, if you're looking for something a bit more recent) than Castlevania or Metroid. Maybe akin to Demon's Crest. Also decently brutally difficult after a bit.

[Dutchling]

Waking Mars is a puzzle sim platformer.

It's kinda weird.

[Duuvian]

If The Pit is chosen for the next sale I'd recommend it at the sale price of $1.05. I have it and it's not a bad roguelike, especially if you like the Sword of the Stars series.

[Sensei]

Opinions on Space Engineers?

The basic premise looks interesting, but is there anything to do with the stuff you build? Is there any plans for it?

The first game by the same company was Miner Wars. That was not a good game for many reasons. I don't expect this new game to be any better.

I have Space Engineers. It's pretty good, so far they update with material features weekly. It seems like Keen Software House is extremely wary of the bad will they earned last time. While the game isn't done, it's already very fun to just build and smash stuff, and there's survival mode and multiplayer. I do feel like there's enough game to justify picking it up right now. Bewarned though, this game does NOT run on a toaster.

[BigD145]

Smashing stuff into other stuff is not much of a game. Things hit other things. Now what? Most games, that are fun, involve trying to avoid smashing stuff into other stuff. They also do more than just that. I saw the vids of physics impacts in Space Engineers and thought "this will sell well to Minecraft players children." I didn't even have to look at the youtube comments to imagine all the "epic"s typed in. I dare you to count them all from the first ingame footage and tell me it's fewer than 200. My e, i, p, and c keys wept. I think the Iliad wept and then hung itself.

[Dutchling]

It has practically no gameplay.

You can:
1) Gather resources to build ships / stations
2) Fly around with said ships
3) I think you can build turrets that shoot the meteorites

[Darkmere]

Steamworld Dig in on flash sale. Reviews seem to imply it's either so short it's completely boring, or replayable enough to be entertaining. Anyone played it and have thoughts to share?

[Mindmaker]

Honestly, buying early access games is a bad idea in general.

It's like pre-ordering a game without expecting to ever get it.

In most cases, yeah. But sometimes it's worth it.

Don't Starve was early access, right? You could buy it cheaper than the full game, you got one extra copy to gift away and they delivered constant updates.
Starfarer/Starsector has glacial progress in regard of it's campaign, but the combat system is done already and due to it's unique nature it's fun to play around with.

[Sensei]

It doesn't really matter how many minecraft kids liked it. I liked it. Multiplayer is indeed much of a game, as well.

As for other features, there are regular weapons, and an elaborate conveyor system that has recently been implemented. You can design a ship that mines, draws rubble in to hoppers with gravitational force, and then starts making the materials you want with the resources. Just doing that is a project in itself. You can also try to design a base adequately shielded from meteor showers. Or a makeshift gravitational missile launcher. Or a 200-foot swinging hammer to smash enemy ships. Or a working racetrack. Or a monorail. It's a physics sandbox with enough features that if you liked making drowning traps in dwarf fortress, you might like this game.

[Delta Foxtrot]

Dishonoured - 3,75 for base game. 8,50 for GOTY with all the (supposedly really good) DLC's. I'm still leaning towards waiting for the GOTY to drop down to 5. Some other sale I guess.

[Aklyon]

Steamworld Dig in on flash sale. Reviews seem to imply it's either so short it's completely boring, or replayable enough to be entertaining. Anyone played it and have thoughts to share?

Isn't that a 3DS game?