Goosebumps.

Come on, noone mentioning Planescape Torment so far?!

I guess that could be in theory, but I would assume that would just lead to a visit in his home rather than a ban of his account.

Probably said something bad about their current dictator.

What if you cannot afford the [nice thing] normally otherwise?

To be honest this looks like store bought and not homemade. But I could be wrong.

Well I’d put up with an ad-driven free version of a Nissan GTR or so. Easily. But not if I paid for it properly.

Please.

Without that ridiculous launcher, though.

Then you replace that buttplug with a unique buttplug.

Rare buttplugs with good affixes are better than unique buttplugs.

Archmage was indeed very nice!

Huh that’s interesting, thanks for letting me know. I’ll check it out.

Thanks, I’ll give it a go then.

Thank you Barony seems quite interesting, and I’ll keep it in mind. For the current moment, though, I would like to scratch an itch of something with a proper campaign instead of a roguelike. But seems up my alley for later.

This sounds great, I will look for it and give it a try! Thank tou.

Legend of grimrock cannot be paused, can it?

I had seen it getting played, but somehow I think this turns me off. Optional pausing for issuing commands would be perfect, but real time only would be too stressing I believe.

But I’m willing to try if recommended enough.

I do. Thanks, I’ll give it a go once a clear a little backlog.

Eh, it is not a genre by itself, I was referring to roguelike as more of an archetype of short, repeating game loops that have progression by unlocking things and increasing difficulty.

As for the genre itself, you can have many different types of games. As I said, slay the spire is probably the best deck building game, monster train is similar in some ways but is more tower-defense like and more combo-y, slice and dice is tactical dice-based, Brotato is more arcade-y rpg-like combat. Hades is tactical arcade combat, but needs two hands. Balatro is poker-card-based combo-y puzzle. Dungeons of dredmor is a bit older but very fun actual Rogue-like game. Caves of Qud is similar but very complex and deep and harder. Inscription is another fun card-based game, but is more of an one-off mysterious experience rather than repeatable a lot.

You can certainly find something that interests you.

Is tales good? I have got it some years ago, never got to starting it yet. But seemed interesting.

Congratulations!

Anectodally from other fathers in my cycle, roguelikes are the genre for dads now. Especially things like Slay the Spire, Monster Train and the like.

You are generally a bit sleep deprived, because you have to sacrifice sleep for entertainment, therefore you tend to prefer one-off games then end in about an hour or so, instead of story rich games like bg3, because you don’t have the energy or mental capacity to remember what’s going on every time you begin a gaming session.

After a while, about a year in, things settle a bit and you start more complex one-off games, like dota, path of exile and so.

Second child and on, maintain same pattern because you already know how to handle things with the kids. It’s a lot easier.

A little bit of Brotato and Slice and Dice because I need to be one-armed when holding the baby and is sleeping on my shoulder.

Otherwise, a bit of Dota2 lately. I have to finish up on Tainted Grail on the backburner.