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Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before (self.games)
submitted 2 months ago by Katana314 to c/games
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This might be a slightly unusual attempt at a prompt, but might draw some appealing unusual options.

The way it goes: Suggest games, ideally the kind that you believe would have relatively broad appeal. Don't feel bad about downvotes, but do downvote any game that's suggested if you have heard of it before (Perhaps, give some special treatment if it was literally your game of the year). This rule is meant to encourage people to post the indie darlings that took some unusual attention and discovery to be aware of and appreciate.

If possible, link to the Steam pages for the games in question, so that anyone interested can quickly take a look at screenshots and reviews. And, as a general tip, anything with over 1000 steam reviews probably doesn't belong here. While I'd recommend that you only suggest one game per post, at the very most limit it to three.

If I am incorrect about downvotes being inconsequential account-wide, say so and it might be possible to work out a different system.

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[–] anhydrous 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Globulation2 brings a new type of gameplay to RTS games. The player chooses the number of units to assign to various tasks, and the units do their best to satisfy the requests. This allows players to manage more units and focus on strategy rather than on micro-management.

It's actually quite old and has gone through stretches of inactivity, but appears to be kept in working order in its git repo, and recently has been getting maintenance patches.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How are you getting upvotes? People like it but haven't heard of it? I want to upvote... but by the rules of the thread I have down-voted you.

I really like the non-micro-management mechanism of Globulation 2, though I seem to remember it's a bit awkward sometimes in how it makes combat work.

And balancing upgrades to not run out of food, I'm not so sure about. I want to upgrade my globs! Always! Then they starve!

The last few times I've installed it, though, I always get early segfaults, usually before I can finish a game. Hope it can get some dev love.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah never heard of it and seems like it fit the point of the post so I had to upvote it.

I would imagine that's exactly the point.