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GrissalliaJanuary 25, 2024 - Day 390 - NewPlay Review Total NewPlays: 426Game: Fae TacticsPlatform: Steam Released: Aug 1, 2020 Installed: Jan 25, 2024 Unplayed: 0d Playtime: 15mRating: 1 - NopeFae Tactics is a JRPG-inspired isometric pixel-art tactics game.For a tactics strategy game to work for me, I need to feel some connection to the story.Unfortunately for Fae Tactics, the clash between the human world and the fae world, with a human capable of magic, a bird, and a dog, trying to reach some destination did absolutely nothing for me.I did not enjoy it at all.Fae Tactics is a: 1: Nope<a href="https://aus.social/tags/FaeTactics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FaeTactics</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/PixelArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PixelArt</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Isometric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Isometric</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Tactics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tactics</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gaming</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ProjectONG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProjectONG</a>

GrissalliaOctober 13, 2023 - Day 286 - NewPlay Review Total NewPlays: 305Game: I Am Not A Monster: First ContactPlatform: Steam Release Date: Sep 27, 2018 Installation Date: May 14, 2019 Unplayed: 1613d (4y4m29d) Playtime: 18mI Am Not A Monster: First Contact is billed as a "retro sci-fi tactical turn-based strategy" game.By retro sci-fi, they mean early-mid 20th century pulp sci-fi. If you like that kind of sci-fi, this might be right up your alley. Unfortunately, it's not really my cup of tea, and I couldn't really get past that to lock into the game.Graphically, it's a weird combination of pulp sci-fi stationary graphics for menus, full-screen pixel-art animated transitions, and high-res gameplay, and it feels kind of jarring switching between them. It just feels a little incoherent.There was almost something there with the gameplay, but when the game was making me feel like I wished I was playing a completely different tactics strategy game, that pretty much sealed the deal.I Am Not A Monster: First Contact is just:2: Meh<a href="https://aus.social/tags/IAmNotAMonsterFirstContact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IAmNotAMonsterFirstContact</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Tactics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tactics</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TurnBased" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TurnBased</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Strategy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Strategy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gaming</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365ONG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Project365ONG</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Project365</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NewPlay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewPlay</a>

GrissalliaOctober 10, 2023 - Day 283 - NewPlay Review Total NewPlays: 302Game: We Are The DwarvesPlatform: Steam Release Date: Feb 26, 2016 Installation Date: Sep 11, 2020 Unplayed: 1124d (3y29d) Playtime: 20mWe Are The Dwarves is, apparently, a real-time tactics strategy game, about space-faring dwarves.The game provides an intro, which is... confusing. It seems that this particular universe is made of stone instead of dark matter.Our trio of stonefaring dwarves get into an accident, and then you have to... I don't know, and I don't really care to be honest.Firstly, this is another game that uses a version of Unreal Engine 4 that uses a known buggy implementation of OpenSSL; the bug is only triggered on >10th Gen Intel CPUs. There's a workaround for it, but without the workaround, it will crash right after starting. It's the third game I've encountered with this bug since upgrading my PC, but it's a bad start to a game experience.The game gives you a Steam achievement called "We all hate tutorials", and I don't, particularly when your odd game is so frustrating to try and play. I'm not even going to get into the voice acting.I finally worked out where I was going wrong after wandering around a level over and over for ten minutes, but that pretty much meant that I'm just not interested in fighting with the game further.We Are The Dwarves is a:1: Nope<a href="https://aus.social/tags/WeAreTheDwarves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeAreTheDwarves</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Tactics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tactics</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Strategy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Strategy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gaming</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365ONG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Project365ONG</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Project365</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NewPlay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewPlay</a>

GrissalliaSeptember 29, 2023 - Day 272 - NewPlay Review Total NewPlays: 292Game: Warhammer 40,000: Space WolfPlatform: Steam Release Date: Sep 22, 2017 Installation Date: Sep 29, 2023 Unplayed: 0d Playtime: 15mWarhammer 40,000: Space Wolf is a deck-building turn-based tactics strategy game set in the 40K universe.It showed up in a Humble Bundle offer, with all but one DLC included, at the lowest tier - AUD$1.56.The catch is that the game is being delisted from Steam on October 12th.For $1.56? Yeah, why not.There are only 2 DLC missing; one is free, and I got the other for $1.02 with Steam's "Complete your bundle" option, so for a grand total of $2.58 I got an OK-ish turn-based tactics game.Having played it, I actually feel like I got a bargain (I'll add a link to the Humble Bundle page below.)Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf is:3: OK<a href="https://aus.social/tags/Warhammer40KSpaceWolf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Warhammer40KSpaceWolf</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TurnBased" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TurnBased</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Tactics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tactics</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MastodonGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastodonGaming</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gaming</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365ONG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Project365ONG</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Project365</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NewPlay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewPlay</a>

GrissalliaJuly 29, 2023 - Day 210 - NewPlay Review Total NewPlays: 229Game: OthercidePlatform: Steam Release Date: Jul 8, 2020 Library Date: Apr 30, 2023 Unplayed: 90d (2m29d) Playtime: 29mWhat's black and white and red all over? Tankies on social media. Also, Othercide.Othercide is a roguelike tactics strategy game with an extremely limited palette. The entire game is in black and white, with shades of red.The game initially starts out in a instructional level set in a gothic-almost-Victorian-London-by-way-of-Lovecraft 1897 where you play as "Mother", the "protector of the veil" -a warrior with Barbie feet (more on that later)- in a tactics battle with a number of supernatural monsters.Towards the end of the battle, Mother sacrifices herself, for reasons that are not entirely clear, other than to set up the rest of the game, but she appears to be trying to stop some greater supernatural evil, called "the other" and represented by "the child"; as the child is obviously not Grogu, I have the assumption that it may, in fact, be her child? In any case, kiddo is a bad seed, and he wants to destroy... everything. Destroying the city in the first battle wasn't quite enough.Then Mother is... kind of... resurrected. Not exactly alive, but... alive-ish? She reforms among innumerable dead bodies piled everywhere, like a naked red Barbie with just as much physical definition, but alarmingly lifelike bare buttocks, and inexplicably, "Barbie" feet that are positioned as if our shoeless Mother is wearing high heels. It's definitely a choice.From here, you find out that through Mother's sacrifice, you are now in some kind on aethereal interstitial plane where you can spawn "daughters", in one of three roles - ranged, melee, or tank.The thing is, in the original version of the game, there was only "Nightmare" mode. There is no healing class, because there is no healing... except for sacrificing another daughter after the battle. The game has since introduced a second mode called "Dream", where as each day passes, each daughter regains 50% of her HP back.Maybe I won't have to sacrifice any daughters. Based on what the game told me, though, that's unlikely. It tells you upfront that dying is part of the game, and you should expect to die. A lot.Red-Barbie-Mother aside, it's quite an interesting game. It doesn't grab me quite as much as some of the other tactics-style games I've played this year, but I can definitely see myself spending some more time with the game when I'm in the mood for something dark and angry.Othercide is pretty:4: Good<a href="https://aus.social/tags/Othercide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Othercide</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Tactics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tactics</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Strategy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Strategy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Roguelike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Roguelike</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/FemaleProtagonist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FemaleProtagonist</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MastodonGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastodonGaming</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gaming</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365ONG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Project365ONG</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Project365</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NewPlay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewPlay</a>

GrissalliaMay 16, 2023 - Day 136 - NewPlay Review Total NewPlays: 152Game: Bad North: Jotunn EditionPlatform: Steam Release Date: Nov 17, 2018 Library Date: Dec 25, 2022 Unplayed: 145d (4m24d) Playtime: 43mSteam went down while I was writing this, which was a little disconcerting.Bad North: Jotunn Edition is the "definitive edition" of Bad North, which I'd never played. It's a real-time cozy tactics strategy roguelite.I threw "cozy" in there, because of all the games this reminds me, it's actually Townscaper that it comes closest to in terms of atmosphere.It's somewhat minimalistic in design, but that gives it a unique character. You defend a series of islands against Viking invaders, so it's like the anti-Assassins Creed Valhalla.I wish I had more to say about it, but I've come down with some kind of not-COVID (according to two tests so far), and couldn't stay awake last night to post the update.I then went to bed and couldn't sleep, so it's a lose/lose.I really must look up the difference between roguelike and roguelite, because all of these subcategories are doing my head in.Bad North: Jotunn Edition is:4: Good<a href="https://aus.social/tags/BadNorth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BadNorth</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Cozy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cozy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Tactics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tactics</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Strategy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Strategy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Roguelite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Roguelite</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MastodonGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastodonGaming</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gaming</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365ONG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Project365ONG</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Project365</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NewPlay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewPlay</a>

GrissalliaMay 4, 2023 - Day 124 - NewPlay Review Total NewPlays: 139Game: Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - DaemonhuntersPlatform: Steam Release Date: May 5, 2022 Library Date: May 4, 2023 Unplayed: 0d (0d) Playtime: 61mGiven the date, I see now I missed a solid opportunity to theme my NewPlay, but what can you do?Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters (CGD, OK?) is the first cab off the rank for this month's Humble Choice, and is the latest... (checks notes)... *turn-based* 40K *PC* game.I honestly thought it was the latest 40K game, but I checked, and there have been FOUR 40K games released since this, with two new ones later this year.Embarrassingly, I've tried multiple 40K games, & failed to connect in any genre. I went into last night's stream, not sure which which genre CGD was, and it's a turn-based tactics game.CGD is both visually & aurally gorgeous, and was I not pretty much trashed, I could have gone on playing for another hour or two.However, it feels very lore-dense, with some assumed knowledge, which might be off-putting if someone was buying it cold, without any 40K knowledge.A few weeks ago it dropped to a historical low, and I was tempted, but decided against it, which meant that for once, Humble Choice paid for itself.Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters is a really long name, but it's:4: Good<a href="https://aus.social/tags/Warhammer40k" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Warhammer40k</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ChaosGate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChaosGate</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Daemonhunters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Daemonhunters</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TurnBased" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TurnBased</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Tactics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tactics</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MastodonGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastodonGaming</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gaming</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365ONG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Project365ONG</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Project365</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NewPlay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewPlay</a>

David AdlerA new paper is out now. In it I argue that the organizational <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/micropolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#micropolitics</a> directed at office spaces and their aesthetics subvert the popular dichotomy between managerial <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/strategy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#strategy</a> and subversive <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/tactics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tactics</a>. <a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-96969-1_5" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-96969-1_5</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/OrganizationStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OrganizationStudies</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/DiscourseStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DiscourseStudies</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sociology</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/sociology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@sociology</a>

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