Mostly a drive-by newbie to the genre so I do not have any productive answers, I just try by word of mouth from friends… just popping in to let you know there are a lot of strategy communities here. Until your post now they all looked pretty dead.

• !strategygames@sopuli.xyz
• !turnbasedstrategy@lemmy.world, or !realtimestrategy@lemmy.world and !rts@reddthat.com depending on which type “grand strategy” usually is (sorry, dumb newbie ;-;)

Either way I am glad your post sparked discussion here, was hoping for a nice strategy community to lurk in till I figured out more.

Yeah I’ll be totally honest as someone who loves bunnies to the point I went to mod !bunnies@lemmy.world I have had a history of being far less picky about video games and uncharacteristically impulsive about spending if the game is about bunnies. This is definitely going in the cart today.

Also

co-hop

totally stolen from the game’s Steam description. It’s adorable.

Followup: tried demo, did not purchase. Seems more life simmy than I was looking for at the time, and way less involvement with the library than I was hoping for at least in the few days of the demo. Things were explained to me… once, I felt kind of information overloaded and like I was definitely missing things. Spent more time talking to NPCs than library managing, not that I was trying to spend more time talking to NPCs.

Thanks!

And I’m sorry about that, the people downvoting an on-topic game. I feel it’s pretty obvious when someone is posting because “well I like tycoon games and this matches” and when someone is trying to stir shit and be political. But I figure drive-by voters from New or whatever would not know either of us only have the motive of “post tycoon games to Lemmy” and not “we like unrestricted gun access and want you to share our views”.

This is like the second post I have made in short succession where I have mass downvotes for something completely on-topic to a community without having misinformation or tearing people down and I do not know why, is it because guns are a hot-button issue in the United States of America? ;-;

It’s really frustrating for me because I don’t care about internet points but I do care that I’ve done something to invite mass disapproval without understanding why people are disapproving in the first place. Especially when they just downvote and say absolutely nothing as to why they disapprove. The knowledge gap, knowing you have done something either actually wrong or just unpopular but not what it is so you can decide whether you want to change your behavior to avoid disapproval (like if I did something that is hurtful, so I am getting disapproved of, I need to change; if I just posted an unpopular but civil and non-hateful opinion and people downvote simply to express disagreement I will probably be made even more stubborn in my opinion and refuse to change but I might think twice about being public about it because social disapproval, even from strangers on the internet, feels bad), is very very frustrating.

Then again maybe it is better nobody explained because I see “lol fucking [insult]” here way more often than an actual explanation of why someone disagrees or why a certain non-hateful take that was expressed in a non-inflammatory way without insults is bad, and one thing that really upsets me, even when not targeted at me, is unnecessary hostility.

I admit I clicked hoping for an automation game. There’s definitely a factory portion where you place down machines to make the guns, an indoor factory, which is something I was looking for awhile back. Not sure how much of the game is the factory portion, so I’ll wait and see before I post it to !automationgames@lemmy.zip.

The first thing that stands out to me with the graphics is that the text somehow doesn’t feel very good visually. The rest passes well enough. It’s an Early Access release that came out April 4, no demo, so I’ll be watching closely.

Some 2D artwork on our game is based on AI generation.

Oooof. Really do not appreciate that, so this probably will not be such a high priority for me to check out then. I’ve dismissed games that appeal more to me for using AI, so I wonder why I’m not immediately mentally binning this one.

Time Management tag

I haven’t seen that phrase to describe a game’s genre in awhile! I loved time management games growing up, should probably poke around in that tag on Steam for a bit.

Graphics… do not really look all that cohesive, which is a shame because I like the premise of running a bookshop, and because the NPC image is in a style I like.

puts you in the role typically taken up by NPCs in other… RPGs

Games with this concept instantly grab my attention.

How much virus exposure will you risk for a shortcut through the main quest?

Now I am curious if by this they mean “whatever the usual protagonist of the RPG is doing,” and if so whether the game makes it explicit to you, directly coming out and saying “this is the hero of the story, and here’s their main quest path!” or if you infer it. Both could be enjoyable.

Although unfortunately the post-apocalypse thing makes this a hard no for me ;-;

Posted here recently, wishlisted, you bet I’ll purchase

I remember wanting to play the first one awhile back, then life happened and I forgot all about it. Thanks for the reminder :)

I was going to skip this based on graphics but the review sounds interesting… might check out some playthroughs online or just ask my friend to stream it.

nevermind there is a demo, oops

I posted this yesterday and then deleted it because I saw it was already posted lol. I’m guessing the first post was actually earlier in development so now you are reposting for a reason. I didn’t realize that when I went to delete what I thought was an accidental duplicate post.

I figured there might be genre difference, but also just looking at the words “computer RPG” technically includes any JRPG you can play on a computer. Wasn’t sure if community title was the separate genre or just any RPG playable on a computer. Thanks for answering!

I absolutely want to see activity here. I guess I should play more CRPGs so I can make a post.

Ugh. If you are suggesting it it’s probably a good idea. Just a bit frustrated that two community promo things exist, especially since in my experience this is its smaller cousin that usually just sees duplicates from !newcommunities@lemmy.world. The only benefit I can think of is that if Beehaw is still defederated from lemmy.world because of its size they can see !communitypromo@lemmy.ca too. Will be posting there soon…