Some heavy hitters have landed in beta on Board Game Arena in the last couple weeks.
A Feast For Odin, Glow, The Isle of Cats, Homeworlds, Century (Spice Road and Golem versions in one), El Grande, Living Forest and Blood Rage.
I’ve got like a game of each going currently async on there.
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I see these posts about the Steam sales and figured I’d drop a little reminder that the Steam Deck comes out next month. I don’t use my PC and I don’t have a Steam library but that thing would be a no-brainer if I had a bunch of Steam games.
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I will check that out.
Otherwise was considering war40k Martyr
Yeah, I have the 512GB Steam Deck reserved and cannot wait to buy it. There are a lot of games I own that I am just too lazy to switch over to my boot camp drive to play more.
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@kennfusion Same here (512 GB Steam Deck reserved), although I’m in the “after Q2 2022” group. Having the reservation is saving me money in the short term, since I’m waiting to buy some games until I get that device.
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Friend me up. I’ve been playing A Feast For Odin, Blood Rage, Space Empires 4x, and T&E, all in Beta, I think. Very few bugs or issues that I have seen.
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Vampire Survivors has eaten my brain. My son and I both play and of course his builds are far, far better than mine. Highly recommended!
Also, Sony is releasing games on Nintendo Switch now:
MLB The Show is making its Nintendo Switch debut on April 5th (msn.com)
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Meh, there are way better aquisition targets out there in my opinion, but since life-service FPS games are the primary moneymakers (bleh).
I can understand that acquisition in the recent light of Microsoft buying Activision.
Still, Bungie is historically a finicky studio…I think Sony overpaid here, especially with the bonus benefits they granted Bungie here. I could care less if they give Bungie cart blanche but it will potentially hurt Sony down the line with their already incorporated developer studios (resenting Bungie) and future prospect studios (want to have the same free pass-deal Bungie got for themselfes and weakening Sonys negotiation options).
Still…why not Square-Enix or Sega? Sony is historically better selling outside of USA, let them guys over there have their boring FPS and get the good stuff instead 
Sony did say that Bungie was only the first of more acquisitions soon to be revealed.
The Bungie thing seemed like an overreaction to Microsoft acquiring Activison/Blizzard and it doesn’t get me all that excited. Unless they announce a new Myth game. Then I’m excited.
You know what Sony needs? A new Warhawk game. That game was ahead of its time and was absolutely awesome.
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Puzzle Quest 3 launches March 1st.
It will be free to play, which pretty much destroys my interest in it. Do we really need another free to play match-3 game? Especially from the people who basically started the whole genre with great premium games?
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It’s like ripping the plaster off of a wound that I know is going to leave an ugly scar. I just want to get it over with.
The games been out for a while as early access on android, and it’s not looking good. Obviously I’ll download it and find out myself, though I know it’s going to leave a scar on my nostalgia for pq1 and 2
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Has anyone played The Captain is Dead? It is on sale right now on iOS. They haven’t made the deepest of games, but Thunderbox did solid work on Tsuro and Roll for It, even if they are games I’d never care to play.
Tsuro is not so bad. we had some solid fun playing async 4P games.
light and easy, but push-your-luck with a spice of tactics never fails to entertain.
and after playing brainburners like Concordia and Gaia Project something easy-but-nice is exactly what i want.
I love The Captain is Dead but not their port of it. Some of the design choices make it cumbersome to move around and see what’s going on in the individual rooms without having to zoom in on each one. At least when I played it there was no birds-eye view of the whole state of the ship.
Stellaris is free via Amazon Prime Gaming (if you are a prime member you have it).
It is redeemable via gog.com
in my opinion, it is the best Paradox Grand Strategy Game, and is more accessible than their other history-based Grand Strategy Games.
Also you don’t need to purchase a million (only about 2-3 thousand) DLC for all the good stuff. Still, the base game is nice especially for free!
Oh and also one heck of a soundtrack that game!
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Also on Game Pass, if that’s your thing.
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I just grabbed it on Steam and iOS. I think I was initially scared off by the “frantic” description, assuming there was some real-time element, but clearly they just meant that, even if turn-based, everything will be falling apart at once and your characters will never be allowed to just sit in place a turn to take a breather.
Even with the sort of blocky graphics, the presentation is very busy/over the top with great voice acting for each character as well as 1 of the most entertaining tutorials (even Mysterio can back me up on that point).
I have yet to see if I’m just being lured in by a lot of flash to an ultimately confusing mess, but it’s looking good so far.
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Yeah, I bought it, too. It’s a tabletop game with nutty presentation made by a developer who does solid work. Haven’t played it yet but once I get around to it I’ll comment as well.
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