Ice Pick Lodge announced a 3rd Pathalogic today
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Monday, October 7, 2024
Pathologic 3
Bachelor Daniil Dankovsky is a young doctor from the capital. His search for the secret of immortality brings him to a remote town, gripped by a mysterious plague that will destroy it in 12 days. Now it’s up to him to explore the town itself, its past, present, and future — to find answers to his numerous questions and try to stop the relentless...
store.steampowered.comthey're doing another "remake" of the 1st game
no word on which routes are in this one
from Twitter, this is going to be the Bachelor route at a minimum
I think making each route its own game is fine, and I don't even hate numbering them since there is an order to them
but it's definitely because it would sell better this way
versus doing DLC
did Tinybuild publish 2?
god I hate Tinybuild
I knew he got shafted by his pub
Hypetrain (who's publishing 3) is a slop brand
but they're more hands off
I'd appreciate if he had some sort of release cadence now, with a new publisher 18-24 months between routes would make me happy
and then figure out how to bundle/market Pathologic 2-5 together in some way
There was a small indie time-loop game I played yesterday that was decent, but frustrating
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2720950/Grunn/
Grunn
You’ve been hired to do some maintenance work on a garden deep in the Dutch countryside. There’s plenty to do: trim the grass, water the flowers, pick up trash, and of course enjoy the lovely scenery. There’s also a small town nearby if you’d like a stroll. Except… Most of your tools are missing. The owner isn’t around. Going out after dark is ...
store.steampowered.comIt's made by Sokopop, who do game jam style development for all their stuff
this was definitely one of their bigger projects, and a lot of it is fun
my issue is that it's a time-loop game without progress between loops (because it's already fairly small)
it's a 5* concept, executed really well, but Sokopop only makes small games so it's a tiny version of a great idea for a big game
I love Majora's Mask, Pathologic style loops, with NPC routes/schedules and everything
Grunn is definitely inspired by that, but you can beat the game in <2 hours without trying to rush
Replying to Gent #gent_. You love outer wilds
unirronically, if Outher Wilds didn't deliver all of its story via visual novel time-pause reading sections
It would be one of my top 10 games
it's a neat af sandbox, with amazing game mechanics
that has a mediocre story slapped on it in the most boring, way possible, with a reddit-tier ending
Outerwilds is space nihilism
Outer Worlds is the Fallout game, Disco Elysium is the reddit commie VN
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 Outer Worlds is the Fallout game, Disco Elysium is the reddit commie VN
Okay disco elysium was what I was thinking of probably
the most perfect part of Disco Elysium, is that because of their weird commie collective ownership thing they were doing
the origina ldevs were all removed, and no longer own the IP rights to their game
and they're assmad about it to this day
this is probably a close enough summary
