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What's the latest video game genre rabbit hole you jumped into? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me it was minesweeper clones. I got frustrated one day and decided to learn how to be good at minesweeper. After beating the medium and large boards a couple times I looked on Steam for minesweeper versions, and turns out there's a whole genre of clones. Some of them are direct clones of the game, while others are very heavily inspired by minesweeper. The two best I played were Hexcells and Tametsi. Hexcells is stylish and is only hexagons (as opposed to the minesweeper squares), while Tametsi has squares, rectangles, and hexagons and is a lot more barebones. However I found Tametsi to be much harder. There were some levels on there that took me an entire day, and I think there's like 500 levels.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Sounds like hexagons would be easier as you can only have up to 6 adjacent tiles as opposed to 8 with squares.

Besides that, what do they do differently?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Antimine on F-Droid is good for a mobile fix.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

16 bit RPGS. Not a genre I'm typically a fan of, but I'm playing Chained Echoes on Steam Deck and now I can't get enough and I'm sitting here waiting impatiently for Sea of Stars.

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

When I was stuck in bed for 2 months straight in 2014 from a broken neck, I got a couple of Sudoku books and did every puzzle in the books. Now I just play Open Sudoku on my phone. Ever since then I kinda measure my pain/mental/overall sleep quality state by checking how fast I can solve the hardest puzzles that have real solutions without guessing. Anything over 5 minutes is bad for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I started watching cracking the cryptic's sudoku videos a few years ago, and have been addicted to variant sudoku since.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I’ve been loving the surge of reverse bullet hells/vampire-survivor-likes that have been coming out. Between feeding my addictive personality and being able to play on the couch while watching tv with my partner, they’re perfect for some weeknight relaxing. Brotato and 20 Minutes Til Dawn are two of my favorites but Halls of Torment is a new one with OG Diablo-inspired visuals that I’m excited to see grow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

City/settlement builders have been in heavy rotation. Cities Skylines, Frostpunk, Foundation and Timberborn all scratch a specific itch for me.