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// "What do you think's going to happen to the next generation? I mean, the ones who won't know."

// "Why?" (Unintelligible)

// "- think about that now, at least just... not while we're fucking on duty.

My cousin, down in Harlingen, she was pregnant when they were in the sky."
October 3, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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People keep asking what type of RPG I'm making, like they need a well-known game to compare it to...
Baby, it's *this* type of RPG. It plays like *this* 💄💅🏻
September 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I spent an hour on this that could've been spent on gamedev please look at my page
September 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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The Progress-Gating Yummy Rainbow Goop of Eternal Dreams
#gamedev
May 22, 2025 at 7:17 AM
"At the time, going up to a TV blaring white noise seemed perfectly reasonable....

(Something) caught the corner of my eye, some static clumped together into a shape."
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"And it was so obvious, the first time I saw it, that this armour was not made against anything shaped like a human."
August 7, 2025 at 2:52 AM
The Progress-Gating Yummy Rainbow Goop of Eternal Dreams
#gamedev
May 22, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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For the love of god play this if own a VR headset, this game did some things before HL:Alyx even did and was hands down the most immersed I've ever been in a video game PERIOD. Consistently inventive puzzles/combat scenarios and genre-bending 80's body horror.
Organ Quarter on Steam
Organ Quarter is a VR survival horror game built from the ground-up for hand-tracked virtual reality. Explore labyrinthine environments, engage in tense combat, carefully manage your resources and sol...
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May 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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This one just is cool on a immediately conceptual level. Entirely ASCII and re-interprets a lot of typical RPG-isms into a form that works with no animations or images.
SanctuaryRPG: Black Edition on Steam
SanctuaryRPG: Black Edition is a humorous and strategic turn-based dungeon crawling ASCII adventure. Drawing heavy inspiration from both Roguelikes and Japanese RPGs, the game offers a robust action-R...
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May 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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This came out before the mass vomiting of ugly PS1-Indie sludge and gets it more than 7 of those games combined in less than an hour.
OK/NORMAL on Steam
OK/NORMAL is a short, experimental third-person horror experience, inspired by early 3D console games of the 90's. Journey through a dark, disjointed, dreamlike dimension with your cloud companion! Re...
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May 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Also from the maker of Brighter Day, a perfect game for polycules that listen to Black Dresses. Needs SteamShare for local Co-Op online but such a creatively-stimulating world and setting with only visual and musical implication.
Bomb Dolls on Steam
an endless gay road trip through an apocalyptic wasteland! 3-player co-op! eat burgers, pop pills, slam soda, inhale donuts! collect lost souls and trade them for cute outfits! kiss your girlfriends t...
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May 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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A game that came out just a few years too late after the "FPS Puzzler-Era after The Stanley Parable" and such to be up there alongside them in the zeitgeist, but still a must-try. Amazingly stark/touchable Art Direction with flat shading and solid colors.
Lightmatter on Steam
A first-person puzzler where shadows kill you. Watch your step or be swallowed by the darkness.
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May 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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The DOOM total conversion mods by Scumhead can be bought on Steam, playable even if you know nothing about playing or modding GZDOOM.
Vomitoreum on Steam
Vomitoreum is an FPS Metroidvania with a focus on atmosphere and horror, inspired by the paintings of Zdzisław Beksiński.
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May 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Some of you might remember Markiplier played this years ago but it never left my lexicon. The Setting and Implied plot is still unlike anything that came after it. That final secret quest was the stuff of my overheating-under-a-blanket nightmares.
Brighter Day on Steam
Probably the most colorful horror game you've ever played. Hide from moaning disembodied eyeballs while facing existential dread, ambient music, and alternative medicine.
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May 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The first few hours of this game and it became obvious I would spend a lot of time here.
#aneurismIV
April 21, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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It's not outer space and it's not the bottom of the Ocean. It can't be called a place because that would imply there's a somewhere else.
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