Turns out if you mis-cast Polymorph you're stuck as a rat for the entire fight. Not sure if bug or feature.

Halfway through Dungeon Encounters you gain the ability to skip downwards until you hit a floor, the risk being if you don't hit something the character is lost (until found).

Spelunking like this is the only way to reach the farthest levels. The game stops being a JRPG and turns into a 3D puzzle.

It has a crracking roguelike* mode in a dungeon called The Dark Tower. You’ll need a Dwarf to survive all the traps, which are a bit meaner than the first dungeon. And you can increase the difficulty by picking wonky classes like the Summoner.

* Hardcore mode for permadeath

Maybe it might help to break it into phases for playing out scenes.

At the end of playing Ech0 I dropped the twist to the pilot player that humans had tails now. Everyone stumbled but went along with it for an Outer Limits ending. Twists unpack themselves demanding mental housework to survive,

This is the territory of GMless / map-making games.

Lovecraftesque has you draw cards that affect the narrative you're building. Ech0 has the players build a map of the area and its history.

But it's very author-stance to develop backstory after the fact. It fights being in-character.

Fixed physics, variable graphics.

You can't repeat a simulation without fixed step. I know a lot of devs say it doesn't matter, but I rank them alongside people who leave warnings in the console and those who don't wash their hands after peeing.

Also still good if you didn't like The Witness or Blue Prince. You don't have to play Doom inbetween puzzles.

From the article I'm reading the appeal as: Who you play, where you play, and what mechanic creates an interesting story.

For Slug Blasters and Wildsea, yeah, my own group are clowns who won't stand out in a circus.

That said, I feel that Quinns fills the void left by Adam Koebel. Good on him.

Anyway, I've completed the campaign solo with 2 characters and it was pretty good.

Maybe I'll get to play it multiplayer someday, though it will have to be a Steam remote affair as I have no couch to co-op.

There's a mission later on where they turn on you and you have the option to save them. I felt this would be remiss.

Sunderfolk lets you rename things. I have been flippant with this feature.

I have found that everything is great and really fast to develop in, and then suddenly...

JSON serialisation adds ".0" to every int, because "the JSON specification is floats only". Even though no other JSON library does this. Why would you? It's a waste of everyone's time.

And I howl in despair.

Do we get to open the Nemesis patent?

Daggerheart is totally the latter game tho.

The "cool shit" buttons work outside of combat and the cute frog-guy has a tongue attack with sick damage.