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. 150 levels
I’ve always been convinced that I’m too wimpy to play scary games, even though I got a decent way through Alien: Isolation.
After hearing rave reviews for the Resident Evil 4 remake, I thought I’d give it a try, and I’m super glad I did. It’s probably one of my top 5 games of all time. I immediately beat it in New Game+, then played the Dead Space remake, and am currently working through RE Village. I’m having an amazing time.
I too, am too scared for Alien Isolation. May check out the other ones you listed though
I definitely think Alien: Isolation is the scariest of them all. Resident Evil 4 is more of an action/adventure game with some scary bits sprinkled in. Only one section really got me spooked, and by that point you’ve sort of developed some calluses.
I would recommend that RE4 demo. It’s a great place to start IMO.
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?
It has a lot of different mechanics. It’s more of a combination of minesweeper with nonograms (aka picross) where the idea is that there is that you can solve all puzzles without any guessing. Check out the Steam page
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.
Been very addictive to traditional roguelikes for some time now. Enjoy the learning and mastering experience.
Do you have any favorites? I love roguelikes, I recently have been really enjoying Tape to Tape which is a Hockey roguelike which sounds weird but it’s the most fun sports game I’ve played in ages.
Roguelite. :)
Have a great many traditional roguelike that I like a lot.
to name just a few. :)
I’ve always heard the terms roguelike and roguelite interchangeably… Thanks for the list, I will be looking into them!
Apparently ‘peggle-like rouge-likes’ are a thing. So thats been a fun time for me
