85 points

Dwarf Fortress almost made me fail a few courses in undergrad.

That is a game that redefines the concept of fun.

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If you don’t gotta consult the reference books regularly, are you even enjoying yourself?

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I bought a second monitor just to have the wiki open at all times.

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8 points

An epic fight with trogdor.

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Then, as an adventurer, you beat Trogdor by throwing handfuls of water at it

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I have legit weaponized kittens as projectile anti-siege bioweapons using drawbridges as catapults.

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It is amazing that in zero words that comic encapsulates nearly everything about Dwarf Fortress.

This is the only game that made me regret wasting time eating IRL because I needed both hands for designating jobs.

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What I came to say. Thought for sure this post was going to to be a reference itself.

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If that comic defines what dwarf games and dwarf fortress plays like, then am I a dwarf for exclusively playing indie roguelikes and roguelites?

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12 points

I would commit petty crimes to have a halfling video game

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Never played it, but Strange Horticulture sounds like what you’re looking for.

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17 points

Missing dwarf pve shooter. We fight for rock and stone!

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ROCK

AND

STONE

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5 points

We’re rich!

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4 points

Many play Minecraft in dwarf mode

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20 points

…you really gonna throw out a teaser like that without giving us a list of corresponding games??

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28 points

You got counter strike source

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I can’t tell if counter strike would be a human or hobgoblin video game.

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The first sentence for goblin games is Hades. The second is EDF.

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Hades isn’t a gatcha or “collectathon” though.

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collectathon

Spoken like an Alpha Warden.

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Lol what?? I don’t think either of those are accurate.

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EDF has my vote for a goblin game

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EDF?

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Chikyuu Boueigun, or Earth Defense Force, is a series of low-budget horde shooters developed by Sandlot and published by D3 Publisher. In each game, the earth has been invaded by aliens, who deploy such B-movie tropes as giant insects, flying saucers, huge combat robots, giant green men, and godzillas against humanity. In most games, you play a normal infantryman. In 4.1 and 5, you can choose between normal infantryman, a slow-but-strong power-armour soldier, a fast-but-fragile jetpack girl, or the guy who calls in airstrikes. In any case, you acquire new and stronger weapons in a sort of “gacha” system; slain enemies occasionally drop crates that contain one random weapon, and you won’t find out what it is until the mission ends. There’s a lot of weapon variety, and you choose 2 weapons to bring with you into each mission, so there’s some good fun to be had exploring for synergistic loadouts.

The story is absurd, hammy B-movie fare, written and dubbed with a lot of heart. Most of the games are 4-player coop. It’s one of my favourite serieses of all time. I’d recommend starting at 5, because it’s available on Steam, it has the most QoL (it’s one of those series where each new game feels like the previous game, just… more and better) and they reboot the chronology every odd game anyway so you’re not missing out on anything much. And also because it has aliens who look exactly like humans! 🐸

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Not too familiar with jrpgs, my best suggestion is that you’d probably have to combine Tactics Ogre (for the hour long fights) with something else

Basebuilding strategy fps with tensile strength of…

minus the FPS, this is just dwarf fortress

dwarven rhythm games have supply line minigames

I’m pretty sure this is a reference to a specific game but can’t remember much about it

Mortals cannot comprehend dwarven grand strategy games

definitely the campaign for north africa (or any other game by Simulations Publications)

halfling games: I’ve got nothing

goblin games: the gacha screams “any online card game”, and the moba should be easy to find too. Left as an exercise to the reader.

orc game: I’m thinking this is about 10% of the games on newgrounds. You’ll find these amongst general flash game collections for sure

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41 points

Zany uberviolent team shooters about bugs sounds a whole lot like Deep Rock Galactic.

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Or its weirder, older cousin, Earth Defense Force

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To save our mother Earth from any alien attack!

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From vicious giant insects who have once again come back!

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9 points

There’s also the newish Starship Troopers: Extermination

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I interpreted ‘bugs’ as ‘glitches’ rather than creepy crawlies.

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Goblins are just juvenile dwarves.

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