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Subject: Re: Someone will make a game about ANYTHING!
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On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:20:05 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

>Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@x-nospam-x.com> wrote at 00:15 this Sunday (GMT):
>> On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:50:06 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
>><candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
>>
>>>Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote at 17:32 this Saturday (GMT):
>>>> https://store.steampowered.com/app/3244220/A_Game_About_Digging_A_Hole/
>>>>
>>>> "A minimalist game about digging a hole in the garden of a newly 
>>>> purchased house. Collect resources, sell them, upgrade your equipment 
>>>> and discover a mysterious secret. Costs you only one coffee!"
>>>
>>>
>>>I mean, I can't be surprised anymore. Power washing sim is considered
>>>one of those really good indie games fron what I've heard, and there's a
>>>calculator rougelike out.
>>
>> I tried the power washing sim thing.  How fun or "good" that is will
>> be highly subjective I'm sure, but to me I found it sort of like a
>> mundane chore sim.  I hate mundane chores so I quickly refunded it.
>>
>> To each his own though.
>
>
>Sometimes the "repetetive chore" game can be comforting or something. I
>mean, I have 170 hours in progressbar95

I don't know nothin' 'bout that.

     [Discretely throws a blanket over my "Steam playtime" stat 
      for "EuroTruck Simulator 2"... and then another one over 
      "American Truck Simulator"]

But, honestly, I've no problem with the hole-playing game
conceptually. The description probably does it no justice, anymore
than saying that Pong is about moving a bar up and down the screen. 


(Although... breaking down descriptions of games to the most
minimalist and ridiculous level actually sounds sort of fun.

     Pac-Man: A game about picking up dots.
     Mario: just move right.
     Dark Souls: a game about dying repeatedly.

;-)