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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN FEBRUARY 2025?
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2025 18:13:31 -0800
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On 3/5/2025 7:55 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 17:57:14 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
> <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
> 
>> The Planet Crafter.
>>
>> I've been playing this for a while.  You are a prisoner dropped on an
>> airless rock in space with minimal tools.  Terraform it or die.
>>
>> Some call it a "cozy" game since in regular mode you can't actually die.
> 
> I mean... if that's the definition of a cozy game then "Dark Souls" is
> cozy. You can't die there either; you just respawn back at the last
> firepit. ;-)
> 
> But it got me to thinking... there really aren't MANY games left where
> death has any lasting consequences. Long gone are the days when your
> character would snuff it and you'd have to restart the level (or, if
> the game was particularly malicious, the game entire!). Even the
> meanest just let you reload a save-game (and most of those autosave
> for you).
> 
> We gamers have gotten soft and lazy. ;-)
> 
> 
> (I'm not really complaining. Those old games sucked)
> 
> 
>> Its a LOT like the Subnautica games so if you liked those you will
>> probably like this.
> 
> Yeah, it sounds like yet-another-survival/crafting-game to me.
> 
It is.  But I like a lot of those so there!  *pffffftttt*

:)

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