Its out. A new game from Poncle the folks behind the original Vampire Survivors, which basically spawned the modern “bullet heaven” genre and gave us gems like Halls of Torment and Soulstone Survivors.

If you are curious there is a demo and the progress of the demo carries over to the full game on steam. The game itself is a deckbuilding dungeoncrawler its out on bascially any platform. Dont let the deckbuilding aspect discourage you. Give the demo a try and you should be able to tell if you like it in an hour at most.

From what I heard poncle plans to keep supporting this game for quite a while similar to OG Vampire survivors.

I only played it for 2h but I already like it quite a bit.

Shamelessly stolen from a youtube comment section.

Thought this was quite helpful to get into the right mindset for optimizing your Star Nations economy, its more about how to approach the different elements of the economy than just a tutorial.

Im making a post after a nightmare I just had. I considered letting sleeping dogs lie, but if I damn my eternal soul, so be it /jk… or am I? hehe

So, entertain the thought for a moment: magic is real. You yes, you could do magic and put hexes and spells on people after some studying.

But without any organizational backing, that seems like a bad idea. Of course, big nation-states would have their own sorcerers and witches. So youd have to get organized, or you might get taken out by some ops unit or a rogue operative while youre binding a level 7 demonic entity.

What I’m saying is: if magic were real (and let’s just entertain it for worldbuilding purposes), the USA would 100% be practicing advanced, high-level magic through various organizations that serve it. And not just any magic, but the darkest kind human sacrifices, blood magic, ritual orgies, that type of stuff.

So, as someone whos always been curious about the paranormal and has a bunch of different magical tomes around the house, it seems very dangerous to practice magic alone without the backing of an organized movement, or at least a coven of like-minded people.

I dont think trying to put a spell on a US president, for example, would work just like that. There must be counterspells and powerful wards in place.

wtf. WTF. This sucks. How did that happen ?

I need the Chaos Emeralds for personal reasons

So this is one of these games heavily inspired by disco elysiums gameplay. Afaik there is no connection to ZA/UM or the original devs. This is just an indie game that takes notes from Disco Elysium. You play as a cleric in a dnd style setting afaik the setting seems more fairytale and whimsical rather than dark or serious.

There is currently a pretty lengthy demo - the full release is already net week Tuesday.

Im gonna take a look at the demo and probably play the full game next week.