Solo D&D even moreso
Is that a thing for real?
…asking for a friend, because I obviously have loads of those.
sure is! There aren’t any official rules for solo d&d specifically but the mythic GM emulator works just fine with 5e :) Lots of solo supported ttrpgs though! Free League has lots of games with solo support
Thank you!
I think its fresh water, food and than maybe way down the list, its single player games.
Agree, multiplayer games over LAN > singleplayer
Just find 9 other people (zombie or otherwise) and get a local CS match going.
Or find 99 people and get a tournament going and forget about this cruel and dying world for a few Hs.
You might be a bit facetious, but unironically multiplayer games would be important for community building. Morale is one of the most important parts of survival
DnD and WoD are gonna be fire if you are not alone
WoD?
World of Darkness. Pretty sick ttrpg
When I was a kid, pre-internet, there was a “computer club” that was basically a massive pirating event held once a month.
TV and Amiga in the car, large room in a hotel in Dublin city. You set up and swapped cracked games with all the other people there, copying floppies. It was so exciting to little me.
Best game ever!
Wow. Cool picture. Instant transportation to kid me.
The latest versions of it were the hottest thing doing the rounds at those meet ups.
There’s a real important question here: do you have solar panels?
Otherwise I think it’s gonna be board games…
Dynamo-bike!
Pedal faster, kid! I nearly beat the boss!
Hell yeah, board games! And no single use board games either - I’m looking at you, Pandemic Legacy.
You can keep playing legacy games afterwards, the legacy part is about developing a somewhat one of a kind variation of the game by the end of it.
Solitaire it is!
And ‘Mansions of Madness: 2E’, I guess
All the more reason to hoard your plunder from the high seas.
multiplayer games that can run p2p on intranet will be even more valuable
Older games were awesome for this. It was a given on PC, but on consoles, Halo was really special here. You could have 16 player matches with 4 consoles doing 4 way split screen connected to the same local network.
“You wanna piece of me, boi??”
Even worse than that. A lot of single player ones have to check in with the Internet eventually. This will restrict the set even further. PlayStation will become useless after a couple years.
PlayStation 1?
As a new dad, single player games with anytime saving have been a life saver
Here’s some dad advice for you:
Handhelds are there only way to get some gaming time in most of the time (Steam Deck, Retroid Pocket console, Switch, etc).
Roguelites are there best type of game. Single player. Can put down easily. Short bursts of play with progress in each run (not a 90 hour saga that takes a year to complete).
Slay The Spire and Hades have been huge timesinks for me when I can’t commit time to sitting at the computer for a huge JRPG. Anything you recommend?
Not handheld, I feel you must play with mouse and keyboard but Noita is my favorite game of all time.
Balatro kept me sane through the first couple months after mine was born. I’d also say Risk of Rain (1 and 2), Enter the Gungeon, and Vampire Survivors
Hollow knight was great for these exact reasons! Very easy to pick up and put down. Also gives you something with a longer term progression. Oh and backpack battles too. Fantastic little game. These three games basically entertained a party of my brain through the first 2+ years of fatherhood
I’ve already finished Hades 2, love it. Now I’m back in Cyberpunk very slowly working through every side quest I never did. I’ve been meaning to check out Hallow Night so I’m glad to see people recommending it.
Monster Train! Great rougelite deck builder.
Balatro - card game
Monster Train - turn based (if you liked Slay the spire)
Dead Cells - action hack and slash side scrolling
Binding of Isaac - GOAT twin stick shooter
Enter the Gungeon - other GOAT twin stick shooter
Cult of the Lamb - hack and slash, with farming
Moonlighter - action, with shopkeeping simulation
Children of Moira - action
Curse of the Dead Gods - action hack and slash
Faster Than Light - spaceship command, mix of real time strategy with time pause for planning
Risk of Rain 2 - 3rd person shooter
Brotato - single stick shooter
Vampire survivors - single stick shooter
Don’t Starve Together - survival, farming, crafting, combat
Synthetik - top down shooter. Can be played with M+KB, but I prefer it as a twin stick shooter with controller
Crown Trick - top down combat, single action at a time
Spelunky 2 - very difficult platformers/simplistic combat
Deep rock Survivor - single stick shooter with mining
MatchR - I like gem matching, this was amusing for a short while
Windblown - top down hack and slash
Roboquest - FPS roguelite
Blazing Beaks - twin stick shooter
Cursed to Golf - golf
Nuclear Throne - twin stick shooter
Crypt of the necrodancer - rhythm
Dungeon of the Endless - tower defense, mining
Dome keeper - mining + asteroids type base defense
There are loads more…depends on what flavour you like
Agree on handhelds. Disagree with roguelites and roguelikes, though I guess that depends on the person. I personally like to learn the map and the lay of the land.
I’d imagine turn based rpgs would be the best
Here’s sone new dad advice for you: The baby needs good soil and plenty of water
Don’t forget to regularly turn it over so both sides bake equally
What do you think the apocalypse is? Ammunition and cans of beans are going to be valuable. Video games, not so much
He means post apocalypse is after the collapse when society starts to rebuild
Collapse is a process. There will probably be an extended period where we still have electricity, but lots of social unrest, food scarcity, etc.
It depends on the apocalypse.
If it’s a mostly everyone dies quick apocalypse due to sickness or a “rapture” type event then “ammunition and beans” are not gonna be as high a commodity.
Hell even in a “I am legend” type apocalypse where beans and ammo are a high commodity so would entertainment be. (and I’d rather play video games than watch movies.)
Who pooped in your soup?
My Famicom is ready!
My wii, 3ds and wiiU are ready 😂✌🏻
( have about 3Tb of wiiU install files and filled the SD of my 3ds with games )
The updoot farming here makes me hesitant, but it’s still true.
People agreeing and enjoying themselves makes you hesitant?
I think it’s more the ‘karma farming’ aspect that the commenter is referring to. Which is a bad thing, because karma farming can be used to make bot accounts look like real accounts.
Luckily for us, this is Lemmy so the advertisers and DIsruptor Nation-States don’t really see a good ROI on their time over here. Yay?
Lemmy, updoots don’t mean the same thing.
They don’t mean anything in the bad place either.
Yeah but here you can just fake it wildly,not so easily on reddit IMO.
Oh shit guys! This is the bad place 😵
Metro but the russians are still playing CS professionally
You’re welcome.
