Oh hey, nice to find you on a different corner of Lemmy! Thanks for the in-depth review, we need more OC on Lemmy like this. I’ll probably check it out because of you.

Might want to crosspost to !puzzlegames@lemm.ee and the much more active !adventuregames@lemm.ee which has also decided to include puzzle games, despite its name.

Something about it seems just so weirdly self-promotional, instead of “normal” engagement with the community. I never pay attention to usernames but I have noticed this kind of content from the guy on this community several times, and just checked his posts and it’s all YouTube promotion (although I admit the ones mentioning “Dani” might not be his, not 100% sure). No regular engagement with the community as just another gamer. I suspect that’s why the community does not seem to generally like these posts. It is why I certainly don’t. The vibes I get from the posts are way less “hey I am a game dev, I’d love some feedback on my game!” and more “SMASH that subscribe button” but from an English language learner who has not learned the tricks of clickbait titles and the ways people grow those channels, so instead we get these constant posts for their YouTube on Lemmy. Of course, my judgment could be off, I’m certainly not actually clicking the videos to confirm whether my suspicions are right or wrong. For all I know that video has a misleading title and is a tutorial on how to paint a ceiling.

However, it is on topic and I don’t make the rules, and there’s something to be said for unpopular stuff still being allowed. I’d personally want this gone as the self-promotion type of spam but hey, not my community, and I could have judged them wrong.

I had no idea we did that! This link should let you open it.

More game genre communities https://lemmy.zip/post/36589987

I have not played this game but someone at !tycoon@lemmy.world might be able to help you.

you might be interested in !cozygames@lemmy.world then

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A bot posts weekly and usually me, CardboardEmpress, laleyou, and kopi-pasted will comment; and sometimes we make posts. I just posted a game there in the past 3 days. Weird…

I feel if I spontaneously quit all my niche gaming communities and posted everything I’d post there on a general community instead, I’d annoy everyone with a bunch of Steam links for games they probably do not care about. People in the niche communities are more likely to care about a link to a game in a genre they already like. Also, for most of the small communities I’ve got at least one other poster sometimes, and that’s better than nobody! Despite all the trouble with incremental.social and federation, when I can get on there we do have a few regulars chatting there and that’s nice.

You could make the argument that I’m simply posting low-quality content, and I’d just have to raise the bar for !games@lemmy.world to accept my posts, and that I just want my niches back, to which I say: fair. But unfortunately I’m no video game expert or connoisseur. I play and enjoy. The lovely guide and wiki makers usually get there before I can. I’m not too good at coming up with fun discussion questions that are better than what I’d consider low-tier engagement bait back on Reddit like “name one good thing about [noncontroversial character]”. So link posts it is, better some on-topic content than none at all. And even if I did write a wonderful in-depth review or guide, if it’s not for some big mainstream appeal game but something that only genre enthusiasts really like, not sure how well !games@lemmy.world would take to it. So that’s my rationale for having these niche communities. You’re still very free to think I’m wrong ;) Thanks for contributing in earnest to !games@lemmy.world!

• !baldurs_gate_3@lemmy.world has some activity thanks to @PugJesus@lemmy.world
• !stardewvalley@lemm.ee has activity thanks to @sag@ani.social
• !factorio@lemmy.world has some posts
• !infinitynikki@discuss.tchncs.de has three people including myself There are probably more for some really big games, but these are the ones I know of.

On one hand I understand this, but on the other hand I’d like to post games I find that fit these subgenres or talk about that subgenre without making myself the biggest spammer in !games@lemmy.world, and I think (time will tell!) I do have the stubbornness necessary to scream into the void until people come along. Maybe I should crosspost the ones I think are most likely to have mass appeal…

For what it is worth, when I log into my incremental.social account I see the posts you make there.

• !sffgaming@sffa.community
• !the_talos_principle@lemm.ee
• !residentevil@lemmy.world
• !gamemusic@lemm.ee
• !tipofmyjoystick@retrolemmy.com

I do know about shmups and probably should have made that exclusion in the post body, I will go do that. But I input “shooter” into the community search and got flat nothing. No FPS or anything, and given how popular those are I’m very surprised there is not any community for it. Not great with any more specific examples because I don’t really play shooters myself.

You’re probably right, but most of these do exist already, so I figure not why not continue trying to use them (and to direct attention from this big community there)? Also probably doesn’t help a lot of instances have general games communities. We’re pretty splintered. Now that I think about it I should probably crosspost to some of the bigger ones.

So pleased to have seen this on my feed. Loved doing mazes as a kid.

(Also you might want to look at !lifesimulation@lemmy.world)

I’m always surprised these posts go to general gaming communities but nobody thinks to post to !baldurs_gate_3@lemmy.world

Sometimes I crosspost myself and sometimes I make some comment like this hoping OP will do it because it feels somehow like I’m “stealing credit” even though it’s just a link post and not some original textpost. This time I took a third option and just straight up asked how they felt about the new subclasses

While we’re here, !crpg@lemmy.world definitely could use some love (and by love I mean posters).

Hey, thanks for your effort again!!

Looked into Metro, completely disinterested, but . I always figure if my tastes do a 180 or a friend wants to play some games (it is pretty likely our tastes will not be identical) it never hurts to have.

I guess we’re total opposites, I usually avoid physicals because I know myself. I want to keep things nice and pretty and pristine, I’ll never subscribe to “the flaw/crease/spillage adds to its charm!”, and I know I am too clumsy to actually keep it as nice as I’d like. Less objects to clean, to lose, to cry over when they inevitably get messed up.

At least from what I am aware of Mitchell cheated. I never heard of the suicide thing. If the lawsuit was really just over suicide and not over the cheating claims, I wonder why his records got reinstated after this. But hey, I’m quite out of the loop and my comment would probably be a good example in court of reputational damage, as a random who does not really follow these records but might click a video on them someday or read something and come away thinking something about a person.

Have been playing Antimatter Dimensions, an !incremental_games@incremental.social, and various Steam demos to see if I’ll like the game or not.

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