Don’t know if you saw my edit but it really sounds like Noita might be it. Still 2D, but.

I haven’t played it myself, but I believe Caves of Qud might be what you want.

EDIT: Just saw your OP edit about physical depth and digging down and will raise you Noita - another one I haven’t played (and still in 2D, granted) but that could probably keep you busy for a while.

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Ah I see! Yeah from my experience most builds are viable but you definitely need to specialise instead of being Jack of All Trades. The only exception being some spells like armour and Harvest Field that are great even without spell investment.

I actually went the Luck build initially and thought it was very powerful, but I went kind of all in on luck. I think I went 5 each in Vitality, Warding and Violence and then put the rest into luck, I think I had like 37 by the end or so? Enough so that with two rings with +% Luck from the labyrinth the crit and saviour ring had about 93% chance to proc. Then i put the rest of the points into Fortitude for the poise late game.

What build were you doing that wasn’t working?

And yeah the game just continues to surprise you, chapter 3 really blew me away too. Actually just finding the cable car in itself was a big wtf moment for me and then everything thereafter kept on being surprising. There is just so much game in this game, if you know what I mean? You think it’s this neat little mansion roguelike but oh no, it’s way more than that.

I hope you do, I think it’s one of the best roguelike deckbuilders ever. The mechanics are great, the boss fights are interesting and there are plenty of different builds available since you have four characters to combine and each has at least two ways to build them, often with build A and B for a character synergizing with different other party members.

The story is also surprisingly decent and touches on some interesting themes and even though I don’t really like anime it managed to land the big moments for me.

Are they that scantily clad or am I just brainbroken by modern standards? They look like typical anime designs to me - which for the record I don’t particularly love either but they don’t stand out as over the top horny?

Anyway the game itself is not horny at all. The main character is a child, there is no sex anywhere, there is no flirting - not even between other characters.

The only suspect part is the anime beach episode DLC but you have to purchase that separately and it’s not part of the game or the main story. And honestly the game would be better without it. At least it adds some fun items and abilities and you don’t have to engage with it beyond that.

You’re giving me an excuse to post one of my favourite songs, that is still stuck in my head 12 years later? I’ll take it!

“You’re a good man, Arthur Morgan”

Meanwhile the good man in question has a kill count that would qualify for genocide according to most international standards.

What made you think it is a horny game? Just curious because it’s not a horny game like… at all. Seriously. It’s just a phenomenal roguelike deckbuilder with a built in visual novel story that will probably surprise you at times. I ended up really liking it and I don’t even like anime. Good music too.

Finished it. Man that final stretch was brutal. You do get full unlimited deckbuilding in the final area, that’s where you can use all the cards from all the zones without any extra mana costs. But fuck me, do you need it. The last stretch of 5 elite fights in a row without healing before the last boss was something.

You know, I didn’t realise you were a deckbuilder enjoyer but now after we’ve talked about Death Howl I should have realised. Have I already tried to sell you on Chrono Ark? It is seriously one of the goats, I played it this year after Christmas and loved every second.

I didn’t realise it was out!? God damn it my backlog is already a behemoth. I didn’t play the demo because I didn’t want to be spoiled but I loved the reveal trailer song and from what I’ve heard everyone who played it during next fest couldn’t stop gushing about it and talking about potential GOTY. So I’m very keen to try it.

It’s amazing isn’t it? Nothing more satisfying than using the first L1 attack to launch around an incoming attack and still get a hit in with the tip of the sword on the swing. And yeah being able to mix and match between L1 and R1 is also so great. So you can do L1-L1-R1 for example to skip the jumping attack. Easily the most fun weapon in the game to use for me.

Death Howl is still a good game. I think for me at first glance it looked so amazing that I was half expecting a 9-10/10 and it’s more like a 7.5-8/10. The art is beautiful and never stops being fantastic and the gameplay is very solid. Once you accept that the emphasis is on the grid-based strategy part and solving encounters like puzzles instead of cooking up crazy creative deck combos the game starts to click much better.

The big let down for me is the story, I don’t hate the main conceit of it even though it’s a little played out, but I think it could have been delivered in a much more subtle way so that you connect the dots much later and get a much more impactful end result that way.

My playthroughs got derailed a bit by Football Manager this week, so I’m still not done with Death Howl. Will hopefully be finishing it up over this weekend, depending on how much more content there is. Not any real further notes from last week, and I’m still overall enjoying the game. The battles that are at the core of it are fun, and I am enjoying the deckbuilding even though it’s more puzzle-like than open ended. Each region has two play style archetypes and a certain set of enemies and encounters, and for each fight/zone it’s more a case of “what does the game want me to do here” rather than “what can I do with the cards I have”.

As for Elden Ring co-op, I’ll leave that to those who are more enthusiastic about the game than I am I think. I had my fun with it and got my money’s worth but I am not that interested in going back for seconds. Also social anxiety and all that, I’m not sure I’d be that comfortable anyway, or that good company for that matter.

Has to be STALKER Anomaly for me.

May I ask what terms you would prefer for these genres?

The image appeared in a children’s anti-racism booklet distributed in primary schools in the local area about the life of former footballer Paul Canoville, who was the first black player to play for Chelsea.

It shows a cartoon figure wearing a white hood and robes, which is typically associated with the white supremacist group, with the outfit also bearing Millwall’s crest.

Makes sense, I assume the club shop owns the rights to this outfit and it’s being sued for copyright infringement?

God I wish the IP didn’t belong to EA. It has so much potential, I always wanted Alice 3 to be a Soulslike personally but I know American McGee himself had some ideas already for Alice: Asylum to be the next installment. Shame EA doesn’t give two fucks about the franchise.