I played this during Next Fest. Best spreadsheet game.

Cassette Beasts is a creature collector with a substantial single-player campaign and a permadeath difficulty option.

You could also have permadeath as a house rule, which would let you play singleplayer games with traditional campaigns. For example, you could play Elden Ring or Borderlands 2 and commit to deleting the character upon death.

A weird suggestion: Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is a co-op puzzle game about defusing a bomb. The player who’s streaming will have the bomb but stream only audio, not video, and everyone else will have to use the defusal manual to guide them to safely disarm the bomb. You’ll have to advance level by level.

You want us to sell fewer controllers?!

I clicked on this post because of the jazz in jazzstronauts.

There actually is something that could be called jazz, but you’ll have to finish the entire story for that.

How did you get all the images at once, upload beforehand (whether to Lemmy or somewhere else offsite) and that is how you have a link? Repeated editing so Lemmy accepts each new image upload?

I actually published a mini-site on yay.boo containing this post and all of the media. The pictures in this Lemmy post are hotlinked from yay.boo. The video is hotlinked from Imgur because yay.boo did not like it when I did that. In my previous posts, I did directly upload everything to sh.itjust.works, but I wanted to try a different way this time.

For my previous posts, like this one on Gunfire Reborn, I went to the “Create a post” form and used the “upload picture” button on the toolbar of the main body text field.

I have actually been playing multiple cat-themed games in recent months but have been too lazy/busy to bother writing about them.

In case it matters, you can deliberately fail to find some of the cards. You know, in case you only need a blue card and don’t want to choose anything else for some reason.

Extremely aristocratic

Incredibly timely spoiler

This “just in case” attitude is sacrificing your ability to build to your game plan. Just in case what? Ideally, every card in your deck should be “live” in as many situations as possible. Sleep-Cursed Faerie will not do much to defend you early on and is actually bad once you’re set up with Doubling Season. Fog Bank will block a creature, but it’ll never win you the game.

Every card that’s not contributing to what you want to achieve (building counters fast or making lots of tokens) is wasting your draw step. Imagine if you started with Campus Guide, a creature that lets you have a land next turn. Wouldn’t you have been happier with a second Llanowar Elves, which deploys sooner and accelerates mana production? Instead of drawing Unstoppable Plan, you could have drawn one of your four copies of Proft’s Eidetic Memory.

My examples here are overly narrow, but my point is that putting a card in your deck has an opportunity cost: you lose the chance to put a different, more synergistic card in. You want to concentrate the amount of cards in your deck that make you say, “yes, this is just what I wanted”, which is certainly Doubling Season and cards that make tokens or counters. The more of those you have, the fewer draw steps it takes you to find them all. You’ll get to winning sooner.

The first steps to achieve this is to cut down to 60 cards and make sure your most important cards are 4-of each.

Swift boots is too protect whatever I need to from spells, again, to cover my weaknesses.

Swiftfoot Boots protects only one creature. If you’re a doubling token deck, you’ll have way more than one creature to protect. Negate would probably do a better job in that case.

Having irrelevant cards is also one of your deck’s weaknesses. Your opponents will be happy to see you spend your turn doing nothing because the card you drew doesn’t do anything with Doubling Season.

This deck was meant to split between both tokens and +1/+1 counters, but maybe I should focus on one instead of the other.

I highly recommend it. The only card I know of in standard that can really fuse the two strategies is Insidious Roots, which would require you to ditch blue for black.

Again, try the nine-card deck exercise. It’ll get you to think about what role each card in your deck plays.

Like thomasw, I’m wondering what format this is for. What are the quantities of each card? Without knowing more details, it will be hard to give useful advice. Counting the amount of cards you listed, I’m suspecting this is for a 60-card format but you’re only using one of each card?

• If this really is a 60-card deck, try the nine-card deck technique to focus your deck. Choose the nine nonland cards your deck needs, get four of each, and put in 24 lands to get a decent starting point for a 60-card deck.
• What is Swiftfoot Boots for?
• Some cards don’t look relevant to your game plan:
  • Cogwork Wrestler
  • Unstoppable Plan
• Sleep-Cursed Faerie gets worse with Doubling Season.
• You don’t have enough Elves for Imperious Perfect to be impactful.
• Finally, are you a token deck or a +1/+1 counter deck? Half of the deck goes one way and the other half goes the other way. It would suck if you drew the wrong half because there’s little that makes the two work together.

By the way, if you want a fun Brawl deck, Bristly Bill is a cheap commander that can work well with common/uncommon wildcards. Throw in land ramp, creatures that benefit well from +1/+1 counters, and punch cards like Hard-Hitting Question and Bite Down.

Unmarked threshold? Magic really is going downhill.

Roast BTFO

I REALLY LOVE SUPPORTING MY LOCAL LIBRARY.

Wow, this is just like the card Harmonize except for the parts where it’s not.

So far, it looks like names are used for legendary creatures and “this creature” otherwise.

On top of the games already mentioned, here are my recommendations.

First, I must mention:

• Crosscountry Canada (1991)

Quebec City

• Just Shapes & Beats — rhythm bullet hell with lots of EDM

Montreal

• Ultimate Chicken Horse — build your own platformer level and race your friends
• N++ — platformer focused on momentum and agility
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided — cyberpunk stealth and action

Ottawa

• Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes — defuse a bomb while your friends read the defusal manual

Toronto

• Super Time Force Ultra — side-scrolling shooter with time manipulation
• A Short Hike — a short, open-world hike

Vancouver

• Beastieball (in early access) — creature collecting with turn-based volleyball
• Crypt of the NecroDancer — rhythm roguelike
• Rift of the NecroDancer — “guitar-like” rhythm
• Inscryption — spooky card game… at first

When the unmaking is really anguished

Dies to Yargle.

Target player? Interesting.

Notably not until end of turn.

I’m certainly glad this one is more active than world’s.