offline games

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Disgaea-cover-image.jpg

Entertainment > Games > PlayStation 2 >

(on Wikipedia)
Steam: Disgaea PC
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0380520/
also was atlus.com/dis/
https://www.nisamerica.com/games/disgaea-1-complete

A tactics game so good it’s worth buying a PlayStation 2 for. It got released on Steam so it’s a game so good it’s worth buying a PC for. :)



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https://store.steampowered.com/app/512250/
http://vilemonarch.com/oh-sir-insult/

Like scrabble with words, assemble phrases to do varying degrees of insult-damage.

This definitely should appeal to some people, but it doesn’t appeal to me. I think this would be especially attractive to people with an Android phone.



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War for the Overworld - (2015 game) image

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/230190/
https://web.archive.org/web/20180610001951/https://wftogame.com/

An awkward dungeon management game, with walls you can’t dig out, rooms you build but don’t know how much of or what size, and an interface that could only be inspired by a 1980s DOS game.

Absolutely not recommended.



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was https://www.gratuitoustankbattles.com/

A tower defense game, but with tanks and more upgrading.

I tried the demo and didn’t give it much of a chance. For example, I didn’t customize units. I prefer the more sandbox-style of Gratuitous Space Battles.

  • From the makers of Gratuitous Space Battles.
  • The scroll wheel to zoom in/out is backwards.
  • Abandoned – The website is dead.

Saints Row 2 cover

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.mobygames.com/game/saints-row-2
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1024918/
saintsrow.com

Be a gang member, run around in a sandbox world and shoot stuff, I guess.

It’s alright.

  • Note that the original Saints Row – (2006 game) was only released for the Xbox 360.



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Entertainment > Games >

https://store.steampowered.com/app/308600/
https://geneshift.net/

A top-down shooter with superpowers.

An awkward and unforgiving game that’s zoomed in too far to be fun.

  • 2020-06-30 — The forum seems to have been dead since 2017-08 or later.

    • No announcement was archived, and no replacement was found on a cursory look.



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Sanctum 2 - (2013 game) art

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/210770/
https://web.archive.org/web/20200110212906/https://www.coffeestainstudios.com/games/sanctum-2

A combined first-person shooter and tower-defense game.

Seems pretty cute, but I hate tower defense games which have multiple entrances.



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