Check out ITAD then… lots of ways to make sure you get stuff super cheap.
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1·1 month agoIt’s really hard to suggest games without knowing what you guys normally would play. You mention puzzle games. There are a ton of two player puzzle games that you play head to head which might be fun, but it isn’t coop exactly. I highly recommend super puzzle fighter ii turbo. It’s available thru emulation and I think maybe on steam via that capcom arcade thing. There are lots of games that fit into that category if it ends up appealing.
If you have access to any of the games mentioned… maybe just have her try some of them and see what clicks. I know with my wife she wasn’t really a “gamer” at first… and I just let her loose on my steam games and a few that she would have never considered before became favorites like half-life, portal, l4d2. Most of the valve stuff holds up really well and makes for good primers into FPS style gaming. We also got really into coop minecraft and dungeon defenders so hundreds of coop hours have been dumped into those. I’d pick a bunch of genre styles (fps, puzzle, survival, etc) and just show her some gameplay videos if she’s reticent to play them sight unseen… see if anything sparks her interest. Then pick out some of the more well regarded titles from them to dive into. There are definitely classics that are considered classics for a reason.
As for roboquest… I’ve enjoyed that one. The dev kept putting out content patches so it’s gotten a bunch of content dumped into it. Fun solo and coop. I personally love the pop art comic style. The progression is rogueLITE… so you’re slowly building up new stuff in your hub as you play, which makes for a nicer experience, IMHO. They even have a free demo on steam if you wanna try it out while you wait for a sale.
Yeah, we saw the announcement and prompted us to reinstall it for some coop play.
Looks like it goes on sale like… every month or two. https://isthereanydeal.com/game/terraria/history/
Grabbing it for a fiver is like a no brainer if you get into the style of game. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a sale when the patch comes out to promote it.
Some obvious suggestions seem to be:
- Terraria
- Stardew Valley
Sorta requires another account… technically… .Minecraft. IDK, maybe hytale would fill that niche. There’s also some FOSS options like luanti that would be nearly indistinguishable.
- Left4Dead2
- Portal 2
- No Man’s Sky
Some lesser known stuff:
- Core Keeper
- Dungeon Defenders
- RoboQuest
- Valheim
Category suggestion: Kart racing. There are no shortage of brands of that… sonic just came out with a new one and there’s a couple really good sonic kart racers already out there that are on steam and console. Played a lot of sonic and all stars racing transformed with my wife and we had fun… it goes super cheap on sales and has remote play together so you’d only need one copy for both of you… https://isthereanydeal.com/game/sonic-and-all-stars-racing-transformed-collection/history/#price-chart:overview , mario kart, etc.
es-de is a really nice front end you can have in steam for couch coop emulation, I hear.
“track number one contains computer data so don’t play it… but you probably wont listen to me anyway…”
2·2 months agoThe put out a new marker with a new style each time afaik. So if you’re a member of the 300 club, you can tell which year it was done by the pole marker I suppose. :)
Sure… and so is smashing your watch with a hammer while you’re still wearing it. But neither of them are a good idea for your apple watch or your health.
1·4 months agoYeah… I always made sure I had some Idea Channel, VSauce, and Veritasium on tap whenever possible. The latter is the only one that really still does it’s thing… and even that’s getting a little sus these days with Derek promoting general “ai” usage. :/
Obviously… since their logo and spelling is the same as the animal… pronounced “noo”.
1·4 months agoAlpine Linux has entered the chat Mr. Stallman…
She looks like she really knows how to use a microwave… >.>
Yeah, it looks like they just slapped an old samsung phone in a plastic shell. Painful.
Yup… literally the first thing I did was scroll down to see what type of screen it was. smh
2·5 months agoLooks like Atari 50 is on sale cheap too.
https://isthereanydeal.com/game/atari-50-the-anniversary-celebration/info/
If you’re doing sync, you can tell it to remove items from your waitlist when they are added to collection. It won’t work retroactively, but it will do it going forward.