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You can always download it and then immediately uninstall the EGS app if you hate it but it's worth it for this game

It's got gorgeous art and incredible music and surreal writing and a cast with plenty of interesting queer characters and you can romance a bat and get a third eye installed and assassinate a sun

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

ah fuck alright im getting it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You can use Heroic Games Launcher to play EGS games without installing their app. It can even be used to play them on Steam Deck.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

my main recommendation for this and sunless seas is don't play on permadeath

i found their attempt at rogue-lite mechanics added nothing to the game, and i got exponentially less enjoyment out of the story segments with each repeat playthrough

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Agreed. I made my one guy who obsessively sought the truth of the stars and I'm not letting RNGesus kill him

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Is playing Sunless Seas before this necessary?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

nope, there's some callbacks but no really necessary worldbuilding that isn't contained within skies itself

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Not really? But at the same time the entire game is kind of one big spoiler for Seas

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I tried it for a while, and felt like I was always lost, running out of supplies, and barely breaking even so I could never afford to buy upgrades.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh hey, sounds like my life

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I didn't find it very fun

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I agree that it's not very compelling. The gameplay was boring and the writing was passable but not great, so there was no real draw.