A time management / horror game is a unique premise, but also one of the most horrifying premise I can think about. My worst nightmare is having to do an array of repetitive tasks in order to keep the demons away. The graphics look too details for PSX and not detailed enough for the PS2 – it sits somewhere between. There’s full gamepad support, and the price is affordable.

The 8-bit art style is highly appealing to me, and I like that this is in glorious 4:3 aspect ratio. You can control this with keyboard, mouse, or gamepad. Castle Xenon is also cheap, with its introductory price at C$7.64.

I’m sharing this one because if it’s anywhere as good as the artwork implies, it’s probably fun. Plus, how often do you see a rogue-like shooter starring a fisherman? FISH FEAR ME is made by a solo developer named Heather Flowers, and she’s already made the well-loved SNAKE FARM. The graphics are kind of basic but full of charm.

A smooth roguelite shooter from the creators of RACE THE SUN, featuring a voiced cast of feline pilots in a dramatic showdown against corporate-powered robots called The Swarm. Features a 3-act campaign with branching paths, epic bosses, and a wide arsenal of pilots, ships, and weapons.

So far, this has a 91% positive rating on Steam based on 100 reviews. It offers gamepad support and is playable on Steam Deck. I like the 2D sprite-based pixel art style, and it’s very colourful. Definitely promising!

This one is shocking because it’s published by Kemco, and they almost only ever make JRPGs. But here it is, a puzzle game! It’s fairly inexpensive and actually has a discount. There’s gamepad support, so that’s nice. I have no idea if it’s good, but there’s a demo – so try before you buy.

Not many reviews on this one yet but it has a great premise. Instead of jumping from platform to platform, you sling a web. At C$2.59, it’s also super cheap. The visuals are what you’d call “minimalistic”, but I think this is a fascinating game.

Another horror game, but this one has PSX visuals. Plus, it’s free. It has something to do with a cult and it has multiple endings.

Impressive visuals with this one but you’ll need some good hardware to get the most of it: recommended specs are 32GB of RAM and an RTX 2080. This game has good reviews, has a demo, and also has gamepad support. Also, this one has a nice setting.

Do a search for !fediversenews@piefed.social, and you should be able to subscribe from there.

The usefulness will need to be demonstrated over the long term, but this new discovery has just resulted in the creation of four new communites:

1. [email protected]
2. [email protected]
3. [email protected]
4. [email protected]

The biggest problem with Friendica groups is that when someone replies to a group post, the group actor boosts all replies to people’s timelines – which proves problematic for people running microblogging software like Mastodon. This also makes popular Friendica groups highly attractive to spammers and trolls because they can say whatever in comments, and now 2.6K people are receiving those messages in their home feeds. It is also very difficult to remove comments and ban people in a Friendica group.

What I like about Piefed is that you can delete and edit anything in a community, ban people easily or unban them, review reports, mark reports as resolved / ignored. And most important, all those tools are easily accessible.

You can see Lemmy posts from Friendica. For example:

https://friendica.world/display/e7311011-53fd1027bdcd0da2-858c998f

You can also see Friendica groups from Lemmy.

Looks like Piefed has a bug where, if you post from a microblogging service, the rest of the post gets cut off after a URL is written.

Here’s the original post as it exists on atomicpoet.org:

NeoDB now has five active servers!

All of them allow new sign-ups. The newest server, neodb.kevga.de, is aimed at #German speakers.

If you’re unfamiliar with #NeoDB, it is a media database and social platform that allows users to review art and media. It is similar to #GoodReads, #RateYourMusic, and #LetterBoxd. #Bookwyrm does something similar, but its specifically made for books.

NeoDB has a public user count of 20,713 with 1,980 MAUs.

https://neodb.net/servers/

@fediversenews

Everything written between server and https://neodb.net/servers/ was removed.

cc: @[email protected]