I mostly play co-op games and I am tired of the “everything is dark, ugly, and evil, and chaos is rampant” with a souls-copy aesthetic. I crave colorful games and fun co-op mechanics.
Nine Parchments is casual, fun, and beautiful. The point IS that there is friendly fire because the challenge is to get the enemies without getting your friends. Played also by up to 4 people on a single screen.
Coridden is very home-made but has cool mechanics of turning into beasts or riding your friends when they turn into animals. Fun isometric rpg-ish game that can be played on a single screen.
Pizza possum. Steal the food and don’t get caught. It’s casual, chaotic and hilarious. Co-op as well.
Spiritfarer is a great game. Not sure if it’s popular or not bc idk what’s popular. No killing, very therapeutic if you’ve lost someone, is a journey about loving and letting go. Co-op allows you to play the cat.
And go play bombsquad with friends, it is the best and my go-to if I have videogame-comfortable guests at home :)
Love you all. Keep being nice people
I keep reading one or another form of “regulated capitalism is the goal” or “in small countries work” or “the problem is people”. Regulated capitalism sounds great, but it is like saying “sanitised street pond”. You can try and sanitise it all you want but in the end it is by its very design gonna be an undrinkable mess.
There is no great moment of the US. Even when you had wealth, it was on the backs of the rest of america, both the country’s second class citizens, and the rest of the continent. You’re obsessed with empires, meddling in other countries’ governments, controlling resources in other countries, glorified violence, dominance, and individualist hero idealism. Even compared to other powers like China, count how many military bases you have vs the rest of the world. You’ve been historically bullies, obsessed with hustle, profit over life, status and personal achievement. Every time you have an increase of wealth is at the cost of someone else. The problem is you have lived so long in this bubble of entitlement that you have no idea how it impacts everything around you. Somewhere there’s a totalitarian regime where they’ll murder people with guillotines, and people will rush to buy stocks in companies selling sharp blades. There is no ethic in capitalism, capitalism does not care about people.