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alessandro ( alessandro@lemmy.ca )  to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 year ago

Out-of-nowhere roguelike hit Megabonk has sold 1 million copies in 2 weeks, solo creator says "I'll be eating spaghetti with EXTRA sauce tonight"

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Out-of-nowhere roguelike hit Megabonk has sold 1 million copies in 2 weeks, solo creator says "I'll be eating spaghetti with EXTRA sauce tonight"

www.gamesradar.com

alessandro ( alessandro@lemmy.ca )  to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 year ago
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It was obviously going to happen when it has skateboarding skeletons
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  • GeeDubHayduke ( GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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    “Spaghetti and sauce is a Nintendo trademark. You’ll be hearing from out lawyers presently.”

  • Shirasho ( Shirasho@lemmings.world ) 
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    It kept me up way past my bedtime last night.

    With that said, it suffers pretty hard from a problem inherent to the genre. The more you unlock the less fun it becomes. Unlike other survivor games, silver coins are very precious and you can unlock items way faster than you can unlock banishes. Ive also died countless times due to being stunlocked after a first hit. You can get knocked into other enemies with absolutely no way to recover depending on your momentum. Finally, items dont tell you what they do until you unlock them. Can waste silver early.

    With all this said, I don’t regret my purchase. I’m having fun with it and there is still plenty of room for me to git gud.

  • thingsiplay ( thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) 
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    On Steam Indie stars are born. I can’t imagine how the videogame world would look like without Indies.

    • NoForwardslashS ( NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz ) 
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      We would all be forced to play CoD every day and have untethered rage issues.

  • marighost ( marighost@piefed.social ) 
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    It’s pretty fun for a number-go-up simulator. It’s the best of both worlds of Risk of Rain and the “Survivors” genre of games. Tons of unlocks and stupid humor.

  • DoucheBagMcSwag ( DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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    When I see games like this I wonder if they will be a supported hit or a fly by night indie trend which will have a sharp decline to and forgotten developer support like what happened to Content Warning and Lethal Company.

    I’m seeing developer support for PEAK, Schedule I and R.E.P.O so the jury is still out on those

    Edit: added schedule I

    • Jerkface (any/all) ( jerkface@lemmy.ca ) 
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      Removed by mod

      • DoucheBagMcSwag ( DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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        Total? So like enjoy for a few hours and then drop?

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          I don’t think that I’d tell people it’s only worth a few hours, but I do expect a large portion of those sales to only last for a few hours.

          Some people love the vampire survivors/risk of rain/megabonk game type though, my partner has put around 100 hours into vampire survivors by now. So I expect a core of players to enjoy returning to updates.

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  • three ( three@lemmy.zip ) 
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    Babby’s first roguelike I’m afraid. Poop stallion-level humor plus it basically plays itself. Don’t let your friends see this on your recently played…

    • Rai ( Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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      “Nobody have fun it’s illegal”

      • three ( three@lemmy.zip ) 
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        True, I normally use quotations around things the other person never said, too.

    • WizardOfFrobozz ( WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca ) 
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      Most of us don’t have shitty friends

      • three ( three@lemmy.zip ) 
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        True, most of you don’t have friends.

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    Isn’t the dev of this game that semi-famous youtube dev that did collabs with like Mr. Beast and others? I assume he was pretty well off to begin with. Think his name was Dani or something. I mean hell the dev for this game is literally named Danidev but backwards.

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