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Legend of Grimrock, new Shadowrun games, and 20+ other top indie RPG titles 60% off!

This weekend, GOG.com features over 20 incredible [url=http://www.gog.com/promo/indie_rpg_mix_weekend_promo_110714]Indie RPG Icons 60% off! The RPG genre is doing extremely well these days, and some of the best titles offering a throwback to the classic gameplay mechanics, or adding some amazing new twists come from the independent game development scene. You've heard about many of them, now, you can easily make them a part of your collection. There's one title in particular, we'd like to put in focus here.

Shadowrun Returns, a single player, turn-based tactical RPG taking place in a fan-favorite cyberpunk slash fantasy setting. Enter the amazingly depicted futuristic Seattle metroplex, and embark on your mission to uncover the mystery of a series of gruesome killings. Who knows what you'll discover? In the world of Shadowrun nothing is what it seems at first glance. With deep and involving storyline, top-notch turn-based tactical combat mechanics, and deep skill-based character development system, this vibrant imaginative role-playing game just keeps on giving!

The Indie RPG Icons lasts until Tuesday, July 15, at 3:59AM GMT.
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Licurg: So I would have to buy Pilgrim separately, but not Mindgames too, like the commenter below said ?
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cyboff: It is quite simple :D
If you have only base game (SWORD OF THE STARS: THE PIT) then you have to buy:
DLC: SWORD OF THE STARS: THE PIT - MINDGAMES
then
DLC: SWORD OF THE STARS: THE PIT GOLD EDITION UPGRADE ( i.e. it requires Mindgames too)
then
DLC: SWORD OF THE STARS: THE PIT GOLD EDITION - THE PILGRIM (i.e. it requires base game + Mingames + Gold Upgrade -> those 3 are also known as Gold Edition)

For those who don't have base game at all it is cheaper to buy:
SWORD OF THE STARS: THE PIT GOLD EDITION
then
DLC: SWORD OF THE STARS: THE PIT GOLD EDITION - THE PILGRIM
Thanks for that. I already have the base game, so only need the DLCs .
I've been curious to get Sword of the Stars but unfortunately I'm no fan of roguelikes and even less so nowadays, I don't have the patience for them. Is it worth it or is it a typical roguelike?
I already have most of these, but if anyone is thinking about Legend of Grimrock and doesn't have it, do get it. A wonderful RPG, and the first one in ages to make a single piece of leather armor feel like precious loot.
Come on GOG. List SotS:TP Gold as owned for those of us that have everything.

It is not world ending, but it really does bug me.
Dragonfall and done. First thing I've gotten in a couple of weeks :P
I'm the type that loves RPGs and can get lost in one for months at a time, but then not play one for years; but continue to buy them so that my RPG backlog is now about 80 years long, if not longer.
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Nirth: I've been curious to get Sword of the Stars but unfortunately I'm no fan of roguelikes and even less so nowadays, I don't have the patience for them. Is it worth it or is it a typical roguelike?
you will be dying a lot, it feels unbalanced and unfair often, but it is great fun to play! I mean, if you like to play the role of a permanent underdog - because it is not about patience to win, it is all about lack of luck :D
Nice weekend promo, some fine looking Indie RPGs at attractive prices!
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Nirth: I've been curious to get Sword of the Stars but unfortunately I'm no fan of roguelikes and even less so nowadays, I don't have the patience for them. Is it worth it or is it a typical roguelike?
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cyboff: you will be dying a lot, it feels unbalanced and unfair often, but it is great fun to play! I mean, if you like to play the role of a permanent underdog - because it is not about patience to win, it is all about lack of luck :D
It is very roguelike...(I like that, but if you don't like them you may not)
Nice promo. This was a good opportunity for me to finally get Doomdark's Revenge. :)
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Nirth: I've been curious to get Sword of the Stars but unfortunately I'm no fan of roguelikes and even less so nowadays, I don't have the patience for them. Is it worth it or is it a typical roguelike?
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Nirth: I've been curious to get Sword of the Stars but unfortunately I'm no fan of roguelikes and even less so nowadays, I don't have the patience for them. Is it worth it or is it a typical roguelike?
I didn't have the patience for SotS, but I'll probably get back to it, eventually.

I played without any DLC.

It differs from a typical (and by that I assume ascii) roguelike in at least one important aspect: the time limit (food consumption, and there's a fixed amount of food to be found). The time limit is absolutely brutal and I hate it.

Also, the difficulty curve is ass, in that it doesn't actually prepare the player for an immense difficulty spike: you clear like nineteen(??) easy levels and think you have a hang on the game, then, bam, you're completely overwhelmed and so dead, and a retry means going through all those easy levels once again; there's no strategy for levels 1-19 you can consciously choose to make yourself better prepared for 20, and the easy difficulty doesn't force you to develop a strategy or die before 20. I've seen recommendations to start on easy to grab basic recipes, then switch to normal and start actually learning strategy and tactics.

Incremental advancement: besides you as a player gaining skill and making metagame discoveries, recipes your character has found become known to subsequent characters. So even if you lost, you still made progress.
Furthermore: in the new version, there's the Safe Room that allows grinding to win (kind of): stockpile XP and stuff from several playthroughs, then take it out with a new character. (The advancement system is kind of ass: skills you didn't use between level ups cost more skill points to increase, and seeking opportunities to use them is time-consuming, dangerous and dissociative. The safe room allows to create a level-appropriate character on the spot, at the cost of preliminary grinding.) The safe room wasn't in the game when I played it.

TL;DR: yes, it requires patience, but for me the new knowledge that it's at all winnable makes the game worth it.
Post edited July 11, 2014 by Starmaker
Yeah! Dragonfall for me!
Damn, now when I have nothing but base game and no more cash Dragonfall get's on promo... oh well sooner or later. Until that time I suppose A Stitch in Time and From the Shadows will grab some of my attention.
Marvellous, time to get Dragonfall off the wishlist! Thank you GOG! :D
I've been waiting for Lords of Midnight & Doomsdark's Revenge. Instabuy. Thanks GOG!