#sims rpg

[bixels]

In the past, people in the Animal Crossing community would make fun of Tom Nook as a sleazy landlord. Since then, he's really rehabilitated his image as this 'heart of gold' businessman (he's the one who puts bells and furniture in trees for you to find! he adopted orphans! he donates to charity!), but New Horizons genuinely paints the most devious version of him.

He's successfully privatized settler colonialism: you pay HIM to move to a "deserted island" (which apparently the oceans in the AC world are just full of) and start a colony that he is directly invested in. At best he's running a weird vacation package scam (you arrive on the island with no money and in debt for "using his services"). At worst, he's using you to set up company towns. For god's sake, he literally has his own fake currency that he forces you to use to pay off your debt. But don't worry, he's repackaged it in a way that definitely doesn't sound like an MLM scam: the Nook Mileage Program!

You're no longer just his tenant or his temporary part-timer, you're his business lackey. The entire tutorial section of the game has you spending actual weeks running around completing tasks and doing hard labor to set up his colony. You're even tasked with preparing his properties and finding buyers for them. No, you aren't a tenant anymore. You work for the landlord. You are directly responsible for finding tenants for him. And he doesn't even fucking pay you. Not for setting up town hall and museum, or his nephew's shop –– which is the ONLY store on the entire island that sells necessities –– or bringing KK Slider to town, or helping populate his town. Not a single cent. No, actually, you have to pay HIM to BUY infrastructure like bridges and stairs and park benches. And all the while, he's telling you're the "resident representative"; you get to call the shots! That the reward is the community's progress. That what you're doing is in everyone's best interest (but most importantly, his).

Since NH's release, people have done a lot of legwork to say that Tom Nook isn't a capitalist while the game shows him at his very worst. He owns the only general store in town. You're forced to use a phone that he modified and branded as his own. Buy Nook-branded furniture and merchandise at the self-serve kiosk in the town hall, a governmental building! There's no conflict of interest here!

But hey, if you're tired of being the landlord/business mogul's goon, you can also find work as a deluxe resort home designer for a company that also pays you in their special company currency that can only be used to buy their products instead of a real salary! Because that's what the Animal Crossing franchise needs! More vacation homes!!!

[indiegamesoutofcontext]

[ghostatservice]

In another universe in order to stop Weirdmageddon Stanford would have to go ahead and seduce Bill in classic dating sim style! Organs and everything!

[macguffinandco]

"Ah, you're new to the garden, so this might be normal for you but, in my day, we didn't have any of this overgrowth. Why, you could stand on one end of the lawn and see all the way t'other! And the bird feeders - oh! Stacked with all kinds of seeds, they were, and suet balls big as a hedgehog! What's that? Well, no, maybe not as big as Spike, he's always been a big lad. But as big as you could ever ask for. And the sunflowers - three times as tall as Esmerelda, if they were an inch! Those were the days. You barely knew the Caretakers but, believe you me, it's been a long, hard summer without them. The birds can hope they'll be back for the winter but me? I think we have to fend for ourselves…"

It's new micro-setting time on the MacGuffin & Co. Patreon! In Gnome Man's Land, you're the frogs, birds and garden gnomes of a once idyllic land, fallen into disrepair after the disappearance of the Caretakers. Now, their rubbish son Jeremy has turned up, and he's got plans for the garden...

[thesocklesswonder]

I n the tags, tell me which game(s) and what hurts (and would you do it again). Please reblog - thanks!

For me, I played botw, acnh, and stardew until my thumb tendons threatened to explode. I'll probs do it again lol

[englishotomegames]

Fields of Mistria

Release date (Steam) English (early access): August 5th, 2024

"Get ready to begin a brand-new life in a world that's brimming with possibilities!

Mistria, an idyllic village tucked between forest and sea, has offered you an overgrown but full-of-potential homestead in exchange for your assistance. Restore the town to its former glory after an earthquake wreaks havoc and strange magic begins to flow through the land.

In this spiritual successor to the Farm-Sim RPGs of the late 90s & onward, build the farm of your dreams as you discover magic, romance, and adventure!"

This is a farming sim now available in early access on Steam! You can buy it here.

[blacktabbygames]

The wheels of telling people about our games have grown rusty, and it's time to get them rolling again. So... do you know about Slay the Princess? You're sent to a cabin in the woods to stop the end of the world. But do you trust the people who sent you there? Do you trust its occupant?

Is the world that tasked you to save it even worth saving?

Narrated by the fantastic Jonathan Sims, and voice acted by the incredible Nichole Goodnight, the game is one part The Stanley Parable, one part cosmic horror romance, and with a dash of Disco Elysium to boot.

We're gonna release it later this year, but in the meantime, you can wishlist it on Steam, where you can also play an *extensively* long demo.

Marketing games is exhausting and I'd rather be working on them, so if this sort of thing is up your alley, please share it around!

[maxkirin]

YOU'VE GOT MAIL 💌💕

My latest game is out on right now! I'm doing a public beta test to get feedback--but don't get it twisted, this game is feature complete and good enough for you to lose countless hours living through your very own Romantic Comedy of Errors!

You can learn more about it and download it by heading to the official announcement: ko-fi.com/mkirin 💖🧡💛💚💙💜

[fieldsofmistria]

People aren't the only ones who enjoy gifts 🦴💕

[persona-5-the-gaybreakers]

Nighttime in Yongen-jaya.

[wistfulpoltergeist]

Your unshakable Warrior here to shield you :)

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Are you looking for a Bard? Are you looking for a Warlock? Are you looking for a Ranger?

[prokopetz]

Dating sims and RPGs have some sort of reverse equivalent exchange thing going on whereby as RPGs have become more dating-sim-like, dating sims have become less RPG-like, and while I recognise that there are good reasons for the latter, sometimes I genuinely miss the time when you could softlock a dating sim because your build fucking sucks.

[indiegamesoutofcontext]

[larkingame]

Find love...or something worse with Doctor Cyrus Sokolov in an enemies-to-lovers romance in Larkin! Episode One out June 14th!

[easternmind]

I'm told that SEGA/Red Company's Sakura Taisen (サクラ大戦) is now twenty-seven years young. I'm not the type to play just any tactics RPG, let alone invest my time in dating sims, but the blend of both genres wrapped in pretty pink is simply irresistible.

[ehpn]

burn my life  ──  ✤

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