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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1507530/Stellar_Mess_The_Princess_Conundrum_Chapter_1/

Free until 2/27/2025 10 AM PST (USA). Not my genre so it is a pass for me. ;) --
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[email protected] (Ant) writes:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1507530/Stellar_Mess_The_Princess_Conundrum_Chapter_1/

Free until 2/27/2025 10 AM PST (USA). Not my genre so it is a pass for me. ;)

Thanks, I'll take a look. I played a real retro point and click recently
(Rex Nebular).

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On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 01:57:07 +0000, [email protected] (Ant) wrote:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1507530/Stellar_Mess_The_Princess_Conundrum_Chapter_1/

Free until 2/27/2025 10 AM PST (USA). Not my genre so it is a pass for me. ;)

Made me instantly think of Maniac Mansion. Thanks for this one!

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Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> wrote at 15:42 this Friday (GMT):

On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 16:15:39 +0200, Anssi Saari
<[email protected]> wrote:

[email protected] (Ant) writes:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1507530/Stellar_Mess_The_Princess_Conundrum_Chapter_1/
Free until 2/27/2025 10 AM PST (USA). Not my genre so it is a pass for me. ;)

Thanks, I'll take a look. I played a real retro point and click recently >>(Rex Nebular).

<grumpy mode>

It's not the game that turns me off so much as the whole "chapter 1" bullshit. Call a demo a demo; don't make it like you're giving me a
free game. Plus, the implication of a 'chapter 1' is a chapter 2, 3,
4, 5 and so forth. I'm so over episodic gaming. Not only don't I want
to buy my games in chunks, the format leads to a lot of problems with repetitiveness and pacing. It makes for a less cohesive story and
gameplay.

[snip]


Agreed, naming something a "Chapter" makes it feel like it's trying too
hard to be a "cinematic experience" or whatever. You can put chapters
INTO a game, thats cool, but don't make a series and call each one a
chapter.
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