Saw it on a friends shelf, read it, bought it for my kid and me.
Solid book for 1 deck of cards. This book has so many card games that can be played with a single deck, some of these I grew up knowing, but most I’d never heard of. There’s one solitaire game me and my kid love playing from this. Don’t recall the game, only you set out cards one by one in a 4x5 grid making poker hands trying to get the highest score. Pretty fun tbh.
Handhelds are there only way to get some gaming time in most of the time (Steam Deck, Retroid Pocket console, Switch, etc).
Roguelites are there best type of game. Single player. Can put down easily. Short bursts of play with progress in each run (not a 90 hour saga that takes a year to complete).
Balatro kept me sane through the first couple months after mine was born. I'd also say Risk of Rain (1 and 2), Enter the Gungeon, and Vampire Survivors
Hollow knight was great for these exact reasons! Very easy to pick up and put down. Also gives you something with a longer term progression. Oh and backpack battles too. Fantastic little game. These three games basically entertained a party of my brain through the first 2+ years of fatherhood
I've already finished Hades 2, love it. Now I'm back in Cyberpunk very slowly working through every side quest I never did. I've been meaning to check out Hallow Night so I'm glad to see people recommending it.
Agree on handhelds. Disagree with roguelites and roguelikes, though I guess that depends on the person. I personally like to learn the map and the lay of the land.
If there’s an apocalypse that doesn’t just wipe us all out, people who are capable of collaborating and forming communities will do much better than people who think they’re going to hunt and scavenge and play games on their own.
Find a mechanic to keep the Genny working and a chemist to set ut a biofuel facility and you can run it untill you run out of spare generators to cannibalize or vegetation/dead bodies.
If you want to join our community you need to win at street-fighter 2
Older games were awesome for this. It was a given on PC, but on consoles, Halo was really special here. You could have 16 player matches with 4 consoles doing 4 way split screen connected to the same local network.
I suppose it depends which type of apocalypse we are talking about. A zombie outbreak would, at least theoretically, leave infrastructure mostly intact.
Nuclear war wouldn't.
Idk, staying inside a space that is safe enough to play video games is likely much more safe than leaving. If you can run something to play video games you likely also have food and such and without mass electricity there are a lot of hours in the day you just wait.
When I was a kid, pre-internet, there was a "computer club" that was basically a massive pirating event held once a month.
TV and Amiga in the car, large room in a hotel in Dublin city. You set up and swapped cracked games with all the other people there, copying floppies. It was so exciting to little me.
You might be a bit facetious, but unironically multiplayer games would be important for community building. Morale is one of the most important parts of survival
Even worse than that. A lot of single player ones have to check in with the Internet eventually. This will restrict the set even further. PlayStation will become useless after a couple years.
I think it's more the 'karma farming' aspect that the commenter is referring to. Which is a bad thing, because karma farming can be used to make bot accounts look like real accounts.
Luckily for us, this is Lemmy so the advertisers and DIsruptor Nation-States don't really see a good ROI on their time over here. Yay?
I recently set up a raspberry pi with retropie so i have 1000s of games that dont require internet connections now :) fun project and tonight once my new ssd arrives im setting up linux mint on my desktop (dual boot) and am going to try to transition away from windows. Because its fucking shit.
The pi sparked the drive i needed to make it happen. Really enjoyed my intro to linux.
sure is! There aren't any official rules for solo d&d specifically but the mythic GM emulator works just fine with 5e :) Lots of solo supported ttrpgs though! Free League has lots of games with solo support
If it's a mostly everyone dies quick apocalypse due to sickness or a "rapture" type event then "ammunition and beans" are not gonna be as high a commodity.
Hell even in a "I am legend" type apocalypse where beans and ammo are a high commodity so would entertainment be. (and I'd rather play video games than watch movies.)
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jordanlund@lemmy.world · 148 pts · 279d
Bonus: Also supports multiplayer:
cRazi_man@europe.pub · 56 pts · 279d
Hey I love Balatro too!
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 279d
Oh solitaire? You see what you can do with that 10 right?
throws deck of cards in the fire
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 279d
See this: Ultimate Book of Card Games
Saw it on a friends shelf, read it, bought it for my kid and me.
Solid book for 1 deck of cards. This book has so many card games that can be played with a single deck, some of these I grew up knowing, but most I’d never heard of. There’s one solitaire game me and my kid love playing from this. Don’t recall the game, only you set out cards one by one in a 4x5 grid making poker hands trying to get the highest score. Pretty fun tbh.
sausager@lemmy.world · 77 pts · 279d
As a new dad, single player games with anytime saving have been a life saver
cRazi_man@europe.pub · 48 pts · 279d
Here's some dad advice for you:
Handhelds are there only way to get some gaming time in most of the time (Steam Deck, Retroid Pocket console, Switch, etc).
Roguelites are there best type of game. Single player. Can put down easily. Short bursts of play with progress in each run (not a 90 hour saga that takes a year to complete).
crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 19 pts · 279d
Slay The Spire and Hades have been huge timesinks for me when I can't commit time to sitting at the computer for a huge JRPG. Anything you recommend?
bluespin@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 279d
Balatro kept me sane through the first couple months after mine was born. I'd also say Risk of Rain (1 and 2), Enter the Gungeon, and Vampire Survivors
Lodra@programming.dev · 7 pts · 279d
Hollow knight was great for these exact reasons! Very easy to pick up and put down. Also gives you something with a longer term progression. Oh and backpack battles too. Fantastic little game. These three games basically entertained a party of my brain through the first 2+ years of fatherhood
sausager@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 279d
I've already finished Hades 2, love it. Now I'm back in Cyberpunk very slowly working through every side quest I never did. I've been meaning to check out Hallow Night so I'm glad to see people recommending it.
cRazi_man@europe.pub · 4 pts · 279d
Balatro - card game
Monster Train - turn based deck builder (if you liked Slay the spire)
Dead Cells - action hack and slash side scrolling
Binding of Isaac - GOAT twin stick shooter
Enter the Gungeon - other GOAT twin stick shooter, more modern
Cult of the Lamb - hack and slash, with farming
Moonlighter - action, with shop-keeping simulation
Children of Moira - action
Curse of the Dead Gods - action hack and slash
Faster Than Light - spaceship command, mix of real time strategy with time pause for planning
Risk of Rain 2 - 3rd person shooter
Brotato - single stick shooter
Vampire survivors - single stick shooter
Don't Starve Together - survival, farming, crafting, combat
Synthetik - top down shooter. Can be played with M+KB, but I prefer it as a twin stick shooter with controller
Crown Trick - top down combat, single action at a time
Spelunky 2 - very difficult platformer/simplistic combat
Deep rock Survivor - single stick shooter with mining
MatchR - I like gem matching, this was amusing for a short while
Windblown - top down hack and slash
Roboquest - FPS roguelite
Blazing Beaks - twin stick shooter
Cursed to Golf - golf
Nuclear Throne - twin stick shooter
Crypt of the necrodancer - rhythm
Dungeon of the Endless - tower defense, mining
Dome keeper - mining + asteroids type base defense
There are loads more......depends on what flavour you like
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 279d
Monster Train! Great rougelite deck builder.
Philote@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 279d
Not handheld, I feel you must play with mouse and keyboard but Noita is my favorite game of all time.
JargonWagon@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 279d
Agree on handhelds. Disagree with roguelites and roguelikes, though I guess that depends on the person. I personally like to learn the map and the lay of the land.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 279d
I'd imagine turn based rpgs would be the best
kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 279d
Here's sone new dad advice for you: The baby needs good soil and plenty of water
FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 279d
Don't forget to regularly turn it over so both sides bake equally
SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 59 pts · 279d
There's a real important question here: do you have solar panels?
Otherwise I think it's gonna be board games...
gabereal@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 279d
Solitaire it is!
And 'Mansions of Madness: 2E', I guess
Valmond@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 279d
Dynamo-bike!
Almacca@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 279d
Pedal faster, kid! I nearly beat the boss!
JargonWagon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 279d
Hell yeah, board games! And no single use board games either - I'm looking at you, Pandemic Legacy.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 279d
You can keep playing legacy games afterwards, the legacy part is about developing a somewhat one of a kind variation of the game by the end of it.
Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 274d
I just connect my home trainer 🌚
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 47 pts · 279d
If there’s an apocalypse that doesn’t just wipe us all out, people who are capable of collaborating and forming communities will do much better than people who think they’re going to hunt and scavenge and play games on their own.
Blum0108@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 279d
I think he means games that requires constant Internet connection straight up won't work.
turdcollector69@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 279d
If the entire Internet is down then so too is power.
Ain't nobody playing video games after the lights go out.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 279d
Some people think they can run on their own generators indefinitely.
mudstickmcgee@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 279d
Find a mechanic to keep the Genny working and a chemist to set ut a biofuel facility and you can run it untill you run out of spare generators to cannibalize or vegetation/dead bodies.
If you want to join our community you need to win at street-fighter 2
awesomesauce309@midwest.social · 32 pts · 279d
multiplayer games that can run p2p on intranet will be even more valuable
GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 279d
"You wanna piece of me, boi??"
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 279d
Older games were awesome for this. It was a given on PC, but on consoles, Halo was really special here. You could have 16 player matches with 4 consoles doing 4 way split screen connected to the same local network.
Zorque@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 279d
As long as they're cooperative, sure.
30p87@feddit.org · 26 pts · 279d
Metro but the russians are still playing CS professionally
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 279d
Yes. Because you’ll have food, water, electricity to run a computer, and leisure gaming time during such a time.
ComradePorkRoll@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 279d
Solar panels are a great investment for the apocalypse.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 279d
They probably are. Along with the skill to wire them properly.
GuyLivingHere@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 279d
I suppose it depends which type of apocalypse we are talking about. A zombie outbreak would, at least theoretically, leave infrastructure mostly intact. Nuclear war wouldn't.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 279d
Out of those two which would be most likely?
GuyLivingHere@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 279d
Hard to say.
minorkeys@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 279d
You'll have better things to do with your time in an apocalyptic than playing video games.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 49 pts · 279d
Meh
Ohmmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 279d
Like what?
minorkeys@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 279d
Like not die, unless your into that, in which case, you won't play video games for long.
gabereal@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 279d
'Dying in the apocalypse' is my retirement plan, soooo....
minorkeys@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 279d
For me it's probably the water wars.
Ohmmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 279d
Idk, staying inside a space that is safe enough to play video games is likely much more safe than leaving. If you can run something to play video games you likely also have food and such and without mass electricity there are a lot of hours in the day you just wait.
minorkeys@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 279d
Sure, if you survive the apocalypse in a conveniently safe, maintained, powered and well stocked cave...all the time in the world.
RaoulDuke25@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 279d
Everyone thinks they'll be Bill from Last of Us.
khannie@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 279d
When I was a kid, pre-internet, there was a "computer club" that was basically a massive pirating event held once a month.
TV and Amiga in the car, large room in a hotel in Dublin city. You set up and swapped cracked games with all the other people there, copying floppies. It was so exciting to little me.
Almacca@aussie.zone · 9 pts · 279d
Best game ever!
khannie@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 279d
Wow. Cool picture. Instant transportation to kid me.
The latest versions of it were the hottest thing doing the rounds at those meet ups.
Almacca@aussie.zone · 13 pts · 279d
I don't plan on surviving any apocalypse. Also, the electrical grid will probably be one of the first things to go.
ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 279d
But not electricity itself.
I plan to relocate near a hydro dam, Take a laptop, charger, and offline portable wiki on a flash drive.
Mangoholic@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 279d
I think its fresh water, food and than maybe way down the list, its single player games.
dogs0n@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 279d
Agree, multiplayer games over LAN > singleplayer
Just find 9 other people (zombie or otherwise) and get a local CS match going.
Or find 99 people and get a tournament going and forget about this cruel and dying world for a few Hs.
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 279d
You might be a bit facetious, but unironically multiplayer games would be important for community building. Morale is one of the most important parts of survival
Hellotypewriter@retrolemmy.com · 11 pts · 279d
My Famicom is ready!
henfredemars@infosec.pub · 11 pts · 279d
Even worse than that. A lot of single player ones have to check in with the Internet eventually. This will restrict the set even further. PlayStation will become useless after a couple years.
waz@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 279d
PlayStation 1?
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 279d
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
madjo@feddit.nl · 8 pts · 279d
That also means that Steam won't work.
dogs0n@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 279d
STEAM OFFLINE MODE!?!?!?
That werks rite? Or have we been (not bean) lied to??
kilgore_trout@feddit.it · 1 pts · 279d
You still need to connect once a month.
dogs0n@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 279d
I don't believe that's true for Steam as long as the game itself supports offline mode and doesn't try to do a connection test manually.
kilgore_trout@feddit.it · 0 pts · 279d
After 1 month in offline mode, it will prompt you to go online in order to start software.
ComeHereOrIHookYou@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 278d
This is fake news
aggelalex@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 279d
DnD and WoD are gonna be fire if you are not alone
SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 279d
WoD?
aggelalex@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 279d
World of Darkness. Pretty sick ttrpg
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 279d
Ghost of Tsushima will be sold at fine art rates
Fandangalo@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 279d
The updoot farming here makes me hesitant, but it’s still true.
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 279d
Lemmy, updoots don't mean the same thing.
thejoker954@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 279d
They don't mean anything in the bad place either.
Valmond@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 279d
Yeah but here you can just fake it wildly,not so easily on reddit IMO.
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 279d
Oh shit guys! This is the bad place 😵
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 2 pts · 279d
People agreeing and enjoying themselves makes you hesitant?
gabereal@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 279d
I think it's more the 'karma farming' aspect that the commenter is referring to. Which is a bad thing, because karma farming can be used to make bot accounts look like real accounts.
Luckily for us, this is Lemmy so the advertisers and DIsruptor Nation-States don't really see a good ROI on their time over here. Yay?
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 279d
I recently set up a raspberry pi with retropie so i have 1000s of games that dont require internet connections now :) fun project and tonight once my new ssd arrives im setting up linux mint on my desktop (dual boot) and am going to try to transition away from windows. Because its fucking shit.
The pi sparked the drive i needed to make it happen. Really enjoyed my intro to linux.
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 279d
Solo D&D even moreso
andxz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 279d
Is that a thing for real?
..asking for a friend, because I obviously have loads of those.
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 279d
sure is! There aren't any official rules for solo d&d specifically but the mythic GM emulator works just fine with 5e :) Lots of solo supported ttrpgs though! Free League has lots of games with solo support
andxz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 279d
Thank you!
guyoverthere123@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 278d
cs.rin.ru
You're welcome.
blitzen@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 279d
What do you think the apocalypse is? Ammunition and cans of beans are going to be valuable. Video games, not so much
thejoker954@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 279d
It depends on the apocalypse.
If it's a mostly everyone dies quick apocalypse due to sickness or a "rapture" type event then "ammunition and beans" are not gonna be as high a commodity.
Hell even in a "I am legend" type apocalypse where beans and ammo are a high commodity so would entertainment be. (and I'd rather play video games than watch movies.)
salacious_coaster@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 279d
Collapse is a process. There will probably be an extended period where we still have electricity, but lots of social unrest, food scarcity, etc.
Forester@pawb.social · 3 pts · 279d
He means post apocalypse is after the collapse when society starts to rebuild
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 1 pts · 279d
Who pooped in your soup?
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 279d
Nah, imma head out, yall have fun during the apocalypse or whatever.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 278d
When you're in a game and get cornered and you wanna deny your opponent the satisfaction of getting the kill. lol
NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 279d
"lol this motherfucker is waiting for marks and spencer to reopen"
blitzen@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 279d
Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 274d
My wii, 3ds and wiiU are ready 😂✌🏻
( have about 3Tb of wiiU install files and filled the SD of my 3ds with games )
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 279d
All the more reason to hoard your plunder from the high seas.