2020-12-20 02:24:36

Greetings, travellers of galaxies, completer of quests, deep combat system lovers, and anything in between!
I'd like to give you three new games which are very good time wasters in my opinion.
First is Voyager. You are in command of a starship of a peculiar nature. It only goes downward to the center of the galaxy due to the descent drive installed. You need to manage travel supplies, make money by transporting goods from randomly generated world to randomly generated world, avoid or deal with pirates, collect samples of terran or alien worlds, smuggle, manage your crew, and, all the meaning to this is that you should uncower the nature of the descent drive! Kind of long story, i myself didn't complete it yet, prestiging system, meaning if you settle down on  a world you can start over with bonuses. Link is:
https://brunodias.itch.io/voyageur
The game costs $4.99, but every cent worth it in my opinion. The interface is a web based one, tested with NVDA. The only minor pest is the adjustment of music, ambience, and sounds. You can toggle them off and on by going to settings, then standing on the desired item, and going one down, there should be a clickable. Click there with nvda mouse click and it should toggle, though, one of my friends couldn't do it, but for me it works perfectly.

Second is 4x4 galaxy. Maybe some of you are aware of it because downloaded it and it gave me a screen reader friendly version, another web based game.
link is:
https://agat.itch.io/4x4-galaxy
Taken from the site: "4x4 Galaxy is a space exploration game with 16 planets that are different every playthrough thanks to procedurally generated content. Discover new worlds, battle space pirates and strange beasts, sell goods, explore abandoned mines, go on quests, buy equipment and upgrade your starship; gain enough power to complete your main objective, which is also procedurally generated!"

Third is called Travel. A steam game about battling, completing quests, building towns, and getting better and better equipment in proceduraly generated fashion. Has classes, very deep combat system, and,  i think a deeper story behind all of the battling but i didn't find anything, except a mention in the second town.
link is: https://store.steampowered.com/app/992240/Trawel/
Costs 3,99 euro.
Launch the game in the following way if you don't want to get a strange, though still usable interface. Go to your steamapps/travel folder, edit runtravel.bat and delete the line which starts travel graphycal mode, save the file, then you're good to go. Pure command line version.

Hail, Daughter of Hatred. Creator of Sanctuary. Hail...Lilith.

2020-12-20 03:25:27

Hi,
I’ve tried Trawel so far, and it seems to be quite a fun time waster. Just a heads up, when deleting the line about the graphical version, The original shortcut doesn’t work correctly, so just replace it with a shortcut to the runtrawel file instead.
By the way, thanks forgetting we hooked on stone soup this past year. smile

2020-12-20 03:32:02

@1 a little OT but your google drive folder for dcss keeps giving me an access denied message when I try to access it.

2020-12-20 04:51:19

didn't i delete that stupid permission thing? A second and it'll be gone.

Hail, Daughter of Hatred. Creator of Sanctuary. Hail...Lilith.

2020-12-20 07:26:20

hi, i played the 4x4 galaxy but i only encounter stong enemies like the enemy who have 200 hp. is there any way to encounter easy enemies? also, when i explore the space, what does mean letter o?

hi. i am a dark matter miner. yeah, i am setting mines that when something steps on it, it will explode and release huge amount of dark matters. oh sorry... i am a slave miner, i am mining dark matters...

2020-12-20 07:36:22

Just escape that enemy, the enemyes which you encounter are random. With jaws i think letter o means unexplored planet?

Hail, Daughter of Hatred. Creator of Sanctuary. Hail...Lilith.

2020-12-20 07:55:37

You never disappoint Arnold! Thanks for the research!

2020-12-20 08:02:05

I have completed both Voyager and 4x4 Galaxy.

I played 4x4 Galaxy after the game entered Spring Thing.
The only thing not accessible was the map, each destination was being read as "O".
I notified the author and she fixed the whole thing in minutes.
This is how we have the screenreader version.

To choose destination with easier enemies, pay attention to the colour on the link, it specifies the difficulty of the planet.
I forgot which colors they are, but it all is in the game's help.
Use INSERT+F or whatever the screenreader command is to check the formatting, it includes color.
If nothing else, escape.

2020-12-20 12:49:25

did the dev fixed the web version?

hi. i am a dark matter miner. yeah, i am setting mines that when something steps on it, it will explode and release huge amount of dark matters. oh sorry... i am a slave miner, i am mining dark matters...

2020-12-20 13:13:21

Hi,
@Arnold18 wow, I do not know how you find this stuff, but fantastic. I will be checking all of this stuff out. Just a heads up, voyager is not actually titled voyager, this is why I couldn't find it. It's titled/spelt voyageur. I've actually played this one on Android!

2020-12-20 13:22:58

Aw! I hope it doesn't say "you can't run this game" when I check its spec again, that steam thing. Or else I'll be saaad.

Why do ghost hunters have to hunt ghosts? Well, there's a fear of being ghosted out there. They may need therapy as well as their ghost hunting kit.

2020-12-20 13:56:25 (edited by arnold18 2020-12-20 14:00:04)

it should run, its just a command line.
As for how and where i find games, sometimes when i'm superbored, i start typing shit into google like text based proceduraly generated deep combat games and stuff like that big_smile

Hail, Daughter of Hatred. Creator of Sanctuary. Hail...Lilith.

2020-12-20 19:08:54

@Arnald 18, some great finds there, I've occasionally had really good experiences poking around the net myself, since for all there is a lot of crap, and even more inaccessible stuff, you occasionally run into some real gems.

I've known about voyageur.  for a while and have it on Ios, but the others are new to me.
I'm liking 4x4 galaxy rather a lot at the moment, though I do wish the danger level of planets had a better marker than me needing to check the text colour

With our dreaming and singing, Ceaseless and sorrowless we! The glory about us clinging Of the glorious futures we see,
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)

2020-12-20 19:38:07

Does anyone have a link to voyageur on android?

2020-12-20 19:59:54

does anyone know the path for the steamapps travel folder, i can't sceme to find it.

2020-12-20 20:29:04

looks like voyageur is gone for ios, can anyone confirm?

Take care, it's a desert out there.

2020-12-20 20:51:13

yeah. voageur seems to be no loger available on ios.

2020-12-20 21:04:05

Despite its simple style, 4x4 is somehow realy nice.

Is there a chance to test this voageur before buying it? I hate to buy something without knowing what i will get.
If i like it i dont have any problem to donate even more that its purchase price

2020-12-20 21:22:59

never mind, i found it.

2020-12-20 22:35:14

Last time I checked, voyageur did not have a demo.
So the only choyce is to buy it or not.

2020-12-20 22:59:25 (edited by Luel 2020-12-20 23:04:47)

Sorry for double post again, but I just remembered a game that might interest people here.
Skybreak! is a science-fantasy role-playing game of galactic proportions: explore distant stars, plunder alien ruins, hunt space pirates, collect beetles, slay gods, make out with sorcerers, and punch cosmic evil in its flabby, betentacled face!

The only thing you can't do is steer...

The game is made in Adrift and can be downloaded or played online.
I never completed the game, only started to see what it was about.

2020-12-20 23:10:03

Anyone have a copy of 4x4 galaxy they can put up? The link in post 1 is giving me a server error.

2020-12-20 23:21:57

Here ya go
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xhnu5f2usibm8 … .html?dl=1

2020-12-20 23:58:31

Thanks 23.

2020-12-21 00:33:53

voyageur is no longer available on playstore as well.