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With 100% of the vote, Dread Delusion wins the 2024 rGOTY award in an absolute landslide 
It's also on sale right now and you can buy it here for next to nothing: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1574240/Dread_Delusion/
And now for a bit about our unanimous winner.
Do you like the way N64 games and Morrowind look more than anything else? I do, and so I wishlisted Dread Delusion years ago before it was even in early access just from the screenshots. It released in full back in May and I'd been putting off playing it until recently because it couldn't possibly live up to the expectations from years of building it up in my head. But no, it actually did and it was way way way better than I even stupidly hoped it could be.
I even really enjoyed the narrative and worldbuilding, and I generally hate those things in games. And DD has a lot of it. Lots and lots of dialogue and ambient shit to take in. The premise matches the aesthetic and I was typing a bit about it but there were spoilers so I deleted it. Anyway it's a very novel postapocalyptic (fantasy world apocalypse) bit where the world is broken and this sick group that killed all the gods runs things now because the gods were all kind of evil and sadistic. But this group sucks too. Everything sucks. It's a world of suck and it's all so compelling and interesting.
There are airships and a mechanical kingdom run by an insane glitching machine king (soviets) and a kingdom where everyone can never die and they all desperately want to and a badass freedom kingdom (Americans) and a broken miasmatic surface world miles below these flying islands they're all so aesthetically engaging and varied and just looking at shit in all its 64 bit lovecraftian glory never gets old and is the primary driver of the game in my opinion.
There is no minimap and no quest arrows. There are a lot of quests. Locating things uses the tried and true system in the bottom of this maymay:
Except even more unreliable because this was made by one guy and sometimes when he says like northwest he actually meant east in another country. But that's ok because there's always shit to find and do and see.
"Choices matter" is an old buzz phrase but it's actually true here. There's almost never a right answer to things, just equally bad answers and maybe one is less bad. Like I let a little boy get eaten by a dormant god so this village's crops would stop failing. The kid dies. His mom is bummed. But I saved the town and it was cool to do so I did that and that was neat.
Anyway congratulations to Dread Delusion. You were full of exciting twists and letting me do things I didn't think I'd be allowed to do. You have flesh farms and god genociding and a town made of maddening clocks and weird abominations everywhere and I even enjoyed reading all of your strange little books to flesh out the world even more.
Buy Dread Delusion. It won rDrama's Game of the Year Award and you're on rDrama, so it should be up your alley.
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Sorry carp but the real game of the year is actually Shogun Showdown.
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Critics are calling it the season 2 of Big Brother equivalent of indie vidya
@CREAMY_EGG_NOG_ORGASM
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Why do you tease me so
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Jewish lives matter too Grapevann.
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Season 1 is the best season of all time. Don't @ me.
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You can probably run this with a smart fridge. Surely your Sims laptop can handle it.
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I'd have to install windows
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JOYCE LINUX OGRE OATES
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No, I have the opposite problem. I have a MacBook and am too stupid to run Windows on it
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Oh that's very fashionable then please disregard this entire gross neurodivergent thread
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Almost any Windows game runs fine on Linux with Wine + Proton + Lutris.
Never had a game that didn't work with Wine, I even got Lol working before Vangaurd.
Speaking of which, don't play video games. They are trash.
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BRVTAL HALF-LIFE
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Lmao, it's got the Duke3d levels.
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Obviously it's Spore
!zoomers
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Spore more like Spoor amirite?
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Then you'd like evolve 3d, a roblox implementation of spore/sipho with the advantages of multiplayer gameplay!
https://rdrama.net/h/vidya/post/326593/evolve-3d-multiplayer-spore-in-roblox
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rDrama underrated retro gem award goes once again to:
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I misread this as Dark Souls 3, please give me my vote back.
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I stopped playing DS2 shortly after starting when I saw how dumb the weapon durability mechanic was. I recently picked it back up as I heard it got better as you progressed. I almost finished it and the DLC now, might finish it this weekend.
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That's the light and fruity Dark Souls
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I swear, DS2's gotta be wider in terms of walking-space than DS3, right?
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Ds2 is the biggest souls game, with the most bosses, weapons, and it has ascetics. People hate it cause it did everything right.
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DS2 is basically a rudderless fan-made mod where they slapped as many bosses as possible into generic maps.
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Lol thats a spot on description. The bad design is part of what makes it good for me.
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They call it dark souls 2 because you can remember 2 bosses in the entire game (one is Ornstein)
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Pursuer and uhh whoever you can summon Jester Thomas for
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DS2's my favorite, but I don't think it has a single interesting boss in it.
Well, the DLC samurai.
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The levels themselves stand out as being harder than the bosses. The chariot boss is cool but its a gimmick fight.
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No, frick you
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We should have an actual GOTY thread.
I will make it.
For free.
Or not idk.
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Unironically dread delusion
I'm not even kidding
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Why do you only like gay niche games
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NMS is extremely popular
So is Yakuza
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I feel like the Yakuza franchise is immensely more popular than NMS, but those numbers are probably very skewed considering japs never buy foreign games and absolutely love doing mindless minigames and sidequests.
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pls do
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kill yt
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DEI slop, will not even pirate it
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blatant
self insert
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There actually is
representation if you continue down a million page long optional dialog with the machine in the Library of Untruths for an optional sidequest. The machine king (Its Majesty) erases a 
from existence and everyone's memory because it wanted a s*x change. It's not played off as transphobic. Its Maj just rules and has no time for that nonsense.
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I queued the torrent. This better be good or your getting chud awarded
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It's a $15 indie why tf are there even torrents
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jews
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Yet Carp and Capy do.
Will I like is as Morrowind strag?
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Speaking as a Morrowind strag yes, absolutely. Morrowind is still better by orders of magnitude obviously, but it has Morrowind DNA aesthetically and sort of narratively.
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This game was so hard as a kid
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Wasn´t tbere a rocket that took you back a few levels too? Broke me as a kid.
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I miss when dunkey was funny
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Me too
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Marrying a smoke detector robs you of you frivolity.
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Are there elfs?
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The only game i play is destroying my drama opps using facts and logic. SUBMIT TO ME
@jesus 
@Awoo 
@FormerLurKONG 
@BrasilIguana
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I hope you never let me into your ping group so we can beef forever 😘😘
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You can join !evenchads btw
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Dont bring me into this
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Your Twitter posts are WACK
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Yikes imagine appropriating aave in current year BIGOT.
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This is the kind of realism I want in a game. Confidently inaccurate NPCs. I would like to see them give multiple quests, with increasingly more wrong directions to see how long it takes people to figure out they are mostly full of shit
!nwahs has anyone played this game?
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None of the NPCs understand the concept of a border. Virtually every quest that mentions "at the [directional] edge of [LOCALITY]" is nowhere near the edge. I got sidetracked for hours because I was looking for the northwestern edge of Clockwork Kingdom and gave up trying to find it so I just did everything else in Clockwork Kingdom and found what the "northwestern edge" was referring to entirely by luck while doing something else.
It's not the edge
It's due west
It may not even be in Clockwork Kingdom
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Both devs and g*mers should be ground into a fine paste
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It's 2024 if NPCs don't have fully animated peepees swinging under their armor ur wasting my time
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as everyone knows a game literally can't be good unless it has 24k super ultra HD realistic graphics
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I haven't gamed in years. I just clicked on this thread to vote for Concord cause lol. But honestly I might actually get this game. I assume from the screenshots that basically any modern PC can run it. Just looking at it made me feel nostalgic for when I wasted whole summer breaks gaming away
!oldstrags ya feel me
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BALATRO
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BVLLATRO
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!nwahs The true game of the year is Fallout London, which was everything fallout 4 should've been (fun mostly)
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Carp why do you only play r-slur games?
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Poor
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I refuse to play games that have only been made by one person. Is it like Majora's Mask? It looks a lot like it, but I guess the N64 purple moon nighttime vibe will do that.
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The only other solo projects I've played are Stardew (goated) and Animal Well (impressive and fun), I have very positive feelings towards the concept but maybe I've just only played the cream of the crop
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animal well was lowkey dogshit
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Animal Well was fun, it's crazy that he even wrote and recorded the music and the animal noises himself.
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Farming is better.
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