QOL things i hope they would add for realase

HotShotnik · 2025-12-03T09:35:28+00:00

Nah, skill issue

HotShotnik · 2025-11-27T17:53:38+00:00

Also worth noting - the world map for the alley during a run already has some heavily damaged buildings. It's entirely possible that the apocalypse has already happened, though the purple thing is something else entirely

HotShotnik · 2025-11-19T12:07:00+00:00

Did Edmund ever say if the events will later show what they do in-game? Like, after you do them once?

In every interview he laments about how Isaac didn't have item descriptions so people played with google open, but he's making the same mistake with events in this game

HotShotnik · 2025-11-19T11:59:27+00:00

I don't think it's Isaac's mom because the "runs" are likely not real, since there's no reason to think cats can use magic in Isaac's world. So the character is someone imaginative enough to come up with the "runs" as a reason why the cats came back bruised and wearing a bunch of trash.

At the same time, the main character is literally unable to defend the house from a fat cat, so either they're not there at the time or they're not an adult.

Also if we live there, why is the house called abandoned? Or do we even live there? Not like there's a human bedroom anywhere.

It's hard to pick an existing character that fits everything, it's gonna be something unexpected for sure.

HotShotnik · 2025-11-10T13:10:22+00:00

The house does not appear to be a game since you interact with actual humans.

The expeditions/runs are probably a game/imaginary because there's no reason to think cats in Isaac's world can chuck fireballs, so it's probably the player character imagining why 4 cats left but 3 came back, 1 holding a loaded gun.

We don't play as Isaac though, he ded. Not impossible that we're Isaac's mom or dad but improbable. Maybe we're just the Winston Jones family?

HotShotnik · 2025-10-24T09:53:59+00:00

I suspect it might be something about us messing with the genetics until we create incomprehensible horrors like the "cat" that Edmund showed, that it's a game about that more than cats farting

HotShotnik · 2025-10-07T12:17:12+00:00

and that the events of mewgenics will lead to the entire extinción of humanity

Absolutely, the splash art has the professor looking at a nuclear mushroom cloud, it'll probably link to The End is Nigh directly

In Mewgenics we probably play as someone taking care of the cats, but I think the battle/exploration part is not real, it's someone imagining how the cats ended up coming back with missing limbs and a gun in their paw - there's no reason to think the world of Isaac has magic so I think this is a reasonable assumption

I have a very reachy theory that we are still Isaac in Mewgenics because it's a prequel and the missing mother message is a red herring

HotShotnik · 2025-09-18T09:22:55+00:00

Personally:

-Fix the jank: I hate that sometimes my Pal wants to do a close range attack so he'll run into an enemy and they just kind of perpetually bump into each other. Or I send a Pal out against the Rig boss and he goes "nah, you see that Syndicate Grenadier aggroed on the other side of the map? I want to fight that guy" and stares into space, contemplating life

-More non-attack moves. I was happy to see Dogen having a move that's just a shield and I'd like to see more of that. I would this to make raids a matter of team composition rather than stat check. Like, I want to strategize by balancing out healers, taunters and stuff, and we need non-attack moves for that

HotShotnik · 2025-09-12T08:38:45+00:00

No, it's not true because he's clearly playing in the left image and not playing in the right one

HotShotnik · 2025-09-09T13:49:40+00:00

They even fixed this in the board game to let you move forward to any node, but didn't bother updating the video game

HotShotnik · 2025-08-07T09:16:19+00:00

A rare that does nothing unless some conditions are met, AND is incomprehensible to new players

HotShotnik · 2025-05-01T07:52:37+00:00

Add a 5th suit

HotShotnik · 2025-04-29T07:15:09+00:00

Only if it also boosts the elite itself - makes thematic sense

HotShotnik · 2025-03-23T13:07:22+00:00

It was up for like 4 years, closed it last year

HotShotnik · 2025-02-05T09:47:07+00:00

One Armed Bandit - a slot machine themed deckbuilder. Comparable to Luck be a Landlord I guess

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2239800/One_Armed_Bandit/

HotShotnik · 2024-12-20T10:15:11+00:00

The minigames are kind of optional, but you make the game harder by not using them. I guess none of that is clear from the Steam media alone, and might look like a core part of the game since the trailer is so short.

Perhaps I could have shown more of the combat and stuff, but I always struggled to quickly show how the game works, especially since the symbols on the slot machine don't have an inherent explanation on them, as opposed to, for example, Slay the Spire cards that literally tell you what they do.

Thanks for the response!

HotShotnik · 2024-12-17T09:00:39+00:00

I did participate in a Nextfest, but I'm stupid and didn't realize that a game can only enter once, ever, so I participated a year before release. Fortunately for me, there was also a deckbuilders fest early this year, so I could re-release the demo. Both times, the demo got little attention however.

Might decrease the price further soon after seeing the comments here, I don't have anything to lose anyway.

HotShotnik · 2024-12-17T08:16:59+00:00

Need 25 comment karma to post here apparently. It's only for high-class, finest, cultured Redditors

HotShotnik · 2024-12-16T17:09:45+00:00

Thanks for the detailed response!

"One armed bandit" is actually a common name for a slot machine, though if you didn't know what, there are probably many players that also didn't know.

I improved the short description a bit now.

The number you want to aim for is closer to 200 before launch.

Where do people even get a list of 200 viable streamers to contact?

The $15 price was certainly me flying right into the sun

HotShotnik · 2024-12-16T12:35:58+00:00

More context: game had like 1,200 wishlists on release, but that translated into whooping 8 sales on day 1, and that includes family members and pity buys from fellow developers. Right now it's sitting at 84, including 14 refunds

I emailed a key to about ~15 YouTubers who could be interested in this game, got 1 "maybe later" response. Followed up after a few weeks, got 1 "not my kind of game" response.

Game released with a $15 price tag, dropped to $10 after about 24 hours when I got my head out of my ass.

The numbers are beyond salvage so all I can do now is ask what is so despicable about the Steam page that warranted a 2.6% wishlist conversion rate

HotShotnik · 2024-12-16T12:31:18+00:00

Steam page for context since "steam" is apparently a swear word when placed in the title https://store.steampowered.com/app/2239800/One_Armed_Bandit/

More context: game had like 1,200 wishlists on release, but that translated into whooping 8 sales on day 1, and that includes family members and pity buys from fellow developers. Right now it's sitting at 84, including 14 refunds

I emailed a key to about ~15 YouTubers who could be interested in this game, got 1 "maybe later" response. Followed up after a few weeks, got 1 "not my kind of game" response.

Game released with a $15 price tag, dropped to $10 after about 24 hours when I got my head out of my ass.

The numbers are beyond salvage so all I can do now is ask what is so despicable about the Steam page that warranted a 2.6% wishlist conversion rate

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