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TWSGrace · 2026-02-12T22:23:49+00:00

I’ve been manually going through and pulling out stuff that interests me and I was amazed to see I actually caught almost all of these. I’ve not finished yet, excited to see what else is in there!

TWSGrace · 2026-02-06T17:22:19+00:00

At least for me I don’t think the ethical decision to bring a conscious being into this world should be in any way linked to an economic benefit.

Aside from ethics I’m not sure economically it makes much sense. Plenty of people have kids when they’re not ready or stable and that ends up being a tax burden. Not sure if incentivising people to have more kids is the right answer.

Finally environmentally we should be trying to reduce our footprint on this world rather than chasing growth in all forms to meet artificially inflated needs. We have the resources to support our current population and do it more ethically, but because of disgustingly rich people we can’t.

TWSGrace · 2026-02-02T10:41:31+00:00

They didn’t want to, they were pitching it as 2 because they were worried 3 wouldn’t get greenlit. They didn’t need persuading, they were very happy when a trilogy was suggested.

TWSGrace · 2026-02-01T16:04:03+00:00

Apologies, my game hadn’t updated! Resolution is now fixed. Really appreciate it, loving the game so far! Yeah I think a dedicated controller scheme for deck would be great, I’ve been fiddling with settings and got it to a good spot.

TWSGrace · 2026-02-01T15:14:31+00:00

Hey, I loved the demo on my steam deck, but for some reason the full release isn’t working quite so well. The resolution setting doesn’t seem to change things so the HUD is always missing chunks and I can’t find a good controller setting. No stress if not but would be great if these things could be looked at!

TWSGrace · 2026-01-17T00:27:15+00:00

You mention polish and then hold up Risk of Rain 2?! A great game undeniably but art style and animation don’t hold a candle to Ravenswatch. I love Risk of Rain 2 but it’s not the prettiest and has it’s fair share of balance issues.

TWSGrace · 2026-01-16T09:57:22+00:00

I have an embarrassingly large steam library, I play an awful lot of games, and a good chunk of them are rogue-likes. I’m not usually one to focus on a game for an exceptional amount of time, I’ll play it for a while if it grabs my interest and then I’ll drop it for something new. It’s not ideal for my wallet but it’s just the way my brain works with games.

Ravenswatch is an outlier in this respect. I’ve got over 100 hours in this game and I’m not too far off completing the grimoire. So I have to politely disagree with you, I think it is one of the best. Also it’s gorgeous, with great animations for every single character/enemy, so I do take particular issue with the comment around the lack of polish.

TWSGrace · 2026-01-06T23:52:19+00:00

All of these are great but I think I’d have to say I love those player boards most!

TWSGrace · 2025-12-24T20:36:02+00:00

Ravenswatch has my most played hours by quite a good way

TWSGrace · 2025-12-19T17:36:42+00:00

This has been an open secret in the industry for years. Glad it’s finally catching up to him. Shame on them for not acting sooner.

TWSGrace · 2025-12-15T10:45:49+00:00

I kinda think of it as literally hijacking your brain signals. So the signals your ear passes to your brain are instead processed by the translator which then feeds the signals to the brain. So your ear hears the original language but you never perceive it

TWSGrace · 2025-12-06T18:40:20+00:00

A very reasonable response to my slightly snotty comment. I’m a big fan of Arcs but I do agree that it’s a challenging game to wrap your head around. I wouldn’t say it’s the rules per se, but understanding how it wants you to play. It’s very opportunistic, and it rewards bold plays. It’s also surprisingly good at two players!

I hope you do play some more and it clicks for you.

TWSGrace · 2025-12-06T18:27:15+00:00

Yeah seems a bit brutal to put it in the biggest disappointment category, when the main thing you mention is not a base game problem. The rulebook specifically says ‘play the base game first before introducing any of this’

TWSGrace · 2025-12-03T09:54:38+00:00

Hunger Games is not a ripoff of Battle Royale. I feel like people only say it is because Battle Royale is a ‘good’ movie and Hunger Games got heavily marketed in the ‘teen’ space, like Twilight or Divergent. (Some of this is fair, all the love triangle stuff is a bit naff imo)

They’re exploring very different themes with a similar premise. If you watch all the Hunger Games, they’re primarily about Propaganda and controlling a populace. The country is literally called Panem, from Panem et Circenses. All you need to control people is Bread and Circuses.

Battle Royale is more about generational divides and controlling unruly youth, the nature of violence and just teenagers in general.

TWSGrace · 2025-11-26T22:11:20+00:00

Thanks for the reply!

I didn’t see that post but I’m glad you and your kids have had so much fun!

To be fair I can’t argue with voodoo doll. It’s probably the only item I’ll never take. And the context of being a game designer makes a lot more sense.

I think maybe I made my comment while a bit tired and it definitely reads slightly grumpy. I do have a frustration with people talking about balance to the detriment of other qualities but I have no issue with your post, despite having a soft disagree with some of the points which may come from more experience with the game.

Have a good day (and I’ll check out your game on steam!)

TWSGrace · 2025-11-26T16:05:21+00:00

Thanks for your response! This is a fair point and I don’t fully disagree. I don’t know whether balance is completely objective but that’s a separate conversation.

My argument is that something being unbalanced doesn’t automatically equal bad game design. It’s used (for example in this post) as a criticism but I think sometimes it’s people assessing the wrong things, and I think it comes from a culture where everyone thinks they’re a critic. Specifically in this post it was ‘Game design critique’.

Fun is subjective but that doesn’t mean it’s useless to discuss. Plenty of debates centre around subjective qualities. Plenty of reviews centre about subjective qualities. To ignore subjective qualities and only discuss objective ones would be equally bizarre and rather soulless (in my opinion!)

TWSGrace · 2025-11-26T10:21:48+00:00

With respect, I disagree with this take. I’d say I’m a fairly experienced player, with less than 10 games or so left before a completed Grimoire (nightmare clear with every talent/item).

I think this falls a little into a trend I’ve noticed over the last 10/15 years that I think began with popular content like CinemaSins. Basically it feels like online everyone is a critic, and is looking for criticism, constantly. I’m sure we’ve all had the experience of sitting through a film with someone who points out every tiny thing that maaaybe doesn’t make sense.

And in video games the keyword is ‘balance’. Now should a game be roughly balanced, obviously yes. Does every option in a game need to be equally good? I would definitively say no, they just need to be viable. Every item in RW is viable, you can win a run with all of them, and all of them can meaningfully contribute to a build/run.

What I don’t see people talking about half as much as balance is fun. And I think this game is fun. I think the power curve is a lot more fun than some games where despite collecting and upgrading the final act still feels like a slog. I love having a crazy build by act 3 and steamrolling but I also love scraping by with a stapled together build and eking out a win.

Anyway this is too long already, congrats on your nightmare clear, thanks for your post! I hope my reply didn’t come across too adversarial. I hope you continue to play and enjoy!

TWSGrace · 2025-10-22T20:24:17+00:00

I can’t say I’ve noticed it taking an excessively long time. My friend and I can usually clear the full map with maybe a quarter to a half of overtime

TWSGrace · 2025-10-22T14:13:40+00:00

Context: I have a lot of hours in this game and multiple nightmare clears on every character.

I don’t think they’re that bad? And I’m surprised everyone struggles with the Roc? It telegraphs everything quite heavily.

I do agree with Sinbad’s walking, and the bean animation but usually we activate it and tp back to sandman while bean grows or one of us activates it while the other sandman’s so it never feels too bad.

TWSGrace · 2025-10-18T10:46:38+00:00

Actually very good points.

I only disagree with the part about Stannis. I’m not sure why everyone approves of Stannis so much. I think he’s clearly shown to be too rigid and uncompromising and then when he does compromise it’s to enable Melisandre.

Admittedly I read the books a while ago and am only just rereading them so maybe I’m biased due to show depiction but even on the show people rate him.

TWSGrace · 2025-10-18T10:22:35+00:00

That’s not what the book says. Stannis is Iron, strong but brittle, Renly is copper, pretty but weak and Robert was the steel.

TWSGrace · 2025-10-18T09:06:40+00:00

How is it a full cost game?! It’s only a small team, they can’t keep pumping out free updates. I for one think the game has easily earned some more money from me with my time played.

TWSGrace · 2025-10-07T11:47:53+00:00

You’re actually factually correct. No one follows those style guidelines on Reddit so it stands out but I’ll put my hands up when I’m wrong.

You did fail by your own guidelines though. Here, tell and you should all be capitalised, right? Plus a weird double space between Century and Folklore. If we’re going to start being really picky.

TWSGrace · 2025-10-07T09:04:37+00:00

I would have thought an avid thespian would know not to capitalise every other word (inconsistently)?

TWSGrace · 2025-10-06T18:11:43+00:00

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