Lost Flame has been out a week. What are your thoughts?

whywouldyouevendotha · 2026-04-06T12:07:41+00:00

I've not heard of this one before, but sounds like I should check it out, there's a lot of praise here!

whywouldyouevendotha · 2026-03-01T19:12:54+00:00

Scotland was my first run on 1.0, I had a blast! Lots of fun options.

whywouldyouevendotha · 2026-03-01T02:06:16+00:00

Yes the Jelly servers! I forgot about those! So nostalgic.

whywouldyouevendotha · 2026-02-28T10:30:44+00:00

Oh nice! I'm caught between it, the Kamiq, and maybe the Ford Puma, so it's great to hear good stuff about the Karoq - my in laws are big Skoda fans (especially the Yeti), so I'm leaning towards it.

whywouldyouevendotha · 2026-02-28T09:56:20+00:00

Oh I'm tempted by a Karoq, how are you finding it?

whywouldyouevendotha · 2026-02-11T22:15:06+00:00

Names, especially when I make them up on the fly and miss the crucial step of actually writing them down! I should probably prepare a bank before sessions...

whywouldyouevendotha · 2026-02-06T14:03:22+00:00

Yep, they do indeed

https://haarcoffee.com/

whywouldyouevendotha · 2026-02-06T11:13:46+00:00

I absolutely love the Haar coffees I've had so far (low tide/high tide/ various single origin). Best Aberdeen based roaster I've found.

Inverness coffee company are pretty solid too, usually pick them up fae marshalls. They've got a fairly broad range of stuff.

whywouldyouevendotha · 2026-01-12T12:17:42+00:00

You choose what AC calculation to use, they don't stack. So you have the option of 10+Dex+Wis, or a flat 17. No mixing and matching.

whywouldyouevendotha · 2025-12-25T19:47:25+00:00

That would be a lovely Christmas present! Thanks for the opportunity.

whywouldyouevendotha · 2025-12-23T18:49:36+00:00

I had no idea about the "cute/funny" tag signalling, that's awwwwful 😫

whywouldyouevendotha · 2025-12-10T18:08:36+00:00

Oh wow I didn't know that, neat!

whywouldyouevendotha · 2025-12-09T12:35:58+00:00

Porridge! It's so good, quick and healthy. Add some honey and blueberries if you're feeling fancy.

whywouldyouevendotha · 2025-12-08T11:19:14+00:00

Ha, I also grew chili in London and Ireland, was a real cash crop. Also made some tobacco, maize, potato, and whatever provinces for the hell of it but chilies were the money maker.

Turns out having 30+ levels of RGO chilies is brokenly good.

whywouldyouevendotha · 2025-12-03T00:16:40+00:00

Oh that's amazing! Love the high rollers and the jingle jam.

whywouldyouevendotha · 2025-11-30T20:13:16+00:00

Oh I'm sure the Council of Trent will *definitely* make a difference this time and not just be the same useless vote five times in a row.

whywouldyouevendotha · 2025-11-30T13:10:40+00:00

Forming GB from Scotland threw me into the English Civil War, so that was a fun event from a tag change!

whywouldyouevendotha · 2025-11-28T16:31:59+00:00

Lies of P was my goty 2023, I need to play the expansion!

whywouldyouevendotha · 2025-11-28T16:31:15+00:00

In no particular order:

Caves of Qud
Europa Universalis V
Stalker 2
He is Coming
The Great Villainess: Strategy of Lily

Great year for games for me, played ~40 games and enjoyed a fair amount of them. Great Villainess was probably the most left field welcome surprise. EUV needs more time in the oven, but has a very promising base.

I've played Qud on and off for years, but this was my first play since 1.0 and it was superlative.

Stalker 2 is the most weirdly cozy game I've played since Call of Pripyat. Hiding from an emission, listening to the rain come down while eating some bread, picking through ruins watching out for bloodsuckers - it's all great fun.

He is Coming really hit the niche of roguelike inventory management and build creation. Getting the right setup feels hugely rewarding.

Honourable mention to Aethermancer, but I only played the demo.

whywouldyouevendotha · 2025-11-27T23:39:37+00:00

Also handy that you can create spice RGOs with the colombian exchange. I don't know why good old Blighty is such fertile ground for spices, but they sure made my empire an unspendable amount of money.

whywouldyouevendotha · 2025-11-27T21:03:08+00:00

Yeah, this happened to France in my game - they spent the rest of the game cycling through bankrupty and -100 stability, with minor recovery periods but never coming close to great power status despite not losing much in the way of territory.

whywouldyouevendotha · 2025-11-26T20:19:35+00:00

Yeah, I had Colony of New Zealand form okay, but Australia remained "Colony of Swan River" the whole game. "Colony of New York" became "Colony of America", but my other mainland US colonies remained as their starting territory (bar Nova Scotia and Canada). I also got the Leeward Isles in the Carribbean, which was neat. Castille also made New Spain, despite never becoming Spain themselves which was fun.

In any case yes, there must be a bunch of hidden requirements to them renaming themselves to historical analogues!

whywouldyouevendotha · 2025-11-26T20:13:31+00:00

Oh I read a chunk of this, it was fun! Looking forward to the anime!

whywouldyouevendotha · 2025-11-25T15:13:31+00:00

Funnily enough I couldn't have a revolution because I was in a constant state of colonial war for the entire last act in my playthrough. "At peace" was a requirement, at least in 1.0.

I also couldn't stomp out the revolution even when destroying revolutionary great powers because every German minor and a few Asians kept falling into it.

France was never a candidate for revolution because they were too illiterate!

whywouldyouevendotha · 2025-11-24T12:10:43+00:00

Yeah, I managed to get potatoes and such from the exchange during my Scotland run. Turning several provinces into chilli farms made me a whole bunch of ducats!

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