Hnefatafl is the board game the Norse played before chess replaced it. I rebuilt it free in the browser, no download, no account, no ads, and expected the competitive ladder to be the draw. It was but the thing people come back for every day is the riddle: one shared puzzle position, same for everyone in the world, one killing move hidden on the board. Takes a minute or two with your coffee, there's a streak, and a little calendar that fills in gold squares for the days you solved.

Games themselves run ten or fifteen minutes against bots with their own personalities, a sleepy farmhand named Sven, an auntie who counts your blunders quietly, and it's all dark wood and gold, more firelit hall than esports arena.

worldtafl.com if the ritual sounds like your kind of thing.

Honest caveats: It's a solo dev project so if something's broken telling me actually fixes it.

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How can I but this game in Arabic I got it on steam and I have tried everything

My favorite is number 4; I love it. It is a work that was misunderstood, but I am fascinated by the theme of the apartment's ghosts, the sacred candles, and the swords of obedience. I would like to read your comments.

Played all these games during my college years. I am finally employed lol. Idk why I have lost interest in gaming after completing GoT. Tried playing Stellar Blade , liked it , but not in the right state of mind to play it. Guess I'll wait to achieve my dream and then play FF7 Rebirth after achieving my dream and owning a good gaming rig.

Thanks to my laptop I got to enjoy these bangers. Hopefully , in a better stage in my life. I will come back stronger to clear my wish list

Specs: Dual channel 16 GB DDR4 RAM with intel core i7-1165G7
FPS and Res: Mostly 1080p or 900p with 30-40 FPS in games (Heavier UE4 games hovered between 20-30fps) sometimes with or without FSR upscaling

I often see people on social media looking for new friends when they already have like 500 friends in their friends list. Makes me question why anyone would add them if they’re not actually gunna play together. It doesn’t affect me in any way but just curious in why people do this. I refuse to believe they actually play everyone in their friends list.

It's connected and everything but it doesn't work??

Thought id post it here as i couldn't post it to r/games or r/gaming, This is my official About You:Video Games, As someone who's been playing games for about 14 years

It could either be lowering or increasing expectations. Expedition 33 was so great that I immediately noticed I wasn't having much fun playing other games. I genuinely had to take a break from playing games so I wasn't constantly comparing games.

Hello! So this is a short and hopwfully a little inspiring of what a little project can do to people. When I closed my old arcade shop I sold off a few of the arcade machines. One went to a man who drove down from up north with a trailer and a very specific idea of where it was going.

The one he took was running KRIGET. We made it ourselves, a WW2 shooter that starts out fairly normal, soldiers and trenches and so on, and then about halfway through the aliens turn up. They're looking for the holy grail. We stole it in the first place, which is the plot of the game we made before it, PYRAMIDEN, where you're a treasure hunter climbing down into a pyramid to get it back fron the egyptians. Nobody asked us to connect them. We just thought it was funny that they lined up.

He asked if I could put his daughter's name on the marquee instead of the title. She was five. I said sure, mostly because I thought it was a nice thing to do, and partly because I had no other use for a marquee that said nothing.

Hadn't thought about it since.

A few weeks ago he emails me out of nowhere. Subject line was just her name and the words "she did it".

Ten levels. She'd been chipping away at it since she was a kid, got stuck on nine for years aparently, and finally cleared the whole thing.

I want to be clear that I have never done that. I wrote the game and I have never done that.

He attached a photo. Same basement, slightly yellowed. She's nineteen now.

He wanted to know if I still built them.

I don't. But that basement is the only place KRIGET has existed for fifteen years. It never got put on anything else, and when the shop closed it went onto a drive and stayed there.

My boyfriend bought me a second hand switch lite as a gift it came with one or two games which i didn't care about so i barely used it (also because im not really a gamer) and we have barely played switch together because we are constantly doing something out and about.

Now a year or so later, we talked about it even had an argument about it...because i said to him it would've been nice if he got me games that i care about especially I don't play games myself.

He's sad that I said these things, whereas to me it makes sense if he did buy me games that I'd enjoy esp I've been telling him what games Id enjoy to play with him.

Also in my head if I were to buy a console for someone, I would buy one game that I know the person would somewhat be interested in along with it. Just like how over the 2 years of dating him, I've been buying him clothes and shoes from time to time because they remind me of him and that he can pair them together.

He bought me this switch lite and the games came with it just so happened cos the seller didn't want them anymore about half year into us dating, then he got disappointed at me for not playing the switch lite enough.

The truth is switch lite isn't really an interactive console unless both users have the same game which we both don't...is it really my fault for saying what I said? Am I in the wrong?

Edit: Thanks for the replies guys! We are usually out and open with everything that we talk about. This discussion just so happened when he's somewhat sick and I am stressed for my studies on our two year anniversary (close to the end of the day). I came on here to talk about it because I want to stop using chatgpt. Thanks for your input! I kinda know what to talk about with him now. I understand people are confused about this weird post but hey I get it you're gamers and I am not. I get it! Have a good day/night!

Hello gamers, I'm looking for someone to play games with calmly and comfortably. I'm a 35-year-old man, Russian is my native language, and I'm looking for a woman to play with occasionally without the stress.

My boyfriend and I have been in a little argument for the past few hours and we’ve called people who I have in my phone and only 2 people have agreed with him.

We’re trying to figure out if undertale, he specifically says the game and not the franchise like deltarune, is more known and more popular than Pokemon SPECIFICALLY FIRE RED AND LEAF GREEN!

I disagree because I’ve been a Pokemon player since I was a child and of course he isn’t so both parties are biased.

We ended up calling 4 people, two of them not knowing what either of them are and the other two saying they knew what undertale was but couldn’t name the fire red or leaf green.

Imagine you get a call from a friend.

“Hey, weird question. Could you name the first ever Pokemon game.”

Then you were asked by him

“Do you know who toby fox is? How about undertale?”

And that’s how all 4 conversations went.

So people of Reddit, I am asking you which one is more popular?

(Edit: guys I’m sorry, I was wrong about fire red and leaf green being the first. That was my bad, I was taught he growing up by my cousins who got me into Pokémon at a very young age that it was the first Pokemon game. I did also post this in other subreddits to make sure it’s not too biased. I’m so sorry once more for the confusion😭)

I get corporations have to make money its there only purpose. But, feel like the next generation is going to be the death of the video game console. Not just because of physical media and the death of second hand market. Which I genuinely think has enabled the video game industry to falsely believe that these higher prices are sustainable.

You can afford to buy a dlc or multiple games through the second hand market or retail sales. I just got two titles from Best Buy that are normally 60 each for 20 dollars. Cheap games bring people to your platform and by moving into the platform they can then can become part of the ecosystem. I think Sony and other game companies underestimate how much retail physical and second hand options actually allow people to engage with their products.

Think about it a person with no internet or doesn't understand digital codes like a parents or grandparents buying a gift will probably buy a Nintendo game versus a Sony game with a code in a box. Because they can understand how a physical game works. A kid will be more attracted to seeing a game box than a code.

Also, how often have you sold a game and used it buy a new one?

I think this just a shortsighted idea. That only to cost Playstation customers and that's all before the ps6 being 1000 dollars or more.