Daedalic Entertainment Launches eShop Sale With Discounts Up To 90% Off

Felix the Reaper was an interesting game, I understand why it never took off, but clearly a lot of love was put in it.

Following the comments for recommendations…

@Toshiro_Baloney The Long Journey Home, for one. Space travel survival with procedurally generated stuff, plus a fixed "seed" serving as a default story campaign as well. Exploration, trade, hazards, physics-based movement (the ship is affected by planet/star gravity, and you brake by accelerating in the opposite direction), different characters to make up a crew from - plenty of stuff.

Deponia is never not 90% off though...

So are any of those good games or just piles of shovelware?

Big fan of point-and-click adventure games and those Deponia ones are.....fine. I guess? The main character sucks, and there's a lot of icky stuff in it (watch the trailer for Chaos on Deponia and you'll see what I mean). That said, the art is cool, and it does mildly scratch that itch if you're feeling EXTRA nostalgic for that genre.

I'm gonna get that 2nd edna and Harvey game I think..I've only put a little tine into the first but I intend to finish it

@Specter_of-the_OLED
Rude. Daedalic is a respectable publisher. ^^
And the term shovelware doesn't really govern whether something is a good or bad game as such, moreso whether the porting efforts are up to par. :v

@Pod

I thought the term shovel ware referred to the mount of effort put into the game, like the ads for the 79 "different" word search games I keep seeing are all shovel ware despite the fact they probably run "fine"

@Specter_of-the_OLED I think the Deponia games have been well regarded for the point & click genre. I don't' know about the other games there.

I liked AER: Memories of Old. Decent indie. Would definitely recommend at that price.

I have Silence and Goodbye Deponia deep in the bowels of my wishlist after previously looking into the reviews. Will most probably download them at that discount!

@Screen
The term arose to describe games that were "shoveled" on to a popular system. Moved there inelegantly. Ported with little effort. To quickly capitalize on public interest.

This of course often happened to games that also weren't very good to begin with. But in the case of the Wii, even many games that were solid or great titles received glitchy, sluggish ports with poorly implemented controls, cementing the term's longevity. :v

If you enjoy adventure games in a futuristic setting, I think State of Mind would be worth your $2.

@AndyC_MK111

I don't think Pod thought I was being rude, I thought his explanation was well written.

State of Mind. That's all I'll say. Buy it!

AER is pretty fantastic. Short game but the flying mechanics are addictive. Good for relaxing!

Perhaps the original coining of the word referred to shovelling a game onto another platform. And perhaps it shifted to mean that a platform was having mass quantities of low quality games shovelled onto it, in a way evoking copies of ET for Atari being buried in a landfill. So there's not necessarily a disagreement here.

AER was great, def give it a try.

I just got the double pack of child of light and valiant hearts. I feel like the games that are 90% off that are usually under 2 dollars are usually crap. I’ve yet to find a great game for 1.99 and under.

Play all 4 Deponia games while you wait for Monkey Island. Dang,I would really like a game featuring Guybrush and Rufus

State of Mind and The Long Journey Home were once on my wishlist long ago. I may have to consider them at this price...

So the same prices these games are always on sale at then.

the company is exploiting their employees i wouldn't buy anything from them... also their bosses became multi millionairs recently and did not change anything in the work culture since then

@Thomystic I had a copy of ET. Kinda wish I still had it.

@AndyC_MK111
Well then he WAS being rude.
Because as I wrote, there's no need to imply that one could assume Daedalic games to be bad.

I'm unsure where you dug up that definition of the term, but that's not what it was used for when it showed up, as I personally remember it.

If the use changed because people wanted yet another shorthand for calling something bad, then that is unfortunate. Though also unsurprising.

@AndyC_MK111
It -is- a bit rude to assume all games from a publisher to be bad unless your cronies tell you otherwise. However, I was trying to be a little tongue-in-cheek here. Because I personally like Daedalic. We'll see if that stays the case after the recent buyout though.

And people in general are very prone to start misusing terms, often because they want to deride things. 'Gay' is not a proper term for something being bad or weird, despite being employed that way often. I know people employ 'shovelware' now to describe what they themselves perceive to be cheaply/quickly made and/or bad games, but that's not a particularly functional use. It's very subjective, and doesn't attack any directly observable malfunctions of a game.

Perhaps I'm just an old fool who assume my internet peers from 2007 to hold more constructive criticism than the case was. To me, shovelware was always quick/dirty port jobs to make sure your game was available on the latest popular system. Whether that game was good or bad, big or small.

Either way, I'm not here to shame anyone, or champion how people should talk. Sorry for causing a fuss.

Adventure Gamers named Goodbye Deponia the best Traditional Adventure of the Year (and one of the top 5 adventure games of the year overall) in their 2013 Aggie Awards.

I started with the original Deponia as the plot continues through the series. I got the PC version on Gog, because critics said the Switch ports are glitchy and buggy and just don't work anywhere near as well as a mouse & keyboard.

@Luigisghost669
You have clearly never played Aggelos or Superepic the Entertainment War then