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Vampaya Chemist

@papayachemist.bsky.social

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Baker of cookies, nitpicker of text, boba addict, dragon enjoyer, adventure game enthusiast, Twitch affiliate. She/her. Once QA, always QA. https://www.twitch.tv/papayachemist

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Vampaya Chemist @papayachemist.bsky.social · 7h

However: The environment art is beautiful, the sound design is excellent, and the puzzles (if you can call them that) are...bizarrely endearing despite reaching truly astronomical heights of moon logic.

Vampaya Chemist @papayachemist.bsky.social · 7h

Jesus tapdancing Christmas, Alone in the Dark 3 is a CHORE to play. Everything about it is slow, clunky, awkward, and obtuse. It's been several years since I played the first game, but it doesn't feel like the gameplay has improved even a little.

Vampaya Chemist @papayachemist.bsky.social · 9h

Game installed and set up. Loins girded. Let the spookening...BEGIN.

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Vampaya Chemist @papayachemist.bsky.social · 9h

PROBABLY

Vampaya Chemist @papayachemist.bsky.social · 9h

yep, way ahead of you

And it's on the poll because I have the game, and the random number gods decreed it!. It's in my backlog, so I do want to at least TRY to play it.

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Vampaya Chemist @papayachemist.bsky.social · 10h

Good to know!! And just from a first glance while setting up, I can see it has some modular difficulty settings, which is a big step in the right direction. :D

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My Name is Grant @mynameisgrant.bsky.social · 19h

Scarecrows have it right. All facsimiles of human shape should be named according to their function. A department store is full of clotheswears.

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Vampaya Chemist @papayachemist.bsky.social · 10h

Ooooh, this is cool!! More palaeontology than archaeology, but yeah, something along these lines. I like the addition of a Minesweeper mechanic, too, that's fun. :D

Vampaya Chemist @papayachemist.bsky.social · 10h

As long-time viewers of my streams may recall, I did play through AitD1 in its entirety, but it was rough. I couldn't even get through the front door in AitD2, and ended up rage-quitting after multiple attempts. Sooo...we'll see if the bar of entry for the third game is any lower. XD;

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Vampaya Chemist @papayachemist.bsky.social · 10h

Well, RIP me, because the winner of my spooky game Straw Poll is...

Alone in the Dark 3!

So I'll be starting that on stream in about an hour! Given my experiences with the first two games, I will need at least that full hour to gird my loins.

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❍ @latticeparable.bsky.social · 18h

I am working on an artbook about Mushroom societies that have overgrown the world after humanity has gone extinct

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Tim @tlatshaw.bsky.social · 18h

"We see you have applied for our *checks papers* Whiteboard Eraser position. Can you please show us your qualifications?"

Daily Wah (red pandas) @dailywah.bsky.social · 18h

Daily red panda pawbs

An adorably shy red panda carefully peeks its head over a wooden shelf, letting its front paws hang off for everyone to see those cute lil feetsies

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Vampaya Chemist @papayachemist.bsky.social · 15h

Currently bingeing @decafjedi.com and @bvigeant.bsky.social's Quest Quest podcast at work (because I should have started listening to it a long time ago, tbh) and nodding sensibly at their Very Correct Opinions. Well, most of them.

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Ben Chandler @threeohfour.bsky.social · 18h

Closest I can think of is this. store.steampowered.com/app/2407830/... Or maybe power wash simulator haha

Trash Goblin on Steam

A wholesome, cosy shopkeeping game with no pressures, no stress, and endless good vibes! Uncover & clean trinkets then upcycle them to sell to endless colourful & quirky customers. Spend your ...

store.steampowered.com

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Vampaya Chemist @papayachemist.bsky.social · 17h

This is close! Strange Antiquities also takes the "shop" approach, but I don't think that game has a mechanic for cleaning the things.

Vampaya Chemist @papayachemist.bsky.social · 18h

Like Heaven's Vault, but more hands-on with the artifacts themselves. Bonus points for Weird Supernatural or Alien Stuff, especially if it's a slow burn thing--like the deeper you dig, the weirder shit gets, a la Dredge. 8)

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Vampaya Chemist @papayachemist.bsky.social · 18h

I bet this already exists somewhere, but: give me a game starring an "archaeologist" where the gameplay involves actually doing archaeology. I'm talking the really granular stuff: finding dig sites, digging them up, cleaning dirt off of things, figuring out what they are, cataloguing them, etc.

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Andraste Sideyr @andraste.fuckbgp.com · 1d

no, i’m not tired of ‘being nice.’

yes, i still want to ‘go apeshit.’

these things can coexist.

now stop asking me.

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Vampaya Chemist @papayachemist.bsky.social · 19h

Spooky season streams are starting tonight! Still time for some last-minute votes to decide what I'll play!

Vampaya Chemist @papayachemist.bsky.social · 9d

Since spooky season is starting, I've selected a number of spooky and spooky-adjacent games that YOU can vote on for ME to play on stream, starting next Wednesday. And you can do that right here, right now!

strawpoll.com/wAg3Q9dbKy8