Grouvee Game Club

I’ll pick Tally Ho! It’s an 8-ish hour text adventure, where you’re employed as the unflappable butler or lady-in-waiting of a bumbling British noble. Set during the 1920s, it jovially skewers the bullshit class politics of the era and allows fairly free rein to define your character as you see fit.

There’s queer romance, a string of cunning heists to solve (or join in on!), and just a bit of party planning.

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I have updated the Grouvee Game Club list to include dates and themes for the winners. I considered adding who suggested the winning game. I thought it might be fun to see who’s winning on the winning games hahaha.

+1 for Citizen Sleeper.

It’s already in my Steam library

I was planning to play it this year

It might fit in my Diverse Experiences list.

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Here is the final poll! Have your votes in by May 4th! Everyone get two votes. :slight_smile:

  • Thank Goodness You’re Here (Xbox Series X|S, PS4, PS5, Switch, Windows, MacOS)
  • Citizen Sleeper (Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PS4, PS5, Windows, macOS)
  • AI: the Somnium Files (Xbox One, PS4, Switch, Windows)
  • Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator (Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PS4, PS5, Switch, Windows, Android)
  • Going Under (Xbox One, PS4, Switch, Windows)
  • American Arcadia (Vita, Windows, Linux, iPadOS, iOS, Android)
  • Papers, Please (Vita, Windows, Linux, iPadOS, iOS, macOS, Android)
  • Tally Ho (Windows, Linux, iOS, macOS, Android, Amazon Fire)
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I’m reading through the thread because I thought it’d be fun to rejoin a game club, though I’m currently uncertain if I’ll have the available time, but…

Just stumbling upon this, has there been a switch in vocabulary? It feels like I’m visiting an alternate dimension.

I thought “ / “ was the ‘normal’ slash, and “ \ “ the reverse one, the backslash ???

Help.

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Nah, you got it. / is a forward slash and \ is a backslash.

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Our dear friend BMO seemed so certain, that I was sure it was so. It felt like the day I learned the cheese was called “Grana Padano” and not “Gran Padano”, and the whole world came crashing upon me.

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I just mixed up the terms because I wasn’t really thinking about which slash was used. I was more focused on the fact that the terms were being conflated.

Also technically / is a slash, rather than forward slash. Forward slash is a colloquialism rather than the term.

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I didn’t know forward slash wasn’t the legit name for it. I didn’t even know it was referred to as a forward slash until I started working IT.

Wow. We have a three-way tie this month! Our Employees of the Month are…

American Arcadia

Developed by Out of the Blue, a Spanish indie developer who also created Call of the Sea (which I recommend), and published by Raw Fury on September 28, 2023. This 2.5D puzzle-platformer takes place in the 1970’s featuring two protagonists with a plot that fans of the Truman Show may enjoy with an average completion time between 6-8 hours.

Citizen Sleeper

Developed by Jump Over Age, a one-person studio created by British nonbinary indie developer Gareth Damian Martin (they/them) and published by Fellow Traveller on May 5, 2022 (the anniversary is tomorrow!). This is an award-winning dice-rolling sci-fi RPG which won the Social Impact Award from the 23rd Game Developers Choice Awards and was nominated for many others. The incredible character designs are by French cartoonist Guillaume Singelin. This is one of my favorite games of all time featuring choice-based routes and endings with an average completion time of 7-14 hours.

Papers, Please

Developed and published by American indie developer Lucas Pope through his company 3909 LLC on August 8, 2013. This is an multi-award-winning puzzle simulation game (and nominated for many more) where you play as a border control immigration officer with an average completion time of 5-16 hours. A live action film created by two Russian filmmakers, Liliya Tkach and Nikita Ordynskiy, called Papers, Please: the Short Film has been released on Youtube.

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Time to bust out the Vita for Papers Please. Ive played the other two so it seems thats my obvious play

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