Or played https://keeptalkinggame.com/ ? Source: 6 months ago

I legit thought you had made a real-life version of Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes until I saw the subreddit name. Source: about 1 year ago

It seems like they’re playing Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes on VR. Source: about 1 year ago

More niche: Heavenly Bodies can be chill in parts, has a different potential problem in that the physics may take a bit to grasp. Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is interesting, but as you're literally defusing a bomb with only one person seeing it and one person (or a team) reading the bomb manual, it might be too stressful. Source: over 1 year ago

That one "Keep talking and nobody explodes" game was pretty fun just as a regular planar projection game. I can see it being more fun in VR (and I think they have a VR edition) [1] https://keeptalkinggame.com/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

> You're on a ship going between destinations, but there's no light-speed shortcut, or jump-cut to the destination. Instead, you have to maintain the ship for the entire duration of the journey. Neptune's Pride [0] is a fantastic real-time strategy game that has this feature without the maintenance part. You play the game over the course of days instead of minutes or hours. And it may take hours for your ships to... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

Could check out https://np.ironhelmet.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

If you haven’t heard of Neptune’s Pride [0], well… Consider this fair warning! It’s an online multiplayer strategy game, like a sci-fi cross between Risk and Monopoly. It’s played in real-time — over the course of weeks or months — between a small (≈8-32) group of anonymous strangers. Neptune’s Pride puts diplomacy at the forefront of its gameplay. Even if you have the best strategy on paper, you don’t stand a... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

If you want all these things and exponential growth, check out Neptune's pride: https://np.ironhelmet.com/ for basically "diplomacy in space with a few extra dimensions". I haven't played in a few years (it was great at the beginning of the pandemic), but it was a lot of "fun" in the same way that diplomacy is "fun". Except with a space theme and a lot of anxiety waking up at 2am hoping your fleet arrives at an... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

For people who likes the kind of backstabbing thrilling behind the scene diplomacy wackiness that ooze from Eve, but can't really get involved in it for whatever reason (most often being time, motivation, or the fact that 99% of eve gameplay is actually more excel than malta conference), I highly recommend you give Neptune's Pride [1] a try. It's not at all the same kind of game (it's a "turn by turn" 4x game... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago