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Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by Katana314@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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This might be a slightly unusual attempt at a prompt, but might draw some appealing unusual options.

The way it goes: Suggest games, ideally the kind that you believe would have relatively broad appeal. Don't feel bad about downvotes, but do downvote any game that's suggested if you have heard of it before (Perhaps, give some special treatment if it was literally your game of the year). This rule is meant to encourage people to post the indie darlings that took some unusual attention and discovery to be aware of and appreciate.

If possible, link to the Steam pages for the games in question, so that anyone interested can quickly take a look at screenshots and reviews. And, as a general tip, anything with over 1000 steam reviews probably doesn't belong here. While I'd recommend that you only suggest one game per post, at the very most limit it to three.

If I am incorrect about downvotes being inconsequential account-wide, say so and it might be possible to work out a different system.

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[-] Teddy@programming.dev 61 points 2 months ago

Copy Editor: A RegEx Puzzle Game

It's a word-puzzle game that incrementally teaches you how to use Regular Expressions (RegEx) to find & replace text. Some of the puzzles add silly restraints for you to work around, and the game has charming NPC coworkers that introduce each challenge.

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 months ago

Ah yes, a game that taunts me about my shitty regex-fu.

After a decade, I don't think I'll ever remember how to regex without a cheat sheet.

[-] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Never heard of it, and sounds awesome, regexes are the sort of things that need lots of practice to be good at, a game seems like a great way to keep the skill alive