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Patient Gamers

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A gaming community free from the hype and oversaturation of current releases, catering to gamers who wait at least 12 months after release to play a game. Whether it's price, waiting for bugs/issues to be patched, DLC to be released, don't meet the system requirements, or just haven't had the time to keep up with the latest releases.

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Sites for game discovery? (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by zebus@lemmy.sdf.org to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
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What do you guys use? I personally like Glitchwave for it's powerful chart building and the user reviews as a whole tend to align with my own.

Backloggd also pretty cool but a little more limited to use, and harder to dig up the old old stuff as its algorithms strongly favor newer.

Anyone else use these or have recommendations of their own?

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[–] iusearchbtw@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Steam Discovery/New Releases Queue! I've found a tonne of cool games, both old and new and popular and niche, just by flicking through the queues when I wanted something new to play.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

IDK, I've been through like 20 queues (I have 162 games viewed) and have maybe found one or two interesting games. I get far more success just searching "best indie games" or "games like X" or threads on Reddit/lemmy recommendation threads (by far my biggest source of wishlisted games).

Yeah, I usually find these gems a year or two late, but that's kind of the point of patient gaming, right? I probably also miss a ton of gems, but I don't have time to play the games I already have, so I don't worry about it.

I still do try the queue from time to time, but mostly because watching trailers is sometimes fun.

[–] techognito@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

This is how you end up with way too many games in the wishlist

[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Steam discovery saw me playing a bunch of building games and showed me From the Depths. What an absolute gem, I would never have found it otherwise. Avorion too.