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I got gemcraft on a friend's recommendation but it has a strange interest in grinding xp and feels like a mobile game despite not having microtransactions.

Are there any games of this genre worth playing still?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

No time for this now, there's Kissinger jokes to make!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Bloons TD6 is pretty fun when I played it. It's constantly updated with new content and it's not too grindy (only takes a couple hours to unlock everything).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Seconding btd6, it's hard to beat. Has in depth mechanics and secret buffs

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Defense grid

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I don't really care for the genre but the only one I liked was Bloons. Its got monkeys.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I play Arknights and have fun, but it sounds like you don't want to play a mobile game. It's pretty reasonable to play as a f2p account. Everything can be cleared by lower rarity 3*, 4*, and 5* operators and 4* operators are easy to get. The 6* gacha operators are good, but they're mainly for quality of life and you can go far with just 4* ops. It doesn't spam you with microtransactions ads or anything. Story is pretty good if you like visual novels. The anime cringe stuff is pretty minimal and the operator designs are really cool and neat.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Arknights suffers from the mobile game thing where events are limited time and you absolutely will not be able to clear all the challenge mode stages for probably a year or so as an F2P. I think I still haven't cleared CH8's final hell stage and I have most of the meta ops.

IS is cool though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Maybe Iron Brigade if you want a co-op one and can get multiplayer to work?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Rogue tower looks like fun.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Bloons TD 6!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Pixeljunk Monsters (the first, I've never played the second) is great