Erenshor will remain a mystery
  • Harrk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    11 个月前

    I picked this up the other day and it’s great! The SimPlayers go on their own little adventures, party together, and fill the chat with nonsense. I had this one guy accuse another of being a bot.

    It’s really worth trying if you’re into the traditional mmo gameplay (grinding). But without the fuss of dealing with real people and their own schedules that fight against your own. For anybody who wants to try it out, there’s a demo which covers the first area.

    • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      11 个月前

      It’s so fucking weird that this game/anime is all I’ve been thinking about for the last week and now to see it mentioned in the wild, unprompted.

      Guys, quit mind reading/algorithming me. This and the ghibli shit. No one should have to vibe this much with the internet.

  • Gmr Leon@mstdn.social
    27·
    11 个月前

    @cm0002 This puts me in the mind of the old .hack// series of single-player JRPGs, but from a Western perspective.

    If they take some creative liberties with it to give it its own distinct feel and narrative, as the .hack// games did in their day, it could be a pretty charming game once it’s out of Early Access.

  • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    11 个月前

    Goat simulator had an mmo simulator.

    There was also an achievement for licking a friend, if you played at the same time as one of your friends, they may pop up as one of the ingame NPCs.

  • Asafum@feddit.nlEnglish
    16·
    11 个月前

    It’s actually pretty fun especially if you’re watching something on another screen and just like to grind for items/levels. They have a free demo as well so I’d suggest anyone that finds this concept interesting to try it out!

    They even have simulated global chat where people are assholes to each other lol very true to life.

  • simonced@lemmy.oneEnglish
    2311·
    11 个月前

    Tldr: Game title is Enshrouded Erenshor. That article (as well as many others nowadays) don’t even bother putting a link to the steam page. And the game name, yet again, not in the title, hence you have to read everything to know what it is about. Internet now is so crappy and click baity. The game looks fun though, so I’ll go out of my way and actively search for Enshrouded Erenshor on steam myself like a peasant.

    Edit: I managed to have the game name wrong, hence the importance to have ready to click links!

    • GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.eeEnglish
      18·
      11 个月前

      Tldr: Game title is Enshrouded.

      You sure about that? FTA

      The oxymoronic single-player MMO Erenshor, which has slowly been becoming a Steam superstar since 2023

  • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    11 个月前

    I wish I could play single player old school RuneScape on my SteamDeck so bad. Sitting mining rocks while I watch TV in bed would go so hard

  • alphabethunter@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    11 个月前

    It’s a great idea, sadly the EQ gameplay does not interest me at all, but I’m all in for the idea of fake players in a single player/small coop only “FMMORPG”. I’d love it if people tried to do this with every multiplayer game before sunsetting them.

      • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        11 个月前

        Yeah, they ripped that concept straight out of Final Fantasy XIV’s playbook… FFXIV implemented a system where you can solo dungeons by taking a group of NPCs with you. The NPCs level up from raids, so players who prefer soloing will be able to grind an entire party.

        …And FFXIV had ripped it straight out of even older games like EverQuest (where it is common practice to multi-box and have control of an entire party at once.)

        That seems to be the lifecycle of feature implementations for MMOs. It’s sort of a given that MMO players tend to be familiar with other MMOs, so word naturally spreads when one MMO creates a cool new system. And other MMO devs are able to basically see that other game implementing it as a feature test, to gauge how popular it may be in their own game. So when one MMO adds a cool new system, the other MMOs typically do the same relatively quickly. They’re all just copying each others’ homework.