lmao you cannot fucking compare the stats of the equipment you're wearing vs. the equipment the vendor is selling in Elden Ring, FROM isn't even a "two steps forward, one step back" developer, they're stepping sideways, going fucking serpentine
30s || š§š· || Plenty of smut repost so š|| Occasionally random thoughts and/or games
I am getting absolutely drunk on Surviving The Aftermath, it does a lot of things that I enjoy in city building games. There's very minimal combat that's clearly not the focus, but just another cog in the machine, there's a few hardships in regards to food, clothing, and uppgrading your facilities that get in the way, but give the feeling of striving to live in a now inhospitable land, and its very, very chill, given its subject matter.
You can fine tune the difficulty regarding disasters, hostiles, resources, fertile ground, etc. rather than just picking from Easy, Normal, and Hard, which is always a treat. And my personal favorite: It can be played with headphones off, making it an excellent podcast game.
The only drawback so far is that its burning through my backlog of podcast episodes and soon I'll have to look for either another show or start re-reruns.