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Re:Gorgeous Photos Capture Life Inside a Drop of Seawater by dylan604 on Thursday January 19, 2023 @11:01AM (#34441734)
These pics remind me of an indy game way back on the PS3 called Flow[0]. It was designed as a low stress, low impact, and a fairly calming game. You were a small underwater creature that swam around collecting things to become a bigger creature. You used the 3-axis feature of the controller instead of the d-pad and joysticks.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(video_game)

Re:Gorgeous Photos Capture Life Inside a Drop of Seawater by rodface on Thursday January 19, 2023 @11:33AM (#34442171)
I fondly remember and adored that game. It would be great to see an updated release of the Flash version https://www.crazygames.com/game/flow
Re:Gorgeous Photos Capture Life Inside a Drop of Seawater by bondarchuk on Thursday January 19, 2023 @11:50AM (#34442458)
There was also a very nice PSP version which I'm sure you'll be able to emulate on PC easily (no idea what's the state of PS3 emu).
Re:Gorgeous Photos Capture Life Inside a Drop of Seawater by bmitc on Thursday January 19, 2023 @12:22PM (#34442896)
If anyone is interested, That Game Company, the studio who made Flow, also made Flower and Journey. Both are amazing and touching.
Re:Gorgeous Photos Capture Life Inside a Drop of Seawater by fdgdd on Thursday January 19, 2023 @02:00PM (#34444115)
Reminded me of Osmos: https://www.osmos-game.com/
Re:Gorgeous Photos Capture Life Inside a Drop of Seawater by beefok on Thursday January 19, 2023 @02:23PM (#34444418)
Still to this day (since it was released), I listen to the soundtrack. I love it so much. :)

The game idea itself is so original too!

Re:Gorgeous Photos Capture Life Inside a Drop of Seawater by 9dev on Friday January 20, 2023 @02:14AM (#34450061)
Just bought it, no regrets. Thanks for the recommendation!
Re:Gorgeous Photos Capture Life Inside a Drop of Seawater by stevenhuang on Thursday January 19, 2023 @05:40PM (#34446691)
On the topic of calm games... there's one on my mind that I played years ago and I forgot the name.

It's a very simple but gorgeous 2d top-down "strategy" game. It has calming music and a soft colour pallet.

You control these flying boids/bird things by ordering them to conquer other "planets". The goal of the game is to conquer all planets on the map.

Each planet you own periodically spawns more "boids". Every planet has a number which describes the amount of boids on the planet.

The only actions given by the player are orders to move boids from one planet to another. If the destination planet is an enemy planet, the boids will attack. If the destination planet is friendly, the boids will combine in forces.

Planets have trees that sprout, and the boids are like leaves that sprout from the trees.

I think once you beat the game you unlock a dark mode.

Does this game ring a bell to anyone? I now want to play it really badly again :)

Re:Gorgeous Photos Capture Life Inside a Drop of Seawater by halestock on Thursday January 19, 2023 @05:46PM (#34446733)
Re:Gorgeous Photos Capture Life Inside a Drop of Seawater by stevenhuang on Thursday January 19, 2023 @05:47PM (#34446738)
Wow!! yes!! that is it, thank you so much <3
Re:Gorgeous Photos Capture Life Inside a Drop of Seawater by CMay on Friday January 20, 2023 @02:35AM (#34450157)
Also played Eufloria a long time ago and there was another game that had similarities called Galcon which maybe had more in common with RISK. The developer had Galcon Fusion and Galcon Legends on Steam back then which I think supported multiplayer yet were largely singleplayer, but they were removed from the store after they released Galcon 2 which is aimed at cross-platform multiplayer.

* https://www.galcon.com/games/

* http://www.galcon.com/g2/

* https://store.steampowered.com/app/294160/Galcon_2_Galactic_...

Re:Gorgeous Photos Capture Life Inside a Drop of Seawater by Night_Thastus on Thursday January 19, 2023 @08:06PM (#34447892)
I remember playing this back when it was a flash game! Lovely stuff. :)