I just love steam for normalizing paid beta.
Tycoon Games
All things "Tycoon" games. Park building, zoo building, business building simulations. Any games related to management, financial growth and economic strategy.
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Some other gaming communities across Lemmy:
- Adventure Games - !adventuregames@retrolemmy.com
- Automation Games - !automationgames@lemmy.zip
- Cozy Games - !cozygames@lemmy.world
- City Builders - !citybuilders@sh.itjust.works
- Incremental - !incremental_games@incremental.social
- Indie Games (variety) - !bside@fedia.io
- Lifesim Games - !lifesimulation@lemmy.world
- Open Source Games - !foss_gaming@lemmy.world
- PC RPGs (cRPGs) - !crpg@lemmy.world
- Roguelike Games - !roguelikes@lemmy.world
- RTS Games - !rts@reddthat.com
- Strategy (RTS, 4X etc.) Games - !strategy@lemmy.world
- Turn-based Strategy - !turnbasedstrategy@piefed.world
- Video Game Art - !gameart@sopuli.xyz
- Video Game Music - !vgmusic@lemmy.world
Game-specific communities on Lemmy:
- Cities: Skylines - !citiesskylines@lemmy.ml
- Foundation - !foundationgame@lemmy.zip
- Planet Coaster - !planetcoaster@lemmy.zip
I think it's OK for indie games. There is always an option to wait for the full 1.0 release.
Except when they never finish the game, just when they got enough money they call that 1.0 and move on to the next. Rare, but not unheard of.
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