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I’m reading a Worm fanfic that I’ve been told is more lighthearted than the original. I keep mentally putting together the pieces of what these characters are like, what situations they get into, and how their stories would have gone if all these Chekhov’s Guns had fired instead of being carefully disarmed. And if I’m correctly determining what the divergence points were, then holy shit, no wonder so many people who read Worm fanfics don’t actually read Worm. Because it looks like it had Mark Millar levels of contempt for the superhero genre.

I'm playing Guile & Glory

A lot of people compared this to Into the Breach, but it's really more like Deadly Rooms of Death for people who aren't masochists. Like DROD, there's no miss chance, no random choices from the AI, and no excuses besides your own incompetence if you get yourself killed. But unlike DROD, you can level up, change your loadout, or even take a hit and accept a lower score. There are outcomes in between "choose exactly the sequence of steps the dev intended" and "die horribly," and the bonus objectives encourage excellence without mandating it.