Finland also has a Sesame Street-like heavy metal band of dinosaurs making educational and children-appropriate heavy metal music for kids:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWSc0uwrxYg
Wait, ultrakill is Finnish? That game is dope.
Introversion + Cold Weather = Linux.
And of course Nokia.
RIP
my summer car
The title screen theme is actually the Finnish national anthem
Honestly love everything about that game. But by god I will never steal money from that guy again.
Being stalked by him gives me PTSD flashbacks from that butler in Tomb Raider.
Land O' 10 000 Lakes
Minnesota? We are already considered as 'Canada lite'. But we also have a strong number of Finnish heritage living 'Up Norf'. So as a Minnesotan, I will allow it.
Land o' Lakes is/was a very old farm co-op store. They formed to buy milk from farmers and then turned it into butter and cheese. They also sold other things like feeds and fertilizers and fuels to farmers. Back in the 1970s, Land o' Lakes was merged with 3 different farm co-ops and became Cenex. I'm still a member of Cenex.
The brand name lives on in grocery stores mostly as a brand of butter.
https://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/16/travel/a-land-of-a-thousand-lakes.html
Haha, I'm dyslexic with numbers.
Mfers live in a winter wonderland and yet every other death metal band comes from there
One part of the reason might be because we are so strangers to sharing our feelings by talking that the only socially acceptable way is to let them burst in the form of music.
One other reason might be the fact that regular working hours in the winter often coincide with the few hours with sun so many might go months without seeing the sun(my personal record is about 2 months)
There is a lot of things in dark woods to be fearful of.
Noita is amazing.
There's a new contender to the "weird shit from Finland" scene
How have you forgotten Remedy, with Alan Wake, Control, and Quantum Break?
I feel like Finland might be where I belong. If only I could realistically learn Suomi...
Almost everyone there speaks English and very well. Never had any problem communicating.
Eh, they have a good school system I think and most people know English
I can't believe that "My Summer Car" isn't on here, I feel like it fits the theme of amazing but slightly disturbing Finnish games
And Wreckfest, Flatout, Rally Trophy
edit: Trials!
That is just an accurate rural finland simulator
Can't wait for Psycho Patrol R, Cruelty Squad is GOATed
The movies as well:
Scandinavia in general, coffee stain consistently release, publish and offer continuous support for amazing games made by Scandinavians (drg, satisfactory)
They own mobile games too: Supercell (clash of clans & royale, hay day, brawl stars) is Finnish SYBO Games (Subway Surfers) is Danish Rovio Entertainment (Angry Birds) is Finnish King (Candy Crush & more) is Swedish and RobTop (Geometry dash is Swedish too
The only place to rival them in classic mobile games is Australia which has Halfbrick (Fruit Ninja, Jetpack Joyride) and Hipster Whale (Crossy Road)
Oh and the Nordics are just as successful in mobile gaming with critically acclaimed mobile games: Playdead (Inside and Limbo) are Danish and Frogmind (Badland) is Finnish
Can't forget goat simulator for extra weirdness
Valheim <3
joar jakobsson is swedish too
Well we have long winters. That shit has an effect on humans who stay at these latitudes for longer times. In every sense, evolutionarily (light skin, blue eyes), culturally (we're introverted as fuck) and personally (if you don't supplement vitamins properly, mainly D, you will get at least slight changes to mood and whatnot).
I'd like to visit some actually Southern place, like in the Mediterranean, Caribbean, Africa or Southern Asia or Australia. First to just see a proper sunset. Secondly, to see whether not everyone is as much of a dick as people I generally have lived around all my life.
How would you like an all expenses paid trip to Antarctica?
Finnish people are fucking crazy (non-derogatory)
Buncha perkele
Keep it coming I say! Noita is easily my favorite game of all time. There's an insane amount of depth and replayability.
So good! I love that I’ve got a ton of time in the game and there are still so many secrets and things I don’t know.
That feel when you accidentally dig to other half of the map, then find out about the secret other other half of the map.
There are still secrets that nobody knows in Noita.
Eye messages, for one.
Maybe their winter could give us an answer… /j
By the way, if there's anyone from Finland reading this, hello! 👋😃
Why hello! 🙋🏻♀️
I think I saw some quip by Linus Torvalds about how Finland has such long winters with nothing to do, so it's no wonder we have so many great information technology nerds.
I don't think they like to be talked to that directly.
Oh beings of higher
existancelatitude if you would be so kind as to bless me with your knowledge and grace
Moi
And My Summer Car
I wish I could forget about Baba Is You completely, I want that feeling I got when I did "What happen if I do ' ... IS KEY'?" again.
Especially the discovery of hidden content. Need amnesia device for this and a few other games.
Wait til you hear their music
Korpiklaani and Turisas are pretty good starts if ya like metal.
Totalselfhatred are from there too and great if you're into black metal
I prefer bands like Skepticism, Impaled Nazarene, and Desecresy personally but each to their own 😉
Lots of weirdly emo ballads, TBH. The metal is good, but it's still pretty niche from what I understand.
Baba is You isn't that edgy, it's just a sheep game....
To add, some of you might be interested in Metal: Hellsinger too
Darkness, alcohol, and a lack of oil
this sounds more like a dunk on norway for some reason
which i am all for
Såklart
I love getting drunk in the dark. I should check out norway
Dang I haven't played Noita in like a week
Thinking about it, it's weird that it has no native Linux version
What's wrong with proton
By itself nothing. It was more along the lines of "why doesn't the Finnish game support the Finnish kennel".
Noita doesn't even need proton, it's using OpenGL so plain wine is perfectly fine.
I've played some of cruelty squad and it's fun. definitely a weird psycho game I wouldn't pay more than $5 for but still fun
Cruelty Squad has been the most surprisingly enjoyable game that I've played in recent years. I initially thought the extremely positive rating was just elaborate trolling after looking at the screenshots.
Boredom breeds creativity.
Winter
step 1: gib autism bux
step 2: wait
step 3 : ????
step 4 : software released
step 5 : (tax incomes > autism bux investment) PROFIT
I know how fucked up and/or weird everything else here is but...
What the hell is wrong with Baba is You?
Its secret ending has a secret ending. The secret ending within the secret ending also has a secret ending.
To reach each of them you have to recontextualize what you thought the basic assumptions of game were to do something that's almost impossible.
Isn't that the whole game, though? Recontextualizing things to solve puzzles? I was thinking maybe it had a fucked up story or lore; I've never actually played it, but I hella want to because the premise of swapping game mechanics with words and such sounds awesome.
I haven't even figured out the regular ending yet
saunas. somehow that's why.
And indestructible Nokia phones!
"Patrick, are you ok!?" "FINLAND!!!"
I know about everything in this meme except Fear and Hunger
it's a dark fantasy survival horror game made in rpgmaker that's pretty fucked up. super eyepatch wolf made a pretty good video on it if you've got time to spare.
Thanks, It was amazing.
Thanks I will check.
I guess you are built differently.
Not much I would assume
Maybe there's something in the water? (Good things, that is).
What is Finland getting that we aren't?
Too much water. And it's all either fresh, slush or solid.
Because of the lack of salt, we have salmiakki. /s
They have a thousand lakes, you have a thousand island dressing
