Factorio Space Age!
It was Satisfactory 1.0, but I got distracted π
Same! I finally "beat" satisfactory by delivering all the project parts. In early access I unlocked all milestones but never delivered the final project part.
Starting space age, only got up to automating green science, working on military science now. Probably won't be able to play much this week though.
My group is roughly about to head to space for the first time or launch our first rocket so thatβs exciting
Same! Telling myself I'll get back to it tho
Just started Baldur's Gate 3. Never played a CRPG before (does Disco Elysium count?) so it has been quite the learning curve for combat. Pretty stuck in the Underdark, it seems. Looks like I'll have to help out a slavetrader Gekh in order to proceed because I don't think I can defeat him and his buddies...
Disco Elysium absolutely counts.
I hope that you're having so much fun with BG3, after I finished it's definitely one of my favorites. The underdark is tough, I wish you good luck.
Thanks :)
What are you playing, bpt11?
Iβve been doing a replay of Omori
If you don't want to help the slavers, here is a tip: you can destroy ladders.
I'll add another one: get to them from the miconids village, do not engage them from the lower ground by the lake.
Once you're done that, destroy the stairs first and push them down afterwards. You won't believe how easy this fight gets.
Or you know, you could always lower the difficulty. No shame in doing so
Satisfactory!! 1.0 is great
I saw that it released but I havenβt checked it out yet, Iβll have to make sure I do
Completely agree. It's utterly addictive, and the further you get, more and more fun tech gets unlocked. Been playing it with some friends, and we're all hooked.
I've played a bit of Factorio and enjoyed it a little too much, but watching some video clips of Satisfactory a couple of years ago really didn't grab me. Do you think it's likely that either watching the game have a very poor sense of what it's like (for someone already familiar with Factorio), or that the game has gotten a whole heap better over the last 2ish years?
Hmmmm, good question, bit of both, it has changed a lot, but there is also heavy focus on the building mechanics also if that's your thing, rather than just straight up automation. So like you can make some very very impressive structures in the game. Saying that, you can mostly ignore the building for pretty and just go full on factory just grow mode.
I guess also depends how much you like/are comfortable with the fps view point vs top down? If you like automation and or crafting games, def worth giving it Whirl IMHO!
I always describe satisfactory as subnautica but about automating machinery like a tycoon game but with more reminiscent of portal.
Needless to say its really fun!
Just reinstalled Satisfactory. Time to finish it for once.
I didnβt even know finishing it was something you could do lol
You just have to finish that one last thing...
Well I am about to test that theory.
Same, already but another 120 hours in!
My brother got me into Frostpunk recently. It's been kicking my ass lol
Frostpunk 1 or 2?
1
Oh nice, I just replayed The Last Autumn since the trees are changing color, just waiting on the first snowfall to play the main game. Let me know if thereβs anything especially challenging you want advice on!
I'm just on my 3rd or 4th run trying the New Home scenario. Haven't made it past the first month lol
Frostpunk has such weird balance. I found it to be an extremely difficult game until a few core loops clicked. Then it was suddenly completely trivial and I lost interest
Like a lot of people, Factorio and Satisfactory. Been also playing a bit of Binding of Isaac and DRG. Also watching a friend play Morrowind because I love that game souch
Rock & stone fellow miner !
DID I HEAR ROCK & STONE?!
Metaphor ReFantazio is amazing.
I doesn't look like it needs my help, because it's doing pretty well, but damn, it's good.
Maybe too much anxiety to play a game in which you're running for office in a fantasy land, at least until November, but... yeah, it's bonkers and it's well written and it's by far the most political game the Persona-adjacent studios have ever done in some really fun ways.
Also a triumph of UI. Not only does it look great, it's so frictionless. It's a turn-based JRPG and it plays faster and more smoothly than that abomination of an action game Square tried to pass as a Final Fantasy VII remake by orders of magnitude. Seriously, go play it if you're at all interested in that corner of gaming.
All calendar based anxiety went out the window for me after getting the Merchant and Thief classes.
Just because you can grind money easily or some other reason?
In any case on Normal I haven't felt it at all, mostly because I've been single-day completing most dungeons and that gets you a bit overleveled.
But it's still a lot faster and tighter than Persona on that front. And more flexible and nonlinear, too. For what looks like a long game, this thing moves. Much fewer, shorter stretches of just visual novelling with friends (although there's plenty of that, too).
Money grinding is pretty efficient, but I was referring to the high rate of item drops. There's a pretty common enemy that drops a mp recovery item. I'm blasting through dungeons in one go.
Ah, yeah, but the fun bit is that there are a ton of builds that let you get there. HP-based skills are powerful in this, and you can heal for cheap, so you can get there that way, and once you get a bit overlevelled and can kill mobs out of turn-based combat you're just cruising.
I may see what happens on harder difficulties, but I genuinely don't care too much, because just the mechanics of figuring out the sequence for each dungeon and enemy type is so fun to do with the brilliant UI that I just... enjoy doing it, kinda like you enjoy clicking things on Diablo or something. Truly smooth design.
I just wish they had figured out antialiasing better, because woof. I ended up injecting better AA through ReShade and never looked back.
can kill mobs out of turn-based combat you're just cruising.
That's what I was referring to. Once you're able to defeat enemies in the overworld you can farm all sorts of recovery items and make bank.
I wish Metaphor had amounted to more, and Iβm frustrated to see yet another calendar RPG.
Itβs not a bad game, but itβs the same food theyβve made for decades.
That's fair. I do see how it being nominally a new IP instead of a numbered sequel the ways it overlaps with Persona feel like a bit of treading water.
For me there is way more than enough to separate it, though. The bonkers story alone and the super political spin on it are crazy, plus the gameplay ends up being different enough.
But yeah, it's pretty much one of those. Still better than going full action RPG like Square has done with its franchises, though.
Iβm playing it too, mostly Iβm just struggling to go whack Heismay and instead just playing Monsterβs Expedition yet again.
Monsterβs Expedition never gets old.
Zelda a link to the past (emulated on pocket snes).
Just started playing deadlock, valve's new MOBA and I love it. I really hope when it's out of play test they add more champions to play as.
There's a bunch of planned but unreleased heroes still in development that might drop in an update at any time. They are already in the game in a WIP state, so you can find videos of people who have used commands to access that stuff in sandbox or custom matches.
Mirage was only just added, Valve doesn't announce or elaborate much on what is coming when, they are basically adding stuff as it becomes ready.
Climbing ropes weren't even in the game a few updates ago.
I took the month of Halloween as an excuse to replay all of Silent Hill and it has been a fantastic experience, very nostalgic.
I'm already playing the 4th game and when I finish it I'm going to jump into playing short horror games on Itch.io.
Did you play SH2 remake? If so what did you think?
I wish, what I've seen of it is amazing, but I don't have the money or the specs to do it. π₯²
Iβm in the same boat. I look forward to playing it someday though
Do tabletop games count? If so, then... Dungeons and Dragons haha. I'm learning the ropes, having fun with it :)
Tabletop games absolutely count! I love D&D, Iβm glad youβre having fun!
Oh damn I didn't even think about tabletop games counting! In that case I have to amend my answer to also include Pathfinder 2.
I was playing Dwarf Fortress, but the bugs made me shelve the game for the foreseeable future. It's great until the bugs kill your game.
Were you playing the stable or beta adventure version?
Stable release via Steam. Really enjoy the game until the bugs creep in.
I was thinking of starting back up again. What bugs are you encountering?
Almost everyone on Lemmy are huge nerds (me included) and are too busy playing Factorio to post replies to your question. THE FACTORY MUST GROW
Minecraft and dwarf fortress. I may pick up factorios extension if and when I have time
I started Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth. I've been loving it, it's like they made the game for me. It's a perfect unwind game at the end of a day of work between the calming music, character conversations, and silly or cute mini games; but there's also enough strategy and action in battles to keep my mind stimulated when I want more than that.
I took an entire week off for Rebirth, and the whole time was like "Whee! :D"
Iβm getting pretty antsy for the PC release. Cannot wait!
I've been taking a video game break to play more board games. Zoo Vadis has been a top pick lately and I highly recommend.
Can't stop playing Balatro since picking it up. There's so many achievements to do. Even finished Jokerless challenge, took about month.
Otherwise Factorio, of course.
Mindustry :)
Ah, love
Factoio
Cities Skylines
Terraria
Skyrim
Been giving deadlock a shot, still playing dead by daylight, and for solo efforts I have Total War, Tomb Raider, and Rogue Trader going
Mind me asking how you get access to deadlock? I wanna give it a shot, too.
Someone in the playtest has to invite you.
You can ask for someone willing to do that over on !deadlock@sopuli.xyz. That's how I got in.
I was lucky enough to have a friend send me an invite to the playtest. I'm not sure if that is the only way in or not
Super Mario Bros 3 and GTA V!
Currently Green Hell. Took me a bit to not be mauled by a jaguar or get bitten by a snake.
My last game was Skyward Sword.
Currently :
Solo version of Escape From Tarkov (with mods)
Baldur's Gate 3
Sekiro (even if i'm currently struggling against a boss)
I couldn't be happier about this list !
I never finished sekiro, I played on steam deck and the repeated use of the parry button broke my left bumper π
I can imagine ! this game is so intense !
I would be so afraid to throw my Steam Deck in the room after dying.. again..
I just bought Portal and Portal 2 and finished them both. Very good games, with great puzzles and story.
I am planning to buy more from Valve in the future.
P.S: This was a triumph
Try portal community maps.
Roots of Pacha - well polished, stress free farming sim. Highly recommended if you like Stardew Valley or Story of Seasons.
Donut County. It's cozy and silly and perfect before going to sleep.
Helldivers 2
Mechwarrior 5: Clans ! And my DnD group recently switched over to Pathfinder 2e
And my DnD group recently switched over to Pathfinder 2e
I suppose it's been a little too long now for me to claim "recently", but my group's been playing PF2 for 13 or 14 months now. I've been loving it as GM. How has your group been finding it?
We're only a couple weeks in, but I think its good so far. I think the bigger pro to the switch is futurr proofing against dnd enshitification
Haha yeah that was exactly my reasoning for switching too. First bought the book December 2022 amidst rumours of the upcoming OGL changes and after they'd already taken the action of ripping out pages upon pages of content from digital content I had bought with no way of getting that stuff I paid for back... Then it just took until around August '23 to actually start playing.
The fact that my players and I can get access to the full content completely free on AoN and in tools like Pathbuilder is also a pretty huge advantage compared to needing to buy physical and digital copies of each individual book completely separately and then additionally pay a subscription fee if you want to use the D&D digital tooling.
I can't get off Splatoon
Diablo 4 and Hi-Fi Rush
Hi-Fi Rush is amazing. Such a fun title, great story, great concept, great art style, great music.
Diablo 4βs new expansion is fun, Iβm really enjoying the extremely broken, unbalanced new class. The game is a great companion to audiobooks or podcasts.
RimWorld and modded Pokemon Scarlett.
On one hand i am adoring Scarlett more than i expected... On the other, what I enjoy is almost exclusively from the mod, so I don't know where to even talk about the fun i am having understanding I probably still wouldn't want to purchase the full game, even with all the fun I am having, because the jank is only tolerable for me on an emulator with mods.
RimWorld im really into a insectoids 2 mod run. About to try my hand at vanilla expanded genetics with Alpha Animals and Rimbees.
Finally got around to playing Disco Elysium. What a game!
I walked the land telling whores and liars of the End to come. There are 9,855 days remaining.
I decided to try and finish Assassin's Creed Odyssey after taking like a 2-year hiatus. I'm still struggling. The game is such a grind. There's just too much content and all of it's too similar.
Since it came out in the last week of August, I don't think I've touched any game other than Age of Mythology. It's just that perfect balance of being an excellent game in its own right and also absolutely nailing the nostalgia for me.
Stardew Valley and Brotato(New DLC). Will try Factorio Space Age DLC later.
Dead Space and Silent Hill 2 (once I get paid π), and replaying Ghost of Tsushima.
I dunno a lot about ghost of Tsushima, but Iβve always thought it looks interesting, and very beautiful.
It's an open world action game, and the story is very good! The writing is so good that I played the DLC in the middle of the game and didn't realize it until the end (bought about a year out of release) . It's that cohesive. It's one of those games that you can just lose yourself in. There's fast travel, but the landscape is so inviting. I also think the fighting is really well done. The way they integrate fighting styles and the story telling is too notch. Maybe look up a play through and see if it's your jam. I hope it is!
That sounds great Iβll definitely have to check it out sometime soon. Thanks for the reply I appreciate hearing your perspective
Just started playing Rainworld, good lord is it amazing
Guild Wars 2 not really replaying it, just still play it. Came out 12 years ago. Got it when it came out,played for two years. Stopped for about 8 years then went back
Best mmo on the market imo
This is pretty much the only video game I play like I'll hop on Arkham Knight or Grim Dawn or literally anything else for maybe 30 mins and I'm like... Nah Mechanist go BRRRRRRT
Wife and I both are currently finishing SotO storyline, already did Janthir so I guess we'll try and get sky scale after the story
2300+ hrs since pre launch and I literally haven't done half of what the game has to offer
Go the long way to get Sky scale. You get access to the masteries. Then re get it in soto you get a benefit from both (canβt remember the other benefits)
Carrier Command 2
Noita
Brotato
The Brotato DLC is great. I'm still working on going through and beating the Abyss with all my tates.
I didn't know there was DLC! I hope it is available on Android
1m Bullet chess.
I finally understand why gamers obsess about ping.
I like chess, but I can't think that fast. At that speed, I can only do !anarchychess@sopuli.xyz : push pawns, fork things with knights, always take en passant, and try not to blunder away the queen.
Replaying Final Fantasy IX.
I'm trying if I can make it through the Excalibur II perfect game guide by Atomos199 with the help of the built-in cheats in the Steam version of the game.
Satisfactory
Warhammer 40K
Itβs really deep, the community is pretty cool, we all 3d print and despise the company that makes the game. Sounds wonderful to me.
Love minipainting but man the full sets for 40k are time consuming as heck
Thatβs true, but, like I said, itβs replaced gaming for me entirely.
Is there an AR app for warhammer 40k yet, to measure distances, get stats, roll dice etc?
No, but we do have web apps for sheets⦠finally
pokemon emerald rogue, scream fortress, skyrim with bunch of mods thanks to wabbajack.
Thank you for bringing Pokemon Emerald Rogue to my attention. I've got it patched, but I haven't tried it yet. I'm super stoked
I'm pretty much always coming back to Rocket League with a couple of friends. We're probably gonna get Space Marine 2 soon to play together too.
Paper Mario Thousand Year Door remake with my wife because she's never seen it. We also started Dead Space. Right now our main obsession is passing the controller back and forth to play Dredge.
I also have a create a pro career I will play off and on in FC 24 and NHL 24 (both were included with PS+, don't @ me lol).
Because of PS+, I'll try a new game every few weeks. Some really keep my attention like Tunic and The Forgotten City did, and some get deleted almost immediately like Car Mechanic Simulator and Ride 5. I'm always trying something new.
--Halls of Torment
--Metaphor Refantazio
--UFO 50
I'm currently playing Halls of Torment. I've tried a few times before but it has finally clicked. I'm liking it a lot. It is more Diablo than people had led me to believe. I love how different all the character are, and all the achievements that unlock things. I feel I could be playing it for quite a while
On a slightly related note, I just saw Vampire Survivors is getting a Castlevania DLC on the 31st and I'm so excited. I've been hoping for this for so long. 20 new characters, 40 weapons, and their biggest map yet. Sounds like it will have the most content out of any of their other DLCs
I'm so hyped for that DLC. I'm hoping it makes VS even more expensive and fun. It's a match made in heaven.
Me too! I was worried I started looking like a shill lol, but I just love Vampire Survivors and I knew they would end up making a Castlevania DLC. I can't believe how huge it is
Factorio (Space Age expansion).
Vampire Survivor with my partner
I love Vampire Survivor so much. I can't wait for the Castlevania DLC at the end of the month
Old School Runescape.
This will always be my answer. Other games are just xp waste.
Just went back and played the Witcher 3 Blood & Wine expansion. The main questline was really awesome! Many of the side quests feel like busy work, but some are good.
Tis the Halloween season, so I'm now playing Amnesia: The Bunker. It offers a new gameplay flow from their past, more linear games. Past games are more: here's an area with its own monster and a puzzle, solve the puzzle to get through this area. The Bunker (so far) is more: there are several areas with puzzles, but the whole time there is a monster living in the walls that you have to be careful not to alert. Makes it feel more sandboxy and freeform, I'm digging it.
Satisfactory currently has me. I'm just now starting into Tier 9 proper.
Morrowind. But i beat it w the dlcs few days ago so might replay oblivion before replaying morrowind with mods. I got tamriel rebuilt tho to see a glimpse of what theyve built and the sheer size of the map is jawdropping.
GRIP Combat Racing. It's one of those racing games where you have to restart a lot, because recovering from a mistake isn't really an option, but it's still super fun.
That's when I'm not distracted with !Balatro@lemm.ee on my phone.
That's my favorite Castlevania game!! Good luck with your runs! I'm so hyped for the Vampire Survivors Castlevania DLC.
Sudoku all the time. Itβs the perfect tool for waiting 7 minutes. I bought the app βEnjoy Sudokuβ many years ago and it is my most played game ever.
You know the cracking the cryptic Suduko puzzles?
Two dudes on youtube feature and solve medium to super hard variant sudokus. You can skip the videos and just solve the puzzles if you want.
The GAS puzzles are easier.
Amber Isle. It's like a dinosaur-themed animal crossing except you're tom nook. It's a bit buggy, but it's really cute and exactly my kinda thing lol.
I'm replaying Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader. Doing a Dogmatic run with the DLC. I think that now all the issues have been ironed out, this game is truly Owlcat's Magnum Opus.
FFXIV
Deadlock
Signalis
Selaco
Zenless Zone Zero
Iβve been playing a ton of stardew valley lately. I bought it for ever ago and just thought it was meh. But figured let me try it again maybe I just didnβt get into it and I was right because holy heck Iβm hooked right now having a ton of fun and loving it. Itβs such a cute little game I love it.
Inscription
Persona 3 reload
Fragpunk beta test
Drova: Forsaken Kin, very fun 2D RPG in the Gothic mold...i.e., you start off weak and will get your ass kicked by rats and wasps, getting your first set of real armor takes hours and feels like a major power-up, multiple factions you can join that are deeper than "good guy vs bad guy." Small development team (I think it's just 6 German dudes) but they're actively engaged and quick with patches.
TF2
Never gets boring. I've been doing the same thing in TF2 for over 1500 hours
Do you think they will ever make a TF3?
no
Guild Wars 2
Maybe like 5-10 mins of Grim Dawn here and there
In the tabletop space, my group is recording season 3 of our podcast and this season we are playing Mausritter, and it's a blast
I just started getting into Enshrouded. It seems fun so far, but I haven't gotten very far yet. I'm playing with a group of friends and it seems a little harder to juggle solo vs group play in Enshrouded than it was in Valheim since it's more quest/exploration based for experience.
Dark Souls: Remastered
Currently in NG+ and recording all the bosses for YouTube. This game even offers native ultrawide support! My final rating will probably be 4/5, many boss fights are just too easy, even on NG+ (except DLC).
That's what I've been playing this week too. The challenge now is not the bosses but how to cut their tails. Kalameet's tail weapon still eludes me.
Yeah, this took a bit of time and patience. But now I have all the tail weapons.
Walk backwards in medium distance to trigger its flight attack where it swoops down at you. Dodge to the side, run near the tail and quickly roll underneath it, far enough to stand still on the other side for a moment. The last part is important, if done correctly, the dragon will always try to crush you with its tail. You should be near it, but not take damage. Now you can get a few easy hits on the tail.
Got Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom last night and absolutely had a blast. It's like a collect-a-thon style game where you play as a living taxi who has to collect green gears to stop Alien Mosk and his oil.
I also got around to an updated version of Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate. It's chess, but you are a single chess king piece with a shotgun vs various other pieces on the other side who normally can only move normally. Beat the enemy king and get a card to buff you, and your opponents. Simple gameplay.
Valheim
Age of Empires IV
I went through Jusant recently. It came fairly close to scratching the Outer Wilds itch, but it was a little marred by jank at several points. The climbing mechanics were interesting, but you don't get to be creative with them very often. I did enjoy it overall, it just wasn't as good as I feel it could have been and nearly was
Persona 5, after finishing 4 and 3
Skullmonkeys after finally getting a PS1 emulator working
Metaphor ReFantazio. I'm not a big Persona fan, but this game rules.
Rivals of Aether 2, they did a week long open beta a little over a week ago, and they release fully today. Finally happy to play a damn good mechanically involved platform fighter far away from the legal clutches of Nintendo. Other than that ive been dipping my toes into Throne and Liberty.
Amber Isle!
Cute dinosaur shopkeeper sim with decorating & friendship mechanics.
AC Valhalla. I've recently finished odyssey and I wanted to play another "turn off the brain checklist open world game"
It's very rough around the edges (bugs, clipping, clunky movement) and it got me frustrated time and time again, but the thing I'm disliking the most are the frequent and mandatory raids. If I wanted a full fledged action game I'd be playing wukong or some shit.
Enabling insta-kill assassination from the accessibility options is what's been saving the game for me.
I'm also considering about lowering the difficulty. The second hardest one is making the enemies unreasonably tanky, which does not bode well with the shittiest healing system I have ever seen in a videogame.
Don't Starve Together!
Just got into Metaphor ReFantazio! Just reached the first major dungeon and so far I am very impressed. Quite a lot of great QOL stuff over the Persona series, and it has a very well written story with a very unique vibe so far.
I personally think I still prefer the vibe of Persona over Metaphor, but this is seriously a really cool game. I highly recommend you try out the Prologue demo even if you've never played Persona before or don't care for JRPGs, because this is something truly different and I think there's still a chance you might like it. The demo is super meaty too since it's literally just the first four hours or so of the game.
I've also been playing with my buds WEBFISHING which is basically an Animal Crossing esc chill fishing game with lots of neat stuff to do. It's really fun to play just to hang out with your friends and chat.
If you want something more intense as well, STRAFTAT just released yesterday and it's fun as hell. It's basically a Free to Play (Not P2W) 1v1 arena shooter that's really hectic. It's got a really strange aesthetic that I really like and it's quite fun for a free little game. And if you end up liking it, you can throw the devs a bone and buy a $5 DLC that adds more maps, weapons, and cosmetics. They even made it so only the host has to buy the DLC and anyone who connects gets to play on those maps with those weapons for free. Really neat little game and really fun with a buddy.
Nightmare Reaper. I finally bothered to unlock Newgame+, so I'm having fun with the better guns in earlier levels.
Europa Universalis 4
For some reason I've been trying to get a specific achievement for weeks
Satisfactory
Forbidden jungle
The castles of burgundy: the card game
Satisfactory grind!
Just unlocked trains and have no idea how the signaling works. It's a struggle.
Yeah, I've played on and off for years. Never did trains. But I think I am finally going to check them out.
Does a visual novel count? If so I'm playing the english release of Fate Stay Night and really enjoying it.
With or without the porn?
Without. Eroge is not my thing.
Zenless Zone Zero
FFXIV
Silent Hill 2 remake
Cyberpunk
Dredge
Eden ring.
I flip flop a lot. I play little by little a whole bunch of games. I'll beat them all eventually!
On paper D&D 5e and Pathfinder 2e.
On PC Darktide, Ready Or Not and Satisfactory.
I recently played minecraft on my NixOS servet with my new friend from college. This weekend I wanna play Gothic 1 for the first time (wish me luck)
Upcoming stream after 11 months π
Me too! My weekly stream is becoming more of a yearly stream. My work schedule doesn't really allow for consistent streams, but maybe that'll change soon.
Mud Runners. Surprisingly a good game if you like mishaps that provide challenges. The soft terrain physics are fun just to watch as your truck plows through, too.
Tales of Berseria, extremely solid real time jrpg with a female protagonist, been enioying it a lot.
Just got a second hand PSP, so ... FFT: War of the Lions.
Vintage Story in solo, but I gave up because it's too cumbersome to play without a team.
Necesse with a team, lol.
Mechabellum in solo multi
AoW4 as a filler
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, such a solid title. That and Iβve come back to Battlefield 1942 after only playing the beta, actually not too terrible!
Kingdom Come Deliverance. I'm really enjoying it!
Iβm so glad. Iβve heard thatβs a good one
Workers and Resources, as well as Factorio! (Space DLC of course.) Iβm starting a new game of Factorio with my brother and already sucked in despite not even having green science yet.
Been replaying re4, stuck at the fight against ramon. Also playing lots of Hades 2, I'm up to six fear now.
Duke Nukem for PS3
Absolute Balderdash. The funniest of all board games.
Silent Hill 2 Remake. Itβs been absolutely amazing so far. Bloober team knocked this one out of the park, and Iβm really looking forward to Cronos: The New Dawn.
yucata.de - community built website to play board games online
(start easy with: Spexxx, Hey that's my fish, Mountain Goats, Rose King, Balloon Cup, Ali Baba or City Blocks)
It's short, beautiful, and sweet. Kind of like a sexy dwarf.
Definitely worth a play, but I'd wait for this to be $20 if I were to redo things.
Forza Horizon 4, The Division, Sims 4, Football Manager 24.... Always on PC
ZZZ, F-Zero X, Balatro, UESRPG3e, and SotDL.
I just finished Kingdom Hearts 1 and am currently playing Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories.
After 22 years I finally gave KH1 another go and I loved it so much I got every game of the series lol
Lately I've been playing Roboquest, an indie arena shooter about halfway through the progression system, and Octopath Traveler 2, a jrpg with great music and some battle mechanics that make turn based combat more interesting (5 battle points per character that charge per turn to boost abilities, defense breaks/weak points, and buff/debuff counters).
Pentiment. Had me gripped more than any game I've played recently. Such a great aesthetic, and the rich history it weaves is compelling
I loved it ! I was so sad about my detective skills until I found out it was intended.
Which act are you playing ?
I've finished it (twists and darkness and all...)
I thought about going for a replay, but I've realised my decisions wouldn't be that different from this time around, so I accept the story I played as it is and have made my peace with it :-)
I'm at the end of chapter 2 !
Yeah, and also replaying is a 100h commitment that's a long game
Buckle in, it's such a great story!
ALTF4. Its old and it's five bucks on steam and worth every penny.
I recently texted my ex and now Iβm back in deep with my toxic relationship with Rainbow 6: Siege.
Monetization schemes aside I am literally in love with the design of the game. Itβs so well suited for team play that encourages everyone to come up with unexpected plans
Someone on here posted a glowing review of Fields of Mistria. I downloaded the game and I can't stop playing it!
It's that perfect cozy farm Sim game, mimicking the best parts of Stardew Valley and minimizing the worst parts. I cannot wait for the full release, and I'm so glad I happened upon that review!
Brotato...so much Brotato...
Just got Dome Keeper a little while ago, hopefully that helps me break the cycle...
I've been juggling between S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly (adding more mods to my already big modlist as usual lol, can't stop!), O A.D., Oblivion, Roblox and Life is Strange 1 (In anticipation of Double Exposure coming out in a few days though I won't be able to play it, still excited!)
ASKA, Satisfactory, and No Man's Sky. Occasionally a bit of Pax Dei thrown in in case my building scratch is itchy.
I'm playing minecraft and making an ever-expanding house by adding new rooms whenever I need something. Soon it will consume the mountain
How many rooms do you currently have?
I just started, but so far we have a smeltery + vine farm in a cave, a minecart track down to a mine, a farmhouse with crops and flowers, an apiary (automated to collect honeycomb + honey bottles!) next to that, the foundation of a collosally large clocktower that we (I'm working on this with a friend) hope to be a central structure to the whole house, and a dripstone clay farm. And a bunch of chests hanging out. I like to collect music discs from creepers so we made an auto-replay jukebox to cycle through discs while we work!
Kerbal Space Program (with mods) and Assassins Creed Mirage.
Pretty much just Battle Craze, I'm hooked on it lol.
Planet Crafter Humble DLC and TCG Card Shop Simulator. The Humble DLC is still a bit buggy but it's nice having a new planet to explore. I've paused playing Card Shop Simulator until the developers smooth out the XP grind a bit more.
Just started red dead 2
TextSpaced "a thrilling sci-fi MMORPG that you can play in your browser [which] has been designed to provide an enjoyable experience for people of all abilities, including those who are blind or partially sighted".
On tabletop me and teens have been enjoying the Nexalis TTRPG
Baldurs gate 3, minecraft, war thunder
I'm sorry.
Lol
Former War Thunder Player Here. I feel your pain.
Puzzling Places has been an unexpected joy after I got it in a bundle with Tetris Effect.
Inertial Drift, an arcade racer. Some people might find the game too "arcade"y but I enjoy the game.
Pros - Drifting mechanic and graphics are unique
Cons - You might forget your drifting instinct you built in other games
Just finished playing Somerville and currently playing Selaco. Would recommend both.
New Zelda, but it's so damn long! I kinda lost interest after the goron area
Picked up on Wizard of Legend again recently. Curious about 2, but I tend to avoid games in prerelease
been playing the renegade mod for pokemon platinum for a while but I think I'm burnt out on it already. just got to pastoria city and caught some exotic critters in the great marsh but then suddenly lost all interest in playing. might just be one of those days though
Decided to start playing through Pokemon: Explorers of Sky today
Mostly VR stuff, in the recent weeks. Specifically Golf+ since the IRL golf season is over and Iβm sad about it, and Iβve been slowly getting into Elite Dangerous.
Deadlock! At least until I inevitably remind myself that multiplayer games are all bullshit and go back to enjoying SP games again.
Deadlock is just really good man. I went from: i don't play mobas and multiplayer games are bullshit to: how did i play 120 hours of a early alpha build?
Just finished Pikmin 4. I found it disappointing. I miss 1 and 2 which I see as complementary masterpieces.
Timberborn, Factorio, and XCOM 2
Zelda BOTW, really awesome
Dead Space, FF VI and VII Remake
Classic dead space or remake?
Remake
Titan quest AE with the newer expansions.
Probably going to check out the new no man's sky expedition they're usually fun for a short while.
Waiting and hoping DA: veilguard will be good.
Waiting for stalker 2 after that.
Wait? TQ got a newer expansion?
After the original Immortal throne they added three expansions for the anniversary edition yes. Atlantis, Ragnarok and burning embers
To bad Diablo 2 didn't got that kind of treatment...
I Also heard they announced TQ2 (kinda excited), I really hope for a good sequel that keeps the good old ARPG feeling.
Yeaaah I hoped and prayed for a good Diablo squel but this is probably never going to happen any time soon... Like never.
Its certainly interesting to see xpacks so many years later just like with AoE 2. As for diablo well yeah I don't think it'll happen either but with LE, PoE (2), TQ AE/2 and GD there's enough ARPG goodness out there right now I think.
Revisiting PUBG on pc again. I really miss proximity chat being enabled by default and being able to talk to people in the spawn room. Along with the broken car physics I feel like the game lost its soul when those two things were removed.
What a question. Last month I dusted off the PS4 for a month of PS Plus, playing the first 2 Uncharted games and trying a few other games - Far Cry 6 and Assetto Corsa were good enough to buy on PC later.
As of yesterday I'm back on the PC playing M&B 2 Bannerlord.
Factorio Space Age! It was Satisfactory 1.0, but I got distracted π
Same! I finally "beat" satisfactory by delivering all the project parts. In early access I unlocked all milestones but never delivered the final project part.
Starting space age, only got up to automating green science, working on military science now. Probably won't be able to play much this week though.
My group is roughly about to head to space for the first time or launch our first rocket so thatβs exciting
Same! Telling myself I'll get back to it tho
Just started Baldur's Gate 3. Never played a CRPG before (does Disco Elysium count?) so it has been quite the learning curve for combat. Pretty stuck in the Underdark, it seems. Looks like I'll have to help out a slavetrader Gekh in order to proceed because I don't think I can defeat him and his buddies...
Disco Elysium absolutely counts.
I hope that you're having so much fun with BG3, after I finished it's definitely one of my favorites. The underdark is tough, I wish you good luck.
Thanks :)
What are you playing, bpt11?
Iβve been doing a replay of Omori
If you don't want to help the slavers, here is a tip: you can destroy ladders.
I'll add another one: get to them from the miconids village, do not engage them from the lower ground by the lake.
Once you're done that, destroy the stairs first and push them down afterwards. You won't believe how easy this fight gets.
Or you know, you could always lower the difficulty. No shame in doing so
Satisfactory!! 1.0 is great
I saw that it released but I havenβt checked it out yet, Iβll have to make sure I do
Completely agree. It's utterly addictive, and the further you get, more and more fun tech gets unlocked. Been playing it with some friends, and we're all hooked.
I've played a bit of Factorio and enjoyed it a little too much, but watching some video clips of Satisfactory a couple of years ago really didn't grab me. Do you think it's likely that either watching the game have a very poor sense of what it's like (for someone already familiar with Factorio), or that the game has gotten a whole heap better over the last 2ish years?
Hmmmm, good question, bit of both, it has changed a lot, but there is also heavy focus on the building mechanics also if that's your thing, rather than just straight up automation. So like you can make some very very impressive structures in the game. Saying that, you can mostly ignore the building for pretty and just go full on factory just grow mode.
I guess also depends how much you like/are comfortable with the fps view point vs top down? If you like automation and or crafting games, def worth giving it Whirl IMHO!
I always describe satisfactory as subnautica but about automating machinery like a tycoon game but with more reminiscent of portal. Needless to say its really fun!
Just reinstalled Satisfactory. Time to finish it for once.
I didnβt even know finishing it was something you could do lol
You just have to finish that one last thing...
Well I am about to test that theory.
Same, already but another 120 hours in!
My brother got me into Frostpunk recently. It's been kicking my ass lol
Frostpunk 1 or 2?
1
Oh nice, I just replayed The Last Autumn since the trees are changing color, just waiting on the first snowfall to play the main game. Let me know if thereβs anything especially challenging you want advice on!
I'm just on my 3rd or 4th run trying the New Home scenario. Haven't made it past the first month lol
Frostpunk has such weird balance. I found it to be an extremely difficult game until a few core loops clicked. Then it was suddenly completely trivial and I lost interest
Like a lot of people, Factorio and Satisfactory. Been also playing a bit of Binding of Isaac and DRG. Also watching a friend play Morrowind because I love that game souch
Rock & stone fellow miner !
DID I HEAR ROCK & STONE?!
Metaphor ReFantazio is amazing.
I doesn't look like it needs my help, because it's doing pretty well, but damn, it's good.
Maybe too much anxiety to play a game in which you're running for office in a fantasy land, at least until November, but... yeah, it's bonkers and it's well written and it's by far the most political game the Persona-adjacent studios have ever done in some really fun ways.
Also a triumph of UI. Not only does it look great, it's so frictionless. It's a turn-based JRPG and it plays faster and more smoothly than that abomination of an action game Square tried to pass as a Final Fantasy VII remake by orders of magnitude. Seriously, go play it if you're at all interested in that corner of gaming.
All calendar based anxiety went out the window for me after getting the Merchant and Thief classes.
Just because you can grind money easily or some other reason?
In any case on Normal I haven't felt it at all, mostly because I've been single-day completing most dungeons and that gets you a bit overleveled.
But it's still a lot faster and tighter than Persona on that front. And more flexible and nonlinear, too. For what looks like a long game, this thing moves. Much fewer, shorter stretches of just visual novelling with friends (although there's plenty of that, too).
Money grinding is pretty efficient, but I was referring to the high rate of item drops. There's a pretty common enemy that drops a mp recovery item. I'm blasting through dungeons in one go.
Ah, yeah, but the fun bit is that there are a ton of builds that let you get there. HP-based skills are powerful in this, and you can heal for cheap, so you can get there that way, and once you get a bit overlevelled and can kill mobs out of turn-based combat you're just cruising.
I may see what happens on harder difficulties, but I genuinely don't care too much, because just the mechanics of figuring out the sequence for each dungeon and enemy type is so fun to do with the brilliant UI that I just... enjoy doing it, kinda like you enjoy clicking things on Diablo or something. Truly smooth design.
I just wish they had figured out antialiasing better, because woof. I ended up injecting better AA through ReShade and never looked back.
That's what I was referring to. Once you're able to defeat enemies in the overworld you can farm all sorts of recovery items and make bank.
I wish Metaphor had amounted to more, and Iβm frustrated to see yet another calendar RPG.
Itβs not a bad game, but itβs the same food theyβve made for decades.
That's fair. I do see how it being nominally a new IP instead of a numbered sequel the ways it overlaps with Persona feel like a bit of treading water.
For me there is way more than enough to separate it, though. The bonkers story alone and the super political spin on it are crazy, plus the gameplay ends up being different enough.
But yeah, it's pretty much one of those. Still better than going full action RPG like Square has done with its franchises, though.
Iβm playing it too, mostly Iβm just struggling to go whack Heismay and instead just playing Monsterβs Expedition yet again.
Monsterβs Expedition never gets old.
Zelda a link to the past (emulated on pocket snes).
Just started playing deadlock, valve's new MOBA and I love it. I really hope when it's out of play test they add more champions to play as.
There's a bunch of planned but unreleased heroes still in development that might drop in an update at any time. They are already in the game in a WIP state, so you can find videos of people who have used commands to access that stuff in sandbox or custom matches.
Mirage was only just added, Valve doesn't announce or elaborate much on what is coming when, they are basically adding stuff as it becomes ready.
Climbing ropes weren't even in the game a few updates ago.
!deadlock@sopuli.xyz
I took the month of Halloween as an excuse to replay all of Silent Hill and it has been a fantastic experience, very nostalgic. I'm already playing the 4th game and when I finish it I'm going to jump into playing short horror games on Itch.io.
Did you play SH2 remake? If so what did you think?
I wish, what I've seen of it is amazing, but I don't have the money or the specs to do it. π₯²
Iβm in the same boat. I look forward to playing it someday though
Do tabletop games count? If so, then... Dungeons and Dragons haha. I'm learning the ropes, having fun with it :)
Tabletop games absolutely count! I love D&D, Iβm glad youβre having fun!
Oh damn I didn't even think about tabletop games counting! In that case I have to amend my answer to also include Pathfinder 2.
I was playing Dwarf Fortress, but the bugs made me shelve the game for the foreseeable future. It's great until the bugs kill your game.
Were you playing the stable or beta adventure version?
Stable release via Steam. Really enjoy the game until the bugs creep in.
I was thinking of starting back up again. What bugs are you encountering?
Almost everyone on Lemmy are huge nerds (me included) and are too busy playing Factorio to post replies to your question. THE FACTORY MUST GROW
Minecraft and dwarf fortress. I may pick up factorios extension if and when I have time
I started Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth. I've been loving it, it's like they made the game for me. It's a perfect unwind game at the end of a day of work between the calming music, character conversations, and silly or cute mini games; but there's also enough strategy and action in battles to keep my mind stimulated when I want more than that.
I took an entire week off for Rebirth, and the whole time was like "Whee! :D"
Iβm getting pretty antsy for the PC release. Cannot wait!
I've been taking a video game break to play more board games. Zoo Vadis has been a top pick lately and I highly recommend.
Can't stop playing Balatro since picking it up. There's so many achievements to do. Even finished Jokerless challenge, took about month.
Otherwise Factorio, of course.
Mindustry :)
Ah, love
Factoio Cities Skylines Terraria Skyrim
Been giving deadlock a shot, still playing dead by daylight, and for solo efforts I have Total War, Tomb Raider, and Rogue Trader going
Mind me asking how you get access to deadlock? I wanna give it a shot, too.
Someone in the playtest has to invite you.
You can ask for someone willing to do that over on !deadlock@sopuli.xyz. That's how I got in.
I was lucky enough to have a friend send me an invite to the playtest. I'm not sure if that is the only way in or not
Super Mario Bros 3 and GTA V!
Currently Green Hell. Took me a bit to not be mauled by a jaguar or get bitten by a snake.
My last game was Skyward Sword.
Currently :
I couldn't be happier about this list !
I never finished sekiro, I played on steam deck and the repeated use of the parry button broke my left bumper π
I can imagine ! this game is so intense ! I would be so afraid to throw my Steam Deck in the room after dying.. again..
I just bought Portal and Portal 2 and finished them both. Very good games, with great puzzles and story.
I am planning to buy more from Valve in the future.
P.S: This was a triumph
Try portal community maps.
Roots of Pacha - well polished, stress free farming sim. Highly recommended if you like Stardew Valley or Story of Seasons.
Donut County. It's cozy and silly and perfect before going to sleep.
Helldivers 2
Mechwarrior 5: Clans ! And my DnD group recently switched over to Pathfinder 2e
I suppose it's been a little too long now for me to claim "recently", but my group's been playing PF2 for 13 or 14 months now. I've been loving it as GM. How has your group been finding it?
We're only a couple weeks in, but I think its good so far. I think the bigger pro to the switch is futurr proofing against dnd enshitification
Haha yeah that was exactly my reasoning for switching too. First bought the book December 2022 amidst rumours of the upcoming OGL changes and after they'd already taken the action of ripping out pages upon pages of content from digital content I had bought with no way of getting that stuff I paid for back... Then it just took until around August '23 to actually start playing.
The fact that my players and I can get access to the full content completely free on AoN and in tools like Pathbuilder is also a pretty huge advantage compared to needing to buy physical and digital copies of each individual book completely separately and then additionally pay a subscription fee if you want to use the D&D digital tooling.
I can't get off Splatoon
Diablo 4 and Hi-Fi Rush
Hi-Fi Rush is amazing. Such a fun title, great story, great concept, great art style, great music.
Diablo 4βs new expansion is fun, Iβm really enjoying the extremely broken, unbalanced new class. The game is a great companion to audiobooks or podcasts.
RimWorld and modded Pokemon Scarlett.
On one hand i am adoring Scarlett more than i expected... On the other, what I enjoy is almost exclusively from the mod, so I don't know where to even talk about the fun i am having understanding I probably still wouldn't want to purchase the full game, even with all the fun I am having, because the jank is only tolerable for me on an emulator with mods.
RimWorld im really into a insectoids 2 mod run. About to try my hand at vanilla expanded genetics with Alpha Animals and Rimbees.
Im vibrating for stardew valley mobile update. It's been my favorite way to play and I wanna mod that, too. π©
Deadlock
Nice. Who are you maining?
Me too, fantastic game!
Finally got around to playing Disco Elysium. What a game!
I walked the land telling whores and liars of the End to come. There are 9,855 days remaining.
I decided to try and finish Assassin's Creed Odyssey after taking like a 2-year hiatus. I'm still struggling. The game is such a grind. There's just too much content and all of it's too similar.
Since it came out in the last week of August, I don't think I've touched any game other than Age of Mythology. It's just that perfect balance of being an excellent game in its own right and also absolutely nailing the nostalgia for me.
Stardew Valley and Brotato(New DLC). Will try Factorio Space Age DLC later.
Dead Space and Silent Hill 2 (once I get paid π), and replaying Ghost of Tsushima.
I dunno a lot about ghost of Tsushima, but Iβve always thought it looks interesting, and very beautiful.
It's an open world action game, and the story is very good! The writing is so good that I played the DLC in the middle of the game and didn't realize it until the end (bought about a year out of release) . It's that cohesive. It's one of those games that you can just lose yourself in. There's fast travel, but the landscape is so inviting. I also think the fighting is really well done. The way they integrate fighting styles and the story telling is too notch. Maybe look up a play through and see if it's your jam. I hope it is!
That sounds great Iβll definitely have to check it out sometime soon. Thanks for the reply I appreciate hearing your perspective
Just started playing Rainworld, good lord is it amazing
Guild Wars 2 not really replaying it, just still play it. Came out 12 years ago. Got it when it came out,played for two years. Stopped for about 8 years then went back
Best mmo on the market imo
This is pretty much the only video game I play like I'll hop on Arkham Knight or Grim Dawn or literally anything else for maybe 30 mins and I'm like... Nah Mechanist go BRRRRRRT
Wife and I both are currently finishing SotO storyline, already did Janthir so I guess we'll try and get sky scale after the story
2300+ hrs since pre launch and I literally haven't done half of what the game has to offer
Go the long way to get Sky scale. You get access to the masteries. Then re get it in soto you get a benefit from both (canβt remember the other benefits)
The Brotato DLC is great. I'm still working on going through and beating the Abyss with all my tates.
I didn't know there was DLC! I hope it is available on Android
1m Bullet chess.
I finally understand why gamers obsess about ping.
I like chess, but I can't think that fast. At that speed, I can only do !anarchychess@sopuli.xyz : push pawns, fork things with knights, always take en passant, and try not to blunder away the queen.
Replaying Final Fantasy IX. I'm trying if I can make it through the Excalibur II perfect game guide by Atomos199 with the help of the built-in cheats in the Steam version of the game.
Satisfactory
Warhammer 40K
Itβs really deep, the community is pretty cool, we all 3d print and despise the company that makes the game. Sounds wonderful to me.
Love minipainting but man the full sets for 40k are time consuming as heck
Thatβs true, but, like I said, itβs replaced gaming for me entirely.
Is there an AR app for warhammer 40k yet, to measure distances, get stats, roll dice etc?
No, but we do have web apps for sheets⦠finally
pokemon emerald rogue, scream fortress, skyrim with bunch of mods thanks to wabbajack.
Thank you for bringing Pokemon Emerald Rogue to my attention. I've got it patched, but I haven't tried it yet. I'm super stoked
I'm pretty much always coming back to Rocket League with a couple of friends. We're probably gonna get Space Marine 2 soon to play together too.
Paper Mario Thousand Year Door remake with my wife because she's never seen it. We also started Dead Space. Right now our main obsession is passing the controller back and forth to play Dredge.
I also have a create a pro career I will play off and on in FC 24 and NHL 24 (both were included with PS+, don't @ me lol).
Because of PS+, I'll try a new game every few weeks. Some really keep my attention like Tunic and The Forgotten City did, and some get deleted almost immediately like Car Mechanic Simulator and Ride 5. I'm always trying something new.
--Halls of Torment --Metaphor Refantazio --UFO 50
I'm currently playing Halls of Torment. I've tried a few times before but it has finally clicked. I'm liking it a lot. It is more Diablo than people had led me to believe. I love how different all the character are, and all the achievements that unlock things. I feel I could be playing it for quite a while
On a slightly related note, I just saw Vampire Survivors is getting a Castlevania DLC on the 31st and I'm so excited. I've been hoping for this for so long. 20 new characters, 40 weapons, and their biggest map yet. Sounds like it will have the most content out of any of their other DLCs
I'm so hyped for that DLC. I'm hoping it makes VS even more expensive and fun. It's a match made in heaven.
Me too! I was worried I started looking like a shill lol, but I just love Vampire Survivors and I knew they would end up making a Castlevania DLC. I can't believe how huge it is
Factorio (Space Age expansion).
Vampire Survivor with my partner
I love Vampire Survivor so much. I can't wait for the Castlevania DLC at the end of the month
Old School Runescape.
This will always be my answer. Other games are just xp waste.
Just went back and played the Witcher 3 Blood & Wine expansion. The main questline was really awesome! Many of the side quests feel like busy work, but some are good.
Tis the Halloween season, so I'm now playing Amnesia: The Bunker. It offers a new gameplay flow from their past, more linear games. Past games are more: here's an area with its own monster and a puzzle, solve the puzzle to get through this area. The Bunker (so far) is more: there are several areas with puzzles, but the whole time there is a monster living in the walls that you have to be careful not to alert. Makes it feel more sandboxy and freeform, I'm digging it.
Satisfactory currently has me. I'm just now starting into Tier 9 proper.
Morrowind. But i beat it w the dlcs few days ago so might replay oblivion before replaying morrowind with mods. I got tamriel rebuilt tho to see a glimpse of what theyve built and the sheer size of the map is jawdropping.
GRIP Combat Racing. It's one of those racing games where you have to restart a lot, because recovering from a mistake isn't really an option, but it's still super fun.
Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, practicing the any% route so I can play it onstream soon.
That's when I'm not distracted with !Balatro@lemm.ee on my phone.
That's my favorite Castlevania game!! Good luck with your runs! I'm so hyped for the Vampire Survivors Castlevania DLC.
Sudoku all the time. Itβs the perfect tool for waiting 7 minutes. I bought the app βEnjoy Sudokuβ many years ago and it is my most played game ever.
You know the cracking the cryptic Suduko puzzles?
Two dudes on youtube feature and solve medium to super hard variant sudokus. You can skip the videos and just solve the puzzles if you want.
The GAS puzzles are easier.
Amber Isle. It's like a dinosaur-themed animal crossing except you're tom nook. It's a bit buggy, but it's really cute and exactly my kinda thing lol.
I'm replaying Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader. Doing a Dogmatic run with the DLC. I think that now all the issues have been ironed out, this game is truly Owlcat's Magnum Opus.
FFXIV
Deadlock
Signalis
Selaco
Zenless Zone Zero
Iβve been playing a ton of stardew valley lately. I bought it for ever ago and just thought it was meh. But figured let me try it again maybe I just didnβt get into it and I was right because holy heck Iβm hooked right now having a ton of fun and loving it. Itβs such a cute little game I love it.
Inscription Persona 3 reload Fragpunk beta test
Drova: Forsaken Kin, very fun 2D RPG in the Gothic mold...i.e., you start off weak and will get your ass kicked by rats and wasps, getting your first set of real armor takes hours and feels like a major power-up, multiple factions you can join that are deeper than "good guy vs bad guy." Small development team (I think it's just 6 German dudes) but they're actively engaged and quick with patches.
TF2 Never gets boring. I've been doing the same thing in TF2 for over 1500 hours
Do you think they will ever make a TF3?
no
Guild Wars 2
Maybe like 5-10 mins of Grim Dawn here and there
In the tabletop space, my group is recording season 3 of our podcast and this season we are playing Mausritter, and it's a blast
I just started getting into Enshrouded. It seems fun so far, but I haven't gotten very far yet. I'm playing with a group of friends and it seems a little harder to juggle solo vs group play in Enshrouded than it was in Valheim since it's more quest/exploration based for experience.
Dark Souls: Remastered
Currently in NG+ and recording all the bosses for YouTube. This game even offers native ultrawide support! My final rating will probably be 4/5, many boss fights are just too easy, even on NG+ (except DLC).
That's what I've been playing this week too. The challenge now is not the bosses but how to cut their tails. Kalameet's tail weapon still eludes me.
Yeah, this took a bit of time and patience. But now I have all the tail weapons.
Walk backwards in medium distance to trigger its flight attack where it swoops down at you. Dodge to the side, run near the tail and quickly roll underneath it, far enough to stand still on the other side for a moment. The last part is important, if done correctly, the dragon will always try to crush you with its tail. You should be near it, but not take damage. Now you can get a few easy hits on the tail.
Got Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom last night and absolutely had a blast. It's like a collect-a-thon style game where you play as a living taxi who has to collect green gears to stop Alien Mosk and his oil.
I also got around to an updated version of Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate. It's chess, but you are a single chess king piece with a shotgun vs various other pieces on the other side who normally can only move normally. Beat the enemy king and get a card to buff you, and your opponents. Simple gameplay.
Valheim
Age of Empires IV
I went through Jusant recently. It came fairly close to scratching the Outer Wilds itch, but it was a little marred by jank at several points. The climbing mechanics were interesting, but you don't get to be creative with them very often. I did enjoy it overall, it just wasn't as good as I feel it could have been and nearly was
Persona 5, after finishing 4 and 3
Skullmonkeys after finally getting a PS1 emulator working
Metaphor ReFantazio. I'm not a big Persona fan, but this game rules.
Rivals of Aether 2, they did a week long open beta a little over a week ago, and they release fully today. Finally happy to play a damn good mechanically involved platform fighter far away from the legal clutches of Nintendo. Other than that ive been dipping my toes into Throne and Liberty.
Amber Isle!
Cute dinosaur shopkeeper sim with decorating & friendship mechanics.
AC Valhalla. I've recently finished odyssey and I wanted to play another "turn off the brain checklist open world game"
It's very rough around the edges (bugs, clipping, clunky movement) and it got me frustrated time and time again, but the thing I'm disliking the most are the frequent and mandatory raids. If I wanted a full fledged action game I'd be playing wukong or some shit.
Enabling insta-kill assassination from the accessibility options is what's been saving the game for me.
I'm also considering about lowering the difficulty. The second hardest one is making the enemies unreasonably tanky, which does not bode well with the shittiest healing system I have ever seen in a videogame.
Don't Starve Together!
Just got into Metaphor ReFantazio! Just reached the first major dungeon and so far I am very impressed. Quite a lot of great QOL stuff over the Persona series, and it has a very well written story with a very unique vibe so far.
I personally think I still prefer the vibe of Persona over Metaphor, but this is seriously a really cool game. I highly recommend you try out the Prologue demo even if you've never played Persona before or don't care for JRPGs, because this is something truly different and I think there's still a chance you might like it. The demo is super meaty too since it's literally just the first four hours or so of the game.
I've also been playing with my buds WEBFISHING which is basically an Animal Crossing esc chill fishing game with lots of neat stuff to do. It's really fun to play just to hang out with your friends and chat.
If you want something more intense as well, STRAFTAT just released yesterday and it's fun as hell. It's basically a Free to Play (Not P2W) 1v1 arena shooter that's really hectic. It's got a really strange aesthetic that I really like and it's quite fun for a free little game. And if you end up liking it, you can throw the devs a bone and buy a $5 DLC that adds more maps, weapons, and cosmetics. They even made it so only the host has to buy the DLC and anyone who connects gets to play on those maps with those weapons for free. Really neat little game and really fun with a buddy.
Nightmare Reaper. I finally bothered to unlock Newgame+, so I'm having fun with the better guns in earlier levels.
Europa Universalis 4
For some reason I've been trying to get a specific achievement for weeks
Satisfactory Forbidden jungle The castles of burgundy: the card game
Satisfactory grind!
Just unlocked trains and have no idea how the signaling works. It's a struggle.
Yeah, I've played on and off for years. Never did trains. But I think I am finally going to check them out.
Does a visual novel count? If so I'm playing the english release of Fate Stay Night and really enjoying it.
With or without the porn?
Without. Eroge is not my thing.
Zenless Zone Zero FFXIV Silent Hill 2 remake Cyberpunk Dredge Eden ring.
I flip flop a lot. I play little by little a whole bunch of games. I'll beat them all eventually!
On paper D&D 5e and Pathfinder 2e.
On PC Darktide, Ready Or Not and Satisfactory.
I recently played minecraft on my NixOS servet with my new friend from college. This weekend I wanna play Gothic 1 for the first time (wish me luck)
Upcoming stream after 11 months π
Me too! My weekly stream is becoming more of a yearly stream. My work schedule doesn't really allow for consistent streams, but maybe that'll change soon.
Mud Runners. Surprisingly a good game if you like mishaps that provide challenges. The soft terrain physics are fun just to watch as your truck plows through, too.
Tales of Berseria, extremely solid real time jrpg with a female protagonist, been enioying it a lot.
Just got a second hand PSP, so ... FFT: War of the Lions.
Vintage Story in solo, but I gave up because it's too cumbersome to play without a team. Necesse with a team, lol. Mechabellum in solo multi AoW4 as a filler
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, such a solid title. That and Iβve come back to Battlefield 1942 after only playing the beta, actually not too terrible!
Kingdom Come Deliverance. I'm really enjoying it!
Iβm so glad. Iβve heard thatβs a good one
Workers and Resources, as well as Factorio! (Space DLC of course.) Iβm starting a new game of Factorio with my brother and already sucked in despite not even having green science yet.
Been replaying re4, stuck at the fight against ramon. Also playing lots of Hades 2, I'm up to six fear now.
Duke Nukem for PS3
Absolute Balderdash. The funniest of all board games.
Silent Hill 2 Remake. Itβs been absolutely amazing so far. Bloober team knocked this one out of the park, and Iβm really looking forward to Cronos: The New Dawn.
yucata.de - community built website to play board games online (start easy with: Spexxx, Hey that's my fish, Mountain Goats, Rose King, Balloon Cup, Ali Baba or City Blocks)
Shattered Pixel Dungeon - multiplatform polished roguelike
Sauerbraten FPS - Q3/UT style shooter
Def Jam Fight for NY
Warhammer space marine 2.
It's short, beautiful, and sweet. Kind of like a sexy dwarf.
Definitely worth a play, but I'd wait for this to be $20 if I were to redo things.
Forza Horizon 4, The Division, Sims 4, Football Manager 24.... Always on PC
ZZZ, F-Zero X, Balatro, UESRPG3e, and SotDL.
I just finished Kingdom Hearts 1 and am currently playing Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories.
After 22 years I finally gave KH1 another go and I loved it so much I got every game of the series lol
Lately I've been playing Roboquest, an indie arena shooter about halfway through the progression system, and Octopath Traveler 2, a jrpg with great music and some battle mechanics that make turn based combat more interesting (5 battle points per character that charge per turn to boost abilities, defense breaks/weak points, and buff/debuff counters).
Pentiment. Had me gripped more than any game I've played recently. Such a great aesthetic, and the rich history it weaves is compelling
I loved it ! I was so sad about my detective skills until I found out it was intended.
Which act are you playing ?
I've finished it (twists and darkness and all...)
I thought about going for a replay, but I've realised my decisions wouldn't be that different from this time around, so I accept the story I played as it is and have made my peace with it :-)
I'm at the end of chapter 2 !
Yeah, and also replaying is a 100h commitment that's a long game
Buckle in, it's such a great story!
ALTF4. Its old and it's five bucks on steam and worth every penny.
I recently texted my ex and now Iβm back in deep with my toxic relationship with Rainbow 6: Siege.
Monetization schemes aside I am literally in love with the design of the game. Itβs so well suited for team play that encourages everyone to come up with unexpected plans
Someone on here posted a glowing review of Fields of Mistria. I downloaded the game and I can't stop playing it!
It's that perfect cozy farm Sim game, mimicking the best parts of Stardew Valley and minimizing the worst parts. I cannot wait for the full release, and I'm so glad I happened upon that review!
Brotato...so much Brotato...
Just got Dome Keeper a little while ago, hopefully that helps me break the cycle...
I've been juggling between S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly (adding more mods to my already big modlist as usual lol, can't stop!), O A.D., Oblivion, Roblox and Life is Strange 1 (In anticipation of Double Exposure coming out in a few days though I won't be able to play it, still excited!)
ASKA, Satisfactory, and No Man's Sky. Occasionally a bit of Pax Dei thrown in in case my building scratch is itchy.
I'm playing minecraft and making an ever-expanding house by adding new rooms whenever I need something. Soon it will consume the mountain
How many rooms do you currently have?
I just started, but so far we have a smeltery + vine farm in a cave, a minecart track down to a mine, a farmhouse with crops and flowers, an apiary (automated to collect honeycomb + honey bottles!) next to that, the foundation of a collosally large clocktower that we (I'm working on this with a friend) hope to be a central structure to the whole house, and a dripstone clay farm. And a bunch of chests hanging out. I like to collect music discs from creepers so we made an auto-replay jukebox to cycle through discs while we work!
Kerbal Space Program (with mods) and Assassins Creed Mirage.
Pretty much just Battle Craze, I'm hooked on it lol.
Planet Crafter Humble DLC and TCG Card Shop Simulator. The Humble DLC is still a bit buggy but it's nice having a new planet to explore. I've paused playing Card Shop Simulator until the developers smooth out the XP grind a bit more.
Just started red dead 2
TextSpaced "a thrilling sci-fi MMORPG that you can play in your browser [which] has been designed to provide an enjoyable experience for people of all abilities, including those who are blind or partially sighted".
On tabletop me and teens have been enjoying the Nexalis TTRPG
Baldurs gate 3, minecraft, war thunder
I'm sorry.
Lol
Former War Thunder Player Here. I feel your pain.
Puzzling Places has been an unexpected joy after I got it in a bundle with Tetris Effect.
Inertial Drift, an arcade racer. Some people might find the game too "arcade"y but I enjoy the game.
Pros - Drifting mechanic and graphics are unique
Cons - You might forget your drifting instinct you built in other games
Just finished playing Somerville and currently playing Selaco. Would recommend both.
New Zelda, but it's so damn long! I kinda lost interest after the goron area
Picked up on Wizard of Legend again recently. Curious about 2, but I tend to avoid games in prerelease
been playing the renegade mod for pokemon platinum for a while but I think I'm burnt out on it already. just got to pastoria city and caught some exotic critters in the great marsh but then suddenly lost all interest in playing. might just be one of those days though
Decided to start playing through Pokemon: Explorers of Sky today
Mostly VR stuff, in the recent weeks. Specifically Golf+ since the IRL golf season is over and Iβm sad about it, and Iβve been slowly getting into Elite Dangerous.
Deadlock! At least until I inevitably remind myself that multiplayer games are all bullshit and go back to enjoying SP games again.
Deadlock is just really good man. I went from: i don't play mobas and multiplayer games are bullshit to: how did i play 120 hours of a early alpha build?
Just finished Pikmin 4. I found it disappointing. I miss 1 and 2 which I see as complementary masterpieces.
Timberborn, Factorio, and XCOM 2
Zelda BOTW, really awesome
Dead Space, FF VI and VII Remake
Classic dead space or remake?
Remake
Titan quest AE with the newer expansions.
Probably going to check out the new no man's sky expedition they're usually fun for a short while.
Waiting and hoping DA: veilguard will be good.
Waiting for stalker 2 after that.
Wait? TQ got a newer expansion?
After the original Immortal throne they added three expansions for the anniversary edition yes. Atlantis, Ragnarok and burning embers
To bad Diablo 2 didn't got that kind of treatment...
I Also heard they announced TQ2 (kinda excited), I really hope for a good sequel that keeps the good old ARPG feeling.
Yeaaah I hoped and prayed for a good Diablo squel but this is probably never going to happen any time soon... Like never.
Its certainly interesting to see xpacks so many years later just like with AoE 2. As for diablo well yeah I don't think it'll happen either but with LE, PoE (2), TQ AE/2 and GD there's enough ARPG goodness out there right now I think.
Revisiting PUBG on pc again. I really miss proximity chat being enabled by default and being able to talk to people in the spawn room. Along with the broken car physics I feel like the game lost its soul when those two things were removed.
Iβm playing PokΓ©mon HeartGold for the first time. Iβve always kind of liked Pokemon but Iβve never really gotten into one of the games properly, so Iβm trying with this one.
What a question. Last month I dusted off the PS4 for a month of PS Plus, playing the first 2 Uncharted games and trying a few other games - Far Cry 6 and Assetto Corsa were good enough to buy on PC later.
As of yesterday I'm back on the PC playing M&B 2 Bannerlord.