What games do your friend groups tend to play with one another?

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When hanging out with friends in discord or whatever, what games do you all tend to sit down and play with one another? For me it's some combination of Valorant, Guild Wars 2, and Omega Strikers but I'm curious what everyone else plays with their friends :)

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Project Zomboid, Terraria, No Man’s Sky, Satisfactory

V Rising (boring), Phasmophobia (boring)

Next game to try is called Smalland, I’m excited

Deep Rock Galactic is in heavy rotation with my group. Barotrauma too if we have the time and at least 4 people.

I’ve got a small group at the moment so we tend to stick to Valheim. Very little progress each time. Usually a lot of catching up on talk and building a slightly bigger building.

Will throw in a multiplayer humble game every now and then to switch things up.

Table Top Simulator is great for group fun.

Bro, Viscera Cleanup. It's like space janitors talking while cleaning up the remnants of an alien infestation.

I have been gaming with the same group of friends for the last ten years. We're three people busy with real-life commitments, live on different sides of the country, so we try to play games where they act as a social arena as well. The conversations we have are more important than the game itself.

We've been gaming Valheim, Raft, The Forest and Risk of Rain 2 for the past years. We've also played some Elden Ring and Hunt: Showdown, but neither works as well as the beforementioned.

On that note, can anyone reccomend games like the ones above? Been eyeing Grounded...

Depends on the group.

  • Group 1: Halo, the old ones on MCC. Just goofy customs and fucking around.
  • Group 2: More recent multiplayer games, bit more competitive, though Titanfall is always on the list
  • Group 3: Strategy. AoE, Rise of Nations, Supreme Fommander

I love Titanfall 2, I've yet to find a game like it. There's so much going on and I feel that not being a twitch shooter means I can keep up more easily with the young-uns.

Criminally underplayed game.

TF2 got freaking murdered. Me and friends keep going back to it again and again. I'm so happy northstar exists now, it's too bad it can't do anything for console players.

Also, come say hi at !titanfall@sopuli.xyz

I've got a couple groups of friends that my wife and I play Jackbox with over discord, it's almost as good as being in the same room!

we play Dead by Daylight mostly. Sometimes we do fortnite, and have an unironically good time

We are very competitive gamers, so the list is:

  • CS:GO
  • Trackmania
  • Rocket league
  • Rainbow six siege

When there are more players:

  • The forest (original or the new one)
  • among us ඞ
  • or you can play team vs team in the above games

Almost nothing.

We’ve all such different tastes, but the last thing we played was Forest 2 and Grim Dawn.

I have two groups, one that plays Overwatch. And another that tends to play coop survival games. Valheim, 7dtd, V Rising, etc

A mixture of Dead by Daylight, Deep Rock Galactic, Valheim and V Rising. Depends who and how many of the group are online and what kind of mood we're all in!

Over the last few years it's been Final Fantasy XIV, Vermintide 2, Valheim and some Generation Zero.

Hoping to get to Deep Rock Galactic and Sea of Thieves some time.

My group plays Dota 2 and Arma 3, both poorly.

No1 is probably Valheim, but also WarThunder, Hunt: Showdown, and GTFO. But I wish it was Eve Online 😅

Late night Uno sessions are a great way to pass the time. It's a shame that Ubisoft's version of the game doesn't have cross-platform multiplayer.

I'm a big Tabletop Simulator / Tabletop Playground guy myself, and it tends to be the easiest way to get a bunch of real-life friends together when we can't actually be together. I tend to like longer form slower paced games that can be played passively, like 4X games; it's just a more fun environment when you just want to chill and chat/play.

For fun competitive games where chatting is secondary to the competitive experience, probably Age of Empires 2!

A couple of friends and I will play Hunt: Showdown pretty frequently.

Sometimes Deep Rock Galactic or Warframe as well.

Most of my friends aren’t real ‘gamers’, but they’ll enjoy playing things like Geoguessr and scriblio, so we still get to play games.

I'm big into splatoon, and some of friends are varying degrees of also into it, from "as invested as me" to "will play it but will make a good-natured fuss about it". It's the most fun shooter I've ever played, despite its terrible jankiness sometimes.

We also play a lot of boardgames on tabletop sim, if that counts.

Escape from Tarkov with a few buddies, counterstrike with another group.

Both groups I sometimes play a variety of other stuff with but these two are the main stays

Rocket League, mostly. I play casual matches with my peeps, but my son and I play competitive together. We’ve won some tournaments, even. We also play Fortnite.

Valorant, Deep rock galactic, Sea of Thieves, and soon Titanfall 2

I wish I had friends who play what I play. I'd love to get back into Guild Wars 2, but I just never have a group to play with!

And, my friends are never playing when I play, but back in College, my friends and I would play CSGO, Minecraft, Oldschool Runescape, and a few other games.

Oh man, please hit me up if you'd like to jump into GW2. One of my favourite things in any game is just adventuring across the land, doing quests, uncovering and discussing characters and lore, slowly improving out items together without worrying about "trading efficiently", taking on little challenges like Dungeons or bosses, etc.

I've also gotten into Raiding lately with other first timers. We literally just go in without reading any guides, no roles assigned, and just try to work out how to get past each encounter/boss together.

I might when I get my PC set back up in July. I'm about to get a Series X.

Tbh the GW2 community is lovely as they come, might be worth just trying to scope out a guild that has similar interests to you and making friends that way. I didn't have friends that played guild wars 2 when I started but I met plenty through the game and it's been super fun

I'm new to Lemmy and couldn't find a way to tag you, so apologies for that! But my reply to Skiptrace was also kind of a reply to you :)

It's pretty inconsistent with my friend groups, but most frequently revolves around either Apex Legends or a mix of fighting games, currently Street Fighter 6. Monster Hunter often enters the rotation, as well as other cooperative games.

I've been trying to get folks to play Omega Strikers with me but have had little luck so far, nor have I really had the time to really get into it and get very comfortable with all the mechanics.

For in person, we do a lot of Jackbox.
When online, SCP Secret labs has been a favorite. Every few weeks someone will usually want to play and we'll do a few rounds.

We met via tabletop RPGs and that's what we still do every two weeks but if we're hanging on Discord it's mainly Overwatch but also Wildermyth and Mech Warrior.

Here's some of my friend group's favorites with old and new games mixed in, we go all over the place!

RTS:

  • Beyond All Reason - If you're a fan of Total Annihilation, Supreme Commander or Planetary Annihilation, or if you like RTSs and want to be in control of tons of units on huge maps check this out! It's Open Source and free.
  • War40k Dawn of War - One of our favorite RTS's, the mix of unit loadouts and varied factions is amazing! Make sure to get the FoV and Widescreen mods here.
  • Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun - Classic RTS, Now free through cncnet. Subterranean APC Detected!
  • Age of Empires 2 - Classic, Wololo
  • Gates of Hell: Ostfront - Really underrated RTS, the sound design, ballistics, attention to detail and variety of units is awesome. Allows direct control of infantry and vehicles, has a inventory system, you can steal weapons off vehicles, repair etc.

FPS:

  • Half-Life (GoldSrc Engine) Deathmatch - Classic DM game with fun weapons, The tension on the crossfire map after the button is pressed inside the bunker is amazing. Tons of mods available for it such as: The Specialists, Zombie Panic, Pirates, Vikings and Knights, Science and Industry and more! Oh my god, we're doomed!
  • Half-Life 2 (Source Engine) Deathmatch - Throw toilets at each other's heads with the grav gun! There's tons of mods!
  • Garry's Mod: The Deathrun game mode specifically, Most extreme challenge with a cruel twist, one friend will be picked per round to set off traps and environmental changes as everyone else tries to get through an obstacle course of death.
  • Titanfall 2 - One of the best twitch FPSs since Tribes, CS, HLDM, Quake II, and UT. The movement is incredible and gunplay amazing. Try the Northstar client if the official servers are under attack or you want more variety with mods.
  • Natural Selection 2 - Really good blend of FPS and RTS elements, 1 player on each side is a commander and choose upgrades, where to build, drop supplies, give orders etc. Aliens vs Marines with strategic depth. Can be a steep learning curve for some.
  • Arma 3: SOG Prairie Fire DLC - One of the best Arma DLC's out, lots of free updates have happened, If you like Vietnam era vehicles and infantry and co-op with friends it's great. You'll need a group of friends to play. If you want something more modern in both theme, game engine and quality of life, wait for Arma 4.
  • Alien Vs Predator 2 - Face hug your friends, catch them in the Predator's net, Enjoy that classic Pulse rifle sound and screaming ! Any servers still surviving likely won't be populated depending on the time of day. I don't know where to buy this officially anymore, there must be some kind of rights issue going on for re-releasing it. Game Over, Man! Game Over!

TPS:

Strategy:

  • Total War: WARHAMMER III - The Immortal Empires mode is really fun, warning though, there's a lot of DLCs, your favorite army or one you're interested in might be locked behind one.

VR:

  • Pavlov VR - Awesome FPS, semi-realistic firearm operation with mod support!
  • Phasmophobia - Ever wanted to feel what it'd be a paranormal inspector, possibly scoping a place out to validate if the Real Ghostbusters should arrive or not?
  • Forewarned - A unique take on the Phasmophobia type game, Egyptian tomb themed, if you die you can come back as a good mummy to help friends or bad mummy to annoy friends!
  • VTOL VR - Semi-Sim Flight, Co-op, You can actually reach out and flip console controls / switches! It has VTOL, Jet and Helicopter vehicles.
  • Iron Wolf VR - Really amazing WWII Submarine co-op game, I really wish development could have continued but one of the lead developers has unfortunately passed away who was the best friend of the other dev. Tragic but they left behind something awesome for people to enjoy.

2D Mayhem

  • Duck Game - Pure madness, a 2D Shooter with Ducks, Crazy weaponry from a mind control gadget to a simple banana. Great online and even better if you can all get together in the same room to see everyone's reactions. Quack!

The following three games are meant for local / couch gameplay, but using steam remote play or parsec works.

  • Crawl - Really cool, it's a dungeon crawler except only one player is a human, the others are monsters. If a player monster kills the human, they take their place. The final boss's body is controlled by the monster players! You can choose a deity and set of monsters you might spawn as and upgrade them as you play and become more powerful.
  • Towerfall Ascension - 2D Archery combat game, really intense short matches, the mechanics are straightforward but hard to master.
  • Hidden in Plain site - Fun little party game, you try to blend in with a crowd of NPCs to achieve your goal or avoid being eliminated by other players.

I hope someone finds something new in this list, or perhaps some good memories.

Destiny 2. It gets a lot of hate (a lot of it deserved) but every week me and two friends run dungeons and it's always fun.

Team Fortress 2! We queue Casual and just laugh at funny ragdolls, cosmetics, and the bizarre fever dream interactions that can only happen in TF2 😅

I built one of my best friends a retro gaming station out of a raspberry pi 2. Its called the Nicolas Cage SuperStation. We've been playing old school streets of rage with our ps4 controllers.

You can download the operating system, LakkaOS, from here: https://www.lakka.tv/

We also play Death Stranding and were about to get into the new Marathon too

Typically we break into smaller groups to play gta v or golf with your friends. But we have a valheim server we chill on and this week we all got really into battle bits

The last few games I've played with people have been Guild Wars 2, Overwatch 2, Gunfire Reborn & Tower Unite. c:

If we're also counting browser games, Gartic Phone and Board Game Online.

It's funny, I feel like I've seen more GW2 players in the wild on the fediverse than I did on Reddit

What sorts of stuff do y'all do when you play? Most of my GW2 playing friends play endgame PvE so I'm curious how other people play the game together ^^

It really depends! Sometimes we're playing through story together (if there's new stuff out we haven't done yet), sometimes we'll be doing fractals (so technically endgame PvE), sometimes we'll go achievement hunting together or maybe farm if there's something we particularly need for something.

I've been considering trying PvP and/or WvW again, but I'm a little scared because I very much consider myself to be a casual player and I'm afraid I'd be holding my team back with my inexperience. :c

If you have any PvP questions, hit me up! I actually just finished grinding out Ascension last month and really enjoyed the process -- especially because i have a background in both fighting games and battlerite, which both translate somewhat well to guild wars, and I'm always happy to help someone learn :) And dont be afraid, that's what ranks are for! Even if someone gets mad at you for "holding them back" remember they're in that mmr bracket with you for a reason and they're just mad they're not playing to their own expectation, and it's not fair for you to hold yourself to some random person's standard :)

What specs do you play?

My Engineer is my main at the moment, and most of the time I roll through content as Mechanist (because having a pet is so convenient, and the low intensity build is great for ensuring I can play for long periods without my RSI flaring up). When I've dabbled in WvW before, I've done so as Scrapper because I prefer support classes and Scrapper was a pretty good healer back then (I think they might still be okay now?) c:

I know PvP is a little different, so I'm not sure what I'd play for that. What would you recommend?

Vermintide 2, Warframe, TF2, Battlefield 1, and once in a great while we get to sit down and try to play warhammer lol.

We usually go for the cheapest and dummest crap we find, with most potential.

League of Legends is the game we all share (it's how most of us met each other) but there are other games that some of us play together from time to time.

Deep Rock Galactic, Risk of Rain 2, Remnant: From the Ashes (sequel next month), Minecraft, and ARPGs. Just to name a few.

It's not uncommon either for us to just be playing out own thing and streaming to the others.

Brawlhalla, hands down. A Free-to-play platform-fighting game that is surprisingly technical with its movement and combos, so it can lead to very interesting and epic moments.

It has a huge roster but you need to pay in-game currency to access most characters, which you gain very quickly by just playing the game, so its a non issue.

i typically play Destiny 1 and 2 as well as Battlefront 2 with my friend group. sometimes we quad team on minecraft bedwars. and even duel each other sometimes

Fortnite has been our go-to for the last 3 years.
Quite impressive, considering I thought my friend was kidding when she asked me to play it with her. But it's been hella fun since!

Y'all play games with friends? My irl friends only really like FPSs, and since that's not my jam we don't really play together. And most of the people I know online are more into single player games until I found them in an mmo (but even then we tend to only play that one together).

We have a few games that are always in rotation - Left 4 Dead 2, Payday 2, Vermintide 2, Risk of Rain 2. Basically just coop FPS games that, as I list them, happen to be sequels lol. We also play Valheim when new updates come out. Lately trying out Earth Defense Force 5.

I've been playing Sons of the Forest with my friends. It's still in Alpha so it's been fun discovering the game together through the regular updates.

It used to be Overwatch but I definitely feel like we're drifting away from it thanks to the chsnges made in Overwatch 2.

Hopefully we can all migrate back to Final Fantasy XIV. That was very chill and the game itself is amazing!

We go through phases. The game we will always return to when there's a new one is Monster Hunter, but we've played other games sporadically over the years. Most recently has been path of exile, which I normally get bored of relatively quickly but it's much more fun with friends.

Final Fantasy XIV, Terraria, GTFO, Killing Floor 2, Guilty Gear Strive/Xrd Rev 2, 7 Days to Die, Minecraft, and recently some of us have been playing MegaMan Battle Network VS matches. What is popular changes quite often

League of Legends, but with the attitude of "We really need to try more games, but this is the only one we all play."

We've also played Overwatch and FFXIV, but they don't really stick that well long term.

We have like a solid list that goes back a few years

  • Age of Empires II
  • Homeworld 2
  • Counterstrike
  • Dawn of War
  • Titanfall 2
  • Call of Duty 2

But we just added some new ones:

  • Spellforce 3 and
  • Diablo IV

Bro, dawn of war is what pushed me to build my first powerful gaming PC back in, like, 2008ish

Mostly Rust, these days. However, we have played (and enjoyed) Valheim, Satisfactory, Raft, For the King and Heroes of the Storm. I want to get back to multiplayer Minecraft again though. Playing alone is getting old.

Our current rotation of games is GTFO, Back 4 Blood, Ready or Not, Starship Troopers: Extermination and The Division 2.

We used to play quite a bit of Grand Theft Auto Online (PC), but too many games got ruined by blatant cheaters and griefers so we quit. We also had a Project Zomboid server, which was super fun, need to go back to that game sometime!

How is Omega Strikers? I've had my eyes on it but it's not really my friends' type of game. I might play it on my own because I think it looks really cool.

Honestly I love it to bits. I was top 500 for a time in battlerite royale duos, so when it died I wanted a game that scratched that same itch that actually had a marketing push behind it so people would play it. Omega strikers isn't quite the same as battlerite, but it scratches a similar enough itch to where I've been really, really happy with my time with it. Played it in beta and just got obsessed lol

I will say it's not a game I can play for hours on hours like valorant, but I spend like an hour or two with it every few days and it's consistently fun. Biggest issue is cross play with mobile players and switch players means you're pretty likely to queue with like 11 year olds that don't know what they're doing, but cross play like that is a necessary evil to keep a game like this alive. It's super fun with friends though, I can't recommend it enough

Vermintide 2, Civ V, never liked CIV VI, Left 4 Dead, Risk of Rain 2. We are interested in that extraction looter that got removed from steam, Dark and Darker. We just haven't bother to get it through the BitTorrent links instead of steam. But we all love these types of games and dungeon crawling so it looks good.