it's very much borrowed from one of the reddit subs i frequent(ed) often, but the idea is to share what we're playing weekly and hopefully create discussions around those games (or simply have a sort of "check-in").
I got Tears of the Kingdom for my birthday, so I’ve been enjoying that this week. I’m thinking about picking up Ozymandius on steam at some point for a nice 4X-Lite game.
Tears of the Kingdom as well. I’ve been running around doing shrines and whatnot and not working on quests, though, so I need to put some time into the actual objectives, ha ha!
Splatoon! The new season is out, so I'm looking forward to grinding my catalogue and getting used to the new stages. This season features a lot of Nintendo game consoles for your locker, like the "Intended Entertainment System"... love it.
I have been playing Tears of the Kingdom, but when my wife has been playing I have been switching in between Serious Sam 4 and the original Commander Keen.
Commander Keen takes a little to get used to the game feel and style, but I am actually enjoying it pretty well. You can feel a lot of what would go into id shooters. Mazelike levels with a series of key cards, but on a 2d platformer instead of a fps.
Actually been playing Assassin's Creed 2. Got the Ezio collection on sale and been enjoying revisiting an old classic. I forgot how much fun the legacy AC games were.
Getting into team fortress 2 all over again, also looking into Starbound as a terraria fan it caught my eyes. A lot of reviews says to not compare so I wont
Playing TotK like most people, I finally figured out how to get KotOR working on my SteamDeck though (through Ryujinx) and am excited to replay it (last time I played the PC version it was SUPER unstable and I couldn't leave the first planet without crashing unless I installed a bunch of mods
Diablo 4, enjoying it so far but their MTX shop is a joke. You want 25€ for a basic looking set of armor? I don't think so.
Season 2 of Limbus Company also just launched, finally beat 3-22 right before the servers went down. Really loving that game, the characters quickly grew on me. I play a few gacha's (Arknights, GBF, GI) but Limbus is the only one I'd recommend to friends. You can pretty much farm every identity without spending a dime and FOMO is pretty low. Helps that Project Moon is an Indie dev I guess.
Death Stranding. Was sceptic for a long time, if the concept of the game is for me and motivating enough to keep me playing. Picked it up during a sale recently and really got hooked. With not much time to game it is nice to deliver a few packages and be able to quit again. Story is so cryptic that it feels like it does not matter if you forget something after a week long break and the atmosphere of the game feels really nice.
Beyond the Retroid Flip I just stuffed with games, I've been on a Metroidvania kick lately. So I've been playing Afterimage, which is gigantic, and Astliba, which is endearingly janky and reminiscent of Falcom's PC days.
Also I found Siralim Ultimate which is like, Dragon Quest Monsters x3000, I'm glad I found it now and not in the midst of grad school or it'd be soooo Joever for me lmao
Working on Dying Light 2. Waited for awhile for it to go on sale once and have some confirmed reports working with Proton, so partway through the campaign now!
Trying to finish up Tears of the Kingdom! Once I do that I'm planning to get back into Horizon Zero Dawn on my PC. I was enjoying it on my Steam Deck while out of the country, but got to a point where it would crash whenever I tried to load a save.
I haven't seen anyone mention fighting games yet so I guess I'm going first. Will probably grind Guilty Gear Strive this weekend, as I don't have much free time for longer gaming sessions and every set is like 3-5 minutes each at most. I'll also try to get back into Dragon Age: Origins, if time permits.
Speaking of fighting games, I'm also interested in getting Street Fighter 6, as a friend I frequently play against got it, but I just can't justify paying 60€ for a game nowadays. I have so many other games on my backlog that I'd rather wait for a sale. But I played the open beta and really liked it a lot. The game feels more fluid than 5 and the new Drive mechanic feels way better than the previous V mechanic.
I recently found a good Wine wrapper for SWAT4 so I'm gonna be reliving my childhood a bit. Might jump back into Lost Judgment and try to finally beat it before I get sucked into another RGG game.
I just bought the BioShock collection for $10 on sale and I'm playing BioShock 1 for the first time. The game is a little outdated but the story so far is really interesting to me, I love the world building.
Terraria and Breath of the Wild. I wish I had played them sooner but I had never played the Zelda games before but now that I have gotten into it I have had LOTS of fun. As of Terraria, I have played it for a while but it hasn’t gotten old yet so I’m going to play as long as I feel like.
I've been playing GTA RP, RDR2 RP, and Terraria with Calamity and Thorium mod, although lately I've gotten Distracted with Stable Diffusion, so I haven't been playing much these last few days.
I've been playing a bunch of MTG Arena and Tears of the Kingdom lately, and sometimes I hop onto Runescape. Maybe I should finally get around to using the gold I've been saving up to buy a bond
i'll start, i'm playing Devil May Cry 5, i wanted to see what all the fuss was about action/gameplay-wise before starting FF XVI in a few weeks time (which I'm extremely hyped for!).
i'm having a pretty great time with the game so far!
Been playing a lot of WoW recently, really loving all the content in Zandalar! Most fun I've had playing an MMO in a while.
On the single-player side of things, I played through Beasts of Maravilla Island! It's short, but sweet, and only $10 on Steam. It scratches the same itch as Pokémon Snap, and I've been desperate for new content like it since New Pokémon Snap isn't likely to get any new DLC... Ever.
I recently finished Hardspace: Shipbreaker, which I quite enjoyed, even though dissecting the ships felt a bit tedious towards the end. Now I'm playing Warhammer 40k: Boltgun, and it's amazing if you're into dakka and bloody gore-explosions.
I'm always playing Minecraft (anyone here looking to start a vanilla SMP?), but my brother just convinced me to buy this game called Mechabellum, which is a pretty cool mech-themed auto-battler. It's been quite a bit of fun figuring out unit combos and counters and everything.
Replaying The Talos Principle in preparation for the second one coming out! I've finished playing through the base game this week, now I'm working on the DLC.
once my finals are done i'm taking a one and a half hour walk to the nearest videos game store and getting TOTK and that'll probably be me sorted for the rest of the month at least
Played Warhammer 3 with a friend last weekend. We did Chaos factions (I was chaos dwarves and he was one of the Daemons of Chaos). It was a pretty good time. Also do a little world of warships legends with some friends on Xbox. The last game I beat was the Metroid Prime remaster.
My hope is whenever I find the time I want to play:
Jedi Survivor
Tears of the Kingdom
System Shock
Diablo 4
Hogwarts Legacy
But I just am so busy with house hunting, work, and some personal stuff it's hard to find time to play lately.
Mostly TotK (will probably be playing this for a long time) and Honkai Star Rail. Looking forward to playing FFXVI and SF6, but I’m in no hurry to buy them.
I’m working through a backlog of playstation games, so currently working on the platinum trophy for Persona 4 Golden. I did p3p when both were released and played the first three games in the dark pictures anthology in between since they were on sale and I wanted to play something that would require fewer hours to complete.
Been playing a moderately modded MechWarrior 5. The game just isn't as fun without the Clans and their cool technology, so I added the “Yet Another Clan Mech” mod which adds them, but now the game gets crashy whenever any Clan 'Mechs show up. Dunno why. Hoping for another MechWarrior game some time soon.
This may not be the best place to post this, but for lack of a designated community I think this is appropriate :)
I've gotten way into Pathfinder 2e recently, been mucking about with the rulebooks and building a homebrew setting. It's been a lot of fun thus far, the system is crunchy but sensible.
I was not a fan of turn based jrpgs before but this game is winning me over with great writing, actually fun gameplay and suprisingly alright gacha implementation (got my team up with 20$ which is a fair deal!)
I'm on world 2 in the story and there's just so much to do in this game I only wish it supported a controller on Android/iOS.
Bouncing between a few games right now. Playing a couple of gacha games on my phone, Apex and Mortal Kombat 11 on Xbox, and getting into Age of Wonders 4 on the steam deck.
As I'm getting older, I'm finding it harder and harder to keep up with my gaming habits. Too many games and not enough time nowadays...
Tears of the Kingdom has also sucked me in. It's not quite a 10/10 for me, and in some ways I think looking back I slightly prefer the more austere and "pure" BotW, but the new temples, abilities and shrines are really fun. Great game.
Another replay of Shadow of the Colossus and also started Zelda 2 on NES. SOTC is always a favorite. Zelda 2 I'm a bit iffy on after really enjoying the original, but I'm still early. The stark change in style and gameplay direction threw me off in the beginning but I'm hoping to adjust.
Although, this week it's been hard for me to find time to play anything.
I've been playing a lot of the Medieval Madness and Han Solo tables in Pinball FX3 on my steam deck. Set up the gyro to allow me to nudge the table and it's really helping me get high scores
Speedrunning Tears of the Kingdom. The community for that is a bit over-focused on any% in my opinion, but exploring master sword rta route options has been really fun. MSRTA starts at new game, ends at getting the master sword. First known run of the category was 2:10:36 which means sub-2 should come fairly easily. For comparison, 2:30 was a goal time for master sword rta in Breath of the Wild for quite a while.
Also sometimes working on my casual file for it, I haven't quite finished all the quests yet.
Booting up StarCraft 2 again with some work buddies.
In my solo time, I just beat what content there is in slime rancher 2, am just deciding what's next on the docket, though I've been itching to play Terraria calamity mod again
I should wrap up Pokemon Violet... pretty close to the end of the main story. I'll probably get that knocked out over the weekend. Funnily enough, Nintendo actually sent me an email encouraging me to complete the game which actually asked me if was stuck. Ugh. I've played these games since the very beginning. I know what I'm doing. I'm taking my time because I'm a busy working adult.
I’ve been making my way through the STEINS;GATE 0 visual novel, and I’ve been having a great time. It’s effectively replaced watching TV/anime for me; I turn on my nvidia shield, stream the game, and off I go.
Tears of the Kingdom and my usual, Team Fortress 2.
How's tears?
Story sucks. Everything else doesn't. Luckily Nintendo knew this was coming and made the B button able to skip a lot of dialogue. Too bad most of the cutscenes aren't skippable unless they repeat.
I'm mostly playing Battle Brothers and a little Orx. No matter how many tactical games i try, i keep coming back to Battle Brothers. Orx is fun Carcassonne Solitaire.
i finally started playing cyberpunk after a year of owning it. glad to report i only ran into game crashing bugs twice over 80hrs of gameplay. I've noticed a bunch (prob 20ish) of minor bugs related to elevators and summoning cars. also some light fortnite when my coworkers are bored
DayZ. Bought it like 2 years ago, but only played like 30 hours. Dropped it because for me it was really hard at the beginning when I played solo. Maybe I watch some tutorials this time for an easier start.
swat: aftermath, I will never leave it, there's just too much in it to improve on. Also din's curse, which is the only other game that holds the same charm.
I'm playing Mech Arena and that's gonna be my go-to game for a while. It's exactly what it sounds like. It's one of those F2P games that tries to get you addicted and spend loads of money. I'm sure the game is almost entirely supported by whales. I just watch the voluntary ads to get my little rewards.
Going to be playing V Rising tomorrow with some friends. I've never played it, but they are excited about some content that dropped recently. I'm looking forward to it!
I've always been a casual gamer at most, so never really got into playing bigger games until I met my wife. So now I play the games with a good story that she's already played. Played Odyssey a while back, which I loved, so I've gone back a few because I remember her enjoying it not long after we got together.
It's looking pretty dated, and Ubisoft have stripped out pretty much all of the online stuff now, but the basic game is still playable, and I'm enjoying it a lot.
I've set myself a challenge to play one game for 6 months. I was jumping around games a lot and barely playing anything properly. I remember when I was younger I'd get a game for my birthday and Christmas which were 6 months apart, so I basically played one game only for half a year. Now it's too easy to just buy and download games and switch between them.
So at the moment I'm playing ESO until October. It's far from the best game ever, but the amount of content is insane. And I love Elder Scrolls.
I got a second hand xbone at the start of the year so I've got a lot of game pass to try out. I've been playing power wash simulator recently, it's nice and chilled, therapeutic to calm down before bed
I keep a couple in rotation that I switch between in a session. Right now I'm playing through Arkham City for the first time (I'm a patient gamer) with City Skylines as a backup.
I just finished a Civ 5 relapse (can't get 6 to run), so I'm on the new system shock right now.
I highly recommend it. It is both very faithful and much more accessible. More than anything, it perfectly captures the feeling of playing the first game, where it seems that you're just a pest, scurrying around this huge structure trying to defeat something so far beyond you it seems like a mouse trying to kill a whale.
Cyberspace is...kinda boring though TBH. Its faithful, but...meh. I'd recommend playing at 3 combat, 2 puzzles, and 1 cyberspace for a first run.
I've been focusing most of my game time on Persona 5 Royal. It is really great. Over the weekend I played the Quarry with my family and wrapped up Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart.
This applies to me as well. I'm very excited. AC2 was one of my first games on a disc. Regrettably, I never got to play the other games when they released. Are you planning on getting it on PC or console?
I don't play stalleris regularly, but every other year or so I buy all the DLCs I missed and start a game. All the crisis' have come and gone and I'm just mopping up a war.
I just bought Silica and Gunner, HEAT, PC!, which have both been pretty cool so far. Both are early access games that I wanted to support.
Silica has way more to it than I expected, and I'm excited to play more (hopefully with friends, at some point).
GHPC is sort of like single player (for now) War Thunder, with a pretty cool simulation of Cold War era tanks and ballistics while still being fairly accessible. One interesting thing it does: the tank commander will speak to you (which is where the title of the game comes from), and it will get increasingly more tense and eventually turn into panicked screams, depending on the situation.
I'm playing these on Linux, and I have a weird audio issue with GHPC. Nobody else seems to experience this, and it doesn't happen on my Steam Deck.
I finished Above Snakes in 18.5 hours and very much enjoyed it. I'd say the game is a 7.5/10. They clearly ran out of time and/or budget, but they had good sales, so some content patches have been promised - and they already did multiple quick bugfix releases.
Tears of the Kingdom, been playing it non-stop. I was playing Roots of Pacha before totk came out and I might take a break to play again this coming week.
Saw someone doing a Papers Please playthrough and got the urge to replay it again. Trying to go kinda hardcore by not making any mistakes but ive already reset day 5 like 3 times haha
My D&D group is taking a two-week break (responsibilities and all that) so I've been playing through Honkai: Star Rail. I'm just about caught up on the main storyline.
Been playing Honkai: Star Rail and Tears of the Kingdom at the same time like a maniac. I'll probably burn out on both and wander off.
The fun part is Star Rail almost becomes an idle game, eventually, because you can just set up auto battles to grind resources and set it off to the side to do its thing. Is this real gaming? I dunno, but it has pretty graphics.
Still settling islands and building cities in Anno 1800 for now. Let's see how long this cycle will last before it gets boring and I switch to something else for a while.
Fiiiiinally starting to get a little bit burnt out on totk so I am currently pretty into rain world and Spelunky 2! Both great but brutally hard games. Been having a ton of fun with them.
Also been playing opus magnum on and off which has been very fun
I’ve been playing Mount and Blade II Bannerlord lately on the steam deck and it’s been a blast! It literally runs it perfectly and the controls are really well done. It keeps me stay awake at nights when my wife is resting and it is my turn to take care of our 2 weeks old newborn. The only bad thing I could think of is how the fan can get a bit louder but it is design to do so (Valve sent me a the loud fan version but planning on getting the quieter one from iFixit in the distant future). I’ve been trying to play Bannerlord with an overhaul mod like Realm of Thrones but it seems to be having problem with Linux and having an infinite loading screen problem. Some mods that are on the steam workshop do work though! Also, hooray! I’m already loving this new website!
Switching between TOTK and M&B: Bannerlord. Trying a Sturgia all infantry run in the latter.
Also WOULD be playing more Hell Let Loose if not for the tragic Update 14,
Just finished Jet Island (Spiderman webswinging meets hoverboard in VR) and am now playing Budget Cuts 2: Mission Insolvency (VR robot murder simulator). Both are excellent VR games on PC