I’ve been driving trains, learning how to build a medieval town and killing a bunch of zombies in Bel Air. How about you?
I’ve been playing mega bonk. It’s very addicting and fun
Same, it’s a nice expansion on the vampire survivors formula
EU5 has been my sole game for over a month now. It needs some work, and I don’t love paradox, and I think think the game is too much of a cookie-clicker reskin… but it’s scratching that grand strategy itch.
I’ve also been on turtle-wow (private vanilla+) which has really been recapturing the spirit of 2004-08 wow for 7(?) years now.
Outer Wilds has completely absorbed me. I went in knowing absolutely nothing about the game and am so glad I did!
Once you finish the standard game and DLC, check out the mods. There have been annual game jams that do add some stories.
Didn’t knew about the mods, that might be a rabbit hole to dig into.
https://outerwildsmods.com/mods/
Quantum space buddies is good if you want to play coop. That’s how I played the DLC
Suitlog allows access to the computer from your suit
Scout stream makes the scout a video stream instead of a snapshot
As for story DLC, I’ve played “the vision” and “The stranger”. I liked the stranger much better, but it’s nice to have any new content.
Awesome! I’ve been worrying about what to do when I finish the DLC.
I wish my computer could run this game. On my short list of games I know I’ll love.
Runs fine on the Steam Deck, just sayin’. 😁
I also went into the game blind, but the anxiety inducing loop I did not enjoy at all. I may give it another try some day.
At first the loop also made me feel like I had to hurry a lot. But the more I played the more I found calm in it. You can get to anywhere pretty quickly, and you find plenty of shortcuts if you look for them. And what you don’t have time for in this loop, you have time for in the next. Slow down, enjoy the journey.
For me it was when I was in another planet, doing some kind of progress, and then boom. When I spent most of my time just getting to, and landing on, the planet, just to get “blipped” again 5 minutes into solving a puzzle, was frustrating.
And, to me, it seemed like it happened at random. Trying to stay with the “playing blind” idea, I didn’t look into the actual timing of the booms. It was a constant dread when I was doing something, thinking it may pop at any time.
Once I got my head around the autopilot and the landing camera, the game became much easier. There are definitely still a few things I think I cheesed in unintended ways though.
Oh man, for me it was so much more chill than anxiety producing. Is, since now I’m tackling the DLC.
In order of most played recently to least played recently:
GTAV
Dark Souls Remastered
WWE 2k25
Factorio Minecraft and rimworld
But that’s been the same for last few years so shrugs
WoW Classic and Megabonk - both on the Steam Deck - have been a great holiday time sink.
I caved and picked up Clair Obscur. It’s a genre that I’m really not a fan of, but it’s just so exceptionally well made that I’m thoroughly enjoying it anyway.
Aongside that, I’ve been playing Rogue Trader at last, after my wife has been bugging me to play it for over a year. It’s very, very good. Probably one of the best RPGs I’ve ever played. The degree to which your narrative choices matter is phenomenal. There are scenes in the tutorial that define the entire game. And it nails the setting.
Lastly, I picked up a founders pack for Soulframe. The only bad decision anyone made when working on this game was calling it Soulframe - it is in absolutely no way the “Fantasy Warframe” people are imagining. The designers say their big inspiration was Dragons Dogma. For me, I’d say the gameplay has a lot of the feel of Breath of the Wild. The combat is exceptionally tight. Easily one of the best combat systems I’ve ever played. There’s not a huge amount to do yet, but it’s early access, that’s understandable, and I think they absolutely made the right choice in nailing the feel of the game before worrying about how much of it there is.
Divinity Original Sin 2. I had this in my library for a while since i played BG3 and loved it. DOS is good too but way more difficult and the story is a bit weaker. Still a great game though.
Still wakes the deep. I love a good horror game and this one scratches the itch. The ambiance is great and the oil rig feels like a real place.
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. Playing the new DLC trying to cure a plague. Not as good as the other two dlcs but still good because more Henry is always good.
divinity original sin 2: definitive edition(I have to say the full thing every time, so it annoys my partner.)
diddy kong racing (craving chunky bright colored polygons, and racist charicatures flying on carpets gifting golden balloons)
and super mario world. (mandatory)
Bitcraft Online, Outer Worlds 2 and Palia. im in my cosy crafty era lol
During what break? Xmas?
Ye kids get breaks
No break for me but I’ve been doing “old dog, new tricks” by picking up some SMW Kaizo. I’m four exits out of seven in Shell’s Retriever so far. I think I’m doing fair for only being a couple weeks into playing romhacks and for last playing SMW in the 90s. I don’t think I’ll ever get around to “Baron of Shell” or any other crazy hard hacks but it has been fun working on a few of the “easy” ones.
I’ll probably get back to Factorio after I finish Retriever. Possibly not until after the sequel, Shell’s Redeemer, but I’ve previewed it and it looks substantially tougher.
Finally diving into Octopath Traveler 2.
Also played some good old Team Fortress 2.
Haven’t played yet but soon probably some hilarious lobbies of Lethal Company
I really liked OP2. It felt like a more polished version of the original, and the music was amazing. The boat mechanic and day/night cycle really helped expand the world.
Guild wars reforged. I was thinking of firing up the old cd roms and then I saw the whole thing was re-released on steam. Been giving it a go - has held up well over 20 years.
I should log on and see if my old Mesmer/Necromancer is still there. I can’t think of a single other game where you could build purely around debuffs and have it be fun to play and completely viable in both PvP and PvE.
Doing a new fallout 4 run. Been a couple years since I played.
Giving WorldWide Rush a solid go.
