August Recommendations Thread: What are you playing?

Lately I've just been playing FTL & Stardew Valley on an old Linux machine.

I intend on playing New Vegas soon, with the intention of finishing it before Fallout Season 2.

Shadows of Doubt! Its this sci fi noire game where you play as a cop that became a private eye detective. Their police force was replaced with privatized "enforcers" that uphold the policy of the new corporate government.

You solve crimes the enforcers won't and take on side jobs to stay alive, upgrade your apartment and build enough social credit to retire to "the fields"- a suspiciously utopian retriement zone far away from the grime, storms and thick smog of the city.

This is an immersive sim. Kind of like a procedurally generated Deus Ex. You can interact with a lot of stuff turn on sinks, open cabinets, read email and newspapers, eat food, watch tv and drink alcohol until you can barely stand.

When it comes to solving crime you can sift through camera footage, take fingerprints, crawl through air ducts, ask people for information, hack into govt databases and more. You put all of the clues on a big conspiracy board in the menu until you find the murderer and bring them in....before they kill again.

Been playing Pacific Drive. It's a survival horror(ish) game where you drive through Western Washington in an abandoned government experiment paranormal area that is always changing. And you get to drive a 1960's station wagon, and make repairs and build new parts. Pretty fun so far. (and intense)

I'm playing Final Fantasy Tactics for the first time. I hear it's the best or so in it's genre. Can't wait!

I got into Balatro finally, and holy fuck, it really is great. I wanted a turn based roguelike since I realized I didn't have many of those, and I knew it'd be good, but it's hard to find something I don't like about the game.

It looks good, the interface is good, the music is an awesome ever changing single chill song, it's turn based so you can think about your decisions, but if your build is strong you can play pretty quick too. There are tons of build options and unlocks.

There is a nice balance between playing hands and altering your build between rounds, I like that the money economy is low in number, similar to darkest dungeon and its low number damage stats even single digits matter. Learning the game and starting runs you begin to establish a build that you can add synergy to incredibly quickly. I just struggle to find anything bad to say about it.

I got into farming sims after the recent Stardew Valley update and am playing Fields of Mistria (already great!) as well as Rune Factory 4 (it‘s fine, I guess… didn‘t hold up too well IMO, mainly because of its scuffed 3D graphics instead of pixel art).

I‘ve also completed the Frog Detective trilogy - a series of very easy, short, and quirky mystery games - and I can absolutely recommend it.

I got addicted to Factorio. Its such a cool game. Its really satisfying seeing your production grow. However, it takes some time to get used to the "think big" mindset and creating new factories does take some time but its very rewarding once you made it.

After playing through elden ring (twice), I decided to give dark souls 3 a go. So far, is good, would recommend

Started !citiesskylines@lemmy.ml, still playing Stardew Valley (I went up 100 hours in about a month!), and still slowly progressing on My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom -Pirates of the Disturbance- as I yell about on the !otomegames@kbin.run weekly threads. I have also been trying various !incremental_games@incremental.social, including a billion bananas and Squareixion.

For transparency, just a subscriber on most of those communities, but I do mod !otomegames@kbin.run.

Bravely Second and Rat King Adventures. To me, the former is being pretty fun, even more than Bravely Default, at least some 8 hours in, with the only potential problem being levelling feels way too easy. Rat King Adventure is also nice, although I'm not a big fan of roguelikes, and it got me curious since it's rare to find FOSS games.

Doom is almost always my answer. Especially with the fresh Nightdive rerelease!

Anyway I've been playing EDF5 again online, and Kaido Racer on the PS2, a lovely street racing game about the mountain roads of Japan.

I started playing warframe with friends and it's great. I also play cyberpunk occasionally, as well as Morrowind with the openMW overhaul

Pikuniku , it's on sale on steam

I finally got into No man's sky and I'm happy I waited with my first playthrougj until it got good.

There's a ton of exploration and things to do, I'm still only touching the surface during my expedition. But I'm almost done and can't wait to get into the full campaign.

I've been playing a lot of brazen blaze in VR. Pretty good smash bros type of game.

P5R and The Legend of Dragoon. I put off P5R for so long but I'm glad I finally got around to playing it. It's so good!

I haven't played much of The Legend of Dragoon yet but I just had an urge to play it again. I loved that game when I was a kid. Playing on Steam Deck is great!

Elden Ring and it's DLC. Patiently waiting for Space Marine 2.

Shadow of Tomb raider. I've avoided this game because of the bad reviews I've read near premiere. But I find it quite chill. I qm playing on normal and sequences with enemies are not as tedious as in rise of tomb raider

Im planning to finish some of my horror walking simulators. I have done already Layers of Fear 1 & 2. Currently I'm playing Blair Witch.

I’ve been playing Minecraft on my Quest 3 via Vivecraft. It’s a really nice VR experience - very well done for a mod. The only downside is that it’s very performance limited. Even with stuff like Sodium installed, it struggles with a greater than 10 block rendering radius. Maybe if Minecraft ever moves to Vulkan, there’d be more room for improvement there.