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...
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.
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.
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've been taking a video game break to play more board games. Zoo Vadis has been a top pick lately and I highly recommend.
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.
Super Mario Bros 3 and GTA V!
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.
Factoio Cities Skylines Terraria Skyrim
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.
Helldivers 2
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.
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.
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. 😩
Roots of Pacha - well polished, stress free farming sim. Highly recommended if you like Stardew Valley or Story of Seasons.
Factorio (Space Age expansion).
I can't get off Splatoon
Donut County. It's cozy and silly and perfect before going to sleep.
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 4’s new expansion is fun, I’m really enjoying the extremely broken, unbalanced new class. The game is a great companion to audiobooks or podcasts.
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.
Stardew Valley and Brotato(New DLC). Will try Factorio Space Age DLC later.
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.
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
Satisfactory currently has me. I'm just now starting into Tier 9 proper.
Just started playing Rainworld, good lord is it amazing
Silent Hill 2 Remake. It’s been absolutely amazing so far. Bloober team knocked this one out of the park, and I’m really looking forward to Cronos: The New Dawn.
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.
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.
Workers and Resources, as well as Factorio! (Space DLC of course.) I’m starting a new game of Factorio with my brother and already sucked in despite not even having green science yet.
Metaphor ReFantazio. I'm not a big Persona fan, but this game rules.
Skullmonkeys after finally getting a PS1 emulator working
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.
Valheim
I’ve 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 didn’t get into it and I was right because holy heck I’m hooked right now having a ton of fun and loving it. It’s such a cute little game I love it.
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.
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.
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
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.
Age of Empires IV
FFXIV
Deadlock
Signalis
Selaco
Zenless Zone ZeroAmber Isle!
Cute dinosaur shopkeeper sim with decorating & friendship mechanics.
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.
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.
Don't Starve Together!
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.
Persona 5, after finishing 4 and 3
Just got a second hand PSP, so ... FFT: War of the Lions.
Been replaying re4, stuck at the fight against ramon. Also playing lots of Hades 2, I'm up to six fear now.
Kerbal Space Program (with mods) and Assassins Creed Mirage.
Forza Horizon 4, The Division, Sims 4, Football Manager 24.... Always on PC
On paper D&D 5e and Pathfinder 2e.
On PC Darktide, Ready Or Not and Satisfactory.
ZZZ, F-Zero X, Balatro, UESRPG3e, and SotDL.
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
I recently texted my ex and now I’m 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. It’s so well suited for team play that encourages everyone to come up with unexpected plans
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.
Tales of Berseria, extremely solid real time jrpg with a female protagonist, been enioying it a lot.
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!
Absolute Balderdash. The funniest of all board games.
Pretty much just Battle Craze, I'm hooked on it lol.
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
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.
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
Nightmare Reaper. I finally bothered to unlock Newgame+, so I'm having fun with the better guns in earlier levels.
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.
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).
Def Jam Fight for NY
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
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!)
Just started red dead 2
ASKA, Satisfactory, and No Man's Sky. Occasionally a bit of Pax Dei thrown in in case my building scratch is itchy.
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)
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 I’ve come back to Battlefield 1942 after only playing the beta, actually not too terrible!
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.
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.
Europa Universalis 4
For some reason I've been trying to get a specific achievement for weeks
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...
ALTF4. Its old and it's five bucks on steam and worth every penny.
Recently Finished Echoes of wisdom Started a link to the past (most recent one) Subnautica God of war Forza 4 Fallout 4 Vampire survivors
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.
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
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.
Just finished playing Somerville and currently playing Selaco. Would recommend both.
Mostly VR stuff, in the recent weeks. Specifically Golf+ since the IRL golf season is over and I’m sad about it, and I’ve been slowly getting into Elite Dangerous.
New Zelda, but it's so damn long! I kinda lost interest after the goron area
Duke Nukem for PS3
Zelda BOTW, really awesome
Timberborn, Factorio, and XCOM 2
Decided to start playing through Pokemon: Explorers of Sky today
Puzzling Places has been an unexpected joy after I got it in a bundle with Tetris Effect.
Picked up on Wizard of Legend again recently. Curious about 2, but I tend to avoid games in prerelease
I’m playing Pokémon HeartGold for the first time. I’ve always kind of liked Pokemon but I’ve never really gotten into one of the games properly, so I’m trying with this one.
Just finished Pikmin 4. I found it disappointing. I miss 1 and 2 which I see as complementary masterpieces.
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
