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I've been playing No Man's Sky lately. They just put out an update that let's you build a spaceship that also functions as a base. I'm only just now getting into the game and it came at a perfect time for me because I'm just now getting the point that I need a house to store stuff and I haven't found a planet that I love. Now I don't have to because I can live in a ship built just for me!
Just me and my antlered ewok exploring the black.
Infra. You play as a structural analyst sent in to document damages on infrastructure that was being neglected due to a corrupt governor.
Technically a walking sim, but plenty of puzzles to solve and “mazes” to navigate. The game offers no minimap or objective list. No HUD whatsoever. It’s just you and one action button.
Each area is exquisitely detailed for being a 9-year-old game and visually holds up better than I expected. If you ever wanted to know what it was like to explore abandoned infrastructure, this one’s for you.
Huh glad I posted here, never heard of Infra before. Sounds like something I've been after for a while. I don't have a problem with violence in video games but I do wish there were more great games that weren't based around it.
The concept of Infra sounds really chill. My seldom-gaming partner might even be interested in joining me on the journey.
I'll start - was super into Cult of the Lamb until Nightreign came out and as a Fromsoft addict I haven't really played anything else since.
You should check out !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works, I do a post like this every week and it tends to get decent interaction every time.
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I'm couch surfing rn and only have my laptop, so I can really only play Stardew Valley. I've been slowly changing production entirely over to ancient fruit from hops.
I wish could play Satisfactory tho. :{
I finally got my wife hooked on Stardew Valley.
For years I’ve been trying to get her to game with me, never pushing too hard because I didn’t want to put her off the entire thing.
Recently she got laid off and picked up a part time job, so she’s had more free time. I asked her to consider playing Stardew Valley, and she said she would, but kept putting it off.
Finally one Saturday we had some free time and she agreed to give it a shot. I made popcorn, set her up with a Switch on our TV, gave her an hour or so to get started (I was willing to answer questions about controls, but wanted her to learn the game herself because I genuinely believe that’s part of the charm), then joined her with my Steam Deck (not multiplayer, just both of us playing single player).
She enjoyed it, but after that day she didn’t touch it for a while. Then I reminded her the Switch doesn’t need to be on the TV, and suddenly she was playing it every day. She’s fallen deeply into the Stardew Valley rabbit hole and I am so happy. 😁
She broke her foot recently, and when we were at the urgent care center she had the Switch and I had my Steam Deck as we were waiting. The doctor who finally saw us said we were geniuses for being so well prepared for the packed waiting room. 🤣
I main The Witcher 3 at the moment, with Skellige mostly done. It took me 4 separate attempts to finally make it that far. The game has a fantastic narrative and the quests backstories are really engaging, with great music to set the mood. Absolutely everything else, from combat, exploration, traversal to upgrades, economy and even UX, is sub-par and a massive chore. I've made it this far this time around only because of some mods.
If I'm in the mood for something lighter I'm playing Super Video Golf. Awesome arcade game emulating the nostalgic feeling of similar games from the 90s.
What mods are you using? If I ever replay it I'll use an overhaul mod I think as I agree with you about the issues the game has. I know Ghost Mode exists as a "vanilla+" mod, but there are some other overhauls like W3eeRedux that go farther.
I've been working through my endless backlog.
I finished Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. It is a masterpiece.
I bought the Sniper Elite Humble Bundle that came with games 1 through 5. I have played through 1 to 4 already. It makes me miss games that can be finished in 20 hours instead of the endless grinds every game expects now. I also miss when Nazis were the evil bad guys.
I'm also playing through Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. This one is set in Hawaii which is a coincidence since I've also just finished Kitchen Sync: Aloha!, a cooking game set in Hawaii.
I'm on an everything Battletech-related kick, so Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries is what I'm playing currently.
Oooh I got started on that recently and then pulled away by other things, but I was enjoying it a great deal. The campaign is bit... ehhh. But that actual gameplay is a blast. I love the sense of scale (as long as you don't think too hard about the actual numbers it gives you for the weights of things)
I am taking a break from working on my Skyrim mod list to try getting into Baldur's Gate 3 for a third time.
My first attempt, I picked "tactician" difficulty, didn't make optimal choices for character build and party composition, and then quit at the end of act 2 when the fights got too hard. Then I tried honour mode, minmaxed everything, was getting by okay but quit in the middle of act two because playing that way was boring.
So now I'm playing at the default difficulty level, just relaxing and having fun like a normal person.
I thought you could switch difficulties out besides honor mode. I did a tactician run with me as wildmage. Shadowbae as cleric, astarion as assassin and laezel as fighter. Didn’t have too tough a time (don’t think I min maxed). Did do every side quest though and also looked up tips for some bosses.
Currently Vintage Story, BallisticNG and Deadlock. No one game is currently holding a monopoly on my attention. All very good games, but it does feel a bit like I'm just in a holding pattern waiting for Silksong. It was easier to wait without an official release date xD
I finally started playing Stardew Valley more than 15 minutes in the dungeon every once in a blue moon and questioning why the fuck I never actually played it before in all this time (I have had it since first available on Steam). It's everything I've ever wanted in this kind of game since playing the first Harvest Moon.
Plus it has a mod that makes everyone furry. :3
Graveyard Keeper. It's kinda like Stardew Valley but you maintain a graveyard, give sermons, enbalm bodies, make alchemy potions, raise the dead to perform menial, tasks, and grow crops!
My only complaint is that there's so many recipes and different stuff to do I need to have a couple tabs of the wiki open.
Macabre Stardew Valley is the game I didn't know I was looking for. Thanks!
Hades 2 Death Stranding 2 Overwatch 2
And to keep with the theme, thinking about checking out Grounded 2 next week.
Clone Hero! I missed how much fun Guitar Hero was
Helldivers 2, have played at least a couple times a week since release with a group of friends but have been diving almost every night for the last few weeks as one of our other friends is on XBox and finally gets to join us!
Unfortunately he has only had time for one dive so far, but hopefully he has plenty of time tonight.
DOOM using prboom I started it in Hurt me plenty but quickly had to change to Ultra-Violence because I was thinking "Where's all the monsters?", it's nice to re-play the levels and listen to the good music.
TurtleWoW when I need to relax and do some questing.
Cyberpunk 2077
Stardew Valley
Hades 2
Diablo 4
These are the ones I’m rotating between most right now. I’ve also got Doom (2016) and BG3 on rotation, but haven’t hit them in a while.
The Steam Deck has been such a great addition. Especially being able to stream titles like CP2077 from the PC for better graphical fidelity and battery life.
Edit: Oh! And Geometry Wars 3! It’s so good on the Steam Deck! It says “Playable” but I genuinely don’t know why, it seems completely supported as far as I can tell.
Far cry 6. It sucks. I love gta style open world with lots of vehicles and weapons. It’s great for that. The missions are all the same. Go here, fetch this. Kill this person. Go back to another person.
Edit: finally finished the game after 45 hours. What a terrible ending.
I enjoyed every Far Cry game up until 6. 6 is just a steaming pile of shit.
Easy Red 2. Sandbox WW2 game with a bunch of campaigns, mods, and a mission/map editor. Great developer who updates the game frequently.
It's not a visually amazing game or anything, but if you want to have Americans in German Uniforms fighting Chinese paratroopers in Stalingrad with M16s then you can. Its great
Nightreign had me, I've gone back to it for the everdark bosses, but I find the run before the bosses the most fun.
Went back to elden ring because of it, also picked up enshrouded and have been playing that with my coop group.
Balatro and slay the spire get a run a day
Skyrim, next to my wife who is experiencing it for the first time. And OSRS because always
I've been replaying Final Fantasy 9, but this time on my phone with Duckstation and a BSP-D8 controller
Striving for Light. It's the only real hybrid I have found between an arpg and a roguelite. A bite-sized PoE if you will.
Otherwise, in more or less the same genre, Magicraft (my GOTY 2024) and a tiny bit of Hellclock, tho it has yet to hook me because so far it's boringly easy - I'm still very early in the game.
Rogue Trader. I'm up to chapter 3 and its dragging a bit.
Grounded 2. Very early early access but its still a ton of fun.
Peak. Mostly when my friend is available for co-op but I do solo runs here and there.
Hades 2 but its mostly on the back burner until 1.0 for now.
I've got a bunch of virtual novels, Pathologic 2, The Forest, and more in my backlog but with Silksong finally releasing next week they'll probably be saying there for a while.
I was playing FF7 rebirth ....got about 60 hours in and Im having trouble beating the game. Its just so boring with the sidequests. And the map is insanely big with nothing but a couple of monsters. They definitely padded out the game. Its not a bad game and it has its moments.
So I started to play Detlarune after my wife got it for me for my Bday. Got through the 1st chapter and im really enjoying it. Im just going to play that now and maybe come back to ff7....if I feel like it.
Mostly Elden Ring and Automobilista 2. I finally got Shadow of the Erdtree but had to take a bit to ~~git gud~~ git less bad again before diving into the Land of Shadow, not helped at all by the fact that the character I wanted to go in with was not at all well-suited to fight Mohg. Still, I'm enjoying it a great deal. The map design is phenomenal, I keep just stopping to look at the landscape for a bit
Automobilista is just the go-to for having a game with some other friends who also like racing sims at the moment. It's not my favourite in terms of driving physics, but it's good enough, the car classes being relatively balanced is nice for variety in races, and I'm honestly really enjoying trying out all the South American tracks that I've never heard of
I'm playing through the first Death Stranding, which I've really been enjoying. The gameplay did not hook me initially, but it grew on me. I'm a sucker for a good narrative and so I progressed because I wanted to know what was happening.
I'll want to play the second one afterwards, but I'm thinking that I'll take a break in between. Maybe try Sword of the Sea? It looked pretty cool.
I’ve been playing Against the Storm (just reforged the gold seal), 7 days to die, and lately Fields of Mistria. Occasionally I go back to Enshrouded, Palworld and Two Point Museum. And I still haven’t finished Baldurs Gate 3, every time I take a break, I have an urge to start anew instead of continuing an old save.
ive been boring and pretty much only playing hypixel skyblock, basically an mmorpg lol. some mario party with my girlfriend too
sorry but I have been a dillatant lately while I install the smallest games from the great on steamdeck filter of steam. One funny note was I had hunter stories and found it ultimately relied to much on rng and did not let me build up enough from things just made available. I think they should have had an option to buy normal eggs maybe level gating the type and then left the rng for rare powered up types. Anyway booted that out and just started palworld and wow is that ever the opposite. Does not explain stuff much at all whereas monster hunter stories was basically on rails. eventually I will get to the witcher at which point I likely will have to start deciding what stuff I want to take off if im to get anything larger on it.
EDITED - ooh. forgot to mention one stand out. nino kuni II revenant kingdom. Im playing each thing a bit and then putting on a new game but nino kuni had this very sorta fast casual fighting style that reminds me a lot of kindom hearts and I had a hard time stopping. Will likely be the game I binge once im good with what I have on the deck.
Grim dawn for nostalgia. Enjoying the new classes and dealing lightning, fire and ice damage.
I’ve been on a Luanti (formerly Minetest) kick past few days, mostly playing Mineclonia.
It has some small QoL upgrades over the original imo. Could benefit from controller support but scratches the itch well enough as a palate cleanser.
After this probably looking at Dungeons of Hinterberg in my backlog.
Currently replaying Borderlands 3 and playing Horizon Forbidden West.
Red Dead Redemption 2.
I picked it up a yeat or two ago, played through it, and loved it. When RDR was finally released for the PC, I immediately dove into it.
RDR was ezcellent, but it made me crave RDR2 gameplay, which was far deeper. So now I'm riding around in the epilogue, completing challenges and collecting every piece of clothing, saddle, and trinket.
I recently finished Dragon Age Inquisition, and then started Powerslave: Exhumed.
I never played any of the original versions so it’s a completely new experience for me. Enjoyable so far - it’s an interesting historical link between classic metroidvania and 90s FPS, like a proto-Metroid Prime in some ways.
I do wish they’d added a quick save button to this modern version, though.