Geostationary Orbiting ObserverWhat have been your top 3 games played so far during this break?
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NovamdomumI’ve been driving trains, learning how to build a medieval town and killing a bunch of zombies in Bel Air. How about you?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Doing a new fallout 4 run. Been a couple years since I played.
Giving WorldWide Rush a solid go.
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My latest obsession.
That game is insidious. I started it one day, played six or seven hours a day for a week, hit 30ish hours, and beat the game. I couldn’t do anything else. I was so sucked in. Great game!
WoW Classic and Megabonk - both on the Steam Deck - have been a great holiday time sink.
official classic or a private server?
I play on the official anniversary classic servers. The average player age is 30+ and its amazing.
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)
I expedited 33 obscur clairs (damn, the new area is awesome), rescued some Yoshi eggs in Super Mario World and am now triggering all chronos I can find.
I also played expedition 33 and my god man, I need to talk about it. What a mind fuck and depressing game. It’s beautiful and written well, but with dark themes and I came away not sure what to do after finishing it.
+1 to E33. I’m on Act 3 and just enjoying exploring. This is an absolutely amazing game. The Manor, Verso’s Drafts, the music. The list just goes on and on.
Finishing old games for me:
That game scratches my brain in such a satisfying way
During what break? Xmas?
Ye kids get breaks
I was technically driving trains too, as I was playing The Trolley Solution.
I was driving yet another locomotive, in the sky though!
I’ve been playing mega bonk. It’s very addicting and fun
Same, it’s a nice expansion on the vampire survivors formula
I’ve been repeatedly dying in Silksong the whole break :/
totally valid
I used my days to take a break from dying in Silksong
Background: I’ve never been a fan of the original Devil May Cry trilogy. I think they’re foundational to what’s probably my favorite genre, but as with a lot of foundational games, what came later surpassed them in most aspects.
What I’m doing this break: replaying through the trilogy in release order to see if I still hold the same opinion. I finished DMC1 and I’m halfway through DMC2 RN, and yup, I still hold the same opinion so far. Immense respect for the ideas this trilogy introduced, but I don’t care what kind of nostalgia glue fans are huffing, there’s a reason even Kamiya and Itsuno moved on from fixed cameras, for example.
They’re fun games, but I would rather be replaying Bayonetta, DMC4 or 5, Assault Spy, or even Hi-Fi Rush. I enjoy the breadth and freedom all these descendants offer.
Been playing kerbal space program on my steam deck. By playing I mean spending all my time editing the controller layout. So far I have an assembling layout, a flying layout, and a i just need to be able to push any letter or number sometimes and the virtual keyboard pops up in the background and dismisses itself if I try to switch to it layout which is radial menus of all the keys. I can switch back and forth between these with action sets. Steam input is kind of amazing tbh. Maybe I’ll try to do a mission eventually, just gotta tweak my controller setup a bit more.
Been playing Vintage Story with my brother. Need to find some iron, and bees.
Factorio Minecraft and rimworld
But that’s been the same for last few years so shrugs
haven’t played any games in months. too busy and too tired.
Got expedition 33 running on the steam deck (with some amount of tweaking to make it run smooth - valve should not be marking that game as verified) and it has absorbed every moment of free time I have. Fully understand the hype now. Apart from that, Outer Wilds had been sitting in my library since the summer sale untouched and I’ve finally gotten into it, and Dispatch was really fun and beautifully animated.
I only played one game, but it has been great: Tunic.
You all have enough time to play such a variety of games you can pick three best? Damn. I played one game. And it was a mobile one… :(
I’ve spent way too much time on Cloverpit this week. And a little bit of Paper Mario TTYD on Switch - finally getting around to playing the remake of one of my all time favorite games.
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.
Got Megabonk working on my Retroid, and can’t stop playing it. I thought I would try getting some other games going, but I just play Megabonk instead.
Got back into arc raiders just in time to do the expedition, and close to finishing the flickering flames project
I got a bunch of games on sale on Steam but I got sucked into a replay of the Nonary games. It’s been long enough that I’ve forgotten most of the puzzles.
I finally finished Metal Gear Solid 4 (❤️!). I played a bit of Helldivers 2 with friends. And I’m still working on my first playthrough of Tomb Raider 2 on my Anbernic handheld as my couch game.
Started and beat öoo, such a fun and interesting game, played 1 round of blue prince, and I’m not sure I have the time to invest in it, and I’m working on beating Eiyudean Chronicle Rising before playing the main game.
I’ve been playing through the Halo series again
Yugioh legacy of the duelist is about all I’ve played for like the last month
I’ve been burning through some Gamepass offerings that I’ve passed over.
The Wolf Among Us is a fun Telltale game.
Superliminal is a good mindfuck puzzle game. There were a few times that it took me a while to find the key to the puzzle, but I never felt “stumped” throughout the game.
and I’m a few hours into Monster Sanctuary which is essentially Pokemon in a classic Metroid map. Having fun so far and planning on sticking with it for a while.
Skate story has been great, playing it a chapter at a time has been really nice.
Revisiting Sekiro. I thought my skills would have waned over time but I picked it up after years of not playing, and I’ve still got it. 3 attempts max on each boss, most were first try. I just defeated the
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Corrupt Monk. No sign of slowing down!
Been fucking around with pals in Palworld again. Also trying to get matching free time with a friend so we can play Space Marine 2
My partner and I got Palworld when it came out, played maybe five or six hours…. I tried again solo later and got to level 10 or 15. Just recently, my partner saw me playing Enshrouded and mentioned wanting to try Palworld again… we started it up and put ten hour into it in one day. Yesterday we picked it up again, and put another ten hours in. Having a really fun time.
Hades (finally got out after 22 runs), Silent Hill 2 Remake (I didn’t remember there was a boss literally shaped like child rape), and some Expedition 33 (love it, but it’s a JRPG to a fault, including cursed platforming sections).
I completed Anomaly in Rimworld. My opinion is that it was awesome. I’m playing at the 3rd easiest setting, so it didn’t sting too much.
Does one ever really “complete” Rimworld though?
i have over 1100 hrs on it and i still come back for more. i havent even bought the dlc’s yet, but been playing since alpha 14 :)
Dude the DLCs add sooooo much
i know, i just havent seen them on sale at a good time for me (bought some other stuff this sale) but i do use mods to switch it up and i will certainly buy them at some point!
Ultimate chicken horse with the GF
BF6/HD2 with the boys
Slay the Spire when I have nothing I wanna do
The only game I have been playing is The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth on my 3DS.
I have been spending a bit of time enjoying the Nords in Race Room Racing Experience, the game is a lot of fun and really enjoying their new ranked races.
I have also spent some time in Le Mans Ultimate, but have had a bad time since the last update, which had been turning me off it. Turns out the update broke something so it no longer matched the driver for wheel rotation, and manually setting the has fixed everything. Bring on the 6hrs of Monza this weekend.
The Finals has been my go to multiplayer game and is amazing fun. Love the 3v3v3v3 capture and hold with all the destruction.
I also picked up Escape from Duckov in the sale, that has been a lot of fun and has been very satisfying to chill out with after racing or a few rounds of the finals.
Shooting shapes in Sektori, a stunningly good arcade twin-stick, bashing dragon toes and playing bells in Guild Wars 2, a fun ARPG-MMO where we recently added a few more dress-up dolls to our roster just because we play a lot and like a few more ways to play, and third, mowing down hallways full of bugs in Combat Complex, a top-down shooter ARPG that’s weak on the ARPG aspects but the shooter side manages to feel like a great arcade twin-stick, plus some neat enemy-enemy friendly-fire mechanics.
Much more the first two than the third, as CC is good but it’s in early access and they recently changed and botched the progression, so playing right now at my level/floor is basically worthless, and I just have to hope they eventually do something to fix it.
Sektori, though, is seriously good.
Alan Wake Remastered, Alan Wake 2, and Like a Dragon: The Man Who Erased His Name.
I’ve been hung up on Unnamed Space Idle for a while, an incremental game that involves moving your little ship forwards through little sectors watching it blast infinite enemy ships while numbers go up. It’s insidious how it layers system after system for making those numbers go up to make the whole process interesting. At first you just slot stuff in as it unlocks because there’s space, but then there’s more to equip than you have slots for and you have to start focusing one or two things at a time. There have been days where I have just sat watching and every few minutes clicking something to shave just a few minutes off a major upgrade.
Megabonk.
Intravenous 1.
No third game. (This could be the name of a game, but sadly I’m referring to the fact that I only played those first two games during the holidays)
In order of most played recently to least played recently:
GTAV
Dark Souls Remastered
WWE 2k25
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.
Bitcraft Online, Outer Worlds 2 and Palia. im in my cosy crafty era lol
I’ve been stomping bugs, spreading democracy and playing Poker.
Luanti, voxelibre
Cs2
Motortown
Such fun!