Gaming thread! What have you been playing recently?
Tears of the Kingdom? Diablo IV? Duke Nukem?
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I’m currently building a massive irrigation system in Timberborn and also running through BOTW again before unwrapping TOTK.
I’m pleased that there’s not so much TOTK stuff floating about here as there was on the other place, I want to go in as innocent as a newborn lamb.
Right now I have Final Fantasy XIV running in the background, I’m waiting for some ore to respawn at roughly 10:42 our time. Gathering’s a nice laid back experience.
After I’m done with this I’m probably gonna boot up Story Of Seasons: Pioneers Of Olive Town and do some gathering in that too. :)
Dwarf Fortress! Tried and failed to get into it many times before the Steam release, and now completely hooked.
Slowly going through Stray and Disco Elysium. I have like 30 minutes a week to spend on gaming 😥
I have like 30 minutes a week to spend on gaming
Me too. Small children or something else keeping you busy?
Same situation. Stray great game for picking up and putting down on the deck
i feel like i got into gta online at the worst possible time regarding the recent mercenaries update
Street Fighter 6. The game is too god damn addicting.
Aliens: Dark Descent. It’s way better than I expected, not just in the gameplay but nailing the vibe of the movie. Fireteam Elite was a fun wave shooter but it turned the xenomorphs into cannon fodder for an action shoot-em-up. Dark Descent is survival horror. Fighting is a last resort. You spend your time creeping down dark corridors hoping you don’t see a xeno, because when you do the hive wakes up and bad things happen. Like in Alien Isolation, your best bet is to watch your tracker and be where the xenomorphs aren’t. Your marines can get wounded, killed, or dragged off to be an incubator. They also suffer stress, and start to freak out the longer they are in danger.
Really enjoying it so far!
Got back into Grim Dawn in a big way recently. Diablo IV was released at the right time for ARPG fans, but I just can’t deal with all of the extra garbage that you get with Blizz games nowadays.
I always come back to two games. Divinity: Original Sin 2 and Minecraft. But I really miss Minecraft from the alpha and beta days when it was simple. D:OS2 is possibly the best story driven, turn based RGP I’ve ever played - any recs for something similar? Over winter I tried to get into Hogwarts Legacy but I couldn’t find the motivation to progress despite growing up with and loving HP. On mobile I play Sky: Children of the Light pretty much daily and have done for almost 3 years now. Looking forward to PC release for that which was announced not long ago.
If you like story-driven RPG, I highly recommend you Disco Elysium. It’s basically Divinity: Original Sin without the combat system and the fantasy setting (and with even better writing).
Thank you, I’ll check it out! I appreciate that there is no traditional combat, that stresses me out.
Disco Elysium and return of the obra-dinn are games that give me hope for the future of video games being something besides rogue lite deck building gacha crate games.
!oldschoolminecraft@lemmy.world (Lemmy / Kbin) have set up a community Minecraft server to try and recapture the old days! No idea how active it is but might be worth a look :)
I didn’t know you could still play the oldschool game 👀 I will have to look into this, thank you!
Finally started Red Dead 2 best animal petting simulator I’ve played I petted a bun so hard it’s fur came off with my hand
The thing about getting into game dev as a hobby is that basically now you have no time to actually play other games! 😭
When I do get time, Deep Rock Galactic is a fave for those days when you just want to shoot something in the face but you don’t want to do it surrounded by aggressively sexist 12 year old boys. A new season just dropped this week, which makes it sound like a typical money-hungry microtransactional mess but I swear it’s not like that at all, the devs are great people and everyone should give this one a go. ROCK AND STONE!
More chill days I like to investigate the unending backlog of cozy indie games from Epic (never touched them until I got a Steam Deck but it’s been great for those). Or revisit Mini Metro which on the surface is a simple af puzzle game but it’s surprisingly immersive and deep.
Of course it’s Steam Next Fest atm, I’ve only tried a couple of demos so far (Station to Station and Laysara: Summit Kingdom) but was thoroughly underwhelmed by both of them. On the other hand my husband tried the demo of Memori and got super into it, he says anyone who liked Celeste should give it a try.
Also last mention goes to Outer Wilds, I’m not “playing” it as such because it’s pretty one-and-done, but it’s impossible not to recommend it whenever even a slightly appropriate opportunity allows. One of the most amazingly crafted and emotionally impactful games I’ve played in my 30-odd years of gaming and if you’ve never tried it, please just trust me and go in blind it is so worth it.
Mini Metro
Just purchased (on phone) - thanks for the tip!
One of us! It’s honestly an absolute masterclass in how you can make a simple concept so surprisingly deep.
Downside is they released Mini Motorways a while ago and I’m sure it’s amazing but Mini Metro was so good that I’ve still not got bored of it and moved onto the sequel and I feel bad 😆
Motor ways and metro are entirely different, yet very similar. I would recommend giving motorways a shot, I think you’ll find the differences enough that it’ll feel like an entirely different game, with the same amount of satisfaction. I kinda flip a coin to see which one I’ll be playing.
A small indie gem called Impaler. If you just want to blast things into bloody bits, this is a great time.
Don’t get as much time as I would like (who does?) But mostly Dwarf Fortress having finished a portal play through.
I’m looking at Deep Rock Galactic to play with my boys as I’ve got them to promise we will only play together! We all played Valorant for a bit but they can put about 10 times the hours in that I can so they outstripped me long ago!
Deep Rock Galactic is great, highly recommend it!
currently working my way through all of kingdom hearts. as a teen i played everything up until dream drop distance and i was a massive fan but that waned over time. i got both 1.5 + 2.5 and 2.8 and i’m working through everything again as a lore refresher before i tackle 3.
I’ve been mostly bouncing between FFXIV and Rimworld.
