I started playing Blue Prince. It's a puzzle game where you have inherited your uncle's 45-room mansion, but only if you can find the 46th room in it. And every day, the layout changes.

At the start it's kinda like a map building roguelike where you pick which room is behind each door from a few choices, and try to gather resources and explore further, but that's barely scratching the surface.

This puzzle goes so deep. I have a journal full of clues, in-game books that I have copied in hopes that there are more clues, pages with in-depth descriptions of every room, family trees, weird interactions that I haven't fully figured out yet... There's all sorts of lore about this fictional world that I have been writing down just in case. I don't even know how deep this mystery goes, but I hope to be well-armed when I finally do.

It's the first game that's scratched the same itch that Outer Wilds does, where you occasionally discover something that forces you to reevaluate everything you saw before, but it's much harder. Also the in-game notekeeping is incredibly limited so you really need to keep your own journal to play.

Tried the Battlefield 6 beta. It was my first time playing a big AAA multiplayer FPS in a long time. Had to go out of my way to enable Secure Boot in order to install EA's anticheat rootkit.

Absolutely terrible experience. Everything about it feels like a downgrade from the older entries (Bad Company, 3 and 4). The horrible Netflix UI, the muddy graphics, the total lack of game balancing.

I am fully on modern AAA gaming. I pray that '83 will come out eventually and be decent.

been going hard into Megamek, A (free) way to play the battletech tabletop game on the computer, and against ai, has a pretty steep learning curve
recently learned about cyberpunkdreams a free-to-play cyberpunky text based game, only have a few hours in it, but it's pretty sick so far

Still not done with Abiotic Factor which i probably won't be able to finish before i go back to work next week

it's still been fun but I DO NOT APPRECIATE the devs FORCING ME to SWIM through a DARK AND SCARY RESERVOIR WITH A BIG FUCKING SHARK THING IN IT in order to progress through the storyline. I didn't even see the fucking thing but it was hard enough finding this fucked to death underwater tunnel i needed to get into as it was and I couldn't force the people playing it with me to do it for me because they couldn't find the fucking tunnel!

Have thalassophobia? fuck you, get in the water shithead

Played some Kiwami 2 it's alright starting to connect some points in this game that the ps2 game just went over my head like the 2 kazukis. Playing this game again but dragon engine is bit of a trip after so long

finally finished Cyberpunk 2077!

Steamwebhelper is anti-gamer aktion and preventing me from playing anything. I guess I'll play Minecraft instead

Doing another playthrough of Monster Sanctuary. Still holds up as a monster battler today. Cheap retraining items and level scaling options mean that it's relatively quick to train up new monsters and try out new builds, and the mechanics are diverse but interconnected enough that there's all kinds of synergies you can go for.

Hades 2

Still on an NES tear, working through Battletoads and Metal Storm. I must be getting a lot better at these games, because Battletoads seems only kinda hard to me.

Also hopped on the BF6 beta, and had a bit of fun. I'm not convinced that this is in any way an improvement over BF3, but I guess it's what the kids will be playing.

Warframe double XP weekend, I have spent all my forma on Tenet and Kuva weapons. Been grinding out Sisters of Parvos, only 4 weapons left to get (really 3, since I already have an active sister with 1 of them). Finally got one with the Toxic ephemera, hooray.

Still have 15 Kuva weapons to grab once I'm done though

Nothing good lately. Been doing a replay of legend of dragoon on pc, via the 'severed chains' decompile project. it does a great job. But just playing it slowly when i'm really bored and have nothing else to do.

Also played through another disappointing vic3 run, this time with the 'Tech and Res' mod. Its fun to play an extended timeline, but the mod author has no proper education or focus. A lot of the stuff is super random and adds absolutely nothing to the experience. Also super buggy and unbalanced. This is on top of Vic 3 being completely unplayable past 1870, performance wise.

I just got the point of no return warning for Alan Wake 2 so now I gotta track down at least the nursery rhymes. Don't really care for the cult stashes I don't think, since two of them bugged out for me.

Also the first bit sucks as per combat gameplay, staying true to form, but then the dark place sucks the entire way through as per combat gameplay which is odd to me since CONTROL is the most best gameplay video game I've ever played

Got my new PC setup, and I've been playing witchfire and titan quest 2. Holy hell I forgot how fucked my wrists are are intense mouse clicking games I had to take two days to rest afterwards. And am trying to get my setup as ergonomic as possible to mitigate it.

Also finished the main campaign of horizon forbidden west. It is a competent open world game with I'd say a fun enough story, that I'm not sure they'll be able to land in the next game. But it's been good so far so I'll probably check it out when it shows up on the ps6.

Back on my bullshit with War Thunder and actually enjoying it a lot! I can't imagine what it is like for new players these days but I know that I'm lucky to have a nearly decade old account lol. Russia has a very strong 5.0 ground RB lineup and the KV-85 is my current hotness. Other than that Ive been playing Valheim with a friend of mine and that's been a blast!

I’ve started my first survival play through of Fallout 4 VR. Survival is a completely different game. Much slower pace. Things you would just walk past without any second thought in a regular play through are crucially important items to pick up. Settlements are also crucial homes to rest, get water, and eat.

I did mod it so I can quick save and fast travel, though. I have only precious few hours to play during the week so I refuse to let some bullshit rob me of my gaming time.

So far it’s been awesome.

Been playing Civ4 based on hearing the opening theme the other day and getting super nostalgic. This game is still peak Civ (although I haven't tried 7 yet).

Playing as Egypt and got war declared on me by France who wasn't even on the same continent. I killed their only scout and warrior I could get to and ignored them as they fell into irrelevance.

I tend to neglect my military as much as I can so eventually a barbarian settlement appeared with two archers and I literally lost every single warrior I had (which was two per city) trying to take it. I replaced them with cutting edge Swordsmen and archers of my own and eventually took the city though.

Later got war declared on me by Mali. They had a tech advantage to start so I had to hold up in my cities with my swordsmen while they plundered my country-side until I could invent knights. Then since I had three "maxxed out" cities pumping a knight each every 3-5 turns I rolled Mansa Musa over and emerged from the war on top of every single leaderboard.

Just got oceanfaring vessels and I've captured the entire coast of the "new world" before anyone else could get a single expedition together. Boutta drop this playthrough and restart on a higher difficulty, I'm at the part where nobody stands a chance of catching up to me.

Still kicking through Dying Light 2. It's a very okay game, sometimes it's really fun and sometimes it's abysmal and sloggish. I'm at the tail-end of it though, so I can scratch it off my backlog soon!

Still on OG DooM community stuff when I get the chance. Which is rarely at the moment.

I’ve been checking out some of the wow custom servers that are getting some traction recently (and waiting for Epoch), while also taking part on the Ragnarok Rebuild play test. Lots of mmos for me this week.

I did it. I fucking did it after 600+ hours...I got every joker on Gold stake in Balatro. Only two challenges left to go.

What took so long was I kept winning games with empty joker slots as I tried to look for the last 3 or 4. Getting the right build is already hard enough as is. Trying to get specific jokers made it even harder.

also the Battlefield 6 beta is pretty fun

played a bunch with friends yesterday

Reinstall Fallout 4.

Download that mod that lets you skip the intro, a couple of weapons, and some new creatures.

Any physics bones seem to be broken on dresses and long coats causing them to get rigid and bunch up around my character's waist.

None of the NPCs suffer from the problem.

Spend the entire day trying to fix the problem to no avail. Discover it only happens when I adjust the weight triangle during character customisation.

online censorship shit means I can't get at the gooners that'd know how to fix this 'till I set up a VPN.

I'm not using any custom bodies or skeletons so I don't know what's causing this.