I recently finished Esoteric Ebb. I think its worse than Disco Elysium BUT I still think its quite good and worth playing. Its overall more upbeat and for the most part lighter and less serious than Disco Elysium. Esoterics Ebbs tone is more fairytale like and whimsical. Oh and it is less leftwing than Diso. Like I get the impression that Esoteric Ebb was done by a well meaning Socdem where as Disco was done by real Marxists™.

I give Esoteric Ebb one Octahedron Gloink

playing hoi4 and taking estrogen, as the lord intended

I started Another Crab's Treasure and having a good time so far! It's a little easy, but Going Under by the same team managed to get decently challenging towards the end

deadlock and its recent updates have eaten my soul and i cannot escape. it invades my every waking thought. do you think cats would smoke if they had thumbs?

my buddy also bought slay the spire 2 and via the power of steam family ive been able to play it and its pretty good, though not my usual taste in games

Timberborn just hit 1.0 and therefore fitgirl, enjoying it a lot so far

City Tales - Medieval Era

it's kind of a casual city builder with some hidden depth but not too much depth. It's a lot of fun building my lil cities and hamlets though.

I just started Pathfinder: Kingmaker. It's gonna be a long ride, I know the game is like 100+ hours long. Tried to get quality of life mods to work, but the Unity Mod Manager just crashes on startup and nothing seems to fix it. Oh well. I don't know why they don't use Steam Workshop or I can't just drag and drop the files and have them work. Seems like a bad decision somewhere.

I made an Aasimar Rogue/Monk to get the feat that lets me use my Dex modifier for attacks instead of strength. I have 20 AC at level 1 with no shield, so OP. Ready to establish my holy kingdom after I kick out some bandits.

Edit: 2 hours in and I'm already annoyed at asinine tabletop rules that say I can't level anymore as Monk unless my alignment stays Lawful. I hate alignment systems, they're so trash.

Finished Metroid Prime 4. My verdict is, if you’re someone who’s already a fan of the Prime series, you’ll find it enjoyable. However, I don’t think it’s going to win over many new fans. If you haven’t played/aren’t aware of the lore of the prior Prime games then the main antagonist will feel forced and arbitrary. The hub world is a mixed bag; from a world building perspective, it makes way more sense to have these various biomes separated by a vast desert than taking elevators from one to the other. It does get dull though, and there’s some late game find/fetch quests in the desert that are very needle in a haystack. Combat is good, and while most of the psychic abilities are just mechanics from prior games with “psychic” in front of it, the psychic control beam was super satisfying. I wish there were more opportunities to use it.

Still working on gold staking all the jokers in Balatro, I have ten left. Of course, most of them are the PITA ones to win with like diet cola and invisible joker.

lots of stardew valley co-op lately, i've never done a proper co-op farm before but a friend and i started a consistently played one and it's a good time. also a lot of nintendo 64 stuff on my own, specifically playing kirby 64 for the billionth time

Silksong. Game is so huge, damn. I played for like 3 weeks whenever I had an hour here or there and then I hit act 2 and realized that it would take place in all new locations. I googled a full map to see how much I was gonna be exploring and I got overwhelmed and stopped a bit lol. Super fun but it's too big for simple ol' me. I like banjo kazooie, small, short and fun.

Getting back into Path Of Exile with 3.28 Mirage league.

A work buddy gave me an invite to try Deadlock. I'm completely lost but having fun with it.

Been playing so much since I got a Lenovo Legion Go so here we go:

Final Fantasy 13: Heard good/mixed things about it. I'm about 6 hours in and I don't hate it, but I'm not exactly enjoying it either. I have no idea what a pulse l'cie, fal'cie, purge as both a place and an action, or any other terms mean despite them using these words in every sentence. It is probably the most linear final fantasy I've played. I'm stuck at Odin and die within the first 3 minutes or so. Does this game get better? I really want to like it. Does Hope get better as a character or is he always insufferable?

Fear and Hunger: About 4 hours in and it's finally starting to click for me, in that I've figured out the combat strategy and am having more fun.

Tekken 7: I am bad at fighting games but this was on sale for $10 so I thought I'd give it a shot. It's a fighting game alright. I am laughably bad at pushing buttons in any kind of combination that does anything useful.

Octopath Traveler 0: Best octopath game so far. Really tightened up the story and mechanics and it feels like the most solid of the 3. Enjoy the town-building/stardew valley aspect of it.

Hypnospace Outlaw: Lots of fun, very creative. I zoned out during the intro and have to go back and re-do it but this is really fun. Best played on a laptop/desktop for full immersion.

Hylics: I love it. Incredibly weird, fun art style and music. A few hours in and it has become one of my favorites.

Baldur's Gate 3: I am overwhelmed by the amount of things you can do in this game. I am a few hours in and had to give it a break because this feels like it is going to consume my life if I let it.

Darkwood: It's pretty hard but the atmosphere is a lot of fun. I haven't really figured out the crafting/bartering system just yet and can't make it past day 3 without dying but it's fun. Have to be in the right state of mind to play it.

The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante is very good, there is some cringe liberalism in the last part, but generally stays solidly leftist throughout the story.

I finished my my final FTL achievements, and I've installed Multiverse. Holy hell can you do some absolutely absurd things in this mod!

I'm currently roaming around with a ship full of Rockman Cultists led by their High Priest, who can go sicko mode and wipe out even Mantis crew in seconds without significant risk.

Still trying out ragnarok online on some private servers.

I just started Dread Delusion and it's neat

After 100ish hours I finally understand taxation in eu5. That game is too dense sometimes. I guess it makes sense to enrich your populace and then tax them thus getting more money via taxation but it's not really explained how you do that. A few estate privs and good RGOs later and I'm seeing how people get to the point they swim in gold. Add in the peasant market buildings and roads it gets spicy. Playing as Aragon who actually has a bit of a rough start economically but I took Navarra and Granada while castile was busy with the BBB and it's not even 1400.

edit; holy shit just survived a war against castile, didn't get any territory but showed i could go toe-to-toe with them. gonna be an interesting playthrough.

I believe I am now about halfway or more through Act 3 of Baldur's Gate 3, next game I play will be strictly of a single digit length in hours.

I also tried out Dome Keeper with the demo, really cool ideas in it, and it's made in Godot which I appreciate

• more armored core 6
• a return to ostranauts, the extremely good belter simulator that i haven't played for a few updates, it has been consuming so much of my free time

Been trying to finish up Sea of Stars before heading back to Crosscode like a dozen or so other games I've left on the backburner. The story of SoS is somewhat charming but dear lord is the writing cringe-inducing at times. It's not enough to hamper my overall enjoyment since the gameplay is fun enough to mitigate practically any and all issues I have with it (so far)

I've also finished playing through Sonic Forever and Sonic 2 Absolute, which are both fanmade remasters of the original Sonic 1 and 2 respectively on PC. These are definitely the versions I'll keep coming back to in lieu of using a Sega Genesis emulator

I keep trying to play Sonic Heroes and then getting annoyed by how much it stinks. When I was a kid it was one of two Sonic games I had and I didn't like it much then, and now that I've played the Genesis games and Adventure 1 and 2 I like it even less. Yet I keep coming back, hoping that it'll redeem itself. Also I'm playing Zelda 1 for the first time which has been a lot of fun so far, I've got the graph paper out and am mapping out the overworld even. Really cool how big the world feels even though in reality it isn't very big at all.

I've been playing a fair bit of Magic the Gathering Arena. I have a nice deck that wins semi-consistently, and I'm working on building some fun Eldrazi decks that don't necessarily win but have my favorite colorless smashy dudes.

Started a Total War Warhammer 3 campaign as Skarbrand and by midgame my doomstack is certainly living up to the fantasy of being a blazing comet of death. Stuff like going into battle with a late-game mostly Shades Delf army, single-handedly breaking the entire army, and coming out with more HP than he entered. The ability to just KEEP MOVING so long as you kill is ridiculous, as is just constantly summoning blood hosts. The skull cost doesn't really rise so one army easily becomes four, and with techs that's all exalted bloodletters, skull grinders, bloodthirsters, etc that can solo late-game stacks on their own.

The more I play Kingmaker the more I think tabletop rules for games are just bad lol. Baldur's Gate 3 beats this shit so hard because the encounters are designed to be fun and not "hey i hope you prepared for the random encounter enemies that fear your entire party" type shit constantly. 5 real life minute spider webs you get to sit and wait to despawn. Bugs that keep lowering your stats. Games designed for people who love to read rulebooks before going to bed. No, I won't stop playing, yes I will keep complaining.