Helldivers 2 is so good.

Something about a non twitch shooter where you have to think about your squad a little bit feels so good in a sea of 360 no scope garbage. My last favorite online shooter was The Division 2, so maybe tight, squad gameplay is just my thing.

The missions can get a little samey, but since the terrain always changes it’s still nice to explore around and have new experiences. But also it feels like there is so much room you add new missions and planets and bad guys.

Finally, a live service game that kind of makes sense thematically.

The somewhat new Deep Rock Galactic: Survivors. Its a singleplayer 2D horde autoshooter version of the game, with the same design / voice acting as the main game but randomized runs where you find different upgrades and weapons leading to lots of cool valid builds to go for.

Its in Early Access rn but if they devs put 10% of the love they have for the main game into it, then it will only become greater. Its 9€ rn and the devs already released a roadmap with great future plans.

Rock and Stone!

Last Epoch. Loving it so far!

BG3. Im about 30 hours in. Its been really fun so far, even on the easiest mode. Ill probably play though it again to see all the interactions.

Witcher 3 Quit smoking and drinking a few months ago and been going through my backlog to keep my mind busy. Started with Skyrim, then assassins creed Valhalla and now Witcher.

Not sure what I’ll do next. I have fallout 4, assassins creed origin and odyssey. All these games I’ve started and never finished and would like to finish.

Playing Warframe again. Been playing for over 10 years now and it still hasn't gotten old or boring.

Pokemon Renegade Platinum. I found the base game was a bit too easy. The ROM hack made it so challenging. Couldn't imagine me playing nuzelocke though.

Last Epoch I love it! Plus runs great on Steam Deck

Helldivers 2 exclusively. However, Elite: Dangerous just dropped a massive patch, so I may change to squishing bugs from a cockpit for a bit.

Is the stickied "What are you playing" post going to be updated? The current one is over a month old.

Anyways, I've been playing Penny's Big Breakaway, and I am enjoying it thoroughly. It's like a blend of Cappy mechanics from Mario Odyssey with a THPS style combo chaining system, and staged in levels reminiscent of 2D Sonic but transposed into 3D. The skill cap is way higher than your typical 3D platformer, and personally I find this type of design to be way more interesting than a collectathon.

It's awesome if you get a lot of enjoyment out of combo chasing and improving your times, but I can tell it's going to be divisive for those expecting a more conventional platformer. I have a feeling that this is going to end up on many "hidden gems" lists in the future.

A buddy of mine gifted me a copy of Helldivers 2 the other day, so I've been spending some time spreading Managed Democracy across the galaxy. Mostly going back and forth between Helldivers and The Finals lately.

Enshrouded, it is surprisingly good. And there is so much content. I can highly recommend it to anyone that likes the genre. It got overshadowed by palworlds launch just a week before, but in terms of gameplay, completeness and optimization, enshrouded is miles ahead.

Helldivers 2 and when I want to relax after spreading democracy, the peacefulness of rust

Monster Hunter World. I‘d kill for a DLSS3 and FSR3 mod for this game, I want better AA and frame gen so bad. I tried FSR3 in Skyrim and Starfield and it‘s mindblowingly good, so smooth.

League of Legends: I try to get diamond before Riot removes Linux support.
Mushy Score: I a lot of testing before releasing the game.
Spiritfarer: Just to have something relaxing alternative.

Helldivers 2, Trackmania 2020, rounds, lethal company, and a little bit of Splitgate. Mostly playing with friends in each.

Marvel: Midnight Suns went on sale this week, and is living up to the early positive reviews.

I'm not far enough in to say if it will rival similar games I enjoy, or will replace Final Fantasy Tactics: Advance.

But the early game is fun, and the mechanics feel like they may get better as the learning curve and progress hit full gear.

Edit: And it's already fun, in the early game.

I slept on Risk of Rain 2 for a long time but finally tried it out and damn, they did a great job converting the original from 2d to 3d.

Still picking away at Hades achievements, too. I'm at over 90% now and will trigger another one once I get back from my current run. 3 more after that: one grindy one, one gifty one, and one with a lot of heat. Might also go for 100% on the relationship bonds.

We've been playing a lot of co-op (just finished the new Turtles game) and competitive games against each other, so Lumines (had it on Xbox Live Arcade and installed it on my Series S for some PSP/Xbox 360 nostalgia) has been given a good run. PlateUp! looked like Overcooked but a little bit different (you get to move the kitchen and tables around); soon after, I realised I take these types of games too seriously and become kitchen Nazi, ordering people around and generally not enjoying my time.

Brotato for some sessions in between as it's on Game Pass (already completed quite a few characters - some level 5 - on PC) and so easy to pick up.

Having only tried it on the Switch (and it looked/played awful), we loaded up Fortnite based on a student's recommendation (he is only 11 though); it's actually pretty fun! We won half of the time out of a hundred people, can do couch co-op (was a little fiddly to get started), but is a large-map, relatively sparse experience until you get into vehicles and track people down. The missus warmed up to it after a game or two and now enjoys pratting around on the motorbike and acting as bait so I can destroy waves of kids.

Roguebook: I'd been lucky enough to stumble upon Cobalt Core which I've since finished and needed another Slay the Spire-esque game to scratch that itch. Roguebook is almost it, it still needs polish but that is unlikely to come. Runs are quite long, and the map system, while expansive and fun to explore/strategise around, makes it a bit too much at times. I had it on my wishlist a fair while and it handily appeared in a recent bundle, so I can't complain much. I'll get a few more hours out of it (there are four characters to unlock, and you use two - and their cards - in each run) before moving on. The style is nice, the music motivating enough, although the enemies aren't the widest in variety. A fine little game that serves its purpose.

Baldur's Gate 3: I just loaded it up on my Mac (Air, M2)... the framerate isn't there. It's a bit choppy, has a fundamental bug which I had to find a workaround for (controller was recognised as two players for some reason), and generally is a fiddly game in the 40 mins I just put in. I'll tweak the graphics a little more and see if I can get a smoother experience before putting it down. I don't have any plans to get a gaming PC anytime soon so I'll give it a go in a year or so I reckon.

Mass effect LE, first time playing as a renegade and absolutely loving it.

Never played as a biotic before either so it really does feel new. Just started ME3 last night after one hell of a suicide mission.

Almost hit 200hrs in Noita and somehow it's still fun. It's my go to when I don't have energy for VR, and the first non-VR title that's really grabbed me for the past few years. Really great game for shorter play sessions.

Astlibra Revision on impossible. X_x

After getting back to 100% achieves with Gaiden I decided to take the plunge and the early game is quite dreadful. Lol

But it does feel nice to actually need all of the many power growth avenues.

I'm in Chapter 5 at the moment and It takes 3 whole hits now to kill me finally!... From the basic bat enemies anyway. Oof

Haven't played anything these last several days, save a little bit of Cogmind. I don't really enjoy traditional roguelikes, because there's usually no real incentive to play them (i.e. story, atmosphere, engaging gameplay etc.), and, honestly, I just suck at them lol. But I do keep coming back to that one, because it's just so immersive! And, for some reason, I get Blame! vibes from it; I guess it's because of the whole abandoned facility full of robots thing.

Some other things I'm planning to do:

• I've finished the main story of Yakuza 0 and now plan to do the remaining substories. After that, I'll finally move on to Kiwami
• Finished one ending of Lunacid, and will try to get to the rest (plus collect all the weapons and magic rings). While I tried my best to not use wikis or guides (so as not to spoil the secrets), I think this time I'll probably need one. Well, FromSoft and FromSoft-inspired games really do be like that lol

I dipped back into Civilization 5 again recently. For the first time in a playthrough I asked another civ to go to war with me against another and they actually said "yup let's do it."

We crushed Genghis Khan together. I took his capital, liberated the city states for the alliances/negating warmongering penalties, and left him with a single landlocked city. I warned you not to touch Sydney, you butt.

• TROPICO 4
• Army Men RTS
• Project Zomboid with mods
  Although it's classic & old game but i like it because it's so... addicting & my laptop doesn't have GPU (well there's but it's only Intel graphics), i can play hours and hours & forget my life problems

At the moment i'm being totally sucked in to halls of Torment. Love combining different skills to make me a walking death machine!

Before that i finished playing Return monkey island and replayed monkey island 2: Lechuck's revenge. Start playing Day of the Tentacle and couldn't let it pass me to play Maniac mansion that's you can play within the game. Still so cool that you can do that!

Steredenn.

Resonite. Lots and lots of Resonite.
The limitless power to create anything and everything in-game, and collaborate with others for still greater creations...

And I use it for memery and general silliness.

Just some Escape From Tarkov but mostly nothing since Thesis evaluation is this Friday 💀

Picked up The Walking Dead Teltale game. I remember seeing them raved about when they came out but never got around to them. They are a lot of fun so far, I haven't played any graphic novel type games before and I am really enjoying it

I’ve been playing the Pokemon X romhack Eternal X on my 3DS as of late. I’ve been really enjoying replaying the game now that it’s an actual challenge rather than sleepwalking through yet another cakewalk of a Pokemon game. Pleasantly surprised by Nintendo’s announcement of Pokemon AZ today, I just hope it runs halfway decent (who am I kidding?)