I will always recommend rimworld, it’s a very open colony sim set in the far future on a planet where a lot of stuff has regressed, it’s one of the more moddable games around now so you can make it what you want. Lots of freedom to play how you want, it’s a bit like the sims except you can have anything from a cosy farm to a machine-worshipping murder cult.
Playing Assassin’s Creed Valhalla via Steam Link on my TV, good fun. I’ve been learning Icelandic over the last few years, and was surprised that the Norse background NPC’s actually speak it! Very cool to be able to understand the background conversations, quite immersive too.
(As far as we know Icelandic is essentially identical to old Norse, spoken across Scandinavia a thousand years ago.)
Fable 2
I’m a few hours in and its a real throwback to 2009 or whenever as I haven’t played it since launch. It feels very familiar but I don’t really remember much about the game. Once thing to note is that after playing Fable Anniversary, Fable 2 definitely has a vibe of being brightly coloured world but often times quite bland with nothing to show in the open world.
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Lots of short and random sessions on my handheld. Colin McRae 2.0, PSO, WWE No Mercy and many more. Dreamcast isn’t really viable but some games can be playable with some tweaking but It’s great for PSX and below though. I set up syncthing to backup saves and screenshots so I can easily access them on my PC too :)
I’m a bit biased towards Colin McRae Rally 04 but man, 2 still looks and feels pretty great. That era of rally games in general was awesome, I’m glad most of them seem to be working well on linux.
Tales and Tactics. It’s an auto battler like dota underlords where you merge chumps, give them items and set them on a table to beat each other off. Heavy reliance on RNG.
Factorio! It’s been on my wishlist for ages. But I didn’t know that it never ever goes on sale, so I was waiting for nothing. I bought it now and it’s great! My first factory is running pretty wel so far. I’m coming up on oul now. I just need to talk to the local HOA about my expansion plans 🔥
Flipping between Tomb Raider Chronicles and Spiderman 2.
No Man’s Sky. They recently released a new update where we’re garbage collectors. The sub reddit 50/50 either loved or hated it. Got me interested enough to get back to it.
I’ve been meaning to play silent slayer for a while and i finally gave it a shot this week! It’s a VR game where you have to kill vampires in their sleep by disarming magic barriers around their coffins and silently delivering the death blow. I’ve seen reviews saying their hands where too shaky and couldn’t progress but i didn’t have that issue at all. I did have a bit of an issue when my controller’s tracking would drift and snap back in place at the worst moments but i don’t think i died from that. It was a short but very fun experience! Just challenging enough that it made me lock in but was smooth sailing most of the time as i took my time to work steadily and with precision.
GTA San Andreas
I’ve been playing Stardew while I lay on the kids floor waiting for them to fall asleep.
that sounds super wholesome and awesome
Stellaris. I somehow ended up buying all the DLCs I was missing, and now all other games have been put on hold.
I just started Cubivore. It’s fascinatingly weird, deceptively simple at first, but I feel like there’s some complexity growing beneath the surface.
You start as a weird little cubic pig, and you have this one square flap coming off the cube on a hinge that helps you move around, and a mouth. So you go around eating everything smaller than you. And the things your size you can take, you rip their meat flaps off (phrasing) and eat them to mutate. When you kill a boss, you get better meat that unlocks big abilities, and your pig gets to mate and die. Then you start playing as pig’s offspring, who now has an extra flap and more ways to mutate which put those flaps in configurations that make you better at running, evading, fighting, or defense.
Also your pig does a lot of oddly philosophical ruminating between areas.
Core Keeper. They just had a big patch with a new section and biome. Started fresh save to run through it. Fun game. Still desperately needs an option or mod for “prevent ability to kill farm animals”.
Fallout 4. Added 150+ mods on it and replaying it again. Of course thanks to the TV show.
