I’m mostly playing Hollow Knight and Majoras Mask right now. Just started a new HK file, and I’m through Woodfall temple in MM. I can definitely recommend both games as fantastic.

Started Esoteric Ebb and watched some Warcraft 3 Altar of Champions, a tournament where the participants are streamers that aren’t experienced with WC3.

So far I find Esoteric Ebb funnier but not as clever compared to Disco Elysium.

Some of the developers of HorizonXI, one of the better Final Fantasy XI servers, are doing an alpha test of a new Ragnarok Online server called SpringRO.

There’s not very many people playing right now because they’ve done 0 advertising except a single post in the HorizonXI Discord, but plan to get om ratemyserver and such later on. They’re building some stuff from scratch instead of using janky scripts from other servers that are also sometimes paywalled. There’s no multiboxing allowed (thank god). I like Horizon a lot, so I have confidence this will become the largest RO server over the next year or two. Surprisingly, with the ridiculous and unnecessary number of servers with 15 players, few of them do Classic+ in the same vein as TurtleWoW. The goal is apparently to expand on the original content, rebalance classes so that some are more viable than just buff bots, niche/meme builds are viable, etc. They said they want to develop like Old School Runescape with most big decisions getting community input.

They also made a little Poring Clicker game over the weekend to keep people busy.

I don’t necessarily recommend it right this second since there’s no timeline for the alpha/beta or release, but it’s supposed to be fairly quick. Maybe a few months? The server is going to be wiped at least once on the way though, so there’s no point in trying to progress super hard instead of just experimenting with classes if you’re new.

Anyway, I’m already back on my mage shit, using Frost Diver + Lightning bolt to eliminate anything in my way. No fire needed. I want to play a battlesmith when the server actually goes live, but that’s a lot of investment right now.

Nightreign is hopefully a good sign that they’ll do a better job with multiplayer… though I just hope that doesn’t mean more nightreign-likes. Where’s my damn Armoured Souls, come ooooooon, Doll’s Nest has a stab at it but it’s not my cup of tea.

I’ve been playing Subnautica 2. It’s fun, has a stronger ecological theme, and they made the fabricator draw from storage instead needing interminable inventory juggling. But I’ll probably stop for a while, since I’ve reached the part of the worldmap where it starts saying “you can’t build here, it’s under development” and I want to build there…

Im just waiting for the CIV 7 Test of Time update which is a free update that reworks the entire game and also makes it possible to play a CIV from start to finish. Civ switching never bothered me but im quite curious to try the update since it does other things as well like re-work how the victories work. The update launches this Tuesday so yes very soon.

I have mostly been playing terraria with the nerds of the matrix chat this last weeks, we played vainilla and calamity its been really fun.p

I have mostly played as the best class Summoner and its been fun, i dont have to dodge much because bosses always target @RedNajm@hexbear.net for the sin of being melee class, the calamity moon lord has been the hardest boss in my opinion the only one where human wave tactics wasnt cutting it

I also been playing Age of empires 2, i finished the hindustani campaign, it was pretty good, it was about babur who founded the mughal empire

Started Silksong again. I got very far into the game but didn’t quite finish Act III when it came out. Compared to my first time I feel like a professional. I’m just breezing through some stuff where I was stuck forever on my first playthrough.

Playing Call of the Elder Gods, pretty good so far and I loved Call of the Sea (it takes Lovecraft and unracisms it, current main character is a black scholar dealing with what seem to be Nazis via operation paperclip and a rich American science lodge).

I’m playing Transistor but I don’t think I am gonna finish it. The art and music are cool but the combat makes no sense to me.

Ultramodern, though I’m starting to see what the negative reviews were seeing. I think it was originally developed to be d20 Modern using 4th edition D&D as a framework, but by the time they were going to finish, 5th edition D&D was launching, and so what they landed on has all the benefits of 5e and all the hindrances of 4e. Furthermore, having played a bunch of OSR systems, I miss when the rulebook was more like guidelines on how to issue rulings and run your game instead of rigid and intricate rules.

As for video’d games, been playing Divinity: Original Sin (the first one) with a friend, because it’s very plainly supposed to be a 2 player co-op experience. We named our party Magic Pockets Club. When I don’t feel like making up a new character in an RPG I have a character I default to who’s very Snake Plissken, but having an in-game friend has altered that. This time he’s a little bit softer, and I like it.

I’ve been playing alabaster dawn, very cool game from the crosscode folks. It only has half of chapter 2 done currently. But plays really good!

And lots of slay the spire 2. Just slowing working up acensions with ironclad currently.

I’ve been really dragging my feet about completing the current Valheim content; trying to dodge that sadness-that-it’s over vibe

Finished my Total Warhammer 3 Tamurkhan campaign, started a Changeling campaign. It’s interesting, definitely far far easier than a normal campaign once you get your cults off the ground and the passives from schemes start rolling in, but not a fan of how some of the scheme objectives are reliant on various AI factions staying alive given how random that can be. Since I can’t hold territory and I want to be at war with everyone at once, I’m mostly just trying to keep Couronne alive in the face of Wintertooth and transferring their settlements back to them. Also not sure who a good pick would be for Formless Horror, currently I’m going with Tyrion since he has generally good stats.

Also playing some Warframe here and there, no actual progress made in the last week other than doing weeklies, grinding the event currency, and too many failed runs to get Protea.

Still playing Diablo 1 and having so much nostalgia, I actually got some op endgame gear in single player like a sword of haste. I’m used to diablo 2 where the real good shit is locked away in nightmare and hell, but in diablo 1 high tier stuff can drop in normal in hell

Finally got to start Rangers of Shadow Deep! We played a mission that splits into multiple smaller scenarios. I still want to do a solo run starting from level 1. I learned spellcasters can be kind of weak because they can only use a spell once per scenario, unlike a lot of games where you can use the same spell multiple times but there’s risks like miscasting or failing the attempt.