Lately I’ve just been playing FTL & Stardew Valley on an old Linux machine.
I intend on playing New Vegas soon, with the intention of finishing it before Fallout Season 2.
I’ve been playing New Vegas recently, I’m on the penultimate DLC now having just the final quest left in the main game. It has been a really enjoyable play through (the first time the game has stuck for me despite trying three times before) and I’m still enjoying it although I am looking forward to finishing it all and playing something new again after 90 hours.
Hope you enjoy!
Shadows of Doubt! Its this sci fi noire game where you play as a cop that became a private eye detective. Their police force was replaced with privatized “enforcers” that uphold the policy of the new corporate government.
You solve crimes the enforcers won’t and take on side jobs to stay alive, upgrade your apartment and build enough social credit to retire to “the fields”- a suspiciously utopian retriement zone far away from the grime, storms and thick smog of the city.
This is an immersive sim. Kind of like a procedurally generated Deus Ex. You can interact with a lot of stuff turn on sinks, open cabinets, read email and newspapers, eat food, watch tv and drink alcohol until you can barely stand.
When it comes to solving crime you can sift through camera footage, take fingerprints, crawl through air ducts, ask people for information, hack into govt databases and more. You put all of the clues on a big conspiracy board in the menu until you find the murderer and bring them in…before they kill again.
I saw a streamer playing the demo and was looking forward to it. That being said, it’s too recent a game for a patient gamer like me! (Not really. I do buy new games :)
I’m playing Final Fantasy Tactics for the first time. I hear it’s the best or so in it’s genre. Can’t wait!
Been playing Pacific Drive. It’s a survival horror(ish) game where you drive through Western Washington in an abandoned government experiment paranormal area that is always changing. And you get to drive a 1960’s station wagon, and make repairs and build new parts. Pretty fun so far. (and intense)
Snap I’m about to go to the innermost zone. Really enjoying it so far. The vibes are great. It’s mostly chill with some intense oh god I’m going to die moments mixed in.
I got into Balatro finally, and holy fuck, it really is great. I wanted a turn based roguelike since I realized I didn’t have many of those, and I knew it’d be good, but it’s hard to find something I don’t like about the game.
It looks good, the interface is good, the music is an awesome ever changing single chill song, it’s turn based so you can think about your decisions, but if your build is strong you can play pretty quick too. There are tons of build options and unlocks.
There is a nice balance between playing hands and altering your build between rounds, I like that the money economy is low in number, similar to darkest dungeon and its low number damage stats even single digits matter. Learning the game and starting runs you begin to establish a build that you can add synergy to incredibly quickly. I just struggle to find anything bad to say about it.
Open TTD
I got into farming sims after the recent Stardew Valley update and am playing Fields of Mistria (already great!) as well as Rune Factory 4 (it‘s fine, I guess… didn‘t hold up too well IMO, mainly because of its scuffed 3D graphics instead of pixel art).
I‘ve also completed the Frog Detective trilogy - a series of very easy, short, and quirky mystery games - and I can absolutely recommend it.
I got addicted to Factorio. Its such a cool game. Its really satisfying seeing your production grow. However, it takes some time to get used to the “think big” mindset and creating new factories does take some time but its very rewarding once you made it.
Was very satisfying for a few months for me. Space Exploration mod looks tempting, but I think it’s just too much and too big
I spent way too much time with Bob’s+Angel’s with SpaceX, 160h in and I just unlocked the final tier of modules and now I need to scale up the whole base to get enough science to make the millions of science I need to research everything.
I haven’t even started Space Exploration (which is very different than SpaceX = Space Extension), but I won’t have enough time to play that before the Factorio DLC comes out…
After playing through elden ring (twice), I decided to give dark souls 3 a go. So far, is good, would recommend
Started [email protected], still playing Stardew Valley (I went up 100 hours in about a month!), and still slowly progressing on My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom -Pirates of the Disturbance- as I yell about on the [email protected] weekly threads. I have also been trying various [email protected], including a billion bananas and Squareixion.
For transparency, just a subscriber on most of those communities, but I do mod [email protected].
Bravely Second and Rat King Adventures. To me, the former is being pretty fun, even more than Bravely Default, at least some 8 hours in, with the only potential problem being levelling feels way too easy. Rat King Adventure is also nice, although I’m not a big fan of roguelikes, and it got me curious since it’s rare to find FOSS games.
Doom is almost always my answer. Especially with the fresh Nightdive rerelease!
Anyway I’ve been playing EDF5 again online, and Kaido Racer on the PS2, a lovely street racing game about the mountain roads of Japan.
Man, I would have never expected so see someone talking about Kaido Racer here. I tried that game about 2 years ago, but never got far. I only ever had the first track to play, since I never beat the right enemies to unlock the other ones. I probably should give it another go, it seems pretty well made even if the translation is a bit funky haha.
What about you? How far are you currently?
I think I’m about 40 hours in? I have unlocked all but one track in the game until now. You gotta remember to check the “internet forums” to challenge the leaders of every track, and get hints of how to find new rivals. After some point when you get sponsors, money stops being an issue, even if you can’t farm races during the day.
Thank you for your tips. I do remember reading the forums, but never getting the point of it. Maybe I should set my game to English instead of German, the translation for the latter is very weird.
I also had the problem of finding rivals during the night that I just couldn’t beat, because they were way faster than I was. And that was the case even after upgrading every part of my car. Maybe I just made the wrong choice for the first car? Which one did you start with?
This run, I started with a Toyota Vitz because of the Gran Turismo meme. Even painted it pink and all. Many cars are viable in this game, I’m currently tearing through most rivals with a Subaru Impreza Wagon! The thing you must notice, however, is that the game heavily relies on upgrading and tuning your car. And, many upgrades don’t initially do anything tangible to your car until you manually mess with them. Upgraded transmission, go in there and set shorter gear ratios. Upgraded suspension, go in there and mess with hardening the springs and dampeners, change wheel alignment and lower the ride height. You can touch up almost any setup section you can think of, it’s really a car game for gear heads. But that’s why I love it. I think it’s even more in depth in that aspect than even Gran Turismo, even if it’s not trying to be a super realistic sim. The whole Tokyo Xtreme Racer franchise is like that, although the highway racers are much more hardcore. TXR Zero is straight up unfair if you’re playing sub optimally.
This is really interesting, thanks for your insight. I don’t really know a lot about cars, but maybe I’ll give it another try one day. I will definitely keep this in mind :)
I finally got into No man’s sky and I’m happy I waited with my first playthrougj until it got good.
There’s a ton of exploration and things to do, I’m still only touching the surface during my expedition. But I’m almost done and can’t wait to get into the full campaign.
I’ve been playing Minecraft on my Quest 3 via Vivecraft. It’s a really nice VR experience - very well done for a mod. The only downside is that it’s very performance limited. Even with stuff like Sodium installed, it struggles with a greater than 10 block rendering radius. Maybe if Minecraft ever moves to Vulkan, there’d be more room for improvement there.
I’ve been playing a lot of brazen blaze in VR. Pretty good smash bros type of game.
