I'm always wishing there was more interaction and discussion on the niche Lemmy groups. Today I got to wondering if there were some games we could focus on to help foster our small community. But what is everyone playing or interested in playing? Are we all off playing our own obscure indie favorites or are there some games we share?

Comment below and upvote the ones that you have in common!

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[–] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I've been playing No Man's Sky lately. They just put out an update that let's you build a spaceship that also functions as a base. I'm only just now getting into the game and it came at a perfect time for me because I'm just now getting the point that I need a house to store stuff and I haven't found a planet that I love. Now I don't have to because I can live in a ship built just for me!

Just me and my antlered ewok exploring the black.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Me too! Just picked it up again this week after a five year hiatus. I started a new game and I'm at the part where I have to build a base, but I can't build a ship yet, I think. How did you get around that?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    So you can buy a handful of the parts at any of the stations for big numbers, but I managed to make my ship by hunting down the golden buried tech. You get o one part for each module you have to break to mine them so you get a minimum of 3 and the loot it normally has which you can then flip for more parts.

    Just to specify, that's the yellow wifi signal when you're using your visor. The ordinary and silver ones just give you the usual.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Thanks, I'll definitely try to mine for the parts then since I'm still completely broke

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm very deep into a full Rimworld playthrough with the new DLC. Being able to build a grav ship and hop around the world has opened it up so much that I'll probably be on this for a while yet.

    Obligatory weird Rimworld storytime: I'm currently super invested in this one character who was a dirt mole kid that some colony guests just left behind. We took her in because why not, and she turned out to be a pretty good melee scrapper with a penchant for losing body parts. No worries, we have bionics, we can rebuild her. So a bionic eye, an arm and a couple of new legs later, she gets her nose shot off by a turret. At the same moment some vampires arrive and want to have a meeting in our spaceship, and offer to make someone a vampire in return. So now I'm pretty sure immortal noseless cyborg vampire girl is going to end up leading the whole colony but I really want to see where this goes. The current leader is the last OG colonist still alive, but she's currently ruling from hospital because a lancer blew the spine right out of her body so her effectiveness is limited until I can source a new spine.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think the update that came with the expansion changed body part damage. I've got 3 pawns in storage without stomachs. Every social fight seems to cost me a nose.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Yeah I have two without noses now, but I finally got Flesh Shaping unlocked so soon I can start pumping out replacements. Also the leader got a bionic spine, then immediately got both legs blown off in the next fight. She is costing me a lot in advanced components lol.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    Infra. You play as a structural analyst sent in to document damages on infrastructure that was being neglected due to a corrupt governor.

    Technically a walking sim, but plenty of puzzles to solve and “mazes” to navigate. The game offers no minimap or objective list. No HUD whatsoever. It’s just you and one action button.

    Each area is exquisitely detailed for being a 9-year-old game and visually holds up better than I expected. If you ever wanted to know what it was like to explore abandoned infrastructure, this one’s for you.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Huh glad I posted here, never heard of Infra before. Sounds like something I've been after for a while. I don't have a problem with violence in video games but I do wish there were more great games that weren't based around it.

    The concept of Infra sounds really chill. My seldom-gaming partner might even be interested in joining me on the journey.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    It's a great game. The story starts out relatively chill, but as you explore and start to uncover things it gets really intriguing.

    The devs are working on another game that takes place in the same universe called Obenseuer. It's sincerely one of my favorite games. I get absorbed by it while playing because it's one of the most unique vibes in any game I've played. For me, it's got this melancholic, depressing atmosphere, but is simultaneously funny, quirky, and, somehow, cozy.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I tried it a while back and struggled to get into it. I wondered since if it was just not the right time though bc it looks so much like my kind of game. Might be worth dusting it off again to give it another go.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    The biggest struggle I had at first was getting out of video game mode. With no objective trackers and maps being static on walls, it forced me to approach it differently. You have to rely far more on intuition than any other game I’ve played. You also have to pay attention to notes and general signage as it’s your only guide through a large portion of the game. Hopefully it clicks on your second go around. I wish there were more games like it.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 1 year ago

    I'll start - was super into Cult of the Lamb until Nightreign came out and as a Fromsoft addict I haven't really played anything else since.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Clair Obscura, because I enjoy depression.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You should check out !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works, I do a post like this every week and it tends to get decent interaction every time.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I'm couch surfing rn and only have my laptop, so I can really only play Stardew Valley. I've been slowly changing production entirely over to ancient fruit from hops.

    I wish could play Satisfactory tho. :{

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I finally got my wife hooked on Stardew Valley.

    For years I’ve been trying to get her to game with me, never pushing too hard because I didn’t want to put her off the entire thing.

    Recently she got laid off and picked up a part time job, so she’s had more free time. I asked her to consider playing Stardew Valley, and she said she would, but kept putting it off.

    Finally one Saturday we had some free time and she agreed to give it a shot. I made popcorn, set her up with a Switch on our TV, gave her an hour or so to get started (I was willing to answer questions about controls, but wanted her to learn the game herself because I genuinely believe that’s part of the charm), then joined her with my Steam Deck (not multiplayer, just both of us playing single player).

    She enjoyed it, but after that day she didn’t touch it for a while. Then I reminded her the Switch doesn’t need to be on the TV, and suddenly she was playing it every day. She’s fallen deeply into the Stardew Valley rabbit hole and I am so happy. 😁

    She broke her foot recently, and when we were at the urgent care center she had the Switch and I had my Steam Deck as we were waiting. The doctor who finally saw us said we were geniuses for being so well prepared for the packed waiting room. 🤣

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I am taking a break from working on my Skyrim mod list to try getting into Baldur's Gate 3 for a third time.

    My first attempt, I picked "tactician" difficulty, didn't make optimal choices for character build and party composition, and then quit at the end of act 2 when the fights got too hard. Then I tried honour mode, minmaxed everything, was getting by okay but quit in the middle of act two because playing that way was boring.

    So now I'm playing at the default difficulty level, just relaxing and having fun like a normal person.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    I thought you could switch difficulties out besides honor mode. I did a tactician run with me as wildmage. Shadowbae as cleric, astarion as assassin and laezel as fighter. Didn’t have too tough a time (don’t think I min maxed). Did do every side quest though and also looked up tips for some bosses.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I think I'll do BG3 after I tire of Nightreign. I started it but it didn't click the first time for whatever reason. I loved Divinity 2 so I'm sure BG3 will click for me at some point.

    How's the Skyrim modding scene these days? Only news I see is about Bethesda's meddling in it.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I've been working through my endless backlog.

    I finished Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. It is a masterpiece.

    I bought the Sniper Elite Humble Bundle that came with games 1 through 5. I have played through 1 to 4 already. It makes me miss games that can be finished in 20 hours instead of the endless grinds every game expects now. I also miss when Nazis were the evil bad guys.

    I'm also playing through Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. This one is set in Hawaii which is a coincidence since I've also just finished Kitchen Sync: Aloha!, a cooking game set in Hawaii.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I'm on an everything Battletech-related kick, so Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries is what I'm playing currently.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Oooh I got started on that recently and then pulled away by other things, but I was enjoying it a great deal. The campaign is bit... ehhh. But that actual gameplay is a blast. I love the sense of scale (as long as you don't think too hard about the actual numbers it gives you for the weights of things)

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I picked that up on sale a while ago, but have only played a few quick missions. I haven't played MW since the early 2000s, but did play and love Battletech 2019.

    Does the MW5 campaign give you the info dump while you are already in the mech and moving towards the objective like the older ones?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I love MW5. Its modding scene is so robust that the game is incredibly customizable to be basically whatever type of experience you want. That being said, my mod list is out of date so getting back into it would be a huge chore right now haha

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Clone Hero! I missed how much fun Guitar Hero was

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I finally started playing Stardew Valley more than 15 minutes in the dungeon every once in a blue moon and questioning why the fuck I never actually played it before in all this time (I have had it since first available on Steam). It's everything I've ever wanted in this kind of game since playing the first Harvest Moon.

    Plus it has a mod that makes everyone furry. :3

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Currently Vintage Story, BallisticNG and Deadlock. No one game is currently holding a monopoly on my attention. All very good games, but it does feel a bit like I'm just in a holding pattern waiting for Silksong. It was easier to wait without an official release date xD

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Graveyard Keeper. It's kinda like Stardew Valley but you maintain a graveyard, give sermons, enbalm bodies, make alchemy potions, raise the dead to perform menial, tasks, and grow crops!

    My only complaint is that there's so many recipes and different stuff to do I need to have a couple tabs of the wiki open.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Hades 2 Death Stranding 2 Overwatch 2

    And to keep with the theme, thinking about checking out Grounded 2 next week.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago*

    DOOM using prboom I started it in Hurt me plenty but quickly had to change to Ultra-Violence because I was thinking "Where's all the monsters?", it's nice to re-play the levels and listen to the good music.

    TurtleWoW when I need to relax and do some questing.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (17 children)

    Mostly Elden Ring and Automobilista 2. I finally got Shadow of the Erdtree but had to take a bit to git gud git less bad again before diving into the Land of Shadow, not helped at all by the fact that the character I wanted to go in with was not at all well-suited to fight Mohg. Still, I'm enjoying it a great deal. The map design is phenomenal, I keep just stopping to look at the landscape for a bit

    Automobilista is just the go-to for having a game with some other friends who also like racing sims at the moment. It's not my favourite in terms of driving physics, but it's good enough, the car classes being relatively balanced is nice for variety in races, and I'm honestly really enjoying trying out all the South American tracks that I've never heard of

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    I consider myself a Souls veteran and more toward the 'gud' side of the scale but Shadow of the Erdtree was a real kick in the teeth. I mean I loved it but Fromsoft didn't hold back on the difficulty. Even with all of the new collectable powerups it's burly as hell.

    On the driving topic - maybe you can help me. I've got a bunch of racing games but am having trouble picking one. It'd be nice to have one that's easy enough to get into but realistic enough that it takes a while to master.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (15 children)

    Putting the blackgaol knight where he is is a frankly hilarious statement of how the DLC is gonna be. I'm good enough at the games to beat everything without cheese or summons (I do think that summoning is fine, I just don't personally enjoy it unless it's an NPC I like), but I find that some Elden Ring bosses push the edge of what I have the reaction speed for. Morgott and Maliketh were particularly troublesome for me. I haven't gotten to anyone in the DLC that has hit that mark of pace yet, but I assume someone will

    I'm not super knowledgeable on racing games, but I'm happy to try to help! What have you got available and what do you like?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Ha yeah that knight is a pretty brutal eye opener!

    I got a Humble Bundle with a bunch of racers so I have a bunch but I'd even buy one if it's the right one. I'd love to relive the glory days of Gran Tourismo with the career mode and collecting cars and modifying them. I've done Horizon and that sorta scratches the itch but it's just soooo arcadey. But it's the closest I've found so far.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Oh hey, I grew up playing Gran Turismo as well! I actually dug out the old Playstation 1 when I was seeing family last Christmas and we had a splitscreen session racing each other on the 1997 one. It was a blast

    That kind of in-depth career mode is oddly rare in modern sim racers. A lot of them are very online PvP-focussed. And I get that, but still, it'd be nice to have more. Things that come to mind are:

    • The original Assetto Corsa is a bit old now and the Content Manager and Custom Shader Patch mods are basically mandatory, BUT it is extremely flexible to mod and you can make it look exactly like a Gran Turismo game if you want. It has a career mode, but it's only a series of specific racing challenges and there's no collecting or modifying of cars
    • Assetto Corsa Evo is in very early access right now, but it might just be exactly what you're looking for when it does fully come out. It's due to have a single player career mode, it looks like it's going to do some kind of car collection mechanic, and it even has honest-to-god Gran Turismo style licence tests
    • Automobilista 2 does not have a career mode (yet? It's on the main menu but greyed out), but apparently a fan decided they were going to do it themselves. AMS also comes with the advantage of having much better multiplayer than Assetto Corsa if you want to play with friends; AC's multiplayer is quite limited and does not let you add AI to fill out the grid
    • Grid Legends might be worth a look, but I can't tell you what it's actually like to play because I haven't tried it. I have played Dirt Rally 2 by the same devs and it does have a very GT-esque career mode. It describes itself as simcade, though, so it may just be another Forza for you depending on how it drives
    • Le Mans Ultimate is a more specialised experience, of course, but it's due to get a proper in-depth career mode soon

    It is a pretty dim time for the single player sim racing experience, but there's fun to be had!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    I had to skip that knight! I got deaded too many times and just left hahaha. I’m in my third legacy dungeon in Shadow and it’s pretty brutal.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Which one is the third? I've done Belurat and Castle Ensis (if it counts?), only just started poking around in Shadow Keep but it looks absolutely wild so far. I also made it to the putrescent knight's arena but I've not tried actually fighting it yet, just jumped in once to see what was going on at the end of a session

    The knight was pretty brutal, but fortunately this run has been my "learn to parry" one, so I came basically perfectly equipped to fight any player-model enemy that isn't using colossal weapons

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    I think it’s Shadow Keep! I’ve found two of the bosses—one insane tree guy with three phases that has killed me 20 times so I went another way, one big fat boss guy, and there has to be more cuz I’m not done yet…

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    There's one with three phases? That is so absolutely going to catch me out with no flasks left whenever I first get to it, god dammit. I can't wait

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Oh man… i don’t wanna spoil anything, but uhhhh I think I have to come back to it with full blessing. I can’t get close even with a buddy who’s extremely good.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Nothing wrong with that! I hit an absolute brick wall with Margit when I first played the base game because I hadn't played a Souls game in years. I explored around until I found the secret route to Liurnia and did most of that before I even got into Stormveil

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    Did you go into a regular, boring, nondescript building and then take the longest elevator ever? Because I did the and it brought tears to my eyes when I finally got down there (also first real souls game, I only played a bit of Demon’s Souls PS3 before Elden Ring)

    Edit: also this tree is far beyond any boss in the main game, and insane compared to the other expansion bosses. I don’t even think I need to kill it to progress.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I have not seen whichever part that is, no. Although it sounds like the same experience as finding Siofra for the first time, which I think was one of my favourite moments in the entire game

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Oh I might be thinking of Siofra! Sorry hahaha, it’s been a while.

    I went back into the expansion after months of not playing, and I forgot how much I loved this game… but sheeiit, is the expansion brutal. The main game was hard, but I had a much easier time roaming around and having fun and exploring without dying. Shadow seems a lot more…. “Go here and do the thing to progress”.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I suppose it makes sense for it to be tough considering that it's intended as an endgame expansion and it's also replicating the new character low level experience with the scadu blessing system

    I have actually found that the Land of Shadow has heaps of alternate routes to places, they're just much less obvious than before. The map is so wildly vertical and overlapping that finding a spiritspring or a tunnel or one of those cliffside staircases of protruding gravestones can take you to a whole new area

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I’ll have to explore much more! I’m so curious as to how much more I haven’t explored, but I haven’t looked anything up—I played through the original game blind and I want to do the same with the expansion. But it’s soooo difficult!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    This exchange just popped back into my head for some reason. Your description of the approach to the flower was spot-on! Turns out it just happens to be a similar approach to Siofra. Took me a few attempts, and fire damage is a bit of a miserable situation for my dex build with a bit of int (level 150, scadutree... 9, I think? Maybe 10?), but I got there. I found that the best thing I could do was actually just to absolutely max out my own durability and accept that I was only getting one attack off per opportunity. I was having a really rough time avoiding the thorn eruption attacks, so the crimson seed talisman basically giving me two extra flasks worth of health was great. So long as I used fire damage and hit it in the "face" I didn't really need to do anything else to get plenty of damage

    I have since gone through the specimen storehouse and found my way into Rauh, which I was absolutely delighted by because it looks exactly like Shadow of the Colossus and I'd been itching to get there ever since I found that waygate that gives you a preview of it

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Helldivers 2, have played at least a couple times a week since release with a group of friends but have been diving almost every night for the last few weeks as one of our other friends is on XBox and finally gets to join us!

    Unfortunately he has only had time for one dive so far, but hopefully he has plenty of time tonight.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Oh I was doing a bunch of Helldivers 2 as well until Nightreign. Such a chaotic blast. The new city stuff on the maps looks like crazy fun.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    City stuff can be fun or frustrating!

    The tall buildings can block orbitals, line of sight for large stuff can make killing shots a lot more difficult than on most maps, and trying to cut through buildings can lead to walking right into a horde of infantry type stuff. On the other hand, watching the human support teams get a kill or two before dying can be pretty entertaining!

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Nightreign had me, I've gone back to it for the everdark bosses, but I find the run before the bosses the most fun.

    Went back to elden ring because of it, also picked up enshrouded and have been playing that with my coop group.

    Balatro and slay the spire get a run a day

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago

    Yeah I'm there with you on Nightreign, the run is really fun. There's something about it that is making me start to think that's actually the way Fromsoft games work the best. I still have a few issues with the game in general but crafting your build around the loot and its passives is super satisfying.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm playing through the first Death Stranding, which I've really been enjoying. The gameplay did not hook me initially, but it grew on me. I'm a sucker for a good narrative and so I progressed because I wanted to know what was happening.

    I'll want to play the second one afterwards, but I'm thinking that I'll take a break in between. Maybe try Sword of the Sea? It looked pretty cool.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Yeah I've tried it and bounced off it a couple of times, but I get the sense that it's one of those games where eventually I'll push past the beginning part and then become obsessed with it for a while lol. Alien: Isolation was one of those too.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago

    I really loved Death Stranding, need to get back into it. I had the same experience but then I think I was out of town for a week and for some reason never picked it back up. It's just so melancholic and meditative sometimes and almost always has that cinematic beauty.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Cyberpunk 2077

    Stardew Valley

    Hades 2

    Diablo 4

    These are the ones I’m rotating between most right now. I’ve also got Doom (2016) and BG3 on rotation, but haven’t hit them in a while.

    The Steam Deck has been such a great addition. Especially being able to stream titles like CP2077 from the PC for better graphical fidelity and battery life.

    Edit: Oh! And Geometry Wars 3! It’s so good on the Steam Deck! It says “Playable” but I genuinely don’t know why, it seems completely supported as far as I can tell.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Some of my favorites right there! I guess I should try Geometry wars since it seems like we're on the same page.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved and later Geometry Wars 2 were some of my favorites one the Xbox 360. Dual-stick shooters with awesome, simple, crisp graphics that, during the transition from CRT to LCD TVs, made LCDs look GORGEOUS.

    3 is a phenomenal addition to the series (if relatively old now). It has all the modes from the previous two, and an “adventure” mode. Fantastic pick-up-and-put-down title to play when you have a bit of time or need something to distract the ADHD brain. And it’s cheap!

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Recently finished mullet madjack, decided to replay quake 2

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Huh never heard of Mullet Madjack, looks pretty nuts

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    It's a high paced fps in general. The original mode is semi roguelite, meaning, you have to go every 10 floors in order to get a checkpoint. If you don't, back to the previous checkpoint and get different perks for the run.

    For me the whole cyberpunk esque thing about it sold me. And is also a quite unusual sort of shooter.

    Only a tad short, that is my biggest complaint (but price does match the time so I can't say much)

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Rogue Trader. I'm up to chapter 3 and its dragging a bit.

    Grounded 2. Very early early access but its still a ton of fun.

    Peak. Mostly when my friend is available for co-op but I do solo runs here and there.

    Hades 2 but its mostly on the back burner until 1.0 for now.

    I've got a bunch of virtual novels, Pathologic 2, The Forest, and more in my backlog but with Silksong finally releasing next week they'll probably be saying there for a while.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Striving for Light. It's the only real hybrid I have found between an arpg and a roguelite. A bite-sized PoE if you will.

    Otherwise, in more or less the same genre, Magicraft (my GOTY 2024) and a tiny bit of Hellclock, tho it has yet to hook me because so far it's boringly easy - I'm still very early in the game.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Roguelites are gradually becoming my favorite genre - going to have to check Magicraft out. Sounds like it has some of the same elements that I loved in Noita?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    It's top down Noita, or BoI+Noita. I have 1k hours and am still discovering new effects and combinations every run, it's nuts!

    Pro tip: I wanted to milk it for all its got, so after reaching endgame content, I started a new toon and limited myself to 2 wands and no upgrades to life mana, starting stuff like keys or coins. Just "tentacle girl" updates and it's been really good. I die because of mistakes, not because of balance. Otherwise, you'll get a bit too strong and steamroll every enemy and boss at some point (100 hours in or so).

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    Far cry 6. It sucks. I love gta style open world with lots of vehicles and weapons. It’s great for that. The missions are all the same. Go here, fetch this. Kill this person. Go back to another person.

    Edit: finally finished the game after 45 hours. What a terrible ending.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Ubisoft finally engineered the fun out of that franchise too eh?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Yeah :/ another shallow ocean. I like open world games and games that give you lots of freedom. The mechanics of that are all in the game. Gunplay is fun, vehicle driving is meh. Selection of vehicles is kind of meh. Plot is meh. The missions are 50% fetch quests 50% go here and break into 1/3 different environments with enemies and kill everyone there.

    I won’t buy another Ubisoft game after this. I got this game 85% off and it feels like I overpaid.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I recently finished Dragon Age Inquisition, and then started Powerslave: Exhumed.

    I never played any of the original versions so it’s a completely new experience for me. Enjoyable so far - it’s an interesting historical link between classic metroidvania and 90s FPS, like a proto-Metroid Prime in some ways.

    I do wish they’d added a quick save button to this modern version, though.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    ive been boring and pretty much only playing hypixel skyblock, basically an mmorpg lol. some mario party with my girlfriend too

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Man I haven't been on Hypixel Skyblock in ages! It was really fun being there for all the community moments back when Technoblade was rocking the server.

    Unfortunately the grind got too much so I ended up stopping playing and instead spending time helping out on Skyblock Addons. But once new content was locked behind skills rather than items it became impossible to work on new features, so that was my sign to leave.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Currently replaying Borderlands 3 and playing Horizon Forbidden West.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Did you play Zero Dawn previously? How are you finding Forbidden West, play-wise? It feels "heavier" to me, somehow. Maybe I just got used to fully-upgraded Aloy in HZD...

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    sorry but I have been a dillatant lately while I install the smallest games from the great on steamdeck filter of steam. One funny note was I had hunter stories and found it ultimately relied to much on rng and did not let me build up enough from things just made available. I think they should have had an option to buy normal eggs maybe level gating the type and then left the rng for rare powered up types. Anyway booted that out and just started palworld and wow is that ever the opposite. Does not explain stuff much at all whereas monster hunter stories was basically on rails. eventually I will get to the witcher at which point I likely will have to start deciding what stuff I want to take off if im to get anything larger on it.

    EDITED - ooh. forgot to mention one stand out. nino kuni II revenant kingdom. Im playing each thing a bit and then putting on a new game but nino kuni had this very sorta fast casual fighting style that reminds me a lot of kindom hearts and I had a hard time stopping. Will likely be the game I binge once im good with what I have on the deck.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Red Dead Redemption 2.

    I picked it up a yeat or two ago, played through it, and loved it. When RDR was finally released for the PC, I immediately dove into it.

    RDR was ezcellent, but it made me crave RDR2 gameplay, which was far deeper. So now I'm riding around in the epilogue, completing challenges and collecting every piece of clothing, saddle, and trinket.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago

    I should probably dive into RDR2 again, I always start it at the wrong time and always seem to bounce after the extensive intro and tutorial. I suppose it all probably opens up right after that, right?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Grim dawn for nostalgia. Enjoying the new classes and dealing lightning, fire and ice damage.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Skyrim, next to my wife who is experiencing it for the first time. And OSRS because always

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  • I've been replaying Final Fantasy 9, but this time on my phone with Duckstation and a BSP-D8 controller

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