I haven’t made a new thread weekly exactly, but with the amount of activity it might need to be fortnightly, here’s another recommendations thread.
Let everyone know below a game (6+ months old), that you have played recently, are currently playing or intend to play soon.
I’m going to play Sleeping Dogs next. Bought it during steam sales for like $2. I heard it’s pretty good. I remember liking its predecessor, True Crime.
It’s really good and fun, and also as someone who grew up with HK movies and drama, captures that flavour very well!
Best GTA-like I’ve played. Completely ignored the driving part and focused on the beat-em up part. I wish Yakuza was a fraction as good in the fighting department, because otherwise I feel like it would be a perfect fix for me.
So wish there was a sequel! T_TI loved SD when it came out, think I have played it through 3 times now. I have all of Yakuza but just can’t get into it to the same extent, only managed to finish Zero so far.
Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps.
Enjoy. Two of the most beautiful games to exist, although weird Owl obsession from creator.
I’m still playing Elder Scrolls Online, which means I am not playing much atm while I upskill in Linux/docker etc.
I just hop on, do my 15 minutes of daily writs between two characters with addons and hop off.
How is the community over there? I played a lot of WoW during Wotlk (very cliche, I know), but not so many MMOs in the past years.
Outside of free weekends or perhaps peaktime weekends in general, it is probably the nicest community I’ve ever played with.
Very nice community. I try to contribute to that in and outside my guilds.
That’s nice, I might give it a try at some point in the future.
ESO is free on EGS now, think it’s going to end in under 18 hours, so grab it when you still can if you’re interested.
Thanks for pointing this out!
I’m about 4600 hours into ESO, but I’ve been paying for the subscription for half of that time. I only raid. Very challenging at the high levels, which I really enjoy.
I just hop on for my scheduled raids and log off. I don’t do any kind of grinding.
I’ve never bought ESO subscription, I have 200 inventory / 240 bank on my main character and manage my items with addons, I own the 6 previous expansions with the $20 bundle and intend to play what I own before wanting DLC I don’t have.
I trade Gold for other DLC I want.
That’s fair. I just have hundreds of thousands of crafting items so the craft bag is a big one for me. I also actually go through every single DLC. I’m almost done getting every single trifecta in the game (arenas, dungeons, and trials).
I could probably make do with how you go about it, but since this is basically the only form of entertainment I pay for, I feel like it’s justified. My lifestyle is otherwise incredibly frugal.
I’ve been replaying disco elysium: the final cut lately. beautiful narration and voice acting, amazing art. love the feeling of being dropped into a completely different world.
Played and completed Return of the Obra Dinn a couple of weeks ago. It’s a walking logic puzzle wrapped in a very distinct art style. I have to say despite my worries on the style causing motion sickness, that never happened. It’s a really well-done game. It rarely goes on sale too!
I felt so proud when I finished that whole game without any hints. I was close to giving up a few times, but I’m so glad I kept pushing. It was so absolutely satisfying to walk off the boat knowing I’d done it all myself.
Won’t lie, towards the end when a lot of the identities were crossed off I started guessing and made random checks to see what worked. xD
I tried this a couple of years ago, The story seems intriguing but after hours and hours playing I feel like I’m not really good at this and my eyes are tired with the monochrome pixel style. I mean I can play Game Boy games for hours but honestly to use the same visual style in a genre where you need to read a lot and to look at things really hard, it’s really tiring.
Sorry to hear, I do think it’s not for everyone. I’m just glad I didn’t have an issue in the end and got to enjoy the game for what it is, which luckily is something (logic puzzles) that I do enjoy normally.
Just finished Psychonauts 2 (haven’t played the first game) - it’s a solid 3D platformer with great art direction that trends on the easier side, though I appreciated having something that was somewhat relaxing to play for a change. I would highly recommend.
Picked this up in the most recent steam sale… it’s installed on my desktop and steam deck, still haven’t booted it up.
Thanks for bringing it back to the surface. May have to start tomorrow.
Katamari reroll, which is just katamari damacy again… which is just so much fun and relaxing and the songs are funny. Go play it again, it’s great.
I suggest that patient gamers put Aliens: Dark Descent onto their wishlist and wait for a good sale. It already had a small sale but the game only came out in June.
They really nailed the vibe, just all around, check out some Youtube plays of it to see if you like the gameplay. It looks like XCOM in screenshots but plays in real-time. The story takes place in a Weiland-Yutani mining base, of course isolated in an unwanted corner of the universe. A mysterious infection has appeared on the planet! I wonder what it could be? Better send some soldiers from your crashed ship to check out the situation and look for survivors. The characters are all new.
I’d say that the game benefits from all the comics and other less-known canon that fleshes out the world, and has the flavor down pat. They haven’t forgotten that the original movie was about a conflict between two powerful women, one of whom really doesn’t want to fuckin be here, and the gameplay does a great job of being a balancing act between making you fuckin sweat at the mercy of xenomorphs while also feeling like a badass. It’s a lot of people’s Game of the Year already, so I’d look into it, even though it’s gotten kinda lost in the shuffle.
I’vebeen playing Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2 while I wait for Baldurs Gate 3 and how did I sleep on these?? They’re great
Heroes of the Storm! Pick one out of over 80 heroes to fulfill your role in a team of 5 and try to destroy the other team‘s core.
Blizzard‘s take on the MOBA genre is something I come back to from time to time.
The character and map design is awesome and one match allows you to level up your character to counter enemy strategies and be become the kind of healer/tank/mage/dps/supporter your team needs.
It‘s awesome. And free.
How’s the learning curve for someone who is somewhat familiar with MOBAs, but has never played HotS before?
The game offers a short tutorial and an AI mode. There you can get familiar with the first heroes that are available to you and the maps. Find a character you like and mess around with his abilities and skill trees. You have all the time in the world.
It‘s considered a beginner friendly MOBA. You have your standard attack, 2-4 special abilities and an heroic attack at level 10 (20 is the max level).
As soon as you feel ready to play competitively, there are several game modes available for you.
Since it’s free just give it a try. Becoming good in this game is part of the journey!
Caesar III is a 1998 Windows city building game, so it’s like SimCity, but more fast paced, focused on efficiency, and set in Ancient Rome. You can get it from Steam or GOG. But the game is old, and clearly aged software and gameplay wise.
Then someone created a reimplementation named Julius project, adding some QoL improvement and compatibility with other OSes. And then someone else forked the project and added gameplay changes as well, incorporating features from later games.
Now I can play it in my Android phone in my bed.
+1 for the wiki link to check it out.
Solasta. It gives me that D&D joy, and it’s so much fun to make and playtest characters. Runs great on steam deck, too.
I plan to finally play Hotel Dusk for DS. I just need to finally hack my 3DS. I have a cartridge, but it’s in another
castlehouse.If you haven’t gotten around to modding your 3DS yet, I recently did and it turned out awesome and a lot easier than I had anticipated. There’s a super comprehensive and detailed guide I used if you’re interested.
want to try some old school racing/management?
Try Gallop Racer (PSX). Pretty much Horse Racing Simulator. You play as a jockey/owner. You buy horses, race the horses (manually, no auto), and breed horses. Endgame is to win the prestigious horse races and get something similar to Triple Crown.
The racing part is simple to learn, hard to master, but fun overall.
My favourite part is getting the trophies by winning these specific combination of races (e.g. 10 G1 races, World Turf Cup + World Mile Cup+ World Dirt Cup, etc.). Or beating these particulary hard races with in-game “famous” horses.
There’s also a mini jockey competition called WSJ when you become top 10 by November of the year which you play 4 races with random horses and win by points.
I recently finished Yakuza 2 and NieR: Replicant, so I’m starting some new games:
- Blasphemous - weird setting, so I’m interested to see how it progresses; I had a hankering to play an indoe game, so that’s scratching the itch ATM
- Mass Effect Legendary - first time, but unfortunately I’m not super invested yet so I’m taking it slow
And some games I’ve taken a break from but will pick up again soon:
- Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky - got a bit tired of the gameplay loop
- Ys - Memories of Celceta (near the end) and Oath of Felghana (probably 2/3); stalled for whatever reason
And some games I’m interested in starting soonish:
- CrossCode - I have that Ys gameplay hankering, but I don’t want to start another just after finishing the above
- NieR: Automata - really enjoyed Replicant, but I want to give myself some time so the world feels fresh
- a bunch of indie games
I really loved Blasphemous. Great setting, and hard enough to be very challenging until you get into it.
Blasphemous is a disgusting game, I bet you’re going to love it. There’s a sequel out now. It might be time for me to fire up the original again.
