So what are you playing via Junk Store?
Just curious what you (Eben + Annie) and anyone else stumbling over this might be playing through Junk Store lately!
I haven't even had my Steam Deck on in some time now, the last one I was paying was BioShock Infinite (not for the first, nor the last time)
Just pure curiosity here!
I'm playing Cyber Punk 2077, we picked it up on Sale on GOG for testing a while ago. But when I say playing, my deck is telling me I last played it on April 11...
Before that I played Doom 2016 on Nov 1 2025 for 34 mins.... and Borderlands 2 on July 20,2025 for 7.9 hours.
If you don't love Cyberpunk when you're done...if you're ever done, then we can no longer be friends!
I wish I could forget it and play it all over again :(
I just finished Tested on Humans: Escape Room last night. I enjoyed it, but then I do love puzzle games.
Next up will most likely be one of the other Escape Room games, or I may go back to playing some Freshly Frosted, or start playing Alan Wake on Gog. Heck I may get a bit crazy and play one of my Steam games - Creepy Tale: Some Other Place, Slender Threads or one of the Rusy Lake games I have.
I keep forgetting that I have Steam on there and a bunch of Steam games. All my time is spent in Junk Store testing and playing my Epic and Gog libraries! It gest so bad that sometimes I forget how Steam works!
Hopefully, one of these days I can tear Eben away from working on Junk Store long enough to get back to playing Borderlands 2 or some of the DLC from Borderlands! I have a sinking feeling I'll be waiting a very long time! At least I have a healthy backlog to keep me busy in the mean time!
I'm re-playing Alan Wake 2 on my Series X! I ordered a copy from England which works here and I've been having a blast. It really is such a unique game. Like a creepy melding of Twin Peaks, Stephen King and Alan Wake's first game. I'm excited to get to the DLC, too!
Alan Wake Remastered goes on sale for a couple bucks on Epic all the time, if you want a slightly more polished version than the GOG one (though it isn't much of an upgrade)
I absolutely do not. I remember playing Professor Layton games on my DS and just going straight to a walkthrough for 'help'. Once it got me past one puzzle, I found myself looking at it for every single one and when I realized I just stopped playing. Puzzles and I do not mix!!!
I have Alan Wake and Alan Wake's American Nightmare on Gog and Alan Wake II. All of which I realy want to play, along with soooooo many other games. But I don't feel I can start them as I need to be able to play them regularly otherwise I forget stuff and it's too disjointed. That's why I smash out the shorter games I can find, ones I can finish in a few hours or a day or two at most.
I have a problem, that once I really get stuck into a game I need to finish it unless its something I can easily jump in and out of for short bursts. If its a game that needs more I can't help my self and I will play all day every day until I finish it. You can ask Eben. He doesn't really like to play games with me as I'll make him play marathon sessions and call him weak if he wants to stop for the night or needs a break - hahaha I'm pretty ruthless when it comes to playing games with him. It goes way back to GTA San Andreas, he may share that story with you in private, but then again he may not!
As for puzzle games, I just love them for some reason! But then I do love puzzles in general, I had a collection of puzzles that I had at school when I was teaching that I'd pull out during tutor time or in class towards the end of term when we were finished with our unit of work. I have since given them to my aunty who teaches intermediate, she had her own collection for the same use case, but was grateful to have more to add to her collection. I have kept a few and they are in storage awaiting the day I can pull them out again and play with, like my Xbox 360 and retro consoles I got while we were in teh US visiting my sister years ago!
Yeah, I get your point on walkthroughs. Every now and then I need help or guidance on a puzzle in a game, and I can understand the pull to just keep using it. But I love being able to solve something that's really go me stuck, it's my way of getting an endorphine hit in games. Nothing more satisfying that solving a damn puzzle you've been at for hours or days in some cases if they're really tricky or just don't quite make sense straight away.
But yeah, they aren't for everybody and I can see how they could be just too frustrating or boring for some. It's a genre you have to actually like as well as being a sucker for punishment at times.