What games are you actually enjoying right now?
I saw a video on spawnwave that talked today about what games people are enjoying in 2026 right now. And the different reactions of different social media/sites.
I personally am loving Wild Blue Skie s. Its just starfox. Thats what I want to play!
BALL x PIT is a whole lot of fun. I didn't think it would be but it keeps getting better and better.
I also liked FTL back in the day so I picked up Void War . Its like warhammer + FTL and its fantastic.
EDIT: You all are great! Keep them coming! So many games (video games and otherwise) in this list!
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I'm currently playing "It Takes Two" with my wife. Super fun co-op game!
Slay the Spire 2. No matter how hard I try to escape, all roads lead back to the spire.
I think I spent probably 20+ hours playing Control Resonant this weekend. Crazy good game.
Control: Resonant
I think I'm 25-30h in and I don't want to put it down. Idk how long it is, but all the Remedy Universe games are such a treat, I don't want it to be over. I'm enjoying the melee-focused combat more than the first game's TPS combat, I think.
I also just started this! I got 100% completion on Control - I loved the lore and little details, finding myself reading every note and watching every video.
Resonant seems to be following the same vibe for me.
I loved the lore in Control! I didnt even the mind the gameplay, i was just looking forward for more lore!
Playing The Witcher 3 for the first time. I bought the original when it first came out and just never played it. But they went to all the trouble to be super exceptional people and release the remaster for free so now I have to play it.
What the fuck was 10 years ago me thinking? This game is so fucking good.
I've got a deck of cards in my coffee table that I like to play solitaire on. I keep tweaking the house rules to make it more fun.
Actually I'm not sure I'd call it "fun" so much as "relaxing." But I do enjoy myself.
It counts!
Haha thanks, I did double check this wasn't just about video games first. :9
I was hoping to get some physical games here too.
Never finished Outer Wilds so decided to pick it uo again, start over, and get through it. Such a great game.
Beautiful game. Still would like to play the DLC.
I tried it too, the parts I played were done very well, but fair warning: If you have anything like thalassophobia, it's not going to be fun. I couldn't do the water planet and even the fog stuff was too much for me. I need to be able to SEE where I'm going. Way too scary, that sutff.
I gotta give that another try. I played it for a bit back when I had Game Pass, but it never really clicked for me
I really enjoyed that game, but I found the final iteration to be such a pain in the ass, that I eventually gave up and uninstalled it without finishing. Maybe I'll try it again eventually. Still well worth playing, regardless.
Yeah, it does get a bit annoying at the end, I agree, but still think the ending was worth it.
Hollow Knight, but I am taking a break since I just cannot seem to beat the Traitor Lord boss. Every boss before that I managed in a couple tries but this one really beats me. Even got the top nail upgrade now, still hard. I'll get him eventually...
I believe you have to have shadow dash to fight him. You can dash through every attack he does because he takes long enough between them.
Have tried it, just need to work on my rhythm, I think. Does take a long time like that.
This one is quite hard iirc, i too struggle with it for some times. Mantis and their erratic movement always catch me offguard. The same as Nosk.
I totally admit that I "cheesed" Nosk a bit. Probably already a strategy written down online somewhere but I managed to figure out myself that if you stand right next/under the platform he cannot hit you well with this bubble attack and often just walks over you without damaging you, which when you can easily hit him.
When he goes into the ceiling for his drop attack stay at the entrance door where he cannot hit you, dashing away as soon as he does his skreech before falling on you.
i keep getting SO CLOSE to beating hornet and she kicks my ass every time.
Is that before or after Traitor Lord? I already fought her like 3 times!
Before. If you fought her where she throws the spikeballs that's the last time
Ah yes, did that already. Phew!
Yeah, the Traitor boss is a bitch.
I'm struggling my way through Dark Souls right now, just got to Blighttown. Souls-like games weren't ever my jam previously but I just got into them recently after beating Mortal Shell 2 and figured I'd play my way through the Fromsoft catalogue in order.
I'm also playing Lies of P and that game is fantastic. Before that it was a lot of Hades and Pathogenic, which I still go back to for breaks from dieing in Dark Souls lol
Fuck Blighttown.
All my homies hate Blighttown
I made it through, only lost 10,000 souls lol
In blighttown, torches are where the ladder is.
Both are incredible games, with incredible DLC's. enjoy! (Also Blightown is not as bad as it's made out to be.)
We have a nice and cozy souls-like community, (and Matrix /discord channels) if you'd like to join and share about your playthroughs
![email protected], hope to see you there. :D
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I just finished GTA IV on the PS3. For a game that's satirical of America's love of guns and violence, it makes some very poignant statements of war and the bitterness one gets from having to live through it. I still have The Ballad of Gay Tony and Lost & Damned to play through so I'm looking forward to the themes the story has there.
Rimworld grabbed me by the balls and isn't letting me go. I asked for a 2 week vacation at work and spent pretty much the entire 2 weeks playing rimworld.
Committing war crimes in your off time?
Truely one of the few games you can put 2k hours into. I'm not nearly there yet but its one of those forever games.
I've picked up Nine Sols again. I like parry games and this is sort of like Hollow Knight meets Sekiro. I couldn't get into Hollow Knight but almost instantly got into Nine Sols, for whatever reason.
Also cute furry cyber ninjas.
I was the opposite. Loved Hollow Knight but couldn't get into Nine Sols. I tried for about 5 hours before deciding it wasn't for me.
Recently been getting into MIO, which has been great.
This one is on my radar. I loved Sekiro and I’m currently enjoying the crap out of Sifu
Oh, you just reminded me I have Sifu in my backlog! I'll get to it once I finish my current game, Withering rooms.
It’s so satisfying
I remember seeing Sifu a lot a while back. I should put that on my wishlist.
Sekiro was my first ever soulslike game, so I gave up halfway through. I should also go back and finish it now that I've got more experience.
Sifu has that parry gameplay. It feels great and looks badass.
Grim Dawn. A new DLC came out, which is pretty neat.
Deadlock has been incredible. I have been playing since day one of the closed beta. It completely got me off of Overwatch which had been a ten year long experience.
Fire Emboem Fortunes Weave has been quite fun. My first FE since the GBA games.
Star Wars Zero Company, ZCOM. Perfect SW XCOM skinned game.
Nightmare Creatures, it sucks 🤣🤣🤣
Currently I'm addicted to Dressmaker. It's chill, creative and without pressure that it's perfect to decompress and relax after work.
I am enjoying Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries. Ended up restarting the campaign when I went bankrupt in game. Turns out keeping 75% of all the mechs I salvaged was a poor choice. This time I've kept my mech inventory focused, and it is paying off.
I've picked up my original Skyrim save game from 2012. I still haven't beaten the game.
Currently obsessed with Blue Prince even after "completing" it as I'm trying to figure out some of the remaining unsolved mysteries. Could possibly be that everything is solved but I'm a believer there is still more to be found.
I have found myself incurably addicted to the surf mini game found within Counter Strike Source. It is a $10 game that is over 20 years old and I have over 600 hours in it already with still a lot to learn. The skill cap is crazy high and it takes so long to master it but when you start getting decent, it's so incredibly satisfying to hit a smooth run and beat your previous PB. You can even compete against other players in your country or globally to earn bragging rights for being one of the best!
Spongebob Battle for Bikini Bottom (the OG not the remaster)
Love just cruising through the game with speedrunning strategies and modding it.
Ace Combat 8. Although my computer requires that it be set to potato mode.
Freelancer. Old but always enjoyable.
Battletech. HBS put out an absolute banger.
I was down with the flu for a week, so I a) started Broken Sword...for REAL this time. b) charged up my 3DS for the first time in years and am just playing a lot of CrossworDS Plus or whatever.
Tonight I started Pokemon Heartgold, but I can't lie, didn't play them back in the day and don't understand the appeal. I'm going to try though.
I think probably the most novel thing gold/silver did back I the day was a real-time clock and day of the week tracker. This meant you had to log in at certain times to hunt certain pokemon, or attend certain events. This isn't as impressive today, but at the time was a whole new level of immersion fans had never seen before, in any handheld game really.
It was also incredible that they had the new jhoto region, but also the entire gen 1 kanto region (set a few years in the future). I remember that was just mind blowing that this was even possible.
But if you're not feeling it, don't force yourself through it. The Pokemon games aren't for everybody.
Yeah, I try one every few years because tastes change. I will say my time last night was a bit more engaging than in the past. So we'll see.
But... Why?
Well...
You suddenly want to play games for babies?
Maybe. The same way I'll sometimes read a YA book or watch a kids movie. Being aimed at children doesn't make something inherently bad or unenjoyable. What you enjoy and how you relate to a piece of media can be influenced by any number of things. What you're going through at work or in your personal life, what you've played recently, or watched or read. Maybe it won't ever click for me, but I don't mind taking an hour or two every few years to revisit something millions of people love to see if it will.
In the last couple of years, I've enjoyed the GBC Harry Potter games and Wendy Every Witch Way. If I just dismissed things as kid games, I wouldn't have touched those. And Wendy has actually become a really fun and calming one I go back to often.
So I guess maybe you do you and I'll do me and that's okay?
If you didn't play Pokemon as a kid, you shouldn't waste your time. They're games for babies. You're only going to like it as an adult if you've got nostalgia.
There are way better monster collecting/training games that aren't made for kids in kindergarten if that's what you're looking for. The Shin Megami Tensei series has some amazing monster design.
Pillars of Eternity with the new turn based combat! I've been waiting for it for a long time!
It has been two years since I did a perfection run on Stardew Valley so why not do it again - this time heavily modded with the most downloaded extended mod pack that I customized even further.
I've also tried to play Where Winds Meet but Stardew has my attention nine days out of ten.
I picked up Metaphor re: fantazio on the steam sale and it's been pretty fun so far. It's scratching that turn based Japanese itch.
American Truck Simulator with the new road car DLC is making me relive all those trailers of Need For Speed: The Run back in the day.
My buddy talked me into no mans sky and I gotta say, its really fun.
Its got bugs for sure, and some stuff that is irritating like having to hold E for every action or the stupid notification that happens every time you warp to a system or station that requires you to hold tab to skip but there are mods that help.
I love being able to build a ship and a base on different planets, own my own space fleet, destroy pirates, be a pirate, etc. Its far from perfect but I'm into it now. Its fun as hell.
Holding E is optional but heavily encouraged to be kept on. I only turned it off for bulk repetitive tasks, but realistically it protects you from screwing up and accidentally acting on something you didn't want to act on.
Theres only one setting I found and it only works for menu actions. Any where you have to hold E for harvesting plants, opening refiner menu, interacting with NPCs, its still there.
I'd rather make mistakes than be forced to wait every time I want to interact with something you know what I mean? Its just irritating. Thankfully I found a mod for that which makes the hold function almost instant for everything else.
It is really fun! Been playing it for years, and I come back to it regularly. They're still doing so many updates, big updates multiple times a year. Came back when Cosmos hit.
Oh, btw, if you find nice things (ships, multitools, whatever), you could share them at No Man's Sky Glyph Exchange. And yes, I guess I have been 'spamming' there (again) the past 2 weeks. :D
Dressmaker! I love making my mostly hideous dresses with one or two very lovely dresses thrown in! And it's nice you can undo cuts unlike irl where gg, wasted fabric. Love you magic game fabric!
I'll likely get some mods soon and just go wild adding a bunch of new fabrics!
Your like the third person here talking about that game. I'm gonna recommend it to my wife.
It's nice! I also like the story of the little town we're in. Making dresses for some absolutely Very Normal People.
I’m not and that makes me very sad. To much real life going on and I’m in desperate need of the escapism.
Been enjoying Going Medieval for single player, it's the perfect little castle builder fantasy, though building an actual castle takes a very long time when you're still learning the game. But! That incentivises starting out small, feels like you get to see actual historical development rather than just arriving at the big final castle.
Multiplayer it's Big Walk, what an absolute delight! Loving that the intro is so gentle, but there's clearly a lot of depth.
I'm playing Majora's Mask using 2 Ship 2 Harkinian. It's quite nice.
I played the VR games "I Expect You To Die" 1-3. They were the first VR games that actually hooked me and the intros are absolutely phenomenal. When I started with the first one and saw the intro I thought to myself that the intro went way too hard for a VR game. And the next two only went harder. The gameplay is very fun and engaging.
Then I played through Goodnight Universe in one evening. It was a beautiful experience. I even shed a few tears. Highly recommend.
Currently I am playing the Gothic Remake. It's not very beginner friendly and I'm not sure if I like it yet.
Gothic was stupid hard at the beginning, but holy fuck does it get good.
Original Metroid 2 on GB. It's short, but I'm having a lot of fun doing a few metroids each morning.
I played crow country and i loved it! Right now i dread to install more games because i had a lot of things to do.
playing fallout 4 again. i already loved it when it had came out, but it is honestly even better than i remember. too many people focus on what the game isn't and completely miss the masterpiece that it is
Well, I mean, let's be honest, the base game story sucks ass. I have played A LOT of hours with the Sim Settlements 2 mod, and Rise of the Commonwealth and a bunch of other mods. It completely changes the game and the SS2-quest is actually good.
Though I haven't tried it after they put out that patch, when the TV-series made it popular again. It ruined all my mods, and I haven't gone back to check if any of them are updated or even still compatible. Maybe it's time to get around to that.
i think the base game story kicks ass
Well, that means more good content for you. ;)
I'm mainly playing 3 games right now.
I'm slowly but surely making my way through Valheim 1.0 with a friend who's mostly only available during the weekends. Very fun, despite the two of us having very different gameplay styles. He enjoys looking up guides and cheesing things using tips from pros, while I like to figure out things naturally and will avoid cheese like I'm lactose intolerant. He's the builder this time around, so things have gone mostly his way. I'd probably have more fun alone, but I know damn well I could never sit down and finish a game as long and grindy as Valheim by myself.
I've also been playing a lot of Helldivers 2 with a group of friends. I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with this game. There's 5 of us now (which has been problematic in a 4-player game), and yet somehow NONE of us are ever together unless its something really tough like a flag raising objective. We just don't really have the team play part of the game down yet (despite having several hundred hours in it), which leads to us often getting a bit tilted in the moment.
Alone, I've really been enjoying Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter. The second chapter came out recently, so I finally pulled it out of my backlog to play. This is VERY different from my normal games (first ever JRPG, aside from the original Pokemon games), but I've been having a lot of fun with it. I really like running around and seeing all of the NPCs' own little personal stories evolving in between each quest. I'm playing on the hardest difficulty, and I'm pretty glad I am, because I'm hardly struggling outside of boss fights. Which is strange to me, because I tried the demo for this game when it first game out like a year or two ago on the same difficulty and remember finding it incredibly difficult.
Vampire Crawlers
American Truck Simulator!
It's exactly what it sounds like. You drive a truck. You make deliveries. Beautiful scenery, relaxing drives, plus some challenge when it comes time to back up to the loading dock. It's really chill and it's awesome.
(There's also Euro Truck Simulator 2 which is literally the exact same game but in Europe, if that's more your thing.)
-- Frost
You might like Spin Tires, Mud Runner and Snow Runner. Drive logging trucks through the wilderness and stuff.
I still enjoy snow runner. Wish I had a friend to play it with, the co-op play was really fun.
noita, beamng, binding of isaac are my regular rotation.
Stellaris and CS2
i've been playing Broken Age and I'm really enjoying it. just started the second act.
Also started ghostrunner 2 But that first boss is unforgiving.
I'm playing Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. I played through the first one and loved it, and I'm loving the second one. A lot of love got put into this and I love medieval history, and the game is long. And hard. But in the way you have to slowly hone your skills and really learn the mechanics. But I kind of enjoy how it's for a slower pace, and I'm really getting my money's worth with this series.
I just 100%ed vampire crawlers, and jumped over to cobalt core. Crawlers resonated more with me than the original survivors game, the mechanics are really neat and the game is not afraid to let your power levels grow beyond ridiculous levels.
Currently bouncing between Space Station 14 and Elite: Dangerous. SS14 when I'm feeling social, Elite when I need to just disappear into space in my very own ship where nobody can bother me
I've been playing X4: Foundations recently. I'm about 30 hours in and haven't progressed very far, but it seems pretty good :-) Also picked up Brazilian Drug Dealer 4, which is great fun!
I've been enjoying Wasteland 2 on my Xbox, and Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor on my phone.
Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave is my current game I'm spending the most time in. It's Fire Emblem but now has little dungeons! They don't add too much, honestly, but they break up the straight strategy combat with a simplified turn based RPG style. Something new, so that's fun. Looks great; plays great.
I do like the story of my character Leda so far. It's more "mature" than I expected as it often talks about murder and revenge. I'm eager to see what the other paths are like.
Silent Hill: Townfall is next. My friends and I always play a scary game together during the season, so this came out at a perfect time. About halfway through it, and I like it a lot!
Final Fantasy XIV: I mean, this is the goat. I'm always playing this. Eager to clear up any side activities before the new expansion in January.
Driving Rogue has been my goto this last two weeks. Just something I can sink like 20 minutes into for a full run.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3088700/Driving_Rogue/
Wardogs
looking forward to the ball x pit dlc soon
Playing a bunch of remastered Witcher 3
Dune: Awakening, doing singleplayer because I have nobody to play online servers eoth and enjoying it a lot
I played through BrokenLore: LOW recently. I thought it would be another one of those crappy horror games made in an hour, but this one was actually alright. I even went ahead and platinum'ed the achievements.
I've also enjoyed making chemicals in Alembic. Making a big canister of fluorine gas and dropping pure cesium into it is fun.
I also played through the demo of Misohagi Crossing recently. The dev is a Japanese person branching into the Western market, so I gave it a look.
I signed up for the Undershroom Playtest. I found the idea of being chased by those jaw figurines dentists have to be hilarious.
I've also dabbled in playing some AI games and H games recently. Most of the AI games are simply crap, though I did play a demo of one that showed promise.
XCOM 2
Finally getting around to playing Baldur's Gate… the original. I haven't played 3 yet, for some reason I decided I want to play the games in order lol
Transport Fever 3 just came out. I just sunk 12 hours and plan to sink even more. They perfected the tycoon genre.
Project zomboid
Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave. I am going really slowly and playing one chapter of each story at a time before switching to the next one. I like the map exploration aspect a lot.
I’m really enjoying the creativity of Sandustry, available in steam and GOG. Turning sand into gold and excavating with different tools has been fun.
Going through LocoMoto. A small Sweedish game. Came out in 2025, and thr studio was promptly closed.
Cute game. You, a legitimate anthropomorphised animal, drive a train around, kinda like Zelda Spirit Tracks. Do quests, cart people around in your train, solve mysteries... really chill music as well.
Megabonk. Always a good time and easy to pick up and put down.
real shame development fell off a cliff
I played ballxpit for a bit, I'm playing Deadly Days Roadtrip right now, it's a survivor with a backpack leveling mechanic
I am obsessed with Space Marine 2 and Street Fighter 6 right now. I'm still just getting into each of them, but they've been so much fun to pick up. Space Marine 2 just nails the power fantasy perfectly, it is way too hard to put that game down. Street Fighter 6 is the first SF I have picked up since 4 and it has just been a very solid fighting game.
OpenFront, QuakeWorld, Duke Nukem 3D, and Xonotic.
I’ve started my second playthrough of Pacific Drive after buying all of the DLC in the Steam sale.
It says a lot when I finish a game at all and it’s saying a hell of a lot that I’m hooked again on a second play through.
I started playing Ember Knights with some friends after seeing it on the Steam sale on a whim
It was a hit! I spent more time this weekend with this group of friends than I have in quite a while just running through the game.
At $7 and $14 with DLC that seems to double the content, it's very much worth it for a game that's basically couch coop "Hades at home".
It also supports Remote Play Together fwiw, but we've had mediocre luck using it
Hide and seek, and Peek a Boo!
I'm always playing at least one game. On days where I work and I don't have as much time as I'd like (I work very little anyway so I still have plenty) I'm playing GTA V Enhanced and Link's Awakening DX HD. On days I'm off I'm playing GTA V Enhanced and No Man's Sky. I love all of these games dearly. I unintentionally am playing 3 of my favourite games of all time rn lol.
Fallout Tactics.
I love that game. I'm playing through it again so I can play through it and do a proper Iron Man run.
Lately I've been playing Dicevaders. It's a pretty unique spin on Balatro, essentially. The best one I've seen.
Oh! I want to try. Loved balatro.
Ballest. It's track mania but with a marble. Time trial courses. Small-ish community so world records are kinda possible to achieve. And it's like 3 bucks or something and being updated.
Wow void war looks sick.
I've dumped a lot of time into Space Haven, Zomboid is in there and I've been playing sovereign tower too. Recently just finished baldurs gate too
I'm currently quiet busy with other stuff and don't play too much. I mostly play older games, a few years old or even retro. Recently played Civilization 4, because that's one of the favorites in the series, so I wanted to see how it compares to the other games in series. I also started playing racing simulation on PC. Automobilista 2 is probably the best game for single players, as I'm not interested in playing online (yet). The twist for myself is, that I started playing with gyro controls, which gives it a whole new life to racing games. Maybe I buy a wheel soon! This sales event in Steam made my Pile of Shame even bigger; it's out of control.
And then there are the emulated retro games I'm going back to and try Mods and Romhacks out in RetroArch for various systems. Currently doing patches for 16 bit 90's console games such as Super Nintendo and Mega Drive / Genesis. Edit: Ah I forgot. A few days ago installed Quiver Launcher, that handles downloads and install of decompiled or recompiled games for PC. Playing F-Zero native on PC is something else.
Did something went wrong here or is this intentional? I find it hilarious to link the last letter only. :D No need to change, just asking, it's quiet funny. BTW Spawnwave is my favorite Gaming related news channel for many years now. :-) (Besides Mr. Sujano for Retro news.)
I totally put this up last night thought I would get 10 people commenting. Yeah so far 10x that. Crazy.
It was an oops haha. Fixed.
Another spanwave enjoy-er, nice. I would be cool if he knew about the fediverse.
Ohh another person to follow, thanks!
Only have time for social gaming so friendslop like stonewards, but been enjoying myself more and it reminds me of how games should be like when I was a kid. Also threw the older gaming rig with a gpu up as a server so I am limited to games that work on integrated graphics which work fine.
Haven't even made good use of the servers GPU yet, had grand visions of buying poe cams but I think that's a while out.
Ace Combat 8 and Mortal Shell 2
Mortal Shell 2 was a surprise hit for me. I couldn't put it down and wanted more after I beat it so now I'm on a souls game binge haha.
I'm planning to play more FromSoft games. Only one that got me into it was Elden Ring.
I bought Monster Hunter Rise as it's currently 90% off on Steam, really enjoying my time with it so far.
I've recently returned to Genshin Impact. My kids played it for years before I decided to give it a chance, because c'mon, Chinese anime gacha game, what could possibly be there for me. Turns out, it has an excellent (and, to my limited knowledge, quite unique) combat system with elemental reactions and diverse enemies to whom you need to adjust your team. It's fully possible to play for free and you can get a big boost for 10€ per month, so not exactly bank breaking. The only real downsides to the game are the long dialogues in the story quests, which keep getting even longer as the story progresses; and at times questionable quality of the writing.
Honkai Star Rail has taken over my life, so I get where you're coming from.
What makes it so addictive for me was stumbling upon the fact that under the surface layer of the game/plot Hoyo is making very deep meta commentary about philosophical stances. And I'm not talking about those kinds of cheap plot enhancing surface concepts that games like to toss in to make it seem deep. I mean that the entire thing is built around the exploration of these concepts. It's philosophical inquiry first, game second. It's a ludicrous attempt that shouldn't make any money at all, but the bulk of what they are saying is hidden and the flashy game stuff is promoted so it works.
Because it's couched in allegory and the playerbase is like 15, nobody believes me, lol. But there are videos from a guy who's obviously a phd in philosophy who breaks down each chapter and explains it.
Thankfully I am too much of a miser to be a gambling addict.
I return to it like every 6 months just to follow the story, but it gets really repetitive after I finish the story and quit playing it soon after.
Nivalis Nights... the visuals and storytelling + tycoon combination is really cool.
I've heard the performance is dog shit though. Have they patched it?
Yeah, Devs have been pushing updates almost daily. I'm addicted to the game now :D
I was reminded that I have a copy of Control (2019) that I hadn't touched, so a couple of weeks ago I started playing it. I was really enjoying it for a few hours, but it started to feel a bit repetitive and I haven't been able to get back to it for a few days.
It starts slow but gets more fun as you get more abilities. By the time you get them all and you feel like a god, flying around the room, and using telekinesis to throw debris at enemies, it gets pretty fun. The setting is great too imo
final fantasy 1 and dog witch
Right now I'm constantly switching between:
Starsand Island - game like animal crossing
No Man's Sky - everyone knows it I assume
Sephyria - really great roguelite with bunnies
Void War is an awesome game, been loving the quick iterative update cycle. New ship dropped in the beta branch today, I know what I'm doing after work!
Been playing some Rimworld recently, since Vanilla Expanded-Gravship Weapons dropped.
I have a game of EU4 running, Savoy just became Italy, and I think I'm on track to form the Roman Empire sooner than later.
Oh! Thanks!!
Control Resonant is absule cinema
Factorio, Tyr, No Man's Sky
Depending on mood: Hunt Showdown, Outlast Trials
Res Evil: Requiem - Rare for me to enjoy a AAA title, esp in the year its released (i usually get them years later at deep discount) but this has all the best elements of the franchise with a formula that feels so damn effortlessly good to play. I dont feel cheated at 70 bucks, and thats saying something in 2026
I'm playing the Witcher 3 for the remaster, and getting mollywopped over and over on Death March. I'm also watching my girlfriend become a gamer playing Skyrim.
My wife has over 1200+ hours in skyrim. Your girlfriend is going to enjoy I think haha. GL!
Yeah, she's a level 40 mage who just killed Miraak.
nethack, one of the OG roguelikes. it even got a 5.0.0 update recently and it's as fun as ever!
SurfsUp.
Pretty fucking good tbh
I just picked up RetroSpace yesterday. It's basically System Shock and Bioshock mashed together. Wake up aboard a generation ship as a janitor, try and figure out what happened. Along the way, you purchase genetic mutations. Die and you're remade with defects, like uncontrollable cursing. Very fun so far with a good sense of humor.
I also let my friends talk me into playing FFXIV, and just finished up the Ultima fight. This is the first MMO I've dedicated major time to since Guild Wars.
We Love Katamari. It is smooove on PC.
I put-off picking up and playing Fields of Mistria, and I'm sorry I did. I've invested a lot of time in it recently and I love it. I recently picked up and started playing News Tower, and it's been pretty addictive, too (sorry Fields!)
When I'm away from my PC, the last month it's been the original Octopath Traveler on my Switch 2 (but I can't justify full-price for the Sw2 upgrade.)
Been all over the place in regards to what I play these days. Solo it's mostly stuff in the backlog like Code Vein 2 and heavily modded fallout 4 and Skyrim (I just can't escape those two) With friends it's what we feel like on that day. At the moment it's monster hunter Rise and wilds, armored core 6 with a seamless coop mod and deadlock. Other than that we are playing magic the gathering commander either online via tabletop simulator or in person. The new foundations precons are a to of fun even for more experienced players to just have a bit of banter and a chill evening ^^.
L4d2 again. New mod, 16 players, 20x more special spawns, infinite ammo, expert level. Not hard, but very fun.
Don't starve is really fun
Blasphemous 2. I'm into metroidvanias in general and I love the aesthetic. I'm stuck on one of the bosses though so I put it down for a couple weeks and need to go back and finish.
I recently got the itch to play Europa Universalis IV again (version 1.30.6 because I don't own the later expansions), so I'm on my second try to build the glorious Dutch trading empire.
Have you played EU V yet? It's been a few months since I've picked it up, but I was hooked for a little while.
They somehow made the game simultaneously more complicated and more accessible. Also more fun imo.
I was also enjoying Victoria 3 quite a bit. I have to be in the right mood though, and just haven't been feeling Paradox Grand Strategy games recently.
No, I've got a lot of games on my backlog, so I wasn't really planning on playing IV either, but then it just happened :P
Also, I guess it's a good idea to wait for them to be a few expansions deep, so the game is more finished.
I just started Mortal Shell II. Earlier in the year I quite enjoyed Slay the Spire 2. (I've also played Ravenswatch and Shape of Dreams. But those aren't big name games or even ones released this year; they just happened to be what I played with my friend to socialize.)
But very recently I've heard really good things about Control: Resonant.
End of Abyss. It's a nice blend of metroidvania with some souls-like elements. Also playing Control Resonant. I wasn't big on it at first, but it's certainly grown on me.
Just recently finished Big Hops.
Its a really good 3D platformer that gives slight Mario Odyssey vibes in terms of big open world areas to explore. A lot od good movement mechanics and feels fresh from start to finish.
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Forza Horizon 6 and Fallout 4 VR heavily modded of course.
Forza I disable all the assists and get sweaty. Fallout 4 VR eventually got enough 6 DoF mods to almost hit parity with Skyrim VR modded so I'm finally giving it a go along with community story expansions and all the other shit you'd want. It's a weak game in the series but still fun to bumble around.
I just finished some old quality streamer bait slop with Water Park Simulator because I wanted to turn my brain off for awhile. It's good for that, pretty stupid game besides. It's hilarious how you can build huge water slides by the end of the game but pool depth never gets deeper so NPC just smash into the bottom of the pools.
Oh and I play Heros of Might and Magic Olden Era plus Emberward TDS on and off when updates come out.
That's it for now.
Might be late to the game, but Xenonaughts 1 and 2
Longing for some nostalgia and social outlet (work from home so rarely leave the house most days), I jumped back into WoW last October.
Found a great guild and have been enjoying Mythic dungeons and raiding on retail. I have a feeling Forever might steal me though once that fully launches.
Wurm online, trackmania, and a silly Indy game ai learns to drive where you train a feed forward neutral network to drive a race track.
After sitting in my library for years, I finally booted up Timberborn and now I'm hooked. Something about hydro engineering and logistics just tickles my brain. I just wish there was some sort of campaign mode to give me purpose once my coming can survive harsh droughts and badtides
For me there is quite a lot I am enjoying.
Star Wars Galactic Racer is the new hotness, fantastic pod racer follow up. And really enjoyed what they did with the story mode(rogue lite inspired), my current main criticism is how little colour options you have for shade.
Started Witcher 3 recently but I am not enjoying the combat so far, it feels exceptionally terrible. So may end up dropping it if I can't click with it.
Now the longer term games:
Still enjoying Forza Horizon 6, but 500 hours in and I am rocking through the motions and just keeping up with the play lists. Looking forward to seeing what the expansions are going to be now.
The Finals has been an incredible amount of fun, have been mostly playing their "rush" inspired game mode this season, 8v8 with loads of destruction and chaos. Ticks a whole bunch of tick boxes for me to keep me interesting and having fun.
Sim Racing is also a big part of my game time as well, mostly split between Le Mans Ultimate and Assetto Corsa. Throw in some others as well for good measure(wreckfest, PMR, AC Rally, etc) in-between league races.
Guild wars 2 sucked me back a couple of weeks or have it been months now maybe. Oh well.
Then I play some dicevaders. Never was much into balatro but this is so much fun. All the colors and sounds... Pure dopamine.
Been liking Carimara Beneath the Forlorn Limbs, Creature Kitchen, Eclipsium, and Northern Journey! Odd ones for sure but they are neat, short experiences.
Farfield reminds me of the good old ogame / galaxy game times.
I've been playing the shit out of Assetto Corsa Competizione for a sim racing league I'm in. Weekly races, streamed and commentated. Good stewarding, good people. It's a blast! I end up staying up til like 1am on race nights because everyone hops in a party to watch the replays and talk about incidents, passes, etc.
I’m trying to finish Valheim V1.0 solo, normal mode. I’m almost done with the easy biomes. Just need to do the hardest thing in the game which is to find Yagluth.
I’m enjoying the little things they added here and there. Still wish there were categories in the crafting stations, not just the hammer tool.
Looking forward to the new biome. Not looking forward to mistlands or ashlands… (difficult)
Rebel Galaxy Outlaw (i have my gripes with it), Farcry 6, Kerbal SP
Not Hearts of Iron 4
EDIT: Age of History 3
Hopped on How to Fish with a few friends for about an hour or so, then played quite a bit more on my own afterwards. Just finished getting every fish and thinking about trying for the last two achievements I have to unlock: beat the game in under an hour and kill the final boss with your bare hands. The speed running one doesn't seem too bad with a little creativity, but I have doubts I'll be able to do the final one on my own or at least without toning the difficulty down.
Besides that, I've been playing a bit of Final Fantasy Tactics' remake on steam though that's been on a little bit of a hiatus.
Lastly I'm prepping for an archipelago randomizer soon. Haven't decided what I'll play yet, but it'll probably include Cave Story, Tunic, and Dredge.
What the Golf has been making me laugh a lot.
Just started Morrowind first time. I browsed the mod section in GOG and saw that there is Tamriel Rebuilt and OpenMW available as one click mods. Then I saw that I own Morrowind (Prime deal) even though the GOG store says I don’t own it. I downloaded all 3 (plus Tamriel HD textures) and just clicked Tamriel Rebuilt play button and the modded version works well. Also you can change the small fonts bigger in the Tamriel Rebuilt settings (openmw launcher). Modding has never been easier.
Surprised I havent seen more Valheim on here given the recent 1.0 release! Brutal survival in a viking purgatory, great base building and strong progression. Playing with friends is a must though.
Control: Resonant is also something I'm really enjoying, definitely a bigger game than the first one and some incredible visuals, combat is very fun too.
AT THIS MOMENT
My games on the go at the moment are Baldur's Gate 3, Kingdom Hearts 2 and Nier Replicant.
Good set!
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Game Dev Tycoon, Football Tactics.
Been playing the hell out of Hogwarts Legacy. WAY better then I ever imagined it would be and I’m not even a Harry Potter fan. In fact, I never saw a single movie.
Super fun, but ethically you should pirate this one.
Why?
Rowling went crazy
Ah okay, I never cared what the political talk is, as long as it does not affect the media I'm watching (or playing). She didn't even work on the game Hogwarts Legacy, and the game is not even about Harry Potter himself.
She still gets money for it. And then uses that money to fund anti-trans TERF stuff. Depending on your ideals there may be some cognitive dissonance there is all.
Assuming you are right, she is not the only one who gets money. The developers were a full team creating the game, the publisher is not her. You can ignore the entire world and focus only on her, or you are fair and focus on everyone involved.
I encourage you to read the Wikipedia article I linked. She is highly politically active and was a pivotal influence on directly harming trans rights. She is also highly litigative and will sue anybody that is against her.
Here's one quote from the article:
She also doesn't believe asexual people exist, she believes that women are defined by their biological birth sex, she backed legislation to make it more difficult to change genders, she deliberately misgenders people, and she created her own sexual assault crisis shelter specifically to exclude trans women from it.
I think it was particularly interesting that the actors for Ron, Hermione, and Harry, all opposed Rowling's opinions.
Supporting the brand is supporting her, full stop. Supporting her is supporting anti-trans politics. You can choose to ignore that, that's entirely up to you; but it is a choice nonetheless.
Part of the problem.
The people here don’t care about meaningful and nuanced thought. If you don’t bandwagon with the hive, they’ll rip you to shreds.
Seems to be everywhere now, unfortunately. But lemmy is particularly bad, you're right.
Got it free on PSN.
And PSN gives JKR a royalty... Still, hard to pirate on
PShardware you don't really own.So…. I didn’t pay for it. And I own my PS5. And frankly, I don’t really care that royalties are made. It’s a good game and the developers deserve their cut.
I had Hogwarts Legacy on my radar for a long time, but didn't want play it until I watched the films. So one day I sat down and watched all 10 main films (I think its 10 parts, right?) and they are way more amazing that I thought to be! To a degree that I am a little bit small fan of Harry Potter now. :-) Great films I highly recommend watching it, it was a mistake not watching the films back then.
As for the game, I then purchased it and tried out. It's a nice game and I need to go back to it. Stopped playing because I had so much to play and put it back for a while (then forgot about it).
I already knew how it ends. But…
I sincerely hope that one day, you come to terms withwhatever it was that made you this way, because it has to suck to want to be an asshole.
Haha that's funny, you're putting money and cultural clout in the pockets of a fascist nutcase but apparently I'm "an asshole" for spoiling your blood libel simulator
Yeah. You’re an asshole for injecting your own personal opinions into what others should and shouldn’t do with their spare time to the point that you’re aggressively trying to ruin it for them. Frankly.. It’s a bit pathetic.
There’s a word for people like this. And you know what it is.
Quit being a hypocrite, and the asshole tag will magically vanish! Best of luck to ya on your journey to shed that entitlement and learn to do better.
And just for you, I’m going to put in an extra hour of playing this…. “blood libel simulator”. ROFL.