I’ve gone back to playing Ghost of Tsushima, for the first time, a bunch recently. Took a long break from it after Act I, but just because I didn’t want to marathon it all at once. It’s probably my favorite melee combat game that isn’t a full-fledged RPG, and the story is fantastic. I’m really glad that it’s more grounded in realism, for the most part, rather than relying on fantasy gimmicks and magic. Plus playing it with Japanese audio is an absolute treat.

Still on the Slay the Spire-train. A downright excellent game.

Also playing some Hades 2

I played Clue for the first time yesterday! Super fun.

I’m a sucker for nostalgia and a believer of game preservation, and I managed to figure out, with some guides, how to setup my own private World of Warcraft server using AzerothCore. It only goes up to Wotlk but IMO, that’s the best expansion anyway.

I’ve been using it currently to solo play the game with bots. Funny enough, the bots actually dodge fire! Lol. But since it has bots that means I can still do dungeon and raid content! And I don’t have to deal with the stress of juggling a raid schedule. I can just play whenever I want, however long I want.

It does also have the option to be port forwarded to allow friends to join. But I don’t have any good friends interested in that. And I don’t want to make the server fully public for reasons.

Unfortunately, its very complicated to setup. So I highly recommend finding a guide before trying to install it. It does require setting up a virtual machine and running a bunch of scripts. So it can be a bit complicated for anyone who isn’t tech savvy.

I’m trying to play different genres to see what’s out there, and have found some neat little games in the sale steam just had.

Nocturnals - This one was great. The game is obviously made by people who don’t have a team of a hundred artists under them, but they did a really good job crafting the story. It’s short, but has multiple endings, and I haven’t found all of them yet.

Digging a Hole - This one made me chuckle. It’s motherload from the miniclip era of website gaming, but in 3D. Wouldn’t spend a ton on it, but if it goes on sale it will be amusing for you. Still haven’t completed the speedrun challenge for it. First time took me about 12 hours, while the challenge is 30 minutes.

Roguebook - in the same ‘universe’ as faeria, which I enjoyed. It’s basically slay the spire with different themes and a more punishing/variable path to the boss.

and, finally my favorite right now: Young Souls - it just has a really fun visual appearance and gameplay. I’ve been surprised by how much I struggled with some of the fights. I haven’t beaten it yet, but the story has some of the classic elements, but the writers put some thought into their tropes and made the characters more than just shallow pictures playing a part.

I’m playing frostpunk again. Trying to win on ultra hard. But I recommend everyone on Lemmy play citizen sleeper. Best story I’ve ever played.

After 6 years, Sekiro finally clicked with me and I got all 4 endings for it within few weeks.

The Invicible and Outer Wilds, eat some edibles or/and shrooms with these games and you’ll be so hella immersed. Absolutely great sci-fi/space exploration games

I recently sat down with Baroque, the cult classic dungeon crawler for the Sega Saturn. Very good, top 20 games for me now!

First off, play the Saturn version. You can liberally rebind the controls in an emulator to make them feel a lot more like a modern FPS (d-pad up & down to left analog up/down for forward and backward movement with L & R to left analog left/right for strafing while putting d-pad left & right on right analog left/right for turning. Also rebind attack to R1 or R2 and map to whichever you didn’t bind attack to). Use scanline shaders, something like crt-royale or just hyllian-fast. Under the hood this game is a fairly standard mystery dungeon style roguelike but it’s ALL about the vibes.

The story is opaque but advances simply by doing runs through the dungeon. Make sure to talk to all the NPCs and do what they tell you to/fulfill their requests and you’ll figure it out. The gameplay is simple but the player movement is fast and smooth enough as well as hits having decent enough feedback when connecting with an enemy that it avoids feeling too much like a clunky old game. The weird monsters, gnawing on bones, and using torture devices really sell the atmosphere. A+ soundtrack, IMHO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRXUEH0ijdk&list=PLfhw8A1mg64H1MVWcSPocp6qaaQoiOAJo

TIP: Throw stuff at stuff. Experiment by throwing all the things at all the things. Throwing is a big mechanic in this game, don’t sleep on it. Throw things at sense spheres to teleport them out of the dungeon so you can guarantee them for your next run. Here’s an adorable Neocities fanpage for if you really get stuck, https://nervetower.neocities.org/guide

I’d skip the PS2/Remake, the vibes are all wrong and again, this is just a good game to spend some time with and soak in the bleak world they created. The PS1 version is pretty similar to Saturn but I think honestly the Saturn just nails the atmosphere a bit better.

Tabletop ?

Alice is missing is a must play if you’re into Narrative RPG, but currently playing a Coriolis campaign, the popular space RPG by free league

I’ve been playing a lot of Mechwarrior Online and Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries recently, but Singleplayer Tarkov just released their 4.0 update/overhaul so I’m starting that as well.

Finally got around to playing Devotion by Red Candle Games. It’s a super good horror game, but without getting into spoilers, I absolutely would NOT recommend this to parents, holy shit. Shame that the CCP bombed this game into obscurity, the devs did not deserve this.

just picked up fallout 4 goty

works beautifully (for me, ~40 fps) with ultra settings @1440p on my thinkpad with igpu :)

I think I’m about halfway through Stray and love every minute.

I’ve also been playing Pokemon Emerald: Seaglass as a really gorgeous re-imagining of Emerald.

100%'d Silksong, my game of the decade so far.