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 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’m currently enjoying the evil within. Nice survival horror, plays almost like resident evil 4/5 but more slightly creepy and more dreamlike in its design.

Factorio. If you enjoy problem solving or simulation or management in your games. Factorio will scratch that itch endlessly. And then when you complete it, the mods will make you want to start over again!

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’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.

Minecraft Story Mode

It’s school summer holiday here so something to play whiles kids are around. I’ve played a few episodes in the past but never finished it and so far we are all enjoying it.

Caesar III with Augustus mod.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 am very excited about my upcoming holiday. I will finalmy be able to play Metroid Dread in peace. Ever since I played Hollow Knight I’ve been dying to get into a similar game.