Slowly going through Stray and Disco Elysium. I have like 30 minutes a week to spend on gaming 😥

I’m currently building a massive irrigation system in Timberborn and also running through BOTW again before unwrapping TOTK.

I’m pleased that there’s not so much TOTK stuff floating about here as there was on the other place, I want to go in as innocent as a newborn lamb.

Right now I have Final Fantasy XIV running in the background, I’m waiting for some ore to respawn at roughly 10:42 our time. Gathering’s a nice laid back experience.

After I’m done with this I’m probably gonna boot up Story Of Seasons: Pioneers Of Olive Town and do some gathering in that too. :)

I’ve just picked up Unrailed! And am very much enjoying manically herding my 6 and 4 year old to build train track, under the stern conduction of my wife.

I’ve also really enjoyed playing Rotwood (the combat demo/test) and am very excited for when that becomes co-op multiplayer in the full release.

Aoe4. New patch dropped last week for new season. Gonna learn different civs.

Dwarf Fortress! Tried and failed to get into it many times before the Steam release, and now completely hooked.

Destiny 2 as a F2P user has been surprisingly fun. Yeah, there are paywalls, but there’s at-least 60-80 hours that you can play for free with how well the game is designed. Great group PvP and PvE challenges, public group PvE challenges, and over-all gorgeous modeling. Plus the combat mechanics aren’t insanely hard to learn, but they can still provide a great challenge. I had my doubts because I’ve heard it was a microtransaction nightmare, but turns out it’s not a pay-to-play scheme like Genshin. I might even buy the expansions and unlock the rest of the game.

I always come back to two games. Divinity: Original Sin 2 and Minecraft. But I really miss Minecraft from the alpha and beta days when it was simple. D:OS2 is possibly the best story driven, turn based RGP I’ve ever played - any recs for something similar? Over winter I tried to get into Hogwarts Legacy but I couldn’t find the motivation to progress despite growing up with and loving HP. On mobile I play Sky: Children of the Light pretty much daily and have done for almost 3 years now. Looking forward to PC release for that which was announced not long ago.

I finally started playing Elden ring, I tried the souls games before and couldn’t get into them but decided to give it a try. It’s certainly challenging but I’m trying to stay calm and realise dying is part of the game and not get frustrated. I think it’ll take me quite a while to figure out all the various systems.

Got back into Grim Dawn in a big way recently. Diablo IV was released at the right time for ARPG fans, but I just can’t deal with all of the extra garbage that you get with Blizz games nowadays.

BattleBit has become my current obsession. Feels just like playing Battlefield 3 back in the day once you get past the Roblox-esque graphics. Honestly when I’m not playing it I’m thinking about playing it.

I’m mostly switching between the System Shock Remake (one of my Kickstarters finally coming through…) and Aliens: Dark Descent – which is far better than I was expecting. The only real sticking points so far is the squad acting as ‘one’ (it’s a pro and a con), and the sheer RNG of alien movements – hit the RNG just right and you’ll go from a Hunt event, straight into a difficulty increase, straight into a Boss encounter…!

Don’t get as much time as I would like (who does?) But mostly Dwarf Fortress having finished a portal play through.

I’m looking at Deep Rock Galactic to play with my boys as I’ve got them to promise we will only play together! We all played Valorant for a bit but they can put about 10 times the hours in that I can so they outstripped me long ago!

The thing about getting into game dev as a hobby is that basically now you have no time to actually play other games! 😭

When I do get time, Deep Rock Galactic is a fave for those days when you just want to shoot something in the face but you don’t want to do it surrounded by aggressively sexist 12 year old boys. A new season just dropped this week, which makes it sound like a typical money-hungry microtransactional mess but I swear it’s not like that at all, the devs are great people and everyone should give this one a go. ROCK AND STONE!

More chill days I like to investigate the unending backlog of cozy indie games from Epic (never touched them until I got a Steam Deck but it’s been great for those). Or revisit Mini Metro which on the surface is a simple af puzzle game but it’s surprisingly immersive and deep.

Of course it’s Steam Next Fest atm, I’ve only tried a couple of demos so far (Station to Station and Laysara: Summit Kingdom) but was thoroughly underwhelmed by both of them. On the other hand my husband tried the demo of Memori and got super into it, he says anyone who liked Celeste should give it a try.

Also last mention goes to Outer Wilds, I’m not “playing” it as such because it’s pretty one-and-done, but it’s impossible not to recommend it whenever even a slightly appropriate opportunity allows. One of the most amazingly crafted and emotionally impactful games I’ve played in my 30-odd years of gaming and if you’ve never tried it, please just trust me and go in blind it is so worth it.

Finally started Red Dead 2 best animal petting simulator I’ve played I petted a bun so hard it’s fur came off with my hand