Games

EU5 has been my sole game for over a month now. It needs some work, and I don't love paradox, and I think think the game is too much of a cookie-clicker reskin... but it's scratching that grand strategy itch.

I've also been on turtle-wow (private vanilla+) which has really been recapturing the spirit of 2004-08 wow for 7(?) years now.

I have been spending a bit of time enjoying the Nords in Race Room Racing Experience, the game is a lot of fun and really enjoying their new ranked races.

I have also spent some time in Le Mans Ultimate, but have had a bad time since the last update, which had been turning me off it. Turns out the update broke something so it no longer matched the driver for wheel rotation, and manually setting the has fixed everything. Bring on the 6hrs of Monza this weekend.

The Finals has been my go to multiplayer game and is amazing fun. Love the 3v3v3v3 capture and hold with all the destruction.

I also picked up Escape from Duckov in the sale, that has been a lot of fun and has been very satisfying to chill out with after racing or a few rounds of the finals.

Megabonk.

Intravenous 1.

No third game. (This could be the name of a game, but sadly I'm referring to the fact that I only played those first two games during the holidays)

I’ve been hung up on Unnamed Space Idle for a while, an incremental game that involves moving your little ship forwards through little sectors watching it blast infinite enemy ships while numbers go up. It’s insidious how it layers system after system for making those numbers go up to make the whole process interesting. At first you just slot stuff in as it unlocks because there’s space, but then there’s more to equip than you have slots for and you have to start focusing one or two things at a time. There have been days where I have just sat watching and every few minutes clicking something to shave just a few minutes off a major upgrade.

The only game I have been playing is The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth on my 3DS.

In order of most played recently to least played recently:

GTAV

Dark Souls Remastered

WWE 2k25

Ultimate chicken horse with the GF BF6/HD2 with the boys Slay the Spire when I have nothing I wanna do

Bitcraft Online, Outer Worlds 2 and Palia. im in my cosy crafty era lol

Shooting shapes in Sektori, a stunningly good arcade twin-stick, bashing dragon toes and playing bells in Guild Wars 2, a fun ARPG-MMO where we recently added a few more dress-up dolls to our roster just because we play a lot and like a few more ways to play, and third, mowing down hallways full of bugs in Combat Complex, a top-down shooter ARPG that's weak on the ARPG aspects but the shooter side manages to feel like a great arcade twin-stick, plus some neat enemy-enemy friendly-fire mechanics.

Much more the first two than the third, as CC is good but it's in early access and they recently changed and botched the progression, so playing right now at my level/floor is basically worthless, and I just have to hope they eventually do something to fix it.

Sektori, though, is seriously good.

Hades (finally got out after 22 runs), Silent Hill 2 Remake (I didn't remember there was a boss literally shaped like child rape), and some Expedition 33 (love it, but it's a JRPG to a fault, including cursed platforming sections).

Alan Wake Remastered, Alan Wake 2, and Like a Dragon: The Man Who Erased His Name.

I completed Anomaly in Rimworld. My opinion is that it was awesome. I'm playing at the 3rd easiest setting, so it didn't sting too much.

No break for me but I've been doing "old dog, new tricks" by picking up some SMW Kaizo. I'm four exits out of seven in Shell's Retriever so far. I think I'm doing fair for only being a couple weeks into playing romhacks and for last playing SMW in the 90s. I don't think I'll ever get around to "Baron of Shell" or any other crazy hard hacks but it has been fun working on a few of the "easy" ones.

I'll probably get back to Factorio after I finish Retriever. Possibly not until after the sequel, Shell's Redeemer, but I've previewed it and it looks substantially tougher.

As much as I absolutely hate the game, the open beta of Oaken Tower has been a game I find myself coming back to. It doesn't make me nearly as angry as when I first started playing the beta demo thing, but it's still enough to make me hate it just enough I keep coming back.

Completely different story for the KilaFlow demo, which has been real fun running and platforming at high speed, avoiding the viruses when possible. Great for not making me want to reach into the screen and strangle the game to death, all metaphorically. Too bad my desktop cannot run the demo all too well and I need my deck to do play it.

Luanti, voxelibre

Cs2

Motortown

Such fun!