Started playing Runescape: Dragonwilds with a couple friends and it’s such a nice game. It’s really pretty, has a great soundtrack, and game feels like a blend of Vahiem and Enshrouded, but based in the Runescape world.
My favorite part of the game is that you learn spells that help you do everything from mining ores and chopping trees, to repairing all your equipment and armor. It’s the first survival game I’ve played that really integrates magic into all aspects of the survival mechanics, which completely eliminates that grindy feel a lot of survival games have.
The build system is one of the best I’ve seen, with large, medium (half size), and small (quarter size) pieces, full clipping, vertical shifting, and an advanced snapping system that feels a lot like Valhiem, but even better.
My only negative comment about the game is it’s very much a beta that still needs some optimization.
There is no escape from Spelunky.
I can’t stop playing Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead.
It’s such a nice game for roguelike enjoyer. If you like gathering, crafting, surviving sandbox games, give it a try, it’s free and open-source.
Devil May Cry 3.
Yeah, I still don’t like this game. It’s more fun than its predecessors mainly because you can launch and air juggle enemies or do more cool shit like skateboarding or Crazy Dance, but there’s too many humanoid enemies you can’t launch and the absence of an on-the-fly style switcher is very restrictive.
My aim was to judge it for what it is, so I won’t mod the style switcher in this time. I do think they should release the Switch version on PC though.
I will give it this: when you can combo, you can pull off pretty cool shit, but I want a fun action game, not a combo simulator.
I won’t say it’s overrated, but I will say I’d rather play 4 or 5 because I find them more fun.
Distant Worlds 3 has just started in Elite Dangerous so I think I’ll be playing that for some time.
DW3 will take a large group of dedicated explorers across the galaxy which should be a memorable experience for everyone involved.
Devil May Cry 5.
I tried to start it a year ago, but decided to play the rest of the series first. Combined with Silksong being released, I have just managed to start playing DMC5 again.
still ff12 but im kinda been getting an ich to put baldurs gate back on.
Kenshi. Lots of Kenshi.
I got Magicka working yay
Animal Crossing New Leaf
I uncovered the 2DS’s while tidying up last week and thought I’d play a couple games. It’s been relaxing just playing for 20 minutes a day getting the fossils, bells/gem and a little chatting and fishing.
Halo CE
Still making my way through the campaign but I’ve slowed right down now after finished Reach a couple weeks ago. The game is fine but I’m not really enjoying the Series S at the moment for some reason.
Death Stranding 2
Really enjoying it still. I just get lost in walking everywhere so progress is slow but that’s how I like to do it :) I think I’m at the 2nd boss fight so putting it off a while longer as I explore more of the land.
Serious Sam: The First Encounter
I once again spent most of the week jumping between games with no specific plan in mind. My main idea was to play Serious Sam: The First Encounter but this, after a long and complicated process, ended up in complete failure.
I actually tried to play three different versions of the game: classic, HD and through Serious Sam Fusion. Each of them came with their own problems which made them unplayable, specifically:
- Serious Sam: The First Encounter (classic) - camera would point straight up randomly, regardless of mouse movement. Also a lot of rendering issues.
- Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter - same camera issue as above.
- Serious Sam Fusion - game won’t even load levels properly and loads to a black screen instead (no crashing or freezing).
I tried various in-game settings, WINE versions and their parameters - nothing helped. After a few hours without a success I decided to give up and keep looking instead.
Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery
After all of the mess described above I finally landed on Reverse Collapse. I actually played it on launch, back in 2024, but my brain was in no shape for this amount of thinking so I set it aside “for a bit”. I’m glad to finally be back.
RC is a 2D XCOM-like tactical RPG, with less focus on randomisation (different approach to hit chance, hand made maps), varied (often tricky) missions and lots of gadgets to help you survive each encounter. It’s also heavily focused on the story with a set cast of characters which may be a good or a bad thing depending on the player.
Game has some nice quality of life features, like:
- Really good controller support (perfect for playing on Steam Deck).
- Glossary, accessible during cutscenes (game even shows notifications whenever a new keyword is used to let you know when to check it out).
- Pre-mission briefing screen with map and enemy layout, as well as a list of enemies you’ll have to face.
- Option to toggle enemy vision range (useful during stealth) and attack range.
I only came back to the game last night so I’ll need a few more sessions until I brush off the rust and have something more to write about. I can however say that if anyone’s interested in this kind of tactical titles, Reverse Collapse is definitely worth a look.
I finished the Banner Saga. I really wish I enjoyed the combat in it, as I’m sadly probably not going to find it in me to finish the trilogy. Which is a huge shame, because the rest of the game I really loved. Art was beautiful, music gorgeous, world building interesting and the story and characters were well written. I really do recommend the game, especially if you can grab it on sale. I love a game that doesn’t shy away from tragedy, that allows characters to die and that lets your actions actually have consequences. The tone and style felt really distinctive and just… refreshing compared to a lot of recent RPGs I’ve played. It’s slow, melancholic and somber. I really liked it for that.
Next up I’m probably tackling The Last Express, a game I picked up on sale a while ago and have been really keen to experience ever since randomly stumbling upon a video essay about it some months back and stopping the video about 15 minutes in with the realization that this is a game I need to experience.
Returned to Red Dead Redemption 2 for the third time.
Added more mods, now sitting at 30-40 total. Lots of technical optimisation done as well, big thanks to PCGamingWiki as always.
Playtime was at 468 hours; now 540 two weeks later. Feels like a blink of an eye. What an incredible world to experience.
It’s really a gift that keeps on giving, and the Read Dead Wiki is a marvelous place to delve deeper into the experience and learn lots. Hoping to try out the private online lobby mod soon.
Oh and also watching Dan Houser’s 3 hour interview on YouTube. Thankful for the many worlds and stories he helped create.
What mods did you go for? I should make another attempt to finish RDR2 at some point and diving into some more mods might inspire me to actually do so…
Wow I had no clue rdr2 had such an active modding scene!
Towards the end of last year I started playing red dead redemption 1 a little, since it’s just about what my machine manages to handle :-) Got about 10 or so hours in and I liked it okay although some of the gameplay was just a little too arcade-y for me. Like the horses feeling kind of like driving a gta car still, and other characters always going at full speed through the landscape. But the atmosphere was really cool and seemed to be one of the main drawing points for me. Not sure if I’ll ultimately go back for more though.
Do you know if the first one also has similarly active mods or any suggested gameplay improvements?
Twin bought me the dlc for Animal Crossing New Horizons. It’s been fun making houses! Also turns out you can use those new abilities in the new hotel! So I’ve been going back there to expand hotel rooms and shine stuff up!
Started playing MIO, which is a post-calamity robot on a spaceship themed metroidvania. The most impressive thing about it is the artstyle. Really strikingly beautiful.
Only a few hours in so far, but so far so good.
Not the most patient of gaming, but I don’t blame you as it looks drop dead gorgeous! I was also enticed when I saw it release but as always with the genre I have to hesitate a bit since I both such at and don’t particularly enjoy platforming and will easily get frustrated and not enjoy it if there is too much difficult precision platforming.
Will be interested to hear your thoughts on it regardless, I did still wishlist it purely because of the art.
Omg… i totally did not notice what community i was on… my bad. This is like the exact opposite of the point of this thread.
I think an exception is okay every now and then, I personally just like this community the most so I also broke the rules last year and talked about playing Blue Prince and E33 on release last year. Sometimes you can’t actually wait to play a game, you know? I felt both of those merited it, especially Blue Prince as participating in the zeitgeist of that and being part of discovering the game at a point where the community hadn’t even discovered all the secrets yet was amazing.
But yes, in general this is for the more patient kind of gaming.
