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A new week and a new thread.

What are you all playing!

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[-] Stillhart@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

I'm surprised nobody else is playing Remnant 2. It just came out and it's pretty damn fun.

They called the original "Dark Souls with guns" and it's definitely that sort of game in the sequel. But it's not as punishing as a typical souls-like since there's no death penalty. It's perfect for my preferences since I hate the "losing all your money when you die" thing in Elden Ring.

Apparently it's very fun in co-op but I have been playing solo so I can't speak to that.

At only $50, it's a pretty solid recommendation from me if "dark souls with guns" piques your curiosity even a little. AA title with no jank and I've only seen a single bug so far in my playing on XSX.

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[-] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

No oxygen included. Finally might make it to a point where I discover a new machine/furniture and have to restart again to plan my base around it.

[-] HyperCube@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

A bit behind the curve, but I just finished The Return of the Obra Dinn. Wonderful game, I took the time to 100% it and it was very rewarding.

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[-] PancakeBrock@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago

Haven't touched RimWorld in a few years. Got addicted to it again this week. Hopefully soon it will pass.

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[-] keltaris@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Started a fresh play of Mindustry this week and forgot how much I enjoy it. I play primarily on PC now to save my hands, but the mobile apps are free if someone wants to try it out!

[-] wintermute@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

Great game! And very playable on mobile too. I also enjoyed Shapez a lot. Looking forward to the sequel.

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[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

I'm playing Dave the diver. It keeps me surprised, constantly adding new sections, while keeping the cor game loop fun. I suck at navigating though so I frequently get lost.

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[-] evilgiraffe666@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago

Nova Drift, like Asteroids but a roguelite. Been really into roguelites lately, recommendations welcome!

[-] Secret_Duck@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

I'm sure you've played Hades if you're into roguelites but that is such an awesome game.

A lesser known and interesting recommendation is Against the Storm, which is a top down strategy game with roguelite mechanics

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[-] Shivs@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Just started playing Grim Dawn again while waiting for Baldur's Gate 3.

[-] Ignacio@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm playing Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup (DCSS for friends), trying to get the Orb of Zot unsuccessfully.

My best runs so far are with a Minotaur, although a Gnoll is good too, more or less. The farthest I've arrived so far is Dungeon:12, and Orcish Mines:2 were nasty the two times I achieved to get into it.

[-] Metafalls_@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

Still playing Cassette Beasts

[-] sodiumbromley@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Cassette beasts is on my to play list starting soon!

[-] miv403@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

i am playing no man's sky these days. i have played 25 hours in last 3 days.

[-] doostein@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

I finally finished Persona 5 Royal the second time in a row, and moved on to...Persona 5 Strikers lol

[-] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Went from like an hour in divinity original sin 2 to 55 and counting with a BG3 purchase this week.

Consider me hooked hard.

[-] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 6 points 1 year ago

Diablo 4 with my wife, and replaying GTA V. Both have been a lot of fun.

[-] kostel_thecreed@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

How's diablo 4 for a (I'm guessing) casual player? Was looking to pick it up but haven't heard that much positive about it.

[-] Stillhart@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

I thought the game was spectacularly bad, but I seem to be in the minority. Makes me feel like I'm taking crazy pills! It's a very pretty game with super shallow mechanics and it's designed for maximum grind. I can handle grind in an ARPG since it's kinda their thing, but you gotta have some good mechanics to go with it or it's just an idle/incremental game with prettier graphics.

[-] zachary3752@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I enjoyed the campaign of Diablo 4, but as you mentioned the game has a serious lack of depth.

It became especially obvious to me once I hit the endgame and realized there just wasn’t that much to do.

In Path of Exile especially there is so much depth and content around the endgame that it feels like there’s almost too much to do.

I don’t think Diablo 4 is bad, but I do think it’s far too casual. The combat is satisfying and the graphics are great. But the skill tree and RPG systems are massively lacking.

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[-] kostel_thecreed@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

If it's designed for maximum grind I'm not too sure I'll like it. My tolerance towards grinding isn't the best.

[-] calhoon2005@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Minecraft, with my kids.. Got ourselves quite a neat little survival world going on at the moment.

I've been playing Doom 2 and getting into Doom mods. I saw a video about the Ashes 2063 mod and decided to try it out. It's a post-apocalyptic mod inspired by series like Fallout, Stalker, and Metro. I've seen a lot of mixed reactions about it online, but I'm really enjoying it so far, especially the second episode. It's almost like a Bethesda-style Fallout game built in Doom with little side quests and hub areas to explore in between the shooting. I keep having to remind myself that it's a free Doom mod and not an indie throwback shooter built from the ground up.

[-] Kikkertje@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Caves of lore; a pixel (up to 6) party turn based RPG created by a single very active developer. Has shades of Jeff Vogel in it for me. Great little game that not many have heard of.

[-] taigaman@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

City of Heroes: Homecoming. It's CoH/CoV on a private server. It has easy access to a double XP buff at the cost of no influence earned passively (enhancement/salvage still drops tho). It's been a great time. My nostalgia is loving it.

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[-] thesqueakywheel@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

Battlebit, Diablo IV, and Remnant II now that just came out.

[-] Thebazilly@pathfinder.social 4 points 1 year ago

Just finished Final Fantasy XVI and feel vaguely disappointed and unsatisfied. The story kinda fell apart in the last third.

2 weeks until Baldur's Gate 3, no idea what I'll do until then.

[-] svamp@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have started playing Pharaoh a new dawn and have really been enyojing it. Damn it brings back memoires.

[-] 8bitalchemy@mastodon.social 4 points 1 year ago

@chloyster right now Pikmin 4!! It's a lot of fun

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[-] almar_quigley@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Exoprimal is currently my main game.

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[-] AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Stellaris, picked it up again for the first time since 2019 with some new DLC from the last sale. Spent a solid 40 or so hours on it again, but I think I am good for some time now. Maybe in another four years once more.

[-] JBloodthorn@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Siralim Ultimate on the deck while my daughter is awake, Fortresscraft Evolved on the pc when she's asleep.

[-] KrimsonBun@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Minetest, mostly on the capture the flag server

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[-] Poopfeast420@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Still Final Fantasy 14. I'm done with Heavensward, except some optional trials, which I'll do before starting the next expansion.

I thought most of the post-patch story was either trash or extremely tedious. The conclusion to the Dragonsong War was generally alright, just everything leading up to it was a chore. The Warriors of Darkness story felt like complete filler and a waste of time. After that is the stuff that leads into the next expansion, so I'll have to see how that plays out.

Imma be honest, I'm really close to just starting to skip most of the story, it's such a drag sometimes.

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[-] wintermute@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

Return to Monkey Island, Vampire Survivors and Northgard.

Plus, my boss bought an arcade cabinet for the office, so I've been playing lots of different arcade games, mostly Golden Axe, Bubble Bobble and Street Fighter II

[-] Dildade41@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Final fantasy 16 (on second playthrough in final fantasy mode) and a bit of just cause 3 (just cuz)

[-] Oneeightnine@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

Started and completed 'Viewfinder' over the last few days. It's a little puzzle game where you have to play around with a camera and toy with angles to solve puzzles. Little Portal, little Witness, and a lot of fun.

[-] MooseGas@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

X4 foundations with the boron dlc. I start and stop this one a lot. I've played hundreds of hours in this game and still feel like I have no idea what I'm doing.

[-] Skua@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Picked up a long-running Paradox mega campaign with two friends again. We're most of the way through EU4 now, having started in 769 in CK2

[-] SamPond@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

I had taken a break from Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin and picked it back again. Genuinly amazing game, some nice character action style combat that flows greatly, intricate rice farming that makes you struggle but reap satisfying rewards, unexpected character development that feels organic and well earned in its joy.

I also got my first Infinite rank in Marvel Snap, but that's hardly a "week" playing and more like a constant habit I've been doing since October or so.

[-] Barky@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

Street fighter 6 and valorant. Watching some puzzle games like viewfinder makes me want to go back and finish the talos principle, which I plan to do. Also need to finally play the third amnesia game so I can play the bunker.

[-] denial@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Still playing a lot of Hunt: Showdown after 1k+ hours. Fantastic game.

Also just started Jagged Alliance 3. Loved JA 1 & 2, when I was younger. JA3 finally looks to be a good successor. I am still in the first few tutorial sectors and the game is already pretty harsh. A good start.

[-] Dewbs84@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Phoenix Wright trilogy

[-] Essence_of_Meh@kayb.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Still playing Ridge Racer 2 and Pangya.

The former seems to be quite a bit easier than I remember it being, but not to a point where it would affect my fun (I'm also realitively early into the game).
Pangya is really growing on me as well. Just finished episode 1 with the first character and got about half-way with char #2. I really like it and I'm surprised I didn't know about this game for so long.

Lastly, I replaced Minecraft with The Sims 2. I was planning to install it just to see how it works through WINE and suddenly realized I've been building for like 6 hours. Boy those games are scary...

[-] StereoTypo@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Partner is playing Horizon: Zero Dawn and I'm helping with inventory management and tutorial quests.

[-] Dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

I'll steup the morrowind total conversion "starwind" which seems like a really good star wars game set in the old republic era.

Unless a friend of mine buys baldurs gate 3. In zhat case it'll be baldurs gate 3. I hope it lives up to divinity original sin 2.

[-] f5xs_bhw0a@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I've been revisiting Kenshi again so I can form my own colony, grow it, stave off bandits, cannibalize through bandits' properties, assign my bug-man on stealth missions (steal blueprints off the Great Library), go on another stealth mission that will make the Tech Hunters salivate, while I plot my future in destabilizing the great cult and the nation of slavery using one bug-man.

[-] businessfish@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

pikmin 4! so excited to finally have my hands on a new pikmin game. the game is very streamlined and a lot of the minor annoyances of the older games have been eliminated by one design choice or another, and it is just really easy to sit down and play.

would recommend for new players and fans of the series.

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