I just started Mortal Shell II. Earlier in the year I quite enjoyed Slay the Spire 2. (I've also played Ravenswatch and Shape of Dreams. But those aren't big name games or even ones released this year; they just happened to be what I played with my friend to socialize.)

But very recently I've heard really good things about Control: Resonant.

Just started Morrowind first time. I browsed the mod section in GOG and saw that there is Tamriel Rebuilt and OpenMW available as one click mods. Then I saw that I own Morrowind (Prime deal) even though the GOG store says I don’t own it. I downloaded all 3 (plus Tamriel HD textures) and just clicked Tamriel Rebuilt play button and the modded version works well. Also you can change the small fonts bigger in the Tamriel Rebuilt settings (openmw launcher). Modding has never been easier.

Control Resonant is absule cinema

Only have time for social gaming so friendslop like stonewards, but been enjoying myself more and it reminds me of how games should be like when I was a kid. Also threw the older gaming rig with a gpu up as a server so I am limited to games that work on integrated graphics which work fine.

Haven't even made good use of the servers GPU yet, had grand visions of buying poe cams but I think that's a while out.

I have found myself incurably addicted to the surf mini game found within Counter Strike Source. It is a $10 game that is over 20 years old and I have over 600 hours in it already with still a lot to learn. The skill cap is crazy high and it takes so long to master it but when you start getting decent, it's so incredibly satisfying to hit a smooth run and beat your previous PB. You can even compete against other players in your country or globally to earn bragging rights for being one of the best!

Driving Rogue has been my goto this last two weeks. Just something I can sink like 20 minutes into for a full run.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3088700/Driving_Rogue/

Right now I'm constantly switching between:

Starsand Island - game like animal crossing

No Man's Sky - everyone knows it I assume

Sephyria - really great roguelite with bunnies

I am obsessed with Space Marine 2 and Street Fighter 6 right now. I'm still just getting into each of them, but they've been so much fun to pick up. Space Marine 2 just nails the power fantasy perfectly, it is way too hard to put that game down. Street Fighter 6 is the first SF I have picked up since 4 and it has just been a very solid fighting game.

Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave is my current game I'm spending the most time in. It's Fire Emblem but now has little dungeons! They don't add too much, honestly, but they break up the straight strategy combat with a simplified turn based RPG style. Something new, so that's fun. Looks great; plays great.

I do like the story of my character Leda so far. It's more "mature" than I expected as it often talks about murder and revenge. I'm eager to see what the other paths are like.

Silent Hill: Townfall is next. My friends and I always play a scary game together during the season, so this came out at a perfect time. About halfway through it, and I like it a lot!

Final Fantasy XIV: I mean, this is the goat. I'm always playing this. Eager to clear up any side activities before the new expansion in January.

Void War is an awesome game, been loving the quick iterative update cycle. New ship dropped in the beta branch today, I know what I'm doing after work!

Been playing some Rimworld recently, since Vanilla Expanded-Gravship Weapons dropped.

I have a game of EU4 running, Savoy just became Italy, and I think I'm on track to form the Roman Empire sooner than later.

Stellaris and CS2

Rimworld grabbed me by the balls and isn't letting me go. I asked for a 2 week vacation at work and spent pretty much the entire 2 weeks playing rimworld.

AT THIS MOMENT

• The localization of the first Mystery Dungeon, Torneko's Great Adventure, despite it having some implementation issues. It hasn't been remade so much as ported with better graphics.
• The remake of Romancing SaGa 2, which is great.
• A new web browser roguelike, Naqbu. It's really new and on the easy side, but I enjoyed it.

Currently obsessed with Blue Prince even after "completing" it as I'm trying to figure out some of the remaining unsolved mysteries. Could possibly be that everything is solved but I'm a believer there is still more to be found.

Factorio, Tyr, No Man's Sky

Depending on mood: Hunt Showdown, Outlast Trials

I'm mainly playing 3 games right now.

I'm slowly but surely making my way through Valheim 1.0 with a friend who's mostly only available during the weekends. Very fun, despite the two of us having very different gameplay styles. He enjoys looking up guides and cheesing things using tips from pros, while I like to figure out things naturally and will avoid cheese like I'm lactose intolerant. He's the builder this time around, so things have gone mostly his way. I'd probably have more fun alone, but I know damn well I could never sit down and finish a game as long and grindy as Valheim by myself.

I've also been playing a lot of Helldivers 2 with a group of friends. I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with this game. There's 5 of us now (which has been problematic in a 4-player game), and yet somehow NONE of us are ever together unless its something really tough like a flag raising objective. We just don't really have the team play part of the game down yet (despite having several hundred hours in it), which leads to us often getting a bit tilted in the moment.

Alone, I've really been enjoying Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter. The second chapter came out recently, so I finally pulled it out of my backlog to play. This is VERY different from my normal games (first ever JRPG, aside from the original Pokemon games), but I've been having a lot of fun with it. I really like running around and seeing all of the NPCs' own little personal stories evolving in between each quest. I'm playing on the hardest difficulty, and I'm pretty glad I am, because I'm hardly struggling outside of boss fights. Which is strange to me, because I tried the demo for this game when it first game out like a year or two ago on the same difficulty and remember finding it incredibly difficult.

I’m not and that makes me very sad. To much real life going on and I’m in desperate need of the escapism.

Deadlock has been incredible. I have been playing since day one of the closed beta. It completely got me off of Overwatch which had been a ten year long experience.

Fire Emboem Fortunes Weave has been quite fun. My first FE since the GBA games.

Star Wars Zero Company, ZCOM. Perfect SW XCOM skinned game.

nethack, one of the OG roguelikes. it even got a 5.0.0 update recently and it's as fun as ever!

End of Abyss. It's a nice blend of metroidvania with some souls-like elements. Also playing Control Resonant. I wasn't big on it at first, but it's certainly grown on me.

Wardogs

I've picked up my original Skyrim save game from 2012. I still haven't beaten the game.

I’m trying to finish Valheim V1.0 solo, normal mode. I’m almost done with the easy biomes. Just need to do the hardest thing in the game which is to find Yagluth.

I’m enjoying the little things they added here and there. Still wish there were categories in the crafting stations, not just the hammer tool.

Looking forward to the new biome. Not looking forward to mistlands or ashlands… (difficult)

Res Evil: Requiem - Rare for me to enjoy a AAA title, esp in the year its released (i usually get them years later at deep discount) but this has all the best elements of the franchise with a formula that feels so damn effortlessly good to play. I dont feel cheated at 70 bucks, and thats saying something in 2026

I've been playing X4: Foundations recently. I'm about 30 hours in and haven't progressed very far, but it seems pretty good :-) Also picked up Brazilian Drug Dealer 4, which is great fun!

Hopped on How to Fish with a few friends for about an hour or so, then played quite a bit more on my own afterwards. Just finished getting every fish and thinking about trying for the last two achievements I have to unlock: beat the game in under an hour and kill the final boss with your bare hands. The speed running one doesn't seem too bad with a little creativity, but I have doubts I'll be able to do the final one on my own or at least without toning the difficulty down.

Besides that, I've been playing a bit of Final Fantasy Tactics' remake on steam though that's been on a little bit of a hiatus.

Lastly I'm prepping for an archipelago randomizer soon. Haven't decided what I'll play yet, but it'll probably include Cave Story, Tunic, and Dredge.

Surprised I havent seen more Valheim on here given the recent 1.0 release! Brutal survival in a viking purgatory, great base building and strong progression. Playing with friends is a must though.

Control: Resonant is also something I'm really enjoying, definitely a bigger game than the first one and some incredible visuals, combat is very fun too.

Wurm online, trackmania, and a silly Indy game ai learns to drive where you train a feed forward neutral network to drive a race track.

Guild wars 2 sucked me back a couple of weeks or have it been months now maybe. Oh well.

Then I play some dicevaders. Never was much into balatro but this is so much fun. All the colors and sounds... Pure dopamine.

Been all over the place in regards to what I play these days. Solo it's mostly stuff in the backlog like Code Vein 2 and heavily modded fallout 4 and Skyrim (I just can't escape those two) With friends it's what we feel like on that day. At the moment it's monster hunter Rise and wilds, armored core 6 with a seamless coop mod and deadlock. Other than that we are playing magic the gathering commander either online via tabletop simulator or in person. The new foundations precons are a to of fun even for more experienced players to just have a bit of banter and a chill evening ^^.

Hide and seek, and Peek a Boo!

Nightmare Creatures, it sucks 🤣🤣🤣

L4d2 again. New mod, 16 players, 20x more special spawns, infinite ammo, expert level. Not hard, but very fun.