Fire Emblem Awakening on the 3DS, and Valheim on the Steam Deck.

I had forgotten how rich the 3DS library is. And so many I still haven’t played.

I finished all the DLC for Dishonored. I could use a lot more, so I’m sad.

I played a couple of hours of Witcher 2. It is fine, but I feel I’m on rails all the time. I miss Skyrim.

I’ve been playing Axiom Verge, it feels like the platonic ideal of metroid. I’ve cleared almost 90% of the map so I’ve got to imagine I’m close to finishing.

I’ve been suprised by how much I enjoy the lore. You can find notes hidden around that expand on the story and I get more excited stumbling on one of those than finding a new powerup.

Empires mod, it is a totally free source mod with no pay to win and only community driven.

FPS with 64 players big maps, one comander per team playing it RTS style.

Building, research of tech tree and Vehicles.

The gane is Old and a low playercount only coming together to play on weekends, but the game is still being developed, bug fixed and balanced.

Crazy amount of maps so no game is like the other. With a good comander adoptation to the map is vital.

I finally got around to playing No Man’s Sky. So far so good, but I worry I’ve already experienced much of the game play in the first 5hrs and now I’m in for 5 more of the same. Subnatica 2 kind of felt that way for me.

I updated my Single Player Tarkov install for the first time in years and have been playing around in that space. I know, I know, Russia bad, Battlestate Games bad, etc. but I bought the game back in 2020 and I can’t unspend that cash.

I’m so thankful this project exists, as nothing I’ve come across scratches the itch like Tarkov, but SPT removes a huge swath of the problems with playing that game. Like the other players, for instance lol. Plus, being able to tweak various settings (like inventory space and stack sizes for items etc) to make the experience slightly less hostile is a godsend as well.

Plus, it’s kind of an interesting example of the same game having two different development paths. Like I said, I’ve been out for a couple of years, so this may not be 100% accurate, but my understanding is the Tarkov’s 1.0 release is not compatible with SPT. Therefore, SPT runs off an old, pre-release version of Tarkov. However, amazing individuals have continued to develop the SPT client with all sorts of patches and updates. Some are just incorporations of fixes that the base game has added since release, but others seem tuned to SPT in particular. Like I said, I’m just incredibly thankful for this projects’ existence and the work people have done to maintain it.

I’m still playing Caves of Qud. The Mechanimists no longer attack me. I killed a creature they hated and then I went to Six Day Stilt and threw a bunch of crap into their magic hole and now they love me.

I’m being astronomically un-patient this week. Well, apart from using the “launch week 15% sale” loophole again to adhere to my endeavours to not pay full price for games.

Ever since playing Withering Rooms earlier this year and becoming completely enamored with it, I’ve had the sequel (Withering Realms) as my most anticipated game. So even though I tried to hold off, I simply couldn’t resist getting my hands on it when it entered Early Access.

Now, this is mostly an excuse for me to promote Withering Rooms again. It’s great, you should play it. I’m having a good time with the sequel, but it is definitely in need of more time in the oven. I trust this developer with my life, though, and have every conviction the game will get there come full release.

Most of the things that were great in the first game are here too: the setting, world building, lore, story, characters, art & design, atmosphere, vibes, puzzles, MUSIC (all composed by the solo dev!), build variety… There’s the bones for something great here.

There’s just a lot of polish still required. Some features are missing. Others are undercooked, almost placeholder-y. Combat balance is way off. Many encounters need tweaking. I’ve run into some performance hiccups and bugs. I’m still having a good time, because I love this world and developer so much, but for most sane people I would recommend waiting until full release. This is not a fake “early access” soft launch, this is an actual “open beta” type of early access. Only get in now if you want to participate in giving feedback on the Discord.

What I do recommend, however, is playing Withering Rooms. The first game is in an amazing state, feature complete and wonderful and brimming with character, charm, creativity and atmosphere. And it’s cheap!

Valheim. Not really patient, because the release date was last week, but early access was already five years ago.

Wreckfest

It’s been probably a year since I last played (?) and Class C multiplayer is still awesome!

I got the Tomb Raider Definitive Survivor Trilogy on GOG. I played some of the games when they were available on Stadia, but I don’t remember much so I’ll play them again. Heroic Launcher makes it very easy to play them on Linux.

I’m almost through all the achievements in Hitman WoA now. Just a few more location masteries to go and I’m done. I think I have 5 or 6 left.

Reus 2 - it’s a nice and rather relaxed puzzle, with some strategic elements and a great art style.