Galactic Glitch. It’s a fun space shooter roguelite. I played the demo a few years ago during a steam fest, and just picked it up for next to nothing in the last sale. Neon graphics and electronic beats. Definitely worth it.
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.
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.
I just hooked up my 360 again too. I’ve been meaning to give it a good cleaning and possibly replace a couple parts if necessary (I have three 360’s) but haven’t had the time. I haven’t really played on it much yet either, just a quick test run with a friend of mine playing 1v1 gun game in Black Ops II. I’m not much for shooter games usually but it was the first split screen game I found and it was actually a lot of fun. I sucked at it though, he destroyed me. Oh well, good thing I’m not competitive at all.
I need to clean, or possibly replace, the optical drive in mine. It is a frankensystem to start. I got a friend’s old 360 with a dead optical drive since we only played castle crashers at the time, then I got a 360 with a RROD from Freecycle and put the optical drive from that into mine.
A bad optical drive is what happened to my first 360. It failed in 2014 so I just upgraded to an Xbox One instead at the time, which I had planned on doing anyway. That Xbox One bricked eventually and I replaced it with an Xbox One S which then also eventually died in around 2021 or 2022 I think, at which point I switched to PC gaming. Once I switched though I wanted to play my old 360 games still so I picked up a 360 from eBay and my wife (gf at the time) wanted one too so I got her one as well for her place. Now we live together and I have three 360’s, one with a bad optical drive and two that work fine (one of them sometimes crashes but it’s infrequent) so I want to Frankenstein my first 360 into working well again (it’s the R2D2 360 which is objectively cooler than the two black 360’s I’ve got and also matches better with my PS5 I bought with a work bonus a couple years ago that’s mostly just a 4K blu-ray player at this point).
I continued my playthrough of Against the Storm since it received a bunch of new upgrades. I am really having trouble defeating even the easiest seals still, but I’ll get there eventually.
Doom 2016, never finished it a decade ago and i felt the need for a twitchy arena shooter. Not going crazy with the secrets just playing blind is a lot of fun.
The other day we saw a coop game on sale and decided to get it. My partner and my son aren’t fans, but I think it is just challenging enough for pick up and play.
Snow Bros. Wonderland is the game. An attempted reboot of the single screen platformer by TOAPLAN.
This game is hampered by input lag and frustrating platforming, nobody else wants to finish it, but I will because now I’m so pissed off at it that I need to rage-complete it.
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!
It’s good. Not as expansive with a huge map with endless checkboxes like Valhalla, but it is more like the old Assassin’s Creeds with a focus on stealth.
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.
Heat signature, a game with a simple loop where you start in a space station, choose a mission then you have to set out in your transport shuttle, intercept a large ship and sneak on, avoiding detection or risk setting off the alarms and running into combat. It’s easy in the sense that every action can be taken by freezing time, lining up your shot or choosing your next action, but you will die time and time again. Honestly one of my favorite games of all time, I really wish it would get a sequel, it’s so bite sized but has insane replayability, procedural generation and the mechanics are some of the tightest I’ve ever seen.
The lore is deep and interesting, answering questions such as, “what if your entire personality is based on never killing, and youre about to be killed, do you break that oath?” And “you know that teleporting literally kills you, is that death? Is it the body dying that equates to death or is it the pattern surviving across the iterations that is you?”
If you like action games, even if top down doesn’t seem like your bag, you owe it to yourself to try this game
I second a recommendation for Heat Signature. The lower level mission tend to give you time to sneak and avoid detection but higher level missions are pure chaos. I don’t remember the specifics of the mission but I remember having about a second to complete the mission and escape while I was 3 rooms away from the target I needed to assassinate. Luckily I had slipstream with me so I slowed down the game where one second turned into 10 seconds and I dashed through to the target but the target was some really beefy guy that I had no way of killing on my own. Luckily the room had a window so I kill a guard with a gun, take their gun and shoot the window vacuuming all of us into space, killing the target and letting me escape with all of that happening literally in the last 0.1 second. That was the high point of the game for me because at that moment all the systems in the game came together to create the perfect mission execution.
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Galactic Glitch. It’s a fun space shooter roguelite. I played the demo a few years ago during a steam fest, and just picked it up for next to nothing in the last sale. Neon graphics and electronic beats. Definitely worth it.
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.
still ff12 but im kinda been getting an ich to put baldurs gate back on.
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.
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.
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.
I setup a private WOW server at home and am enjoying a druid playthrough.
Would you be able to DM me a link to whatever guide or resources you used to get that up and running?
I’d be keen for a similar single-player experience through MOP or Legion.
I miss WoW, but a private server is the only way I would play again.
Nice, I’m playing retail pre-patch for Midnight 😅
I have resurrected my 360 and a playing Fable II on it. I also installed Xenia (360 emulator) on my Steam deck so I can play Fable II on the go.
I just hooked up my 360 again too. I’ve been meaning to give it a good cleaning and possibly replace a couple parts if necessary (I have three 360’s) but haven’t had the time. I haven’t really played on it much yet either, just a quick test run with a friend of mine playing 1v1 gun game in Black Ops II. I’m not much for shooter games usually but it was the first split screen game I found and it was actually a lot of fun. I sucked at it though, he destroyed me. Oh well, good thing I’m not competitive at all.
I need to clean, or possibly replace, the optical drive in mine. It is a frankensystem to start. I got a friend’s old 360 with a dead optical drive since we only played castle crashers at the time, then I got a 360 with a RROD from Freecycle and put the optical drive from that into mine.
A bad optical drive is what happened to my first 360. It failed in 2014 so I just upgraded to an Xbox One instead at the time, which I had planned on doing anyway. That Xbox One bricked eventually and I replaced it with an Xbox One S which then also eventually died in around 2021 or 2022 I think, at which point I switched to PC gaming. Once I switched though I wanted to play my old 360 games still so I picked up a 360 from eBay and my wife (gf at the time) wanted one too so I got her one as well for her place. Now we live together and I have three 360’s, one with a bad optical drive and two that work fine (one of them sometimes crashes but it’s infrequent) so I want to Frankenstein my first 360 into working well again (it’s the R2D2 360 which is objectively cooler than the two black 360’s I’ve got and also matches better with my PS5 I bought with a work bonus a couple years ago that’s mostly just a 4K blu-ray player at this point).
I did the same a couple months ago. Mostly played PGR4 and was also thinking about the Fable games the other day.
Are you syncing the files between the Xbox <> Steam deck?
Nope, doing a good play through on the 360 and an evil on the deck.
I continued my playthrough of Against the Storm since it received a bunch of new upgrades. I am really having trouble defeating even the easiest seals still, but I’ll get there eventually.
Doom 2016, never finished it a decade ago and i felt the need for a twitchy arena shooter. Not going crazy with the secrets just playing blind is a lot of fun.
Such a great game; doesn’t overstay its welcome and has just enough mechanics to keep things interesting.
I’ve replayed it every few years and it’s as good as I remembered it every time.
I feel similarly about Crysis and Far Cry 3 too - but am probably in the minority on those two.
The other day we saw a coop game on sale and decided to get it. My partner and my son aren’t fans, but I think it is just challenging enough for pick up and play.
Snow Bros. Wonderland is the game. An attempted reboot of the single screen platformer by TOAPLAN.
This game is hampered by input lag and frustrating platforming, nobody else wants to finish it, but I will because now I’m so pissed off at it that I need to rage-complete it.
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!
Assassins Creed Mirage
How is it? I dropped the series after playing and hating Valhalla, but Mirage looked pretty good. I loved all the AC games before Valhalla.
It’s good. Not as expansive with a huge map with endless checkboxes like Valhalla, but it is more like the old Assassin’s Creeds with a focus on stealth.
I’d probably like it then. Thanks for the info, I appreciate it.
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:
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:
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.
Heat signature, a game with a simple loop where you start in a space station, choose a mission then you have to set out in your transport shuttle, intercept a large ship and sneak on, avoiding detection or risk setting off the alarms and running into combat. It’s easy in the sense that every action can be taken by freezing time, lining up your shot or choosing your next action, but you will die time and time again. Honestly one of my favorite games of all time, I really wish it would get a sequel, it’s so bite sized but has insane replayability, procedural generation and the mechanics are some of the tightest I’ve ever seen.
The lore is deep and interesting, answering questions such as, “what if your entire personality is based on never killing, and youre about to be killed, do you break that oath?” And “you know that teleporting literally kills you, is that death? Is it the body dying that equates to death or is it the pattern surviving across the iterations that is you?”
If you like action games, even if top down doesn’t seem like your bag, you owe it to yourself to try this game
I second a recommendation for Heat Signature. The lower level mission tend to give you time to sneak and avoid detection but higher level missions are pure chaos. I don’t remember the specifics of the mission but I remember having about a second to complete the mission and escape while I was 3 rooms away from the target I needed to assassinate. Luckily I had slipstream with me so I slowed down the game where one second turned into 10 seconds and I dashed through to the target but the target was some really beefy guy that I had no way of killing on my own. Luckily the room had a window so I kill a guard with a gun, take their gun and shoot the window vacuuming all of us into space, killing the target and letting me escape with all of that happening literally in the last 0.1 second. That was the high point of the game for me because at that moment all the systems in the game came together to create the perfect mission execution.
Fuck. I guess I’m playing Heat Signature now.