I fondly remember when my parents bought a new house that had yet to be built. I took all the drawings and made a Doom map so I could show my parents what their house would look like.

After the OGL debacle, nobody should trust WotC or Hasbro

I just finished “Styx: Master of Darkness” after getting it in a deep discount recently. It’s a really fun stealth game. Unlike Assassin’s Creed or Dishonored you can’t just run around and fight everything. You really have to be sneaky and stealth(kill) your way through.

I think that 1974’s “Super Star Trek” is the only Star Trek game I’ve ever played.

I recently picked up “Styx: Master of Darkness” in a Steam sale. It’s really good! It’s a stealth game where you can’t fight your way out if you screw up. If you like the sneaking parts of Assassin’s Creed, Thief or Dishonored then you’ll love Styx.

Just ignore the current AAA games. There is an ocean of great AA, indy and older games. And plenty to be excited about.

My nephew did the same. 25 buck PlayStation card, spent on some FOMO skin sale.

Dwarf Fortress goes that deep. They once had to fix a problem where cats died from alcohol poisoning. Dwarfs in a bar would spill their drinks, the cats would walk through the puddles and subsequently lick their paws to clean themselves. It’s crazy!

Oh, thanks. I bought them!

I wonder how this affects all the people who recently got a free premium pass from an Epic giveaway

I really detest people abusing Discord like an unsearchable wiki with dozens of (locked) channels filled with sticky posts.

That’s because Valve isn’t owned by investors

You can romance and have sex with pretty much anything with a heartbeat in BG3.

Yes, but you keep the game even if you cancal prime. As opposed to e.g. PlayStation Plus where you loose access to the free games when you cancel your subscription.

Doesn’t Prime give away GoG games?

I don’t think consoles do early access normally. Satisfactory only had its 1.0 recently, so it’s not surprising it’s not on consoles yet.

The article say 15 feb 2025, but I swear I read that exact same story about a year ago.

They didn’t yoink the code base. That would be copyright infringement and the judge said they didn’t do that.

I think that’s “Infinite Nikki”. This is the game that uses all the ray tracing capabilities of your RTX 4090 to render a girl’s spandex covered ass.

The first one is regularly on sale for $10 or less. Just try it. It’s really good!

People already hardly interact with old content. Have you been there? It’s dead. The game should be called “Zone of Warcraft” because pretty much everyone only runs the latest expansion.

I think I’ll love the time mechanic. Pentiment has something similar and it makes choices meaningful. I don’t like how in many games when an NPC says “meet me there tonight” they will just wait for you for weeks on end. They should wait the very next night and then be pissed off that you stood them up!

I just finished SOMA. If you’re into scary games, just get it in the next sale and go in blind. Don’t read anything about it. It’s great!

Not really. I didn’t play with any mods.

It’s not so much a sandbox, but more of a 4X grand strategy game. Conquer the universe, or at least help some other faction to do so. And stop the Xenon from assimilating everything. It’s like a cross between Elite Dangerous and Stellaris.

I play at most 2-3 games at the same time. 1 story game that requires concentration (currently “Pentiment”), one game I play online with friends (currently “Return to Moria”) and one simple game when I don’t want to think too much (currently nothing, I just finished “Vampire Survivors”)

I’m also a dad with a full time job. As for how I pick my games, if I do the same thing too long I get bored and don’t finish the game. And I like finishing games. So I don’t do two horror games back-to-back, or two survival games, or two FPS, etc. I like to switch up. Before “Pentiment” my focus games were “SOMA”, “Astroneer”, “Conarium”, “Green Hell”, “The Talos Principle” and “Prey”. So, quite varied I think.

It’s really fun. But at some point you have enough resources that the game changes from an immersive space sim to a grand strategy game, and you spend most if your time in the map and menu screens.

Ahhh, X4, the greatest space game that nobody ever seems to talk about. I really like it because the economy and supply lines and factories actually work. But it can be a bit janky.

Evoland (and Evoland 2) are actually really fun games with a lot of humor. I highly recommend them if you got the chance.

I go most of those but not Titanfall 2. Thanks for the tip!

Prey is awesome. I recently finished it after getting it in de the summer sale. Highly recommend!

There us no need. CrowdStrike was such a disaster for Microsoft that they are already on the path to locking down the kernel. Noboby but MS will have kernel access eventually. Give it a few years (and 1-2 Windows versions)

AC Black Flag is one of the greatest pirate games of all times. It’s right up there with Monkey Island.

I do love the carnage, though… When my level 5 or 6 fighter guy swung a regular white text sword for a regular non skill attack and it took out like 5 zombies at once, that was really nice. Never did that in Diablo.

If you think that is carnage, you should see what the end game has in store. You’ll be blasting through hordes and hordes of enemies. You can clear entire maps in a few minutes. It’s a blast!

I’ve been having a lot of fun with Green Hell lately

Yes! Don’t read anything about it. Go in blind.

A lot of UE4 games had big issues with shader compilation stutter. This is nothing new.

I’ve been having a lot is f fun with Green Hell, which was on sale recently. It has a surprisingly good story for a survival game that gets better the further along the game.

There’s one very annoying bug though. If you save, harvest something, die and reload, the resource does not respawn. This can really screw you over if you get an infection, you find and harvest some medicinal plant and then still die because it took you too long to find. Because when you reload, the plant you finally found is gone and now you need to find another, even further away!

Rock and stone!

Maybe it’s inZOI?