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?

As long as it hurts Ubisoft enough that next time they make an offline patch before pulling the plug on a game.

Depends on the exact wording of the patent, and the jurisdiction (U.S. or Japan)

No, the sneaky thing is that they are older patents that were amended/updated after Palworld was released. But the initial patents are older than Palworld.

In a sane world, the case should be decided by the original text of the patents, not the updated one.

What am I saying, in a sane world these patents should not exist.

Nah, the new family sharing is way better. With the new vetsion, I can play games from my wife’s library even if she is playing a different steam game at the same time.

So, the exact opposite of Baldur’s Gate 3

They will be gone with time, but not because anything that Valve does. Microsoft is locking down the kernel after the CrowdStrike debacle. In a few years it will be impossible to run any custom kernel code.

Thanks for the suggestion. Conarium is also in the sale now, so I bought it. Thanks!

I enjoyed “Followers of Cthulhu”, “Permafrost” and “Ale Abbey” during the last steam next fest

Sadly they will probably jack up the price while they are at it too. I just moved everything to my own petsonal .io a few years ago. I don’t want to have to move again.

There are none. It’s the upgrade from the normal to the remasterd version, and it won’t be sold in unsupported regions. It’s not an update/patch on the existing game.

That would be a hurdy-gurdy

Are you from the EU and did you sign the #StopKillingGames petition?

I really liked Days Gone. Great game.

American? I’m from The Netherlands and I get maybe 1 spam call every other month or so. And I’ve been using the same number for almost 25 years.

Looks like it from the trailers

How does Early Access work for a Free-to-play game?

A new game

Happy they ditched Electron. Shapez 1 ran terribly on my PC. Too bad they went with Unity instead though.

I’d recommend:

• The Outer Wilds
• Graveyard Keeper
• Subnautica

Yes, I do the same with my wishlist. The only expensive games I consider are multiplayer games I can play with my friends. I bought Deep Rock Galactic, Sea of Thieves and Valheim for that reason

Have you considered to become a patient gamer? I always wait for a game to drop in price before buying it. That way you know from other people’s experience whether it’s a good game or not, and you save money. On hardware too! No need for the latest hardware if you don’t run the latest games.

I personally though ED was quite shallow. Deeper than e.g. No Man’s Sky but still very “fake”. The economy is just a bunch of RNG, nothing real. I recently got into X4: Foundations which is much better IMHO. It really simulates the entire economy and production chains. You can carry out supply chain attacks on your enemies. It’s like a cross between ED and Stellaris.