Puzzling Places has been an unexpected joy after I got it in a bundle with Tetris Effect.
Factorio Space Age! It was Satisfactory 1.0, but I got distracted 😅
Same! I finally “beat” satisfactory by delivering all the project parts. In early access I unlocked all milestones but never delivered the final project part.
Starting space age, only got up to automating green science, working on military science now. Probably won’t be able to play much this week though.
My group is roughly about to head to space for the first time or launch our first rocket so that’s exciting
Same! Telling myself I’ll get back to it tho
Just started Baldur’s Gate 3. Never played a CRPG before (does Disco Elysium count?) so it has been quite the learning curve for combat. Pretty stuck in the Underdark, it seems. Looks like I’ll have to help out a slavetrader Gekh in order to proceed because I don’t think I can defeat him and his buddies…
Disco Elysium absolutely counts.
I hope that you’re having so much fun with BG3, after I finished it’s definitely one of my favorites. The underdark is tough, I wish you good luck.
Thanks :)
What are you playing, bpt11?
I’ve been doing a replay of Omori
If you don’t want to help the slavers, here is a tip: you can destroy ladders.
I’ll add another one: get to them from the miconids village, do not engage them from the lower ground by the lake.
Once you’re done that, destroy the stairs first and push them down afterwards. You won’t believe how easy this fight gets.
Or you know, you could always lower the difficulty. No shame in doing so
Satisfactory!! 1.0 is great
I saw that it released but I haven’t checked it out yet, I’ll have to make sure I do
Completely agree. It’s utterly addictive, and the further you get, more and more fun tech gets unlocked. Been playing it with some friends, and we’re all hooked.
I’ve played a bit of Factorio and enjoyed it a little too much, but watching some video clips of Satisfactory a couple of years ago really didn’t grab me. Do you think it’s likely that either watching the game have a very poor sense of what it’s like (for someone already familiar with Factorio), or that the game has gotten a whole heap better over the last 2ish years?
Hmmmm, good question, bit of both, it has changed a lot, but there is also heavy focus on the building mechanics also if that’s your thing, rather than just straight up automation. So like you can make some very very impressive structures in the game. Saying that, you can mostly ignore the building for pretty and just go full on factory just grow mode.
I guess also depends how much you like/are comfortable with the fps view point vs top down? If you like automation and or crafting games, def worth giving it Whirl IMHO!
I always describe satisfactory as subnautica but about automating machinery like a tycoon game but with more reminiscent of portal. Needless to say its really fun!
Just reinstalled Satisfactory. Time to finish it for once.
I didn’t even know finishing it was something you could do lol
You just have to finish that one last thing…
Well I am about to test that theory.
Same, already but another 120 hours in!
My brother got me into Frostpunk recently. It’s been kicking my ass lol
Frostpunk 1 or 2?
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Frostpunk has such weird balance. I found it to be an extremely difficult game until a few core loops clicked. Then it was suddenly completely trivial and I lost interest
Oh nice, I just replayed The Last Autumn since the trees are changing color, just waiting on the first snowfall to play the main game. Let me know if there’s anything especially challenging you want advice on!
I’m just on my 3rd or 4th run trying the New Home scenario. Haven’t made it past the first month lol
Metaphor ReFantazio is amazing.
I doesn’t look like it needs my help, because it’s doing pretty well, but damn, it’s good.
Maybe too much anxiety to play a game in which you’re running for office in a fantasy land, at least until November, but… yeah, it’s bonkers and it’s well written and it’s by far the most political game the Persona-adjacent studios have ever done in some really fun ways.
Also a triumph of UI. Not only does it look great, it’s so frictionless. It’s a turn-based JRPG and it plays faster and more smoothly than that abomination of an action game Square tried to pass as a Final Fantasy VII remake by orders of magnitude. Seriously, go play it if you’re at all interested in that corner of gaming.
All calendar based anxiety went out the window for me after getting the Merchant and Thief classes.
Just because you can grind money easily or some other reason?
In any case on Normal I haven’t felt it at all, mostly because I’ve been single-day completing most dungeons and that gets you a bit overleveled.
But it’s still a lot faster and tighter than Persona on that front. And more flexible and nonlinear, too. For what looks like a long game, this thing moves. Much fewer, shorter stretches of just visual novelling with friends (although there’s plenty of that, too).
Money grinding is pretty efficient, but I was referring to the high rate of item drops. There’s a pretty common enemy that drops a mp recovery item. I’m blasting through dungeons in one go.
Ah, yeah, but the fun bit is that there are a ton of builds that let you get there. HP-based skills are powerful in this, and you can heal for cheap, so you can get there that way, and once you get a bit overlevelled and can kill mobs out of turn-based combat you’re just cruising.
I may see what happens on harder difficulties, but I genuinely don’t care too much, because just the mechanics of figuring out the sequence for each dungeon and enemy type is so fun to do with the brilliant UI that I just… enjoy doing it, kinda like you enjoy clicking things on Diablo or something. Truly smooth design.
I just wish they had figured out antialiasing better, because woof. I ended up injecting better AA through ReShade and never looked back.
can kill mobs out of turn-based combat you’re just cruising.
That’s what I was referring to. Once you’re able to defeat enemies in the overworld you can farm all sorts of recovery items and make bank.
I wish Metaphor had amounted to more, and I’m frustrated to see yet another calendar RPG.
It’s not a bad game, but it’s the same food they’ve made for decades.
That’s fair. I do see how it being nominally a new IP instead of a numbered sequel the ways it overlaps with Persona feel like a bit of treading water.
For me there is way more than enough to separate it, though. The bonkers story alone and the super political spin on it are crazy, plus the gameplay ends up being different enough.
But yeah, it’s pretty much one of those. Still better than going full action RPG like Square has done with its franchises, though.
I’m playing it too, mostly I’m just struggling to go whack Heismay and instead just playing Monster’s Expedition yet again.
Monster’s Expedition never gets old.
Like a lot of people, Factorio and Satisfactory. Been also playing a bit of Binding of Isaac and DRG. Also watching a friend play Morrowind because I love that game souch
Rock & stone fellow miner !
DID I HEAR ROCK & STONE?!
Zelda a link to the past (emulated on pocket snes).
Just started playing deadlock, valve’s new MOBA and I love it. I really hope when it’s out of play test they add more champions to play as.
There’s a bunch of planned but unreleased heroes still in development that might drop in an update at any time. They are already in the game in a WIP state, so you can find videos of people who have used commands to access that stuff in sandbox or custom matches.
Mirage was only just added, Valve doesn’t announce or elaborate much on what is coming when, they are basically adding stuff as it becomes ready.
Climbing ropes weren’t even in the game a few updates ago.
Do tabletop games count? If so, then… Dungeons and Dragons haha. I’m learning the ropes, having fun with it :)
Tabletop games absolutely count! I love D&D, I’m glad you’re having fun!
Oh damn I didn’t even think about tabletop games counting! In that case I have to amend my answer to also include Pathfinder 2.
I took the month of Halloween as an excuse to replay all of Silent Hill and it has been a fantastic experience, very nostalgic. I’m already playing the 4th game and when I finish it I’m going to jump into playing short horror games on Itch.io.
Did you play SH2 remake? If so what did you think?
I wish, what I’ve seen of it is amazing, but I don’t have the money or the specs to do it. 🥲
I’m in the same boat. I look forward to playing it someday though
I started Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth. I’ve been loving it, it’s like they made the game for me. It’s a perfect unwind game at the end of a day of work between the calming music, character conversations, and silly or cute mini games; but there’s also enough strategy and action in battles to keep my mind stimulated when I want more than that.
I took an entire week off for Rebirth, and the whole time was like “Whee! :D”
I’m getting pretty antsy for the PC release. Cannot wait!
I’ve been taking a video game break to play more board games. Zoo Vadis has been a top pick lately and I highly recommend.
I was playing Dwarf Fortress, but the bugs made me shelve the game for the foreseeable future. It’s great until the bugs kill your game.
Were you playing the stable or beta adventure version?
Stable release via Steam. Really enjoy the game until the bugs creep in.
I was thinking of starting back up again. What bugs are you encountering?
