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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Watch Dogs

Fun, but sometimes the difficulty seems to be all over the place, particularly with running from pursuit. Sometimes you can lose them in a minute or two, other times the game keeps spawning in new cars in front of you with no way to dodge them without the ones behind you catching up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A Mortician's Tale was a nice relatively short interactive experience about what it is like to work in that occupation and its ups and downs, and an opportunity to reflect a bit on the reality of death.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I really liked this game. Felt like the perfect length for making one introspective about death.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Tried Tetris effect today, last time I played Tetris was on the nds so this is quite the upgrade!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Tooth & Tail. Bite sized R^a^TS

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Haven and Hearth. It's apparently a fairly old MMO, and I think I picked it up after it's mostly dead, but it's still a bit fun. The low population left in the game honestly might be saving me from grief while still learning the game.

It got the visuals, difficulty, and finality of Zomboid, but more of a rust style game play where you're just a naked person with rocks and sticks building huts. I still don't know fully what I'm doing, the goal is still just don't die.

[–] Gadwin100 4 points 1 week ago

Got my hands on a PS5 pro. Started playing Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection (2015). Never played the original games, always wanted to. It's also funny to think that I'm playing a PS4 title that is a remake of PS3 games on a PS5.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Recently I've been playing Airline Tycoon Deluxe, Sims 3, Battle Brothers, Kerbal Space Program and Prey.

I think the newest is Prey, from 2018.

Airline Tycoon Deluxe is from 1998 and still fun (at the beginning, eventually you just make tons of money, use it to do more of the same to make even more money and it stops being fun). It helps that it's a 2D game and the fun is in the management mechanics rather than related to anything visual.

By the way, they all run on Linux, though I had to literally pirate the Sims 3 to get it to work even though I own the game.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

BioShock Infinite Burial at Sea 1. Not quite hooked yet because ammo is almost too scarce to call it a shooter. But I want to like it.

Also playing Dead Cells, which is great but the higher difficulties are very very hard.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Back 4 Blood.

You know what, it's not Left 4 Dead 3, but I love it. It feels like L4D meets Call of Duty. The card system really makes the game for me; building better decks to play higher difficulties with more chaotic corruption cards.

The corruption cards especially make levels so much more replayable than they already would be. Getting fog over a level or a different type of ridden mutation appearing spices things up nicely.

It's also extremely beautiful at points. I love the graphical style. It's colorful and a tad cartoonish at points, with some genuinely disgusting visuals and insane ruins thrown in for good measure.

I wouldn't buy it for full price, but the $9.99 I paid for the full game + DLC was more than worth it, in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My last week has been filled with Marvels Midnight Suns. XCom meets deck builder meets dating simulator-lite. I’m having a blast, considering none of those genres are my forte

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I loved Marvels Midnight Suns! Exploring the grounds, finding kitty, then slicing people up with Hunter and Wolverine!

[–] Varyk 2 points 1 week ago

Echoes of the past!

incredibly fun.

I've only been playing a few hours, but I am having a blast.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Zen Pinball 2 on PS Vita. Got every single table, played few dozen and still got a ton left.

[–] Saledovil 2 points 1 week ago

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

War Thunder Ground Arcade Battles is fun on team voice chat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Started Trauma Center 2 and 7th Dragon 2020, both sequels to games I played last year. The first one I only played for 10-20 minutes so far though, the latter would probably be unbearable without turbo mode via emulation. Actually, 7th Dragon DS already was, but the story and setting is mildly neat, and I might be hungry for games with more party building. If you fast forward to the dragon/boss fights it's alright.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Intoxicated driver, free on steam Just good stupid fun

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