Since my opportunities to play are quite rare, I'm still mostly playing a heavily-modded TES 4: Oblivion (2006). Been a few years since I last played the game (unmodded previously). The mods are really improving the experience. As always, I absolutely love the soundtrack.

Been busy with uni work, but I've been having 20 minute blasts playing Terratech Legion. A really well put together game.

I've been playing Guns of Icarus again lately, although no one else from the GOL community has joined in yet.

Most of time busy with uni but in general Pragmata , black myth, TLOU

ahh, i´ve been on overwatch since year 2. Classic Torb main, forever stuck in bronze :D

I just changed my own game development from win11 to an adorable little NUC with ubuntu Budgie and Fedora KDE on it <3 But I still have to do all the music work on my win11 rig, but the plan is to migrate that workload to linux as well. Anways! Loving being on Linux, and that the most important games from STEAM library works. So I am currently replaying Disco Elysium and The Holy Gosh Darn.

playing Dyson Sphere Program, where this game did taught me how to mess with Wine prefixes(Steam games that's played with Proton have their wine prefixes reserved for save files(and anything else that needs to be stored in My documents))

DSP's proton wineprefix was mostly for replacing onedrive(used when we playing Dyson Sphere Program in native windows 10-11) for storing blueprints and savefiles

That enormous backlog of games I've picked up over the last sales. On the side I'm squeezing the achievements out of some old games that I haven't played in over a decade: Race the Sun, Garry's Mod and others.

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Quoting: CatKillerI've been playing Guns of Icarus again lately, although no one else from the GOL community has joined in yet.

Saw your post about it after. Didn't have much time to play games this weekend. I remember Guns of Icarus was pretty fun to play back in the days.

Been playing a bit of Warhammer Online
Started with a backlog on steam also. Art of Rally a game i bought some time ago and didnt really play much. Clocked several hours on it now. Super fun.
a bit of Biped with friend from couch (with 2 original Steam controllers)

that's about all i really played last week

DiRT Rally 2.0, as usual, and I've also started a challenge run of Final Fantasy V.

Was playing (and enjoying) Enshrouded for a while, right up until the most recent patch introduced a crash bug, resulting in loss of some inventory items or quest progress with pretty much every crash, so I've been playing Windrose lately instead. It's crashed a few times too (minor, random, and not on a regular basis), but not once yet have I lost an item I spent hours farming or questing for, so I can tolerate the occasional fairly rare crash to desktop. The game itself has been mostly pretty fun.

I played mostly shin megami tensei V, but the forza horizon 6 hype train made replay a bit of horizon 4.

I recently finished Portal 2. Haven't done the co-op yet. Enjoyed it way more than the first one.

Bit late, but I am on the last stretch of original Yakuza 1 on PCSX2. It is quite stark how well it aged. Would argue games like it look far better than any current Unreal Engine 5 game being shat out.

Subnautica 2 - 20 hours and I've completed the EA content. Superb quality, really enjoyed it, thoroughly recommend.

I spent five hours on a train to London too, and randomly gave Hades a try from my backlog. Probably no surprise - it's excellent. But I particularly liked all the voice acting and story development between runs. It's going to be a game I dip into over the months to come, I suspect. I'm only 10 hours in and while I got to the end boss, he destroyed me.

Still pouring hours into Slay the Spire 2, but I also picked up Far Far West for multiplayer shenanigans with my two online pals. And I spent a couple of hours bringing myself up to speed on the latest Helldivers 2 nonsense, which remains great fun.

Oh, and I tried Exanima, a physics-based dungeon-crawler. Utterly weird. I left a lengthy Steam review which was a thumbs-up, but... not really. It's got a long way to go before I'll try it again. No regrets playing it though.

Quoting: Mustache GamerI recently finished Portal 2. Haven't done the co-op yet. Enjoyed it way more than the first one.

Still among the greatest games of all time. Definitely still in my top five list.

I'm currently on "The Lamplighters League". I've sunk around 30 hours in it so far. I've liked turn based games since X-com and X-com 2. Enjoying it so far.

Quoting: NielsJensenI'm currently on "The Lamplighters League". I've sunk around 30 hours in it so far. I've liked turn based games since X-com and X-com 2. Enjoying it so far.

oooohhhh Harebrained ... 😫 such sadness to see them go out on this title. The Shadowrun trilogy are some of my fav crpgs ever made, and then ......................................

for me, I've been playing a bit of WH40K Mechanicus 2 since its release, and don't really know my feelings yet. I absolutely ADORED Mechanicus 1 up until the ending (gameplay wise) and so was looking forward to this release. I'm pretty confused though playing the first 5 or 6 missions. Everything feels SO linear, so scripted, so railroaded, so ... basic? I can't understand what happened to all the stuff from the first game? At least in the beginning, this game feels like a major downgrade compared to the first, but maybe after a while it'll open up and become much more interesting. Time will tell. I think the biggest change is they shifted the ENTIRE gameplay vibe from (in game 1) controlling godlike tech priests that you can fully customize and trick out with awesome powers and deploy multiple into a battle and focus very little on minions ... to (in game 2) the polar opposite: no custom priests, only prebuilt factory models with extremely basic (almost laughable in rpg terms) upgradability, no mission selection at all, no in-mission gameplay whatsoever, it just autoruns for you in a pre-set pattern, and the biggest: a HUGE focus on minions and very little on the priests themselves in-battle. Huh.

I've been playing Ghost Trick, pretty cool adventure!

I've spent the last week obsessively putting 40 hours into a free game called Sovereign Tea. It was originally crowd-funded and released on Steam for sale in 2021, but late last year it was changed to be free (which is how I heard about it).

It's a turn-based tactics game about "Tea Princesses" brewing minions to fight the "Coffee Empire", and with such a memetic premise and the cutesy stylized art style I was expecting something light and airy. I was not expecting hard-hitting political and interpersonal drama, class prejudice, clashing ideologies, debates on executing captured political prisoners, accusations of betrayal, actual betrayal, and, through it all, an uplifting message of empathy, forgiveness, and learning to see others' viewpoints. An easy 9/10 on the writing.

Oh, and it's pretty good mechanically too, if you like lots of units, abilities, and synergies to find and exploit. There are a few improvements I can think of, but overall it's solid. (And free!)

Quoting: PhiladelphusI've spent the last week obsessively putting 40 hours into a free game called Sovereign Tea. It was originally crowd-funded and released on Steam for sale in 2021, but late last year it was changed to be free (which is how I heard about it).

Sadly just free as free beer and not as freedom and therefor a Windows only game, but still runs smooth via Proton. Thanks for sharing this, seems nice indeed. I started to play it right now.

Just a hint: It is a Unity game, so the game does collect telemetry data if not blocked by us.