A new week and a new thread.
What are you all playing!
Stellaris, picked it up again for the first time since 2019 with some new DLC from the last sale. Spent a solid 40 or so hours on it again, but I think I am good for some time now. Maybe in another four years once more.
Siralim Ultimate on the deck while my daughter is awake, Fortresscraft Evolved on the pc when she’s asleep.
@chloyster right now Pikmin 4!! It’s a lot of fun
Sweet!!! I agree I’ve been absolutely adoring it. I think it’s probably my favorite one
Mostly “Against the Storm”, an Early Access Steam title.
Sorta weened off of Dave the Diver but started it back up again. What’s great is that they keep introducing new mechanics that (no pun intended) hook me in again. I previously spent a ton of time (pre-Klaus fight) in the fishing + sushi bar loop, but now that I’ve continued the story, more interesting things are being introduced. Also, Klaus was a weird spike in difficulty—you go from the easy Giant Squid fight into the Klaus fight thinking it’s gonna be similar and BAM! you get a spike in difficulty.
Also planning on trying to get into Planet Coaster if I have time. It’s been in my Steam library FOR YEARS but I haven’t mustered up the energy to learn it. I tried once but was turned off by the fact that you can’t make large plaza areas, only single pathways. But I found a YouTube tutorial that seems to have a workaround for this. LASTLY, I might boot up Civ 6, but I’m afraid of re-learning it’s mechanics again.
Breathedge.
It has a quirky sense of humor that I enjoy, but even if you don’t I think it does a great job exemplifying the solo space base-building, survival, and mystery genres.
Xenonauts 2
Released into early access last week, and picked it up yesterday. Very happy with it so far. Fun and polished.
Battlebit Remastered and MWII when my friends have been online
I really want to keep playing Satisfactory, we had just automated computers and aluminum, so I’d really like to build a huge train system and push into the endgame.
Just started playing Grim Dawn again while waiting for Baldur’s Gate 3.
Lately, it’s been MechWarrior Online. It scratches the “Blow up stompy robots” itch.
Counting down the days until Armored Core 6…
If you want to blow up Dinosaurs in big stompy robots, then Exoprimal might scratch a similar itch.
Still playing a lot of Hunt: Showdown after 1k+ hours. Fantastic game.
Also just started Jagged Alliance 3. Loved JA 1 & 2, when I was younger. JA3 finally looks to be a good successor. I am still in the first few tutorial sectors and the game is already pretty harsh. A good start.
I’m playing Dave the diver. It keeps me surprised, constantly adding new sections, while keeping the cor game loop fun. I suck at navigating though so I frequently get lost.
Yeah, Dave ate my entire weekend. Some issues, but great game overall.
i am playing no man’s sky these days. i have played 25 hours in last 3 days.
pikmin 4! so excited to finally have my hands on a new pikmin game. the game is very streamlined and a lot of the minor annoyances of the older games have been eliminated by one design choice or another, and it is just really easy to sit down and play.
would recommend for new players and fans of the series.
Without any major spoilers how would you say it compares to pikmin 1/2? Pikmin 3 was okay but imo 2 was the best, and 1 suffers a lot from poor quality of life. Ive played every game so far around release and Im tempted to get 4 on my next paycheck. Is it more like the caves and exploration of 2 or the slightly more linear gameplay of 3?
its different from the other ones, mostly in terms of ui and game feel, but it plays the most like 3. the caves are great so far (if a little short, but there is still plenty more for me to do), overall its just been lots of fun but i do wish it was a little harder. The big areas are super cool, and the design improvements allow you to just go diving into any caves or dandori battles you find in your travels without having to worry about where are my pikmin, do i have everyone, do i have the right types, etc.
would definitely recommend it to any pikmin fans
Picked up a long-running Paradox mega campaign with two friends again. We’re most of the way through EU4 now, having started in 769 in CK2
