Games

ARK: Survival Ascended; I run a public cluster for some streamers and friends.

Grim Dawn with Reign Of Terror mod.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider.

Phantasy Star (the first one)

Darkest dungeon

I brought in the new year playing Fire Emblem: Awakening (which I've been obsessed with after finally getting it working on an emulator). I'd been struggling with lunatic mode but I figured out I can just feed Robin because of the XP boost and then use her to carry the team. Changed her to Pegasus Knight and then Dark Flier and now I can just swoop in and one-shot any enemy and she's over-levelled enough that the enemies won't prioritize her, and if they do, she dodges everything and has enough HP to survive a bow to the face.

The early levels were very challenging and I had to heavily abuse save states but once I got rolling it's been a lot smoother. The two cavaliers you start with literally can't survive a single hit starting out. Since everyone's so vulnerable, you just have to get one unit good asap to avoid relying on your Jagen.

Ticket to Ride

Lost Odyssey

Technically ∞ Loop on my phone. But the last real game I was playing was Jade Cocoon.

I'm about halfway through Lego Lord of the Rings right now.

I just started getting into Deadlock and that was the last game I played in 2024. However, I only played for about an hour. Before that, in the same afternoon I played Foxhole for about four hours and Balatro for two.

Vacation ends the moment I put my phone down and go to sleep... It was a good time.

Edit: Ah I forgot we played Jack Box at the party I went to leading up to midnight. Does that count?

Finished a run in Windblown.

Warframe. trying to get my noob friend up to current content so we can experience 1999 together.

STALKER 2

Both the first game of 2024 and the last one was Medieval II: Total War.

Conquered the world with France at the start of the year, now doing the same with the Danes.

Ghost of Tsushima on the PC. 90 fps (most of the time) 4K.

The gameplay is really to my taste, so I am planning on playing this one for a while.

Fallout 4, just started Whispering Hills and my 100th something playthrough

Cyberpunk 2077

The Sims 3. I had to figure out how to disable OneDrive backup for my Documents folder, because Sims 3 insists on keeping your saves there, and somehow everything breaks if OneDrive tries to sync them. Previously I had given in and let OneDrive sync everything because Win11 nags you if you try to avoid it.

I also have to fiddle with processor affinity to get the game to launch, for some reason.

It still crashes a lot.

Partner and I played Mario Kart 8, was quite fun!

Got a need for nostalgia. Last game was MGS4. Before that, it was THPS1&2.

Animal Crossing New Horizons. Celebrating New Year on the island are part of our new year tradition.

This also makes it the first game played during 2025.

Astro Bot.

Last game I finished was Veilguard. Pretty close to EoY. It wasn't exactly what I wanted, and the difficulty falls off a cliff as a mage when you get life steal, but it wasn't bad. The romance with Neve was entirely too... unromantic, and PG-13 though. Very disappointing. No intimacy.

Then I started CrossCode and it's been good. Feels like a mix of old snes games (Zelda, lufia2) and MMO, without the annoying parts like other players. The puzzles also aren't very hand holdy, which is nice. I feel like a lot of games are too aggressive with their "HEY IT LOOKS LIKE YOU CAN SLIDE THAT BRICK. HEY I BET FIRE MELTS ICE."

Pikmin

Rise of the Golden Idol

Boomerang Fu. Played with the kids who enjoyed stomping their parents.

Rimworld, and I just found that there are tons of mods for it. I'll likely be playing it for quite a while still.

The witcher 3!!! 40+ hours in and loving it

Brotato, working on unlocking all the characters

Bloodborne

Red dead 2