Gave Valheim another shot.

The last couple times I've tried it I struggled picking up momentum and progressing in the game, as the initial tutorial seems to be missing a few key steps so I end up spinning my wheels not knowing what to do next.

This time I had Christmas break time to fuck around and find out. Pushed through the initial hurdles and actually made decent progress, including soloing the first boss. It's a solid game so far, but it could communicate its expectations a bit more clearly.

I picked up Monster Hunter World again last night after playing some Dark Souls Remastered and itching for more of that style combat. I forgot how much better it was than Rise, and I never got around to playing Iceborne. Having a lot of fun with the new stuff, and I think it'll be my default game this week.

I’ve picked up BG3 and I’m making bad decisions.

I gave Shadowheart a big green beret hat and now she does slam poetry.

I also tried CoD but it got boring pretty quickly.

Took a break from Factorio (SE+K2 mod) to play some vanilla Factorio.

Oh and Against the Storm! The distilled "just the interesting bit" citybuilder with a metaprogression frame. That game can not be praised enough.

Baldur's Gate 3. Kids got it for me for Christmas, thoroughly enjoying every bit of it so far

Baldur's Gate 3.

Just picked it up, never played other cRPGs or D&D but I'm really enjoying it! Not doing a lot of quests yet but just exploring. Combat is quite difficult to understand sometimes because it has so many rules I'm not used too, but I'd like to think I'm learning slowly.

The rest and spell slot mechanic is also quite interesting, as it forces me to not pick too many fights before taking a long rest. This is totally new to me 😅

For anyone interesting I'm playing as a human conjuration wizard and my party is Astarion (arcane trickster), Shadowheart and Lae'zel (battle master).

Finally finished Inscryption! Would recommend

factorio, finally i convinced my friend to play it, and now he's addicted

Heroes of might and magic 3. I always come back, eventually.

I finally managed to get Spider-Man 2 so I'm thoroughly enjoying that!

I want to say bouncing between Faster Than Light and Kingdom Two Crowns. In reality, I'm looking for something else to play.

Baldur’s Gate 3. I don’t think I’m even out of the first act. I also got Jedi Survivor recently but BG3 is dominating my time.

Monster hunter 4 ultimate and Dave the diver

Picked up Control again. Had a couple people get me interested in Alan Wake 2, and I'd already played through half of Control earlier in the year before I lost interest. I'm more into it now. Not planning on playing the first Alan Wake, but I'm playing the crossover DLC in this right now.

Help! I have a choice to make between Hades, Psychonauts 2, and Doom Eternal. What do you guys think? I'm more of a casual gamer but enjoy a bit of challenge (I liked doom 2016 a lot, but I was told eternal is harder).

After many many recommendations on here I'm playing Slay the Spire mostly, with some Valorant thrown in when I'm playing with my kids.

I just finished Scorn, it was very interesting.

I feel like the combat wasn't necessary since the puzzles and exploration felt like the main focus of the game, but at the same time, I don't know how they could have made the environment feel dangerous without the threat of death. There was a puzzle later in the game that did require you to injure yourself, but I don't think that would have worked as a replacement for combat in the rest of the game, and being present throughout the game would lessen the impact of it in the short moment where it is actually necessary. Also, the guns were very neat looking, so that is an additional upside to having combat.

Even though this sounds like a lot of complaining, I don't think I could come up with any other criticisms, as pretty much everything else about the game felt perfect. I don't think it is the sort of thing I will play again, but it will be something I will think back on more than most other games.

I'm playing Barotrauma and Lethal Company lately. Both very fun coop games. We need more coop games, I don't know why devs don't make them as much anymore

Playing sus amogus Vampire Survivor DLC

Still playing Zelda: TOTK. Loving it but the game is so massive and I don't get much spare time to play, so I may have to pass the save file on to my future children to complete.

Just got to Act III in Baldur’s Gate 3, and god damnit is it good. I played and loved the original 2 games when they came out, but I didn’t have the time to devote time to it when it came out on consoles in the summer. Glad I waited, and even more pleased that it lived up to the hype (and then some)!

I also started the Valhalla DLC for God of War Ragnarok, and it’s OUTSTANDING. it’s a great palette cleanser in between BG3 or if I just want a short play session since the runs are only 20 minutes or so. The Roguelite formula is perfect for GoW, and I’m really hoping more AAA games try something similar to extend their lifespan. I highly recommend checking it out.

I ran out of new games to play so I'm back to my default of Dark Souls. Replaying DS2: SOTFS at the moment with a Dex/Faith character.

No matter how many times I replay the games, I can never not go in on dex stats haha

Fallout new vegas. It's suprisingly good. Tho, it is a Vlašič, after all.

I never got anywhere near finishing Nier Automata so I’m doing that. A little Dave the Diver on the side.

Yume Nikki. The RPG Maker version. On my phone with EasyRPG Player. It's about time I picked it up.

I've spent close to 20 hours in Jedi: Survivor. It runs surprisingly well on medium with my 1060 6GB, getting 30-40 fps except when in the desert. The game itself is really fun, an improvement on basically every aspect of the first one.

Still trying to catch up on the last couple of years of WARFRAME, having an absolute blast 🪷

WoW classic season of discovery. Enjoying my time at level 25 doing world PVP and making gold on the auction house!

Yakuza 2 on Steam Deck, after completing (not 100%) Y0 and Y1. Planning to keep playing them in order, until Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth comes out.

I'm new to the series, and loving it. Can't wait to get back home (traveling now) and move from Deck to my PC, high resolution and maxed quality.

Won a giveaway for Returnal so I'll be playing that this week.

Other than that I've been giving Fallout 4 mods a go since the Fallout London release date was revealed. So far I've played Bleachers which I couldn't stand, an Enclave one that's surprisingly good and Sim Settlements which is jaw dropping tbh.

Just started Mass Effect: Andromeda yesterday, bought on winter sale.

While I like story and characters refreshing, right now it doesn't feel as addictive(and emersive) as Mass Effect 3 (but am only on hour 3).

Plowing through Deathloop. Its... ok. Enemy variety is basically different weapons and a couple bullet sponges. Glad I didn't get this at full price.

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead. I've played it at least 100 hours and still have no idea how anyone survives a scenario besides the default shelter one, took me a long time to even figure that one out.

Just finished Unpacking. :) Sweet little game.

Finished a durge run on BG3 honor mode last week so I'm quite burned out playing single player games ATM. So just bouncing around the Finals and Overwatch 2. Actually my old COVID gaming group got together to play Warzone since they reverted the movement back to the old MW19 I just might buy MW3 just to save my sanity of leveling the guns. I think that's the main purpose of the MP versions of COD, just a guns leveling pass for the yearly weapons drop.

got a handful of games in the steam sale, and I'm currently about halfway through bugsnax - it's really enjoyable so far. planning to start either hypnospace outlaw or the new ultrakill update after.

Just finished playing Hogwarts Legacy. The last main quest was a bit of a stretch imo. I mean "The House Cup" where you have to reach level 34 before you are able to enter it. I was getting a bit frustrated I had to grind for that... Now I can take something else from my queue. Maybe Firewatch, or Thief.