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I saw a video on spawnwave that talked today about what games people are enjoying in 2026 right now. And the different reactions of different social media/sites.

I personally am loving Wild Blue Skie s. Its just starfox. Thats what I want to play!

BALL x PIT is a whole lot of fun. I didn't think it would be but it keeps getting better and better.

I also liked FTL back in the day so I picked up Void War . Its like warhammer + FTL and its fantastic.

EDIT: You all are great! Keep them coming! So many games (video games and otherwise) in this list!

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[-] nullify3112@lemmy.world 1 points 9 minutes ago* (last edited 8 minutes ago)

I’m trying to finish Valheim V1.0 solo, normal mode. I’m almost done with the easy biomes. Just need to do the hardest thing in the game which is to find Yagluth.

I’m enjoying the little things they added here and there. Still wish there were categories in the crafting stations, not just the hammer tool.

Looking forward to the new biome. Not looking forward to mistlands or ashlands… (difficult)

[-] Profligate_Parasite@lemmy.today 1 points 26 minutes ago

Res Evil: Requiem - Rare for me to enjoy a AAA title, esp in the year its released (i usually get them years later at deep discount) but this has all the best elements of the franchise with a formula that feels so damn effortlessly good to play. I dont feel cheated at 70 bucks, and thats saying something in 2026

[-] Nelots@piefed.zip 2 points 2 hours ago

I'm mainly playing 3 games right now.

I'm slowly but surely making my way through Valheim 1.0 with a friend who's mostly only available during the weekends. Very fun, despite the two of us having very different gameplay styles. He enjoys looking up guides and cheesing things using tips from pros, while I like to figure out things naturally and will avoid cheese like I'm lactose intolerant. He's the builder this time around, so things have gone mostly his way. I'd probably have more fun alone, but I know damn well I could never sit down and finish a game as long and grindy as Valheim by myself.

I've also been playing a lot of Helldivers 2 with a group of friends. I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with this game. There's 5 of us now (which has been problematic in a 4-player game), and yet somehow NONE of us are ever together unless its something really tough like a flag raising objective. We just don't really have the team play part of the game down yet (despite having several hundred hours in it), which leads to us often getting a bit tilted in the moment.

Alone, I've really been enjoying Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter. The second chapter came out recently, so I finally pulled it out of my backlog to play. This is VERY different from my normal games (first ever JRPG, aside from the original Pokemon games), but I've been having a lot of fun with it. I really like running around and seeing all of the NPCs' own little personal stories evolving in between each quest. I'm playing on the hardest difficulty, and I'm pretty glad I am, because I'm hardly struggling outside of boss fights. Which is strange to me, because I tried the demo for this game when it first game out like a year or two ago on the same difficulty and remember finding it incredibly difficult.

[-] MufinMcFlufin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Hopped on How to Fish with a few friends for about an hour or so, then played quite a bit more on my own afterwards. Just finished getting every fish and thinking about trying for the last two achievements I have to unlock: beat the game in under an hour and kill the final boss with your bare hands. The speed running one doesn't seem too bad with a little creativity, but I have doubts I'll be able to do the final one on my own or at least without toning the difficulty down.

Besides that, I've been playing a bit of Final Fantasy Tactics' remake on steam though that's been on a little bit of a hiatus.

Lastly I'm prepping for an archipelago randomizer soon. Haven't decided what I'll play yet, but it'll probably include Cave Story, Tunic, and Dredge.

[-] ruby@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago

nethack, one of the OG roguelikes. it even got a 5.0.0 update recently and it's as fun as ever!

[-] JGrffn@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Rimworld grabbed me by the balls and isn't letting me go. I asked for a 2 week vacation at work and spent pretty much the entire 2 weeks playing rimworld.

[-] wowbaggerip@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Currently obsessed with Blue Prince even after "completing" it as I'm trying to figure out some of the remaining unsolved mysteries. Could possibly be that everything is solved but I'm a believer there is still more to be found.

[-] WinterBear@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Surprised I havent seen more Valheim on here given the recent 1.0 release! Brutal survival in a viking purgatory, great base building and strong progression. Playing with friends is a must though.

Control: Resonant is also something I'm really enjoying, definitely a bigger game than the first one and some incredible visuals, combat is very fun too.

[-] nullroot@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Wurm online, trackmania, and a silly Indy game ai learns to drive where you train a feed forward neutral network to drive a race track.

[-] Minnels@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago

Guild wars 2 sucked me back a couple of weeks or have it been months now maybe. Oh well.

Then I play some dicevaders. Never was much into balatro but this is so much fun. All the colors and sounds... Pure dopamine.

[-] AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago
[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

I’m not and that makes me very sad. To much real life going on and I’m in desperate need of the escapism.

[-] Derveron@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Been all over the place in regards to what I play these days. Solo it's mostly stuff in the backlog like Code Vein 2 and heavily modded fallout 4 and Skyrim (I just can't escape those two) With friends it's what we feel like on that day. At the moment it's monster hunter Rise and wilds, armored core 6 with a seamless coop mod and deadlock. Other than that we are playing magic the gathering commander either online via tabletop simulator or in person. The new foundations precons are a to of fun even for more experienced players to just have a bit of banter and a chill evening ^^.

[-] heyfluxay@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago

Longing for some nostalgia and social outlet (work from home so rarely leave the house most days), I jumped back into WoW last October.

Found a great guild and have been enjoying Mythic dungeons and raiding on retail. I have a feeling Forever might steal me though once that fully launches.

[-] llii@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 9 hours ago

I've picked up my original Skyrim save game from 2012. I still haven't beaten the game.

[-] mursejoy@lemmy.zip 4 points 8 hours ago

Deadlock has been incredible. I have been playing since day one of the closed beta. It completely got me off of Overwatch which had been a ten year long experience.

Fire Emboem Fortunes Weave has been quite fun. My first FE since the GBA games.

Star Wars Zero Company, ZCOM. Perfect SW XCOM skinned game.

[-] not@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 hours ago

Hide and seek, and Peek a Boo!

[-] monstoor@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

I've been playing X4: Foundations recently. I'm about 30 hours in and haven't progressed very far, but it seems pretty good :-) Also picked up Brazilian Drug Dealer 4, which is great fun!

[-] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

L4d2 again. New mod, 16 players, 20x more special spawns, infinite ammo, expert level. Not hard, but very fun.

[-] deft@lemmy.wtf 1 points 8 hours ago

Wow void war looks sick.

I've dumped a lot of time into Space Haven, Zomboid is in there and I've been playing sovereign tower too. Recently just finished baldurs gate too

[-] Broken_Orange_Juice@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Don't starve is really fun

[-] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 2 points 12 hours ago

I’ve started my second playthrough of Pacific Drive after buying all of the DLC in the Steam sale.

It says a lot when I finish a game at all and it’s saying a hell of a lot that I’m hooked again on a second play through.

[-] iuseasahibtw@ani.social 4 points 15 hours ago

Nightmare Creatures, it sucks 🤣🤣🤣

[-] adhdsergio@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Rebel Galaxy Outlaw (i have my gripes with it), Farcry 6, Kerbal SP

[-] Techlos@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 14 hours ago

noita, beamng, binding of isaac are my regular rotation.

[-] Delphia@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Fallout Tactics.

I love that game. I'm playing through it again so I can play through it and do a proper Iron Man run.

[-] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

Dressmaker! I love making my mostly hideous dresses with one or two very lovely dresses thrown in! And it's nice you can undo cuts unlike irl where gg, wasted fabric. Love you magic game fabric!

I'll likely get some mods soon and just go wild adding a bunch of new fabrics!

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[-] nutcase2690@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 12 hours ago

Been liking Carimara Beneath the Forlorn Limbs, Creature Kitchen, Eclipsium, and Northern Journey! Odd ones for sure but they are neat, short experiences.

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