Patient Gamers

I'm going to play Sleeping Dogs next. Bought it during steam sales for like $2. I heard it's pretty good. I remember liking its predecessor, True Crime.

I'm still playing Elder Scrolls Online, which means I am not playing much atm while I upskill in Linux/docker etc.

I just hop on, do my 15 minutes of daily writs between two characters with addons and hop off.

Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps.

Played and completed Return of the Obra Dinn a couple of weeks ago. It's a walking logic puzzle wrapped in a very distinct art style. I have to say despite my worries on the style causing motion sickness, that never happened. It's a really well-done game. It rarely goes on sale too!

I plan to finally play Hotel Dusk for DS. I just need to finally hack my 3DS. I have a cartridge, but it's in another ~~castle~~ house.

Katamari reroll, which is just katamari damacy again.. which is just so much fun and relaxing and the songs are funny. Go play it again, it's great.

I've been replaying disco elysium: the final cut lately. beautiful narration and voice acting, amazing art. love the feeling of being dropped into a completely different world.

I suggest that patient gamers put Aliens: Dark Descent onto their wishlist and wait for a good sale. It already had a small sale but the game only came out in June.

They really nailed the vibe, just all around, check out some Youtube plays of it to see if you like the gameplay. It looks like XCOM in screenshots but plays in real-time. The story takes place in a Weiland-Yutani mining base, of course isolated in an unwanted corner of the universe. A mysterious infection has appeared on the planet! I wonder what it could be? Better send some soldiers from your crashed ship to check out the situation and look for survivors. The characters are all new.

I'd say that the game benefits from all the comics and other less-known canon that fleshes out the world, and has the flavor down pat. They haven't forgotten that the original movie was about a conflict between two powerful women, one of whom really doesn't want to fuckin be here, and the gameplay does a great job of being a balancing act between making you fuckin sweat at the mercy of xenomorphs while also feeling like a badass. It's a lot of people's Game of the Year already, so I'd look into it, even though it's gotten kinda lost in the shuffle.

Just finished Psychonauts 2 (haven’t played the first game) - it’s a solid 3D platformer with great art direction that trends on the easier side, though I appreciated having something that was somewhat relaxing to play for a change. I would highly recommend.

I suggest Chrono Trigger, but that's an obvious one.

If you like MP games like Smash Bros I suggest you to give it a try to Jump Ultimate Stars, it has a nice battle system and it is still a bit active in Discord thanks to Wiimmfi.

Caesar III with Augustus mod.

Caesar III is a 1998 Windows city building game, so it's like SimCity, but more fast paced, focused on efficiency, and set in Ancient Rome. You can get it from Steam or GOG. But the game is old, and clearly aged software and gameplay wise.

Then someone created a reimplementation named Julius project, adding some QoL improvement and compatibility with other OSes. And then someone else forked the project and added gameplay changes as well, incorporating features from later games.

Now I can play it in my Android phone in my bed.

I’vebeen playing Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2 while I wait for Baldurs Gate 3 and how did I sleep on these?? They’re great

I started playing Two Point Campus since they're removing it from Game Pass in a few days. I don't think I'm going to come close to finishing it so I'll be picking that up probably sooner than later. It might not be the most challenging tycoon type thing out there, but the gameplay loop is pretty satisfying and the design aspect is just enough to keep me hooked.

Solasta. It gives me that D&D joy, and it's so much fun to make and playtest characters. Runs great on steam deck, too.

Just played System Shock 2, it was pretty good.

Who can recommend me some similarly good games, similarly able to run on a bog-standard laptop? I've no interest in buying a gaming PC or any of that stuff, you never needed one to play Theme Hospital or whatever.

I know I'm asking for 3D games but you know what I mean. I just want to fuck around on the laptop I use for work, not drop a grand on hardware just to game for a few hours.

Edit: going to try Far Cry (the original).

I recently finished Yakuza 2 and NieR: Replicant, so I'm starting some new games:

• Blasphemous - weird setting, so I'm interested to see how it progresses; I had a hankering to play an indoe game, so that's scratching the itch ATM
• Mass Effect Legendary - first time, but unfortunately I'm not super invested yet so I'm taking it slow

And some games I've taken a break from but will pick up again soon:

• Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky - got a bit tired of the gameplay loop
• Ys - Memories of Celceta (near the end) and Oath of Felghana (probably 2/3); stalled for whatever reason

And some games I'm interested in starting soonish:

• CrossCode - I have that Ys gameplay hankering, but I don't want to start another just after finishing the above
• NieR: Automata - really enjoyed Replicant, but I want to give myself some time so the world feels fresh
• a bunch of indie games

If you haven't played Supraland yet, it's the irreverent zeldalike you didn't know you were craving. I'm mixed on the DLC but the main game is well worth. There's a free demo, try it and you'll be hooked.

I'm currently enjoying the evil within. Nice survival horror, plays almost like resident evil 4/5 but more slightly creepy and more dreamlike in its design.

Factorio. If you enjoy problem solving or simulation or management in your games. Factorio will scratch that itch endlessly. And then when you complete it, the mods will make you want to start over again!

Heroes of the Storm! Pick one out of over 80 heroes to fulfill your role in a team of 5 and try to destroy the other team‘s core.

Blizzard‘s take on the MOBA genre is something I come back to from time to time.

The character and map design is awesome and one match allows you to level up your character to counter enemy strategies and be become the kind of healer/tank/mage/dps/supporter your team needs.

It‘s awesome. And free.

I am very excited about my upcoming holiday. I will finalmy be able to play Metroid Dread in peace. Ever since I played Hollow Knight I've been dying to get into a similar game.

Minecraft Story Mode

It's school summer holiday here so something to play whiles kids are around. I've played a few episodes in the past but never finished it and so far we are all enjoying it.

Phoenotopia: awakened. My friend recommended it to me in the fall and I've been having a blast with it so far. The music is really nice and it's more challenging that it appears at first glance, which is nice. It's got a good balance of combat and civil activities

want to try some old school racing/management?

Try Gallop Racer (PSX). Pretty much Horse Racing Simulator. You play as a jockey/owner. You buy horses, race the horses (manually, no auto), and breed horses. Endgame is to win the prestigious horse races and get something similar to Triple Crown.

The racing part is simple to learn, hard to master, but fun overall.

My favourite part is getting the trophies by winning these specific combination of races (e.g. 10 G1 races, World Turf Cup + World Mile Cup+ World Dirt Cup, etc.). Or beating these particulary hard races with in-game "famous" horses.

There's also a mini jockey competition called WSJ when you become top 10 by November of the year which you play 4 races with random horses and win by points.