Weekly "What Are You Playing?" Thread #16

TOTK, Cyberpunk 2077, and some VR kino; Lone Echo, Bonelab, Vertigo 2, and a bit of VTOL VR ( )

also tell me if you'd be interested in some /h/vidya writeups about some more recent obscure indie games that need exposure, like Vintage Story, HYPER DEMON, Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum, YOMI Hustle, and others

got distracted by god darn cookie clicker again, but after reading how neurodivergent even the "beginner guides" are I closed that shit out

Doing the usual otherwise: grinding main/gimp in osrs, Project Cars 2 career mode, with randoms other games mixed in there (currently Starsector and Dward Fortress)

Looking forward to WoW Classic Era hardcore servers this summer tho. Might no life that if anyone wants to join

I got some downtown coming up so I'm trying out several games that I either just got on sale or have had around in my library unplayed for yours.

• A Legionary's Life - A simple game but enjoyable and it really does a great job of putting you in the mindset of someone in ancient Rome. If you do stupid risky things and don't stick with your unit, you'll exactly face consequences really fast. And it has a great deal of replayablity.

• Shadow Empire - A huge sprawling 4X game with many layers of complexity, but it actually comes together pretty nicely.

• Interstellar Space: Genesis - The worthy successor to Master of Orion 2 that I've been waiting for for 25 years. So many attempts have been made, but this is the first to surpass it.

• Encased - Isometric RPG. Seems like an interesting setting.

• Amazing Cultivation Simulator - Wuxia Rimworld. It's going to take me a lot of learning as I was not Assigned Asian at Birth, but I'll play it if only to see how they make a game out of building up your chi.

• Sim Airport - Prison Architect but for airports. I like it but eventually you run out of stuff to do.

• Cattails - Silly dumb little game about being a cat.

• 1971: Indian Naval Front - I got this to impress @Sasanka_of_Gauda but I can't get past the first mission.

• Command & Conquer Remastered - Heh. That was a good game.

• The Case of the Golden Idol - It's much like Return of the Obra Dinn, a game where you actually really have to solve mysteries. A new DLC just came out.

Breath of Fire 4, never played before but this game is great

Slay the spire

Street fighter 6 beta

i want to try that fear & hunger out

love me some lovecraftslop

KATAMARI DAMACY

Tears of the Kingdom, I'm still stuck on the intro because I'm r-slurred, lmao.

The Pocket Mirror Remake! I hyperfixated on the original back in 2016 so I’m very excited to see how this one will go. I’m honestly surprised just how much I remember from the original…like down to random NPC dialogue. Anyways they’ve cut some stuff so I’m hopeful they’ve made Harpae’s area shorter bc it was a drag in the original.

Just beat dredge. It is very good.

sims 2

Starting on BG2. Going through all of them in anticipation of BG3.

Hearthstone

Tf2 because I hate change

Fallout new vegas. For the 800th time

Zelda. It grew on me fast after the shitty tutorial. I spent the first like 4.5 days in the Depths and then remembered the rest of the game existed. Absolutely blown away by the amount of game here. Some random sky island I fell onto had a Sled Shield and I learned shield surfing is a thing and it had a big ramp and jump leading into a glowing ring and then the last like mile to the ground for a freefall. So I did it and then landed and then there was this out of nowhere like snowboarding course down a mountain with glowing rings to go through? And then at the end it unlocked a shrine. I didn’t even intend to land on that little island to begin with.

Neat gayme.

Still Zelda

Just got my new pc waiting for the SSD to arrive tomorrow

tell me !g*mers what games should I play on the new 13700k+4070 system?