Man the community with the recent recompilations of old classics to play them natively and enhance them is crazy. I have to get into this too (but different games). I would have thought with the recompilation of a game on Windows, a native Linux version should be possible too.
1000xRESIST was on a lot of underrated games lists last year when it came out, and I kept putting it off because the plot points I had heard about seemed very heavy, but it is a beautiful piece of art. It's a very cinematic game with a lot to say about identity, family, and the pain we inflict upon ourselves. Saying anything about the story would probably ruin it, but it's a walking sim with some light puzzle elements.
Pathogenic is a rougelite twinstick shooter where you play as an infection fighting through the human body and upgrading along the way by adding internal upgrades that power up external upgrades like tentacles that allow you to move or appendages that shoot/attack. It's almost the complete opposite of 1000xRESIST. Basically no story and all gameplay.
SWORN if you like Hades. It's pretty transparent that they just said "What if Hades, but rip out any depth to the story, make it up to 4 player multiplayer, and change up the pantheon of gods" then made that, but it's still fun to play.
Esoteric Ebb is a self-described Disco-like (referring to Disco Elysium) where you play as a cleric investigating a local tea shop that exploded. You have the typical RPG stats that you distribute points into at the beginning (so you can basically make whatever class you want despite your job being a cleric at the beginning), and as you go through the game, the stats are represented by different parts of your psyche that will comment on and influence your actions. The writing is genuinely hilarious and the sheer amount of content could keep you coming back for many playthroughs with very different experiences each time. I've never played a video game RPG that captures the experience of playing a TTRPG as well as this one does.
I hadn't seen Mina the Hollower mentioned in this thread, and I really enjoyed that earlier this year too. It's a more modern take on 2D Zelda game with more focus on skill difficulty (harder enemies and some brutal platforming) than puzzles. It has some great pixel art in the style of a Game Boy Color game and is packed full of secrets to discover. It's got a really great soundtrack too!
Still on ufo 50, I think I’m at the end of cyberpunk: phantom liberty and dragging my feet /waiting to get a good chunk of time to fully pay attention to it, and just installed tunic and the witness
Sea of Stars - Been wanting to play this a long time, and it's similar in some ways to the Golden Sun games, which are my favorite JRPGs. However the combat is slow, and the skill lock mechanic is actively unfun a lot of the time. Not sure if I'm going to play much more, I might tweak the difficulty settings to make combat really easy and just "skip" that part of the game. Mainly just disappointing because I really want to like this game.
Dragonsword awakening - basically was a heavily genshin inspired gacha game, that got reworked into a full premium release. Pretty fun if you want a game like Genshin but without any f2p crap.
Sifu - Really good combat game, I flip back and forth between feeling like a martial god and a bumbling idiot.
I feel your pain with the lock system in Sea of Stars. Sometimes you can only get it 80% power and just take the damage. There was a point early in the game where I was low on items and HP. I knew I would die in the next regular fight. I died and backtracked to craft more healing items from fish to get me over the hump.
If you try to break locks, to usually have to save your abilities/empowered attacks to be able to do that in the number of turns provided. Enemies also take reduced damage while channeling locked abilities (60% reduced in my game). So you're encouraged to save all your strongest damaging abilities for when enemies take the least damage, making fights a slow awful grind.
Alternatively, ignore breaking locks, and save abilities for when enemies aren't locked. Finish fights way faster, but the lock abilities are really strong and punishing.
Enemy locks aren't staggered, multiple enemies will use lock abilities at the same time, making breaking them impossible and sometimes leading to impossible fights due to RNG.
Enemy locks sometimes require damage types that haven't been unlocked yet (ie requiring poison before you get a poison character).
Just overall the lock system is supposed to add carefuld decision making to combat about what abilities to use and who to prioritize, but I feel like it almost never works out that way, and instead just makes combat really slow and unfun.
Just recently started playing Denshattack! on Steam Deck, it's been really fun. Never knew i would appreciate arcade-style train hopping, parkour hybrid mixed into a pretty cool story around post-climate crisis Japan.
I was pretty interested in Denshattack, but when trying the demo I found the combo inputs to be really hard to do reliably. Have you had any trouble with that? I was hoping they would improve it for the full game
Not really, it can get some getting used to but default controls are flicking the right joystick around for the tricks. then with button combos you can get going pretty easily so I was able to get some sick moves while jumping rails
I'm in the middle of replaying Cyberpunk and finishing my fourth playthrough of Silksong. A friend also just got me neon white so I've been playing that too. Other than that still the occasional windblown run when I can convince my husband to play
Palworld is addicting. I tried Pokemon, Monster Sanctuary, Coromon, Cassette Beasts, and Nexomon. Bounced off all of them. Who knew that adding base building, shifting to a 3rd person view, and adding a million things to do would make it stick with me.
Ah, I see, its a bummer. I guess the game is good enough that it was worth the purchase and starting again; speaks for the game itself. Especially with the version 1.0 release there are huge changes that its probably exciting again. However I find it a bit weird that it does not have cross-save, because it has cross-play joining console and PC servers. But this would require a third party account from Pocket Pair. Whatever, I was just thinking a bit out loud.
It would be boring if I started talking about RetroArch again... so I will not mention it. At the moment I'm not playing too much on the Steam Deck, or in general for that matter. But I started recently playing Wreckfest, which is like Destruction Derby on Playstation (I'm old). Still early on and need to see if its any good in todays day and age.
I also want to go back to Shenmue 3, as a fan of the original Shenmue 1 and 2 on the Dreamcast. It feels like I would emulate an old game, lol. Man, I'm such a sucker for these oldschool games. There is also a new enhanced edition of Shenmue 3 upcoming, not sure if its worth the price and wait. Maybe I get it for free as an owner of the original version, just like that Rockstar did with GTA 5. Or maybe a discount...
I actually force myself to play less emulation and more "normal" games. :D On my Steam Deck I use RetroArch Steam version almost exclusively to play emulation (which does not come with Playstation 2 core on the Steam store, I could install it myself but don't want to manage my own version of the core). So it's mostly old systems. As for more modern systems and games, I'm looking into DS and PSP. But didn't start anything on them right now.
Often I just end up exploring new or random games with the intention of just trying them out for a short time, and that's it then. Especially with Arcade, DOS or Amiga. I'm also into Romhacks and play MSU1 based SNES games with different soundtracks and additional enhancements. Then I try various Super Mario World Romhacks, but could not decide on which to take on and finish. Same for Super Metroid Romhacks. Man there are so many good ones.
Alundra (Playstation, 1997): https://www.mobygames.com/game/5928/alundra/ a classic top down action adventure, just started it, I'm still in the beginning and curious because my friend told me since the 90s about the game
So probably not the stuff you are into, given the titles and systems you mentioned. Switch is also installed, but because I have a PC to run Switch games much better, I actually end up never playing it on the Deck.
Of the games mentioned, the F-Zero one seems the most interesting. I’ve tried to get into it the unmodded version several times over the years, but it never stuck. The controls always just felt way too slippery.
I ended up trying out RetroDeck after reformatting my deck a few weeks back. Flatpak install was pretty seamless, and I liked being able to save all my ROMs to SD card by default instead of my limited 256 SSD.
I have some of the GCN and GBA games I’ve always loved in addition to stuff I never got around to playing, like Jet Set Radio and Star Fox 64.
Of all my “games” on my deck, RetroDeck/Emulation Station had the highest playtime before I formatted, at 100 hours.
I also have the 256gb Deck (LCD day one) and put all Roms on 512gb microSD card. :-) One positive thing about using the Steam version of RetroArch is to have builtin Cloud saves for every configuration and game saves, and playtimes. Also it does not clash with RetroDeck or Emudecks own shortcuts and settings in example. I've seen over and over reports of problems that can be traced back to that. On my Deck RetroArch has highest playtime too, right now at 180 hours. :-)
And the controls of F-Zero, it is definitely not easy and one need to get used to it. One tip I could give is, in the corners instead using break, I recommend to let go of acceleration very quickly, in a quick tapping manner until you get the curve. This gives you control and grip and reduced the speed. I actually improved playing like this and finished the cups, which I was not able to before.
One thing I enjoyed a lot (many hours, instead playing a game lol) is experimenting and creating custom controls, menus and functionality. I always wanted to share my RetroArch custom Steam controls (through Steam Input community share option), but that would require exact setup of some shortcuts.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams - F2P jigsaw puzzle game that supports multiplayer. You can use custom images after a DLC purchase but the base game has a good sample of puzzles. My first 500 piece puzzle took 10 hours to do. It tickles my nonogram crave as I hit a skill wall in Voxelgram. I would recommend.
Ara Fell - 2D RPG. Simple combat. Story is cheesy but I needed more calcium in my gaming diet. I would also recommend.
Black Flag Resynced. Obligatory “fuck Ubisoft,” but I loved the original and I’ve been loving the remaster. And I’m pretty sure this is the first Ubisoft title I’ve bought since the original. It runs surprisingly well on the Deck if you limit it to 30FPS and put it on one of the handheld settings.
That is, I love it when I can play it. I’ve been traveling this weekend, and if I want to run the game I need to connect the Deck to my phone’s hotspot to start the game. It can run disconnected, just needs to be connected to start it. But fortunately the Deck suspends and wakes just fine while the game is already running, so I’ve just left it going.
(Obviously it looks much better if I play on my PC or stream it to the Deck from the PC, but I’ve been glad to be able to play it on the go with minimal fuss.)
I picked up Control - Ultimate Edition a few months ago and beat it.
After playing God of War (2018), some of Hogwarts Legacy, and way too much Destiny and Destiny 2, I am very much tired of the:
“Upgraded gear makes you stronger and there are multiple rarity tiers of gear” mechanic.
I’m debating between playing Mass Effect Legendary (played the Original many times) or starting up FFVII Remake again — I’m about 7 hours into that one.
I started playing Sid Meier's Pirates but got frustrated that no one has labelled the buttons in the control schemes. I'll do it myself once I've fetched a keyboard.
I've also been playing Raccoin which is relatively fun.
So I just started playing Brotato, the cousin (or should I say brother?^^) of Vampire Survivors, as if I didn't have a backlog enough. I avoided these games until now, for whatever reason my curiosity picked up. But now I can see the appeal to it. Well for one price was not the actual issue. You can get them for 5 Dollars / Euros, or 3 on a sale.
Why would I chose to play Brotato instead the more famous (and vampires are cooler) Vampire Survivors? After researching and reading opinions about both games, I came to a conclusion that Brotato might be better on the gameplay side, with more depth in it through meaningful different characters and items. And Vampire Survivors is also focused on collectables, which I'm not such a big fan of, but for many that is a plus. I also like the idea of Brotato releasing enemies in waves and then in between one can purchase stuff with money in a shop. I will probably end up playing the other game too... and then there is Mega Bonk, which I also ignored until now.
Holocure would be my recommendation for the free tier of the Survivor genre. However, last I heard it has performance issues when there's lots of enemies on screen...
I've seen this game too, but forgot about it, as I'm not really into VTuber stuff. But decoupling it from this, looking at the game itself, I might try it out. I mean i'm into the genre now, so its only a matter of time. :p Thanks for the suggestion.
I just finished the most recent Shinobi and it was exactly what I wanted from it. Nine Souls before that was quite excellent. Animal Well was even better than expected. Dome Keeper was fun. Sea of Stars was good but couldn't hold my attention. I also played the newest installment of Axiom Verge.
I'm a sucker for good Metroidvania games. Open to suggestions for others in that genre.
Been playing Caves of Qud recently. Hadn't played it since I hit the current endpoint in early access (IIRC it ended after Bethesda Susa) so I am catching up to the current version. Just looking for a god damn zetachrome weapon for my golem to climb the spindle. Fucking things never drop 😩
Also playing a super simple build that is strong AF. The only things that really can kill me are cheribum and chrome pyramids. Or evil clones of myself.
Are you playing this on the Deck? It's pretty impressive that it's playable at all considering how terribly it ran at launch (well, wouldn't run at all originally, but then ran terribly on Deck after getting some specific proton patches)
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warmaster@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 17d
Skate 3 Recomp, Windows version via Proton using Faugus. Freaking amazing.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 17d
Man the community with the recent recompilations of old classics to play them natively and enhance them is crazy. I have to get into this too (but different games). I would have thought with the recompilation of a game on Windows, a native Linux version should be possible too.
warmaster@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 13d
There's already a Linux build, but it crashes more oftenly. I want to try the Daytona Recomp.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 13d
Ah, I see. Sounds like a similar issue with native Steam games, where the Proton / Windows version works better.
barkingspiders@infosec.pub · 7 pts · 17d
Factorio in docked mode on the tv. I can't believe how well it runs. Looks just fine in 1080 or whatever on my 4k
Red0ctober@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 17d
Valheim has been my go to for awhile now. And when I'm struggling there, I boot up Ghost of Tsushima
nuclear_wizard@startrek.website · 6 pts · 16d
1000xRESIST and Pathogenic
1000xRESIST was on a lot of underrated games lists last year when it came out, and I kept putting it off because the plot points I had heard about seemed very heavy, but it is a beautiful piece of art. It's a very cinematic game with a lot to say about identity, family, and the pain we inflict upon ourselves. Saying anything about the story would probably ruin it, but it's a walking sim with some light puzzle elements.
Pathogenic is a rougelite twinstick shooter where you play as an infection fighting through the human body and upgrading along the way by adding internal upgrades that power up external upgrades like tentacles that allow you to move or appendages that shoot/attack. It's almost the complete opposite of 1000xRESIST. Basically no story and all gameplay.
alternatingcurrent@piefed.ca · 4 pts · 16d
These games both look great. Any other recommendations?
nuclear_wizard@startrek.website · 4 pts · 15d
SWORN if you like Hades. It's pretty transparent that they just said "What if Hades, but rip out any depth to the story, make it up to 4 player multiplayer, and change up the pantheon of gods" then made that, but it's still fun to play.
Esoteric Ebb is a self-described Disco-like (referring to Disco Elysium) where you play as a cleric investigating a local tea shop that exploded. You have the typical RPG stats that you distribute points into at the beginning (so you can basically make whatever class you want despite your job being a cleric at the beginning), and as you go through the game, the stats are represented by different parts of your psyche that will comment on and influence your actions. The writing is genuinely hilarious and the sheer amount of content could keep you coming back for many playthroughs with very different experiences each time. I've never played a video game RPG that captures the experience of playing a TTRPG as well as this one does.
I hadn't seen Mina the Hollower mentioned in this thread, and I really enjoyed that earlier this year too. It's a more modern take on 2D Zelda game with more focus on skill difficulty (harder enemies and some brutal platforming) than puzzles. It has some great pixel art in the style of a Game Boy Color game and is packed full of secrets to discover. It's got a really great soundtrack too!
anakin78z@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 17d
Playing Absolum. I'm pretty bad at it, but I'm having fun.
uninvitedguest@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 16d
This game caught me be surprise and I could barely put it down.
anakin78z@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 15d
Yea, I saw it on a 'best of the year' list and had never heard of it before then. I'm glad they had a demo, because it hooked me.
anotherhoffmann@feddit.org · 5 pts · 17d
Hades 2 and Dredge have been fun!
uymai@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 17d
Still on ufo 50, I think I’m at the end of cyberpunk: phantom liberty and dragging my feet /waiting to get a good chunk of time to fully pay attention to it, and just installed tunic and the witness
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 17d
All good games, Tunic and the Witness are personal favorites of mine
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 17d
I've been playing a couple games:
Sea of Stars - Been wanting to play this a long time, and it's similar in some ways to the Golden Sun games, which are my favorite JRPGs. However the combat is slow, and the skill lock mechanic is actively unfun a lot of the time. Not sure if I'm going to play much more, I might tweak the difficulty settings to make combat really easy and just "skip" that part of the game. Mainly just disappointing because I really want to like this game.
Dragonsword awakening - basically was a heavily genshin inspired gacha game, that got reworked into a full premium release. Pretty fun if you want a game like Genshin but without any f2p crap.
Sifu - Really good combat game, I flip back and forth between feeling like a martial god and a bumbling idiot.
tiberius@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 17d
I feel your pain with the lock system in Sea of Stars. Sometimes you can only get it 80% power and just take the damage. There was a point early in the game where I was low on items and HP. I knew I would die in the next regular fight. I died and backtracked to craft more healing items from fish to get me over the hump.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 16d
I have a lot of issues with it.
If you try to break locks, to usually have to save your abilities/empowered attacks to be able to do that in the number of turns provided. Enemies also take reduced damage while channeling locked abilities (60% reduced in my game). So you're encouraged to save all your strongest damaging abilities for when enemies take the least damage, making fights a slow awful grind.
Alternatively, ignore breaking locks, and save abilities for when enemies aren't locked. Finish fights way faster, but the lock abilities are really strong and punishing.
Enemy locks aren't staggered, multiple enemies will use lock abilities at the same time, making breaking them impossible and sometimes leading to impossible fights due to RNG.
Enemy locks sometimes require damage types that haven't been unlocked yet (ie requiring poison before you get a poison character).
Just overall the lock system is supposed to add carefuld decision making to combat about what abilities to use and who to prioritize, but I feel like it almost never works out that way, and instead just makes combat really slow and unfun.
kokomo@reddit.kokomo.cloud · 4 pts · 17d
Just recently started playing Denshattack! on Steam Deck, it's been really fun. Never knew i would appreciate arcade-style train hopping, parkour hybrid mixed into a pretty cool story around post-climate crisis Japan.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 17d
I was pretty interested in Denshattack, but when trying the demo I found the combo inputs to be really hard to do reliably. Have you had any trouble with that? I was hoping they would improve it for the full game
kokomo@reddit.kokomo.cloud · 2 pts · 16d
Not really, it can get some getting used to but default controls are flicking the right joystick around for the tricks. then with button combos you can get going pretty easily so I was able to get some sick moves while jumping rails
mapleseedfall@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 15d
Factorio. And it will always be factorio
alternatingcurrent@piefed.ca · 4 pts · 16d
GTA IV. Been craving a replay of this, and need a hit of GTA before the next big installment.
graynk@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 17d
A chill lil puzzle game Wilmot Works It Out
toomanypancakes@crazypeople.online · 4 pts · 17d
I'm in the middle of replaying Cyberpunk and finishing my fourth playthrough of Silksong. A friend also just got me neon white so I've been playing that too. Other than that still the occasional windblown run when I can convince my husband to play
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 17d
How is Windblown? Been considering playing it with a friend
toomanypancakes@crazypeople.online · 3 pts · 16d
I adore it, I've sunk like 300 hours into it so far. Definitely worth picking up, especially if you can hook a friend!
dmir@gehirneimer.de · 1 pts · 6d
What's your model, settings and experience for Cyberpunk 2077?
I'm thinking about a handheld playthrough at 40 FPS and Hz and wonder what battery life, fan noise and temps to expect from this thing.
Also, are you playing with or without the Phantom Liberty DLC?
ben@ly.eok.me · 4 pts · 16d
Just finished Gothic1 remake
nocturne@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 17d
I finally picked up palworld on the deck (previously had it on ps5). I have been playing that a bit.
tiberius@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 16d
Palworld is addicting. I tried Pokemon, Monster Sanctuary, Coromon, Cassette Beasts, and Nexomon. Bounced off all of them. Who knew that adding base building, shifting to a 3rd person view, and adding a million things to do would make it stick with me.
nocturne@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 16d
I get bored rather quickly with Palworld. I will play for a month or so solid, then put it down for 8+ months. But I do that with pokemon too.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 17d
Hope it is cross compatible and you don't have to start all over again.
nocturne@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 17d
It is not, and I did have to start over again.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 14d
Sometimes you can do things like a GDPR request your cloud saves from Sony, then see if the Palworld save files are in any way transferable to PC.
This doesn't usually work, but it's really nice if it does.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 17d
Ah, I see, its a bummer. I guess the game is good enough that it was worth the purchase and starting again; speaks for the game itself. Especially with the version 1.0 release there are huge changes that its probably exciting again. However I find it a bit weird that it does not have cross-save, because it has cross-play joining console and PC servers. But this would require a third party account from Pocket Pair. Whatever, I was just thinking a bit out loud.
johnydoe666@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 17d
Just started with Moonstone Island on my new steam machine
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 17d
It would be boring if I started talking about RetroArch again... so I will not mention it. At the moment I'm not playing too much on the Steam Deck, or in general for that matter. But I started recently playing Wreckfest, which is like Destruction Derby on Playstation (I'm old). Still early on and need to see if its any good in todays day and age.
I also want to go back to Shenmue 3, as a fan of the original Shenmue 1 and 2 on the Dreamcast. It feels like I would emulate an old game, lol. Man, I'm such a sucker for these oldschool games. There is also a new enhanced edition of Shenmue 3 upcoming, not sure if its worth the price and wait. Maybe I get it for free as an owner of the original version, just like that Rockstar did with GTA 5. Or maybe a discount...
TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 12d
No, tell me your emulated recommendations!
I usually play Pokemon ROMhacks, but started playing Kirby Air Rider and Mario Sunshine.
Also Shadow of the Colossus. Granted none of the properly titled games are Retroarch, but I digress.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 12d
I actually force myself to play less emulation and more "normal" games. :D On my Steam Deck I use RetroArch Steam version almost exclusively to play emulation (which does not come with Playstation 2 core on the Steam store, I could install it myself but don't want to manage my own version of the core). So it's mostly old systems. As for more modern systems and games, I'm looking into DS and PSP. But didn't start anything on them right now.
Often I just end up exploring new or random games with the intention of just trying them out for a short time, and that's it then. Especially with Arcade, DOS or Amiga. I'm also into Romhacks and play MSU1 based SNES games with different soundtracks and additional enhancements. Then I try various Super Mario World Romhacks, but could not decide on which to take on and finish. Same for Super Metroid Romhacks. Man there are so many good ones.
So probably not the stuff you are into, given the titles and systems you mentioned. Switch is also installed, but because I have a PC to run Switch games much better, I actually end up never playing it on the Deck.
TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 12d
Of the games mentioned, the F-Zero one seems the most interesting. I’ve tried to get into it the unmodded version several times over the years, but it never stuck. The controls always just felt way too slippery.
I ended up trying out RetroDeck after reformatting my deck a few weeks back. Flatpak install was pretty seamless, and I liked being able to save all my ROMs to SD card by default instead of my limited 256 SSD.
I have some of the GCN and GBA games I’ve always loved in addition to stuff I never got around to playing, like Jet Set Radio and Star Fox 64.
Of all my “games” on my deck, RetroDeck/Emulation Station had the highest playtime before I formatted, at 100 hours.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 12d
I also have the 256gb Deck (LCD day one) and put all Roms on 512gb microSD card. :-) One positive thing about using the Steam version of RetroArch is to have builtin Cloud saves for every configuration and game saves, and playtimes. Also it does not clash with RetroDeck or Emudecks own shortcuts and settings in example. I've seen over and over reports of problems that can be traced back to that. On my Deck RetroArch has highest playtime too, right now at 180 hours. :-)
And the controls of F-Zero, it is definitely not easy and one need to get used to it. One tip I could give is, in the corners instead using break, I recommend to let go of acceleration very quickly, in a quick tapping manner until you get the curve. This gives you control and grip and reduced the speed. I actually improved playing like this and finished the cups, which I was not able to before.
One thing I enjoyed a lot (many hours, instead playing a game lol) is experimenting and creating custom controls, menus and functionality. I always wanted to share my RetroArch custom Steam controls (through Steam Input community share option), but that would require exact setup of some shortcuts.
tiberius@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 17d
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams - F2P jigsaw puzzle game that supports multiplayer. You can use custom images after a DLC purchase but the base game has a good sample of puzzles. My first 500 piece puzzle took 10 hours to do. It tickles my nonogram crave as I hit a skill wall in Voxelgram. I would recommend.
Ara Fell - 2D RPG. Simple combat. Story is cheesy but I needed more calcium in my gaming diet. I would also recommend.
TheRealKuni@piefed.social · 3 pts · 17d
Black Flag Resynced. Obligatory “fuck Ubisoft,” but I loved the original and I’ve been loving the remaster. And I’m pretty sure this is the first Ubisoft title I’ve bought since the original. It runs surprisingly well on the Deck if you limit it to 30FPS and put it on one of the handheld settings.
That is, I love it when I can play it. I’ve been traveling this weekend, and if I want to run the game I need to connect the Deck to my phone’s hotspot to start the game. It can run disconnected, just needs to be connected to start it. But fortunately the Deck suspends and wakes just fine while the game is already running, so I’ve just left it going.
(Obviously it looks much better if I play on my PC or stream it to the Deck from the PC, but I’ve been glad to be able to play it on the go with minimal fuss.)
Macallan@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 15d
In the middle of another New Vegas playthrough.
dmir@gehirneimer.de · 2 pts · 6d
Same. This file has been going for years, on and off. No other game does this to me.
Same time, same game 10 years from now?
TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 12d
I picked up Control - Ultimate Edition a few months ago and beat it.
After playing God of War (2018), some of Hogwarts Legacy, and way too much Destiny and Destiny 2, I am very much tired of the:
“Upgraded gear makes you stronger and there are multiple rarity tiers of gear” mechanic.
I’m debating between playing Mass Effect Legendary (played the Original many times) or starting up FFVII Remake again — I’m about 7 hours into that one.
boletus@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 16d
Into the Chronosphere and Spider-Man. Both run great and play great and having a blast.
PrincessKadath@ani.social · 2 pts · 15d
Finally found some time to play and sat down to play Replaced. Loving it so far.
ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 16d
Got back into Caves of Qud recently. I gave up on it a while back, but I have a renewed interest in it and it's going well.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 15d
Just finished RDR on my modded xbox360 and about to start RDR2 on my Bazzite machine.
Flamekebab@piefed.social · 2 pts · 15d
I started playing Sid Meier's Pirates but got frustrated that no one has labelled the buttons in the control schemes. I'll do it myself once I've fetched a keyboard.
I've also been playing Raccoin which is relatively fun.
yuri@pawb.social · 2 pts · 16d
skate story, i’ve beaten it twice and still wanna play more! by FAR the coolest skating game i’ve ever played.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 16d
It's definitely visually striking
yuri@pawb.social · 2 pts · 14d
highly recommend the demo, it’s the full first chapter! the controls are super fun, but it’s hard to explain specifically why hahah
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 16d
So I just started playing Brotato, the cousin (or should I say brother?^^) of Vampire Survivors, as if I didn't have a backlog enough. I avoided these games until now, for whatever reason my curiosity picked up. But now I can see the appeal to it. Well for one price was not the actual issue. You can get them for 5 Dollars / Euros, or 3 on a sale.
Why would I chose to play Brotato instead the more famous (and vampires are cooler) Vampire Survivors? After researching and reading opinions about both games, I came to a conclusion that Brotato might be better on the gameplay side, with more depth in it through meaningful different characters and items. And Vampire Survivors is also focused on collectables, which I'm not such a big fan of, but for many that is a plus. I also like the idea of Brotato releasing enemies in waves and then in between one can purchase stuff with money in a shop. I will probably end up playing the other game too... and then there is Mega Bonk, which I also ignored until now.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 16d
Deep Rock Galactic Survivor is my personal favorite in the genre, so one more for your backlog.
tiberius@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 16d
Holocure would be my recommendation for the free tier of the Survivor genre. However, last I heard it has performance issues when there's lots of enemies on screen...
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 16d
I've seen this game too, but forgot about it, as I'm not really into VTuber stuff. But decoupling it from this, looking at the game itself, I might try it out. I mean i'm into the genre now, so its only a matter of time. :p Thanks for the suggestion.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 16d
It's actually not a bad "problem" to have. ;-) Thanks, looks also good its wishlisted now.
eodur@piefed.social · 2 pts · 16d
I just finished the most recent Shinobi and it was exactly what I wanted from it. Nine Souls before that was quite excellent. Animal Well was even better than expected. Dome Keeper was fun. Sea of Stars was good but couldn't hold my attention. I also played the newest installment of Axiom Verge.
I'm a sucker for good Metroidvania games. Open to suggestions for others in that genre.
Davel23@fedia.io · 2 pts · 15d
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom is one of the best Metroidvanias I've played in a long time.
eodur@piefed.social · 3 pts · 15d
That looks really fun. Thanks for the rec!
Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 15d
Grim Dawn, Nimrods and God of War
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 9d
Satisfactory, Megabonk, Haste
I've found that, at any one time, I like having one that's a real timesink kinda game, and 2-3 that are pick-up and play arcadey games
compcube@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 15d
Vampire Crawlers. Just finished all the dairy plant levels.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 2 pts · 15d
Been playing Caves of Qud recently. Hadn't played it since I hit the current endpoint in early access (IIRC it ended after Bethesda Susa) so I am catching up to the current version. Just looking for a god damn zetachrome weapon for my golem to climb the spindle. Fucking things never drop 😩
Also playing a super simple build that is strong AF. The only things that really can kill me are cheribum and chrome pyramids. Or evil clones of myself.
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 9d
Indiana Jones and the great circle.
Graphically it's mildly disappointing. For example the Sistine Chapel looks really bad in game and it takes long for the textures to pop in.
It's quite playable though, the framerate is decent and in most areas the delayed textures are not an issue.
It is quite a buggy game though, it has that typical Bethesda jank to it.
The game itself is a lot like the classic movies. They really nailed that part and that is well made.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 9d
Are you playing this on the Deck? It's pretty impressive that it's playable at all considering how terribly it ran at launch (well, wouldn't run at all originally, but then ran terribly on Deck after getting some specific proton patches)
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 8d
I would call it a good experience if you don't mind the texture pop in. It has certainly made a 13h flight much more enjoyable.
APinkOrange@piefed.social · 1 pts · 13d
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 9d
Rebel Galaxy. Having a great time.