I’m currently building a massive irrigation system in Timberborn and also running through BOTW again before unwrapping TOTK.

I’m pleased that there’s not so much TOTK stuff floating about here as there was on the other place, I want to go in as innocent as a newborn lamb.

Finally started Red Dead 2 best animal petting simulator I’ve played I petted a bun so hard it’s fur came off with my hand

I’m mostly switching between the System Shock Remake (one of my Kickstarters finally coming through…) and Aliens: Dark Descent – which is far better than I was expecting. The only real sticking points so far is the squad acting as ‘one’ (it’s a pro and a con), and the sheer RNG of alien movements – hit the RNG just right and you’ll go from a Hunt event, straight into a difficulty increase, straight into a Boss encounter…!

Don’t get as much time as I would like (who does?) But mostly Dwarf Fortress having finished a portal play through.

I’m looking at Deep Rock Galactic to play with my boys as I’ve got them to promise we will only play together! We all played Valorant for a bit but they can put about 10 times the hours in that I can so they outstripped me long ago!

Hell Let Loose WW2 shooter. It has a great in-game community, and they just released the British faction too (which is a bit rough around the edges right now, admittedly).

Street Fighter 6. The game is too god damn addicting.

Dwarf Fortress! Tried and failed to get into it many times before the Steam release, and now completely hooked.

Right now I have Final Fantasy XIV running in the background, I’m waiting for some ore to respawn at roughly 10:42 our time. Gathering’s a nice laid back experience.

After I’m done with this I’m probably gonna boot up Story Of Seasons: Pioneers Of Olive Town and do some gathering in that too. :)

The thing about getting into game dev as a hobby is that basically now you have no time to actually play other games! 😭

When I do get time, Deep Rock Galactic is a fave for those days when you just want to shoot something in the face but you don’t want to do it surrounded by aggressively sexist 12 year old boys. A new season just dropped this week, which makes it sound like a typical money-hungry microtransactional mess but I swear it’s not like that at all, the devs are great people and everyone should give this one a go. ROCK AND STONE!

More chill days I like to investigate the unending backlog of cozy indie games from Epic (never touched them until I got a Steam Deck but it’s been great for those). Or revisit Mini Metro which on the surface is a simple af puzzle game but it’s surprisingly immersive and deep.

Of course it’s Steam Next Fest atm, I’ve only tried a couple of demos so far (Station to Station and Laysara: Summit Kingdom) but was thoroughly underwhelmed by both of them. On the other hand my husband tried the demo of Memori and got super into it, he says anyone who liked Celeste should give it a try.

Also last mention goes to Outer Wilds, I’m not “playing” it as such because it’s pretty one-and-done, but it’s impossible not to recommend it whenever even a slightly appropriate opportunity allows. One of the most amazingly crafted and emotionally impactful games I’ve played in my 30-odd years of gaming and if you’ve never tried it, please just trust me and go in blind it is so worth it.

I was very lucky to be gifted Tears of The Kingdom on release, been playing that for the past month, amazing game.

Got back into Grim Dawn in a big way recently. Diablo IV was released at the right time for ARPG fans, but I just can’t deal with all of the extra garbage that you get with Blizz games nowadays.

Aliens: Dark Descent. It’s way better than I expected, not just in the gameplay but nailing the vibe of the movie. Fireteam Elite was a fun wave shooter but it turned the xenomorphs into cannon fodder for an action shoot-em-up. Dark Descent is survival horror. Fighting is a last resort. You spend your time creeping down dark corridors hoping you don’t see a xeno, because when you do the hive wakes up and bad things happen. Like in Alien Isolation, your best bet is to watch your tracker and be where the xenomorphs aren’t. Your marines can get wounded, killed, or dragged off to be an incubator. They also suffer stress, and start to freak out the longer they are in danger.

Really enjoying it so far!

Finished up TOTK a while ago, playing Xenoblade Chronicles X currently. I plan to get the new Katamari Remake soon too.

In the short moments I’ve had for gaming, I’ve finished the main story in Saints Row (the rebooted one). It was OK, reasonably fun and definitely worth the £12 or so I paid on ebay. Not sure what’s next, maybe finish my second run of Horizon Zero Dawn.

I’ve been getting back into World of Warcraft the past few weeks. Really enjoying playing solo and just levelling alts instead of the almost second job level of commitment that I used to have when raiding years ago.

Been eyeing that Battlebits Remastered on steam as well - might pick that up as it looks chaotic fun.