@Fubarberry I just beat #CostumeQuest & #CatQuest over the week.
Now I’m thinking about continuing Costume Quest 2 or Death’s Door.
Right now I’m rotating this games:
- Stardew Valley, starting over
- 7 days to end with you, pretty frustrating for me that I’m really bad with puzzles, but so satisfying every time I manage to decipher a word.
- LibrARian
EDIT: LibrARian is one of those games that seems cool for a stream or let’s play.
It speeds up really quickly after the initial friction, they gave you too powerful habilites. Once finished the game there no incentive to play again.
I have horrible news.
Ring works perfectly on Linux. Apparently this game is an absolute wanker on Windows. Here it just glugs along gluggingly.
I’ve actually run into several older games that have major issues on Windows but run great on Deck. Many of these require fan patches to fix their windows issues (stuff like increasing how much ram the game can use, etc).
A recent example was I gave a friend a copy of FEAR, just to discover it ran way worse on his high end PC than it does on my Steam Deck.
Can’t stop playing Slay The Spire 2, so gooood
Everything is Crab. A roguelite evolution game where the challenge is to out survive the other creatures. Don’t let the cute graphics fool you. It’s a lot of fun and the challenge ramps up quite a bit as you proceed through the difficulty levels.
Metro Last Light Redux. Better than the first one and looks good.
It makes me want to read the books.
My answer is a bit cheating, because its emulation of Playstation 1 via RetroArch. The game is Dark Deception 3: Dark Delusion. It looks good, and the soundtrack is phenomenal. The manual is not needed, because the game teaches with tutorials. If you want, have a look at screenshots to get an idea how the game looks. Overall game seem to be okayish in gameplay, but makes up with an unusual game concept and good soundtrack.
The game is an Tactical Action Adventure game, with levels to pass. So its more a linear game with stages. Controls are not great, more like tank controls from third person. The idea is to run around, setup traps and attacks and with one of the buttons “use” them at the right time. The character is basically a witch. Bring up the “map” to set traps for the associated button. I’m quite early on, so not sure if I will ever finish this. If you choose to play this game, be aware that there is no autosave and you have to save manually after each stage.
I just bought Mina, but I just keep on going back to my old comfort game, Binding of Isaac.
How is Mina? I’ve heard some mixed takes on it, but it being from the Shovel Knight devs makes me want to jump on it.
It’s alright, certainly high quality, the difficulty curve is kind of wack. Keeping money in the early game is brutal, but it doesn’t take long until the game pulls a 180 and you don’t lose money ever, on top of facetanking half your problems with sheer stats and item effects. Reminds me of phase locket back in SK and how it makes half the bosses trivial.
I wasn’t impressed by vanilla Shovel Knight and only loved how original and smooth all the DLC were, this feels like going back to SK somehow - even if on paper there’s tons of original ideas here. If you like Shovel of Hope or 2D Zelda (which it sticks to a lot, including the problems) you’ll like this, and if you like both you’ll love this, probably.
- Nuclear Option + Saitek X52 HOTAS + LookPilot
- Factorio
Mina the Hollower
Only 3 hours in so far, the combat is a bit challenging already, and I’m still exploring around the starting city.
Finding secret areas is as fun as it was in Shovel Knight, music is great, art is gorgeous, the only complaint so far is how you get stuck with the starting weapon and switching it later requires a lot of money
I just installed Chip’s Challenge after realizing it was free. It’s alright in game mode (there’s an existing community control scheme that works well) but better on desktop since you can access the dropdown menus that way. Switched to the Win theme and got a solid dose of nostalgia.
As with another reply, I’m also “cheating.” I started up a save file for GTA: London 1969, emulating the PSX version. Apparently, apart from second-hand and sailing the seas, the original GTA (and its expansions) and GTA2 are unobtanium for PC these days. Kind of sad to see.
Slay the spire 2. Still addicted.
It’s so much harder than the first game. I have yet to win a run with either star guy or doom skeleton. Still, great sequel so far.
Dust, the Twilight princess port, but I just got to the temple of time and am hard crashing every time I put the master sword in. So I’m going to find something else now. Maybe elden ring again?
They’ve published a bunch of updates, with pretty detailed change logs. Have you checked to see if they addressed that issue?
I haven’t got nearly that far. It’s an absolutely amazing recomp and I love that it exists, but as I’m fiddling with the controls and the camera and the combat I’m just thinking “Breath of the Wild exists, why am I doing this?”
I haven’t, but I’m also fairly lazy and without a robust log, I figured it was a one off bug. But thank you for reminding me that the smartest among us need reminders of oversight.
The last few times I was on I was preoccupied with Slay The Spire 2 and Audiosurf 2 for Steam games specifically.
Otherwise, I have slowed down on it since I’m in post game, but I was busy with a fun pokemon fan game ( Pokémon Copper ) in the Azuri region.
Yeah, I haven’t played on it much outside maybe those 3 games.
