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Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Wildmender which I'm sure I got in a humble bundle. Both me and my wife have one. I ran into it as I was browsing my massive steam library for a casual game.

Its an open world sandbox survival. Clean simple graphics. Not really building but I get Don't Starve vibes but it's extremely forgiving.

The best part is the survival mechanics. You awaken in a ruined dessert world and work towards restoring it.

You need to stay hydrated and fed. So you need to grow stuff to eat and keep your water bottle topped off.

Its extremely gratifying to start off with just a desert with a small pool of water and end up with an oasis.

You can play solo or up to 4 player online/LAN.

The storyline is pretty good too. Combat is fairly easy but that's coming from a seasoned gamer. I don't think I'd die except from fall damage.

[–] anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 days ago

I got Krita on Steam, am drawing

[–] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 days ago

I have rebounded in No Man's Sky again. I have speedrun the expedition 20 event and holy all these new features are so cooooooool.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 days ago

I never got to finish FFX and lost my PS2 memory card, but recently got another copy and played a little bit of it earlier this week. So I am excited to some day get back to where I was. I basically got to the level up map thing before turning off for the night.

I am also excited because I'm waiting until I have time this weekend to experience Viva Piñata basically as blind as I can on 360 this weekend since I think the last time I played was a demo from around the time the first version of the 360 came about.

[–] kosure@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

I'm replaying Witcher 3 Blood and Wine. I had a completed game save that I jumped into. It only took me an hour or two to get back into the control scheme, which was a pleasant surprise.

[–] Chadsalot@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Finally started (and finished) Mario Odyssey. Wonder what happened to Nintendo, cuz this game is a pure love letter to Mario fans. Currently doing after game bonus stuff.

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Cult of the Lamb, it's well suited to Steam Deck gaming and my desktop is currently in the back of a moving truck

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[–] _druid@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 6 points 3 days ago

Assetto Corsa

Been driving various racecars on Tail of the Dragon. Good fun.

[–] specialseaweed@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Broke out the GameCube. SSX3 and Double Dash.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

Ssx3 is so good, I think it might be a perfect game.

[–] B0NK3RS@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Still playing Final Fantasy Tactics Advance but it's becoming a bit of a chore now so Colin McRae Rally 2.0 on PS1 also gets a shout out.

[–] BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

FFTA was the game that got me into trpgs. Absolutely love it. Character progression feels so good and I love the ability to pull a little bit from one job to another via the way the skills system works. I've been playing Tactics Ogre Reborn lately and it certainly has a much better plot, but I'd like it if character growth was closer to FFTA.

I have a lot of opinions about the plot to FFTA though. Marche frankly feels like the villain to me. His stated goal is literally to destroy the world.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Some WoW, some Zero-K.

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[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 4 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Witcher 3. Only 15 minutes in and I want to stop playing it already, which is a new record for how quickly I've got bored of this game in the half a dozen times I've tried to stick with it in the past.

I need to stop listening to people who tell me to give it one more try. I just don't like this game.

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[–] YellaLeber@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Currently pulling my hair out with Tactics Ogre: Reborn. Got kind of fed up with the changes from the older games so halfway through I decided to blitz through the game and avoid anything optional; currently at the last few fights before the final boss and am feeling very afraid I'm going to get stuck at the end...

[–] BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You're not the only one working your way through it. There's so much I like about it, but, damn, it's hard to love. I just got to act 4, myself, and keep having the thought "this would be nice to have a friend who has played the shit out of this game to give me some guidance here and there"

[–] YellaLeber@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Lol I feel you. I did just manage to beat the game yesterday without too much headache so hopefully you can too. As long as you can keep clearing battles without a ton of restarts I think you'll be ok. Just make sure to have a lot of mana restoration items haha

[–] BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Oof. Good to know, especially since you can't buy mana restoration items and need to farm them. Thanks for the heads up

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Still dividing my time between trudging through the Chernobyl exclusion zone in STALKER: Anomaly and perusing scripts and configs to resolve conflicts and crashes as I either discover them or provoke them by continuing to either tweak existing mods on my list or add more to the pile.

I get like this frequently with modding, I don't know if it's a latent perfectionist streak or just your garden variety hyperfixation but I tend to lose myself in the desire to make everything just right and get stuck on that over actually playing. But I think I'm having fun with it as I'm hacking my way through making compatibility patches so maybe it doesn't matter?

It would be fun to actually finish the Mercenary storyline though. I haven't even progress past the starting areas of Cordon/Meadow/Garbage yet...

[–] Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (14 children)

There's a reason why heavily moddable games tend to bring comments like "yeah, so I played the game for 3 hours and spent 20 modding it" - the latter can be just as fun as the game itself.

I'd be curious about more of your thoughts about Anomaly as you continue your playthrough. While I'm not planning to jump back into Stalker any time soon, I'm always on the lookout for what to do when I do so more info could be useful. No pressure though!

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[–] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Getting back into overwatch 2 cos they brought back 6v6 open que.

And it's free, works on Linux without anti-cheat hassles.

[–] dmegatool@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

Went back to Celeste to do some D-sides. Best platformer ever, no contest :)

Some Dune Imperium on the iPad with some Ballatro games mixed in.

[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The recent bloodletting of New World and release of its expansions for free drew me back to check things out a bit.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How is it? I might need to find some sort of social game to play soon and I already own it, I think.

[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 1 points 3 days ago

I pretty much just treat it like an open world Ubisoft game. With more rubber banding.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 2 points 4 days ago

Lollipop Chainsaw Repop. It's very silly and mostly fun, but very button-mashy, I can't reliably trigger the more lengthy combos, and the cut scenes go on way too long.

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