What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?

I've been playing Cloudpunk (Steam). Fairly relaxed story game about being an illegal delivery driver and occasional taxi driver in a futuristic city -- maybe even only remaining city in the world -- that's so tall that it extends into the clouds. Kinda reminds me of the "Fifth Element," with the hovering or flying cars. As the name suggests, it has a cyberpunk theme, with your typical mass corporate rule and the commentary of the city's large social and economic inequalities.

The story and sidequests aren't the most riveting, and I'm not even sure where the main story is going yet, but it's enough to keep me interested. Especially after playing for about 15hrs so far. The dialog and voice acting are well done and can be quite funny.

It's a beautiful game. The world is 3D, but is done up in a subtle pixel/voxel style. I normally play in third-person (though 1st person is an option), but there's also a cool "side-scroller" mode that really shows off the art that is the city. Coupled with some decent weather effects, it does a great job with immersion.

Hoping to finish it up this week.

I used the recent humble bundle to get my hands on the dozens of Cities:Skylines DLCs I didn't have for a bargain price and am playing it again.

I've been playing through The Quarry with my partner and it's been a blast. Cheesy teenage horror with funny writing, beatiful graphics and enough agency to matter. You can split the characters with multiple players if you want to make it a group thing. :)

I just beat Death Stranding. I liked this way more than I thought. Yes, walking the barren landscapes for hours isn't always a high-thrills experience and the story gets very convoluted. But it manages to actually make traversing those kilometers worth of empty landscape a genuine game mechanic. Planning routes, the logistics of which packages to bring along, managing supplies, navigating using the map and compass, using ladders, ropes and even building larger-sized infrastructure like 3D-printed bridges feels great. In a way the game "gets" the purpose of open world environments better than all those cookie-cutter Ubisoft games where it's mostly just empty filler/backdrop. It's the best realization of the genre since Breath of the Wild and I doubt much came close since. Also I gotta say: As confused as the writing is, the acting is on point. It's kinda... well cast and you believe the characters as they bawl their eyes out and deliver their dramatic monologues. This is probably the best acting, the best facial animation capture I've seen in a videogame. Just wow.

I just want to say, Supraland is currently free to keep on Epic: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/supraland

It's a really great puzzle game. You should get it :)

I finished up Vampire Survivors (all 114 unlocks) which was actually pretty fun to do. Some of it was challenging, and none of it was awful for a pretty casual gamer to do. All in all, this is a pretty good 3 or 4 dollar purchase and the replayability of this is relatively good.

I have gone back to playing some Sunless Skies, which I played for a while and then stopped for no particular reason. It remains a wonderful steampunk cosmic horror RPG where you pilot a flying locomotive through the skies, and is controlled similarly to GTA1. I really enjoy this game an will likely play the previous / next iteration in this franchise.

Hyperbolica is a VR game where you can experience hyperbolic space. The game / story / setting itself is not particularly interesting, but if you have wondered what a non-euclidean space would feel like to move through, it's incredibly interesting. It's also non-VR playable. I can only play for about 20-30 minutes at a time, because it is mindbending.

I've played quite a bit of WINNUKE, a PC game I found here in my free time. It's surprisingly addictive; due in part to the fact that a "long" game lasts no more than 5 minutes or so. This is something you can play when you want to procrastinate, but don't want to check the time to see that 7 hours have passed by.

Aside from that, I've taken up playing the PC game Rust again. Solid game play, just the right level of stress for a game.

Tried out Poinpy, aside from needing a Netflix account, it's pretty fun. It's by the same creator of Downwell, and where Downwell is going down a well, Poinpy is going up, seeking higher ground from a hungry monster who wants fruit juice. You can collect fruits while airborne and combo them together into specific cocktails the monster requests and climb higher into new worlds. It's a lot of fun, and if you have Netflix, it's no additional cost with no ads, and feels really well built around mobile.

I've been getting the MMO itch again but it seems everything today is just not made for me. I like games that place emphasis on the open world over instanced content but that's the minority of games these days.

I tried ESO for a bit because I like TES lore but the open world content is just face roll easy and consequently everything feels meaningless. I've played classic WoW TBC and it's pretty good but I am kind of over it at this point. Unfortunately by the time classic WotLK is out I'll have another kid here so that's also pretty much ruled out.

Anyways I’m going to give return of reckoning a try and see how it goes. I played W:AR back in the day and enjoyed it for a year or so, so hopefully it goes well! It seems like there is a population of 400-700 people playing during the week, which I think is enough for a decent server.