No Man's Sky for about 91 minutes. I saw the trailer for the new stuff in it and got kind of excited, forgetting that over the prior 9 years (has it been that long?) I haven't bothered to buy the game because it looks completely uninteresting to me. Largely navigating samey planets and an awful UI that is basically just moving icons around and clicking on things. Sorry to those who like this game, but I do not understand the appeal and I'm a little disappointed in myself that I forgot that this is what the game was, having blown $20 I won't get back.

I'm being unnecessarily harsh. I know people like the game and Hello Games certainly seems like a stand-up company, fixing this game and adding to it for basically nothing over the past 9 years. I'm just disappointed in myself because I've known for those 9 years I wouldn't like it and yet I went ahead and blew my money anyway. It's no NMS or Hello Game's fault and they don't deserve the salt.

So what I've actually been playing is loads of Hairbrained Schemes Battletech with the BTA mod to add tons of new mechs, more variability in play and all kinds of stuff. This game is slow, janky and takes forever to load and it's even worse with mods, but I absolutely love it. I've been on something of a tabletop Battletech kick lately since I bought a new 3d printer, printing and painting tons of terrain for my games, but I've been unable to actually play it just due to the business of life. I hope that'll change soon. But in the meantime, I've been absolutely hooked on HBS Battletech, adding to my already 230ish hours I had previously. I do wish it ran better on my Steam Deck, as I'm getting in the low-teens during urban battles, but this game runs pretty bad on every computer I own, so I guess that's not surprising. At any rate, it hasn't stopped me from being absolutely hooked on it and playing multiple battles each day over the weekend, even though they tend to take between 30-45 minutes and with mods, I can't save.

Escape from Duckov, a solo extraction shooter.

For the uninitiated, an extraction shooter is an evolution of the battle royale (PUBG, Fortnite): you're dropped as a 1-3 players team on a large PvPvE map, and you're competing with other players to complete objectives and loot tiered gear. The trick is that your gear is persistent between games, but you lose it if you don't make it out alive at an extraction point. I like the concept and the thrill of risking your gear, but it's not really a genre I can enjoy as a casual player (and also, I'm not interested in PvP games anymore).

So, Escape from Duckov works like that, but exclusively as a solo PvE game. You have many quests to complete, tons of materials to upgrade your character and your base, tiered gear to loot and craft, and 4 large maps to explore. This is a genre that is largely based on repetition: you always revisit the same maps, and become more and more efficient and confident. What was once an area to avoid is now a great farming zone, so there is a real, satisfying sense of progression. Honestly a great game at such a small price.

I recommend installing 2 QoL mods though: one that adds tier colors for your loot, and another that displays the resale value. There are hundreds of different items, and after a few hours, you need to quickly know what to keep and what to sell. Even with that, you'll still spend a lot of time managing your inventory in your safehouse.

Edit: also, no official controller support, so playing on the Steam Deck is not optimal. Losing your gear because you're fumbling with the pad is particularly frustrating.

I played through the first two episodes of Dispatch and I actually really enjoyed it! I think the episodes are a bit short and Aaron Paul's voice is so recognizable but it's an interesting world that's very corpo superhero without being super overly cynical a la The Boys.

Also been playing Megabonk when I'm just vegetating, it's a good time sink and a good podcast game where you don't really need to think too hard to play, and the loop itself is really addicting.

Monster Hunter Wilds has been taking my time with friends, we've been hunting Omega Planetes and it's been really tough! It's nice to have an actual hard hunt now and I'm hoping they keep the traction going. The performance on PC is still pretty garbage though, hoping they fix it in the December patch.

I technically finished Ball x Pit yesterday. That game IMO is a masterclass in the roguelite/whatever that genre has become. I might end up going for 100% completion, which is a rare thing for me to want to do. Hades 2 might be the next on my list.

I just picked up Ghost of Tsushima. I have no idea why I didn't sooner, because it's been a lot of fun. It reminds me a lot of what I liked about Witcher 3's gameplay, but newer, and the katana combat is well done. Though I would like more chances to do iaijutsu, besides when you initially start encounters, though I'm still in Act I, so maybe that changes.

I think it's also the first game I've seen make use of gestures on the DualSense controller. It basically gives you an extra d-pad, since you swipe in four directions to trigger non-combat actions. The game also does really nice, subtle haptics that add to the immersion. Horse galloping, sword swinging and impacts, bow drawback and straining, etc.. It really feels like it was made for the PS5.

The lack of a minimap or compass is interesting. The wind blows in the direction of your tracked quest objective, and birds and foxes sometimes lead you to points of interest. It feels surprisingly natural.

I kind of wanted to play it with the Japanese dub, but I can't realistically pay attention to subtitles while fighting, given how unforgiving the parry and dodge mechanics are.

Edit: Also, you can pet the foxes sometimes after they take you to an Inari shrine.

A few friends and I are back on Satisfactory. Same map as we've been playing for the last year or longer. We play for like a week or two then take a few months off, then come back, rinse and repeat. It's been good. Mostly.

The one problem we've come across is actually a new entrant. Three of us started together and we agreed on a rough design philosophy, how we were going to approach problems and solutions, who's doing what, how fast we're going, etc. All flexible, of course. But our fourth friend, who's played a lot more Satisfactory than us, joined this time and is kinda just...shitting all over all that. Which is a bit frustrating. We understand he wants to help and play, but we're trying to learn this "organically" -- none of us have ever gotten past oil and plastics and rubber -- and it gets annoying to be told "Hey, don't use those, because you'll need those later," or "I'm gonna research everything so we can get [thing we don't really need at the moment]." Cool, thanks for spoiling all that. And we've been vocal about not spoiling things and to be chill. Any of you encounter that when playing similar games, like Factorio? How do you deal with that?

On the single player side, I picked up Not Tonight. It's like "Papers Please" except it takes place in post-Brexit UK where apparently UKIP or Reform UK is in power and the country is basically treating EU-member residents as deportees. As the player, I'm one of these people, but gets a chance to stay, provided I make enough money, as a pub/club bouncer checking IDs. So that's where the "Papers Please" similarity comes into play. I'm not very far into it, only having gotten access to the second bar, but so far it's fun enough. Think I'll play some right now before bed.

Been playing Once upon a Katamari.

This is the fourth game in the series that I've played, after 1-2 on the PS2 and the one on the PSP, so although this game is basically just more of the same, it's been long enough that it feels fresh again to me.

• The gameplay is basically the same as in the earlier games, with the only new addition being items you can pick up and use. None of these last very long or are particularly powerful, so the experience remains pretty familiar (a good thing in my book). In addition to just rolling stuff up into a monstrous all-consuming blob (my favourite style of stage), there's a decent variety of challenges like only rolling up certain types of items or trying to get your katamari to a specific size by eyeballing it. My only real complaint is that most of the stages have a hard time or size limit, so generally they end just when you've gotten the katamari to the right size to go on a real rampage, but there's probably the ability to unlock free play somewhere in there too if it's like the earlier games.

• The soundtrack is all new and generally quite good, although it definitely has a bit of a leaning towards pop. I remember the first 2 games having all sorts of odd tracks like a guy just straight up talking about katamaris for 5 minutes or a children's song, and there isn't quite that level of variety here.

• There's a ton of unlockable outfits, cousins and whatnot, but if you're like me and don't really care about achievements or cosmetics in games, the game is pretty good about letting you just ignore all that too.

• This is totally on me, but this is the first one I'm playing in Japanese and it turns out that the King of the Cosmos speaks in all katakana, which is a real pain in the ass to read. You can skip all of his long winded talks and just get to the gameplay most of the time, but sometimes he does provide helpful information about your objectives (unfortunately, usually during the mission when you're trying to focus on rolling stuff up).

Great game for short sessions in the evening when you want to space out.

I finished Hylics 2 and it has become one of my favorites RPGs, even though the artstyle is amazing, what I liked the most was the gameplay, it feels close to SMT on how the fights flow but it's not as punishing. I tried to collect as much as I could and noticed the enemies do not respawn in the whole game, so it seems to have a finite amount of fights which is a very rare thing to see in an RPG, anyways the game is great and made me want to play Hylics 1. I also checked other games by Mason Lindroth, and all of the oozed with style.

Also, I picked Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze for the Wii U, to finish my journey of playing all the DKC games. So far it's been great, it's so much better than DKC Returns, but a bit more on the easier side (either that or I'm getting better at playing DKC games), the only thing I feel as tiring is the length of the boss fights, which are not difficult but feel so long. But beside that small issue, it can probably my second favorite game in the series after DKC2.

I picked up Hades 2 and have a few runs under my belt.

The dialogue is very funny. Some of the major boss fights say things about disrespecting them if you go to gather resources during the fight or if you win the fight without getting hit. The big bad Chronos calls you out for trying to control time if you pause the game during his fight.

The combat seems good. I don't like some of the weapons but I can't articulate why. I usually just use the big axe because hitting things hard is easier than learning to use strategy. I am not particularly good at these kinds of games, so my sense of what is balanced is near meaningless.

I'm a bit of an odd ball playing an indie MMO, Project Gorgon. The rumors are its set to leave early access by the end of the year. Has some absolute jank, but it's enjoyable. Content wise, if you quit your job and no-lifed it for a year, I think you'd still have things to do.
I'm in a weird state of hoarding things to get ready for the full release to come out.

This week we played Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap for our podcast on roguelike/lite games.

Despite only one out of the four of us liking it, I feel this is one of the funnier episodes we’ve done in a while. Not every game is for everyone, but sometimes it is fun to dunk on questionable design decisions.

None of us ever played the other games in the OMD series, but I can sympathize with some of the reviews the game got in their behalf. Having to wait 4 years for a new entry and getting…this would make me similarly frustrated.

Deathtrap looks good, it plays good in the moment, but when compared to our episode we just did previously to Deadzone Rogue or with the mega hit Elden Ring Nightreign, OMD Deathtrap feels like an especially lackluster experience that was a riot to pick apart.

Hades: got to the miniboss in Elysium (Bull of Minos). Every time I think "This is the run" I get rocked, so I just focus on getting better, and building to my strengths (fast agression mixed with kiting when needed). I might have the game beaten in a few weeks.

Silly Polly Beast

I was very hyped for this game after playing its demo in last year's Next Fest. The good news is that this game definitely met my expectations with its style and mystique, but most of all the characterization with Polly. Above everything, she's human: she's mute but expressive, doesn't take shit but some situations are so one-sided that all she can do is crouch down and curl up, is a punk who hates authority (for good reason) but loves books. All the flashback cutscenes do well in building on who she is and why she's the way she is. Truly, I believe this game radiates its soul.

The bad news is that the gameplay is very much not like the demo. The demo had constant supplies to burn through to survive to the next resupply, trashfires to reload the revolver which incentivizes kiting and target prioritization when the secondary weapon runs out, and melee as the truly last resort when there's no ammo, the closest trashfire is too far, and you have to hit something now. There was a lot of tension in how to use your resources, whether you'd risk getting hit by using the revolver instead of the secondary gun, and how vulnerable you'd be after a tough situation. The game as of launch strips away that tension because there's no supplies whatsoever and the trashfires go out when combat starts leaving you to skateboard melee combo and wait for stamina to recover for most of the game while mashing dodge roll because that doesn't use stamina. Because you have to essentially perfect an area using an unrefined melee system that wasn't the main focus while having checkpoints that restart you to the beginning of the room on death, there's no longer the fear of losing supplies and having to deal with things unoptimally; the baseline power level for the player is already minimal and people adapt to it so it just becomes an annoyance to work through. I beat the game on Normal after 9-10 hours without buying any supplies from the shop (besides the cosmetic jacket), but I don't at all judge the reviews that call the game out for its difficulty.

The kinda good news is that the dev did see the feedback and has a beta patch ready, though I got the game on GOG so I can't test that. Price of DRM free and all. And the proposed patch doesn't change Hard at all which doesn't incentivize a replay for me on that difficulty.

Still, there's a few other annoyances? Like all the instant kills for areas with bottomless pits, the dedicated stealth area, and the skateboarding minigame of all things. Or how enemies that charge towards you and track your position need to counterintuitively roll towards them. Or the rabbits having a invincible counterattack attack at anytime that requires you to roll away the moment you hear the sound cue and see the exclamation mark.

Despite all that chunk about the gameplay, yeah I'd recommend it (after that patch). It's good, it's got spirit, it makes an impact. The game doesn't wear itself out and keeps introducing new scenarios to keep things fresh. It's not perfect the same way I consider the original TWEWY the perfect fusion of style and gameplay, but as far as a random indie game that I stuck with because of its demo? Yeah, it shoots pretty well.

Absolum

It's a 2P co-op roguelite beat-em-up by the Streets of Rage 4 team, enough said. I've got 98% completion after almost 20 hours, but I'm missing 3 achievements and a few boons/relics I've never picked up. Magic fantasy setting. There are Hades-style boons (Rituals) given at the start of a run and at the end of every map tile (the different types stack instead of being exclusive though), relics as roguelites do, and Inspirations which are character-exclusive moves/passives for the run that are rewarded for defeating minibosses. Duo boons can be unlocked, but don't require both ritual families.

The map has a lot of branching paths and reasons to explore them such as new unlockables and story quests to fulfill. Once you've accomplished everything though, you can kinda tell the 'later unlocked' areas have more rewards? Or at least I like the paths with more mini-bosses for Inspirations, first island is [Cave, wherever I'm feeling, the marsh] and the 2nd island is wherever I feel is less of a PITA at the moment since I haven't internalized the rewards for each path there.

To keep player infinites under control, enemies have a pressure build-up for comboing them (with higher buildup for repetitive combos) with the enemy getting i-frames and launched far back once their pressure is filled. The game makes it clear it's about to happen though and gives extra damage for the final hit. The epic relic that grants infinites prevents the i-frames, but still seems to have the knockback effect.

There are 3 types of defensive actions: Dodge, Deflect, Clash. Dodge is sidestepping up/down or jumping; it's the most risky since it doesn't seem to offer i-frames(?) and bad if you don't know the enemy well enough to tell if they're about to use a sweeping attack or have instant anti-airs, and the rush attack doesn't seem to have i-frames either if their attack lingers. Deflect is dashing towards the enemy attack which typically stuns normal enemies and seems the safest/easiest, but doesn't defend against red attacks. Ironically that makes Clash, Strong Attacking or using an Arcana against enemy attacks, the safest option since it'll always work by throwing it out despite being labeled as the hardest option.

My first two complaints are stuff that was already addressed in SoR4?

• The 'throw item' and 'pick up item' functions are binded to the same key which leaves you swapping between them instead of throwing them when too many types of throwables spawn (especially bad for Cider who has a character exclusive power that spawns throwables on crits).
• Also the shadow clone minibosses not getting a special palette if you unlock and use the shadow palettes which can lead to confusion.
• Some rituals are vague and don't exactly explain what they do which is either a flaw or working as intended for a roguelite depending on your perspective. I'm someone who believes that game design should avoid having to have a wiki open in the background so this is a negative for me.
• I suppose visual clarity can also become an issue if you have too many rituals running, but you've honestly won by that point (RANDOM COSMIC ACCIDENTS GO!)
• Oh and the True Final Boss requires you to use up an extra 1up to challenge them.

Some of the personal quests have RNG elements, but if they require a specific item/ritual family, you can head to the library and purchase the appropriate relic to have them ready for the run.

ILA: A Frosty Glide

I kickstarted this after playing its demo last year! I also beat it in just 2 hours. It's a 3D exploring platformer with collectibles and a voxel artstyle. There are 4 main areas on the snowy mountain for ILA to explore on her skatebroom and get more feathers magic to jump further and new passive boosts for following the main story. Given how much verticality there is, the ladder drop shortcut equivalents are magic bouncy mushrooms that sprout after collecting the magic sparkles near the top of a path. The story is just ILA looking for her missing cat on this island with lore notes and letters from ILA's dad filling the gaps between bouts of exploring. No NPCs to really talk to besides the magical creations (brooms & snowmen) who were left behind.

It's alright, it's just that the x of y stuff collected text in the inventory was a constant reminder of how short the game is whenever swapping in a new cosmetic (which are a little hard to notice to me with how zoomed out the camera is). The lack of a map and markers also makes it difficult to mop up collectibles, let alone seek out the 4 hidden symbols for each elemental door (so 16 switches total and mixing up elements resets progress). I don't not like it, it's just there's a lot of other stuff out there that $20 can get as far as sales and impulse purchases go. I know it's not quite the island exploration category, but within there, A Short Hike and Lil Gator Game are what come to mind first.

Steel Century Groove: Midnight

After playing the next fest demo for the main game, I played the free standalone game which basically has one mini road and then 1 big zone for the mech dance-offs. Unlike the main game demo which gave a choice between the 3 starters, this game starts off with the electricity charging mech, gives the sabotage mech in a sidequest, and hides the drone mech in an unmarked scavenger hunt. Medium was too easy for me so I switched to Hard which was still "victory is never in doubt" aside from the challenge area where I was initially underleveled compared to the enemy units getting statboosted with multiple special moves; I'll probably try Very Hard for the full release.

For the mechs though:

• Electricity: Probably the most inconsistent due to how easily the kit is shutdown by an enemy special? This mech's game plan is hitting square whenever it's off cooldown, resetting square cooldown by using triangle on a ... space, X as the filler attack, and circle to recharge energy for X and triangle. There are so many things that can go wrong: getting hit by a long cooldown attack significantly slows the square>triangle>square pattern. circle getting locked down makes the entire mech useless until it wears off, and the blackout effect and the magnetized effect both shutdown the random electric surge pattern that's supposed to send the mech into its super mode.

• Sabotage: Probably the most mechanically simple/not needing to care about the enemy as much due to its solo-focus? Square is only activated during the supermode when it should be spammed, triangle when modded can be reserved to counter enemy specials, X is the filler attack, and circle gets used every 8 or 9 beats to maintain the super build-up.

• Drone: Not as complicated as it looks. Triangle has a long cooldown, but summons a drone that lowers the enemy win meter, X and circle are both filler moves with X summoning a win meter boosting drone while circle summons a drone that keeps the other drones around longer, and square combines a circle drone with either a triangle or X drone and should be used whenever it's off cooldown. I did end up using this mech to get the level 30 challenge mode achievement.

Picked up the deluxe version of Outer Worlds 2 and have been enjoying it. So far, it's a lot like playing the first one, and I'm planning on starting my 3rd character tonight because there's only 1 respec in the game and it's after the intro, before you're really familiar with the skills and perks system.

I think the highlight for me is that as soon as you pick up one of the deluxe edition or pre-order bonus items, you get offered the chance to give your character a flaw: Consumerism. Because you've shown that you love to pick up the next big thing and obviously don't really care that much about money, you're a consummate consumer and are given a 15% discount at all stores, but all items you sell go for 10% less. In general it works out to your advantage unless you're trying to accumulate a large sum of money for some reason.

I'm looking forward to playing through the game a few times with a few different builds, if I can ever fully settle on one. The tricky thing is that with a level cap of 30, you're only ever going to get 62 skill points to distribute and 15 perks. Makes planning out a build a bit tricky, with no mid-game respecs available. Still, I figure if I go in with a plan then I can enjoy at least one run as my standard stealthy sniper, and then start doing funny builds like a talker who lies to everyone.

Long story short, I fully recommend it if you enjoyed the first one, though it's probably still not as good as Fallout: New Vegas.

I recently finished Dying Light 2 -- I'd played the first one last year and had heard this one was worse in most ways, so I hadn't gone back to it. But the release of the sequel made me want to dive in, and, well, this was definitely worse than the first one.

I hadn't realized the premise of this game was so wildly different from the first. For those unaware, in the first game, you're dealing with a zombie outbreak that's more or less just started, and playing a character who's been tasked with (as far as he knows) finding a cure. What I liked about the first one was its kind of Heart of Darkness + parkour narrative. You're fighting zombies, yes, but also other humans. There's a faction of humans left by a parkour instructor who's trying to improve the situation, and a faction led by a warlord (or something?) who's just trying to take advantage. The combat and traversal are both interesting.

The story in the second picks up in the world 22 years later. The human centered conflict makes little to no sense. I never really understood what each faction was trying to accomplish. The heart of the story is centered on your character trying to reunite with his long lost sister, but it's never clear why he even thinks she's still alive, or that she'd be where he's looking for her... He was separated from her at like age 5 during the initial outbreak (I think?) and hadn't heard from her in 20+ years.

The combat was boring, there was an increased focus on different types of gear, and somehow they reduced the enjoyment in the parkour aspects, which was one of the defining features of the first game.

Anyway, I've heard the third improves in some ways (and I read there were some hurried changes to the story during the development cycle of the second), so I'm not gonna write the whole franchise off just yet.

I picked up Tropico 6 on a deep discount recently. I had previously played 4 and vaguely remembered liking it but also not playing much. I really enjoy city builders and was getting nostalgic for something more modern like Cities Skylines, but unsure if the cost vs reviews for CS2 has hit the right level yet.

I played through a couple of scenarios in Tropico 6, but I was really struggling with the complexities of the game. I thought I got a hang of building a decent economy, but it would quickly go out of whack. And figuring out the political aspect is odd, especially in the scenarios. Then one scenario I was struggling with, but I was determined to not give up. I felt like I did a great job towards what I thought was the goal state, until it changed to "progress to the cold war era" which required a lot of things unrelated to the scenario. I chugged along with my economy and politics tanking only to reach it and find a bunch of new goals and I really didn't feel like I was setup to recover.

I think it's more of a "me" problem. It seems like a nicely polished game, and I really want to like it, but as much as I try to push through and read guides and such, it's not really clicking for me.

I swapped over and started playing Anno 1800, which seems to have a similar level of complexity, but so far I'm feeling a bit better about it.

I finished Chants of Sennaar yesterday. I had 10.5 hours on the save. What a weird ending compared to how the game starts, but I thought it was pretty good overall.

Anyway, a good game even though the stealth early-middle section felt out of place at the time. My overall feeling is that it was too short, which means it was probably just about right.

I also finished Bomberman Quest on the Game Boy Color (played emulated). This was a chosen game-of-the-month back in August or September on a Discord server I'm on, but I didn't get round to doing everything in it. The last "retro achievement" I had was to beat some of the bosses without taking damage. I liked the challenge of figuring out which bombs I needed to use to beat the final boss efficiently. My palms were sweating when I finally did it. If you've never played this one - I hadn't even heard of it before it got picked - it's a bit like Bomberman crossed with Link's Awakening. It's smaller in scope, but has more power-ups. You wander around an overworld, complete with hidden secrets, defeat monsters using the classic Bomberman-style bombs with their cross-shaped explosions, then go into short dungeons (4-10 screens usually) with bomb-toggle switches, defeat a boss, get a power-up, and unlock the next area. There are only 4 areas, then the final boss, but it has some optional stuff, and overall takes about 6-ish hours, then with the achievements it took me about twice that.

Next up I am going to try and finish Outer Wilds, which I stopped playing back in the summer. The end game was too scary for me last time I tried it, but I wanted to get the DLC and that is apparently even scarier so I'm going to have to stop being such a big chicken.

Story of seasons: grand bazaar!

So basically you’re a farmer. But but but: you also sell the stuff you produced in the market every week. And that’s such a smart move. I was having a long conversations with a farmer the other week, and she shared how fulfilling it was to be at different markets every week with her wares. The farming alone becomes very lonely, she said. And bult listening to what her customers think about her food and want form her, she gives her work at the farm more meaning. It’s also an economic necessity, she shared. It’s the only way for a small scale biologic farm to survive, is to sell directly to customers.

When I told her about story of seasons grand bazaar, she was very excited and recognized a lot about her work. So it’s a farmer approved farming game!

Zero Sievert. I had mid expectations about this, but it really hooked me. This is the best game I've played in several years. It's like, I don't know, Stardew Valley combined with Stalker and Escape from Tarkov.

I have a large catalouge of games I bought and never played on steam so I decided before I buy any more I'm going to plow through them (or at least give it the old college try).

A few noteable (to me) examples are I finished RAGE which was way more fun than it is given credit for but the sudden and abrupt end left me extremely annoyed.

I finished Superliminal and it seemed like a fever dream but I enjoyed it.

I tried Road 96 but it just wasn't for me.

I'm not sure why Prey (2017) was so highly praised because it bored me to tears.

Mad Max has possibly the most bafflingly stupid control scheme I have ever come across so it ruined the whole game for me.

A story about my uncle was weird in a good way and I've never heard anyone talk about it, more people need to check it out.

Home Front was ok-ish but also ended to abruptly.

and currently I am playing Driver San Francisco and Red Faction Guerilla.

Everyone says Driver SF is the best game in the series but honestly after you get over the neat jump into any car at any time mechanic the rest is just a generic driving game with a dumb plot. I don't hate it but I feel it's over hyped.

Red faction Guerilla is just cathartic the story is stupid but being able to just destroy everything is a great way to relieve stress.

In addition to playing through my backlog games this week, I just finished Egg by Terry Cavanagh. It only takes about 30 minutes or so to play, but I really enjoyed it (as I do most of Terry's games).

Go on, be an egg.

https://terrycavanagh.itch.io/egg

I've picked up **DRG Survivors ** recently, a horde survivor from the Devs of Deep Rock Galactic.

Essentially you fight of horde of Gyphids while mining through Rocks and collecting minerals, just like in normal DRG, but from a top down perspective and solo only. But there seems to be less objectives, as I've only had extreminations so far.

It's quite fun. I really like that you don't need to kill the final boss of a stage to progress, as every stage has 3 objectives and completing 2 of them is enough to unlock the next one - at least that's how it has been for haz 1. There is also a few weapons that aren't in DRG which is pretty cool.

You can also get it cheaper if you already own DRG (because of some stuff with bundles o Steam). It was on sale for 9€ when I got it, but I only payed like 6.30€ because I own DRG.