Sunday is Gaming Day: What Are You Playing Weekly Thread

Warframe, the grind continues for eternity.

Still alternating between Hollywood Animal (holy shit I never knew I needed a gritty 1930s inspired movie tycoon game but this one hits just right), and Blue Prince (an addictive rogue-lite puzzle game that is inspired clearly from the House of Leaves book).

Im still playing MHFU and some FFXIV, though the past couple weeks I ended up spending most of my time learning how Wireguard worked so that I could replace Radmin for lan over the internet.

Blue Prince. It's a strange puzzle game about a randomly shifting house that you have to try and find the secret room. But because you're randomly drawing rooms (sort of randomly, you get control over it) it can be difficult to accomplish all the the things you want in a timely manner. But it's got all this lore and story about the douche bag Royals who owned the house before you. Stuff about your mum who left the family and why she disappeared. Then I got the classroom which unsurprisingly teaches you the mechanics of puzzles in rooms, but the fourth one totally blew me away and I don't know what the game is at this point anymore. I'm in the middle of a 4 day stretch of work so I haven't played earnestly since Friday but I'm eager to dig back in.
- Glad to see I'm not the only one addicted to that game
- Northernlion has been playing Blue Prince but I put him on while I work so I miss a lot of stuff
  
  Yeah I watched the first video of him playing it and he was doing pretty good.

I'm currently on my best run of Caves of Qud ever praying that it doesn't all fall apart because I step on rake.
Edit: I stepped on a rake
- Not a psychic run I'll guess? If it is, hope you don't run into any legendary esper hunters
  
  no it isn't, its a truekin run with all the ranged mods and a gun rack. have a few poly gel and a bunch of cloning drought but I have no idea how crazy the end game gets so we'll see what happens

I’ve been deep in Rimworld this week. Iceball planet permanent winter and I’m finally at the thrive stage where I’m getting nuclear power and doing more automation, next is full automated defense and urban ruin exploration, my crime against humanity this run is just using the bodies of raiders to make kibble and feed my Muffalo with.
Also started going into Voices of the Void which is neat and also terrifying. Why t he fuck is there a meat locker full of pigs in the basement of this SETI radio astronomy site

Been on an MGSV grind for a bit - it's been fun aside from some unfinished sections and pretty much all of the "camera leering at Quiet" parts.
The aggravating backlash to the Devil May Cry netflix series has me considering going back to play DMC3, though last time I played it I got my ass kicked by the first boss...

I'm playing Hollow Knight for the first time since Silksong is actually gonna be real. My main takeaway is that is so much like dark souls. Obviously it's 2d and has much more of a focus on platforming, but a lot of the design philosophy is very similar. The cryptic NPCs, the gloomy tone, the combat focused on dodging and learning attack patterns, the way the world loops back on itself and connects so much, the bench system, the exploration - dark souls was clearly the main inspiration for hollow knight. And I don't mean that in a bad way, it's a great game and has plenty of it's own original identity.

No gaming for me this Sunday I've got some Warhammer 40k games 10th edition (IRL) coming up next week, so I'm going over the rules and my army list.
Tyranids vs. Death Guard. My list is pretty tame, but my opponent's also a noob. So am I, but Ive got more experience and game knowledge than he does. Hoping it's gonna be a chill couple matches.
- hell yeah hunger bugs
- Have you only played 10th? I'm curious to know what people think who entered only in this edition or haven't played other tabletop wargames.
  
  So, Ive been around since 3rd Edition, but I only played on and off. I played very little in 3rd and a little during 6th. Probably less than 20 games in total. This time, though, I plan to stick with it. My best friend recently got into the game cause I gifted him my old Death Guard army, and he's now finishing that up.
  Ive never really made it past the noob/novice stage, though. If youve got any questions or you're curious about anything, feel free to ask! Im aware of other wargames if that is the question.
  I have played 4 games so far in 10th edition. Plan to play at least another 3-4 next week with my friend.

playing Hardspace: Shipbreaker again. Game is pretty addictive, although I wish I could skip the story segments in career mode.
- I just want more sci-fi "dad games" lol
  
  Oh man, the ship generator in Shipbreaker would be an incredible basis for a "Spaceship Mechanic Simulator". Buffing out dents in zero g, filling up tanks, replacing broken parts, troubleshooting by turning systems on and off and seeing what happens...

Started the campaign for Battlefield 1 yesterday, and its pretty OK. I remembered really liking Battlefield Vietnam when I was a kid, so its a bit of a let down. I was expecting far more cinematic scenes with how heavily they marketed it when it came out. My experience so far has been Shoot > wait in a single spot > get out and fix vehicle > Wait. I don't know if I'll ever like a bigger shooter as much as I liked the original Modern Warfare 2.
Luckily, it seems like its pretty short which will let me turn my attention back to XCOM Enemy Unknown when I finish it.

factorio. the new planets are so great i love the new mechanics. the images of belts are now burned into my retina. someone please help.

Just a little Ostranauts this week
Once it's finished it will be an incredible belter simulator

I've been playing flightgear, an open source flight sim. It's loads of fun to just fool around with
I've also tried Rigs of Rods, which is a simulator for all sorts of vehicles. I haven't spent too much time with that because it doesn't have built-in joystick support So I need to get a program for linux where I can keymap joystick buttons
With both of the games, I think it would be really fun if you could select a character/pilot, and then use the multiplayer options for a virtual hangout-type thing

I just got Split Fiction to play with my partner. Prolonging playing until I finish FF7 Rebirth still, which I've been holding off on until I have a couple hours free to finish the rest in one go. I heard the end is pretty crazy and cinematic.
I'm so looking forward to Split Fiction, though. The world needs more local co-op games.

I've been playing Star Trucker it's kinda neat, very methodical. The controls and space physics are very weird though, no translation and lots of curves paths.

Unfortunately I have lost my hyper fixation on factorio for the time being and have gotten back into WarThunder
- Air or tanks? I played air for a long time before the grind became too much. Tier 2 and 3 are my favorite
  
  I almost always play tanks I've gotten into rank six on the Soviet tree. Rank four in the American tree. Some of rank six in the French tree. Partially into rank four on the German tree. And I've been trying to get into the higher ranks in the Chinese tree and I'm up to rank four. I have a lot less progression on the aviation side.
  I have honestly spent a slightly embarrassing amount of time on this game.

Into the radius. It's like VR Roadside Picnic/STALKER, well made and quite spooky. I scored an almost brand new used quest 3 for like half price on ebay recently

My partner has been really excited about Cinnabunnies. It's a cozy game about baking bread to earn enough carrots to help your family move to a new village. Little rough around the edges, but it's cute.

Did a bit of genshin before I realized I missed some events and stopped. Got my ds with a romcard in it so might just get back to Bowser's inside story.

Xenoblade X nearing the end - finally started the new content and since I ground a little I still shred everything with my ares 90. I'll probably finish up in the next few weeks (slowed down since work has picked up), but so far the new content is sick.

Just bought valheim and into the dead, i think I'll start with valheim

A friend of mine very graciously gifted me his old Steam Deck and I’ve been hard at work putting emulators and roms on it. It’s really amazing how far emulation has come. I got achievements and cloud saves set up on it and I’ve also found that it runs most Switch games quite well. If Switch 2 is as easy to emulate as the Switch, I have no doubt that we’ll have Switch 2 roms being played on Steam OS. Or similar devices.
I’ve also been focused on adding fan translated games that were never released outside of Japan, including a bunch of PC-98, Super Famicom, Saturn, and PS1 stuff. Anyone have any recommendations of older games I probably haven’t played but should?
- Aconcagua (ps1 point-and-click puzzle adventure with survival/political themes) eng translation by Hilltop https://www.romhacking.net/translations/6601/
- I’ve also been focused on adding fan translated games that were never released outside of Japan, including a bunch of PC-98, Super Famicom, Saturn, and PS1 stuff. Anyone have any recommendations of older games I probably haven’t played but should?
  Racing Lagoon (PSX)
  Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru (GB)
  Fire Emblem 4: Genealogy of the Holy War (SFC/SNES)
  Live A Live (SFC/SNES)
  Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (PSX)
  Pepsiman (PSX)
  Edit: I liked the Magic Knight Rayearth RPG for the SFC/SNES when I first got into emulation when I was younger, no idea if it was actually good lol

Finished up Great Ace Attorney Chronicles 1 recently and started playing MGS VR missions again.

Been playing more of the 9 Kings demo. Still unsure if I want to buy it when it comes out because it's horrifically imbalanced and it's already been solved. The choices you have to make are obvious.
Basically, there are units, structures, and bonuses that scale and then everything else that doesn't. You never take anything that doesn't scale while trying to get two blacksmiths, at least one library, and the Steel Coat enchantment. This will allow a unit to have 500+ damage against enemies with only 30 HP. Steel Coat is completely broken because it negates an attack entirely for each stack. That means it outscales HP.
If you don't get Steel Coat, a library, and blacksmiths, you can't win. It's just a matter of how quickly you can get those all stacked on one unit, then 2 more with similar setups. And because of Steel Coat, all your units have to be ranged or have high movement speed. Otherwise, you lose all your stacks of Steel Coat while enemies have theirs untouched.
The devs are aware of all this, but launch is about a week away. I'm not sure if they'll balance things by then. I hope they do because there's a solid game underneath all this.

No Man's Sky has been consuming me. I suck at making cool looking bases and I'm still using the starter ship.
I wish ship parts didn't require salvaging and I wish cosmetics for your character were easier to get though.

Been on a Mexican Ska kick lately, so I might play around with Monstroscopy. Otherwise this is more of a music day for me.

Haste! Goddamn do I dislike roguelikes, but this game stomps my bias into the ground. It is stupid satisfying to run so fast you fly over the landscape only to gracefully touch down on a slope, build up momentum, and take off again, dodging all kinds of shit the world throws at you. This might be the perfect Steam Deck bathroom break game for busy folks with ADHD.