Any gamers on here? What are you playing?

Got back into Grim Dawn in a big way recently. Diablo IV was released at the right time for ARPG fans, but I just can't deal with all of the extra garbage that you get with Blizz games nowadays.

I always come back to two games. Divinity: Original Sin 2 and Minecraft. But I really miss Minecraft from the alpha and beta days when it was simple. D:OS2 is possibly the best story driven, turn based RGP I've ever played - any recs for something similar? Over winter I tried to get into Hogwarts Legacy but I couldn't find the motivation to progress despite growing up with and loving HP. On mobile I play Sky: Children of the Light pretty much daily and have done for almost 3 years now. Looking forward to PC release for that which was announced not long ago.

!oldschoolminecraft@lemmy.world (Lemmy / Kbin) have set up a community Minecraft server to try and recapture the old days! No idea how active it is but might be worth a look :)
If you like story-driven RPG, I highly recommend you Disco Elysium. It's basically Divinity: Original Sin without the combat system and the fantasy setting (and with even better writing).
- Thank you, I'll check it out! I appreciate that there is no traditional combat, that stresses me out.

Aliens: Dark Descent. It's way better than I expected, not just in the gameplay but nailing the vibe of the movie. Fireteam Elite was a fun wave shooter but it turned the xenomorphs into cannon fodder for an action shoot-em-up. Dark Descent is survival horror. Fighting is a last resort. You spend your time creeping down dark corridors hoping you don't see a xeno, because when you do the hive wakes up and bad things happen. Like in Alien Isolation, your best bet is to watch your tracker and be where the xenomorphs aren't. Your marines can get wounded, killed, or dragged off to be an incubator. They also suffer stress, and start to freak out the longer they are in danger.

Really enjoying it so far!

Finally started Red Dead 2 best animal petting simulator I've played I petted a bun so hard it's fur came off with my hand

Tears of the kingdom has finally broke my ftl: faster than light addiction

Currently about 25-30 hours into Days Gone (ps5) and thoroughly enjoying it.

The moral of that story is a) don't listen to ign b) metacritic user score is more relevant than critic score

Then need to finish Jedi survivor which I quit half way because of the bounty (and various other) bug(s)

Age of wonders 3, I'd like to finish it before age of wonders 4 goes on sale.

Satisfactory, restarted for the 4th time, this time in the desert, I've never made it much past oil, but I've gotten really good at getting to oil! This time I'm using platforms everywhere, and it's making traveling/exploring so much easier, but I feel like it's also taken a lot of wonder out of exploration.

Path of exile is always in the background, waiting for me to come back to it. I'm super excited to see what exile con brings.

Playing them all on the deck with Bluetooth mouse and keyboard. The deck has also made other games so much more accessible, skul the hero slayer, dead cells, and hollow Knight I've put more time into than ever on the computer/console.

I'm putting my earphones in to avoid the unbelievably loud whirring of my PS4, and playing Wreckfest and Mordheim single player for the eight millionth hour just to kill time between working, and working some more.

@sideone, this is which I most play since several Years. 100% free, Windows, Linux, Mac, one of the best free games ever.

Official trailer
https://youtu.be/brJqHnXmpgE
https://www.thedarkmod.com/main/

Hell Let Loose WW2 shooter. It has a great in-game community, and they just released the British faction too (which is a bit rough around the edges right now, admittedly).

Timberborn is life..... NO!!! MY BEAVERSS!!!

The thing about getting into game dev as a hobby is that basically now you have no time to actually play other games! 😭

When I do get time, Deep Rock Galactic is a fave for those days when you just want to shoot something in the face but you don't want to do it surrounded by aggressively sexist 12 year old boys. A new season just dropped this week, which makes it sound like a typical money-hungry microtransactional mess but I swear it's not like that at all, the devs are great people and everyone should give this one a go. ROCK AND STONE!

More chill days I like to investigate the unending backlog of cozy indie games from Epic (never touched them until I got a Steam Deck but it's been great for those). Or revisit Mini Metro which on the surface is a simple af puzzle game but it's surprisingly immersive and deep.

Of course it's Steam Next Fest atm, I've only tried a couple of demos so far (Station to Station and Laysara: Summit Kingdom) but was thoroughly underwhelmed by both of them. On the other hand my husband tried the demo of Memori and got super into it, he says anyone who liked Celeste should give it a try.

Also last mention goes to Outer Wilds, I'm not "playing" it as such because it's pretty one-and-done, but it's impossible not to recommend it whenever even a slightly appropriate opportunity allows. One of the most amazingly crafted and emotionally impactful games I've played in my 30-odd years of gaming and if you've never tried it, please just trust me and go in blind it is so worth it.

Mini Metro

Just purchased (on phone) - thanks for the tip!
- One of us! It's honestly an absolute masterclass in how you can make a simple concept so surprisingly deep.
  
  Downside is they released Mini Motorways a while ago and I'm sure it's amazing but Mini Metro was so good that I've still not got bored of it and moved onto the sequel and I feel bad 😆

I've been mostly bouncing between FFXIV and Rimworld.

Don't get as much time as I would like (who does?) But mostly Dwarf Fortress having finished a portal play through.

I'm looking at Deep Rock Galactic to play with my boys as I've got them to promise we will only play together! We all played Valorant for a bit but they can put about 10 times the hours in that I can so they outstripped me long ago!

Right now I have Final Fantasy XIV running in the background, I'm waiting for some ore to respawn at roughly 10:42 our time. Gathering's a nice laid back experience.

After I'm done with this I'm probably gonna boot up Story Of Seasons: Pioneers Of Olive Town and do some gathering in that too. :)

BattleBit has become my current obsession. Feels just like playing Battlefield 3 back in the day once you get past the Roblox-esque graphics. Honestly when I'm not playing it I'm thinking about playing it.

I'm thinking about getting it. Looks terrible visually but everyone says it's a fucking blast. I care more about fun and mechanics than visuals so it seems like I would probably enjoy it.

Aoe4. New patch dropped last week for new season. Gonna learn different civs.

I finally started playing Elden ring, I tried the souls games before and couldn't get into them but decided to give it a try. It's certainly challenging but I'm trying to stay calm and realise dying is part of the game and not get frustrated. I think it'll take me quite a while to figure out all the various systems.

Dwarf Fortress! Tried and failed to get into it many times before the Steam release, and now completely hooked.

I do mostly FFXIV and emulation, but just got into RuneScape 3 and it's super fun. I was quite surprised, as it's not a very actiony game, but the questing and style just grows on you.

I’m currently building a massive irrigation system in Timberborn and also running through BOTW again before unwrapping TOTK.

I’m pleased that there’s not so much TOTK stuff floating about here as there was on the other place, I want to go in as innocent as a newborn lamb.

Street Fighter 6. The game is too god damn addicting.

Enjoying Diablo 4 at the moment. If I'm not on that, I play a fair bit of Hell Let Loose.

Cassette Beasts (really good if you love Pokemon but are bored of Pokemon and want something a bit different)
Chivalry 2 (mindless stabby fun, but I've gotten to a point where I'm good enough to know I suck but too old and busy to get better)
Runescape (never played as a kid, my friends got me into it earlier this year then they stopped playing lol)
I wish Diablo and Zelda were my answers.

Just started Cassette Beasts last night. It' super cute. It's a great change of pace from when I need a break from Diablo 4.

edit: I just realized this mag was UKcasual and not Casual. I'm not in the UK at all, sorry :(

Friend put me onto Control. Picked it up at discount and enjoying it so far.

I really liked Control, but found the boss fights a bit too hard (I hate boss fights as I'm awful at them).

Currently going through Prey which I'm really enjoying so far. Also making incremental progress on Elden Ring, currently stuck on Rykard.

Prey is a fantastic game -- and unfortunately the last Arkane game I 'clicked' with, and a good part of that is likely due to Prey being a spirtual successor to System Shock 2, and Dishonored being the successor to Thief. The roguelite DLC for Prey isn't bad either! I really wanted Harvey Smith to work on a successor to Deus Ex, but, oh well...

My newest minor obsession has been Dungeon Defenders 1, though I wish I was playing Ace Combat 7.

Is that game still going? I remember when dd2 came out, I played it for a bit and it fouled my taste so much that I never went back to dd1, I had hundreds, if not a thousand, hours in dd1.

I started some TotK, but mostly just been fiddling with the PC to get it running nicely - I would play it on Switch but a smooth 60fps is what I crave these days.

Also got the kids Lego 2K Drive, my son loves Lego and especially likes making cars so this is right up his street, the building mechanics are pretty cool and I’m sure you can make some truly crazy stuff with it. It’s early days but I would give it a recommend so far.

That smooth 60 is what I want, and I think that it won't be too long until I get into Switch emulation. But totk does play pretty well on native hardware, for the most part. I don't think Zelda is one of those games that absolutely requires 60 fps. Controversial opinion, I know, but Zelda looks just fine at 30 fps. When it does achieve 60, it's a little jarring tbh. I'd rather if the system can't run it at a stable, constant 60 that it instead locks in at 30. I'd rather play at 30 all the time than 60 sometimes.

Started Tears of the Kingdom a day before release. Not played anything else since. And the size of this game, it might be a while before I play anything different.

You might already know this, but if you've unlocked Lurelin Village (and completed all refurbs) there's a little treasure chest game... you get a 1-in-3 chance of winning a high value monster part. Now here's the sneaky part... you may have noticed round the corner there are often 3 roasted porgy on spears. If you go back to the treasure dude, it turns out he has a hankerin' for porgy and will let you have two more goes.
- I've not got to there, I have heard NPCs talk about the village, so will keep an eye open for that tip thanks.
  
  Currently at about 100 hours or so, done almost all main quests except defeat Ganon, and now just making my way clockwise around the map trying to find everything.

Playing Diablo IV! Just finished the somewhat lackluster campaign which is definitely a prologue to something much more grand coming in the future expansions. But nobody really plays it for the story, right...

Been holding off due to the price and amount of friends who said they already beat it.
- It is indeed quite expensive but considering how many hours I have played Diablo 2 and 3 as well as the extreme replayability of D4, the price per hour is actually low in my case. If you like the Diablo gameplay, it's a lot of fun!

Really enjoying Diablo 4 at the moment, first game in a while that I can spend more than an hour playing before getting bored. Also been playing Chivalry 2 occasionally with friends just for some light hearted fun.