Megabonk. Intravenous 1. No third game. (This could be the name of a game, but sadly I'm referring to the fact that I only played those first two games during the holidays)

I really liked OP2. It felt like a more polished version of the original, and the music was amazing. The boat mechanic and day/night cycle really helped expand the world.

+1 to E33. I’m on Act 3 and just enjoying exploring. This is an absolutely amazing game. The Manor, Verso’s Drafts, the music. The list just goes on and on.

I’ve been hung up on Unnamed Space Idle for a while, an incremental game that involves moving your little ship forwards through little sectors watching it blast infinite enemy ships while numbers go up. It’s insidious how it layers system after system for making those numbers go up to make the whole process interesting. At first you just slot stuff in as it unlocks because there’s space, but then there’s more to equip than you have slots for and you have to start focusing one or two things at a time. There have been days where I have just sat watching and every few minutes clicking something to shave just a few minutes off a major upgrade.

My latest obsession.

Didn't knew about the mods, that might be a rabbit hole to dig into.

https://outerwildsmods.com/mods/ Quantum space buddies is good if you want to play coop. That's how I played the DLC Suitlog allows access to the computer from your suit Scout stream makes the scout a video stream instead of a snapshot As for story DLC, I've played "the vision" and "The stranger". I liked the stranger much better, but it's nice to have any new content.

Luanti, voxelibre Cs2 Motortown Such fun!

Ye kids get breaks

Bitcraft Online, Outer Worlds 2 and Palia. im in my cosy crafty era lol

i have over 1100 hrs on it and i still come back for more. i havent even bought the dlc's yet, but been playing since alpha 14

At first the loop also made me feel like I had to hurry a lot. But the more I played the more I found calm in it. You can get to anywhere pretty quickly, and you find plenty of shortcuts if you look for them. And what you don't have time for in this loop, you have time for in the next. Slow down, enjoy the journey.

For me it was when I was in another planet, doing some kind of progress, and then boom. When I spent most of my time just getting to, and landing on, the planet, just to get "blipped" again 5 minutes into solving a puzzle, was frustrating. And, to me, it seemed like it happened at random. Trying to stay with the "playing blind" idea, I didn't look into the actual timing of the booms. It was a constant dread when I was doing something, thinking it may pop at any time.

No break for me but I've been doing "old dog, new tricks" by picking up some SMW Kaizo. I'm four exits out of seven in [Shell's Retriever](https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=18729) so far. I think I'm doing fair for only being a couple weeks into playing romhacks and for last playing SMW in the 90s. I don't think I'll ever get around to "Baron of Shell" or any other crazy hard hacks but it has been fun working on a few of the "easy" ones. I'll probably get back to Factorio after I finish Retriever. Possibly not until after the sequel, Shell's Redeemer, but I've previewed it and it looks substantially tougher.

In order of most played recently to least played recently: GTAV Dark Souls Remastered WWE 2k25

I've been playing mega bonk. It's very addicting and fun

official classic or a private server?

EU5 has been my sole game for over a month now. It needs some work, and I don't love paradox, and I think think the game is too much of a cookie-clicker reskin... but it's scratching that grand strategy itch. I've also been on turtle-wow (private vanilla+) which has really been recapturing the spirit of 2004-08 wow for 7(?) years now.

Once I got my head around the autopilot and the landing camera, the game became much easier. There are definitely still a few things I think I cheesed in unintended ways though.

Same, it's a nice expansion on the vampire survivors formula