Playing Tactical Breach Wizards and I seriously cannot recommend this game enough, what an absolute banger. It’s incredibly charming, has a wonderful soundtrack, excellent world building and hilarious writing. It’s just the right level of quirky and goofy where it’s enjoyable and delightful without ever being annoying.

It’s set in a kind of weird futuristic Shadowrun-like magical world with some really fun characters, like a necromancer doctor who needs to kill people before she heals them and a traffic warlock who attacks you by summoning cars filled with undead souls to run you over and applies stasis curses as a punishment for illegal parking. You get the sense that the writers who came up with the lore had a blast writing it. It’s one of these very special games that make you feel like the developers were having a lot of fun working on it.

When I first saw it, I immediately thought it was going to be like XCOM, which is a game that I really like, so I picked it up on sale. As it turns out, it’s actually way way closer to Into the Breach, which I like even more. There’s no RNG or accuracy mechanics, it’s more like ItB’s tile chess positioning dynamics, where you push enemies into walls and other enemies, but this time there’s a very funny focus on defenestration. It’s incredibly satisfying to line up your moves so that you can throw a handful of enemies through a window in the same turn.

I’ve only just started playing it, but I can already tell that it’s going to be an all-timer for me. It’s an incredibly joyful, lighthearted and fun game that I’d recommend to anyone, but it’s absolutely a must-play if you enjoyed Into the Breach.

I’ve had another long work week, and hopefully my weeks will be back down to 4 work days a week for a while now.

Been playing Laika aged in blood mostly. It’s like what if trials had guns, was about furries, and also was a Metroidvania. It has an interesting mix of trials repeating a path until you can handle it, where part of the challenge is also firing bullets into bird skills at just the right time. The world is really well realized and the art is amazing with phenomenal music to accompany you.

Just finished Quantum Break and with that have finished all the RCU games (except replaying Max Payne 1 and 2). You can see why it kind of flopped, the first third or so is a shooter with some nifty ideas but nothing to write home about. the combat is kind of a annoying more than anything in true first third of a remedy game fashion.

But as with nigh everything else they do, it really does pick up so much. Genuinely one of the better timetravel stories I’ve seen with the groundrules they establish

Dark Souls 2: spent a good chunk of my saturday dealing with the sadism that is the smelter demon run back

I’ve been all in on Baldur’s Gate 3. This game is so good, act 1 is good but in act 2 it gets really good, I’m about to start act 3 and I already know I’m gonna have to play it again

I finally modded my old 3DS and installed a bunch of games on my SD card. Been playing Pokemon Platinum, but I got to a point where I need to grind a little, and it’s killing my motivation to continue.

Next up is probably Shin Megami Tensei IV. Never played a game from that series, but I did greatly enjoy Persona 5, so I have high expectations.

even more MegaMek, my merc company is almost a regimental combat team at this point
also more cyberpunkdreams
also did a few routes on Train Sim World 5

Elden Ring. Fuck Castle Sol. Two ballistas is cheating and I feel no guilt in unleashing the +7 mimic tear. Furthermore, fuck the fire giant.

I should buy Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga soon. Highly nostalgic game.

Picked back up final fantasy vii after taking a break from it, Cloud and the gang.

Finished Death Stranding 2.

It was kino.

I might try maxing all peppers but for now it’s a bit of a step back from gaming.

I picked up Soulstone Survivors recently and have been having a lot of fun with it, sort of an ARPG themed rougelite.

Heavy Rain and it smells bad like David Cage. The one thing his games do well is simulate stressful situations and having to make quick panicked decisions otherwise its just lazily written gross male gaze cringe.

Although i shouldn’t be playing cos he doesn’t make games for gays apparently.

Enjoying the ps3 era aesthetic atm think i might play heavenly sword next

Remembered I was playing 20 Small Mazes (excellent and free!) and was halfway through. Finished two quick mazes this morning. Been playing Word Play as well, I’m a sucker for word-based games. I often play Waffle and Bongo over at Puzzmo which are two good free ones.

Every time I open up Lutris I realize I have Dog of Dracula 2 (free cyperpunk parody of Blade Runner and the like, you’re a vampire dog…for some reason, I don’t know) which is pretty good from the hour I’ve played, so I’ll probably be playing that tonight sometime.

The other game that I might install and play tonight is The Wreck a visual novel exploring themes of grief, depression and family relationships. I played through the first hour some time ago and really liked it, but it was another game that got put on the backburner.

There is also the intriguing Social Democracy: Petrograd 1917 in which is set after the overthrow of the Tsar in 1917 Russia, you can help several parties attain power (including the Bolsheviks) and play out how each party being in power changes the scope of history. I haven’t gotten around to it because it seems quite daunting, it’s old-school style text-based interactive fiction, so it’s basically a choose-your own Russian history adventure. I’ll get around to it sometime, I just don’t think it’ll be tonight lol. If anyone is interested there it is free on itch.io and there is a browser version if you don’t want to download the files and a IF parser.

Update on Fallout 4 - the gooners came through, one of them managed to walk me through whatever went wrong with the physics. Now I’ve noticed that the precombine meshes outside the last dungeon of Automatron are broken.

Finished Citizen Sleeper 2, it’s alright, definitely not as good as 1. A surprising amount of callbacks to the expansion show up in the late game. The crew system seems a little half-baked, the +1 skill crewmembers seem bad because a lot of the time they won’t have their appropriate skill (or if they do, it’ll be for a dangerous task, where I’m probably not going to roll a 1 that becomes a 2 or a 2 that becomes a 3 anyway). At least on normal, resource management is never an issue. I was able to just shell out cash forever and never go broke (with the exception of literally the tutorial where Juni shows up).

I played Engineer, which seemed strong. By end-game, it was +1 stress for +4 to my lowest die, recover 1 stress if the result of that die roll is neutral or positive (which are the only possibilities for a 5+). Might’ve been worth it to drop a make it recover 2 stress with a +3, but eh. The last upgrade choice between recovering on neutral or positive versus push being Glitch is, imo, the easiest thing imaginable. Glitch dice seem REAL bad in comparison. However, Engineer did result in me getting fucked on the

Story-wise, I do think that

As always, I continue to play warframe. Got every Sister of Parvos weapon, and maxed out every Coda weapon on the double-XP weekend. Forma stonks are in shambles . Got sick of the circuit and stopped doing it, even though I still “need” some of the incarnons, hate that mode. Dog Days is pretty fun, though the water balloons are comically overpowered.