Slay the spire and Titanfall 2

• Sektori (steam)
• Tomb Raider GOTY (GOG)
• Stardew Valley (GOG)
• F-Zero GX on the Dolphin emulator

I’ve discovered that I’m tired and bored of the new AAA titles, so I’ve been playing the old stuff more and more.

Final Fantasy 7 (the original). With so many singing it’s praises, I figured I should try and finish it once. I just got out of the desert prison. I have to say, so far I don’t really get the hype.

The Binding of Isaac Rebirth

Mega Man Star Force Legacy Collection. Missed the series when it was on the (3)DS, and $40 is a good price for the collection so I scooped it up when it came out last week.

Artisan of Glimmith, and Under The Island. I always love me a Zeldou, but now I’m at a cooking-minigame boss and siiigh I don’t wanna do that I wanna stab things.

Monster Train 2. I have 1 more challenge run left before reaching 100% completion of those. Then I might finally pick up the DLC and try to finish 100% of clan combos at max crucible level.

Only then will I allow myself to pick up Slay the Spire 2. I try to avoid early access games, but will make an exception here.

In MT1 last month, I beat 100% class combos at C20. The challenges were less fun because they required you to play at C20, and I felt like that difficulty permanently limited what strategies were viable. Challenges in 2 are zanier and most are at a lower difficulty, so it’s altogether more fun.

Gran Turismo emulated.

for some reason Hogwarts Legacy just grabbed me and won’t let go. it’s been excellent.

also been playing quite a bit of modded minecraft and loving that as well!

Just finished control, starting Firewatch next. Control played very well, at some point it started crashing within a few minutes of playing, I made whatever change was on protondb and it worked fine after that.

Edit: it was -dx11

Played a whole bunch of No Way Home in the last week or so. A charming little shooter I had to buy after playing the demo on the last Next Fest. Now playing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shattered Fate - a button bashing rougelite with cool artwork and combat that I’m enjoying despite being far too old to be a Ninja Turtles fan.

I just got Super Meatboy 3D after enjoying the demo as well, which will be my next thumb-buster.

I finally finished Spider-Man: Miles Morales and just started Spider-Man 2. Man, that game runs like ass on the Deck while I have to make it look worse than the previous two.

And it actually feels like what I’m experiencing are bugs and not necessarily the Steam Deck’s fault. Stuff like models popping in without animations. I remember seeing pictures of that when it was new. Strange that they didn’t manage to fix it. Couldn’t they just have stayed on the old engine? It worked perfectly fine!

Mewgenics, that french song game whatever its called 33, and the outbound demo.

Mewgenics makes for a good handheld game all though the angle of the view of the playing field on a small screen is a bit cluttered and hard to tell sometimes what is there. I haven’t tried it on the desktop.

I was playing a couple games, but I’ve dropped everything else to focus on playing Sekiro.

Fantastic game, I never got into the regular Dark Souls games that much, so I’ve kinda avoided it. But I find parry focused combat incredibly satisfying, and the streamlining of some of the mechanics is nice too.

I got a bunch of the Resident Evil games on sale, so I’ve been playing RE6. It’s fun and runs incredibly well on the Deck (I didn’t know what to expect). There are way too many RE games to know what the hell is going on in the story now, but I’ve always liked 1-5, so figured I finally needed to play the rest.