Patient Gamers

I've gotten sucked into The X-Com Files. It's a megamod for the original X-Com game from 1994, built on OpenXcom Extended (an open-source re-implementation).
My first attempt at the old X-Com game lost my interest a few years ago, but OXCE brings plenty of QoL changes and the difficulty of the XCF mod ramps up slower than vanilla. Now I'm having a blast hunting cults, cowering from aliens, building bases around the world.

Still busy with S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 since it launched and got dragged into Helldivers 2 by the friends.

My friends and I are doing Dungeons of Eternity this month. We've had three on at once but tomorrow is the first time all four of us will be on together. Excited!

Baldur's gate

God of war

2077

No man's sky, later after those are finished

Thinking about replaying rise of the triad

Metal Gear Rising : Revengeance

I watched a few playthroughs earlier this year, and was struck by the games' vibes. Maybe I've become jaded, maybe 2013 was just a different time, but the over-the-top-bombastic, gratuitous-yet-totally-sincere meditation on power, violence, and humanity feels incredibly relevant, not to mention a breath of fresh air compared to the games I see coming out today.

It's also very similar to the type of video game I'd like to make someday, so it counts as homework as well!

Not to mention it feels like half of the media/art that I love from the past 10 years has been heavily influenced by this game, so playing it could give me a fuller appreciation for them.

The Long Dark and finishing Cyberpunk

I got Caves of Qud on sale over at itch.io, and have been struggling to get anywhere. The learning curve is steep, so when it gets too much I go back to my Dwarf Fortress game that I started over Christmas.

Lord of the rings return to moria. It's basically been a valve in but with dwarves. Loving it.

Got 5 days left to finish Indiana Jones before the GamePass subscription times out.

I don't encourage anyone to playing around with proprietary software games. Instead there's plenty of great foss games that you can have fun trying and playing

https://libregaming.org/play-libre-games/

Making a second attempt to get into Mass Effect for the first time, at least until Hades 2 gets out of early access or MH Wilds comes out

Everspace once I'm back from my holidays abroad.

On one hand, I really want to continue of Ghost of Tsushima.

On the other hand, I have Genshin Impact installed that Ive been meaning to try (reddit and my younger sister tell me its easily possible to do all but the highest level stuff without spending any money,/gambling and even said content is still doable with skill).

Though in the end, Ill probably default to Stardew Valley 😂

No Man’s Sky for sure will be one I play a lot. I also need an Arceus, so I am going to have to get Pokémon Brilliant Diamond, or Shining Pearl.

Been on an rpg kick. Tyranny, then the Pillars of Eternity games are up next.

I'm trying something new to me: Skyrim.

At some point, probably after my steam deck is fixed, I'm gonna have to start Psychonauts 1. It's been sitting in my steam library for a while and I'm positive a steam deck would be able to play through it just fine, and better than both my desktop and laptop.

I've just got sifu from egs and will probably get either dreadhunter or windblown somewhere down the line. Along with regular runs on Dead Cells that I'm deeply addicted to.

I finally decided to go further than the elevator in MGS, so probably that, and hopefully follow up with the whole franchise (i only played mgs5 for about 5 hours).

I also started playing Black Book, interesting deck building game !

I've just recently started playing through Wasteland 3. Been trying to start up Civ VI, but it appears as though Steam has broken it on my Mac, so I will need an alternative alternative. Maybe something from my Epic or GOG library, so my kids don't leave me out of luck when they want to use the Steam library, too.

I’m currently playing echoes of wisdom and elder scrolls: oblivion.

Although I drunkenly played GTA4 while listening to early 2000s crunk rap in memory of it being 25 years since 2000

Played some Doom 2 (halfway through Deck the Underhalls) today, gonna play Skyrim now (started new playthrough few weeks ago). After finishing Underhalls I'm gonna proceed to play even more Doom, and after finishing Skyrim I definitely wanna play more Morrowind, some big things released recently [1] [2].

Fallout New Vegas, finally getting around to playing it!