Discussion What are you currently playing? (Week 15 of 2025)

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New week, new thread! What are you playing?

I am reading Iwakura Aria on Switch. Nothing to say at the moment because I plan to write a full review for it soon. You can find my demo impressions in the visual novel thread.
 
I finished my replay of BioShock yesterday, so I'm going back and playing a bit more of my gradual replay of FFVII Rebirth - right now I'm at Costa Del Sol and I plan on playing through this whole segment right up to Gold Saucer before putting the game down for a bit and I'll give Haste a try.

 
Finished 2 DLCs for Fenyx Rising, A New God and Myths of the Eastern Realm last week and started the 3rd one.
New God was basically a bunch more of those puzzley dungeons (shrines, if you will) from the main game, while Eastern Realm was basically a compressed version of the main game set in a different realm, two smaller maps and two main quest lines.

3rd one is actually a bit of a twist in that it's an overhead game, like Diablo or Hades or whatever. It's still mechanically the same stuff, but it remixes the skill and god powers and how they work from the game quite a bit and is instantly more interesting because of the camera perspective.
 
Finished 2 DLCs for Fenyx Rising, A New God and Myths of the Eastern Realm last week and started the 3rd one.
New God was basically a bunch more of those puzzley dungeons (shrines, if you will) from the main game, while Eastern Realm was basically a compressed version of the main game set in a different realm, two smaller maps and two main quest lines.

3rd one is actually a bit of a twist in that it's an overhead game, like Diablo or Hades or whatever. It's still mechanically the same stuff, but it remixes the skill and god powers and how they work from the game quite a bit and is instantly more interesting because of the camera perspective.
Hoping it goes to discount soon. That's one game I wanna try
 
I'm still playing Pillars of Eternity 2. It's clearly an improvement over the previous game though there are some things that I prefer in the first game, like you having a party up to 6 instead 5 like you have in Deadfire.
 
I'm on a business trip for most of this week, but I finished re-reading the Umineko Question arcs (ep 1-4) yesterday.
Even more meandering than I remember it being, but the various reveals and some of the emotional scenes still hit pretty hard. And of course so does the music.

I'm also inching closer towards the end of FF7 Rebirth (I think), but I'll really have to write more about that once I'm done with it.
 
rough week for me, my modem got knocked out by a storm and ended up not having my home internet for 6 days

still been chipping away at Xenoblade X though, been doing lots of side stuff and just about at the point where i'll probably jump into the new story content this re-release came with at some point this week
 
Finished Of Orcs and Men. Took less time than I thought (the last chapters were much faster than the first ones). Neat game but the jank was there. One day I'll probably give the Styx games a try
I've been thinking about Styx games after Styx 3 announced and also wondering if I should play Orcs and Men before that. I don't own it, but seems it's actually on sale right now on a few stores... :thinking-blob:
 
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I've been thinking about Styx games after Styx 3 announced and also wondering if I should play Orcs and Men before that. I don't own it, but seems it's actually on sale right now on a few stores... :thinking-blob:
If you decide to play it, just take into consideration it's a very janky game. It feels more like 2 separate incomplete gameplay ideas mashed together into a very simple RTwP rpg which has nothing to do with the 2 aforement ideas
I think it's still enjoyable for the sale price however
 
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I resumed Blue Prince which I love and I'm back to playing MH Wilds with friends.
 
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I played this a lot! Its a city builder that feels like the old SimCity games from the 90s; with a cool twist – you can walk around in your city (and drive, and fly), do quests and minigames. I was surprised just how many extra activities this game has – and how many buildings can be visited; apart from just being a really fun city builder that is just complex enough for me – you wont build every bus line or anything like that (in fact, you wont build public traffic lines at all, you just lay down rails, subway, and put down stops for those and buses and youre good. You have resources like metal, wood, food, etc but they are for perks, events and for selling.
You can also own homes, furnish them...and adopt pets.
You can also easily upload your cities you may have created in the Android/iOS versions and download them for the Steam version (which has extra building and bigger city sizes)

AND the game is very cheap! I'm having so much fun with it that I find it a bit of a shame the dev seems unable to do marketing to increase his reach. Runs fine on Linux.


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Just played a few hours, so far its as expected: yep, its a TLOU sequel! I like it so far but I really liked TLOU, so thats no surprise. Unfortunately big events in the story were spoiled years ago already...alas, what can you do. Runs fine on Linux with some initial audio issues.


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Mostly enjoyable souls-like. A bit too hard for me at times (even though it has been called too easy... maybe I just need to get back into the souls rhythm). I like the gameplay (basically Dark Souls + a "focus" meter instead of stamina: attack to fill it up; deplete by using special skills and spells (or by getting attacked) — deal damage to deal more damage! — and the nice industrial–post apocalyptic setting. Runs fine on Linux.
 
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Finished Immortals Fenyx Rising: The Lost Gods.
It's an interesting twist on the formula, but suffers from some weird decisions.
Like, you can only fast travel from altar to altar. But you can always (maybe not during active combat?) from your map to the last visited altar. So when roaming the lands you can't fast travel to any altar, but you can fast travel the one altar you last visited from which you can then fast travel to any altar. Why the unnecessary step there I wonder.
Some of the world design feels like it's designed to be viewed with a full camera control, but the camera is locked at the top down perspective, only rotation, no tilting, so you can't actually view up. So it's impossible to see how high a mountain is before you start climbing it for example and since climbing takes stamina it's impossible to know if you can actually climb all the way to the top. With full camera like in the main game you can at least have a good guesstimate, now you are just climbing completely blind.

But overall I did enjoy it.

If you decide to play it, just take into consideration it's a very janky game. It feels more like 2 separate incomplete gameplay ideas mashed together into a very simple RTwP rpg which has nothing to do with the 2 aforement ideas
I think it's still enjoyable for the sale price however
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I don't mind a little jank so I ended up grabbing it yesterday among some other cheap titles, not sure when I'll play it though. :toucan:

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As I wrote in the Steam thread I am going through Yakuza 4, having started my playthrough of the series with Yakuza Zero a few years ago. I had never played these games until they got ported to PC and I am now a big fan of the franchise.
 
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Tried Blue Prince, solved the dart puzzle, feeling very smart. Continues playing... maybe I'm not that smart.

Finished Little Kitty, Big City. Very cozy, very short. Stray and this, that's 2/2 on good cat games so far.

Got to Chapter 10 in South of Midnight. Graphics, VA, music, story is very good/interesting. Combat and platforming, not so much. This game makes me want Kena 2 so much. Too bad that's not happening anytime soon.