Discussion What are you currently playing? (Week 4 of 2026)

[Cacher]

New week, new thread! What are you playing?

I have been putting most of my gaming time into Dungeons of Hinterberg. It's fairly short so I'm close to finishing it. Doing the late-game grinding now to get all the cheevos (some of the requirements are quite badly designed, imo). Apart from that, the game was quite good. Solid gameplay with surprisingly decent writing and story.

As the grind is a slog, I'll be returning to Super Robot Wars V and play the remaining two scenarios. Might be able to finish both games this week. We will see.

 

[Stevey]

Been playing Pioneers Of Pagonia, which is basically a modern classic Settlers game.

Struggling to get into it.
It just feels like a rush up the tech tree til the end of the mission. And the UI is pretty ugly.

Started Conscript.
It's a WW1 survival horror game. Enjoying it so far.

Also a bit of Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Currently in Greymoor, feels pretty difficult for how early I am in the game.

 

[curi0usBystander]

After being done with Kingdom Hearts III, I've gone back to Street fighter 6 until I decide what to do next.

 

[Ascheroth]

Played though the 6.3/Luna 4 story in Genshin.

Nod-Krai story has been absolutely goated. Genuinely incredible stuff. I'm not sure if I've ever been this locked in and I've been playing and enjoying the game since over 5 years, lol.
Also more explorationing to do!

Also, her character trailer is art.


Next week I'll be continuing with that and give Arknights Endfield a try.
The visuals and music are sick.


I think there's a good chance I'll enjoy the game itself, but the gacha system looks like convoluted dogshit (even more than the norm) and makes me give them the side-eye. Oh well. Not really gonna affect going through the launch content and we'll see after that.

 

[LEANIJA]

I've replayed Atomfall yesterday, you can complete the game very fast, I rushed through it in semi-speedrun fashion (90 minutes approximately, there's way faster people, of course). I did a manual save before a point of no return in case I wanna go back in and explore other endings, side quests etc.
Its really a fun game.

Other than that, I divide my gaming time between The Outer Worlds 2 and Echoes of the End currently. Outer Worlds 2 is fun and right up my alley; and Echoes of the End plays a bit like Tomb Raider 2013 (without the crafting) combined with Hellblade-like visuals/landscapes, just not as dark/gritty/messed up. If you like action-adventures with puzzling, I recommend it. And it punches above its weight as an AA game.

 

[Cacher]

Started Conscript.
It's a WW1 survival horror game. Enjoying it so far.

Echoes of the End plays a bit like Tomb Raider 2013 (without the crafting) combined with Hellblade-like visuals/landscapes, just not as dark/gritty/messed up. If you like action-adventures with puzzling, I recommend it. And it punches above its weight as an AA game.

Haven't heard of these two before. Both look like what I'd enjoy. Into the wishlist.

Next week I'll be continuing with that and give Arknights Endfield a try.
The visuals and music are sick.

I think there's a good chance I'll enjoy the game itself, but the gacha system looks like convoluted dogshit (even more than the norm) and makes me give them the side-eye. Oh well. Not really gonna affect going through the launch content and we'll see after that.

Endfield visual is pretty sick. First big game of 2026 so I will probably watch some gameplay footage, although I'm not intended to start another gacha lol (one is more than enough).

 

[Panda Pedinte]

After beating The Outer Worlds 2 I started Big Hop, a colorful 3D platformer and the only negative so far is the dub, it sounds like it's missing something

 

[Arc]

Jesus Christ that was a long game. Loved it and would have been my runner-up for GOTY if I had actually played it last year. I appreciate it is a long game that doesn't have any padding with RPG mechanics or grinding and it's long just because it's so massive.

 

[QFNS]

Been continuing to plink away at Hades 2 here and there. Also started digging into Trails Beyond the Horizon. Gotta love a Trails game prologue that is like 40% combat and 60% talking haha

 

[Parsnip]

Started and finished Mika and The Witch's Mountain. Still gotta get a few more achievements.
It's totally fine I guess. It's one of those games where all the dialogue is voiced with huh, ooh, yay, wooo, ummm soundbites and it's really annoying.
There's also a pretty prominent bug where music doesn't properly loop/start again if you hang out in some areas longer than the current song, and so occasionally you get these really long silent/musicless stretches of the game, it's really quite weird. Also glancing at the Steam forums it seems the bug was reported way before launch since it was also happening in the demo.
Kind of makes me a little hesitant to grab any other past or future games from the dev.