Games

Lately it's been Persona 4 Golden on the Vita and Zelda ToTK.

Zelda because you can change your play style easily, sometimes I just want to build stuff, other times I want to explore the map, fight monsters, or do side quests. Sometimes I'll sit there and spend a bunch of time preparing meals for a future play sessions.

Persona 4 I keep coming back to for the story and overall experience - music, voice acting, and even just navigating menus is so stylistic and top notch. I started my playthrough in 2019 though and am barely picking it back up.

On days I have more energy I've been playing Freedom Planet 2 for some action platforming as well.

Forza Horizon 5, have been playing racing games for a lot of years and the Forza games are easy to pick up for a few races. You can also just cruise around the open world map.

Satisfactory or RDR2. Depends on the how the work day went.

Started playin monster train. It scratches the itch of finishing something in 1-2 hours and while they're very similar I feel like it's a bit more forgiving than "slay the spire".

Usually play some Doom 1 or 2, a level or an episode, or Minecraft if I have more time, but I'm in a boring replay/comfort phase because work is kicking my ass atm

Steam Decking fallout 3 atm, with D4 occasionally spaced in. Next is n ew Vegas and fo4.

Transport Fever 2 has consumed my free time. It's like a time machine, I open the game and I'm launched 4 hours into the future

Hotline Miami

Ahh so I see you enjoy some "brainless" (I mean some parts can be brainless, especially if you know the stage pretty well) slaughter after work.

Deep Rock Galactic is a good choice for me after a long day at work, it's a PvE co-op game. Even at the highest difficulty you can have a smooth time with a good team, and otherwise you can turn down the hazard level a notch or two - it's fun and not too mentally taxing to mow down bugs en masse.

Bonus, drinking a beer in game while having a beer in real life is peak immersion.

The same games I would enjoy on my day off.

Still playing Diablo 4 pretty much whenever I have downtime for gaming.

Fallout 4. Current playthrough is no armoured melee playthrough

Infection free zone demo. Post apocalyptic colony Sim with maps based off the open street view. is pretty fun.

Starship troopers: Extermination. 16 player coop fps where we fight the bug menace. Service guarantees citizenship.

If I'm knackered it's Noita, if I have some energy left I'm pwning noobs in Population 1.

I have a group of friends that I have been playing CSGO with every night for years. We now all have over several thousand hours and don't really play seriously on low rank and just have fun together. I couldn't not play the game tryhard after a day at work...but then with so much experience it's not a problem anymore.

Destiny. But I'm waiting so hard for Starfield.

Nhl offline. No idea why. I win almost every game. Sometimes it's a close one. But it's not easy on superstar. I just enjoy finding the angles. Good podcast game. But I am down on myself for ignoring the massive backlog.

Finally though, I snapped out of it and tried Hades for the second time and this time it stuck. Chasing those Heat skulls now.

Super Mario 64 romhacks, but who am I kidding, I never stop working.

I usually have my regular games that I use to disconnect: FIFA, NBA2K, Rocket League offline, SimCity4, Anno 1404, RDR2

And also other more intensive games that I play if I'm in the mood: just finished GoW Ragnarok, started The Witcher 3

Lately it’s been War Thunder. Finally got it set up nicely with my Quest 2 and it’s pretty damn good in VR.

Been playing phoenotopia: awakening in whatever spare time I have for the past little while. It's been a good time!

Just a perfect mix of 80s-90s rock, some weed and Diablo IV. Really hits the spot.

Between Xbox and steam deck:

Recently I finished it takes two with my daughter, looking for new couch coops to play with her. For my own gaming time, getting bored of Diablo IV, Dave the diver was fun for a while but I'm ready for something else, maybe will get back into valheim.

Right now I'm hard addicted to Remnant 2. Been playing it pretty much every day after work this week. Phenomenal game.

I've been playing Dismantle. You just smash stuff mostly. Well, I just smash stuff mostly. Then upgrade tools to smash more stuff.

Zen Koi on mobile https://zenkoigame.com/

It's chill mindlessness with soothing audio. Excellent for zoning out after a hard day. Calms the soul.

For running around and shooting things - Boltgun.

For running around and stabbing things - Diablo IV

Fro driving around and shooting things - World of Tanks

I've been playing Dinkum a lot lately. A cross between Stardew and Animal Crossing, but with an Australian theme. Real chill if you want it to be.

For the last few weeks it was Sons Of The Forest. But now that my wife and I finished the story and are waiting to lose ourselves for months in Baldurs Gate 3, we've been filling the time with Green Hell, another survival game in a similar vein to SotF. So far the constant struggle to stay on top of food, water, and injuries has been kinda frustrating, but hopefully that headache will go away once the systems start to make more sense.

It's really whatever is new or whatever game I'm interested in for the month. The only staples I cine back to would be battlefield and FFXIV. Although the latest iteration of BF wasn't that good