My games on the go at the moment are Baldur's Gate 3, Kingdom Hearts 2 and Nier Replicant.
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Rimworld grabbed me by the balls and isn't letting me go. I asked for a 2 week vacation at work and spent pretty much the entire 2 weeks playing rimworld.
I have found myself incurably addicted to the surf mini game found within Counter Strike Source. It is a $10 game that is over 20 years old and I have over 600 hours in it already with still a lot to learn. The skill cap is crazy high and it takes so long to master it but when you start getting decent, it's so incredibly satisfying to hit a smooth run and beat your previous PB. You can even compete against other players in your country or globally to earn bragging rights for being one of the best!
For me there is quite a lot I am enjoying.
Star Wars Galactic Racer is the new hotness, fantastic pod racer follow up. And really enjoyed what they did with the story mode(rogue lite inspired), my current main criticism is how little colour options you have for shade.
Started Witcher 3 recently but I am not enjoying the combat so far, it feels exceptionally terrible. So may end up dropping it if I can't click with it.
Now the longer term games:
Still enjoying Forza Horizon 6, but 500 hours in and I am rocking through the motions and just keeping up with the play lists. Looking forward to seeing what the expansions are going to be now.
The Finals has been an incredible amount of fun, have been mostly playing their "rush" inspired game mode this season, 8v8 with loads of destruction and chaos. Ticks a whole bunch of tick boxes for me to keep me interesting and having fun.
Sim Racing is also a big part of my game time as well, mostly split between Le Mans Ultimate and Assetto Corsa. Throw in some others as well for good measure(wreckfest, PMR, AC Rally, etc) in-between league races.
Currently obsessed with Blue Prince even after "completing" it as I'm trying to figure out some of the remaining unsolved mysteries. Could possibly be that everything is solved but I'm a believer there is still more to be found.
Driving Rogue has been my goto this last two weeks. Just something I can sink like 20 minutes into for a full run.

Slay the Spire 2. No matter how hard I try to escape, all roads lead back to the spire.
Deadlock has been incredible. I have been playing since day one of the closed beta. It completely got me off of Overwatch which had been a ten year long experience.
Fire Emboem Fortunes Weave has been quite fun. My first FE since the GBA games.
Star Wars Zero Company, ZCOM. Perfect SW XCOM skinned game.
Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave is my current game I'm spending the most time in. It's Fire Emblem but now has little dungeons! They don't add too much, honestly, but they break up the straight strategy combat with a simplified turn based RPG style. Something new, so that's fun. Looks great; plays great.
I do like the story of my character Leda so far. It's more "mature" than I expected as it often talks about murder and revenge. I'm eager to see what the other paths are like.
Silent Hill: Townfall is next. My friends and I always play a scary game together during the season, so this came out at a perfect time. About halfway through it, and I like it a lot!
Final Fantasy XIV: I mean, this is the goat. I'm always playing this. Eager to clear up any side activities before the new expansion in January.
I've picked up my original Skyrim save game from 2012. I still haven't beaten the game.
I'm mainly playing 3 games right now.
I'm slowly but surely making my way through Valheim 1.0 with a friend who's mostly only available during the weekends. Very fun, despite the two of us having very different gameplay styles. He enjoys looking up guides and cheesing things using tips from pros, while I like to figure out things naturally and will avoid cheese like I'm lactose intolerant. He's the builder this time around, so things have gone mostly his way. I'd probably have more fun alone, but I know damn well I could never sit down and finish a game as long and grindy as Valheim by myself.
I've also been playing a lot of Helldivers 2 with a group of friends. I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with this game. There's 5 of us now (which has been problematic in a 4-player game), and yet somehow NONE of us are ever together unless its something really tough like a flag raising objective. We just don't really have the team play part of the game down yet (despite having several hundred hours in it), which leads to us often getting a bit tilted in the moment.
Alone, I've really been enjoying Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter. The second chapter came out recently, so I finally pulled it out of my backlog to play. This is VERY different from my normal games (first ever JRPG, aside from the original Pokemon games), but I've been having a lot of fun with it. I really like running around and seeing all of the NPCs' own little personal stories evolving in between each quest. I'm playing on the hardest difficulty, and I'm pretty glad I am, because I'm hardly struggling outside of boss fights. Which is strange to me, because I tried the demo for this game when it first game out like a year or two ago on the same difficulty and remember finding it incredibly difficult.
I’m not and that makes me very sad. To much real life going on and I’m in desperate need of the escapism.
I am obsessed with Space Marine 2 and Street Fighter 6 right now. I'm still just getting into each of them, but they've been so much fun to pick up. Space Marine 2 just nails the power fantasy perfectly, it is way too hard to put that game down. Street Fighter 6 is the first SF I have picked up since 4 and it has just been a very solid fighting game.
Only have time for social gaming so friendslop like stonewards, but been enjoying myself more and it reminds me of how games should be like when I was a kid. Also threw the older gaming rig with a gpu up as a server so I am limited to games that work on integrated graphics which work fine.
Haven't even made good use of the servers GPU yet, had grand visions of buying poe cams but I think that's a while out.
I've got a deck of cards in my coffee table that I like to play solitaire on. I keep tweaking the house rules to make it more fun.
Actually I'm not sure I'd call it "fun" so much as "relaxing." But I do enjoy myself.
I'm struggling my way through Dark Souls right now, just got to Blighttown. Souls-like games weren't ever my jam previously but I just got into them recently after beating Mortal Shell 2 and figured I'd play my way through the Fromsoft catalogue in order.
I'm also playing Lies of P and that game is fantastic. Before that it was a lot of Hades and Pathogenic, which I still go back to for breaks from dieing in Dark Souls lol
Never finished Outer Wilds so decided to pick it uo again, start over, and get through it. Such a great game.
I really enjoyed that game, but I found the final iteration to be such a pain in the ass, that I eventually gave up and uninstalled it without finishing. Maybe I'll try it again eventually. Still well worth playing, regardless.
Control: Resonant
I think I'm 25-30h in and I don't want to put it down. Idk how long it is, but all the Remedy Universe games are such a treat, I don't want it to be over. I'm enjoying the melee-focused combat more than the first game's TPS combat, I think.
Playing The Witcher 3 for the first time. I bought the original when it first came out and just never played it. But they went to all the trouble to be super exceptional people and release the remaster for free so now I have to play it.
What the fuck was 10 years ago me thinking? This game is so fucking good.
I just finished GTA IV on the PS3. For a game that's satirical of America's love of guns and violence, it makes some very poignant statements of war and the bitterness one gets from having to live through it. I still have The Ballad of Gay Tony and Lost & Damned to play through so I'm looking forward to the themes the story has there.
I think I spent probably 20+ hours playing Control Resonant this weekend. Crazy good game.
Right now I'm constantly switching between:
Starsand Island - game like animal crossing
No Man's Sky - everyone knows it I assume
Sephyria - really great roguelite with bunnies
I've been playing X4: Foundations recently. I'm about 30 hours in and haven't progressed very far, but it seems pretty good :-) Also picked up Brazilian Drug Dealer 4, which is great fun!
Currently I'm addicted to Dressmaker. It's chill, creative and without pressure that it's perfect to decompress and relax after work.
Void War is an awesome game, been loving the quick iterative update cycle. New ship dropped in the beta branch today, I know what I'm doing after work!
Been playing some Rimworld recently, since Vanilla Expanded-Gravship Weapons dropped.
I have a game of EU4 running, Savoy just became Italy, and I think I'm on track to form the Roman Empire sooner than later.
I just started Mortal Shell II. Earlier in the year I quite enjoyed Slay the Spire 2. (I've also played Ravenswatch and Shape of Dreams. But those aren't big name games or even ones released this year; they just happened to be what I played with my friend to socialize.)
But very recently I've heard really good things about Control: Resonant.
Dressmaker! I love making my mostly hideous dresses with one or two very lovely dresses thrown in! And it's nice you can undo cuts unlike irl where gg, wasted fabric. Love you magic game fabric!
I'll likely get some mods soon and just go wild adding a bunch of new fabrics!
Just started Morrowind first time. I browsed the mod section in GOG and saw that there is Tamriel Rebuilt and OpenMW available as one click mods. Then I saw that I own Morrowind (Prime deal) even though the GOG store says I don’t own it. I downloaded all 3 (plus Tamriel HD textures) and just clicked Tamriel Rebuilt play button and the modded version works well. Also you can change the small fonts bigger in the Tamriel Rebuilt settings (openmw launcher). Modding has never been easier.

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