I really enjoyed Steamworld Dig 1 and 2 on the PS4; for once it felt like the games were perfectly attuned to my competence level, so I actually completed them both.
Steamworld Heist I found very cute and fun - but considerably more difficult after a few levels.
I liked that too and yes, it was a ramp-up in terms of challenge but again, the developers made it feel enjoyable to play even when you are getting your metal arse handed to you.
I’ve been trying PUBG now that’s it’s free. I feel like it’s mostly bots.
I wondered that about online games. Is that true for Fortnite and stuff? How do they ensure you are actually playing against people in these games?
I think PUBG generates the bots to fill out the servers, particularly with newer players.
Fortnite (and PUBG, I assume) fill out a new player’s early game with bots so the player gets a chance to learn the game and get a few “wins” under their belt before throwing them to the wolves. I guess they figure that’s better for player retention than dying in the first 20 seconds your first ten games until you decide this isn’t all that fun.
I am addicted to BitLife right now. I’m more than 1,000 years into the tales of the Zebene family.
I’ve had a Russian mafia czar (after several failed attempts to climb the mafia hierarchy ended in my brutal death), several professional musicians, an NFL football player who won two Super Bowls with the Seattle Seahawks, a WNBA basketball player who won four titles (three with New York, one with Connecticut) and got named to the Hall of Fame, an NBA basketball player who won two titles with the Indiana Pacers; several professional actors who won Bitcademy and Bitty Awards… and not to mention doctors, lawyers, dentists, military officers and enlistees, police officers, and a judge, which took FOREVER to accomplish.
I can’t stop playing Rumbleverse these past few weeks. It’s been called Fortnight without guns, but I’ve never played fortnight, so I don’t know how accurate that is. It’s a 40 person Brawler Royale where you do fun wrestling moves like suplexes and diamond cutters and elbow drops…off the top of skyscrapers! Easy to learn but tough to master.
It too has it’s fair share of bots. But they don’t bother me too much. I just see them as walking loot boxes. Easy way to get perks.
The Rumbleverse reddit, however, is a toxic cesspool of salty kids who don’t understand stand the mechanics and are constantly calling for nerfs and changes that I’ve never even noticed as being an issue.
I tend to skip around a lot.
Started a new game of Civ 5 as the Celts.
Cosmoteer, it’s a bit like Rimworld and Faster Than Light. It’s a 2d spacesim, you build your own ship and travel/trade/fight with it.
A nice little Zelda or Dragon’s Dogma-like game called Gedonia.
X4 Foundations with the Star Wars Interworlds mod.
Asscreed Origins, love exploring ancient Egypt that had ancient ruins even at the time of Cleopatra.
Darkstar One, an old space sim that still holds up.
Not sure if this is a compliment or a complaint, but Egypt in Cleopatra’s time absolutely had ancient ruins, since Cleopatra lived closer to the Apolo Moon Landings than to the construction of the Great Pyramid
Absolutely a compliment, historically accurate and feels like a living breathing ancient Egypt.
I’m replaying Borderlands 3 (from level 1, not using Mayhem levels). Not my favourite entry in the series, but the variety of guns is fun.
Finished the main part of The Witcher 3 and onto the DLC. One of my friends loved the Blood and Wine dlc (not completely sure what the other is about, but B&W seems about a chivalry based society). Going through it, it seems to be SO MUCH conversations. It’s why I’ve never really fully got into it, it just stops for a mass of cutscenes every so often. Just the acting effort and writing on a quest about making two ghosts of married people stop arguing is a lot. And there’s ssooooo many side quests around. I feel overwhelmed with the content, perhaps it will become a filler game for me, when I feel like watching a lot of cut scenes. Weirdly, I don’t find the game mechanics particularly good either.
I picked up Witcher 2 for $3 (Canadian) yesterday. So far the story seems interesting enough, but the controls seem kind of clunky.
E.g. I hate having important actions bound to clicking the left thumbstick because sometimes I get excited in combat and press down on it inadvertently. So in one fight I kept stopping to scan for treasure while Temerian knights stabbed me in the face.
Witcher 3 was so great, I found Witcher 2 to be kind of terrible.
I never played Witcher 3 first, but I remember really enjoying Witcher 2, the storylines, and all the way through. I’ve found Witcher 3 a slog, with fighting which just is not particularly enjoyable, for about ten minutes, then another 20 minutes of cutscenes. I appreciate the craft and the content, but its the closest thing I’ve played to an interactive movie which is three weeks long… 
I started playing Ori and the Blind Forest with my sister a few weeks ago. We aren’t too far in yet, but we enjoy it a lot. Very, very beautiful game.
My sights are set appropriately low, so I suspect I will get my $3 worth of entertainment.
I started playing Dead Space 3 since it was only $5 on Steam. DS3 was released in 2013, but I refused to buy it at the time because it requires co-op to play the game in its entirety and Electronic Arts put in a lot of micro transactions encouraging you to buy in game resources so you could make better weapons and armor. It isn’t as good as the first two DS games, but for $5 it’s worth it.
Fair. I think I also picked it up for a similar price.