Oh 100% I will be revisiting this game with a proper playthrough now that I’m aware of the autopilot feature. My issue is that I have so many games installed (60+) but I really only play a handful of games per year, so who knows when I will get to any particular game.
Though this discussion has moved it up my list, and I will soon be looking for a new game to play, so maybe soon?
I’ve been playing Diplomacy Is Not An Option. It’s a base-building RTS, which is very much my thing. It’s similar to They Are Billions but the maps are randomized. It feels significantly more difficult that TAB, which is a plus for me. The story requires you to make choices which branch into different battle scenarios for replayability. If you like the genre I recommend picking it up.
The Ghost of Tsushima
I just began, having finished Bioshock Infinite the other day. Seems like a good game, much more of an open-world type game.
I’m trying to take it as it comes, mainly going in blind. I’m collecting questions as I go, though. I’m about 3 hours or so in.
Gorgeous and fun game. I wonder if there is a way to set the time to day for me? Night is, well, really dark.
No, I don’t believe so. (It won’t always be night, though.)
Man, I just realized I am way overdue for an update on YouTube Playables. 
So I got everything it’s possible to get in My Mini Mart, and, sure enough, nothing happened; like My Perfect Hotel and Idle Restaurant, the useless money just keeps piling up forever. I’m still glad I got to find this out firsthand, though, and I’m really glad I resisted the temptation to pay for it on my Fire tablet (Playables has a full screen mode, whoda thunk 
). I’m done with State.io too…as I feared, it just keeps piling on the difficulty until it hits the breaking point. Regrettably, I had to pull the plug on Running Pet Dec Room as well. The “Save Me” system never got implemented, which means I’m losing out on a lot of benefits, and it actually locked up on me once. Came pretty close to giving up on Om Nom Run as well (no second chance there either, and a lot of obstacles give you next to no time to react), but it hasn’t entered the realm of the insufferable just yet. Here’s hoping.
Anyway, if I haven’t it clear yet, there’s plenty of cool stuff there, you just have to find it. A fwe other titles you might be interested in:
DOP 2 Delete One Part: There’s a drawing, and you need to uncover part of it to perform a simple task. In the vein of Stupidella (man, why couldn’t that one have had a sequel… 
), it’s a lot more about messing around and digging the humor than tearing your hair out over the solution. So far the only level I’ve really struggled on was “12 - 8”; that one was badly designed because the whole picture is erasable and there’s absolutely no way to tell how they wanted you to make the shape in question. There were a few levels where I had to try different things, but it didn’t take that long, and realizing “Oh, THAT was they were getting at!” was always gratifying. If you’re completely stuck, you can always click on the hint button (that’s how I got past 12 - 8), so you never have to sweat it. Fun stuff! 
Cut The Rope: Another well-known mobile original, the object is to cut ropes, and later use and pop bubbles, to get a free-swinging, free-falling piece of candy over to Om Nom. There are also three optional stars each level to collect, and in the vein of similar mobile games, you can eschew them if you’re not up to the challenge. A simple concept that it’ll take you a while to get through.
Attack Hole: Drop armaments down a moving hole which gets bigger the more you collect; the bigger the whole, the heavier firepower you can obtain. Then when the timer runs out, use your weaponry to defeat a menacing robot within a very limited timeframe. Run out of time or ammo and you redo the level with a few more seconds to work with. (I think a enemy with no attacks that you’re trying to prevent from escaping would’ve fit the concept better, but that’s just me.) This one works best with an autoclicker, but it’s not strictly necessary. Not much to this…most of you will breeze through it in about half an hour…but if you wanted the chance to go nuts with a bunch of guns, now’s your chance.
Polysphere: A recent addition, and one I’m really liking a lot. You’re faced with a 3D array of colored flat geometric shapes, and you have to rotate the view, both vertically and horizontally, so that, from the angle you’re looking from, they form a clearly visible object. (The closest equivalent that comes to my mind is the rune puzzles in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.) You have to be careful, because even if you match up the colors and fill in the gaps (the fundamental strategy), you still have to get the proper direction or the image will never appear. If you’re stuck, you can click the hint button to pull up a bar showing how close you are to getting it. I’ve used it maybe two or three times so far, but I’ve grown to like this one enough that I actually think the game’s more satisfying without it (and that’s how you know it’s good! 
) and you should turn to it only if you’re really stumped. There are hundreds of pictures to make, so this one’s going to keep me occupied for quite some time. It’s the perfect “just a few minutes a day” game. Highly recommended! (FYI, it appears that someone involved in the game is a big Marvel fan. Consider yourself warned.)
It sounds like the Shelob puzzles from Shadow of Mordor as well.
It also kinda sounds like the 3d photography portal game Viewfinder: Viewfinder on Steam and Superliminal: Superliminal on Steam
I wonder if there’s a name for this sort of perspective-alignment puzzle?
I started playing Satisfactory on Friday night, and between that and the basketball tournament, I got absolutely nothing done all weekend. I had to laugh when, at one point in the game, the PDA said something like “You’ve been playing for over two hours. Maybe you should take a break.”
The frustrating thing is, after about 15 hours into the game, I’m realizing a lot of things I did wrong (or at least could have done better) and feel like I should cut my losses and start a new game.
Welcome to the OCD world of Satisfactory!
When you spend your spare thinking time at weekends thrillingly dreaming of a set of smelter, constructor and assembler blueprints slapped together into a tuneable expandable screw/plate/modular frame/reinforced plate extravaganza.
That is satisfactory at it’s best.
I’ve been playing Saints Row 2 lately. I haven’t played the series in years and it felt like time to restart a playthrough. Also, the recent SR3 freebie on GOG was a nice reminder. The mod scene for Saints Row games is well developed at this point, and several mods really improve the playability.
Just finished Atomfall. Was able to get three or four different endings in under 20 hrs. It was fun, with a decent story that I got into right away. It’s as if you mixed fallout and stalker together, set it in Britain, and ran it on the Sniper Elite game engine (without all the sniping mechanics, sadly).Although I have to say that Avowed is the better game even if I didn’t get into that right away.
I finished the final “epilogue” ending for Hades along with all of the side quests. I didn’t bother going above heat level 8, but I probably could have pushed it up to level 16 with one of the ranged weapons (although it would have been annoying to me).
I’m on my third game now. My first one was an unorganized mess. My second one was slightly better organized, but never got as far as building an actual factory. I found a nice wide flat area and decided to build there, but then when I went to build the coal-fired power plant I realized I was going to need to pipe water about 1km (or else build the power plant(s) closer to water and then run power lines that far). So, third game, I started in the rocky desert area instead of the grassy plateau. For a desert, it seems to have a lot more readily accessible water. I built my space elevator on a nice tall hill with lots of resources nearby, and off to the west down the hill is an ocean shore with a couple of coal deposits. So I’ve got coal and water right there for building power plants and a flat seashore for putting down my foundations and starting my factory.
Yeah, the OCD really starts kicking in when you’re trying to route multiple conveyor belts into a series of assemblers and you have to keep deleting and rebuilding because it just doesn’t look right even if it’s perfectly functional.
I’ve had my eye on Satisfactory, but now I think I will pass, since real, clinically diagnosed OCD runs in my family and it lurks in me. Don’t think I should play a game that actively promotes it. Fallout 4 already encouraged my worst hoarder tendencies 
Maybe OCD isn’t the right term, but there’s definitely value in planning and organizing things for greater efficiency. So for me anyway there tends to be a lot of laying things out, then scrapping it and starting again to see if there’s a better way.
Like most in this thread, I probably play RPGs and puzzle games most, but for a bit of variety I picked up Need for Speed: Heat on sale recently (I think I paid about £7 for it, but I see it’s back up to £60 now 
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It’s basically a Fast and Furious movie in game form. Or, if you prefer, GTA but with the focus entirely on racing and escaping the police. Mindless, but fun.
Last night I was playing more Satisfactory, and it was really weird. My character was wearing the oversized helmet, which was not something I had selected. There were a bunch of giant lizard doggos running around, and one of them was wearing the oversized helmet! And those giant creatures that look like a cross between a blue whale with legs and a tick were tiny. And something with tentacles that I chased down and killed said “hog remains” when I picked up the meat, but they certainly didn’t look like the usual hog creatures.
So either my game is totally glitched (it did crash on me at one point) or that was one hell of an April Fool’s joke.
You should try playing during major holidays too (like Christmas) 
I bought an Early Access game called Schedule I. It’s a… business simulator, with some light horticulture, chemistry, and human resources management involved. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to get to a meeting with a supplier, I mean, “vendor.”