Has anyone played Little Nightmares I or II? They are puzzle platformer horror games, reminiscent of Limbo / Inside. Having enjoyed Limbo (finished) and Inside (1/3rd of the way through), Little Nightmares sound like they might be fun.
I first heard about them tonight from a reddit thread, and checking augmented steam they are both currently on a pretty deep discount, maybe $13 for both compared to the $50 combined list price.
Anyone played these, and if so, would recommend?
I just started a new playthrough of Sunless Sea. It’s a roguelite Gothic steampunk RPG set in the Fallen London universe, an alternate history where in the 1850s the city of London was magically transported onto the coast of an eternally darkened ocean beneath the Earth’s surface where the laws of nature do not necessarily apply (because the Sun is a god and absent its light its rules are unenforceable); for example, people rarely die of disease or old age, but simply grow older and older until their bodies rot around them and eventually collapse into pieces after centuries or millennia. You play as a steamship captain based out of London, and the game is equal parts trading, exploration, survival, and adventure.
There are several possible endgame conditions you can pick at the beginning of the game, whether you want to found your own kingdom, or seek immortality, or simply become rich. It can be played with either manual saves or a permadeath model where you can potentially pass on some of your discoveries and property to your heir. Going out to sea is inherently precarious - you’re always having to watch your food and fuel, lest you find yourself adrift or your crew resort to cannibalism or you run afoul of pirates or sea monsters. The farther you travel from London, the more exotic and bizarre your ports of call become, from a pair of massive sphinxes which are being gradually dismantled and sold for scrap, to an island where everything, including the rocks themselves, is alive and sapient, to the floating city-states of the Mongol Khanate (because Kublai Khan’s capital was also teleported into the underworld during his life and has become a naval superpower that rivals the British Empire), to a city on the back of the rotting corpse of a giant turtle, to a far-flung outpost where a rogue faction of the Royal Navy is trying to build a new god.
It’s very much one of those “just ONE more turn” games where you swear you’ll log off as soon as you finish one more run from London to the island where you have a quest to finish and visit half a dozen other places along the way. Resource management can be a real pain and the in-game quest log leaves a lot to be desired, but there’s a pretty comprehensive wiki to help you navigate some of the harder quests. There’s a DLC which allows you to turn your ship into a submarine and explore additional cities below the waves, and a sequel (which I haven’t played yet despite it being several years old now, because the original is just so darn replayable) in which you drive a train through outer space. There’s a lot of replayability value for thirty bucks.
I’ve been playing a bit of PUBG (Battlegrounds) lately. It fills in a nice modern combat sweet spot between the manic run & gun of Call of Duty or Battlefield and the “walking simulator” that is DayZ.
Favorite moments so far:
Anyhow, new gaming PC coming tomorrow so time to look for some new games to push it.
That’s so fun…it’s like Christmas Eve. Should be a nice improvement in FPS. I’m most curious to see how much your FPS increases in cities skylines, if even at all. Shooters and whatnot should get a huge boost.
I forget what you’re going from and to, though I think you posted both in a different thread. I’ll go find that thread. (EDIT: Here.)
I have did on the Switch and would recommend for that price. They are short games, but I love the art style.
I am just past 60 hours in Persona 5 Royal and is is an absolutely excellent game I would recommend to anyone even somewhat interested in JRPG games. One of the best.
People are telling me I have 30+ hours left having hit 60 hours, which is mind-boggling to me. It feels closer to the ending than that, but I do believe it I guess.
I might argue Persona 4 is superior, but it is a minimal difference. Both games are top-notch.
(jumping the gun technically because I will not have played it until the morrow)
I Haven’t bought any new games in a while, and none at full price since Cyberpunk. Until 15 minutes ago. I picked up Marvel’s Midnight Suns. I’m a little scared at how under the radar it has been. Completely off the radar really, I had totally forgotten about it to be honest, until I saw it earlier today. But the reviews are very solid, and I have absolutely loved the X-com game format for decades, so I decided to take a gamble for Christmas Present to myself. Seems like it launches around noon tomorrow, so it should be something I can sink my teeth into after work and into the weekend, and through the month.
I loved both of these! Short but interesting puzzles in a weird and dark setting. The last bit of Inside takes such weird and creepy turn, it’s great!
In the same style (and I think it’s one of the lead designers of limbo/inside, even if from a different studio) is Somerville, which just came out on game pass. Thumbs up.
Tonight I finally crafted my first smelter in Raft. Now that I can work with metal I feel like the game is just starting to open up.
I’m still using shark bait for the time being, as opposed to going Terminator on the shark, but I did upgrade to a metal hook with my only found bolt, so at least I collect resources twice as fast to make the shark bait more useful. Plus now thanks to the smelter I can make as many bolts as I want. Takes time, though, so I’m already thinking I need a second one.
I have, however, made my very last expensive single-use anchor when I parked at this island. The first thing I’m going to build after leaving this island is a stationary anchor. That makes me so happy. Much of my time in creative mode was spent planning where the giant anchors go, and now after I knock this island out I can start implementing that.
The only issue I have is not being able to skip islands. It feels like they come every 3 minutes. It’s probably more like 20, but I swear it feels like I just start doing stuff and then boom, I can see the next island on the horizon. I will probably come across three islands before I finish adapting my live build to my creative build so I can place the anchor. I’ll have to find an immediate temporary position to put it in for now.
I’m really enjoying fishing, which is nice because it’s not engaging at all. They should have made it more of a mini game, where it takes a small amount of finesse to succeed or you fail. In-game it’s just wait 15 seconds and then you get a fish, every time. Still, I find it soothing. I like to use up an entire fishing rod when I fish, then when it breaks I rebuild one for next time. But I’m using the cheapo ones that break really fast. That will probably change when I switch to the nicer ones.
I’m still playing Pathfinder: Kingmaker (it’s a long game!) and I’m having a mix of fun and frustration.
On the plus side, I’m really enjoying the Baldur’s Gate-style dungeon crawling and it really is a very faithful representation of the tabletop RPG. But it is one of the worst games (if not THE worst) I’ve played in terms of crashing on my Xbox One. It almost makes Fallout 4 look good! And I found the kingdom management minigame more annoying than fun so I turned it to “auto-management” mode, and now I get to watch the AI make poor management decisions that I have no control over.
Lately I’ve been playing Mount & Blade Bannerlord with The Old Realms mod. Pretty cool recruiting vampires into my clan and zapping enemies with magic. I participated in my first sieges last night, joined a big army that took 2 castles.
Brought Civ 5 out of retirement to play the Faerun mod, it’s an almost total conversion that turns Civ 5 into a fantasy 4x complete with heroes and monsters and magic.
Still working on Red Dead Redemption 2, I have fallen out of the main storyline and spend most of my time hunting and collecting. It’s a really great landscape to explore, varied and expansive although I’d love to see bigger expanses with less NPCs riding around.
Tried the Epic giveaway Fort Triumph on my Steam Deck attached to my living room TV. It’s a fantasy game with a world map that you explore combined with turn-based combat, and has good controller support.
I’m on Persona 5 Royal still and I hear that even though I just hit 65 hours, there are at least 40 hours to go.
I won a free copy of Dragon Quest Treasures today. It comes out Friday and I won a contest on a youtube channel. Kind of neat.
Glad you are checking it out! I’m on the QA team for that mod; I’m looking forward to the eventual addition of dwarves. I do enjoy playing vampires; I love just raising disposable skeleton forces for the early battles.
Wow, kudos to you and the team, the Old Realms is really shaping up well. I’ve bought plenty of finished games that weren’t as nice looking or polished.
Thanks! The art/modeling team just amazes me with the quality of what they are putting out.
Does Duolingo count as a video game? Because I’ve been playing it like crazy, learning Spanish. It’s a vice that isn’t a vice.
I just now was driving around the big picture menu to launch raft with the mouse, which I could then play with the mouse & keyboard if I wanted. The controller is just mapped to send keystrokes and mouse buttons / movement, so the mouse & keyboard have to work for that to work.
Then I thought back to this quoted post and realized that I may not understand what you mean. Have you tried big picture with M&K? As far as I can tell it works fine.
I’m apparently a dummy, because I thought Big Picture only works with controllers. If it works with mouse & keyboard, that’s awesome–I’ve not tried it.
What I’d love is to use wifi to connect my TV and my PC, playing Steam games on my TV. Currently, I am using an HDMI cable that doesn’t seem to support audio-out. If Big Picture lets me handle this, that’d be awesome.
How would you connect the mouse and keyboard? I’m guessing the computer is in a different room. Bluetooth, maybe?
I assume you’ve already seen this, or countless articles similar to it, but just in case:
The basic gist I get out of this is you need some kind of hardware that goes next to your TV. Whether it’s a streaming box, laptop, or a whole second gaming PC, something needs to plug into the tv. That something doesn’t have to render the game; it can just be receiving the Wi-Fi signal from your main system.
So I guess the idea would be you would plug the mouse and keyboard into that device that’s near the TV? That could work.
My PC is about 6 feet from the TV, and my mouse/keyboard is wireless. I’ll check that article out–thank you!