Patient Gamers

Picked up Talos Principle 1 and 2 for 20$. Really enjoying the first one so far. It's like Portal but more serious, makes you feel really clever, lots of "outside the box" thinking.

Just picked up Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origins. Maybe 6 hours in.. Never heard of it when it came out. It seems like a pretty great fusion of Nioh minus the stances, and one of the more actiony FFs so far. The story is... there. It seems to be heavily based on FF1 so far, so I'm not expecting much. The rest of the game is fun and batshit crazy enough to make up for it.

I’m going through Mass Effect 3 now. When I started the series I thought it seemed good, but I didn’t really understand why it was so very popular. And then the story picked up, and I understood.

Then the opening scene of 2 came, and that was amazing. What a way to start a sequel.

Now in 3 I feel like they nailed the atmosphere. I can’t wait to see where the story goes.

Just finished my 260 hour Xendar's mod playthrough on Factorio.

Thinking of playing Pyanodon's, but my start is giving me second thoughts.

I got Elder Scrolls: Online last summer when it was free on Epic. I love it! After playing for six months, I knew I wanted more and was willing to pay, so I got the latest chapter bundle (which includes all older chapters) for €19.79 on Steam. Absolutely worth it. I've since received two other DLCs for free just for playing the game. The lore of TES is just so good, and the environments in ESO look beautiful. There's so much story in the quests too, so even if it's an MMO, I can play it exclusively as a single player game that just happens to have other people in it.

Edit: The game is 10 years old this year, and there is more free stuff because of the anniversary.

If you haven't tried Spiritfarer, it's absolutely worth the playthrough. So many feels...

Custom Robo for N64. Cute little 3d shooter where you have a robot made of 5 customizable parts that you can mix and match to build the strongest robot and be the greatest "robo commander". I think people say the idea was a "sci-fi collectible game loosely similar to pokemon".

I know it's late but posting for content.

Sekiro

Tomb Raider (2013).

I just finished Dave the Diver and I was going through the backlog of unplayed games on my Steam Deck. I'm not even sure when I bought this game, I feel like it may have come with a humble bundle or a graphics card. Anyway, I'm about 3 hours in and so far it's pretty great!

Jumped back into slay the spire because of the announcement of the sequel.

Playing Planescape: Torment for the first time, amazing game though the rather dated interface can get tiresome.

Doom 2016 & flatout (whatever edition was recently steamdeck verified).

Stardew Valley and Kingdom Come Deliverance are the two big ones at the moment. I've played both a bit at a time for a while now.

Stardew Valley needs little introduction. It's a beautiful gem of an indie game. I'm in fall of year two and just getting used to married life and making that sweet sweet gold making wine and jelly.

Kingdom Come Deliverance is an awesome RPG in a non-fantasy medieval setting. You're the son of a blacksmith and your town is burned by a massive army leaving you a refugee seeking to avenge your parents. You're no war hero or chosen one, just a man trying to find his place in the beautiful but uncertain world...and maybe learn to read while you're at it

I finally got a vr headset so im currently playing half-life alyx. But its making me incredibly motion sick. So besides that im playing watch dogs 2 again.

Playing Cyberpunk 2077, it's sometimes a little unintuitive. You're thrown into a world that doesn't explain anything about what's going on and is filled with so much stuff, but in general a really good game.

I've started Fallout 1 this week and not too long ago I finished Carmageddon 2.

Fallout is on sale (75% off);

https://store.steampowered.com/app/38400/Fallout_A_Post_Nuclear_Role_Playing_Game/

Carmageddon 2;

https://store.steampowered.com/app/282030/Carmageddon_2_Carpocalypse_Now/

I just bought Brotato on Steam. Shits fun af. It's like a roguelike but with no learning curve and literally anybody can play, but the higher levels are still difficult.

Finally started Fallout 2, I should have played it ages ago but it is kind of a slog at the beginning.

I'm also preparing to hunt Fatalis in MHW.

I finished Dave the Diver this weekend, great little game!

Now I've jumped board the No Man's Sky train again, for the first time in six (!) years. And so far it's been really fun and chill!

Tale of Two Wastelands! Fallout 3 and New Vegas in the same game.

The Witness.

It feels especially relevant to this community because I'm picking it up again after a hiatus of over five years. I tried back then but got hard stuck on a puzzle that I just didn't get, and I refused to look up the answer and spoil the joy of discovery for myself.

Anyway, playing it is 2024, after walking around for 30 minutes to refresh myself, I was able to solve almost instantly 😅 so now I'm back into the game and loving it!

It's a quintessential patient game, with its slow pace (including the walking pace - glacial when compared to action games), and puzzles that you can puzz over in between sessions (even for years like in my case).

I told this story to a friend, and they asked "so did this puzzle take you 30 minutes to solve, or 6 years?" Which is a thought!