Games

Brotato

As much as I'd have liked it to be some kind of active or skill based game, it was either going to be webfishing or revolution idle.

I recently picked up secrets of grindea, but after having binged it for a few days, I'm grinded out. I need to earn so much gold if I want to collect all the things and it feels like my combat power has hit a wall. There are a few non-grind things I could tackle, but I'll just wait a bit and let burnout go away.

Cracktorio

trying to see how many times i can take a shit in a single 24 hours

Echoes of wisdom

Foxhole. Looks like a silly little indie game, but boy there are huge scale mechanics and coop required. I'm kinda fascinated and want to play even more, not sure if work and life actually allows me to play a lot though.

I think it was either Mouthwashing, which I definitively finished that day (loved it), or Animal Well, which I bought that day and played a lot since.

Core Keeper, I've known about it for a while but never really looked into it, tried it out and it's much better than I thought it'd be! Basically Terraria with a top down view, really fun.

Commandos: Beyond the call of duty.

Old enough to be good (no dark patterns or other bullshit), new enough to be playable (the first Commandos is just too pixelated, you need hyper vision to play it).

What a game.

I just started getting into Deadlock and that was the last game I played in 2024. However, I only played for about an hour. Before that, in the same afternoon I played Foxhole for about four hours and Balatro for two.

Vacation ends the moment I put my phone down and go to sleep... It was a good time.

Edit: Ah I forgot we played Jack Box at the party I went to leading up to midnight. Does that count?

Brought my steamdeck to our new years party and managed to snag 2 others to play brotato in multiplayer for a bit. I thought it would be more popular to play some games since that is how we all know each other. Otherwise it would have been Factorio: space age.

Simulacra together with my wife :-)

Chess. Nerd time

I brought in the new year playing Fire Emblem: Awakening (which I've been obsessed with after finally getting it working on an emulator). I'd been struggling with lunatic mode but I figured out I can just feed Robin because of the XP boost and then use her to carry the team. Changed her to Pegasus Knight and then Dark Flier and now I can just swoop in and one-shot any enemy and she's over-levelled enough that the enemies won't prioritize her, and if they do, she dodges everything and has enough HP to survive a bow to the face.

The early levels were very challenging and I had to heavily abuse save states but once I got rolling it's been a lot smoother. The two cavaliers you start with literally can't survive a single hit starting out. Since everyone's so vulnerable, you just have to get one unit good asap to avoid relying on your Jagen.

Like the last 7 years past, DOTA 2

Finished Metaphor: Refantazio right before the end of the year. Fantastic game which is shockingly relevant to so much going on at the moment around the world.

Stardew Valley!

Last game I finished was Veilguard. Pretty close to EoY. It wasn't exactly what I wanted, and the difficulty falls off a cliff as a mage when you get life steal, but it wasn't bad. The romance with Neve was entirely too... unromantic, and PG-13 though. Very disappointing. No intimacy.

Then I started CrossCode and it's been good. Feels like a mix of old snes games (Zelda, lufia2) and MMO, without the annoying parts like other players. The puzzles also aren't very hand holdy, which is nice. I feel like a lot of games are too aggressive with their "HEY IT LOOKS LIKE YOU CAN SLIDE THAT BRICK. HEY I BET FIRE MELTS ICE."

Funny enough it was RuneScape before work leagues V

After finishing Tactical Breach Wisards, I have decided to revisit the whole defenestration trilogy and now I can't stop playing Heat Signature.

Ghost of Tsushima on the PC. 90 fps (most of the time) 4K.

The gameplay is really to my taste, so I am planning on playing this one for a while.

I mean its hard to say but im pretty sure it was elden ring.

Diablo IV, the same game as in 2023. I bought the original with Christmas money in 2023 and then bought Vessel of Hatred on the last day of 2024.

Guardians of the Galaxy. The combat could have been a bit better, but otherwise it was fantastic. Better than any of the movies except the end of 2.

Timberborn! I do love those beavers.

Replaying Pillars of Eternity Deadfire.

Bloons 6 🤓

Satisfactory

To the Core

Boomerang Fu. Played with the kids who enjoyed stomping their parents.

Resonite! So much more fulfilling than VrChat.