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>>45316
i had it pirated but tbh i just buy stuff for steam workshop and pirate the DLCs

My winter car.
I had a glace at the steam awards when logging in and while recognizing most of the games, I had only actually played one of them. Is it over for me?

>>45380
>My winter car
Same. It's a grind but pretty fun. Might finally get a wheel/shifter/pedals

Picked up The Crust and The Outer Worlds 2 during the winter sale. The former is basically a typical factory sim combined with something like Surviving Mars. I got the latter to satisfy my itch for a singleplayer FPS.

>>45477
How does Outer Worlds 2 compare to the first one? I really wanted to like that one, but couldnt.

>>45483
Gunplay feels like a step up at least in terms of animations and such. I ran into some weird difficulty spikes that I'm pretty sure weren't present in the first game. I went into this enemy base for a main story quest and enemies just had much bigger health pools and did a shit ton more damage then everything else I ran into.

>>38141

I'm playing ostranauts, and I'm suffering.

Great game though!

Microprose Risk II. It still has the best computer Risk ruleset. Try it out.

>Project Sekai
I've been playing this one for a few years, fun rhythm gacha game, but they just added Animal Crossing to it today.

Replayed some old Hitman games, namely Silent Assassin and Contracts. I wouldn't be able to play SA if this was my first time, that's for sure. The game has too many annoying mechanics, not that it doesn't have a lot of great things about it, of course.
Contracts, on the other hand, is still perfectly playable in 2026. I really like the nihilistic atmosphere in it, there aren't many games like it.

Currently playing Fran Bow. Pretty good, it gives off schizo vibes, all the way until you find your cat. Cats are my only friends irl…..!

>>45549
That reminded me that I have it on Steam even though I hate point'n'clicks. I really lack patience a lot of the time when it comes to puzzles.

I tried Drova and Elex, two spiritual successors of Gothic series. Elex I quit after two hours, the biggest strength of Gothic was its tight detailed map design, Elex got infected by modern open world disease of vast emptiness.
Drova as isometric game obviously does not follow same world design as Gothic, I mean it literally cant do verticality, but it does retain that exciting feeling of exploration. I have to commendate the visuals, usually indie games trying to pull off old-school pixelated graphics end up looking like ass, but Drova is so beautiful and atmospheric. It is the best Gothic-like game I played since Gothic 2, better than Risen or Archolos.

bounced off zomboid last year but i tried again and it's really fun now, even though I suck so much

Got obenseuer after kind of following the development but not really for a couple years. Propably sunk 100h on it in two weeks even though the endgame is pretty much choose your grind and nothing much to do. It has excellent polish, basically no bugs and the worst design choices are minor annoyances. I just wish you could set the rent to zero for the tenants, it's already a charity since the money spent upgrading will never be made back plus it would take the edge off being a slumlord.

not really playing a game. just wanted to say i was watching videos of nier automata and i checked out the nier automata wikipedia page and noticed that there is a picture of Che Guevara on it. although he is not mentioned in the caption.

absolutely addicted to balatro
it's dumb don't start
kind of like a modern version of computer solitaire

What is the best game you have played in recently? I am looking for recommendations.

>>46479
Genre? Solo? Multiplayer?

>>46480
I dont know, I am asking about your favorite.

>>46479
Playing Esoteric Ebb right now, seems pretty sick

I replayed FF8. It's surprising how easy and short the game is if you even slightly take advantage of the junction system. I'm not talking about farming 100 ultimas, flares and holies. Simply refining a few card here and there. Drawing some magic here and there. And so many boss fights become trivial. You could bother to junction the appropriate elemental defenses and elemental attacks for different bosses here and there, but what does it get you really? 20 seconds less of battle? The strategy really just boils down to keep hitting them while healing yourself whenever your health is down. Well that's all the old final fantasies to be honest. And another thing, because you want to avoid leveling up as much as possible since the monsters level along side you you have like 25 ish mandatory encounters tops in the whole game. So not that many opportunities to unleash the results of all that card and drawing grinding. I had fun with it anyway.

>>46479
menace for turn based strategy, v rising for top down view coop survival action rpg

just downloaded the crysis remaster, never played the OG but the audio on this is one complete garbage

Just beat Morrowind
I understand the hype, this was so good. Now im going to try out the Tamriel Rebuilt stuff.

>>46519
update, my gpu is fried

Fallout New Vegas and hoi4

>>46663
For the first time?

Emulatan Wizardry for SNES.

>>46660
RIP. Probably the worst time for that to happen since crypto boom

I have been playing Albion Online for a week. I have very little interest in MMORPGs because in terms of gameplay or writing are just an inferior versions of single player games, or they are hyper competitive PvP experiences where you compete with people with far more time and money at their disposal than you.
Albion I tried because it looked distinct, I heard it describes like a more steamlined version of old school MMORPGs. It does a great job of merging hardcore full loot PvP with casual friendliness. If you die you lose all your equipment, but rebuilding takes only couple hours, vertical power creep is much less pronounced that in other games, so even new players can realistically take on someone in high level gear, you always have only 6 abilities to click, so the gameplay is simple, but the fact every unique piece of equipment gives you different ones means there is great freedom for buildcrafting. I am currently playing completely solo, no groups or guilds, and am having a great time. Out of all MMOs I tried this is the only one I would wholeheartedly recommend, because it is designed to the make the most of its genre, you can get the experience anywhere else.

>>45324
fyi you can just use smods.ru for steam workshop. thats what i use for eu4 and ck3

Been dipping my toes into Age of Empires 2 lately. It's the game that initially got me into the genre and a lifetime later I'm returning to finally pop my ranked PVP cherry. I suspect it'll be more akin to a fisting.

just finished gta 4 tbogt dlc, what did i think of it?

>>47236
that it was so boring you could've spent your whole life without even knowing of its existence. same goes for lost and damned.

>>47238
Honestly that goes for GTA as a series. I loved SA/VC as a kid, but upon later attempt at replaying it became obvious just how braindead the gameplay loop is. Go to marked spot on a map to start a mission, follow objective arrow to a place where you shoot some dudes, follow objective arrow back. Rinse and repeat.

>>47240
too true, and it makes one wonder why it's so incredibly popular… well, in the age of the internet, it's an apparatus through which "content creators" can produce a near endless well of content. for me, I'll play through it and then drop it once the story missions are done with. same with RDR and any other rockstar games, they're all effectively the same.

>>47246
They were the first games to provide an immersive power fantasy where you weren't on some battlefield or whatever but in the world you actually lived in, there's an obvious appeal in driving fast cars, police chases, shooting people, accumulating shit loads of cash fast

>>47252
The problem with GTA gameplay is that it is an open world sandbox only until a mission starts, when it turns into a tightly scriptes linear shooter/racing game. I wish the sandbox experience would be emphasized more, optional quests, factions, more open and difficult story missions to make use rewards you get from side contend, that kind of stuff.
And its never going to happen, because why would you bother making a complex game with interconnected systems when there is a billion mouthbreathers who are willing to shell out 80€ for a theme park experience.

>>47253
that sounds nice in theory but personally i usually prefer an actual crafted narrative to a procedural slop one where everything feels incredibly shallow

>>47238
>that it was so boring
wrong, I thought it had some fun missions
>>47240
I get what you are saying but I think its kinda of unfair to say all missions were like that
still I dont think I could play SA or VC from start to finish again, but I played IV's main campaign only once before like 15 years ago so there was some novelty to it when I played this dlc
I kind of dig IV's map too, I know its boring compared to the SA one but something about it is kind of charming to me, specially with mods that fix the absolute dogshit PC port
>>47252
>there's an obvious appeal in driving fast cars, police chases, shooting people, accumulating shit loads of cash fast
trvke
flood detected

Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord.
It's just okay but a big enough improvement over its predecessor that I won't go back.
I really hate perk based leveling systems and the main story is half-assed so far.
Graphics are much improved but looking dated already. Sound design is kinda shit in general–not much variation besides stomping and shouting.
On the bright side, the new world map is a huge step up from WarBand, compelling me to actually play on it as opposed to being a Viking Conquest exclusive player in WB.
It's been a while since I played the last game but I suspect that this one is a bit harder. Maybe I just don't know the cheese strats yet but I'm spending a lot more time getting stack wiped and captured then I recall being the case before, which isn't a bad thing. 7/10
Cities: Skylines 2
Not a fan so far, simply because it's ugly. They totally failed to pull off the cartoony yet realistic artstyle they were going for, and the lighting sucks. On top of that, the inability to handle slopes of any kind means you'd probably get hideous cliff faces around the edges of properties and roads on a map of Kansas.
Gamplay wise, C:S is still piss easy and basically boils down to traffic management. They tried to expand on the progression system from the first game with a tech tree and it just feels hamfisted.
In both games mentioned here I knew I was doing myself a disservice by playing vanilla but I wanted to get a sense of the base game to determine what I actually want from mods. In C:S2's case, 4 hours of vanilla is about all I can muster. 4/10
Wondering if War Sails is worth, no interest in any more C:S DLCs (already got Ports and Bridges)

>>47262
>Wondering if War Sails is worth
I found sailing a nice addition, and TW has been adding more water content in recent patches.

>>47262
Has CS2 improved since release? I heard it was a downgrade from the original, with fake simulations, poor performance, missing features etc.

There's a demo out for a game called Withering State and it looks promising. Very initial impression: Communist Suzerain
>>47263
Cool. I was worried the map doesn't warrant sailing but it looks like the DLC adds inland seas and navigable rivers. I'll get it eventually
>>47264
I couldn't tell you since I just got it, but Paradox took over the game from Colossal Order in the beginning of 2026 so people are hoping it can be salvaged.
It runs better than I expected but I did just build a new PC. With max graphics/simulation speed and 120k population, I'm currently getting lows of 35 FPS depending on what I'm looking at.
As for the simulation, it's not terribly convincing. I've had/have crippling traffic jams, huge service deficits and almost no specialized industries but nothing impedes my growth.

>>47267
I hope it lets you play as a democratic reformer that's still communist, unlike all the CITK games

>>38141
Road to Empress II, surprisingly good TBH

>>47271
Is this some kind of distant descendent of the Reigns games?

>>47272
No, unlike them it's actually good, it's a FMV game where you play as Wu Zetian, very woman coded but enjoyable in a camp way especially if you like China