Patient Gamers

I've been playing a bunch of SSX tricky. It's super old, but I absolutly love it even 20 years later. I've been playing on the PC using a ps2 emulator.

I've also been playing simpsons hit and run which really holds up. It's a simpsons version of grand theft auto & it's just fun. It's another emulated ps2 game.

Lastly I've been playing survival fountain of youth. It's a fairly recent release. You play as a shipwrecked Spaniard looking for the fountain of youth. I enjoy the base building & exploration -- the story line is fiiine but nothing special.

Silent Hill (Duckstation) - classic survival horror game

• great atmosphere, strong sense of mystery and dread
• oldschool approach to mystery/horror where everything doesn't have to be explained or logical
• some outstanding puzzles
• combat is kinda annoying, but when you play with emulator you at least have saves everywhere

The Spirit and The Mouse is free on Epic Games right now. I've been enjoying it - gentle, cute game where you play as a little electric mouse in a french village trying to help it's citizens. Rough around the edges with a lot of heart.

Sekiro is really testing my patience with my own skills

Grow home, it surprisingly gives me Death Stranding vibes

I played

Sanctum 2, a fun mix of FPS and tower defense. There still are some active players, although it might take a while to get a full 4 player game.

Space Marines 2 is an excellent "power fantasy" game where you rip through massive hoardes of aliens in a dystopian future. Imagine WWZ but set in space and with crazy power suits and swords (and guns). The combination of long range guns and short range chainsaw swords makes a special kind of brutality thats super satisfying.

Runs great on Linux.

Unlock The King: Cheap, simple puzzler that uses chess pieces and how they‘re allowed to move, but otherwise has nothing in common with actuall chess. Recommended.

Orcs Must Die! 3: Comic-y 3rd person tower defense game (here: traps) that doesn’t take itself too seriously. I was a big fan of OMD2 and thought 3 was their weird pvp game called Unchained or whatever, so this one went completely past me and now I get to play a complete and new (to me) OMD for cheap! Recommended.

Potion Permit: Harvest Moon but you’re making potions instead. The pixel art is absolutely amazing. The game feels a bit too small and has weird technical issues (stutter, sudden increase in CPU load or controller input crapping itself until you restart), but it‘s still fun af. Recommended.

Fields of Mistria: Early Access Harvest Moon clone in Gameboy Color style. It may be Early Access, but it runs smooth, I‘ve experienced zero bugs and after ten hours I‘m not even in my first fall. It‘s already well worth a buy. Recommended.

I've had it for a while but finally it dug it's claws in - Tunic!

Apparently this is a devisive little game. I absolutely adore it and think the combat difficulty is just about perfect while the puzzle solving and the exploration is masterclass levels of design. The show, don't tell approach is used so perfectly here. Ah I love it

I’ve just finished replaying Killzone 3 on PlayStation 3 and it’s still really impressive.

I might start Little Nightmares 2 tonight or tomorrow on my PlayStation 5.

Playing Steam World Dig 2 for the 4th or 5th time. Trying a no death run, because I know there's an achievement for that.

Can I ask for recommendations here?

I mainly play on PS and Switch, and have a long list of games that I want to play, so am fully covered there, but recently updated my laptop, and this one has a nice Nvidia card in it, so was thinking about catching up on the PC only games I missed.

I am currently playing Trails in the Sky series, and plan to get Age of Empires and other Xbox / MS games like Halo, Gears of Wars, Fable etc.

Any other PC-only, must-play recommendations from last 10-15 years?

Kunitsu-Gami! I played the demo for 7 hours and then bought it officially. I enjoyed it way more than I expected.

Currently playing MGSV on PC. I never got into the metal gear franchise because I wasn't willing to keep up with the play stations. But it's a surprisingly good game. A little fan-service here and there (cough, Quiet) but the gameplay is solid. I like how they tie achievements with in-game rewards, things like rescuing a certain prisoner unlocks a new type of weapon or something. It's a good motivation to complete all the optional parts of the missions. And the missions are replayable, which gives you plenty of opportunity to get the best ratings and rewards.