It’s Monday morning, and that can only mean one thing. Yup, it’s time to think on those troublesome life choices that ultimately led to your current life situation. Oh and I guess it’s also time to tell us what you’ve been playing over the last seven days.
So to quote the merchant from Resident Evil 4…
What’re ya
buyin’ playing?
I’ve been playing Tunic after reading an article and some positive comments. I got a physical version with all the cool stuff. I’m enjoying it so far, seems to be full of secrets - and I rather like the
not really a spoiler but don't read if you want to go in knowing nothing
Soulsborne-esque opening up of shorter/easier routes.
I just downloaded Return of the Obra Dinn yesterday, but on my Steam Deck the text seems kind of difficult to read. It’s as if the pixel effect shader doesn’t scale well with screen size or something, and I can’t make out all the letters.
Is “Half Rate Shading” turned on on the Steam Deck? It can tend to mess up some small fonts on some games.
Oh good question. I’ll need to look through the settings after work to find out.
Update: You were right. I turned that setting off and it’s much better now. Thanks for the tip!
I don’t own a Steam Deck so I can’t help you, but I just wanted to say I hope you have a good time with it! I really wish I could erase that game from my memory so I can play it again. It’s an amazing, unique experience.
Thanks. I’ve been ignoring this one for a while, but I just got done with Outer Wilds so I was itching for another unique and highly rated game. And this one kept coming up. Seems pretty cool so far.
Two of my absolute favourites games of all time. Enjoy Obra Dinn!
I was playing Inscryption, but needed a break.
I started playing Hardspace: Shipbreaker and I am absolutely hooked.
Need to take a look at Inscryption, I’ve heard genuinely great things about it…but currently I don’t have a PC so I’d have to play it on a controller and I’m not sure that’s a best way to experience a card game?
I’m playing on Steamdeck. It has options for controller support, but I’m mostly using the deck’s track pads as a mouse replacement because I find it easier to control the cursor that way.
I’m really having trouble carving out a chunk of time to sit down and play a game for any length of time (although I owe my nephew a few rounds of Fortnite) so it’s mainly mobile games I can dip in and out of. Currently:
- Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes, because… Star Wars.
- Watcher of Realms - I struggled to get invested in RAID: Shadow Legends but this pretty much clones that and adds on a tower defence mechanism and I’m a sucker for that.
Giving Ultima VII another try.
I’ve made it to Lord British, so that’s further than last time. Now to find a free source of food (besides stealing).
aside from pokemon, jrpgs were never an interest to me. however a switch must have flipped in my head!
started playing shining force 3 and I have been enjoying it so far!
I’ve been watching a bit of Silent Witness with my partner as of late, which always makes me want to play Investigation/Detective games, so I’ve had a bit of:
Pixel Noir
Shadows of Doubt
Cyber Manhunt
I also had a go at the “Star Trucker” demo from the Steam Demo week thingy.
Happy with all of these at the moment.
If you’re into Detective games have you played Obra Dinn? For my money it’s the best one of those.
Oh yes, I absolutely loved it, and I’d agree it’s definitely one of the best.
It’s a shame there’s not more in a similar series. I’d absolutely go for a sequel, DLC etc.
Now I think about it, I believe a chunk of the Detective games I’m playing or have played have come from me searching for “Obra Dinn similar games” and working outwards from there :)
It’s not exactly the same thing but there was a game from 2023 called ‘Chants of Senaar’ that might scratch the same itch if you’ve not already tried it?
I bounced off it midway through, but it’s still a really strong effort.
Yeah, got it and played it and loved it (up to a point).
I might have got a bit further in than you, but there’s a bit at the end where you’re just going back through every level to find the other portals to put the translations in, to wrap up loose ends, and it feels a bit like a job I can’t be bothered finishing.
Absolutely loved the first 90% of the game though. I’ll finish it off at some point, no doubt.
I’ve also got the apparently similar “Heaven’s Vault”, but not actually played it yet.
