Steam Hardware

I've been playing a lot of The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy. As someone who enjoyed the Zero Escape games but had never played a Danganronpa, I was unsure about this one, but the demo really gripped me. It plays great on the Deck. The back buttons have been nice for skipping through the VN portions since my A button has gotten loud and clicky.

That game is really long and I'm trying to pace myself though, so I've now also picked up Mina the Hollower. I didn't like the demo, and am not a fan of the retro aesthetic, but I downloaded it to try it out based on the glowing reviews. I don't know what all they changed from the demo, but I was hooked almost right away. It's hard starting out, but satisfying and snappy to play, and the GBA graphics are better (more readable) on the smaller screen of the Deck than on a TV.

The last few times I was on I was preoccupied with Slay The Spire 2 and Audiosurf 2 for Steam games specifically.

Otherwise, I have slowed down on it since I'm in post game, but I was busy with a fun pokemon fan game ( Pokémon Copper ) in the Azuri region.

Yeah, I haven't played on it much outside maybe those 3 games.

I just installed Chip's Challenge after realizing it was free. It's alright in game mode (there's an existing community control scheme that works well) but better on desktop since you can access the dropdown menus that way. Switched to the Win theme and got a solid dose of nostalgia.

As with another reply, I'm also "cheating." I started up a save file for GTA: London 1969, emulating the PSX version. Apparently, apart from second-hand and sailing the seas, the original GTA (and its expansions) and GTA2 are unobtanium for PC these days. Kind of sad to see.

Everything is Crab. A roguelite evolution game where the challenge is to out survive the other creatures. Don't let the cute graphics fool you. It's a lot of fun and the challenge ramps up quite a bit as you proceed through the difficulty levels.

Metro Last Light Redux. Better than the first one and looks good.

It makes me want to read the books.

Can't stop playing Slay The Spire 2, so gooood

Mina the Hollower

Only 3 hours in so far, the combat is a bit challenging already, and I’m still exploring around the starting city.

Finding secret areas is as fun as it was in Shovel Knight, music is great, art is gorgeous, the only complaint so far is how you get stuck with the starting weapon and switching it later requires a lot of money

I have horrible news.

Ring works perfectly on Linux. Apparently this game is an absolute wanker on Windows. Here it just glugs along gluggingly.

I just bought Mina, but I just keep on going back to my old comfort game, Binding of Isaac.

My answer is a bit cheating, because its emulation of Playstation 1 via RetroArch. The game is Dark Deception 3: Dark Delusion. It looks good, and the soundtrack is phenomenal. The manual is not needed, because the game teaches with tutorials. If you want, have a look at screenshots to get an idea how the game looks. Overall game seem to be okayish in gameplay, but makes up with an unusual game concept and good soundtrack.

The game is an Tactical Action Adventure game, with levels to pass. So its more a linear game with stages. Controls are not great, more like tank controls from third person. The idea is to run around, setup traps and attacks and with one of the buttons "use" them at the right time. The character is basically a witch. Bring up the "map" to set traps for the associated button. I'm quite early on, so not sure if I will ever finish this. If you choose to play this game, be aware that there is no autosave and you have to save manually after each stage.

Slay the spire 2. Still addicted.

Dust, the Twilight princess port, but I just got to the temple of time and am hard crashing every time I put the master sword in. So I'm going to find something else now. Maybe elden ring again?

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LEGO Batman - Legacy of the Dark Knight

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• Nuclear Option + Saitek X52 HOTAS + LookPilot
• Factorio

I've been trying to wrap up Trails Of Cold Steel III. I think I'm 80 hours in and near the last chapter.

Fae Tactics and LOK Digital are the new ones.

Most likely will not finish either game.

Slowly rebuilding some of my Switch library on Steam (I prefer my Deck) so I picked up both Cattails games on sale (total of ~$9 atm!) and been replaying those. Very sweet, easy games for a quick dose of fun.

Mostly replaying older games this month. One new pickup is "Return of the Obra Dinn", which looks pretty interesting. I think it will be (eventually) a fun puzzle to put together, but I'm not sold on the on-boarding process of being pushed from one memory to another. Kinda feels like the game is dictating the pace early on, and I feel like that could have been handled better. But I've heard enough good things about it that I expect I'll enjoy it a lot by the end.