MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
Realistically, the games I played the most are probably Honkai Impact 3rd and Dissidia Opera Omnia
Aside from that, lesse...
Tactics Ogre Reborn
Midnight Suns
Persona 5 Royal
Super Robot Wars 30
Vampire Survivors
List feels pretty back loaded with Tactics Ogre and Midnight Suns on there, but I really hit those two hard during my vacation, and I've been feeling too burned out to play a lot of games that aren't on my phone this year
So I'm watching Giant Bomb's GOTY stuff, and has Jess ever explained her hate for Immortality? She is very vehemently against it but I don't think I've heard her say why.
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She hates Sam Barlow's games, has said previously that he makes the same game over and over again
I played a bunch of Monster Hunter Rise/Sunbreak this year, though I generally do a lot less Monster Huntering with each iteration. Also the power creep has been silly with the title updates, so I figure I'll wait a bit and let more stuff come out before I revisit it.
But no surprise, Project Zomboid consumed mostly all of my gaming time this year, helped tremendously due to the Steam Deck. I'm pretty sure PZ has surpassed New Vegas as my most played game on Steam.
Not bad for a $13 game that's still in early access.
Dwarf Fortress update: My tutorial fort is still chugging along, forgot to post any updates lately. I tend to play fairly cautiously, so it hasn't been super eventful.
We're a barony now, as of a year or two ago. Due to a high number of moods, we've actually exported some pretty expensive artifacts.
It's the beginning of year 6 and we just finally got around to making a little reservoir and a well now that we have a couple injuries and need a hospital.
We have one full squad with no armor, but we're absolutely swimming in various metal bars so we'll get to that soon.
A crash ate my elaborate barracks I made for them, so I'll have to rebuild that soon.
The elves are pissed because of all the lumberjacking.
We have, I think, a goblin warrior of some kind residing in the fort, which is interesting.
Two major ongoing projects are: fortifying the hill we dug down into, and also walling off part of the caverns for farming and such. We have... a LOT of caged cave critters that I'm not sure what to do with yet.
We have a church on the surface I'm pretty proud of; it's behind the walls, and made entirely out of metal bars with a solid gold altar. It's to the God of wealth, so that seemed appropriate.
Despite some minor gripes and annoyances here and there I am LOVING DF premium. What a great game.
Is there a way to see time played on Steam by year? I know I put time into games this year that weren't released this year, but time has folded over on itself and I'm not sure what was 2022 versus any other year.
Like I know I beat Yakuza 0 this year, but I'm pretty sure most of my 84 hours played were in 2021.
Is there a way to see time played on Steam by year? I know I put time into games this year that weren't released this year, but time has folded over on itself and I'm not sure what was 2022 versus any other year.
Like I know I beat Yakuza 0 this year, but I'm pretty sure most of my 84 hours played were in 2021.
My top played is definitely FFXIV, after playing through Shadowbringers post-patches and Endwalker.
My PS5 recap says my most played there is fuckin Cyberpunk which feels shameful lmao, after I spent so long trashing it.
Other games I played a ton of:
Me and my friends played a LOT of Among Us and the Jackbox Party Pack series, every friday we have game nights and play some combination of those and Codenames (via https://codenames.game/)
Similarly, me and a couple of my guys played Halo MCC and Infinite a bunch, we played Warzone for a while (though Warzone 2/DMZ never caught on), and started a Borderlands 3 run
Destiny 2 continues to probably be my most played game on Steam, though I really backed off it in the 2nd half of the year (got a lot to do this season though, before the next expansion hits, Witch Queen was GREAT)
Monster Hunter Rise I played a ton on Switch, but I still haven't beaten the expansion lol. I also bought Splatoon 3 which I have a very on again/off again relationship with, as my posts in the Splatoon thread can attest.
Most played games:
Scarlet Nexus: 100%-ing this was not an effective use of my time, but I kind of got stuck in at a certain point. Not awful, I enjoyed a lot of the visuals and combat once I got used to it, but the plot was just... bad. Which for an RPG full to bursting with cutscenes... is a bad sign. Some of the character loyalty episodes were well done, I'll give it that much.
Assassin's Creed Unity: A nightmare. It might have killed my affection for the series completely. The insult to injury was definitely the co-op being non-functional, despite that being the reason I chose to play it at this time. Not sure I'll ever want to move on to Syndicate.
Cyberpunk 2077: Decided to give this a chance for the first time because I loved the anime (this decision is so popular, it's kind of a cliche). It's both pretty good and pretty rough, all at once. It marketed itself as a choice and consequence game, and it mostly falls flat by that metric... except certain parts that got more TLC and are more impressive about that. Getting 100% turns this into a rather bad Ubisoft game (nowhere near as bad as Unity, though), I don't recommend going through with all the Scanner Hustles, stick to the major named subquests instead. Kind of want to write more about this one (I saved a bunch of screenshots), so I'll cut off the ramble here.
Aliens: Fireteam Elite: The year's co-op winner. Just sort of aimlessly shot the aliens while shooting the shit with the bro squad. A very 7/10 game elevated by using the license well (for once).
I played both Death's Door and Tunic this year, both similar but very much worth playing in their own ways. Come to think of it, Unsighted is kind of in this wheelhouse as well...
Other things of note: I spent the early months of the year going through Remedy's entire catalogue. Quantum Break, Max Payne 1 and 2, and Alan Wake, the DLC & American Nightmares. I LOVE their dumb obsession with cheesy podcasts, videos, puppet shows, bad television shows, etc. The best lore and collectibles in games, for my interests. Playing through all of them, you come to the shocking realization that the kind of iffy Jesse from Control is easily their most likeable, non douchey protagonist. Not that I hate all the leads (I enjoy all of them save the twerp from Quantum Break), but they're kind of uniformly edgy jerks who cause just as many problems for themselves as they solve. I played a lot of indie stuff, of those, AI Somnium Files and the two FAR games stand out. I played through all of Metroid Dread this year, but it feels like I played it much longer ago than that. I'm actually still gunning at my backlog before year's end, I might be literally the slowest person in the world for clearing Uncharted The Lost Legacy.
Now my Mayor-Baron is meeting with a human chancellor...high up in a tree outside the fort, instead of in his fancy office.
The humans seem to really dig our whole deal, and the chancellor and our mayor seem to have found a mutual interest in parkour or something, so great. I'm all for it.
Scarlet Nexus was the winner of the "Wait I'm Not Actually Having Fun Anymore So Why Am I Still Playing This" award last year for me wherein I suddenly realized I was not enjoying the game anymore and actively wondered why I was playing it when I could drop it and play something else. So I did.
I will endure obnoxious gameplay for a decent story and it couldn't even give me that.
Now my Mayor-Baron is meeting with a human chancellor...high up in a tree outside the fort, instead of in his fancy office.
The humans seem to really dig our whole deal, and the chancellor and our mayor seem to have found a mutual interest in parkour or something, so great. I'm all for it.
I made my Mayor the Baron, as well.
As the first Mayron, he has been afforded and elaborate iron tomb attached to the large non-denominational temple on the fifth level of our city.
Now my Mayor-Baron is meeting with a human chancellor...high up in a tree outside the fort, instead of in his fancy office.
The humans seem to really dig our whole deal, and the chancellor and our mayor seem to have found a mutual interest in parkour or something, so great. I'm all for it.
I made my Mayor the Baron, as well.
As the first Mayron, he has been afforded and elaborate iron tomb attached to the large non-denominational temple on the fifth level of our city.
I gave mine the fanciest digs I could with statues and floors of engraved silver and the like, but then I mass produced like ten shitty 1x1 tombs out of clay and gave him the first one.
They're all along the hall to his chambers. Shit maybe thats why he never goes in there. First thing he sees when he gets off the stairs is his own pathetic dirt tomb.
I got the Legendary edition of Mass Effect, so if that counts as 1 game then that one wins by a mile. I was running 2 characters in parallel to try out different choices and if it had had multiplayer, I probably would have played little else last year.
Second place is probably Trails for Cold Steel IV, which I played early in the year and is a long, long game.
Other games:
Currently playing Persona 5 Royal, but just started, so not a lot of time in it. It will probably end up in 3rd place for the end of the year.
I went a couple of times through Tunic and Death's Door.
Started Caligula Effect, but lost interest so not a lot of hours into it.
Played and finished: Potion Permit, Norco, The Excavation of Hob's Barrow, Chorvs, Ruined King and Kathy Rain: the Director's Cut, but all were realtively short games.
Most played is probably either Being a DIK or REmake 3. There's a couple others in my Steam history with more hours, but I don't think all of those hours were gained this year.
Game: Probably Destiny 2, though there's been a lot of Slay the Spire and Satisfactory. Also a chunk of Monster Hunter Rise, Elden Ring and similar. Currently Midnight suns is seeing some good time
City of Heroes: Homecoming is still a dubiously legal fan-server, and I'm still going. They keep doing little updates; I've most recently been building a triform warshade and an inv/SS tanker (yeah, I know, but I never actually had one back in the day) and they've slightly tweaked power selection to give some choice in your original secondary and move the final powers down a tier or 2. Gives a little room to flex that I really appreciate. Genshin Impact continues to impact genshins worldwide. New country, new ziplines, new element, everybody wants to protect the radish, blah blah blah the big news here is that some mad lad said "but I can actually make Silent Realms work tho" and he was right.
ON STEAM
Strange Horticulture: use clues to identify plants and navigate maps to find more plants. Fun little deduction game. Rogue Tower: "roguelike tower defense" where the path extends and you get access to a random new tower or powerup after each wave goes down. Not visually fancy, very strategically fun. Sunshine Heavy Industries: not a game of this past year but something one of my youtube follows brought up as a forgotten game of years before. CAD up some starships to meet client requirements or just do SPACE MISCHIEF like sneaking a cloak drive out of somebody's starship while still keeping all the parts intact and cloaked at the end. Vampire Survivors: yeah you don't need me to tell you about this one. Throw around legally distinct from Castlevania weapons, annihilate a legally distinct from Castlevania horde, unlock powerful hidden forms, DOUBLE SUPER JACKPOT, now with a lore bible from James Stephanie Sterling. Orb Of Creation: an incremental-style game out from itch.io. Amass strange resources to do weird wizard things. Learn runes, cast spells, create new dimensions of space and time? Cat Cafe Manager: a cozy if simple restaurant builder which tries something interesting with six different barter currencies for the various ways you can expand your shop. Oh, and adorable cats for everyone to pet. CITIZEN SLEEPER: an excellent narrative game with a great aesthetic, the sort of early sci-fi where the grand constructions in the stars were dirty and greebly and lived-in. Nobody Saves the World: an isometric dungeon crawler where you transform into all kinds of crazy stuff, perform unique objectives to learn their powers, and mix and match them to become an unstoppable wave of destruction. Bear and Breakfast: a motel builder where you're a big ol' bear trying to bring the humans back to vacation with help from a trash-loving raccoon and an inflatable shark. Slaycation Paradise: a twinstick shooter with tower defense elements where dimensional travel is discovered but constrained to worlds where the apocalypse has already hit so you can't screw things up too badly, which is of course exploited for entertainment purposes by a dystopian megacorp. Dwarf Fortress: just when I was about to get out, they pull me back in
Ive put a good few hours on Bannerlord this year, even if the game is not "new". And DooM Eternal, that I missed for some reason, loved it.
Yes, with a quick verbal "boom." You take a man's peko, you deny him his dab, all that is left is to rise up and tear down the walls of Jericho with a ".....not!" -TexiKen
Spent about a month total on the Quest For Glory franchise. "Trial By Fire" and "Shadows of Darkness" are the best entries, imo, with the former edging out the latter.
Made some progress in Heroine's Quest, but ultimately fell off part-way through. The combat element was overly complex and that's fine when it's mostly optional, but HQ's devs seemed to think it's the best thing and everyone should do it all the time. It's weird how I'm willing to learn e.g., the Snake Eyes Shirahagi fight but not a random Frost Giant encounter.
Sekiro is starting to take up some time. I'm not sure if I'm on a tangent; but instead of trying to head into the castle I took a hard left and fought Lone Shadow Longswordsman and now I'm off in some forest. Defeated a Mist Noble who died suspiciously fast (which concerns me) and now I'm circling back to Tokujiro the Glutton.
Realm Grinder is always running, but I consider that more of a toy than a game. I did dabble with several other idle / clickers: NGU Idle, AdVenture Capitalist, and Cell to Singularity; but can't really recommend any of them.
Replayed (with DLC) Outer Wilds. Still missing the "complete the ship log" achievement, which confuses me. I did end up getting "Mica's Wrath" and "From the Hearth to the Moon"; neither of which were as hard as they sound. They felt kinda weird, tbh.
Replayed Shipbreaker on the one-life mode. Save-scummed a couple of times when the game did something atypical; and once during Industrial Action to try it a different way. Technically I haven't finished it: I haven't ended the contract yet. I want to fill out the Data Miner log, but between being random and at-odds with how I prefer to play, that's gonna be hard.
Despite my many misgivings with the game, I do return to Satisfactory and dump days into it. Blueprints help, but it's difficult for me to work out an extensible model.
Did a nearly-complete run-through of Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey. Haven't quite hit the button to finish the game; iirc I still have a few feats to finish.
Tamin on
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FFXIV (I think I might actually be doing the opposite of coming around on this game, I'm starting to find it ... really repetitive and haven't enjoyed the patch content at all? I've been playing nonstop for two years straight so maybe that's it.)
WoW Classic.
Uh, God Of War Ragnarok? That game is fucking long.
Destiny 2
Elden Ring
Top 5:
Signalis
Elden Ring
Splatoon 3
WoW Classic (I don't even have nostalgia for WOTLK, it's just good!)
Immortality
Most hours is probably Destiny 2, like a day after a friend got me into it they announced a pirate-themed season so I jumped from 'trying out this free thing' to 'grab a season pass and grind out every achievement' in record time.
But Vampire Survivors is probably a close contender thanks to being able to put it on during slow periods at work.
Most played is Cities Skylines. But that's not really a game, more of a personality disorder.
Cities Skylines is definitely a disease, I get the itch sometimes, but instead of reinstalling it I go watch some videos about it.
Yes, with a quick verbal "boom." You take a man's peko, you deny him his dab, all that is left is to rise up and tear down the walls of Jericho with a ".....not!" -TexiKen
Elden Ring was 100h for me.
Apex is probably in the same realm.
After that a pretty big gap, didn't completely fall for anything else (unless you count running Increlution for hours on end in the background, doing a few clicks at the end of runs).
Vanpire Survivors is probably 60h or so, nearly 100%
I like Midnight Suns, meh'd at Gotham Knights, I liked Cult of the Lamb, I played and not finished a few jurps that left little impression
It all felt like there was a lot of decent quality but not a ton of outstanding games, at least in the niches that I like to play (I love the idea of Pentiment much more than playing it)
It's been increasingly difficult for me to justify games that take longer than 15-20hrs to finish for myself if I can't also play them with friends anymore. I thought I easily had 40 hours in the new God of War, I feel like I've been playing it all I can find the time for since it came out a month ago and apparently I've played like 27? What the hell!
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Most played is Cities Skylines. But that's not really a game, more of a personality disorder.
Cities Skylines is definitely a disease, I get the itch sometimes, but instead of reinstalling it I go watch some videos about it.
I just recently got into workshop mods and assets in a major way after being inspired by some youtubers I watch who showed me you can do things I never would have thought of by myself. I used to start a city and get bored after a couple of hours but it turns out I just needed to get deep into detailing and I can actually make things I like.
This is also why I ultimately decided against getting a Steam Deck. Daddy needs more RAM.
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Aside from that, lesse...
Tactics Ogre Reborn
Midnight Suns
Persona 5 Royal
Super Robot Wars 30
Vampire Survivors
List feels pretty back loaded with Tactics Ogre and Midnight Suns on there, but I really hit those two hard during my vacation, and I've been feeling too burned out to play a lot of games that aren't on my phone this year
But lately I've been getting back into Spelunky.
But no surprise, Project Zomboid consumed mostly all of my gaming time this year, helped tremendously due to the Steam Deck. I'm pretty sure PZ has surpassed New Vegas as my most played game on Steam.
Not bad for a $13 game that's still in early access.
We're a barony now, as of a year or two ago. Due to a high number of moods, we've actually exported some pretty expensive artifacts.
It's the beginning of year 6 and we just finally got around to making a little reservoir and a well now that we have a couple injuries and need a hospital.
We have one full squad with no armor, but we're absolutely swimming in various metal bars so we'll get to that soon.
A crash ate my elaborate barracks I made for them, so I'll have to rebuild that soon.
The elves are pissed because of all the lumberjacking.
We have, I think, a goblin warrior of some kind residing in the fort, which is interesting.
Two major ongoing projects are: fortifying the hill we dug down into, and also walling off part of the caverns for farming and such. We have... a LOT of caged cave critters that I'm not sure what to do with yet.
We have a church on the surface I'm pretty proud of; it's behind the walls, and made entirely out of metal bars with a solid gold altar. It's to the God of wealth, so that seemed appropriate.
Despite some minor gripes and annoyances here and there I am LOVING DF premium. What a great game.
Like I know I beat Yakuza 0 this year, but I'm pretty sure most of my 84 hours played were in 2021.
That's why it will decide that instead of making its art more accurate to humans, it will make humans more accurate to its art.
There is not, you just have to guess.
My PS5 recap says my most played there is fuckin Cyberpunk which feels shameful lmao, after I spent so long trashing it.
Other games I played a ton of:
Three games in one year, that's actually pretty good for me.
Scarlet Nexus: 100%-ing this was not an effective use of my time, but I kind of got stuck in at a certain point. Not awful, I enjoyed a lot of the visuals and combat once I got used to it, but the plot was just... bad. Which for an RPG full to bursting with cutscenes... is a bad sign. Some of the character loyalty episodes were well done, I'll give it that much.
Assassin's Creed Unity: A nightmare. It might have killed my affection for the series completely. The insult to injury was definitely the co-op being non-functional, despite that being the reason I chose to play it at this time. Not sure I'll ever want to move on to Syndicate.
Cyberpunk 2077: Decided to give this a chance for the first time because I loved the anime (this decision is so popular, it's kind of a cliche). It's both pretty good and pretty rough, all at once. It marketed itself as a choice and consequence game, and it mostly falls flat by that metric... except certain parts that got more TLC and are more impressive about that. Getting 100% turns this into a rather bad Ubisoft game (nowhere near as bad as Unity, though), I don't recommend going through with all the Scanner Hustles, stick to the major named subquests instead. Kind of want to write more about this one (I saved a bunch of screenshots), so I'll cut off the ramble here.
Aliens: Fireteam Elite: The year's co-op winner. Just sort of aimlessly shot the aliens while shooting the shit with the bro squad. A very 7/10 game elevated by using the license well (for once).
I played both Death's Door and Tunic this year, both similar but very much worth playing in their own ways. Come to think of it, Unsighted is kind of in this wheelhouse as well...
Other things of note: I spent the early months of the year going through Remedy's entire catalogue. Quantum Break, Max Payne 1 and 2, and Alan Wake, the DLC & American Nightmares. I LOVE their dumb obsession with cheesy podcasts, videos, puppet shows, bad television shows, etc. The best lore and collectibles in games, for my interests. Playing through all of them, you come to the shocking realization that the kind of iffy Jesse from Control is easily their most likeable, non douchey protagonist. Not that I hate all the leads (I enjoy all of them save the twerp from Quantum Break), but they're kind of uniformly edgy jerks who cause just as many problems for themselves as they solve. I played a lot of indie stuff, of those, AI Somnium Files and the two FAR games stand out. I played through all of Metroid Dread this year, but it feels like I played it much longer ago than that. I'm actually still gunning at my backlog before year's end, I might be literally the slowest person in the world for clearing Uncharted The Lost Legacy.
The humans seem to really dig our whole deal, and the chancellor and our mayor seem to have found a mutual interest in parkour or something, so great. I'm all for it.
I will endure obnoxious gameplay for a decent story and it couldn't even give me that.
I made my Mayor the Baron, as well.
As the first Mayron, he has been afforded and elaborate iron tomb attached to the large non-denominational temple on the fifth level of our city.
I gave mine the fanciest digs I could with statues and floors of engraved silver and the like, but then I mass produced like ten shitty 1x1 tombs out of clay and gave him the first one.
They're all along the hall to his chambers. Shit maybe thats why he never goes in there. First thing he sees when he gets off the stairs is his own pathetic dirt tomb.
I got the Legendary edition of Mass Effect, so if that counts as 1 game then that one wins by a mile. I was running 2 characters in parallel to try out different choices and if it had had multiplayer, I probably would have played little else last year.
Second place is probably Trails for Cold Steel IV, which I played early in the year and is a long, long game.
Other games:
Currently playing Persona 5 Royal, but just started, so not a lot of time in it. It will probably end up in 3rd place for the end of the year.
I went a couple of times through Tunic and Death's Door.
Started Caligula Effect, but lost interest so not a lot of hours into it.
Played and finished: Potion Permit, Norco, The Excavation of Hob's Barrow, Chorvs, Ruined King and Kathy Rain: the Director's Cut, but all were realtively short games.
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City of Heroes: Homecoming is still a dubiously legal fan-server, and I'm still going. They keep doing little updates; I've most recently been building a triform warshade and an inv/SS tanker (yeah, I know, but I never actually had one back in the day) and they've slightly tweaked power selection to give some choice in your original secondary and move the final powers down a tier or 2. Gives a little room to flex that I really appreciate.
Genshin Impact continues to impact genshins worldwide. New country, new ziplines, new element, everybody wants to protect the radish, blah blah blah the big news here is that some mad lad said "but I can actually make Silent Realms work tho" and he was right.
ON STEAM
Strange Horticulture: use clues to identify plants and navigate maps to find more plants. Fun little deduction game.
Rogue Tower: "roguelike tower defense" where the path extends and you get access to a random new tower or powerup after each wave goes down. Not visually fancy, very strategically fun.
Sunshine Heavy Industries: not a game of this past year but something one of my youtube follows brought up as a forgotten game of years before. CAD up some starships to meet client requirements or just do SPACE MISCHIEF like sneaking a cloak drive out of somebody's starship while still keeping all the parts intact and cloaked at the end.
Vampire Survivors: yeah you don't need me to tell you about this one. Throw around legally distinct from Castlevania weapons, annihilate a legally distinct from Castlevania horde, unlock powerful hidden forms, DOUBLE SUPER JACKPOT, now with a lore bible from James Stephanie Sterling.
Orb Of Creation: an incremental-style game out from itch.io. Amass strange resources to do weird wizard things. Learn runes, cast spells, create new dimensions of space and time?
Cat Cafe Manager: a cozy if simple restaurant builder which tries something interesting with six different barter currencies for the various ways you can expand your shop. Oh, and adorable cats for everyone to pet.
CITIZEN SLEEPER: an excellent narrative game with a great aesthetic, the sort of early sci-fi where the grand constructions in the stars were dirty and greebly and lived-in.
Nobody Saves the World: an isometric dungeon crawler where you transform into all kinds of crazy stuff, perform unique objectives to learn their powers, and mix and match them to become an unstoppable wave of destruction.
Bear and Breakfast: a motel builder where you're a big ol' bear trying to bring the humans back to vacation with help from a trash-loving raccoon and an inflatable shark.
Slaycation Paradise: a twinstick shooter with tower defense elements where dimensional travel is discovered but constrained to worlds where the apocalypse has already hit so you can't screw things up too badly, which is of course exploited for entertainment purposes by a dystopian megacorp.
Dwarf Fortress: just when I was about to get out, they pull me back in
Played a bit of Elden Ring, Returnal and Horizon Forbidden West, but not really enough to form an opinion on any of them.
Played through Fallen Order, that was alright.
Played some Tunic and Deaths Door, kinda meh on both of them.
Oh, FIFA 23 and eFootball whatever.
Both are garbage.
edit: Stray. Stray was cool while it lasted, but the fact this is an edit is probably telling.
uh....
well hell i don't know. i tend to buy a game, play it for an hour or two and then buy another one and never go back
Made some progress in Heroine's Quest, but ultimately fell off part-way through. The combat element was overly complex and that's fine when it's mostly optional, but HQ's devs seemed to think it's the best thing and everyone should do it all the time. It's weird how I'm willing to learn e.g., the Snake Eyes Shirahagi fight but not a random Frost Giant encounter.
Sekiro is starting to take up some time. I'm not sure if I'm on a tangent; but instead of trying to head into the castle I took a hard left and fought Lone Shadow Longswordsman and now I'm off in some forest. Defeated a Mist Noble who died suspiciously fast (which concerns me) and now I'm circling back to Tokujiro the Glutton.
Realm Grinder is always running, but I consider that more of a toy than a game. I did dabble with several other idle / clickers: NGU Idle, AdVenture Capitalist, and Cell to Singularity; but can't really recommend any of them.
Replayed (with DLC) Outer Wilds. Still missing the "complete the ship log" achievement, which confuses me. I did end up getting "Mica's Wrath" and "From the Hearth to the Moon"; neither of which were as hard as they sound. They felt kinda weird, tbh.
Replayed Shipbreaker on the one-life mode. Save-scummed a couple of times when the game did something atypical; and once during Industrial Action to try it a different way. Technically I haven't finished it: I haven't ended the contract yet. I want to fill out the Data Miner log, but between being random and at-odds with how I prefer to play, that's gonna be hard.
Despite my many misgivings with the game, I do return to Satisfactory and dump days into it. Blueprints help, but it's difficult for me to work out an extensible model.
Did a nearly-complete run-through of Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey. Haven't quite hit the button to finish the game; iirc I still have a few feats to finish.
But if I had to wager a guess? I think maybe Full Throttle?
Part of me suspects it could be Overwatch 2 and if that is true, I am blaming @Cello.
Star Valor
Elden Ring
Gems of War
Binding of Isaac
And Genshin probably make up the rest of the top.
Most played is Cities Skylines. But that's not really a game, more of a personality disorder.
FFXIV (I think I might actually be doing the opposite of coming around on this game, I'm starting to find it ... really repetitive and haven't enjoyed the patch content at all? I've been playing nonstop for two years straight so maybe that's it.)
WoW Classic.
Uh, God Of War Ragnarok? That game is fucking long.
Destiny 2
Elden Ring
Top 5:
Signalis
Elden Ring
Splatoon 3
WoW Classic (I don't even have nostalgia for WOTLK, it's just good!)
Immortality
But Vampire Survivors is probably a close contender thanks to being able to put it on during slow periods at work.
Cities Skylines is definitely a disease, I get the itch sometimes, but instead of reinstalling it I go watch some videos about it.
Apex is probably in the same realm.
After that a pretty big gap, didn't completely fall for anything else (unless you count running Increlution for hours on end in the background, doing a few clicks at the end of runs).
Vanpire Survivors is probably 60h or so, nearly 100%
I like Midnight Suns, meh'd at Gotham Knights, I liked Cult of the Lamb, I played and not finished a few jurps that left little impression
It all felt like there was a lot of decent quality but not a ton of outstanding games, at least in the niches that I like to play (I love the idea of Pentiment much more than playing it)
I just recently got into workshop mods and assets in a major way after being inspired by some youtubers I watch who showed me you can do things I never would have thought of by myself. I used to start a city and get bored after a couple of hours but it turns out I just needed to get deep into detailing and I can actually make things I like.
This is also why I ultimately decided against getting a Steam Deck. Daddy needs more RAM.
i want this shirt
Lord of the Rings Online
Dragon's Dogma
Hyper Demon
Minecraft
Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord
Morrowind
Dwarf Fortress
Probably other stuff too but my memory is poopoo
I’ll finally buy Cyberpunk when the expansion comes out.