What have you been playing recently and how is it?

Starbound hit me right in the face, I was playing the heck out of it since the 1.0. :)
Apart from that, I was playing my PS4 a lot with Bloodborne, Rocket League and now No Man's Sky.
And now that I won Stardew Valley, I've started that.


Last edited by der_teilnehmer on 11 August 2016 at 9:53 pm UTC

Stardew Valley has me hooked right now. As in really hooked.

I was playing Alien: Isolation and Shadow of Mordor, but then my wife discovered Stardew Valley. No other game has been touched since. Not that I'm complaining. The game's an absolute treat.

Just finished Steamworld Dig and now playing Steamworld Heist - love the style and fun gameplay!
Cities: Skylines
A bit of post-completion Tomb Raider

I've been playing Far Cry 3 on Windows for the past few weeks after completing Tomb Raider and the Portal series on Linux, and the next game on my list to play is SpecOps: The Line.

Half-Life 2: Episode Two; a great expansion from Valve, as expected. Way better than Episode One. It looks like the game uses a newer version of Source Engine comparing to base game and EP1; has some visual improvements which tanks the framerate in open areas. After this, I will dig some HL2 single player mods as I usually do with most of mod friendly games. Transmissions: Element 120 and Minerva: Metastasis are already in my list. Can someone suggest couple more fine HL2 single player mods please? Thanks.


Last edited by rea987 on 12 August 2016 at 6:32 am UTC

Two weeks ago I was playing Darkest Dungeon and loving every minute of it. Normally I don't care for high difficulty games but after beating Sunless Sea without saving or cheating I thought I'd give it a shot. Apparently I like hard games as long as the writing is strong enough.

But for the past two weeks I've been playing this game called Real Life: Work and Parenting Edition. It's really hard and pretty boring but the graphics are awesome!

Unfortunately, since I've been in a AAA gaming mood lately, DooM and Fallout 4 on Windows 10 - and the magic of DSR on a 1080p monitor (2715x1527 virtual resolution down-sampled to 1920x1080 hardware pixels).

But make no mistake, I'm not happy about having to go to Windows to enjoy this kind of stuff! And I refuse to ever use the Win10 desktop for anything but game installation or maintenance. And any time I'm web surfing (like now) or in the mood for other games besides AAA windows-only games, I'm in Linux.

It's kind of a pain having two mice and keyboards around for switching PCs from a AAA windows-only game to everything else, but it's far easier to deal with than loading up the bloated and virus/malware risky Win 10 DE itself! :-)

The Linux purist could say: bad on me for supporting Windows only titles at all. And I would say true, bad on me. But the realist in me acknowledges now that Steam Machines have failed, and me getting older (49).... It may *well be past my lifetime* before Linux gaming gets to the level of truly hard-core developer and video card maker support it currently has on Windows.

But I can still dream it will! The Win10 DE is so crappy compared to KDE and G3 :-)

Half-Life 2: Episode Two; a great expansion from Valve, as expected. Way better than Episode One.

Very true. And then Valve went back to the herculean task of shoveling mountains of money into the bank from their F2P/B2P MMOs, and forgot about a HL2:Ep2 sequel. I wish the Russian/Asian kids weren't so into whatever-the-f*** the name is of those Valve MMO chart toppers it is on Steamcharts :-P


Last edited by Halifax on 12 August 2016 at 2:43 am UTC

I'm playing Daikatana. It's alright. :P

Not that I have touched it for a few weeks. I blame the bees.

Victor Vran, Forced showdown, Distance, PacMan 265. Shank 2 recently which on hdmi out from laptop to a 1080p screen ends up going weirdo after I quit game putting me into this small square in the upper left corner like it got resolution stuck. Victor Vran seems like a reskinned reworked torchlight 2 for guns. Distance, boy some of those community made tracks are hard.


Last edited by aironeous on 12 August 2016 at 3:06 am UTC

I got DeadCore a while back, but due to a certain issue, I didn't play it. The issue has been resolved and I'm friggin' loving it. I really want to suggest it to more people; it is fantastic.

I started on Life is Strange, but an odd thing happened: that thing makes me more nervous than any horror game I've played. Every damn time that little message comes up, like, "This action will have consequences," I freak out a little bit. Like, I'm screwing up this young girl's life!! I'll get through it eventually. It really is a neat game.

I'm going to start on Near Death a little later. I've been looking forward to that one.

Oh! And Pac-Man 256. Finally, an updated Pac-Man based game, on Linux, and I actually find it worth playing!

I've been playing ARK!

I've been running a server on Debian using a neat script to manage multiple instances and we've only been playing on 1 server with the new "The Center" map. It's pretty neat and we've been exploring and just building up our bases. We've kinda burned ourselves out but I continue to run the server in case we feel like finding out what has transcribed in our world while we've been away playing other games. I would not be averse to allow other people join the world as my goal was to keep it as persistent and COOP friendly as possible while also considering running another PVP server. What game that adds PVP doesn't make it better?

By the way, I've been following the site for quite some time and been gaming on Linux ever since I found out I can run Shadow of Mordor on Linux. As soon as we get rid of this shitty X Window system, I think we'll be ages ahead of those Other(TM) OSes.

Winbloze bashing aside, I love the site and there seems to be some wide coverage of games that are coming out on Linux.

Reading some of the comments here about gaming on Windows, I am reminded the only reason I continue to use it is the only platform that contains some of the higher AAA games I want to play. Now that I know Shadow of Mordor can run and run well, developers should seriously start to consider this alternative.

Overlord, I loved the game on Windows & now I can love it on Linux. :)

Bit of rogue legacy and broforce ( awesome game ). But now Ark again as I'm running a server. Might have to play No Man's Sky on Windows later ( though I don't want my linux nuked although it has its own ssd these days)

All on linux of course,

* Team Fortress 2 - damn, its so good. I'm maining scout and trying out medic and its so fun! New competitive matchmaking has it's flaws but it is still great, exactly my kind of game.
* Free Space 2 (with FS2Open) - I loved FS1 as a kid many years ago, and now I get to play the very underrated sequel. It's great. Initially really bad framerate, but after some fiddling I found the "no GLSL-shaders" (or somesuch) option in the wxLauncher, and now its all MAX MAX SUPER PRETTY WITH 60FPS ALL THE TIME AND VERY LOUD EXPLOSIONS!
* The Fall - recently bought, intriguing, although I have little patience with puzzles so walkthrough it is. I like the setting and the story a lot.
* Dark Scavenger - wierd, fun, scrappy yet feels well done.
* Aquaria - It's fluid, fast and feels good, but does not really grip me :/
* Hearthstone (via Wine) - recently got bitten again, I'm an old Magic: The Gathering person, and altough HS is damn stupid in comparison, it is fun, and there's always another legendary I want to craft (which takes AGES to grind :( ).
* Caves of Qud - I try not to, I want to wait until it's more done, but I return again and again.
* Oolite - great fun with lots of mods, but quite tedious sometimes.
* Outlast - I got this in a bundle a while back and thought I would never play it (I am too weak for this kind of game). I tried it, and of course it HAS to work very well on FOSS drivers and all, AND have a cool story, great athmospehere, no excuse to not play it :( I play it for 20 min at a time and then quit for a week to sweat and regain my normal hearth rhythm. Jump scares should be prohibited by law.
* The Witcher 2 - FPS totally unacceptable now at the dwarven city, so cant play it anymore :( Before that it was semi-OK at absolute bottom settings. I liked the story driven nature of it.
* Else.Heartbreak() - I have some framerate issues with this, alas, but it's cool.

I bought this USB SNES controller which seems to be the best SNES USB controller on the market after doing some research. When it arrives, I will play lots of NES/SNES classics with my two sons (they are 3 and 5, I think the 5yr old will find Super Mario World and Kirby fascinating! They are uncorrupted by iPads, TV etc. so they wont mind old gfx at all ;) ). I also plan to play Undertale, 1001 Spikes, Cave Story+, To the Moon, Psychonauts (if possible without analog sticks) and Never Alone (Arctic Collection) with it when it arrives!

Ark & Master of Orion alpha. Both run great. MOO AI is still a bit lacking, although it seems like computer controlled races are trying for different win conditions now, rather than just extermination, which is nice.

Also a fair amount of WoW using wine the past week. Addons are giving me a few issues, but it runs sweet other than that.

And then Valve went back to the herculean task of shoveling mountains of money into the bank from their F2P/B2P MMOs, and forgot about a HL2:Ep2 sequel.

You mean MOBAs? Well, I do not mind Valve is making money from various products; besides Half-Life series have been abandoned with Portal and L4D series long ago. I expect a new HL game when Valve considers Source 2 Engine mature enough and VR technology viable after some more L4D, TF and CS releases.

Life is strange - excellent performance, and a nice experience. Playing with my wife.

SOMA - Excellent performance, exciting game.

Pillars of Eternity - surprisingly deep dialogue which keeps the game play engaging.

I've been a bit nostalgic. My gf and I moved away from NWN2, some severe bugs made progressing (even with "debug" commands) impossible. We headed over to IWD:EE which runs flawlessly. PoE is also on our list :)