This game has been great on Steam Remote Play as well.

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Earlier part of the year:
Valheim - Great co-op game. Probably doesn't need much explanation here.
Bloons TD 6 - Lots of chill time playing solo or with my son.
Monster Train - Really enjoyed Slay the Spire for a while, but didn't really go back to that once I played Monster Train

Throughout the year (and previous years):
Civilization VI - Still my favorite installment in the franchise. Never really went back to V.
Starcraft 2 - Is just the exact expectations I have for an RTS game. Don't really play competitive like I used to. But play lots of the co-op missions and just co-op games with my son.
Factorio - Gaming group started focusing on completing achievements this year. Usually make a run on this every few months.

Later part of the year:
Age of Darkness - Final Stand - This game has consumed me. Nearly 40 hours in around a month.
Last Epoch - Technically played at the end of 2020, but just got back into a few months ago.
For The King - Another gaming group game. We have three of us which fits perfectly with For The King's gameplay.

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Picked this up over the weekend. Been having a great time with my son in co-op. Might end up being strategically simple, but in the first few hours already worth the $10 on sale price tag.

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Quoting: MayeulC

Quoting: TapocoLRecently,

Serious Sam 3 VR: BFE just picked this up to get back into some VR.

How is it? Reviews seemed to be rather mixed.

Mixed from me so far as well. I have played through the regular version a few years ago. My feeling so far is that I would just rather go back to keyboard/mouse/monitor. It could be more that I am used to those controls and I feel handicapped with VR. Plus since it is mainly just a port, a game like Half Life: Alyx where the game was built specifically for VR is just a way better VR experience. Not that comparable of game style, but is the most recent VR game I played.

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Quoting: PublicNuisanceRainbow Six peaked for me with Vegas and Vegas 2. Yeah yeah, burn the heratic, I just don't find the old ones very fun. That being said I tried Siege once when I used to fix computers and a customer had it crashing on him a lot so I had to play it to make sure it was fixed and I did not enjoy it one bit.

It peaked with Rogue Spear for me. The first competitive online game I played. :)

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Recently,

Finished LUNA The Shadow Dust this week with my daughter. Good game that had fun puzzles. The outro cinematic was a little tough for my five year old though.

Been focused on getting achievements with my online gaming group on Factorio. Just a great game, that I just keep coming back to for several hour play-throughs.

Golf with your Friends is another game we are focused on achievements.

Serious Sam 3 VR: BFE just picked this up to get back into some VR. Also, played Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes with my son. Really fun to learn how to communicate with each other strategically through that game.

Rocket League. I guess this still hasn't been completely blocked on Linux (through Proton) with their potential anti-cheat. Still a really fun game.

Griftlands Picked this up from the summer sale. Just started getting into. So far, seems like another good title into the Deckbuilder. Has some good changes to the way you play vs other deckbuilders, that give it a fresh change from all my time on Slay the Spire and Monster Train.

Heroes of Might & Magic III. No matter what games I try (Age of Wonders, newer HOMM titles, etc), nothing has been able to replace this specific iteration in the series. I haven't been able to get VCMI working (at least I am getting a bad crash during Campaign map selection). So, just playing with WINE on the HOMM III Complete Edition.

Starcraft II. Another game that no RTS has been able to replace for me. There are some upcoming ones I am excited about, but nothing so far has replaced this game for me. So, I am a little skeptic. We will see if Frost Giant Studios (former SC2 devs) will be able to make the next RTS that can replace Starcraft II for me.

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I just constantly jump between games, but here are some recents ones:
Tales of Maj'Eyal
Factorio
Vintage Story
Minecraft
Vaporum: Lockdown
Risk of Rain 2
Simply Puzzles: Codewords and Junctions

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I was still getting gpu driver crashes from time to time on 5700XT. I sold it a month ago to someone on Windows and they haven't had any problems (I told them they could return the GPU if it was hardware and was problematic for them). I was switching between mesa stable/mesa-git, aco/llvm, amdvlk/radv and linux stable/rc candidates, but it was never fully stable for me. My plan is to get RDNA2 as it would be good to get great performance on 1440p again (RX 580 only on lighter games has solid FPS).

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I have been playing 7 Days to Die and Factorio the past couple weeks. Also been playing Starcraft 2 on and off for a couple months now.

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My son has pulled me back into Starcraft 2 (still runs great in WINE using Lutris. Used to be my competitive game of choice when it was released 10 years ago) and Minecraft.

Got The Battle of Polytopia this week. A really good, streamlined/simpliefied, 4X-like game. Already played through a few games.

Multiplayer with friends the last couple weeks has been:

• Golf With Your Friends
• Strange Brigade
• Unrailed!
• Gremlins, Inc.

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