I saw a video on spawnwave that talked today about what games people are enjoying in 2026 right now. And the different reactions of different social media/sites.
I personally am loving Wild Blue Skie s. Its just starfox. Thats what I want to play!
BALL x PIT is a whole lot of fun. I didn’t think it would be but it keeps getting better and better.
I also liked FTL back in the day so I picked up Void War . Its like warhammer + FTL and its fantastic.
EDIT: You all are great! Keep them coming! So many games (video games and otherwise) in this list!
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My games on the go at the moment are Baldur’s Gate 3, Kingdom Hearts 2 and Nier Replicant.
Good set!
Rimworld grabbed me by the balls and isn’t letting me go. I asked for a 2 week vacation at work and spent pretty much the entire 2 weeks playing rimworld.
Committing war crimes in your off time?
Truely one of the few games you can put 2k hours into. I’m not nearly there yet but its one of those forever games.
I have found myself incurably addicted to the surf mini game found within Counter Strike Source. It is a $10 game that is over 20 years old and I have over 600 hours in it already with still a lot to learn. The skill cap is crazy high and it takes so long to master it but when you start getting decent, it’s so incredibly satisfying to hit a smooth run and beat your previous PB. You can even compete against other players in your country or globally to earn bragging rights for being one of the best!
Currently obsessed with Blue Prince even after “completing” it as I’m trying to figure out some of the remaining unsolved mysteries. Could possibly be that everything is solved but I’m a believer there is still more to be found.
Deadlock has been incredible. I have been playing since day one of the closed beta. It completely got me off of Overwatch which had been a ten year long experience.
Fire Emboem Fortunes Weave has been quite fun. My first FE since the GBA games.
Star Wars Zero Company, ZCOM. Perfect SW XCOM skinned game.
I’ve picked up my original Skyrim save game from 2012. I still haven’t beaten the game.
I’ve got a deck of cards in my coffee table that I like to play solitaire on. I keep tweaking the house rules to make it more fun.
Actually I’m not sure I’d call it “fun” so much as “relaxing.” But I do enjoy myself.
It counts!
Haha thanks, I did double check this wasn’t just about video games first. :9
I was hoping to get some physical games here too.
I’m not and that makes me very sad. To much real life going on and I’m in desperate need of the escapism.
Driving Rogue has been my goto this last two weeks. Just something I can sink like 20 minutes into for a full run.
Playing The Witcher 3 for the first time. I bought the original when it first came out and just never played it. But they went to all the trouble to be super exceptional people and release the remaster for free so now I have to play it.
What the fuck was 10 years ago me thinking? This game is so fucking good.
Never finished Outer Wilds so decided to pick it uo again, start over, and get through it. Such a great game.
I really enjoyed that game, but I found the final iteration to be such a pain in the ass, that I eventually gave up and uninstalled it without finishing. Maybe I’ll try it again eventually. Still well worth playing, regardless.
Yeah, it does get a bit annoying at the end, I agree, but still think the ending was worth it.
Beautiful game. Still would like to play the DLC.
I tried it too, the parts I played were done very well, but fair warning: If you have anything like thalassophobia, it’s not going to be fun. I couldn’t do the water planet and even the fog stuff was too much for me. I need to be able to SEE where I’m going. Way too scary, that sutff.
I gotta give that another try. I played it for a bit back when I had Game Pass, but it never really clicked for me
I’m mainly playing 3 games right now.
I’m slowly but surely making my way through Valheim 1.0 with a friend who’s mostly only available during the weekends. Very fun, despite the two of us having very different gameplay styles. He enjoys looking up guides and cheesing things using tips from pros, while I like to figure out things naturally and will avoid cheese like I’m lactose intolerant. He’s the builder this time around, so things have gone mostly his way. I’d probably have more fun alone, but I know damn well I could never sit down and finish a game as long and grindy as Valheim by myself.
I’ve also been playing a lot of Helldivers 2 with a group of friends. I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with this game. There’s 5 of us now (which has been problematic in a 4-player game), and yet somehow NONE of us are ever together unless its something really tough like a flag raising objective. We just don’t really have the team play part of the game down yet (despite having several hundred hours in it), which leads to us often getting a bit tilted in the moment.
Alone, I’ve really been enjoying Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter. The second chapter came out recently, so I finally pulled it out of my backlog to play. This is VERY different from my normal games (first ever JRPG, aside from the original Pokemon games), but I’ve been having a lot of fun with it. I really like running around and seeing all of the NPCs’ own little personal stories evolving in between each quest. I’m playing on the hardest difficulty, and I’m pretty glad I am, because I’m hardly struggling outside of boss fights. Which is strange to me, because I tried the demo for this game when it first game out like a year or two ago on the same difficulty and remember finding it incredibly difficult.
I’m struggling my way through Dark Souls right now, just got to Blighttown. Souls-like games weren’t ever my jam previously but I just got into them recently after beating Mortal Shell 2 and figured I’d play my way through the Fromsoft catalogue in order.
I’m also playing Lies of P and that game is fantastic. Before that it was a lot of Hades and Pathogenic, which I still go back to for breaks from dieing in Dark Souls lol
In blighttown, torches are where the ladder is.
Fuck Blighttown.
I made it through, only lost 10,000 souls lol
All my homies hate Blighttown
Both are incredible games, with incredible DLC’s. enjoy! (Also Blightown is not as bad as it’s made out to be.)
We have a nice and cozy souls-like community, (and Matrix /discord channels) if you’d like to join and share about your playthroughs
!soulslike@lemmy.zip, hope to see you there. :D
Nice! Subscribed :)
Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave is my current game I’m spending the most time in. It’s Fire Emblem but now has little dungeons! They don’t add too much, honestly, but they break up the straight strategy combat with a simplified turn based RPG style. Something new, so that’s fun. Looks great; plays great.
I do like the story of my character Leda so far. It’s more “mature” than I expected as it often talks about murder and revenge. I’m eager to see what the other paths are like.
Silent Hill: Townfall is next. My friends and I always play a scary game together during the season, so this came out at a perfect time. About halfway through it, and I like it a lot!
Final Fantasy XIV: I mean, this is the goat. I’m always playing this. Eager to clear up any side activities before the new expansion in January.
Stellaris and CS2
