Bulwark, the Falconeer Chronicles: Chaotic building steampunk sandbox game with a unique twist on resource management
V Rising on a server I rent with friends
Helldivers 2 because Managed Democracy doesn't spread itself
Moonlight Rabbits, an incremental/idle game with adorable bunnies!
Also Stardew Valley with friends again, and My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! -Pirates of the Disturbance-. The latter is an otome game (basically think a visual novel specifically aimed at women, and romance is a major component) based off the My Next Life as a Villainess anime/manga.
In the anime/manga, a girl who loves otome games dies and gets reincarnated into the villainess of one of the games. That villainess dies or is exiled in misery in a lot of the game's ends, so the girl tries to prevent those things from happening. The girl is a really nice person unlike the original villainess, and inadvertently ends up attracting a ton of suitors, both male and female. She's also super romantically oblivious to any advances towards herself since she is thinking of herself as the game's villainess, and she's canonically, self-acknowledged in the game to be dumb, so it is way less infuriating than it would be in most other media. It's a romcom. And then it got an actual real-life otome game made out of it, the one I'm playing, which also seems to be a romcom.
I just played Pony Island last night, and I might go through and get the tickets, we'll see.
I also installed a few games as well, so I'll probably play a couple of them:
Hell Pie
Yakuza 3
Lair of the Clockwork God
Euro Truck Simulator
And then I have a few that I'm partially done with that might get some attention. I'm taking next week off for a family trip, so I don't have to be as responsible about getting to bed at a reasonable time this weekend. :)
If I can work through enough of them, I'll allow myself to buy some more this Steam sale. I have way too many games, so I'm trying to finish (with a loose definition for finish) more than I buy. So far I haven't bought many at all this year (maybe 2?).
After loving Prey, I’m now playing Dishonored. So far so good, I like how quickly I was able to get zooming and target highlighting in lore appropriate ways!
Working through another playthrough of Valheim with my wife and a couple friends. Ashlands dropped somewhat recently and we've made it a habit to do a fresh server/playthrough when new content drops and we just very very recently got to where we're ready to go to the southern tip of the world and fight in some Viking purgatory hell action.
Recently started Fallout 3 on steam deck, am a few hours in, pretty good game! Love the freedom, the exploration, but it can occasionally be a challenging game with the fighting and various encounters. Story is good so far.
I picked up Elden Ring over a year ago and had started it. It was really difficult going around the world and I felt like I wasn't enjoying it as much as I could because of its difficulty. This was my first experience with a "Souls" game.
I played a bit of Demon's Souls over the holidays last year on ps3 because I had it on ps+ and was curious. I liked it and it helped me force myself to keep at it with some enemies, as it's more linear.
That gave me the push to try Elden Ring once more and it then "clicked" and I just kept at it and now I'm having way more fun. I'm going back everywhere because I know I skipped difficult bosses or parts of the game.
I found out that I had skipped over a whole area and went to an even more difficult one, so I was getting a harder game than I should have. Upon going to the now easier map section (and with an upgraded character), I breezed through a huge section.
I preferred 1 to 2. In 2 the enemies start to get rather spongey with their life and that sucked a lot of the enjoyment out of it for me. From a character choice perspective, I also greatly preferred Lilith as the Siren.