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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I’m currently playing “It Takes Two” with my wife. Super fun co-op game!
Slay the Spire 2. No matter how hard I try to escape, all roads lead back to the spire.
I think I spent probably 20+ hours playing Control Resonant this weekend. Crazy good game.
Control: Resonant
I think I’m 25-30h in and I don’t want to put it down. Idk how long it is, but all the Remedy Universe games are such a treat, I don’t want it to be over. I’m enjoying the melee-focused combat more than the first game’s TPS combat, I think.
I also just started this! I got 100% completion on Control - I loved the lore and little details, finding myself reading every note and watching every video.
Resonant seems to be following the same vibe for me.
I loved the lore in Control! I didnt even the mind the gameplay, i was just looking forward for more lore!
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 gotta give that another try. I played it for a bit back when I had Game Pass, but it never really clicked for me
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 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.
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 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
Fuck Blighttown.
All my homies hate Blighttown
I made it through, only lost 10,000 souls lol
In blighttown, torches are where the ladder is.
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 :)
Been playing the hell out of Hogwarts Legacy. WAY better then I ever imagined it would be and I’m not even a Harry Potter fan. In fact, I never saw a single movie.
Super fun, but ethically you should pirate this one.
Why?
Ah okay, I never cared what the political talk is, as long as it does not affect the media I’m watching (or playing). She didn’t even work on the game Hogwarts Legacy, and the game is not even about Harry Potter himself.
She still gets money for it. And then uses that money to fund anti-trans TERF stuff. Depending on your ideals there may be some cognitive dissonance there is all.
Assuming you are right, she is not the only one who gets money. The developers were a full team creating the game, the publisher is not her. You can ignore the entire world and focus only on her, or you are fair and focus on everyone involved.
I encourage you to read the Wikipedia article I linked. She is highly politically active and was a pivotal influence on directly harming trans rights. She is also highly litigative and will sue anybody that is against her.
Here’s one quote from the article:
In June 2020 the Equality Act was blocked in the United States Senate. The Republican Party senator James Lankford cited Rowling’s essay as part of his reasoning for opposing the bill.
She also doesn’t believe asexual people exist, she believes that women are defined by their biological birth sex, she backed legislation to make it more difficult to change genders, she deliberately misgenders people, and she created her own sexual assault crisis shelter specifically to exclude trans women from it.
I think it was particularly interesting that the actors for Ron, Hermione, and Harry, all opposed Rowling’s opinions.
Supporting the brand is supporting her, full stop. Supporting her is supporting anti-trans politics. You can choose to ignore that, that’s entirely up to you; but it is a choice nonetheless.
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I never cared what the political talk is
Part of the problem.
The people here don’t care about meaningful and nuanced thought. If you don’t bandwagon with the hive, they’ll rip you to shreds.
Seems to be everywhere now, unfortunately. But lemmy is particularly bad, you’re right.
Got it free on PSN.
And PSN gives JKR a royalty… Still, hard to pirate on
PShardware you don’t really own.So…. I didn’t pay for it. And I own my PS5. And frankly, I don’t really care that royalties are made. It’s a good game and the developers deserve their cut.
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I already knew how it ends. But…
I sincerely hope that one day, you come to terms withwhatever it was that made you this way, because it has to suck to want to be an asshole.
Haha that’s funny, you’re putting money and cultural clout in the pockets of a fascist nutcase but apparently I’m “an asshole” for spoiling your blood libel simulator
Yeah. You’re an asshole for injecting your own personal opinions into what others should and shouldn’t do with their spare time to the point that you’re aggressively trying to ruin it for them. Frankly… It’s a bit pathetic.
There’s a word for people like this. And you know what it is.
Quit being a hypocrite, and the asshole tag will magically vanish! Best of luck to ya on your journey to shed that entitlement and learn to do better.
And just for you, I’m going to put in an extra hour of playing this…. “blood libel simulator”. ROFL.
I had Hogwarts Legacy on my radar for a long time, but didn’t want play it until I watched the films. So one day I sat down and watched all 10 main films (I think its 10 parts, right?) and they are way more amazing that I thought to be! To a degree that I am a little bit small fan of Harry Potter now. :-) Great films I highly recommend watching it, it was a mistake not watching the films back then.
As for the game, I then purchased it and tried out. It’s a nice game and I need to go back to it. Stopped playing because I had so much to play and put it back for a while (then forgot about it).
Grim Dawn. A new DLC came out, which is pretty neat.
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 just finished GTA IV on the PS3. For a game that’s satirical of America’s love of guns and violence, it makes some very poignant statements of war and the bitterness one gets from having to live through it. I still have The Ballad of Gay Tony and Lost & Damned to play through so I’m looking forward to the themes the story has there.
I’ve picked up Nine Sols again. I like parry games and this is sort of like Hollow Knight meets Sekiro. I couldn’t get into Hollow Knight but almost instantly got into Nine Sols, for whatever reason.
I was the opposite. Loved Hollow Knight but couldn’t get into Nine Sols. I tried for about 5 hours before deciding it wasn’t for me.
Recently been getting into MIO, which has been great.
Also cute furry cyber ninjas.
This one is on my radar. I loved Sekiro and I’m currently enjoying the crap out of Sifu
I remember seeing Sifu a lot a while back. I should put that on my wishlist.
Sekiro was my first ever soulslike game, so I gave up halfway through. I should also go back and finish it now that I’ve got more experience.
Sifu has that parry gameplay. It feels great and looks badass.
Oh, you just reminded me I have Sifu in my backlog! I’ll get to it once I finish my current game, Withering rooms.
It’s so satisfying
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.
Currently I’m addicted to Dressmaker. It’s chill, creative and without pressure that it’s perfect to decompress and relax after work.
