Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?
2026-04-29 16:15 UTC
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@GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zip 2026-04-29 16:25
Not had much time to game these past few weeks but managed to squeeze in a little bit of DS 3 to get back to where I was before my save went kaput. Easiest soulslike I’ve played made even easier by the Farron Greatsword. Very fun!
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@Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 2026-04-29 16:46
Currently Orebound. Another factory building game, but with a dwarven theme. Kinda interesting twist, ground is fully minable and gold can be actually stored in a pile of gold coins. D4 new patch is lined up for next.
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@Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2026-04-29 17:20
I finished Death Howl over the weekend. In the end I enjoyed it quite a bit, it’s probably a solid 8/10 for me. If you can pick it up on sale especially I think you’ll definitely get your money’s worth, at least provided you like both grid-based strategy and deckbuilding since it’s pretty much equal bits of both. I was a little dismayed at first that your freedom in deckbuilding is stifled by having the cards of one area cost an additional mana if you attempt to use them in another area, but that concern was alleviated a bit by the final zone of the game where - in the run up to and including the final boss - you can use all your cards from all your zones without extra costs. So you do even get a little bit of creative freedom at the end. The story was so-so for me, but mostly because it was so predictable. It even tries to include a little twist, but unfortunately that twist has no impact on the overall story or moral of the conclusion, so it didn’t end up moving the needle much for me. I could see where the story was going pretty much from the get go, and that was exactly how it unfolded. That being said the message is good, the story isn’t offensively bad or anything and it’s not a story heavy game. 90% of it is gameplay, which is good. And the art is fantastic - some really great pixel art that I liked a whole lot.
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@WagnasT@piefed.world 2026-04-29 17:47
Almost done with fallout 3. It got a lot more fun when I realized I can just drop the difficulty when I run into bullet sponge enemies and put it back to normal after they’re all dead. It feels like an invulnerability glitch or something when fighting them and it’s just unfun. The main story is neat though.
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@usernameless@piefed.social 2026-04-29 19:10
I haven’t played anything this week yet but lately I’ve been cycling through Stardew Valley, Cyberpunk 2077, and Stray. I just got death stranding too but I’ve been waiting til I have a chunk of time to dive into it
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@MostlyBlindGamer@rblind.com 2026-04-29 18:07
I’ve been playing Disco Elysium for a few months, a few hours here and there on weekends. It’s so interesting. I don’t usually play games that are so clearly based on tabletop RPGs. There are obvious rolls, but also lots of passive rolls that happen behind the proverbial GM screen you might not notice if you’re not used to TTRPGs. There are also clever ways to “no, but” after failed rolls. Situations where a game master would just want to railroad the players into success, for the benefit of the narrative. Having been in that position, I respect the way this is pulled off. I also enjoy the options for doing completely unhinged things. Obviously counterproductive things that may bring up a “you can certainly try” or a “sure, why not?” at the table. In terms of accessibility the interface text gets pretty big, the highlighting for points of interests isn’t bad at all and the voiceover for speech is very nice, even if a lot of text ends up not being read. This is essentially a point and click game, so I ended up having to buy a vertical mouse for it. Overall, it’s been a great experience. I’m into it.
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@lath@piefed.social 2026-04-29 21:37
Subterrain: Mines of Titan I’m nearing the climax, I think. I guess it’s a roguelike in the original sense. Everything moves at the same time in turns. You have equipment, abilities, do quests, crawl a dungeon. There are personal needs and base needs which need to be maintained, a lot of running back and forth, an overall story and collectibles which empower characters for future playthroughs. Though i doubt I’ll stick around for them as one run is lengthy enough. If you like stuff like Maj’Eyal, cataclysm dda, dungeon soup, pixel dungeon etc, then this should feel familiar enough while it does its own thing.
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@clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-29 18:35
Graveyard Keeper 2 is out, and I'm playing 1 for the first time. It's fun and rather like Stardew Valley but with somewhat more story. I'm not playing very optimized so I'm sure I'm wasting efficiency by unlocking things in the "wrong" order, but I'm having fun.
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@Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 2026-05-03 14:07
I've been playing Control, picked it up on sale a while ago and only just got round to firing it up. I'm only about 6 hours in but it's keeping my interest. That said, I've been distracted by mewgenics, played a lot of that recently. Pirated it just to try and when I realised I was going to keep playing it I bought it. And I keep trying to start Hades but not having time.