Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?
2026-05-21 23:29 UTC
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@BurntWits@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-21 23:32
I’ve been playing some Minecraft lately, both solo and with my wife. On my own, I’m mostly doing creative mode, currently building a village. I don’t have a ton of time for games but I’m having a blast when I find time. It’s coming very slowly though. With my wife, she’s played the game lots, always survival, but never actually beat the game before, and I haven’t beat the game since probably 2012 ish if I were to guess, so I’ve been looking forward to seeing Ms Ender Dragon too. It’ll probably be a while for that though, we don’t get to play together much.
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@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2026-05-22 00:12
I’ve started playing Kingdom Come Deliverance 1 the other day because I am eager for the Gothic 1 Remake (where I won’t be patient) and people have often compared the two franchises for their freedom and immersive mechanics. And of course the inherent Euro-jank. I really like it so far and can handle it much better than I expected. And incidentally for this community it is currently on sale on GOG. I’m playing the free version I got on Epic a while ago.
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@mohab@piefed.social 2026-05-22 00:27
I spent about a year eyeing Gori: Cuddly Carnage from afar until I picked it up a few days ago thinking I’ll just beat it in about 8~10 hours and go back to playing Homura Hime… I’m 17hrs in… beat the game and going for the 100% because it seemed very doable and the game is fun. I don’t even know who to recommend it to… technically speaking it is an action game, but does not play like any other action game I know. The platforming isn’t exactly Tony Hawk Pro Skater/Jet Set Radio either… it’s not even Rollerdrome… so IDK. It is fun though… just requires some suspension of belief and embracing it for what it is.
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@nialv7@lemmy.world 2026-05-22 00:28
Portal Stories: Mel Going through all the Portal 2 mods recently
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@Contextual_Idiot@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-22 03:01
I recently finished playing through Itorah, a side scrolling action platformer. It’s been on my list for a while. The game is beautiful, the story and art are influenced by Aztec, Incan and Mayan art and culture. There’s no voice acting, but each NPC feels different. There’s little backtracking, and in the areas you do travel a lot there’s usually a new path you can take through it. I enjoyed my time with the game. The mechanics are fun and varied, and the boss fights are all different and challenging. My playtime was about 20 hours and I didn’t rush it. There are achievements for speed running the game too. I didn’t get all the achievements on my first play through, so there would be more to do for achievement hunters.
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@psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2026-05-22 03:20
Done with Iceborne last week, so it’s cities skyline this week. I feels like, every map i build the fun is really on “how you gonne fix this mess of a city that you’ve made” instead of “how well i can plan the city”, so it’s now i’m back to fixing the traffic jam for the junction coming into the city, where i put everything too close to the entrance and traffic will backed up a bit from time to time. At least it isn’t kilometers long like last time, which backed up to the existing highway.
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@taiyang@lemmy.world 2026-05-22 04:58
I’m playing Arc Rise Fantasia, as part of the Wii RetroAchevements event. I never even heard of it but 15 years later, I think it might be my favorite “Tales Of” game while not being an actual Tales Of game (the scenario writer did Symphonia and Abyss but was allowed to go darker and more serious with this). It flopped tremendously because of a terrible English dub and being a JRPG on Wii. The English VAs are practically reading from a script in one take and the hundreds of skits aren’t voiced. The undub patch is a must, as the Japanese VAs are phenomenal and most of them are still working so you might recognize them. Its IP is under Marvelous but developed by a defunct developer so it’s probably never going to see a rerelease… though, I guess anything is possible. Even if it did, I’d wait for a sale, hehe.
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@emigu@lemmy.world 2026-05-22 07:48
Just picked up the remastered version of Final Fantasy 8 for cheap. One of the few Final Fantasy’s I never got around to playing myself
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@ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 2026-05-22 08:57
I’m playing Withering Rooms again. It’s such a work of art.
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@HouseWolf@pawb.social 2026-05-22 14:29
Started playing Split/Second on the PSP after I couldn’t get the main PC version to work fully with my controller. Also Typing of the Dead Overkill since I just got a new keyboard it seemed like the perfect time to play it.
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@anakin78z@lemmy.world 2026-05-23 00:33
Age of Wonders 4. I’m so glad I finally pulled the trigger on this during the recent sale. It’s so much fun.
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@NelDel@piefed.social 2026-05-24 15:11
Played through this cute game called Shelter! You play as a Badger mom guiding your cubs through 5 levels of intensifying scenarios. It’s super short and still got some emotional moments out of me. My favorite part was when chirping caused all my little cubs to chirp & mimic me.