Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

Found my old GBA that I thought I'd gotten rid of because the battery was borked. Turns out the battery still works, it's the charging light that's borked. My 6yo saw me rocking Tetris and I let him take a crack at it. He played for two hours straight.

Mainly Celeste, Darksiders Genesis co-op, and Eiyuden Chronicle Rising. Celeste and Eiyuden are great, Darksiders is fine, it feels a bit generic. I was way too scared of Celeste, it‘s not as hard as I feared it would be without assist mode.

Still trudging around Daggerfall. I did touch the story briefly but since my character is mostly non-combat oriented I don't even have access to the quests needed to progress anywhere (not that I mind).

I also started playing original Sims again. I expected to have a lot more problems getting used to the lack of quality of life changes and features present in the later titles but it's not too bad so far. I guess I really did take the "just immerse yourself in the world" approach to heart recently.
The only slightly annoying things is the fact I couldn't get the widescreen patch to work but whatever, it's not the first game I'll play in 4:3 aspect ratio.

I've mostly thought about playing Balatro, but haven't gotten around to it as I've only watched numbers go big in Untitled Space Idle (idler/clicker/absolute-timewaster).

It's been a slow gaming week for me. :D

edit: maybe I should actually elaborate a bit on the idle-game.

Essentially: you have space ship, space ship must fight other space ships, which get tougher and tougher the further you go. As you go, you research, build, etc. more things to your ship to make it sturdier, deadlier, and faster, then reset and do it again, but BETTER. Rince and repeat, the usual idle-game loop.

There's so many different ways to make the ship better - but you're gonna need them all anyway, having multiple systems you can/need to level up, but usually can't do so in one go is just a time sink.

It's a simple game but if you identify as "scandisk/defrag watcher", it's for you.

Football Manager has taken hold of me...

So far I've promoted from 6th to 5th tier, stayed mid-low table for another season and now I'm aiming for a top 10.

Also finally have some decent youth players to work with. I really need to improve the first team too as almost everyone underperformed last season.

I don't even consider myself a huge fan of the sport but I love the management part of it.

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I bought Sonic Adventure 2 Battle cause I watched Sonic 3 this weekend and it was fucking awesome.

This is the first 3D Sonic game I've really played, and I'm having a fun time so far. I'm actually really liking the Chao Garden too.

Bought Borderlands enhanced version cheap and felt like shooting stuff.

There's a bug that annoys me where selecting a mission from the journal places a custom waypoint on the map.

Made a SHi(F)T account to get them online golden keys for better weapons.

But it's still fun. For now. Not sure whether I'll make it till the end.

Oh right. Playing the Siren because Phasewalk lets you walk faster. Though i might have picked Soldier due to the turret shooting stuff on its own whenever I'd get tired.

Just finished Persona 3 FES. Planning on sitting in the dark with a stiff drink thinking about it for a while, then probably jump into Persona 4 Golden.

Ive started neverwinter nights for the first time ever :)

@cod@lemmy.world, I took the freedom as the previous post is 8 days old, I hope you don't mind

Wanted to play halo but I had uninstalled it to make space so I played prodeus instead. Close enough

Journey.

Playing Sea of Stars with my 2 kids. We're having a lot of fun with it so far.

Gleba (Factorio)

Rocked a lot of Guild Wars 2 and Pokemon today. In Guild Wars, I just unlocked my Skyscale(Flying mount) and I've been cruising around my favorite zones doing some sight seeing. I also found my 1st Gen 3DS and got it cleaned up and updated.