Hades 2, finally out of early access and enjoying the storyline and the new polish

Just finished high on life. Megabonk is great fun and sips power

I had been playing BG3, but the latest updates have made it go to crap on my deck, so no more. Right now I am playing Core Keeper, Balatro, Loop Hero, and some emulations.

Hi-Fi Rush. It runs great.

• Final Fantasy Adventure DX
• Loop Hero, but it became too hard at Chapter 3, and I have no idea how to get good. (I guess grinding resources and building more things in my town to see what they do.)
• Balatro, but it got repetitive and boring.
• Dave the Diver (Beat it. Loved it.)
• Nova Drift, but after 140 hours, I think I’ve had enough. Awesome game!

Finished Saints Row 2 last week (played 3 and 4 on the Switch a year ago) and now picked up Saints Row 2022. And despite it showing up as “Unsupported” on the store page, it runs great on Steam Deck.

I’ve been diving into Sundered & it is fantastic. I really like the vibe of the game.

Silksong mainly, I just bought doom eternal on sale and I’m going to buy hogwarts legacy after my refund for hades 2 credits my account.

I have about 20 hours of airports and airplanes coming up, so I have about 700gb of games.

Final Fantasy XII. It runs and looks great at 720p, 60Hz. It’s the last Final Fantasy I really enjoyed. I finished all three XIII games out of some misguided loyalty to the franchise, but I hated almost everything about them, and I haven’t played an FF game since.

XII is about as good as I remember so far. The plot isn’t the utter nonsense of the XIII games, and the combat is really deep. I’ve never played the Zodiac Age version, either, so at least part of the game is new to me. Not that I remember much since the last time I played it was a month before its initial release in 2006 when it leaked and got torrented. Wild times.

Mix of the ever present Balatro and trying Halo Reach at the moment

I’m bouncing between several games right now:

• Trails in the Sky First Chapter - the trails series is one I’ve always wanted to get into, so the recent remake of the first game seemed like a great place to start. Runs great on deck. Unfortunately they’re trying a new publisher (Gung-ho) for this version of the game, and they didn’t discount the game for regional pricing making it too expensive for many countries. Russia was one of the only countries with typical regional pricing, but after people pointed that out, Gung-ho decided to remove it from same in Russia rather than adjust pricing elsewhere. It’s a great game from a great developer, and it feels like some controversy over the publisher’s handling of the game is greatly hurting how it performs. It has a pretty lengthy (~10 hours) demo to try, if you’re interested.

• Sonic Racing Crossworlds - MKW was kinda disappointing (and also not on the Deck). Crosswords has been really fun actually and is scratching that itch. Runs really well on the deck, the only negative is it requires Internet when first launched (after that initial check you can go offline and still play single player or split screen multiplayer though).

• Cloverpit - this is from the same devs as Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom, which is why I picked it up. It’s basically slot machine Balatro, with a horror theme (you’re locked in a room, have to earn money through gambling to make deadline amounts, miss the deadline and the floor opens dropping you to your death). Apparently the launch has been very successful (300k copies sold in 3 days), with a lot of YouTubers covering it.

I am still playing silksong, although I tend to get stuck occasionally, the difficulty in act 3 is pretty high.

When I want to relax, I play some doom eternal (just finished the campaign and first DLC, started the second one).

Also, some Lego Star Wars: Skywalker Saga