Games

Shadow of the Tomb Raider.

ARAM in League, a shit game to end a shit year.

I brought in the new year playing Fire Emblem: Awakening (which I've been obsessed with after finally getting it working on an emulator). I'd been struggling with lunatic mode but I figured out I can just feed Robin because of the XP boost and then use her to carry the team. Changed her to Pegasus Knight and then Dark Flier and now I can just swoop in and one-shot any enemy and she's over-levelled enough that the enemies won't prioritize her, and if they do, she dodges everything and has enough HP to survive a bow to the face.

The early levels were very challenging and I had to heavily abuse save states but once I got rolling it's been a lot smoother. The two cavaliers you start with literally can't survive a single hit starting out. Since everyone's so vulnerable, you just have to get one unit good asap to avoid relying on your Jagen.

Last game I finished was Veilguard. Pretty close to EoY. It wasn't exactly what I wanted, and the difficulty falls off a cliff as a mage when you get life steal, but it wasn't bad. The romance with Neve was entirely too... unromantic, and PG-13 though. Very disappointing. No intimacy.

Then I started CrossCode and it's been good. Feels like a mix of old snes games (Zelda, lufia2) and MMO, without the annoying parts like other players. The puzzles also aren't very hand holdy, which is nice. I feel like a lot of games are too aggressive with their "HEY IT LOOKS LIKE YOU CAN SLIDE THAT BRICK. HEY I BET FIRE MELTS ICE."

Cyberpunk 2077

Fallout 4, just started Whispering Hills and my 100th something playthrough

Rimworld, and I just found that there are tons of mods for it. I'll likely be playing it for quite a while still.

Ghost of Tsushima on the PC. 90 fps (most of the time) 4K.

The gameplay is really to my taste, so I am planning on playing this one for a while.

Yakuza 0, first time playing yakuza games an it'sfirst game of 2025

Darkest dungeon

Red dead 2

Finished a run in Windblown.

Got a need for nostalgia. Last game was MGS4. Before that, it was THPS1&2.

Both the first game of 2024 and the last one was Medieval II: Total War.

Conquered the world with France at the start of the year, now doing the same with the Danes.

ARK: Survival Ascended; I run a public cluster for some streamers and friends.

STALKER 2

Warframe. trying to get my noob friend up to current content so we can experience 1999 together.

Genshin Impact just released a new version that for most of the world became playable on Jan 1, but where I live it started several hours before the end of Dec 31.

So that.

Infinity Nikki! It's probably my new favourite dress up game (dethroning FFXIV)

Technically ∞ Loop on my phone. But the last real game I was playing was Jade Cocoon.

I'm about halfway through Lego Lord of the Rings right now.

Replaying Pillars of Eternity Deadfire.

Brotato, working on unlocking all the characters

Phantasy Star (the first one)

Jackbox Survey Scramble

Basically like Jackbox Family Feud. Was a really fun all-ages activity over the holidays.

Animal Crossing New Horizons. Celebrating New Year on the island are part of our new year tradition.

This also makes it the first game played during 2025.

Lost Odyssey

Project Zomboid. B42 is out!

Deep Rock Galactic on Dec 30th :)

Pikmin

Ticket to Ride

The Sims 3. I had to figure out how to disable OneDrive backup for my Documents folder, because Sims 3 insists on keeping your saves there, and somehow everything breaks if OneDrive tries to sync them. Previously I had given in and let OneDrive sync everything because Win11 nags you if you try to avoid it.

I also have to fiddle with processor affinity to get the game to launch, for some reason.

It still crashes a lot.