Gaming

I’ve got a small group at the moment so we tend to stick to Valheim. Very little progress each time. Usually a lot of catching up on talk and building a slightly bigger building.

Will throw in a multiplayer humble game every now and then to switch things up.

Deep Rock Galactic is in heavy rotation with my group. Barotrauma too if we have the time and at least 4 people.

Project Zomboid, Terraria, No Man’s Sky, Satisfactory

V Rising (boring), Phasmophobia (boring)

Next game to try is called Smalland, I’m excited

Table Top Simulator is great for group fun.

Bro, Viscera Cleanup. It's like space janitors talking while cleaning up the remnants of an alien infestation.

I have been gaming with the same group of friends for the last ten years. We're three people busy with real-life commitments, live on different sides of the country, so we try to play games where they act as a social arena as well. The conversations we have are more important than the game itself.

We've been gaming Valheim, Raft, The Forest and Risk of Rain 2 for the past years. We've also played some Elden Ring and Hunt: Showdown, but neither works as well as the beforementioned.

On that note, can anyone reccomend games like the ones above? Been eyeing Grounded...

Y’all have friends who will play multiplayer games with you?

… or who will deign to sit on Discord? 🥲

I have two groups, one that plays Overwatch. And another that tends to play coop survival games. Valheim, 7dtd, V Rising, etc

A mixture of Dead by Daylight, Deep Rock Galactic, Valheim and V Rising. Depends who and how many of the group are online and what kind of mood we're all in!

Depends on the group.

• Group 1: Halo, the old ones on MCC. Just goofy customs and fucking around.
• Group 2: More recent multiplayer games, bit more competitive, though Titanfall is always on the list
• Group 3: Strategy. AoE, Rise of Nations, Supreme Fommander

we play Dead by Daylight mostly. Sometimes we do fortnite, and have an unironically good time

I've got a couple groups of friends that my wife and I play Jackbox with over discord, it's almost as good as being in the same room!

Rocket League.

Almost nothing.

We’ve all such different tastes, but the last thing we played was Forest 2 and Grim Dawn.

Over the last few years it's been Final Fantasy XIV, Vermintide 2, Valheim and some Generation Zero.

Hoping to get to Deep Rock Galactic and Sea of Thieves some time.

We are very competitive gamers, so the list is:

• CS:GO
• Trackmania
• Rocket league
• Rainbow six siege

When there are more players:

• The forest (original or the new one)
• among us ඞ
• or you can play team vs team in the above games

I wish I had friends who play what I play. I'd love to get back into Guild Wars 2, but I just never have a group to play with!

And, my friends are never playing when I play, but back in College, my friends and I would play CSGO, Minecraft, Oldschool Runescape, and a few other games.

Most of my friends aren’t real ‘gamers’, but they’ll enjoy playing things like Geoguessr and scriblio, so we still get to play games.

Late night Uno sessions are a great way to pass the time. It's a shame that Ubisoft's version of the game doesn't have cross-platform multiplayer.

A couple of friends and I will play Hunt: Showdown pretty frequently.

Sometimes Deep Rock Galactic or Warframe as well.

Valorant, Deep rock galactic, Sea of Thieves, and soon Titanfall 2

I'm big into splatoon, and some of friends are varying degrees of also into it, from "as invested as me" to "will play it but will make a good-natured fuss about it". It's the most fun shooter I've ever played, despite its terrible jankiness sometimes.

We also play a lot of boardgames on tabletop sim, if that counts.

Escape from Tarkov with a few buddies, counterstrike with another group.

Both groups I sometimes play a variety of other stuff with but these two are the main stays

Rocket League, mostly. I play casual matches with my peeps, but my son and I play competitive together. We’ve won some tournaments, even. We also play Fortnite.

We have like a solid list that goes back a few years

• Age of Empires II
• Homeworld 2
• Counterstrike
• Dawn of War
• Titanfall 2
• Call of Duty 2

But we just added some new ones:

• Spellforce 3 and
• Diablo IV

We keep coming back to Risk of Rain 2

No1 is probably Valheim, but also WarThunder, Hunt: Showdown, and GTFO. But I wish it was Eve Online 😅

For in person, we do a lot of Jackbox.
When online, SCP Secret labs has been a favorite. Every few weeks someone will usually want to play and we'll do a few rounds.

Final Fantasy XIV, Terraria, GTFO, Killing Floor 2, Guilty Gear Strive/Xrd Rev 2, 7 Days to Die, Minecraft, and recently some of us have been playing MegaMan Battle Network VS matches. What is popular changes quite often

We met via tabletop RPGs and that's what we still do every two weeks but if we're hanging on Discord it's mainly Overwatch but also Wildermyth and Mech Warrior.

My group plays Dota 2 and Arma 3, both poorly.

Once in a while farming simulator 22

Here's some of my friend group's favorites with old and new games mixed in, we go all over the place!

RTS

• Beyond All Reason - If you're a fan of Total Annihilation, Supreme Commander or Planetary Annihilation, or if you like RTSs and want to be in control of tons of units on huge maps check this out! It's Open Source and free.
• War40k Dawn of War - One of our favorite RTS's, the mix of unit loadouts and varied factions is amazing! Make sure to get the FoV and Widescreen mods here.
• Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun - Classic RTS, Now free through cncnet. Subterranean APC Detected!
• Age of Empires 2 - Classic, Wololo
• Gates of Hell: Ostfront - Really underrated RTS, the sound design, ballistics, attention to detail and variety of units is awesome. Allows direct control of infantry and vehicles, has a inventory system, you can steal weapons off vehicles, repair etc.

FPS

• Half-Life (GoldSrc Engine) Deathmatch - Classic DM game with fun weapons, The tension on the crossfire map after the button is pressed inside the bunker is amazing. Tons of mods available for it such as: The Specialists, Zombie Panic, Pirates, Vikings and Knights, Science and Industry and more! Oh my god, we're doomed!
• Half-Life 2 (Source Engine) Deathmatch - Throw toilets at each other's heads with the grav gun! There's tons of mods!
• Garry's Mod - The Deathrun game mode specifically, Most extreme challenge with a cruel twist, one friend will be picked per round to set off traps and environmental changes as everyone else tries to get through an obstacle course of death.
• Titanfall 2 - One of the best twitch FPSs since Tribes, CS, HLDM, Quake II, and UT. The movement is incredible and gunplay amazing. Try the Northstar client if the official servers are under attack or you want more variety with mods.
• Natural Selection 2 - Really good blend of FPS and RTS elements, 1 player on each side is a commander and choose upgrades, where to build, drop supplies, give orders etc. Aliens vs Marines with strategic depth. Can be a steep learning curve for some.
• Arma 3: SOG Prairie Fire DLC - One of the best Arma DLC's out, lots of free updates have happened, If you like Vietnam era vehicles and infantry and co-op with friends it's great. You'll need a group of friends to play. If you want something more modern in both theme, game engine and quality of life, wait for Arma 4.
• Alien Vs Predator 2 - Face hug your friends, catch them in the Predator's net, Enjoy that classic Pulse rifle sound and screaming ! Any servers still surviving likely won't be populated depending on the time of day. I don't know where to buy this officially anymore, there must be some kind of rights issue going on for re-releasing it. Game Over, Man! Game Over!

TPS

• Risk of Rain 2 - ALL THE ENEMIES EVERYWHERE
• Red Faction 2 - The building Destruction in this is really fun! Hitting friends with a giant hammer is satisfying too. There's a remastered version out but I've never tried it.

Strategy

• Total War: WARHAMMER III - The Immortal Empires mode is really fun, warning though, there's a lot of DLCs, your favorite army or one you're interested in might be locked behind one.

VR

• Pavlov VR - Awesome FPS, semi-realistic firearm operation with mod support!
• Phasmophobia - Ever wanted to feel what it'd be a paranormal inspector, possibly scoping a place out to validate if the Real Ghostbusters should arrive or not?
• Forewarned - A unique take on the Phasmophobia type game, Egyptian tomb themed, if you die you can come back as a good mummy to help friends or bad mummy to annoy friends!
• VTOL VR - Semi-Sim Flight, Co-op, You can actually reach out and flip console controls / switches! It has VTOL, Jet and Helicopter vehicles.
• Iron Wolf VR - Really amazing WWII Submarine co-op game, I really wish development could have continued but one of the lead developers has unfortunately passed away who was the best friend of the other dev. Tragic but they left behind something awesome for people to enjoy.

2D Mayhem

• Duck Game - Pure madness, a 2D Shooter with Ducks, Crazy weaponry from a mind control gadget to a simple banana. Great online and even better if you can all get together in the same room to see everyone's reactions. Quack!

The following three games are meant for local / couch gameplay, but using steam remote play or parsec works.

• Crawl - Really cool, it's a dungeon crawler except only one player is a human, the others are monsters. If a player monster kills the human, they take their place. The final boss's body is controlled by the monster players! You can choose a deity and set of monsters you might spawn as and upgrade them as you play and become more powerful.
• Towerfall Ascension - 2D Archery combat game, really intense short matches, the mechanics are straightforward but hard to master.
• Hidden in Plain site - Fun little party game, you try to blend in with a crowd of NPCs to achieve your goal or avoid being eliminated by other players.

I hope someone finds something new in this list, or perhaps some good memories.

I've been playing Sons of the Forest with my friends. It's still in Alpha so it's been fun discovering the game together through the regular updates.

The last few games I've played with people have been Guild Wars 2, Overwatch 2, Gunfire Reborn & Tower Unite. c:

If we're also counting browser games, Gartic Phone and Board Game Online.

I'm a big Tabletop Simulator / Tabletop Playground guy myself, and it tends to be the easiest way to get a bunch of real-life friends together when we can't actually be together. I tend to like longer form slower paced games that can be played passively, like 4X games; it's just a more fun environment when you just want to chill and chat/play.

For fun competitive games where chatting is secondary to the competitive experience, probably Age of Empires 2!