What are you playing now? [2025]

[BoardBonobo]

Just started playing Nier Automata for the first time. A journey into existential angst and the nature of being. Also I am struck by the similarity that Stellar Blade has with this. Spiritual Succesor perhaps?

Dipped into the gacha nightmare that is Wuthering Waves, so far so Genshin with a hint of Death Stranding!

Also under the controller at the moment are a replay of Avatar, dipping in and out of Star Wars Outlaw, POE2 but I have kind of given up with this. I've also completed a complete run through of ME1-3 plus Andromeda. I had to get some old Bioware magic to lift my spirits after that floater they left with in the bowl with DA:FailHard.

Apart from that I've been running through PS5 games that have been updated for the Pro, most of which are so much better for it.

 

[Albuquerque]

New year, new thread!

I'm about 190 hours into Satisfactory; I restarted it when 1.0 was released a month or two ago so my current run-thru is only about 50-60 hours. I'm mostly working on a huge turbofuel power plant right now, with some plastic and rubber construction mixed in. When I'm done there, I'll build a train back to my "main" base and continue growing!

55GW of a planned 80GW turbofuel plant:


Home base, from the air:

 

[Billy Idol]

I am playing Path of Exile 2 - really liking it so far. Great game. Some things will improve (still bugs bringin builds down). But I like the slower pace of the game and the overall classing system. Nice!

 

[Davros]

Started playing Achilles Legends Untold : just found it monotonous with little variety.
Red Dead Redemption 2 : The game starts off very scripted and I really enjoyed this part, then chapter 2 when you set up a camp it becomes open world, this bit I didnt like "no i dont want to photograph animanls or find 4 different types of herb thank you very much" game is just not holding my interest.
Dragon Age The Veilguard : really enjoyed this there is a tiny bit of woke in it but not enough to spoil the game.
Still going through the careers of Grid Autosport and GT Legends
Enslaved Odyssey To The West (or the poor mans Black Myth Wukong) This is about my 5th attempt to play this game in the past I've started it and got distracted by something else (usually another game) I'd describe it as a fun romp.

Cloud : Black Myth Wukong


Cloud : Enslaved Odyssey To The West


ps: Any chance of making this sticky

 

[Karamazov]

Started playing Achilles Legends Untold : just found it monotonous with little variety.
Red Dead Redemption 2 : The game starts off very scripted and I really enjoyed this part, then chapter 2 when you set up a camp it becomes open world, this bit I didnt like "no i dont want to photograph animanls or find 4 different types of herb thank you very much" game is just not holding my interest.
Dragon Age The Veilguard : really enjoyed this there is a tiny bit of woke in it but not enough to spoil the game.
Still going through the careers of Grid Autosport and GT Legends
Enslaved Odyssey To The West (or the poor mans Black Myth Wukong) This is about my 5th attempt to play this game in the past I've started it and got distracted by something else (usually another game) I'd describe it as a fun romp.

Cloud : Black Myth Wukong
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Cloud : Enslaved Odyssey To The West
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ps: Any chance of making this sticky

For RDR2 you can just stick to the main story/missions, it's quite good, and ignore the rest.

 

[hassot918]

I played a bit of "Trench Shooter : Warfare Tactics" a few days back and it was not bad.

 

[Potato Head]

I’m a few hours into Stray. Have to say it is quite creative.

 

[Cyan]

Bright Memory Infinite. Actually completed less than 5 minutes ago. Relatively short and repetitive scenery, but good game. First game I complete using Lossless Scaling 3.0 all the time.

 

[BoardBonobo]

Bright Memory Infinite. Actually completed less than 5 minutes ago. Relatively short and repetitive scenery, but good game. First game I complete using Lossless Scaling 3.0 all the time.

I thougth that was a very good looking game - exceptional lighting

 

[Florin]

I'm about a third to halfway (I guess) through Stalker 2.
32 hours of play and so far it's crashed twice. Which isn't bad at all for Eurojank.

Creepy and moody AF. I'm liking it!

 

[Cyan]

I thougth that was a very good looking game - exceptional lighting

yeah the lighting is really good, with RT on -demanding but palatable at RT Highest- and without RT -my favourite way to play-.

It's a relatively short game, which I'm fine with, but what I didn't like is that the game doesn't have much variety, it's basically the same scenario from start to finish. I mean, you don't play in the city, nor in the countryside, etc etc, you just play in a flooded area all the time.

The game is quite fun.

 

[Cyan]

I'm about a third to halfway (I guess) through Stalker 2.
32 hours of play and so far it's crashed twice. Which isn't bad at all for Eurojank.

Creepy and moody AF. I'm liking it!

how did you solve the shader compilation issues? It seems to be a nightmare for quite a few people. The game crashes sometimes because of them it seems. My idea was to complete it once I finished Indy, but had a crash and shader compilation was so common that I didn't want to try. The performance didnt't help either, but that's kinda fixable I guess.

 

[Cyan]

do you people set a goal to complete a game? I mean, in my case, I have so many games, a lot of them great games, and I am always end up playing one game, then another, without actually completing them, and it tires me out, it also creates anxiety.

So I created a "Games that I want to beat" collection on Steam, where I install the games I want to finish. The last game I installed there and completed yesterday is Bright Memory Infinite.

Next up, I still don't know.

 

[Florin]

how did you solve the shader compilation issues? It seems to be a nightmare for quite a few people. The game crashes sometimes because of them it seems. My idea was to complete it once I finished Indy, but had a crash and shader compilation was so common that I didn't want to try. The performance didnt't help either, but that's kinda fixable I guess.

I only really started after patch 1.1.3 so I guess some early bugs must've been worked out already. Shader compilation stage hasn't ever been a problem for me, it's always quick and works fine.
The two crashes I had were just in-game after long sessions. Feels like there's still some memory leakage going on.

 

[Ikshvaku]

Hogwarts Legacy (PC), game is good.
The game looks too much like PS4 game, expected better, LOD loading all the time, RT is not that great, game play is basic but enjoyable.
UI elements and game play seem inspired from multiple other games like Arkham series, GOW, not a bad thing though.
Hopefully sequel has some complex combat and other mechanics.

 

[DuckThor Evil]

I'm playing Alan Wake 2 on my PC. Really liking the story/athmosphere as I have all the other Remedy games as well. The gameplay itself is nothing special. The visuals are very nice, except the facial animations look quite outdated imo. Didn't look it up until now, but Twin Peaks definitely had a HUGE influence on this (RIP David Lynch )

I'm running it 4K output with DLSS performance/frame gen with every setting maxed and it mostly runs really well and on a controller whatever lag it has certainly isn't a problem for me. Few times in the forest I've had some performance issues and I have lowered the RT-settings briefly, but that is about 2% of playtime max. Surprisingly good results for the 4070 Super IMO... LG G4 in the dark also is a nice companion for this one

 

[Davros]

I have all the other Remedy games as well.

Davros checks to make sure DuckThor Evil owns Death Rally