Discussion What are you currently playing? (Week 32 of 2025)

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New week, new thread! What are you playing?

Continuing Reverse Collapse. 58 hours in and it still keeps delivering with the ending nowhere in sight. In a pre-release interview, the developer said one playthrough requires near 100 hours to complete. Now I am starting to believe in their claim.

Also restarted Gurumin as a side dish. The PC port has a 30fps lock but I use Lossless Scaling to triple the framerate. Feels great.
 
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Been busy dealing with my mum's estate this last week, and then travelling to my partner's hometown, so haven't has much time to play DK Bananza as I'd like. So I'm still on that.

I really want to play something else now.

I've got Dear Me, I Was... on Switch 2, and No Sleep for Kaname Date on PC/Steam Deck waiting to be played next.
 
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Not sure why, but decided to start playing Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth. For an old FPS horror game, it holds up surprisingly well. I could do without the stealth bits, but they are nowhere near as bad as later AAA games with stealth would be.

Been returning to Hades after I had kinda forgotten about it for most of a year. It's still pretty fun, I think I had just too many games and this one kinda fell through the cracks.

Also been making some progress with Lunar: The Silver Story. It's a super traditional JRPG, but it's kinda nice to just see game that earnestly follows some basic tropes. I think the writing and characters are what makes this work, plus the budding relationship between the two protagonists, Luna and Alex.
 
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After a few days w/o playing I've gone back to Balatro and started
Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix (from the ReMiX collection).

Playing the games back to back has made me realize that one of the biggest improvements of KH2 was a more pulled back camera
 
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I got 100% in Donkey Kong Bananza. Top notch game and on the shortlist for GOTY.

I also finished normal mode in Ninja Gaiden Ragebound and started hard mode. Normal was a good challenge, but hard takes it to another level with faster enemies and more hazards. Still looking forward to completing it.
 
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Started and finished Staffer Case: A Supernatural Mystery Adventure, an Ace Attorney-like mystery visual novel
A very well done "detective" game. It's not the first AA-like with a "magic" twist as I played another one (Tyrion Cuthbert: Attorney of the Arcane) in the past. But compared to it and the original inspiration Staffer Case is more linear like a VN (there is no "exploration", you progress between searching for clues to interrogations and case solving automatically, no courtrooms either) but the mystery is there, and it's honestly quite clever in the way the cases are set up. A unique element is how there is more than 1 ending for the first 4 cases (albeit only one is the canon one that eventually leads to the final fifth one) and this system is used to give the player more informations about the setting and the cast. The magical skills have defined rules that allow the player to logically figure out what's going on and are well implemented in the cases themselves (some leaps of logic are still needed to figure out the exact piece of evidence the player needs to pick however, but this is a problem the genre suffers from). Also if the player thinks about it too much they can figure out the final twist way earlier in the game, but luckily even if it happens the cases are still standalone and very well made on their own. As it's a story heavy game I won't say more but it's absolutely worth a playthrough for mystery fans
 
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Started a game of Distant Worlds 2



And by "started" I mean set my galaxy up, hit pause, then spent a couple of hours in the tutorials and reading online guides.

There's a lot to take in with this.
 
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