Well, the game I’m playing now is to see how many games I can add to my library that I intend to play later.

I’ve actually been playing this for years.

But seriously, I’ve finally got to playing Trombone Champ, fun little rhythm game. Bought the newish RoboCop, which I heard was good, but haven’t started that yet.

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I also bought Trombone Champ on the sale! Have not started yet, as I am devoting my attention to a few other games right now and I prefer not to split my game brain toooo many different ways, but excited to as a former band kid who has never played a trombone in real life.

Now that I think of it I feel it was probably the perfect instrument to make this game for. It has Actual Music written for it, as a legit instrument some people devote themselves to and get good at, so there’s definitely enough depth to make a game out of it, but it is also one of the instruments more likely to be funny.

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Celeste is $2 right now, I got it for free on the Epic Games store but I got it again for the steam cloud saves.

I got Doom Eternal and started playing that, it’s actually really good. I feel like I’m pretty bad at it but that means lots of room for improvement.

Of course Terraria is a must-buy if you don’t have it already. Same with Portal and such. Stardew Valley is also really good, but I didn’t really enjoy it until I played multiplayer with my friends.

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I feel like I’d never be able to complete Celeste due to it’s difficulty, any point in playing it?

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It does have assist options if that’s what you want, Game Maker’s Toolkit actually made a video about it. I haven’t finished it myself but it was pretty fun, even just exploring and getting the story bits and such.

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I felt like that about VVVVVV but I beat that one. Celeste looks very similar. I’m a fairly casual gamer.

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It’s doable. I play the hardest optional challenges on 90% speed. I don’t play a lot of platformers but was able to beat the normal game without using assist mode.

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Yeah I’m not a pro at tricky platformers but I was able to get all the missions done without adjusting difficulty or using assists. What people don’t realize is when you die you resume immediately where you left off so you never have to backtrack or replay levels. If you don’t get frustrated banging your head against the wall, it is actually pretty easy.

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Yes! With 1000hrs in Terraria, I agree. Terraria is a must-try. It might not click with you, but if it does…

As for SDV- I’d like to add that I very specifically do not like multiplayer. A large part of the fun of it, to me, is being able to play at my own pace. Having to set that pace with someone else isn’t enjoyable to me. Not that there’s anything wrong with enjoying multiplayer, I just don’t want anyone to think that there’s a ‘proper’ way to play the game. There’s not- you do you. The only exception is choosing jojamart. That is objectively wrong.

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Yeah, maybe I was too impatient back then, but for me it felt like mostly a whole lot of work, just watering the plants every day and trying to make money.

When I picked it up again later playing splitscreen with family, and then again with a friend, then we could get hyped for some goal we could all work towards. And if I was bored doing my thing then I could look over at what other people were doing, or just chat. And it’s fun to see them running around interacting with the NPCs and doing their things as well.

Sometimes it can be a little annoying yeah, like if they want to do something together while I’m busy watering the plants or whatever.

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I absolutely love Doom. Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal are some of the best singeplayer FPS games I’ve played.

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Doom 2016 wouldn’t start for me. The loading screen just hung forever. Weirdly other people had the same complaint. If I knew I could refund it a second time I might try it again.

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If you can get it working somehow, I would definitely recommend playing it! Earlier this year I played through 95% of the game on my Steam Deck (using Vulkan) then switched to my gaming desktop for the final few bits where I needed keyboard and mouse to get the job done. It’s easily one my favorite games ever now.

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Celeste is fantastic. One of the best 2D platformers games I’ve ever played

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I grabbed Graveyard Keeper and I’m enjoying the hell out of it ~15hrs later. It’s kind of like if Stardew Valley dropped the focus on farming and the characters and instead added a tech tree and a very satirical dark-vibe.

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Outer Wilds. Every time it’s on sale I buy a copy as a gift for a friend of mine.

It’s an absolutely impactful experience. One best played blind since the unlocks/progression is knowledge based.

A masterpiece of mystery, story telling and exploration gameplay.

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Bought it after a reccomendation. Thanks for no spoilers, I’m really enjoying it (and intrigued) so far

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It’s great. And if you ever get stuck just pull on another thread since many of them overlap.

Feel free to ping me and I’ll do my best to give non spoiler hints if you ever feel truly stuck.

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Their advice on pulling another thread is the way to go. Don’t even do something you think is related, just go do something new. You might find it’s related after all.

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How many copies does your friend have by now?

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I’ve bought it about 5 or 6 times now

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Are you blind?

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Can I be a friend of yours lol

I hope it goes on sale for <$10 at some point, it looks really fun

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It is fantastic. Just wonderful experience that you can only truly ever have once.

I somewhat joke with my spouse that if I ever have temporary ambesia to have me play it so I can experience afresh again

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