I recently sat down with Baroque, the cult classic dungeon crawler for the Sega Saturn. Very good, top 20 games for me now!

First off, play the Saturn version. You can liberally rebind the controls in an emulator to make them feel a lot more like a modern FPS (d-pad up & down to left analog up/down for forward and backward movement with L & R to left analog left/right for strafing while putting d-pad left & right on right analog left/right for turning. Also rebind attack to R1 or R2 and map to whichever you didn't bind attack to). Use scanline shaders, something like crt-royale or just hyllian-fast. Under the hood this game is a fairly standard mystery dungeon style roguelike but it's ALL about the vibes.

The story is opaque but advances simply by doing runs through the dungeon. Make sure to talk to all the NPCs and do what they tell you to/fulfill their requests and you'll figure it out. The gameplay is simple but the player movement is fast and smooth enough as well as hits having decent enough feedback when connecting with an enemy that it avoids feeling too much like a clunky old game. The weird monsters, gnawing on bones, and using torture devices really sell the atmosphere. A+ soundtrack, IMHO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRXUEH0ijdk&list=PLfhw8A1mg64H1MVWcSPocp6qaaQoiOAJo

TIP: Throw stuff at stuff. Experiment by throwing all the things at all the things. Throwing is a big mechanic in this game, don't sleep on it. Throw things at sense spheres to teleport them out of the dungeon so you can guarantee them for your next run. Here's an adorable Neocities fanpage for if you really get stuck, https://nervetower.neocities.org/guide

I'd skip the PS2/Remake, the vibes are all wrong and again, this is just a good game to spend some time with and soak in the bleak world they created. The PS1 version is pretty similar to Saturn but I think honestly the Saturn just nails the atmosphere a bit better.

Playing Ghost of Yotei at the moment and absolutely loving it. Tsushima was an all timer for me so I'm happy for more.

Just finished my annual Far Cry 2 play through, and it was as chaotic and random as ever.

Been hitting up my local Killteam scene recently.

Tabletop ?

Alice is missing is a must play if you're into Narrative RPG, but currently playing a Coriolis campaign, the popular space RPG by free league

King's Reign has been fun, deck builder Roguelike where you play soldier cards and they combo while marching left to right along a board with three lanes.

Not battlefield 6, i dont get the hype, at least my gameshare friend bought it himself because he wanted it, feels worse than 2042 in some ways

I'm trying to play different genres to see what's out there, and have found some neat little games in the sale steam just had.

Nocturnals - This one was great. The game is obviously made by people who don't have a team of a hundred artists under them, but they did a really good job crafting the story. It's short, but has multiple endings, and I haven't found all of them yet.

Digging a Hole - This one made me chuckle. It's motherload from the miniclip era of website gaming, but in 3D. Wouldn't spend a ton on it, but if it goes on sale it will be amusing for you. Still haven't completed the speedrun challenge for it. First time took me about 12 hours, while the challenge is 30 minutes.

Roguebook - in the same 'universe' as faeria, which I enjoyed. It's basically slay the spire with different themes and a more punishing/variable path to the boss.

and, finally my favorite right now: Young Souls - it just has a really fun visual appearance and gameplay. I've been surprised by how much I struggled with some of the fights. I haven't beaten it yet, but the story has some of the classic elements, but the writers put some thought into their tropes and made the characters more than just shallow pictures playing a part.

Finally got around to playing Devotion by Red Candle Games. It's a super good horror game, but without getting into spoilers, I absolutely would NOT recommend this to parents, holy shit. Shame that the CCP bombed this game into obscurity, the devs did not deserve this.

I'm playing frostpunk again. Trying to win on ultra hard. But I recommend everyone on Lemmy play citizen sleeper. Best story I've ever played.

Beyond all reason: it’s open source, it’s awesome, large explosions, it uses all of your cores, you can contribute to it, and join in progress.

I've been playing a lot of Mechwarrior Online and Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries recently, but Singleplayer Tarkov just released their 4.0 update/overhaul so I'm starting that as well.