Fire Emblem Engage, having more fun with it than I thought I would. After Three Houses, I’d kinda written off Fire Emblem as not for me but only a couple hours in I’m already having fun messing around with character builds.

I just finished South of Midnight , it’s a mediocre action game with a decent story, but pretty good music specifically written for the game. It kinda feels like Alice Madness Returns meets Disney’s Princess and the Frog (without the frog changing).

Just started up on Dredge and having some fun with it so far.

Just started warframe this month and have been playing a lot of it. The movement and combat feel really good and there is so much content.

The main story is really engaging so far with a lot of lore, but it doesn’t start until the second dream quest which can take a while to get to.

I’m deep into Mandragora Whispers of the Witch Tree this week and having a blast. Played about 19 hours and it feels like I’m about half way. The story so far has been serviceable, but I do enjoy the world quite a bit and I also think some of the characters are pretty funny and well written.

Gameplay has been excellent, combat has the right sort of depth to it without being crazy complex and the bosses have been very enjoyable. Good patterns and fun movesets. I’m just now at the second really big story boss and he’s a doozy. As someone who isn’t huge on platforming I am also happy to say the platforming segments aren’t really a big part of the game and have been very easy.

Character customization has been another highlight and making builds is super fun between both the PoE inspired passive tree and choosing which active skills to use and choosing which active skills to upgrade. I’m doing a dual dagger build that dipped almost immediately into the adjacent Chaos Magic tree and while probably not a power gaming choice it is great how flexible the game is in what it allows you to do. Having a lot of fun so far with Chaos Echo and Shadowstep both giving teleports to the range-deficient daggers.

Heavily recommended if you like Souls-likes and/or Metroidvanias!

EDIT: Forgot to mention one thing. I really appreciate this game having difficulty sliders for both Enemy Health and Enemy Damage ranging between 40-160% (default 100). I haven’t used them yet, but knowing you won’t be hard stuck on a boss and worst case can just turn down the difficulty is actually quite nice. Helps my mental.

God of War on the PS4. I dropped off for about a month but I’m back and just picked up the Blades of Chaos and finishing off a couple side missions before I progress.

Fantasy Life (the original on 3DS)

I tried it last year but got lost and stuck, because I played it like an action RPG.

This time around I play it like a life sim (which it is), and I love it.

Striving for Light

It’s an indie game that’s about to officially release, and to me is the only real “bite-sized” arpg out there. It’s essentially a roguelite-PoE endgame hybrid. A run can last minutes, hours, or an tire week if you build well.

The more I play it, the more hooked I am.

I just started Tunic and Antichamber. So far I’m enjoying them. I have a family trip coming up, so I might not get a ton of time to play, but we’ll see.

I’ve also been playing FF7 (kids are into Magic: the Gathering and wanted to know more about the FF set) and Tears of the Kingdom for the first time with my kids watching. They often play games after watching me play through, so one is playing Breath of the Wild and the other Link’s Awakening, so I’m kind of helping them with those too.

Finally got Bannerlord a couple of weeks ago. After a bit of tinkering I got the GOG version running on Manjaro, so it no longer freezes randomly all the time. I’ll be honest, I don’t think it’s a massive step up from the original, especially given the wait, but I’m still really enjoying it and will definitely look into modding it at some point.