Name games you've played in January

[Mountain]

Uh... been on a bit of a strategy kick lately.

Played significantly (more than ~2 hours):

Total War: Shogun II
Total War: Warhammer III
Heroes of Hammerwatch II
Elden Ring
Darkstone
HuniePop (it was free!)
CrossCode
Slice & Dice
Skald: Against the Black Priory
Svarog's Dream
Baldur's Gate 3
Templar Battleforce
Battle Brothers
Knights of the Chalice
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord (remake)
Total War: Three Kingdoms
Total War: Pharaoh

Less than ~2 hours

Shogun: Total War
Arco
Caves of Lore
Fallen Aces
Sengoku Jidai
Pike and Shot: Campaigns
AntharioN
Unity of Command II
Fields of Glory II: Medieval
Endless Legend
Citizen Sleeper
Hades
Brigand: Oaxaca
TMNT: Splintered Fate

You played 5 Total War games? are you trying to find one to get hooked on? and nothing is biting?

How is Pharaoh? I'm playing Three Kingdoms and I am pondering if it's worth getting into Pharaoh after I am done with it, the new updates they did after the problematic launch seem to have helped it a lot.

 

[mediocrepoet]

You played 5 Total War games? are you trying to find one to get hooked on? and nothing is biting?

How is Pharaoh? I'm playing Three Kingdoms and I am pondering if it's worth getting into Pharaoh after I am done with it, the new updates they did after the problematic launch seem to have helped it a lot.

More or less, mostly I've been alternating S2 and WH3. I actually refunded 3K because I hated it.

Pharaoh I played that newer mode which is said to be an improvement on the original release. I liked it, but I refunded that too, because it's rumored that it's going to be in the February Humble Choice and it wouldn't be the first time that I bought something only for it to immediately get put into that thing.

But the bronze age ancient world thing is cool along with things like attrition for having your guys stuck marching across the desert, etc. If it doesn't materialize in the HC, I'll end up buying it again next sale.

 

[Mitleser2020]

Dredge
100 Korea Cats
Thrive
Infection Free Zone - Prologue
Elex - doing a RP evil/renegade Outlaw playthrough
112 Operator
Total Warhammer 3 - tried a modded Kostaltyn campaign and enjoyed it, then realized that I need better hardware

 

[Gilius Thunderhead]

Prey (2017) - Still early in the game. It's a little boring.

Play Nightmare difficulty with RoSoDude's mod to experience the actual game.

Reliading a lot isnt gameplay

If you're dying a lot you either suck at games or you're playing it as an action title, not a survival horror one. The mod reinforces the survival aspect by imposing resource scarcity(which vanilla points at but fails to enforce), while leaving combat mostly unaltered. It's just better.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

January:
Wizardry Variants: Daphne
Mirror

February thus far:
Wizardry Variants: Daphne

 

[Ezekiel]

Oh, and I continued Bully after having it on hold for several years. Plan to finish it. But it's mediocre. Rockstar always sucked at combat systems, Max Payne 3 the only exception because they had to live up to the games of another studio. Story and characters are the usual: lame.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Isn't Bully with that Bobby Hill-looking dude?

Yeah, I'd mod the fuck out of that game with so much King of the Hill & Beavis & Butthead content & voices. Fuck yeah!

Sort of like how I wanted Donkey as the voice & face of the mules in Dungeon Siege. Fuck! Give me a shrek & crew mod as well running that shit. I need a laugh and the krug pug puppies chasing each other only entertains for so long.

 

[axx]

BG Siege of Dragonspear
Atlantis: the lost tales

 

[NJClaw]

Grouped by how much I liked them:

Great games
Neon White
Her Story
Blasphemous 2

Good games
Heaven's Vault
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
Lok Digital
Manifold Garden
Supraland: Six Inches Under
The Lion's Song
The Hex

Weird trash I played only because I got it with Humble Bundle or because it was leaving the Game Pass
Escape Academy
Boxes: Lost Fragments

Terrible trash I'm constantly playing because I'm addicted
Overwatch 2

 

[SixDead]

Continued playing Dark Sun: Shattered Land - cool game where you can do cool things, like taking part in political coupe in local sentient giant spiders community. Game lets me have 2 half-giant fighters in party - where else can I have 2 half-giant fighters in party? Party creation rulez.

Started Colony Ship for the third time - just for achievements hunting and to check how easy is Hero difficulty - it is indeed easy.

And games I played on phone while shitting - Honkai Star Rail (chink eyecandy game, not awfully bad, but I burned out after Penacony).

Spoiler

Wizardry Variants Daphne - addictive dungeon crawler, but I still can't get used to the fact that dwarfs here look like Cousin Itt.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Lots of dwarftosterone in their blood. Hairy palms is a thing and hairy backs on the women. Tbh, they might be female or male. No one knows for sure which is which. The beastwomen though, they always shake their tits and ass at you.

 

[Jonnaz]

Mass Effect LE
Metroid Prime

 

[Qarthadqart]

Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock
I'm a serial pauser in RTS games, so I'm enjoying the simultaneous turns a lot more. I'm not a fan of the show but I like the setting more in this context, soundtrack is great too.

Bible Black
I accidentally became the slave-apprentice to a futa nurse, and have broken the will of my classmates on her behalf. I was hoping learn the secrets of magic and then betray her, but there was no opportunity and she is now unopposed. My bad guys! LP linked in signature.

Europa Universalis IV
Finally trying out MEIOU and Taxes 3.0. I've amassed a small empire starting as Norway, although my economy is still weak and relies on raiding, which I guess is on brand?

The Witcher
The world politics are interesting, Triss is hot, Geralt looks like a twink compared to later games. While I like the story, I don't feel as invested in most major decisions as I would in some other bioware titles. I've mostly sided with the knights. Combat feels like a missing link in RPG development and is a fine middle ground. Alchamy is enjoyable although I rarely need to worry about ingrediants aside from booze (probably for the best, could easily get tedious). The bullet time potion is very useful, my most used aside from hp regen. The game wastes a lot of time, especially the first two chapters. The economy is balanced, I started chapter four and am still short on cash. Favorite side quest was curing the warewolf, had a thematic dark fairy tale feel.

 

[BosanskiSeljak]

Arco
American Truck Simulator
Beat Hazard 2
Counterstrike
Felvidek

 

[Zlaja]

Drova - Forsaken Kin (just started)

Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends Complete Edition (doing the Wu story mode)

Persona 5 (finished my NG+ run, overall save game timer reads 302 hours)

System Shock Remake (second playthrough)

 

[mediocrepoet]

You played 5 Total War games? are you trying to find one to get hooked on? and nothing is biting?

How is Pharaoh? I'm playing Three Kingdoms and I am pondering if it's worth getting into Pharaoh after I am done with it, the new updates they did after the problematic launch seem to have helped it a lot.

More or less, mostly I've been alternating S2 and WH3. I actually refunded 3K because I hated it.

Pharaoh I played that newer mode which is said to be an improvement on the original release. I liked it, but I refunded that too, because it's rumored that it's going to be in the February Humble Choice and it wouldn't be the first time that I bought something only for it to immediately get put into that thing.

But the bronze age ancient world thing is cool along with things like attrition for having your guys stuck marching across the desert, etc. If it doesn't materialize in the HC, I'll end up buying it again next sale.

It's in this month's Humble Choice. Seems like a pretty solid month for it, if you're interested in Pharaoh, that's worth the price of admission on its own.

 

[Old Hans]

I just finished Rogue Trader. it was just OK

 

[ds]

Lucius Demake
Strife: Veteran Edition
Portal: Revolution
Portal Stories: VR
Fallout: New Vegas (ongoing)

 

[Wasiu]

Divinity: Original Sin 1 EE. A bit clunky, but haven't played a Larian game for over a decade, so I'm happy anyway.

 

[Night Goat]

Finished:
Astlibra Revision
The Citadel

Currently playing:
Total War Warhammer 3
Beyond Citadel

 

[AdamReith]

Been a good month:

Infra Arcana
Total Annihilation (SP)
Beyond all Reason (MP)
Total War: Medieval 2 - Insularis Draco

 

[Morgoth]

The Invincible
1000xResist

 

[Cyberfriend]

I only played "Black" for ps2

 

[Modron]

Old World,
Fallout: Sonora,
Guns of Infinty,
Lords of Infinity,
Heads Will Roll: Reforged expansion,
Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts,
and started Svarog's Dream.

 

[Kabas]

Halls of Torment
El Paso, Elsewhere
Card-En-Ciel
The Fall of Dungeon Guardians
Holocure
Beyond Citadel
The Last Flame

Demos:
Heroes of the Seven Islands
The Chronicles of Overlord
Annihilate the Spance
Grey Galactic
Flow of War
The Scouring
Realms of Madness
Crown of Greed
Unnatural Worlds
IDUN - Frontline Survival
Tactical Warfare
Adhvan Chakra
Calyx
Expedition: Shadow World
Private Military Manager: Tactical Auto Battler
Moduwar
Barkhan
From Glory to Goo
Tempest Rising
Red Chaos - The Strict Order
Global Conflagration
World of Stickman
Slime Attack: Survivor
Tower of Babel: Survivors of Chaos
Jotunslayer: Hordes of Hel

ITCHIO games and demos:
BERSERK SURVIVOR
Project Landsword
Acrolyte