Played some spore complete collection. Seen that i was at tribal stage went to civilization stage with no problems, had some real trouble getting through the civilization stage since yellow civs annoyed me too much with their army and in the end the blue got overpowered but i wasn't their enemy for a while, and then when i had enough cash to make some turrets and buildings and slowy caught up to them. This game is pretty basicism from cell to civilization stage. In the end i decided to just pay the 48000 and send rockets to destroy all of my enemies the 4 rest cities, all stages were warrior since i went with carnivore. Now i reached space stage and first time seeing the galactic adventure mode. It was more of a tutorial than anything else and yes i did play the game spore only before but never the dlc or expansion.
Also i wonder how many different missions in galactic adventure exist since i am not using any online content.

I got fed up with The New Order and moved on to The Old Blood, and yeah this is a lot more fun. The action flows much better when you aren't being frequently interrupted with cutscenes and scripted events. The new weapons feel great as well, especially the Bombenschuss which replaces the lackluster Marksman Rifle in TNO. I love how many locations are recognizable from Return to Castle Wolfenstein, and that there's a greater focus on supernatural elements than TNO. Each chapter also has secret levels inspired by Wolfenstein 3D, which I found pretty neat. It truly feels like a love letter to the older games in the series, and not just Call of Duty with retrofuturistic nazis. If only the level design wasn't so underwhelming, it might even be on the same level as RtCW.

The question now is whether I should give The New Colossus or Youngblood a chance. They are available on PC gamepass, but from what I've heard they are not even worth the effort of downloading.

Finally trying to finish up with Tokyo Xanadu EX. I feel like I've been playing this thing forever even though the game is telling me it's only been around 50 hours.

Mortal Kombat 11 :P

Minecraft... lots of minecraft... on the server Hypixel and the game mode skyblock.

I'm finishing up some games that were "almost" finished... until I interrupted them with the Mass Effect trilogy:

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
I keep feeling that this is not my kind of game... but I'm having a good time with it anyway.
I'm not going to play the challenges or do the backtracking though.

Caves of Qud + Race Driver Grid.

Candleman, Diablo II LOD, Diablo III, Prince of Persia 3D.

Genesis Alpha One.

It's... a lot of fun actually! I was worried it might be "same-y" and it kind of is, but in a fun always pick your task sort of way. There's something cool about clicking away on those old style keyboards or jumping down to a planet for a quick harvesting mission or even just giving your ship a fast once over to make sure it's not a bedbug from hell hotel.

I think the atmosphere and sound effects help a ton. It feels like dark, gritty low-tech Alien. Your ship is dark and industrial, the keyboard clacks away when you type on it, the heavy airlock door of your harvestor slams shut with a low bass thud when you finally lift off a planet. It all just works and oozes atmosphere.

And everything is easy. Building is fun and easy, going on a quick mission is fun and easy, looking over your starmap to see what planets in a distant sector you might have missed is easy. Sure it's a roguelite, but it makes it hassle free to experiment while still maintaining a sense of danger.

Really cool game.

Mostly Train Fever.

I love the idea of such sandboxy simulators - SimCity, SimTower, The Sims, etc. But easily get bored with them as there's little point in anything beyond "earn more money". Or, rather, you have to make your own point to continue to play, and I like having some sort of goal to aim towards. Like every other time, I'll probably start up a another couple of maps, play for a little while, and then quit.

Also some Train Valley and Train Valley 2 in between.

After a small IRL break, I am back to Pillars of Eternity 1. Currently running around Twin Elms, trying to get some clues how to find one quest NPC in Noonfrost.

Dishonored 2

Tyranny

I started UnderRail + Expedition a few days ago. The character building is complicated so I read some guides about how to plan and distribute skill points, feats, etc. I made an assault rifle expert with some psi(onic) abilities. The psi abilities make combat very fun, it's the first time I used a forcefield outside of Heroes of Might and Magic. There are too many different objects in the game and inventory management is not great because merchants buy just a few of your stuff and have limited cash to give you. I already have more stuff than I can sell and I don't even use pickpocketing/lockpicking/hacking/recovering traps. I plan to use crafting later but that seems complicated, there are just too many parts, chemical reagents, monster intestines from which you extract chemicals, etc. And I have to craft a lot if I want to buy a cool jet ski:)

Rune Factory 4, Crypt of the Necrodancer, Psychonauts... Too many at once it seems. 0_o