Age of Empires II.

There's enough praises written about the game to fill a textbook. But I look forward to mastering the Britons against friends and family these holidays.

I don't consider myself a Soulsborne fan (despite liking Sekiro in spite of my lackluster gaming skills,) but I'm curious to see how Elden Ring turns out. And I'm definitely looking forward to playing with a friend of mine who is a soulsborne freak.

I would like to play Cuphead with my daughter. I think this would be one of the best father daughter programs.

I like point and click adventure games. I play it with my brother because they are amusing and are well tolded story that are fun to play. example are Monkey island, Phantasmagoria 2, the longest journey ect...

I'd love to play It Takes Two with my wife, but she's not a big fan of puzzles, so I hope it ones in the game won't be too overwhelming for her.

Happy Holidays everyone!

I look forward to playing couch multi-player with my adult friends and their near-adult (we're old) children. I realize that the Internet has enabled us to play together wherever in the world that we may be, but there's just something wholesome being able to interact in person.

Games like Spelunky and Crawl are favorites but the one that we really always bounce back to is Duck Game.

GOG, you really need to have Duck Game on here. Heck, I'd probably buy it again. Also get Regular Human Basketball from the Crawl devs.

I am excited for the opportunity to play through the Telltale adventure games catalog with my kids. They love the humor of the Strong Bad (SBCG4AP) series, and I love crowding together on a couch and spending time with them while they argue and pass the mouse back and forth while solving puzzles and groaning at the jokes.

I'm looking forward to playing Dark Souls 3. I've enjoyed several 2D souls like games, Dark Devotion, Salt and Sanctuary, Hollow knight, etc... But I bounced off of DS 2 some years ago. A friend that has been playing the DS1-3 and BB since release helped smooth over some of the edges that made me bounce off the series earlier. Explaining some of the lore, how mechanics work, and direction. Having finished 2 I'm looking forward to 3. Though I still think the lore is way over my head.

Also Introducing a friend to Battletech. I've been a huge fan of the universe since the Mech Warrior 2, and the novels I got into in the 90s. And now with the Hair Brained Schemes reboot I've got a good platform to help my friend get into the universe as well.



Happy Holidays everyone!

Untitled Goose Game is not a game that I'll play by myself, but it's cracking when you play it with a friend.

It Takes Two, because it's fun to play with a friend, has different and incredible situations and the precision in controls of a Nintendo game.

Divinity: Original Sin 2. So I can screw up my friend's carefully laid strategy with my incompetence, and see if she can overcome to insurmountable odds of saving me from myself.

Phone error caused post to repost. just removing dups.

I'm dying waiting to play Barotrauma with an old friend of mine, ex-co-worker.
We already know how to do teamwork without much communication - and Barotrauma is just the game to test that properly.

To be honest, one of my favorite games to play with friends/family around the holidays is the original Starsiege: Tribes (let's get the Tribes series on GOG, it's already DRM-free and free to play). It's a sci-fi multiplayer FPS but there's really nothing quite like grouping up with a friend and fighting with other people against the enemy team.

The gameplay is fast-paced 90s shooter at its best, with a huge arsenal of weapons, armor types and it's all accented by the legendary jetpack that all players have. The aesthetics are just stellar (pun intended), glistening in that Quake-era 3D charm but at the same time, the level of detail in the graphics is just fantastic despite the blurry textures and blocky models. There were loads (and I mean LOADS) of custom maps and mods made by the players, some of which outright changed the game into being a bit of a roleplaying experience. And of course, anyone who has played it still has "SHAZBOT!" ringing in their ears to this day. The voice commands in the game were a huge part of its phenomenal charm and while the whole series was fantastic (and I hate how Hi-Rez killed the series), the original is still my favorite... but I digress.

The reason I chose this game is because of all the great times I used to have with my dad and my brother on that game. It's one of those games we usually jump onto around the holidays (Christmas and otherwise) to play a few matches of. It's just so fun teaming up and taking part in the chaos and high-speed all-out warfare that the game naturally creates... or sometimes we'd create a private FFA LAN match and see who could get the most kills.

I still remember when we were all in the same house and we'd play Tribes in the PC den. One time, we were doing one of those FFA LAN matches and one of us was playing Vampolka by Devin Townsend as we were trying to shoot each other. As we would jetpack over hills and ski down valleys, the music somehow managed to sync up perfectly (maybe because that song came from an album called "Synchestra"? I just thought of that) and then it basically got to the point where we were laughing too hard to be able to effectively fight each other anyway.

To this day, that's one of my fondest memories of gaming with a friend or family member. So yeah, Starsiege: Tribes would definitely have to be my choice for this giveaway. Such a fun game to play with friends!

I'm most looking forward to playing the Pathfinder series. I played BG as a kid, and played a lot of table top games but never really got into pathfinder. Every sale I think to myself, "Maybe I'll try it this time" but end up getting overwhelmed with choice and underwhelmed with time. But the most recent entry in the series has had good things said of it from people I trust.

So I've decided to give it a go. I hear the entire thing is immersive, a lot of good traditional D&D story structure and mechanics. I'm looking forward to it.