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[Kyng]

RimWorld

I'm about two thirds of the way through my first year now - and I have 6 colonists. I still have my starting three; one was a prisoner who got recruited; one joined voluntarily; and one found refuge with us after fleeing from a nearby colony. And I do still have my starting three.

I'm in the process of building a greenhouse so that I can grow food year-round. However, operating the greenhouse requires Sun Lamps - which can generate the light required for plants, but which consume a massive amount of power. So I need some means of generating all that power - which is going to need lots of wind turbines (and essentially solar panels!)

[Moonface]

Pathogenic (PC)
Did the daily like I do every morning, died during it, and decided I wanted to at least get a winning run before stopping so tried doing the Recombination experiment with the Nanobot. Ended up being so overpowered I entered an Endless Run and went for the Brain boss for the first time.

Minecraft: DeceasedCraft v5.11.19 (PC)
Been enjoying this a lot since it received some major updates that made it worth jumping back into it with @ShiraNoMai. Currently we're trying to decorate and fortify our base, and I'm glad we're both playing because it would be a nightmare trying to put up walls and stuff by myself while zombies keep trying to attack me. I'll know if she reads this because I'll probably get looked at like I'm crazy but I'm starting to get a little tempted to enable the zombie animals that are locked to Apocalypse difficulty.

Slay the Spire 2 (PC)
Daily runs as usual given there isn't really much else to do except do runs for the fun of it until a new update drops, which might be a while since the developers were taking some time off recently.

Balatro (PC)
I have one challenge left to do in the game which is Jokerless, and I hate how many times I've come so close to winning only to draw bad hands repeatedly, even when I think I've set my deck up to avoid doing it!

[Mr EliteL]

Mario & Luigi Brothership

Hadn't played it for a while, pretty since I was doing the Archipelago run when I was playing Superstar Saga. Brothership is unfortunately not as good as SS and made me realise that more when I played it again today, as I was furthering some progress on in Brothership. Feels slow to play, but I'll try to continue through until the end. Not sure where I am at the moment and how much I have left. I might be 1/4 of the way, but that's just a guess.

Omega Labyrinth Life

I got this game quite a long while ago mainly because I wanted to have another game similar to Izuna and Touhou Genso Wanderer, and yes this game plays like them which I'm happy with. There is more to it than that however one being a simple flower planting side to it which is nothing really, but some stuff I should have checked beforehand too. It was on like a £20 deal though! Still, won't bother me anyway.

[Dragon Lord]

Paper Mario (NS)

Started up this game last week finally, got to right after defeating the Ninja Turtle knockoffs, and then my Switch died. Sadly found out the hard way that even if you save the game while playing, if you don't actually close the game at all and your Switch dies, NSO won't actually keep your saves so I had to start over from the beginning. Thankfully I wasn't too far into the game, but still kind of killed my interest in the game a bit so going back through what I've already played has been a very slow progress.

Pokemon Heart Gold

Been playing this on my AYN Thor and it's been an absolute blast experience the game with such higher quality screens and improved textures. Right now I'm at Goldenrod City working on my Eevee's happiness so I can evolve it into Espeon immediately, so I'll be stuck here for a while.

Elden Ring: Nightreign (PC)

Continuing my journey to try and get to Depth 5 in Deep of the Night, but it's not going too well. The closest I've gotten is Depth 4 at 4,900/6,000 points. Went on a horrid losing streak due to some horrendous teammates and am now back down in Depth 3. Think I went on like a five or six game losing streak. I can definitely see why a lot of people don't recommend trying to get to Depth 5 in random trios, because you can end up with some really, really bad teammates. Then you start playing really badly because you're trying to be too aggressive and get impatient and start making a lot more mistakes than normal.

What really sucks though is that in Depth 4, you only get 150-300 points per win, depending on the conditions of the match, but every loss is like 500-600 points. So it only takes one loss to undo 3-4 wins. But I'll continue trying to claw my way there. Getting to Depth 5 is the only thing left in the game I haven't accomplished, so I'd like to get it done and then maybe I can start pulling myself away from this game a little bit more.

Vernal Edge (PC)

This is a game I've had for quite a while on Steam, but never got around to playing it. However, I've noticed that physical copies of the game for PS4 and PS5 are starting to become more scarce, so I wanted to finally get around to trying it so I can see if it's something I'd enjoy enough to go out and get copies of it for those systems before they become too expensive/hard to find. So far it's decently fun. Nothing too ground break in the Metroidvania scene in terms of its exploration, but I do kind of enjoy that they attempted to make the combat more combo focused instead of as basic as it is most of the time in these types of games.

[Kyng]

Transport Fever 2

I'm up to 1935 in this game (started in 1850), so I'm roughly halfway to the present from where I started .

One thing I've found is that this game feels a lot 'smaller' than the original Transport Fever. City growth is quite a bit slower: at this point in the game, my largest cities have between 800 and 900 people in them - whereas in the original Transport Fever, my largest cities would've had about 3,000 people at this point in the game! With so few people, it's not a good idea to build railways connecting every city to every other city: you have to be a bit more selective with which connections you make.

(With that being said, I can't help but think that, in this game, 'person' is a somewhat abstract notion. It doesn't mean those cities literally only only have 900 people in: that wouldn't be much of a city . Rather, I think of them as "units of population", each of which represents multiple actual people!)