Picked up Age of Wonders 4 on a whim in the Steam sale, and I’m absolutely loving it. It’s Civilisation meets Heroes of Might and Magic and it looks absolutely lovely.
BdaLimey
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Bermuda-based lover of games. Former Twitch streamer and YouTube content creator. https://www.youtube.com/@BdaLimey and https://www.twitch.tv/bdalimey. I post about non-game stuff as @philwells.bsky.social
Just replayed The Artful Escape. Such a beautiful, wonderful, joyful game!
Excited for Slay The Spire 2 today, even if it is releasing in early access. Taking the day off work tomorrow just to play!
Lost count of how many hundreds of hours I’ve put into Slay The Spire over the years, but today I finally beat the Heart for the first time!
My game of the year though, by a mile, is Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Wonderful in every way.
Did most of my gaming on PlayStation this year, so this is pretty representative of my year.
Can’t remember the last time I had a perfect victory in The Bazaar, let alone two in one day! Admittedly this wasn’t ranked though.
Just finished Lords of the Fallen. What an unexpectedly great Souslike. The final boss looked pretty cool too.
Too intimidated by the reported difficulty of Silksong to pick it up. Decided I wanted to play something easier, so I’m replaying Dark Souls III instead.
What does it say about me that I love hanging out in the forlorn worlds of the Souls games? Loved Shadow of the Colossus’ world too.
I’m playing Monster Train 2 on covenant 10 because that’s what @retromation.bsky.social does, and that’s what real gamers do, but OMG it’s stressful and I’m barely hanging on by the skin of my teeth. 😕
Finished Sword of the Sea. It looks incredible, traversal feels great, and the use of the PS5 controller’s haptics and speaker is excellent. It lacks the emotional heft of Journey though, and sometimes I thought its callbacks to that game (and Abzu) were a little heavy-handed. Still, recommended!
Sword of the Sea’s photo mode is so good it’s annoying, because I’m constantly compelled to interrupt my game to snap a new vista! 😀 Don’t think I’ve used photo mode in a game so heavily since Horizon Zero Dawn!
This is my favourite shot so far. Photo Mode is up on the D-Pad, if you haven’t discovered that yet. #swordofthesea
Sword of the Sea: “What if we literally put Journey and Abzu in the same game? And brought back those fun skiing sections from Journey, except this time you’d move like that *all the time*?!”
In Horizon Forbidden West, I just realised that you can dive underwater. So I tried it in a small pool and realised it was really deep and there was an underwater passage and I swan through it and came up in a freaking water-filled cave!! The joy of unexpected discovery in an open world.
This may be the best live action trailer for a video game that I’ve ever seen.
James Parker@jamesgroundshatter.bsky.social · last yr.Achievement unlocked: Have a live action trailer for a game in 2025. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kGi... (Knights in Tight Spaces out now! store.steampowered.com/app/2315400/...)
Took a week off work this week to dive into my backlog. Here are my thoughts on the games I played!
Gift link, but only 5 uses because The Economist. 🙄
How drones and video-game techniques are coming together in Ukraine’s war
The idea of the body count evolves
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I’ve been getting back into Beneath Oresa again, this time on the PS5. Really satisfying roguelike deckbuilder with deliciously kinetic combat, nicely accentuated by the controller rumble!
Finally managed to beat not only Endless 2 but Endless 3 in Monster Train 2! Stacked Multistrike on my Umbra hero with Trample using multiple Furnace Taps, and handled all the Emberdrain with a Perils of Production with Holdover on it.
