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Which one is the third? I’ve done Belurat and Castle Ensis (if it counts?), only just started poking around in Shadow Keep but it looks absolutely wild so far. I also made it to the putrescent knight’s arena but I’ve not tried actually fighting it yet, just jumped in once to see what was going on at the end of a session

The knight was pretty brutal, but fortunately this run has been my “learn to parry” one, so I came basically perfectly equipped to fight any player-model enemy that isn’t using colossal weapons

I think it’s Shadow Keep! I’ve found two of the bosses—one insane tree guy with three phases that has killed me 20 times so I went another way, one big fat boss guy, and there has to be more cuz I’m not done yet…

There’s one with three phases? That is so absolutely going to catch me out with no flasks left whenever I first get to it, god dammit. I can’t wait

Oh man… i don’t wanna spoil anything, but uhhhh I think I have to come back to it with full blessing. I can’t get close even with a buddy who’s extremely good.

Nothing wrong with that! I hit an absolute brick wall with Margit when I first played the base game because I hadn’t played a Souls game in years. I explored around until I found the secret route to Liurnia and did most of that before I even got into Stormveil

Did you go into a regular, boring, nondescript building and then take the longest elevator ever? Because I did the and it brought tears to my eyes when I finally got down there (also first real souls game, I only played a bit of Demon’s Souls PS3 before Elden Ring)

Edit: also this tree is far beyond any boss in the main game, and insane compared to the other expansion bosses. I don’t even think I need to kill it to progress.

Recently picked up Enshrouded and giving that a go. Thinking of checking out the new update to No Man’s Sky but haven’t redownloaded it yet.

I was worried the first hour or two of Enshrouded I wouldn’t like it, felt very similar to Ark and Grounded, which I wasn’t much of a fan of due to the progression of those games moving at a snails pace and being brutalized by most enemies early on. But I’m happy to say I haven’t felt the same disappointment from Enshrouded, sitting around 10-ish hours in. My character looks like a hobo dressed in whatever trash they could find hitting enemies with a crooked stick, but the combat feels pretty fun (instead of brutal) and there’s interesting loot all over to keep the carrot and stick centers of my brain engaged. “Oh look, a slightly more interesting crooked stick!”

I like it so far.

I have not seen whichever part that is, no. Although it sounds like the same experience as finding Siofra for the first time, which I think was one of my favourite moments in the entire game

Oh I might be thinking of Siofra! Sorry hahaha, it’s been a while.

I went back into the expansion after months of not playing, and I forgot how much I loved this game… but sheeiit, is the expansion brutal. The main game was hard, but I had a much easier time roaming around and having fun and exploring without dying. Shadow seems a lot more…. “Go here and do the thing to progress”.

Previously was playing through all of Mech Warrior 5 Mercs. Lately though its been many hours on Mudrunners with the mods and DLC. Its a real challenge in some areas. Had to use the boom grappler extended to one side to stop truck tipping over around the side of the canted narrow mountain roads.

I suppose it makes sense for it to be tough considering that it’s intended as an endgame expansion and it’s also replicating the new character low level experience with the scadu blessing system

I have actually found that the Land of Shadow has heaps of alternate routes to places, they’re just much less obvious than before. The map is so wildly vertical and overlapping that finding a spiritspring or a tunnel or one of those cliffside staircases of protruding gravestones can take you to a whole new area

I’ll have to explore much more! I’m so curious as to how much more I haven’t explored, but I haven’t looked anything up—I played through the original game blind and I want to do the same with the expansion. But it’s soooo difficult!

It’s top down Noita, or BoI+Noita. I have 1k hours and am still discovering new effects and combinations every run, it’s nuts!

Pro tip: I wanted to milk it for all its got, so after reaching endgame content, I started a new toon and limited myself to 2 wands and no upgrades to life mana, starting stuff like keys or coins. Just “tentacle girl” updates and it’s been really good. I die because of mistakes, not because of balance. Otherwise, you’ll get a bit too strong and steamroll every enemy and boss at some point (100 hours in or so).

The Finals - always

Slay the Spire

Coral Island

Very different vibes, all bangers

Man I haven’t been on Hypixel Skyblock in ages! It was really fun being there for all the community moments back when Technoblade was rocking the server.

Unfortunately the grind got too much so I ended up stopping playing and instead spending time helping out on Skyblock Addons. But once new content was locked behind skills rather than items it became impossible to work on new features, so that was my sign to leave.

INFRA is fantastic!!

Once you’re done, check out the dev’s next game that takes place in the same universe, Obenseuer: https://store.steampowered.com/app/951240/Obenseuer/

It’s one of my favorite games ever.

Me too! Just picked it up again this week after a five year hiatus. I started a new game and I’m at the part where I have to build a base, but I can’t build a ship yet, I think. How did you get around that?

It’s a great game. The story starts out relatively chill, but as you explore and start to uncover things it gets really intriguing.

The devs are working on another game that takes place in the same universe called Obenseuer. It’s sincerely one of my favorite games. I get absorbed by it while playing because it’s one of the most unique vibes in any game I’ve played. For me, it’s got this melancholic, depressing atmosphere, but is simultaneously funny, quirky, and, somehow, cozy.

totally fair, it takes a special type of autism to enjoy the grinds that i do lol. wish i was around for the early days for sure