I just started Cubivore. It’s fascinatingly weird, deceptively simple at first, but I feel like there’s some complexity growing beneath the surface.

You start as a weird little cubic pig, and you have this one square flap coming off the cube on a hinge that helps you move around, and a mouth. So you go around eating everything smaller than you. And the things your size you can take, you rip their meat flaps off (phrasing) and eat them to mutate. When you kill a boss, you get better meat that unlocks big abilities, and your pig gets to mate and die. Then you start playing as pig’s offspring, who now has an extra flap and more ways to mutate which put those flaps in configurations that make you better at running, evading, fighting, or defense.

Also your pig does a lot of oddly philosophical ruminating between areas.

Playing Assassin’s Creed Valhalla via Steam Link on my TV, good fun. I’ve been learning Icelandic over the last few years, and was surprised that the Norse background NPC’s actually speak it! Very cool to be able to understand the background conversations, quite immersive too.

(As far as we know Icelandic is essentially identical to old Norse, spoken across Scandinavia a thousand years ago.)

I will always recommend rimworld, it’s a very open colony sim set in the far future on a planet where a lot of stuff has regressed, it’s one of the more moddable games around now so you can make it what you want. Lots of freedom to play how you want, it’s a bit like the sims except you can have anything from a cosy farm to a machine-worshipping murder cult.

I’ve been meaning to play silent slayer for a while and i finally gave it a shot this week! It’s a VR game where you have to kill vampires in their sleep by disarming magic barriers around their coffins and silently delivering the death blow. I’ve seen reviews saying their hands where too shaky and couldn’t progress but i didn’t have that issue at all. I did have a bit of an issue when my controller’s tracking would drift and snap back in place at the worst moments but i don’t think i died from that. It was a short but very fun experience! Just challenging enough that it made me lock in but was smooth sailing most of the time as i took my time to work steadily and with precision.

I started playing Transformers Earthspark Expedition this week. Its not a fancy game but its been pretty fun. Its maybe a ten hour game though to 100%.

I got my fill of Tokkyuu Shirei - Solbrain for now so I’m back to jumping between multiple other titles on my Deck at the moment.

The main focus is the return of my Ridge Racer fixation. I’m back to playing Ridge Racer 2 (PSP one) but I also tried Ridge Racer Type 4 and Ridge Racer 7. RRT4 still holds up rather well, it feels good to play and the presentation is top notch (especially its fantastic intro). Can’t say I like it more than RR2 (PSP) however a big part of that is the fact that the latter is simply a more complete package due to its content.
Can’t say much about RR7 as I only tried 2 races so far to see how it’ll run emulated. It runs but I’ve got some issues with RPCS3 not using all the power on my desktop which affects the performance. I’ll have to play it on my Steam Deck instead, I guess.

The second series I’m playing right now is The Legend of Linkle: Breath of the Wild (BotW, just modded). I played it about a year or so ago but didn’t really feel it at the time and dropped it for other stuff. I now decided to start from scratch and with refreshed attitude instead. I’m having a bit more fun and feel less pressure to progress this time so there’s a chance I’ll be able to finish it - we’ll see how it goes. At the very least, I’d love a proper Zelda game with Linkle as a protagonist. Heck, I’d settle for a decent knockoff honestly.

I just found Voxel Eras

Need for Speed Underground 2, the old PC edition with widescreen fix patches using Wine.