Games

I played Balatro with my brother (we put in up on a TV)

Witcher 3 (but there's still time!)

Path of exile 2

Cookie Clicker... Lol

X4. The economy must flow.

System Shock, the remake by Nightdive.

I'm old enough that I bought and played the original SS back in the day, and it was transformative.

Simulacra together with my wife :-)

Chess. Nerd time

Minecraft. I just stopped playing about 20 minutes ago.

House flipper

On gamepass, and tha fully on gamepass because od never spend actual money on that game.

Gothic (2001). Still a really cool game!

It's been Jackbox every year for the past 8+ years. A side-effect of hosting the New Years Eve party for a bunch of gamers.

Cracktorio

The Legend of Zelda (og, on retroarch w/ shaders)

Elden Ring, just beat the dlc and helped a few others do the same.

Gears 3

Deep Rock Galactic

Generation Zero

Marvel rivals

Spelunky 2.5

Satisfactory

Guild Wars 2

Hollow Knight. I just killed all 3 Dreamers on my steam save. Currently trying to beat Trial of the Fool. Keep dying to the Mawleks.

Automobilista 2 - Caterham racing around Oulton Park as the clock hit midnight.

Earlier in the evening I played the latest Mario Party and some Jackbox games with the fam.

Timberborn! I do love those beavers.

Lost Odyssey

Brotato, working on unlocking all the characters

Technically ∞ Loop on my phone. But the last real game I was playing was Jade Cocoon.

Phantasy Star (the first one)

Rimworld, and I just found that there are tons of mods for it. I'll likely be playing it for quite a while still.

Red dead 2

ARK: Survival Ascended; I run a public cluster for some streamers and friends.

Grim Dawn with Reign Of Terror mod.

Bloodborne

The Sims 3. I had to figure out how to disable OneDrive backup for my Documents folder, because Sims 3 insists on keeping your saves there, and somehow everything breaks if OneDrive tries to sync them. Previously I had given in and let OneDrive sync everything because Win11 nags you if you try to avoid it.

I also have to fiddle with processor affinity to get the game to launch, for some reason.

It still crashes a lot.

Infinity Nikki! It's probably my new favourite dress up game (dethroning FFXIV)

I'm about halfway through Lego Lord of the Rings right now.

Animal Crossing New Horizons. Celebrating New Year on the island are part of our new year tradition.

This also makes it the first game played during 2025.

Yakuza 0, first time playing yakuza games an it'sfirst game of 2025

Partner and I played Mario Kart 8, was quite fun!