What are you playing this weekend? 2025-07-18
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This weekend is a board game meetup with fellow teachers. I’m bringing 7 Wonders, Flip 7, Make It Happen, and The Crew. There are more in my pile to bring, but if I can’t remember them now, they might not be good enough to bring!
I saw postings for Unciv and Fheroes2 elsewhere on Lemmy, so I tried both out. Unciv is a free, open-source software take on Civilization VI. I got bored of it quickly with the nostalgia of the other game calling me. Fheroes2 uses the original game files of Heroes of Might and Magic 2 to make the thirty year old game playable on Linux and MacOS. I have the difficulty all the way down and I still can’t manage it! But I’ve spent a lot of time on it.
I beat Dicey Dungeons! I think I’d beaten it before on my Mac, but I’d been playing it on Apple Arcade and saw how near to the end I was. What a great experience that game is! I love luck-based games that are built around manipulating your choices.
I now have Final Fantasy IV’s Cecil as a character in Octopath Traveler Champions of the Continent. The side story that introduces him fills me with such joy with its sprite work and music!
And finally, Golden Lap. I’m enjoying the F1 management game, but I haven’t had much chance to play it with all this other gaming going on. Maybe Sunday.
We got dos and phase10 card games last week, both had "from makers of UNO" on it, mainly got them cause we at home seem to be picking more quick and short games lately instead of longer games, so decided to increase some variety in that.
Have only played a couple of games of both, and they are fun. phase10 is kinda like rummy, but you need to play 10 hands in order, so can become a bit long. If we keep playing that, we may have to switch to some house rules for quicker gameplay for that.
I played a bit of unciv a while ago, these days I don't play much on mobile, and if I have to play on PC, I would rather just play proper Civilization game.
I remember Dicey Dungeons, looked interesting but skipped because it was roguelike.
Looking forward to your review of Golden Lap.
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Started playing Children of Morta so I can have some variety while playing Age of Calamity. I’ not far in, but I’m enjoying that us has more story than the average rougelite game.
These days if I see roguelike and completely ignore the game, but Children of Morta is from when I was willing to explore the genre. Haven't played it yet, but it has been on my wishlist for so long, want to give it a try at least.
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We got dos and phase10 card games last week, both had "from makers of UNO" on it, mainly got them cause we at home seem to be picking more quick and short games lately instead of longer games, so decided to increase some variety in that.
Have only played a couple of games of both, and they are fun. phase10 is kinda like rummy, but you need to play 10 hands in order, so can become a bit long. If we keep playing that, we may have to switch to some house rules for quicker gameplay for that.
I played a bit of unciv a while ago, these days I don't play much on mobile, and if I have to play on PC, I would rather just play proper Civilization game.
I remember Dicey Dungeons, looked interesting but skipped because it was roguelike.
Looking forward to your review of Golden Lap.
My love of card games comes from long form games like Rummy and Euchre (sp?), so Phase10 is a game I enjoy. However, the game itself never finished. I think my record is getting to phase seven before we quit. But then again, I’ve only ever played it two-player.
Golden Lap is fun! I played it last night and ended with my main driver for the last two seasons crashing when I didn’t even push him to race faster and my second driver running out of fuel on the last lap. Then after the race, the game announced that my driver had died. Yikes.
Now I’m out of the running for the championship this year, out a top five driver, and out of enthusiasm to play for today. The things Golden Lap needs most in my opinion:
Randomized drivers, engineers, and crew chiefs (when I start a new game, I know that Levi March and Moretti will be on the podium every race. At a certain point, the only hope is to do well enough to hire one of those two)
Multi-player (I have not been taking races seriously since I hired the aforementioned Moretti and still finding top three every time. I want my friends playing so that there’s bragging rights of some kinds involved)
Overall, it’s definitely worth its full price of $15 USD for me. Maybe I need to make a randomization mod for the game to fix the first of my problems.
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It's Donkey Kong Bananza time!
Have played a little bit, it's really fun being a strong gorilla and destroying everything in the path!
I am only in the first world yet, well, the first proper world after the starting / tutorial one, so can't say how the game progresses, but for now it's really fun. Some things make it feel like a spin-off of Odyssey, like some UI elements and in some cases the bananas look very similar to Super Mario Odyssey moons. These things are minimal though, the gameplay itself is pretty different.
The biggest issue now is to keep Switch 2 away from the kids so that I can get the time to play it.
In the week leading to it, I had some itch for Donkey Kong, I ended up playing Donkey Kong Country 3 on the NES app. I generally play these games with certain rules about rewind and save states, but I knew I am never going to finish it soon if I do that, so this time I cheated fully, with excessive use of rewind, and finished the game in a few days.
Didn't specifically rushed through the game, even tried to find any hidden items I could, and do as much of bonus stages as I could find, but it wasn't a high priority.
Also, finished The Hong Kong Massacre, just had a few levels remaining, finished them in couple of sittings. After that when I tried to look up if devs have made any other game, I realised that Switch version looks pretty bad compared to other versions. Image quality is pretty low. Not that bad if you haven't seen other versions, but still not great.
What about all of you? What have you been playing and/or plan to play?
Sekiro. This is my fourth time starting this game and this is the most it has clicked with me. Also playing Potionomics to balance it out.
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These days if I see roguelike and completely ignore the game, but Children of Morta is from when I was willing to explore the genre. Haven't played it yet, but it has been on my wishlist for so long, want to give it a try at least.
I jumped into buying it a few months ago. I think it was maybe $7? I will likely finish up the rogue likes I have purchased and step away from the genre, unless I see something really unique.
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My love of card games comes from long form games like Rummy and Euchre (sp?), so Phase10 is a game I enjoy. However, the game itself never finished. I think my record is getting to phase seven before we quit. But then again, I’ve only ever played it two-player.
Golden Lap is fun! I played it last night and ended with my main driver for the last two seasons crashing when I didn’t even push him to race faster and my second driver running out of fuel on the last lap. Then after the race, the game announced that my driver had died. Yikes.
Now I’m out of the running for the championship this year, out a top five driver, and out of enthusiasm to play for today. The things Golden Lap needs most in my opinion:
Randomized drivers, engineers, and crew chiefs (when I start a new game, I know that Levi March and Moretti will be on the podium every race. At a certain point, the only hope is to do well enough to hire one of those two)
Multi-player (I have not been taking races seriously since I hired the aforementioned Moretti and still finding top three every time. I want my friends playing so that there’s bragging rights of some kinds involved)
Overall, it’s definitely worth its full price of $15 USD for me. Maybe I need to make a randomization mod for the game to fix the first of my problems.
Yeah, I love Rummy, never played Euchre though. It's just with age and responsibilities, and to find a time when everyone is willing to spend long time for a game is pretty difficult.
We played Phase10 with 3 people, me, wife and my older kid, finished the game, though it took a bit of a time. Haven't played again so can't say how it will turn out in the future.
I would be pretty sad if something like that happened to me in a management game. Hope they improve these in future.
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I jumped into buying it a few months ago. I think it was maybe $7? I will likely finish up the rogue likes I have purchased and step away from the genre, unless I see something really unique.
Yeah, it goes on sale often enough. Will probably get it soon.
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Sekiro. This is my fourth time starting this game and this is the most it has clicked with me. Also playing Potionomics to balance it out.
Yeah, I try to balance my games like this too. Action with cozy, or turn based with real time.
I was planning to play Sekiro, but decided to play Dark Souls first. Haven't decided if I will play 2 and 3 too, or move to Sekiro after that, let's see. It will probably be months even before I start the first one.
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Check my response about covers above (below?) . What do you think about it?
wrote last edited by [email protected]I agree with most of that. The worst offenders are the ones which have all these warnings about digital codes and such, but I'm not planning on buying any of those. I think there was a comparison with the Switch 1 and 2 boxes for Pokémon, where on the 1 you can see the whole cover and on 2 it gets trimmed or resized for that red bar. I guess that could be better.
I do appreciate they're the same size as Switch 1. They also look really cool next to each other with different designs, instead of plain red. You have to find the positives
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Yeah, I love Rummy, never played Euchre though. It's just with age and responsibilities, and to find a time when everyone is willing to spend long time for a game is pretty difficult.
We played Phase10 with 3 people, me, wife and my older kid, finished the game, though it took a bit of a time. Haven't played again so can't say how it will turn out in the future.
I would be pretty sad if something like that happened to me in a management game. Hope they improve these in future.
Regarding Golden Lap, the death of drivers is something in the game’s sales pitch: this is F1 in the 1970’s, a dangerous time without a lot of safety precautions. It was still surprising, but I’ve moved on. I stopped popping the champagne corks when I make top 3, though.
