What are you Playing Now? Volume XIX: The New Beginning of the End of the Middle

[Malcador]

20 hours ago, Sarex said:

Put 30ish hours in to Farthest Frontier. The game is good for what it is, the building aspect is fun enough to keep you engaged until you reach the final tier. Don't know why they cap the population to 500 by default, game works fine over that.

Didn't know about the cap. Played this in EA as well, playing it now. Nice to unlock buildings with tech rather than the town center.  Finally have surplus population, my previous games always left me with no labourers. Seems kids take ages to grow up as well, so maybe was lucky with immigrants.

Salvage sites is new to me too, also good.  Shame soldiers are expensive as heck though.

 

[Sarex]

34 minutes ago, Malcador said:

Didn't know about the cap. Played this in EA as well, playing it now. Nice to unlock buildings with tech rather than the town center.  Finally have surplus population, my previous games always left me with no labourers. Seems kids take ages to grow up as well, so maybe was lucky with immigrants.

Salvage sites is new to me too, also good.  Shame soldiers are expensive as heck though.

I was short on laborers until I reached over 500 pop. Until then I needed to switch between farmers and labor, non stop. Kids only come in to play in late game, when you get people dying of old age, until then immigration is key.

There are some relics that can make soldiers almost obsolete, at least on anything below hardest. I didn't even build any walls.

[Raithe]

Slowly doodling along in the background with some of the Outer Worlds 2.

Mostly in short pushes rather than hugely extended gaming times.

 

Edit:  And yes, I am moderately amused and entertained by the menu responding and making commentary on where the game is when I run it up again.

Edited 3 hours ago by Raithe

[Sarex]

Finished the last mission of Pacific Drive. Had to do the game in small bits due to motion sickness. Overall well worth the money in gameplay. The story is just there.

Will probably play around in Farthest Frontier until the new Anno game comes out.

Edited 20 minutes ago by Sarex

[LadyCrimson]

Teddy's Haven (a fantasy shop simulator type game) - early access, single person dev, asset pack flip use I assume. Dev does small updates very frequently, like adding a new shop item, performance tweaks, other things. Recently he placed a giant new door into a rockface, purpose unknown. They've set it up where updates shouldn't require a new start, which is great.

Haven't really played a "shop simulator" game before. They all mostly looked kinda boring/static, plus I don't care about being a mechanic or power wash or lawn care business. This one caught my attention because of the smallish "outside/world map" aspect, and cats and stuff.  It has one of those (over time) repetitive loops (get resources to make stuff to sell/expand shop), and as you unlock/purchase more upgrades/crafting the loop becomes more interesting/fun.  So it's charming, a bit funny, the fact you're not locked into a shop/can explore the small world is initially rewarding, and it's possibly the coziest of no pressure coziest. No time pressure, no combat, etc. There's no real challenge or boundaries (this is on purpose), it's a vibe, a design/deco shop layout, busy work. So it's been perfect for my current zone-out brain.

Would I recommend it to the regulars of this forum? Nah. I mean, if such is your thing, it's a pretty good time waster. And it's cute. And has cats. And penguins, goats, giraffes occasionally show up to buy your wares, because I guess animals occasionally need a good dagger or two - which is funny. And you can buy this tiny Oreling, feed it excess stone, and it'll grow, and grow, and grow.....I'm still wondering if it has a size limit.

Edited 1 hour ago by LadyCrimson