What videogames are you playing in 2025?

[Paul Farquhar]

I have now, finally, started Baldur's Gate 3.

You were clearly waiting for the paladin oath of the Crown.

 

[billd91]

You were clearly waiting for the paladin oath of the Crown.

More like waiting for an upgrade from my decade+ old iMac.
Though I AM playing a bladesinger...

 

[Gradine]

Hi, do you like designing dungeons, or dungeon crawling, and video games? Do you like solving puzzles and combing through details in your environment to figure out both lore and progress?

Allow me to introduce you to your new favorite game, Blue Prince. Seems simple enough to start, in both gameplay and story. It is anything but.

If you need more incentive to try this game, and it seems you all do, then I'm sure this is one of the places on the web where this will actually mean something to a bunch of people...

Anyway, Blue Prince is primarily inspired by the 1985 book Maze: Solve The World's Most Challenging Puzzle by Christopher Manson. What's more, the creator of Blue Prince actually managed to track down Christopher Manson, who ended up contributing some writing and design to the game as well.

 

[Reynard]

not quite, we just got a tweet saying all will be revealed tomorrow

Yup. Saw that after I posted. Still excite.

 

[Gradine]

I also forgot to mention that Blue Prince has better, deeper worldbuilding and environmental storytelling than any From Software game

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Do you like solving puzzles and combing through details in your environment to figure out both lore and progress?

What if I answer "No" to this bit? The rest sounds good. I kind of like finding lore that way but fiddly puzzles noooooooooo it's the not the 1990s!

I also forgot to mention that Blue Prince has better, deeper worldbuilding and environmental storytelling than any From Software game

This is my highly skeptical face. The game has only been out a few days, and it took months and months for people to unravel the full depth and complexity of Elden Ring's lore. So it could be true, but you wouldn't know it yet.

 

[Older Beholder]

Hi, do you like designing dungeons, or dungeon crawling, and video games? Do you like solving puzzles and combing through details in your environment to figure out both lore and progress?

Allow me to introduce you to your new favorite game, Blue Prince. Seems simple enough to start, in both gameplay and story. It is anything but.

I keep seeing so much buzz about this game. I also hear it's the sorta thing you need to go into blind if possible, so I've been avoiding reading about it. It's not on a platform I own (I haven't owned a PC in years), but I've been thinking of upgrading to a PS5 at some point.

 

[Older Beholder]

I've been getting back into Kairosoft games lately.

I watched a video that ranked all their games and noticed there's a free to play sequel to Game Dev Story called Social Dev Story, so I've been mixing that in with Marvel Snap and Pokemon Pocket.

 

[Gradine]

What if I answer "No" to this bit? The rest sounds good. I kind of like finding lore that way but fiddly puzzles noooooooooo it's the not the 1990s!

One of the best spoiler-free trips I've read is to play it with a friend. I ended up giving up on The Outer Wilds (a game that Blue Prince is getting comped to often; I've seen "Outer Wilds meets Slay the Spire" and "Outer Wilders meets Betrayal on House on the Hill") because I just couldn't figure it out, but I've been playing with my wife who is constantly pointing things out to me that I would've spent forever just running by every time. There are obvious puzzles that are obvious and start simple but get harder, but there's a lot of lore (if not progress) behind some very esoteric stuff.

This is my highly skeptical face. The game has only been out a few days, and it took months and months for people to unravel the full depth and complexity of Elden Ring's lore. So it could be true, but you wouldn't know it yet.

I might be overselling it; I've never been a huge fan of FromSoft games and I've never been too sold on the way their do they storytelling. But I have been absolutely shocked in how deep the worldbuilding rabbit hole has gotten so far and I don't even think I'm that deep into the game, and a lot of it is deeply compelling. I saw one review read that it "immediately looks as shallow as a puddle, turns out to be deep as an ocean"

 

[Gradine]

Finished a 2+ hour run tonight, and I take back my prior prevarication and stand by my original comment.