What videogames are you playing in 2026?

[Parmandur]

I mean, to me this sounds like the ideal candidate for Silksong lol.

Yeah, as I said flawed sample lol.

 

[Reynard]

Update: oh, yeah, Hades is much more fun with the controller.

I decided to resub to GamePass PC and am installing Shredders Revenge and PoP:Lost Crown now. I think I am going to play Indiana Jones and both Jedi games over the course of the summer too.

 

[Micah Sweet]

A lot of Stellaris, Enshrouded, and Astroneer.

 

[Parmandur]

Update: oh, yeah, Hades is much more fun with the controller.

I decided to resub to GamePass PC and am installing Shredders Revenge and PoP:Lost Crown now. I think I am going to play Indiana Jones and both Jedi games over the course of the summer too.

Here's the thing, outside of first person shooters (and maybe not even shooters now) and strategy games, most games these days are designed with a standard controller set up in mind primarily. Lots of games are definitely playable with mouse and keyboard, like Hades, but it is going to be an adaptation from the primary controller design the devs are working with.

Also, now that Nintendo has brought "having an optical mouse with motion controlz" into the standard controller setup, even those last lines of distinction might blur.

 

[Reynard]

Here's the thing, outside of first person shooters (and maybe not even shooters now) and strategy games, most games these days are designed with a standard controller set up in mind primarily. Lots of games are definitely playable with mouse and keyboard, like Hades, but it is going to be an adaptation from the primary controller design the devs are working with.

Also, now that Nintendo has brought "having an optical mouse with motion controlz" into the standard controller setup, even those last lines of distinction might blur.

I wouldn't play Skyrim, Fallout 4, Outer Worlds, Avowed, Cyberpunk or basically any first person RPG with a controller.

 

[Parmandur]

I wouldn't play Skyrim, Fallout 4, Outer Worlds, Avowed, Cyberpunk or basically any first person RPG with a controller.

Yet they are designed around that input.

 

[Reynard]

Yet they are designed around that input.

I have been M&King first person games for way too long to use a controller. But 3rd person action games and action RPGs do work better with one.

 

[abazaba]

Not sure if this counts. I don't currently play any games on PC or dedicated consoles, but: I would love to go back to 'The Arcades' (for those of us old enough to remember the phenomenon). To play the old school classics there (like pac-man, donkey kong, galaxians), and even the slightly more recent ones (out run, afterburner, even the original 'Mortal Kombat'), etc.

I would love to go to the 'Galloping Ghost Arcade' in the USA. If I recall correctly, the price for entrance is just $20 USD, and that gets you free access to all the games in the arcade, all day long. The games are all set to 'free play'. No need to insert any coins into the machines in order to be able to play, so the price for entrance is the only thing you will need to pay for. They got over a thousand games at their location at this point if I understand correctly.

 

[Kaodi]

Incredibly Steam tells me I have logged 251 hours in Baldur's Gate 3 and I have yet to actually make it to Act 2. My friend and I literally only just started the Mountain Pass last night.

 

[Gladius Legis]

Incredibly Steam tells me I have logged 251 hours in Baldur's Gate 3 and I have yet to actually make it to Act 2. My friend and I literally only just started the Mountain Pass last night.

If you played it in Early Access those hours are counted toward your total.