What videogames are you playing in 2025?

[Retros_x]

Currently in the final hours of Metaphor: Refantazio. Great JRPG! (I hope that Persona 6 finally gets announced this year).

I am torn what to play next, there is too much on the plate and not enough freetime. I wish games would get shorter again. Currently I am torn between Nier 1 Remake, continuing Elden Ring DLC (had a break), Monster Hunter Wilds. I also want to play Civ 7, but I think I will bail on it until it leaves the unofficial public beta.

I've also bought the MGS collection vol 1 for switch and anyoing playing a few levels of MGS1 before going to bed. MGS is just comfort food for me.

 

[TwoSix]

Civ VII. I also have playthroughs of Dragon Quest XI and Triangle Strategy and Dragon Warrior 3 Remake in various stages to circle back to.

Also waiting for BG3 Patch 8 to do a few more playthroughs.

 

[HaroldTheHobbit]

Videogames (primarily on PC) has been a part of my life since I spent nights playing Elite on the C64 in front of an analog TV til my eye globes bled from static overload.

My PC gaming probably peaked around the golden years of the og Baldurs gate and Fallout games - nowadays I can't understand how I managed to work and study with so little sleep. But even after the younger bingeing I've always had a couple of games in progress.

Nowadays though...I simply don't have the urge anymore. I mean, I have BG3 installed with 10ish hours played, and had it released 30 years ago I would have been hospitalized by it. But I simply don't feel like playing.

My gaming computer is starting to get outdated, but for the first time in 35 years I don't really care, as long as it runs Foundry fine I'm good.

I think I must accept I'm simply not a video gamer anymore. I guess this is what getting old feels like.

 

[Reynard]

I am currently playing Avowed, which I really like as a casual action RPG. I have downloaded the Steam next Fest demos for Gothic remake, Solasta 2 and as we Descend, all games I am excited about.

My go-to asynch board game is Clank! right now, and I am hoping it leaves early access and adds some expansions soon.

I am considering a new playthrough of BG3 once Patch 8 drops but that is a big time commitment.

 

[MoonSong]

Avowed is in my radar, but I need to buy and play Palworld and BG3 first. And there's still Birthright and KoTOR in my backlog. As well as RE2 remake. Meanwhile my time is consumed by Minecraft, and Arena.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Just finished up Va-11 Hall-A, a cyberpunk visual/novel bartending sim. It took a bit of getting used to, as I hadn't really played (read?) a visual novel before, but once I got into the swing of it, I enjoyed it quite a bit. Was also surprised to see author Cassandra Khaw credited as a QA on it.

 

[GMMichael]

Greed and Darkness is pretty awesome so far. It's probably not one for the Everyone-Should-Have-Infravision crowd, though.

Will never forget the amount of time I spent agonizing over a couple choices in Skyrim only to discover did not matter.

Skyrim. Skyrim . . . why does that sound so familiar? Oh yeah, it's the a Dance with Dragons of videogames!

 

[Micah Sweet]

Making this thread because, AFAIK, no-one has made it yet, despite people threatening to! Please feel free to post screenshots, boast about achievements you're pleased with, and show us what you're playing or games you think are cool or whatever!

Personally over the last couple of weeks, I've been playing a lot of Avowed, the latest Obsdian game, which has its own thread. It's been really good, playing incredibly well despite a mediocre framerate.

I particularly love the writing, because whoever wrote it understood the urge to correct NPCs and misapprehensions and so on, and to actually nuance your position on issues. And NPCs are well-written enough that they often respond in good ways, even if they don't agree. Like, I don't mindlessly have to "pick a side", I can point out I'm working for Y but don't agree with X. You can often also ask pretty good questions, and fight people who need to be fighted! None of which is really true in some other RPGs, despite being very well-written overall (Cyberpunk for example - you often really good, really well voice-acted responses in that - Avowed is a silent protag game - but you rarely have a lot of choice/nuance). I think being silent protagonist gave them more flexibility here.

The most amazing game I played this year, though, was Caves of Qud, which I'll have to talk about some other time.

Right now I am playing Enshrouded, Forever Skies, No Man's Sky, Stellaris, Civilization V (waiting for VII to be worth the squeeze), and occasionally still screwing around with The Sims 4.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Mainly Lord of the Rings Online. And trying to play Trails of Cold Steel 3 when I can.

LotRO is definitely on my list. MMOs are a big commitment though.

 

[Kichwas]

Sims 4.

Otherwise I most avoid them. Not because I don't like them, but because too many of them trigger addictive behavior and that's a large reason why for 20 years I stopped doing tRPGs, stopping reading, and stopped writing.

It's way to easy to spend 8 hours after work picking herbs in WoW or doing fractals in Guild Wars 2... and then you've run out of time for life.

Sims 4 - I don't care for the gameplay much. But I can dip in, mess with a sim's outfit, and dip out. The game is not that good at 'hooking me in' for long play sessions, making it ideal to keep installed.