Question What games are you playing?

[TheShuttleExperience]

I will once again get a Game Boy this year, 32 years after I got one in 1991. There are always refurbished ones available almost like brand new, even with new displays and new button mechanics. Can't wait to get it. That's when you realize you never actually acquire adulthood as a male

 

[TheShuttleExperience]

More than 20 years old, but IMHO still the best WWII ego shooter:

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic on Steam

Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.

store.steampowered.com

 

[Urwumpe]

Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic on Steam

Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.

store.steampowered.com

Yeah, I also have it in my library. Especially in realistic mode, it can get hellishly complex now.

 

[Frilock]

Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic on Steam

Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.

store.steampowered.com

"We have Cities: Skylines at home".

 

[N_Molson]

So there was a sale on FS on Steam, I couldn't resist and bought the Premium package.

The installation is beyond anything I experienced until now. The amount of data handled is crazy. But with patience, thorough disk-cleaning, and a glassfiber connection, I made it (circa 20 hours!).

And it runs on my 2015 PC! The 'medium' detail level is still very pretty.

But what really makes me love it already is that I couldn't cold-start the iconic Cessna 172 at the first try (of course, all realism options are on). Now we're talking!

 

[misha.physics]

Has anyone already tried Seafarer: The Ship Sim? I'm not sure if it's optimized enough for my laptop, but it looks very promising. Also, Ships Simulator 2024 is announced and looks good. I don't know any other good ship simulators (except of Silent Hunter 5) with good graphics.

 

[Urwumpe]

Has anyone already tried Seafarer: The Ship Sim? I'm not sure if it's optimized enough for my laptop, but it looks very promising. Also, Ships Simulator 2024 is announced and looks good. I don't know any other good ship simulators (except of Silent Hunter 5) with good graphics.

astragon as publisher is somewhat of a red flag for me, Also it looks a lot like a reheat of their previous ship simulator.

In case of ship simulations, I always look for a good one, that doesn't aim primarily for a professional, well-paying, audience like Nautis. "Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter" gets many things right, but really caters a very tiny niche in WW2 with just one type of ship. Others I know are mostly tactical simulations with very limited seakeeping, like Cold Waters or Seapower.

 

[gamer19]

jesus mary and joseph
this looks insane !

 

[N_Molson]

Has anyone already tried Seafarer: The Ship Sim? I'm not sure if it's optimized enough for my laptop, but it looks very promising. Also, Ships Simulator 2024 is announced and looks good. I don't know any other good ship simulators (except of Silent Hunter 5) with good graphics.

I must say I like this one quite a lot. Being a diesel-powered pirate is kind of interesting. The hostile weather of the North seas is rather well rendered, too.

I managed to bring back my submarine after having been deep-charged to the point I sunk to 140 meters. Only the sea floor saved me. With a lot of patience, and because I had enough supplies, I could patch everyone, fix the leaks and after several hours pump enough water out of the boat to get positive buoyancy (the pressure at that depht makes the process very ineffective). Extremely rewarding feeling as the air was about to become toxic at that point !

The devs really managed to recreate the Das Boot (1984) movie in a videogame.

 

[N_Molson]

jesus mary and joseph
this looks insane !

wow I need that one for my father!

 

[Urwumpe]

Is Silent Hunter 5 any worth it though? Many people complain about the poor quality of the (old) game. Seems to be really really poor, judging from the reviews and the type of bugs described.

IMHO, Silent Hunter III and IV were the best parts of the series, though IV suffered a bit from the huge operations area and poor opponents....

 

[PhantomCruiser]

Dawn of Jets on the Meta Quest 2... It's more arcade style than flight sim, but a whole lot of fun.

 

[Urwumpe]

Regarding ship simulations, this new one looks surprisingly good from the concept:

Battleship Command on Steam

Command the mighty Scharnhorst in this immersive WWII naval simulation. Walk her decks in first-person, control gunnery, radar, and navigation, and lead your fleet through the Atlantic, Arctic, and Mediterranean. Battle convoys, outwit enemies, and survive the stormy seas of war.

store.steampowered.com

 

[diogom]

RNAV approach into Kathmandu is an interesting one, a trench run as far as these things go:



Drukair A319ceo from Paro, which was itself also quite the interesting departure, climbing out with terrain just on your right, and a climbing tight left turn within the valley:



FS24, Fenix A319

 

[gamer19]

I'm more of a low and slow guy

this pic right here is my PC desktop, for quite some time now.
can't shake it off
and my settings aren't even on ultra. not even high! mostly medium with couple on high
amazing.
amazing game where choppers fly really straight

 

[diogom]

I'm more of a low and slow guy


this pic right here is my PC desktop, for quite some time now.
can't shake it off
and my settings aren't even on ultra. not even high! mostly medium with couple on high
amazing.
amazing game where choppers fly really straight

I think the sim really shines at dawn/dusk, so that's a bonus. Gotta be honest, been meaning to get more into GA and the bush flying thing, with the step up in VFR stuff in '24, but inertia can be a pain, I guess. And then a 737 or an RJ comes along and it seems fun to learn and off we go.

I've been thinking actually, I think in part it's a bit of a bias from the FSX days where the jets kinda made a sim's shortcomings less apparent (in terms of the physical aspect of flying, and scenery), but that's a bit less the case now. Which is funny, because if I ever learned to actually fly IRL, I'm pretty sure I'd enjoy GA a fair bit more than the tubes.

 

[diogom]

Hadn't heard of it but anyway more space games:

 

[Azul Quinton]

So there was a sale on FS on Steam, I couldn't resist and bought the Premium package.

The installation is beyond anything I experienced until now. The amount of data handled is crazy. But with patience, thorough disk-cleaning, and a glassfiber connection, I made it (circa 20 hours!).

And it runs on my 2015 PC! The 'medium' detail level is still very pretty.

But what really makes me love it already is that I couldn't cold-start the iconic Cessna 172 at the first try (of course, all realism options are on). Now we're talking!

That cold-start struggle with the 172 is basically a rite of passage, don't worry, you'll get the hang of it and it'll feel SO satisfying when she finally fires up on the first try. Impressive that it runs well on a 2015 rig too, gives hope to those of us not rocking the latest hardware.