Games Completed 2026

[Marwood]

@escutcheon

After 11 runs failing at the Underking, the twelfth run… went all the way. I didn’t even really see the second and third areas, something about my build smashed it, and after four hours I’d completed the game.

Or so I thought. There are a few different characters to try, and whilst I’ve not played any of them yet

This was my exact experience with Absolum. Had a bunch of failed and middling runs, then something clicked and I breezed through all the bosses and rolled the end credits. Only played with one character and have no real desire to try runs with any of the others. Still enjoyed my brief time with the game though.

[mac_daddy]

Outer Worlds 2

Finally completed this yesterday. I decided to complete the first one after I’d worked through the Mass Effect trilogy earlier this year (I thought it might be an interesting segue but in hindsight I’m not sure it quite worked) and figured I might as well do the sequel next. I’ve discussed it a bit in the other thread but while I thought the plot was interesting and the locations unique, overall the experience was pretty mid and the story nowhere near as clever as they thought it was. I was glad to get it over and done with in the end. 6.5/10

Next up is Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

[manches]

also just cause it’s too hot and I’m clinging onto my special interests for dear life, the coolest thing about wherever Deltarune is going is that a lot of it seems to have been planned pre-Undertale

[escutcheon]

1. The Talos Principle II
2. Indika
3. Warhammer 40000: Space Marine II
4. High on Life 2
5. Minishoot’ Adventures
6. Mixtape
7. Planet Coaster 2
8. Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
9. 007 First Light
10. Call of the Elder Gods
11. Junkster
12. Absolum
13. Luna Abyss

Red Light means go.

Upfront about this - I had to put on god mode for this game. It gets stupidly hard at times and if I hadn’t I’d have never seen it through.

Though at times I wondered if I was even enjoying it.

Basically, it is three game types mashed into one - first person shooter, bullet hell, and platformer with mild puzzles. The middle part of that mix was hard has hell, and the third part miss guided. I think it needed a much better view - you kind of need to know your hit box in those types of games.

The gameplay was a slog towards the end mind. The game added a load of traversal moves that seemed cool, but at times we’re just wholly frustrating. First person platforming is never good and this tries a few interesting ideas that simply don’t really gel. The boss rooms, like Doom, we’re also very irritating - one last 20 minutes! I don’t need to keep fighting the same lads over and over again.

And then the bosses holy shit. Hard has hell, frustrated me, and felt unfair at times. The toolkit wasn’t great. Add tk that upgrades to the weapons that you have to find down odd paths… It just left me a little annoyed.

The story is pretty odd too. Not really good and delivered by endless fucking dreadful voice acting. I just didn’t like it.

It was, for the first three hours, pretty fucking great! And then it became a slog of similar environments, puzzles, rank boss rush rooms, and terribly unforgivable platforming, and it just didn’t quite do it for me.

6/10