Played a little bit more this month, but still nothing completed. In a bit of a slump, I think I need something a bit easier or at least a change of pace to get stuck into for a while.
Games played during August
Silksong – Nintendo Switch 2
Well I did wrap up Act 1 at the start of the month, and made quite a bit more progress. I’m finding I don’t currently have the patience for some of the bosses though so I may be putting this down for a while.
Tempest 4000 – PS5
Haven’t played loads more of this, but I have had a few quick bursts this month, still awesome.
Quake 2 – Steamdeck
My playthroughs of all the Quake and Quake 2 content stalled when I dropped GamePass as although I own them all on PC, I was playing the Xbox GamePass versions, initially for the couch comfort, but also for the novelty of the Xbox Live ecosystem. There was a new free expansion released for Quake though, and that motivated me to get back to it, picking up where I left off, but on my Steamdeck instead. Made a bit of a mistake and started the wrong expansion, I have now corrected that and will be playing through Quake II: The Reckoning first. I think I’ll do this and Ground Zero, before going back to the Quake expansions, and then tackling the modern expansions for both games in the order they came out.
Dungeon Keeper 2 – PC
Felt like playing some Dungeon Keeper, for a bit of an RTS fix on my laptop. Partly as an effort to get out of my slump, but just felt like something a bit different. I never really played the second game so I’ve made a start. I’ve done the first few levels, but not sure yet if I’ll play through the whole thing, it does get a bit clunky.
August Pickups
Under the Waves – Steam
Picked this up when a friend sent me the link, it looks interesting but I haven’t managed to play it yet. It was £1.24 though so definitely worth a look. Just might need to tinker with it a bit to get it running nicely on the Steamdeck.
Love Letter to Lovecraft Humble Bundle – Steam
Picked up this bundle as a couple of the included games have been on my wishlist for a while, namely Forgive Me Father 2 and Stygian: Outer Gods. Also I enjoyed Dagon on my PC VR headset, so getting the DLC for that is a nice touch. The other games are a mixed bag, I already bought and hated Sundered on the Switch so I’ll give that a swerve, and Abandon Ship seems to be a poor mans Sunless Seas. However Call of Cthulhu has been on my backlog for a while on the Xbox, so perhaps I’ll finally play that on the SteamDeck.
The two remaining games, Remnant and Whisper Mountain Outbreak, I don’t know anything about so we’ll see..
*There are no links to Amazon in this post and probably won’t be going forward. When I can be bothered I’m going to remove the old ones and burn my affiliates account.