Once again I managed to travel this month, this time to sunny Scotland on the sleeper train. Didn’t stop me from getting a couple of completions in though first.
Games completed this month
Mortal Kombat One – Xbox Series X
As started last month, I had a good time with this. I eventually completed both the main story more and the extra “Khaos Reigns” content, wasn’t sure where that had come from though so just counting the whole thing as one completion. I doubt I’ll spend any time with the extra single player stuff, as I don’t think the gameplay is as good as the last two Mortal Kombat games, but I might come back to it for some local versus in the future.
Forbidden solitaire – SteamDeck
This was pretty much everything I hoped it would be. A really fun solitaire puzzle game, wrapped up in 90s horror gaming ala The 7th Guest. It was also perfect on the SteamDeck and I can see me playing more card games on there.
Games played during June
Unravel 2 – PS5
We’ve played the first hour or two of this now, and it is brilliant. A bit of a change from the games we had been playing, and I think we’ll probably see it through.
Paper Train – Nintendo Switch
Forgot I had this but noticed it when I was checking my libraries for train games (don’t ask). I fired it up and made a decent amount of progress through the puzzles before I got bored again. I mostly just love the art style and detail.
Silksong – Nintendo Switch 2
Managed to get a bit back into this. I am finding it much more challenging than I did the original Hollow Knight, but it’s still just as great to play and I adore the aesthetic. I pleasingly managed to beat the boss I had been stuck on when I last put it down, and have made a reasonable amount of progress since.
Regency Solitaire & Faerie solitaire Remastered – SteamDeck
After loving Forbidden Solitaire I found myself installing these from my library. I never played Regency before, and it seems quite fun in a Jane Austen kind of way, and the puzzles etc are very similar to Forbidden Solitaire. Faerie Solitaire Remastered is fun but I don’t know if I’ll stick with it, as I did play through the original game a while back, I think the remastered edition may have been added to my library for free.
Hollow Knight – Nintendo Switch 2
I didn’t spent a long time playing this again, but just wanted to familiarise myself with the new Switch 2 upgrade for it. I did do the majority of the content when I completed it previously, but there are things I missed. Have been tempted to go back and look for them, but that may depend on how well I do with Silksong in the long run.
51 Worldwide Games – Nintendo Switch 2
Not fully sure what possessed me to go back to this, but I have spent a few hours this month on the various games in here. It is at once a great collection of distractions, but could be so much better in terms of the multiplayer offering. I still like it though.
Pinball FX (various) – SteamDeck
Felt like playing a bit of pinball, so thought I’d try my tables on here to see how they play. They did sour me a bit with the most recent update, trying to make me buy all the tables I owned in the last version again. I think I have over 100 tables in Pinball FX2 (now called classic) and about 18 in the new version. Interestingly, while FX2 runs great on the Deck and had me playing quite a bit, the new one looks amazing, but has terrible input lag on the flippers. I might be able to tweak that in the settings, but it did at least stop me from buying any more tables.
June Pickups
Skies Above – Nintendo Switch
This is odd, and admittedly I bought it because I loved the giant pixel art whale.
*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.