June 2025 General Game Discussion Thread

[DXCHASE]

I figured I post that here as more people can see it...

I was really interested in the Borg cube when it first was announced, i got a super star trek fan of a wife and saw this but was out of my price range. Still a cool idea. Didnt realize you could get a smaller cat-version of it.

As for a gpu PC, it would be cool if an actual performing PC can be built around a gpu like that. Neat idea by Cherry Tree.

Haven't posted too much, mostly because I've been busy, but also because I haven't really sat in front of a computer for awhile. My Deck has been the easiest thing to use in my house lately, so I end up not checking the forum and posting. Right now I'm laying in bed, on my phone, which is annoying to write on, but it's the calm before the storm which is getting up and feeding everyone.

Honestly, where im moving and how im going to have my PC's set up. I might actually wind up buying a deck. For the last, idk 10-12 years my living room has had my pc pretty much hooked up to the TV since the modem, router internet etc. all came out in the same place. This new place is going to be having my pc in a separate room, upstairs from the living room, dining room, general area etc. due to how i have to set up the internet there. Basically, to keep me from sitting in 1 room all day, ill need a portable device to game and walk around lol.





Tainted Grail and Diablo 4 were the only real things i played over the weekend in-between moving. I played a little bit of Lethal Company (still a fun time) with the fam and tried out this new game called Deltarune. Not too far into it, but it looks like Zelda. I love that pixel-graphic games are still big.

 

[neogunhero]

I played a lot of DayZ over the weekend, when I should have been playing the new Fallen Aces update. Fallen Aces got a major update recently that adds a level editor and Steam Workshop, the very two things that I've been wanting in this game since it came to early access last year. I usually suck at making levels, but I'm definitely going to dive into this one.

As for DayZ, I just played on some pretty empty servers so I can chill out alone. Sometimes I want to be anti-social and not run into anybody that may or may not kill me immediately. I checked out a custom map that is kind of based on Hawaii complete with a large city on a tropical beach, and it was pretty fun exploring it. Sometimes I forget people still make maps for DayZ, since the three official maps tend to be the most played, perhaps because they are more well detailed than some custom maps. They usually have custom points of interests, unique locations and other brand new assets, while custom made maps tend to just reuse those assets on a new landform.

Back to Fallen Aces, I absolutely loved it when it first came to EA but haven't touched it since. Content is coming slow so I want to play the full game once it's available from start to finish. The levels and graphics are amazing, and I've always wanted a level editor with Workshop support. Well now we have all of that and I couldn't be happier. I'm thinking of ideas for maps now, and I really like the close quarters hand to hand combat in this game, so I may go with that idea and make a long gauntlet kind of map where your goal is to reach the end alive.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Some games I'm most excited about:

Dispatch on Steam

Dispatch is a superhero workplace comedy where choices matter. Manage a dysfunctional team of misfit heroes and strategize who to send to emergencies around the city, all while balancing office politics, personal relationships, and your own quest to become a hero.

store.steampowered.com

Hilarious writing, looks like a fun time.

Militsioner on Steam

Every move you make is being followed by a Colossal Policeman. Piss him off, flatter, disappoint and lie or even romance a Giant to escape in this kafkaesque immersive-sim.

store.steampowered.com

Love how this is an immersive sim. Lots of different ways to interact with all the systems at play.

Wheel World on Steam

Dive into Wheel World as Kat, a rider chosen by ancient cycling spirits. Race elite teams, trick out your bike, and perform the long overdue Great Shift ritual to save a universe on the brink! Your bike is your destiny.

store.steampowered.com

Another awesome looking chillout game.

Clockwork Revolution on Steam

Embark on a grand adventure in the steampunk metropolis of Avalon, wielding an incredible invention that allows you to travel into the past and influence key events, altering the course of history.

store.steampowered.com

Probably my most hyped game right now. Everything about the reveal trailer looks amazing to me. I'm not a huge steampunk person, but this version of it is very interesting. Can't wait for this the most.

007 First Light on Steam

Earn the Number. 007 First Light is a thrilling espionage action-adventure game from IO Interactive. Follow James Bond as a young, resourceful and sometimes reckless recruit in MI6's training programme, and discover an origin story of the world’s most famous spy.

store.steampowered.com

Probably my second most hyped game right now. Absolutely love Hitman and James Bond, so a mix of the two is a match made in heaven. Loving the more chaotic action sequences too.

I love Steampunk, so I'm looking forward to Clockwork Revolution quite a bit.

 

[Colif]

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[Zed Clampet]

I bought Cash Cleaner. Seemed like the kind of mindless work sim I could get lost in. I'm not sure what I was doing wrong, but I sent the wrong amount of money twice in a row (3 stacks of $100 bills and 3 stacks of $50 bills should have been $45,000, but it wasn't working out that way somehow). I then experienced a great amount of regret about the whole thing and refunded it.

 

[neogunhero]

I totally forgot about this. There are just so many good games coming out and being revealed that I can't keep track of my excitement.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L3XVVzsmHE

What I'm picking up from the two trailers plus the code name "project century", is that this game will span 100 years across multiple protagonists. The first trailer was in 1915, this one in 1943. It all takes place in Sotenbori (Kamurocho fans are crying right now). The first trailer showed off more combat, this trailer shows off some more detective work and a different fighting style, so I'm guessing a mix of gameplay styles from Yakuza and Judgement. One awesome moment for Yakuza fans is at 1:01 how the enemy pulls a knife and the entire crowd runs away, no combat mode transition needed, it looks so smooth. If there is one game I already know I'm buying at launch it will be this game.

 

[Pifanjr]

I played a bit more Bioprototype today and finished the tutorial stage and the first proper stage. Getting more types of components to work with was pretty fun, but I think I'm done with the game. I like messing around with a build after each round, but it's too boring watching my character stand still for 1-2 minutes in between while its obliterating everything around itself with a constant stream of projectiles and explosions.

 

[neogunhero]

Fill out a quick PC Gaming Show survey for a chance to win a powerful gaming PC

Tell us what you thought of the show, and you could win The Rig, our custom AMD-powered gaming PC.

www.pcgamer.com

I'll post this here since admins haven't updated the top banner yet. PC Gamer is doing a gaming PC giveaway if you provide feedback on last weekends PC Gaming Show. Pretty well decked out rig as well. 18+ US and UK only, you have until June 16th to enter the giveaway. You can also provide feedback without entering the giveaway.

 

[BeardyHat]

Fill out a quick PC Gaming Show survey for a chance to win a powerful gaming PC

Tell us what you thought of the show, and you could win The Rig, our custom AMD-powered gaming PC.

www.pcgamer.com

I'll post this here since admins haven't updated the top banner yet. PC Gamer is doing a gaming PC giveaway if you provide feedback on last weekends PC Gaming Show. Pretty well decked out rig as well. 18+ US and UK only, you have until June 16th to enter the giveaway. You can also provide feedback without entering the giveaway.

I did not watch the show, but I was happy to bullshit all the answers (it was like being in school again!) to enter the drawing.

Don't really need a new gaming machine, but why not?

 

[neogunhero]

I did not watch the show, but I was happy to bullshit all the answers (it was like being in school again!) to enter the drawing.

Don't really need a new gaming machine, but why not?

I never expect to win any of these but I do think its kind of fun going through the questionnaires.

 

[Frindis]

It seems that you can play solo in Dune Awakening, so I might try a "free to play weekend" or similar to test that strategy out. There are PvE zones for those who want to avoid PvP, but I am not sure if you need to go into PvP zones for progression items.

 

[Zed Clampet]

It seems that you can play solo in Dune Awakening, so I might try a "free to play weekend" or similar to test that strategy out. There are PvE zones for those who want to avoid PvP, but I am not sure if you need to go into PvP zones for progression items.

My understanding is that you do not ever need to go to the PvP zone.

It will be interesting to watch their numbers climb today. They are at 108k right now. Good for Fun Com. They almost went under at one point but saved themselves with Conan Exiles, which has sold a bit over 5 million copies on Steam. People are liking Dune, and I can see it selling even more copies.

 

[neogunhero]

MindsEye on Steam

MindsEye is a narrative driven, single-player action-adventure thriller set in the near-future fictional desert city of Redrock. Featuring best-in-class cinematics, high octane driving, and explosive combat from game director, Leslie Benzies.

store.steampowered.com

Not sure how many of you are following this game, but it's been kind of a crazy ride lol. A quick recap: Made by new studio led by ex-Rockstar senior level programmer, kind of a GTA clone. Originally they had planned a game called EVERYWHERE which is a more mature Roblox competitor with user created content at it's core. MindsEye was supposed to be a side project that will help fund Everywhere, that has since flipflopped. They took Everywhere offline, now with the intention to use proceeds from MindsEye to fund Everywhere. However, one week before launch, two top level execs left the company. No major previews, no review copies, playtests were behind closed doors where reportedly the influncers/content creators just watched a dev play (apparently very buggy), all trailers look heavily scripted. One red flag after another.

Where we are at today is that the game has launched. So far there are Very Negative reviews, but these seem to be people anticipating this game to fail and buying/refunding so they can write a "funny" negative review. I'm not rooting for this game, but I do want to see the genuine criticism and reviews of it.

 

[Zed Clampet]

MindsEye on Steam

MindsEye is a narrative driven, single-player action-adventure thriller set in the near-future fictional desert city of Redrock. Featuring best-in-class cinematics, high octane driving, and explosive combat from game director, Leslie Benzies.

store.steampowered.com

Not sure how many of you are following this game, but it's been kind of a crazy ride lol. A quick recap: Made by new studio led by ex-Rockstar senior level programmer, kind of a GTA clone. Originally they had planned a game called EVERYWHERE which is a more mature Roblox competitor with user created content at it's core. MindsEye was supposed to be a side project that will help fund Everywhere, that has since flipflopped. They took Everywhere offline, now with the intention to use proceeds from MindsEye to fund Everywhere. However, one week before launch, two top level execs left the company. No major previews, no review copies, playtests were behind closed doors where reportedly the influncers/content creators just watched a dev play (apparently very buggy), all trailers look heavily scripted. One red flag after another.

Where we are at today is that the game has launched. So far there are Very Negative reviews, but these seem to be people anticipating this game to fail and buying/refunding so they can write a "funny" negative review. I'm not rooting for this game, but I do want to see the genuine criticism and reviews of it.

One thing that will never stop amazing me is that there are a lot of people who will spend full AAA game prices just so they can play for 15 minutes and leave a bad review, and most of them don't have the "refund" notice on their reviews, which Steam automatically puts there.

 

[PointnClicker01]

Hello folks!
Since my brain is currently not allowed to have any gaming distractions from writing my thesis, I try to compensate my itch to gaming by becoming more active on here and at the same time train my writing a little.
The last time I was able to play was months ago, but it was a really good game that I will definitely come back to as soon as this forsaken thesis is out of my hands. The game is called News Tower and it is still in an Early Access state, even though it feels almost fully developed to me. It is set in the 1920ies and 30ies. You play someone who inherited a newspaper tower in America from his late uncle. The introduction is short and sweet and you dive right into action, managing your own newspaper that is almost completely in shambles at the start. With the helpful advise from your secretary, who seemingly was already part of the company when it was founded, you learn about your typesetters, journalists, handymen and all the other personel of your tower and how to handle them. It is quite a task at the beginning to keep your newspaper afloat but at the same time the jazzy brackground music and the tickity tack of the typewriters have something hypnotising and calming, that lets you fully sink into the game and forget about the hours and hours passing away.
The cool thing is, that you actually proceed through time while playing. It may start in the mid 20s but you have to bring out a newspaper on every sunday and when you published a newspaper, you will proceed to the next month. As it is still in Early Access, you can play until about the mid 30s. After that, you‘ll get a statistic of your growth and development and you can enter an infinity mode, which continues to count through the ages (I was in the mid 40s when I last played) but it will get a bit repetetive after a while. I still love it. And I can‘t wait to get back to it in August.
Here’s the Steam page to the Demo for those who want to try it out:

News Tower Demo on Steam

News Tower is a news and resource management game. Your goal is to build a newspaper empire in 1930s New York that is profitable, independent, and – most importantly – wins the trust of its readers.

store.steampowered.com

 

[Zed Clampet]

Hello folks!
Since my brain is currently not allowed to have any gaming distractions from writing my thesis, I try to compensate my itch to gaming by becoming more active on here and at the same time train my writing a little.
The last time I was able to play was months ago, but it was a really good game that I will definitely come back to as soon as this forsaken thesis is out of my hands. The game is called News Tower and it is still in an Early Access state, even though it feels almost fully developed to me. It is set in the 1920ies and 30ies. You play someone who inherited a newspaper tower in America from his late uncle. The introduction is short and sweet and you dive right into action, managing your own newspaper that is almost completely in shambles at the start. With the helpful advise from your secretary, who seemingly was already part of the company when it was founded, you learn about your typesetters, journalists, handymen and all the other personel of your tower and how to handle them. It is quite a task at the beginning to keep your newspaper afloat but at the same time the jazzy brackground music and the tickity tack of the typewriters have something hypnotising and calming, that lets you fully sink into the game and forget about the hours and hours passing away.
The cool thing is, that you actually proceed through time while playing. It may start in the mid 20s but you have to bring out a newspaper on every sunday and when you published a newspaper, you will proceed to the next month. As it is still in Early Access, you can play until about the mid 30s. After that, you‘ll get a statistic of your growth and development and you can enter an infinity mode, which continues to count through the ages (I was in the mid 40s when I last played) but it will get a bit repetetive after a while. I still love it. And I can‘t wait to get back to it in August.
Here’s the Steam page to the Demo for those who want to try it out:

News Tower Demo on Steam

News Tower is a news and resource management game. Your goal is to build a newspaper empire in 1930s New York that is profitable, independent, and – most importantly – wins the trust of its readers.

store.steampowered.com

I love News Tower. My only problem was I got frustrated with my performance in those quick-time-like events, during which I invariably panicked and had my brain shut down. At least, that's what happened the first couple of times they popped up on the screen (here come the police again). The rest is an absolute blast. I haven't played it since shortly after release, so now I'm wondering what all new stuff has been added. Think I'll download it.

 

[PointnClicker01]

I love News Tower. My only problem was I got frustrated with my performance in those quick-time-like events, during which I invariably panicked and had my brain shut down. At least, that's what happened the first couple of times they popped up on the screen (here come the police again). The rest is an absolute blast. I haven't played it since shortly after release, so now I'm wondering what all new stuff has been added. Think I'll download it.

Great to see another fellow Newspaper Giant here 😃 Whats your Newspaper called?
I can definitely recommend coming back to the game. I don‘t know how the game looked when you played it… I downloaded it at around the end of 2024 and it seemed to me almost complete except for some years and quests they wanted to add. In spring, they added also in-house transportation options which spiced things up a little. You really have to consider if you want to get them or not, because if wrongly installed, they can do more harm than good to your daily business.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Great to see another fellow Newspaper Giant here 😃 Whats your Newspaper called?

I didn't get creative or silly (for once in my life). I just called it The Sunday Times. How about yours?

 

[BeardyHat]

News Tower looks pretty interesting. I'll have to give the demo a go when I have some time (who knows when that will be).

I'm still at it with RE7, almost 4 hours into it now and am nearly done with the second area having just defeated the second boss. The game is still decently tense, but I think it's really got the most tension in the intro area, which was what really scared me off the game like 5 years ago. The second area was interesting to explore and overall, fairly easy to get around.

In spite of what appears to be killing two bosses for good, it all seemed suspiciously easy and early in the game. I know there's got to be plenty more to go, so I suspect they'll be coming back in some way, as well as a backstab or twist (such as them actually being the protagonists wife or something) by the character who's been contacting the player over the phone. Have not read any story synopsis, so I might be grasping at straws here, but we'll see.

 

[Zed Clampet]

It seems that you can play solo in Dune Awakening, so I might try a "free to play weekend" or similar to test that strategy out. There are PvE zones for those who want to avoid PvP, but I am not sure if you need to go into PvP zones for progression items.

Okay, I have read a lot of user reviews now. So there is one PvP area. It does not have progression items in it; however, it is the only place to get end game stuff like spice and other items. Technically you don't absolutely have to have these things, but it seems unlikely that you won't want them. And from what I'm hearing, this zone is already camped by people who put in hundreds of hours during the early play and is, overall, an exceedingly bad place to be if you are solo playing.

 

[Zed Clampet]

News Tower looks pretty interesting. I'll have to give the demo a go when I have some time (who knows when that will be).

I'm still at it with RE7, almost 4 hours into it now and am nearly done with the second area having just defeated the second boss. The game is still decently tense, but I think it's really got the most tension in the intro area, which was what really scared me off the game like 5 years ago. The second area was interesting to explore and overall, fairly easy to get around.

In spite of what appears to be killing two bosses for good, it all seemed suspiciously easy and early in the game. I know there's got to be plenty more to go, so I suspect they'll be coming back in some way, as well as a backstab or twist (such as them actually being the protagonists wife or something) by the character who's been contacting the player over the phone. Have not read any story synopsis, so I might be grasping at straws here, but we'll see.

Without getting into specific spoilers, I'll just tell you that the bosses are the game's weak spot.

The game has some fun and interesting stuff going on after you leave the initial house, but it kind of stops being scary for the most part. It's more like RE4 levels of scary then. But it's still pretty fun.

I love RE, but I've had two games, 5 and 8, where I arrived at the final boss with almost nothing, no consumables and no ammo. In 5, I had to backtrack and farm areas before returning to the boss. In 8, I just fought him over and over until I somehow won. In fairness to 8, there was a merchant out of sight around a corner that I didn't know about. Anyway, you shouldn't have this problem in 7.

 

[Pifanjr]

It seems that you can play solo in Dune Awakening, so I might try a "free to play weekend" or similar to test that strategy out. There are PvE zones for those who want to avoid PvP, but I am not sure if you need to go into PvP zones for progression items.

I played a couple of hours today with my wife and a friend of hers she roped into playing. I'm not sure how the PvP and PvE zoning works, but I did randomly get shot at by another player and was surprised to see it actually hurt, though it was fairly easy to escape and heal up.

I only got as far as I got during the beta weekend, but honestly I think that if you want to play a solo survival crafting game, there are probably better ones out there. Not to say this is a bad game, but it definitely has that MMO feel where resources and enemies constantly respawn and exploration is fairly minimal.

 

[Zloth]

Hello folks!
Since my brain is currently not allowed to have any gaming distractions from writing my thesis...

That reminds me: shouldn't we up our game around here and start including bibliographies in our posts?

 

[PakGamerNerd40s]

I watched Summer Fest 2025, and was pleased with most of the lineup. Games that I found interesting and a potential buy include
Mortal Shell 2 2026
Codevein 2 2026
Mindseye
Firstlight 2026
RE 9 Requiem

I never preorder and wait for reviews and look at walkthrough before buying them. I will buy only games that are stellar like Expedition 33 that provides the most fun for majority of users.

 

[Zed Clampet]

That reminds me: shouldn't we up our game around here and start including bibliographies in our posts?

Can we just do in-text citations?

Example:

This is a fact! (Clampet, 2025, a$$)