Notes: (p) means playable on an Intel NUC i5. (m) means I played it on a Macintosh (n) means I played it on a Nintendo Switch (s) means I played it on a Steam Deck Legend of Zelda: Link Between Worlds: You know when you like a remix better than the original song? It's like that. DiRT Rally: If you're into driving cars around rally style you'll dig this. Car games have come a long way Bravely Default: I'm no longer mad at Squeenix for that $5 I wasted on FF13 (from the last time Steam got drunk and had a sale). I really like the ability system. Bravely Default Demo: You gonna lose all your progress if you get the full version, but you'll start off with some ok items. Completed it in 6 hrs and I'm bad at video games. Job tree is different than full game, but the idea is the same. Elite: Dangerous: Space truckin'. You can also pewpew at pirates and stuff, but sometimes you just gotta put on a podcast and cruise for a while with a cargo bay full of Leestian Evil Juice. That's legal in this system, right? Assetto Corsa: You can drive your Mk1 GTI around that famous German Road and write mods in Python. Lots of cars and tracks you can download. Works great with a wheel. Works OK with a xbox controller. Diablo 3: CLICK DEMONS! (Not enough spirit!) DOOM (2016): CLICK DEMONS! (In space!) 20XX (The one 'Inspired By' Megaman, not the Smash Brothers hack): Pretty fun game. Could be my favorite megaman game. Gotta Protectors: Kinda sorta like Gauntlet but not really. Has a map editor. Big plus. I dig the game and the price was right. Race Track Builder: It's a buggy $60 map creator for Assetto Corsa. It's all I want to do now. No (obvious?) manual, you have to watch youtube videos. Assetto Corsa Porsche DLC: Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas. Volkswagen Group best group. They didn't include the emissions cheat codes in the first 2 packs. Maybe the third! Redout: It's like WipEout, F-Zero and Extreme G had a baby. And that baby likes psytrance and really fast gameplay. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaassss. Brumm: It's like Micro Machines for the NES, but on your computer. Undertale: This game is effing weird. Zelda: Breath of the Wild (n): It's like Dovakin and Zelda had a baby. After about 10 minutes I stopped caring about the 720p at 30hz being upscaled to 1440p, cause it's Zelda. But Skyrim. With some Metroid sprinkles. And Half Life 2 sprinkles (CHECK OUT OUR PHYSICS ENGINE!) Zelda: Breath of the Wild: A Couple Weeks Later: I played for 25 hours before hitting the first dungeon. Ain't even mad. Get this game, but maybe give nintendo $toomuch for a Switch for improved framerate. 20XX (1.0): Pretty cool. Adds 50 achievements, cutscenes, 2x "Mad Scientist" levels at the end. Cuphead: Yes. Tough as nails but mostly fair. Opus Magnum (p): Trap for nerds. Open ended puzzles, you can 'just' solve them, optimize for speed, cost, space, or any combination of the above. Comes with a level editor! Opus Magnum, a couple weeks later: Star Mazer: DSP (p): Pretty fun shmup with rogue elements. GRID Autosport (p): Let's say your desktop stops booting. Let's say you also need to get your racing game fix. Let's pretend you have an Intel NUC and don't mind arcade style driving. This game is for you. Puyo Puyo Tetris (n): Meh. No 20G. Competitive online is pretty alright. Learn to chain perfect-clear/TST/B2B if you want to keep up with people that pick Puyo. Slay the Spire (p): As of this entry, I've put 10.7 hours of time into Steam games in the past 2 weeks. 7.4 of those hours were in Slay the Spire. I bought it yesterday. Imagine if Dominion (the card game) did a collab with Nethack (the roguelike). Slay the Spire (p) (6 days later): Twenty hours in six days. That's a part-time job. Dead Cells (n): It's a platformer kinda like Rogue Legacy (without the debuffs) and Dark Souls had a kid. 20XX (n): Not a great port, but not an awful port. Wicked blurry on my screen, looks fine in tablet mode. Ikaruga (n): Oh cool, I bought Ikaruga for the 4th time! An iconic spaceship shmup. Supports portrait mode, even on the tablet. Good thing those joycons are detachable :) Ocotopath Traveler (n): Bravely Default without being called Bravely Default. Give the demo a spin. Slay the Spire (m) (903 days later): 353 hours logged. That might be more than the Quake series. Tetris Effect (Connected): The Zone mechanic is the best thing to happen to Tetris in the past decade, maybe longer. Stray (s): This game is cool. It took me 10 hours ('people' are saying it takes 4. I even had a FAQ... maybe I'm slow.) The game was fun, but I'm not super hyped with some of the story.