I held off of this one for a long time as it took a while to go on a sale. To tell the truth, I didn’t even buy Enemy Within for the first game as I already have too many games to play. I played this one without War of the Chosen either and I probably won’t get it. That’s not because I think I won’t like it but because I’m happy enough with the gameplay that I already got and don’t actually need more. I suppose that must be another sign of growing old.

I’m sure that this is an adventure game that everyone has heard of due to how successful it is and how it swept up gaming awards. It has since spawned a prequel and a sequel, though the latter is still being released on an episodic basis. I may pick up the prequel later but from what I can see the sequel has nothing to do the story here and I have little interest in it.

It’s been quite a few months but I’ve finally played through both of the Dark Souls 3 DLC Ashes of Ariandel and The Ringed City. One thing I don’t understand is how the lore of the new worlds introduced here relate to the plot of the main game at all. In both cases, the player seems to be unwanted invader into what seems to be pocket dimensions, with Ariandel in particular being the inside of the painting that we already visited in the first game. Well, at least it’s not pretending that we’re there to save anyone or anything.

So this was another of the titles in the digital board games bundle I bought a while back. I have no idea why it’s the official board game instead of the official digital game but it’s obviously the official adaptation of the famous Carcassonne board game. Though I’ve played the physical version of this once or twice I’m not actually very familiar with it as the version that I have is the Hunters & Gatherers standalone spin-off game.

As you can easily tell from the primitive graphics, this is another RPG by Jeff Vogel.. I’d previous played the first two games of the Avadon series and if anything this unrelated Avernum series is even more well known. Confusingly for those who are less than fully devoted fans of Vogel’s games, this 2011 game is actually a remake of a remake of a game that he first made all the way back in 1995. It’s a pretty good indication that though this is very much a small niche, Vogel does have a big enough following to justify his making these games.

While still slowly making my way back to the Bubble in Elite Dangerous, I’ve been getting to know this little digital boardgame. I heard about this on Broken Forum and the simple premise and basic graphics reminded me of Euro boardgames. Unfortunately while it take a bit of effort to learn the game, there isn’t really all that much to the gameplay and one soon tires of it.

Since the last time I wrote about this, I’ve bought the Horizons DLC and put in many more hours into this game. I have to say that the learning curve just to get back in is pretty brutal. Not only did I have to refamiliarize myself with my custom control setup, the addition of Horizons and patch changes since I last played meant that there are now many more controls, all of which are not automatically bound. It’s pretty hard to set up these keybinds when you don’t even know how all these new systems work.