Battlefield 1 - Fun times with bros though sometimes you'd just have a bad stretch that would take the luster off the night
Killing Floor 2 - Got this prior to 2017 but only really got into it last year. Great Co-op shooter
The Division - Again, only started to play recently after the 1.8 patch; in large part because of everyone's complaining. Solid game now albeit it repetitive. Nice urban decay depiction, fun shooting and loot, loot, loot.
Prey - Got this in a double pack with Wolfenstein 2 and, while I liked W2, Prey was my sleeper hit. Atmospheric and interesting with a good story.
Wolfenstein 2 - Complaints about it were overblown. Lots of fun but this time you knew what you were getting into versus the relative surprise of The New Order so lacks that lightning in a bottle experience.
Bloody Boobs - Astoundingly bad even for a trash indie Dead by Daylight knockoff
Audiosurf 2 - More Audiosurf. I found my musical twin on A2 where I'd play some semi-obscure song and the leaderboard was always me and this one other guy. His name was Furry Little Anus which I'm not sure how to feel about that.
Versus Squad - Fun, but not as fun as its predecessor, Nation Red. Was more fun the second time we played it than the first, either because we knew better how to work it or they patched things.
Max: An Autistic Journey - RPG Maker game attempting to illustrate a day in the life of a kid with high-functioning ASD. As the father of a similar child, parts were touchingly close to home although the actual game play elements don't make it worth playing on those technical merits. Points for effort in a difficult task.
Darkest Dungeon - Surprisingly addictive with distinctive art and narration. Game play starts off as a frustrating character grinder and then it clicks and becomes fairly rote aside from getting screwed by RNG.
This War of Mine - Eh, wasn't impressed. Felt like a bleak Central European Recettear: spend your days doing home maintenance, spend your nights adventuring. Resource management game with a coat of ever-so-deep paint.
Aliens: Colonial Marines - Generic and sad. Bullet sponge enemies who were no fun to shoot and half of them are WY mooks instead of, you know, aliens. Opportunities to call back to Aliens and make you feel like you were on LV-426 were squandered. Inane plot.
Cibele - Waste of time. No actual game play, you're just along for a dull and fairly predictable ride through some chippy's internet romance. The parts that were truest to life, like watching two awkward dorks flirt with "I'm so ugly" "No way, you're so cute" "Oh no way, you think I'm cute?" are things no sane person on the outside wants to actually sit through.
Ice Lakes - Zen mediation over rainbow trout and sturgeons. Minimal sounds and graphics worked for me to just spend quiet time with my thoughts and wait for my rod to dip downward. That said, I saw some people actually ice fishing in -10F weather yesterday and eff that noise.
Genital Jousting - Rock on with your mad dongs. Fun with friends although the game suffered from laggy connection issues last time we played and one mini-game always locked up.
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, often to its detriment. It's a pretty solid jrpg though. I really enjoyed it.
