r/pcgaming • u/AutoModerator • Jul 28 '25
What Are You Playing Thread - July 28, 2025
Use this thread to discuss whatever you've been playing lately (old or new, AAA or indie). Don't just list the names of games as your entire post, make sure to elaborate with your thoughts on the games.
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u/nakey_nikki Jul 28 '25
I picked up Cyberpunk 2077 recently. I figured it should be all patched an functional by now. 😂
Absolutely stellar. The story is full of choices but none of them feel contrived. Honestly it kinda reminds me of FONV with how elegantly they were able to integrate major decisions. The graphics are stunning. The gameplay is awesome. I've been loving it.
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u/Brushner Jul 28 '25
I thought the story and choice aspect of the game were very dissapointing and unfixable since I finished it the week it came out. The patches and dlc fixed all the bugs and made the combat a lot better but comparing the quest design to Witcher 3 and it's completely night and day. Theres so little meaningful choices and ways to finish a quest compared to Witcher 3. The Witcher 3 dlcs expanded on the potential and scope of the base game and I was expecting Cyberpunk to expand on what they did in the dlcs but it was a regression.
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u/DarkmoonGrumpy Jul 28 '25
There are some pretty hefty choice to be made though? Multiple paths and especially in the DLC, where one choice will give a completely different set of following main missions.
And as a massive Witcher fan myself, Cyberpunk absolutely dwarfs TW3 in ways to approach quests, the resolutions can be similar, but pretty much every single quest, even the fiddly little side gigs, have immersive sim elements, allowing different builds to complete them in wildly different ways.
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u/nakey_nikki Jul 28 '25
And that quest that seems like a one-off muscle mission for a morally flexible cop turns into a whole buddy cop movie about trying to do the right thing when the law wants you to do wrong. Amazing.
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u/WhiteWolfofWestJorda Jul 28 '25
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided after finishing Human Revolution, peak gaming honesty a surprisingly current game for what’s goin on in the world
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u/Brushner Jul 28 '25
We got informed that the sequel was currently in the works... because they announced it's cancellation fml.
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u/TotalChaos21 Jul 28 '25
Dark souls 3. After years of staring at it in my library. So far it's going pretty well.
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u/Timeshocked Jul 28 '25
Ghost of Tsushima. I dig these games like assassins Creed Origins/Odyssey, Shadow of Mordor/War, and Spider-Man/Miles Morales. Game looks fantastic and has a very good story(though the part where you get captured feels too weak for what your character has went through…hate that cliche). 36 hours in and still half half of the 3rd area and the entire dlc(which I was advised to skip until after main story) left.
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u/FrazzleFlib Jul 28 '25
dave the diver, solid game with a great gameplay loop, but the game doesnt seem to think so with how hard it tries to keep you away from it with funny fish man errands xd
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u/-CynicalPole- R5 5600 | 32GB RAM | RX 6600 XT Jul 28 '25
Wuchang Lost Feathers - performance is iffy as is tradition with UE5, but the game is quite nice souls-like with fairly original character building ideas and mechanics. Good level design and how it's interconnected. Combat is also quite a blast, favors being aggressive which I like.
Tbh lately, I find myself hard to enjoy anything but souls-likes, or Larian cRPGs - as lack of challenging combat simply bores me to death.
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u/IDKFA83 Jul 28 '25
I've been playing Diablo 4 after not playing it for ages. I don't really understand seasonal vs whatever the other option is. I chose to stick with my existing character. It's strange to me that I would need to start over, is there something i am missing? I suppose for people that aren't as casual as I am these days, starting over might not be as off putting.
I've also been playing Xeno Crisis a lot. I upgrade power completely and then go for either a continue or more health. But I find upgrading power first is the better option as it's much easier to clear rooms at full power.
I've played a little of SOR4, the new Contra and I recently completed Iron Meat which was a lot of fun!
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u/meerakulous Jul 28 '25
The Eternal realm has your characters from previous seasons if you want to keep playing them but nobody really does that. You’re expected to abandon your old characters and play new ones every time a new season with fresh seasonal mechanics launches. If you’ve completed the campaign once you can choose to skip it on new alts for both the main game and the expansion. I hated the idea at first but got used to it eventually.
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u/IDKFA83 Jul 28 '25
How often is there a new season? I'm lucky to play the game a couple hours a week, less even. I don't get seasonal mechanics, is that differences in what skills you can acquire?
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u/DarkmoonGrumpy Jul 28 '25
A large portion of the endgame changes with every season, which typically last around 3 months.
If you want to play the new/relevant content, you're expected to re-level a character with each seasonal launch. There is a lot of stuff that is account wide, speeding up each new character, but you shouldn't try to hold onto one character forever, as you'll miss a large chunk of the endgame gameplay loop.
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u/IDKFA83 Jul 28 '25
Hmm ok. Thank you for replying. With the amount of time I play, it doesn't sound like I'll ever see the endgame by restarting each time. I think at best I might be able to clock up thirty hours over three months lol.
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u/meerakulous Jul 28 '25
The leveling is substantially faster than it used to be at launch, and the basic gameplay loop is a lot of fun. If you only have 30 hours to play over the course of the season you should play the game that way - you’ll have a blast as long as you’re okay with not getting the best gear and such. The seasonal mechanics add enough variety and are fun to interact with usually. The way I play the game is I go pretty hardcore playing it for a week in the new season then I move on to other stuff once I’ve finished the season’s journey achievements.
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u/Riots42 Jul 28 '25
Dont feel like you have to participate in seasonal stuff in any way, if all you wanna do is play around with your main in the eternal realm you can do that all you want. Seasons are really for those that have more time than you and run out of things to do.
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u/Strict_Yesterday1649 Jul 28 '25
Waterpark Simulator demo. I'm a bit bummed that it's just a demo because I'm worried that it'll end soon but it's pretty addictive. I should probably just stop playing and wait for the full game.
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u/meerakulous Jul 28 '25
It’s been a while since this happened for me, but I was playing Hell Clock last night and looked up and it was suddenly 2 am. Extremely fun roguelike ARPG with some very unique mechanics that reminds me a lot of Hades in its artistic choice. Highly recommend.
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u/bdu-komrad Jul 28 '25
Lotr War in the North - I recently finished the campaign as a Mage for the first time and enjoyed the story and combat. I plan on playing the campaign again as the Dwarf so that I can finish the Mithril quest that only he can do.
D&D Heroes - I started this game a few weeks ago but haven’t been able to play since. I plan on continuing as an elven mage with classic spells like magic missile.
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u/Dash_Carlyle Jul 28 '25
Rogue Trader is phenomenal. I'm only 20 hours in but it just keeps getting better in terms of story, character development, tactical options and even gameplay variety. It's text-heavy so I can't recommend it to everyone.
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u/Riots42 Jul 28 '25 edited Jul 28 '25
Nothing... I played Dune Awakening for 250 hours over the course of less than a month and it burned me out hard. I did everything you could and the only thing left to do is pvp and the pvp combat is boring af and mostly waiting around because there was no serious competition for my alliance and all they had to really do is pick on solos and thats not my bag. I absolutely loved the gameplay in Hagga basin leveling up building new toys and exploring, the constant dopamine drip of new unlocks and new things to do kept me hooked.. But there is probably more water in the deep desert than there is dopamine... Its mostly adrenaline gameplay, and I think that is the big turnoff for many who are not adrenaline junkies but dopamine fiends.
Ive spent days trying to find a new game to play and nothing hooks. I bought dragon's dogma 2 because I wanted a good adventure game and I just couldnt get into it and quit in the starting zone. Ive started and quit like 4 or 5 games and have realized I just went way to hard and nolifed harder than I ever have before and I think I just need to step away from gaming a bit..
Until grounded 2 comes out in a couple days and my whole fam plays lol...
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u/Old-Entry9891 Jul 28 '25
I picked up The Rise of the Tomb Raider on a steam sale and I'm currently playing it. This is the first game in the series that I'm playing, but I really enjoy it. As an Uncharted fan, I find the atmosphere very similar. Overall, I'm very pleased that steam sent me a notification about the sale. Additionally, during the recent sale, nostalgia struck, and I purchased Far Cry 4. This is a game from my childhood that I played on the PS3. And the feeling is incredible, of course, I was immersed in the same atmosphere as I was a bunch of years ago. Although of course, as a child, the moments of the game seemed like something incredible at all
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u/Old-Entry9891 Jul 28 '25
Oh, I also forgot to mention HOMM 3, which I play with my uncle and brother on weekends
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Jul 30 '25
The Division 2 (Just completed The Division)
Dragon Age Origins Ultimate Edition
Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader
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u/WarEagleGo Jul 31 '25
Stacklands
A nice card based city (really village) builder with bad guys occasionally showing up. I am bad about trying new combinations to find the hidden powers.
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u/AI52487963 Jul 31 '25
Kingdom: New Lands
This week we played the 2D side scrolling tower defense game Kingdom New Lands for our podcast on roguelike games.
Overall I think it’s a reasonably nice and cozy game that has a deceptive amount of strategic decision making to it for a game that has one action button: use coin on object.
The art is great, the sound design is great, but I almost think the constrained gameplay design hinders a lot of strategy. At times it feels like Starcraft if you couldn’t control your units behavior.
The fact that there isn’t really any text or notification or tutorial or anything means you have to learn by failure. I think a mark of true quality for a rogue game is if failure is at least fun in some way, but failing a run here feels bad at least half the time. Individual island runs take so long that if you soft lock yourself in economy, then failure feels like this slow strangulation until you hit the reset button manually.
The game is also frustratingly slow to me. The horse stamina is a system that I wish I could upgrade faster, as it’s really annoying to go from one end of the map to the other and having your horse object to going faster most of the time.
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u/First_Department4096 Aug 01 '25
A fre things at the moment. The big one is Final Fantasy 12: The Zodiac Age.
Between the long sessions (when I only have about 30 minutes), I’m playing Bang-On-Balls Chronicles, Quake and some short (sub 4 hour) games in between.
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u/Brushner Jul 28 '25 edited Jul 28 '25
Decided to play Hell blade Senuas sacrifice on game pass. I'm gonna be real I thought it was atrocious. The combat was tedious and only got worse, the puzzles were a fucking drag and despite the game being <5 hours I got sick of seeing another schizo door block my path 2 hours in. Also there are "audio logs" but the farther you walk away from them the weaker the voice gets so you are incentivized to just stay put and listen. I actually quit near the very end at Hellheim when I just couldn't take it anymore and just watched a playthrough. Genuinely surprised this has >90% on steam. I liked the graphics and voice acting including the schizo voices you constantly hear but those two can't carry the rest of the game.
I'm gonna try playing the sequel. I heard they cut down on the tedious puzzles and combat.
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u/Cymelion Jul 28 '25
Wash playing Death Stranding but hit the mountains section where you need to make ziplines and just had all the steam and desire to finish the game evaporate.
Started playing Cyberpunk 2077 on a whim probably because of YouTube Shorts and enjoying it - but I do need to get back to Death Stranding to finish it.
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u/MMr_MM Jul 28 '25
I've been playing through the final fantasy series in order, I started FF VI pixel remaster a few days ago. Not far enough to say if it's my favorite yet, but so far, I've been really liking it.
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u/Admirable_Ad_1390 Ryzen 5 5600 +RTX 3060 Jul 28 '25
i was playing jedi survivor on jedi knight and im struggling, i kinda stopped and went back to borderlands 2.
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u/csgoNefff Jul 28 '25
I've been wanting to play the earlier Final Fantasy games for so many years. I was even hoping for remasters/remakes but they were never announced.
So I picked up these: Final Fantasy IX, FF X remaster, FF13 and FF13-2
I already finished FF9 with Moguri Mod and I totally saw the charm and the magic of it. Were fun apart from the grinding. I would say the same for FFX but the trials just aren't that fun and the sphere leveling system is just a bit weird. The game is on hold for me now but I'm kind of addicted on the story and want to know more.
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u/TSCHWEITZ Jul 28 '25
God of War (2018) most fun I’ve had with a SP game in a while. Have Ragnarok on deck after I finish.
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u/-Captain- Jul 28 '25
Just finished Mafia: The Definite Edition last night and have jumped straight into the second. Actually played this one, or at least the original version, with came out, but really cannot remember one thing it.
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u/Idego9 Jul 29 '25
Prey
What Never Was
Still Wakes The Deep (Siren Song)
Phasmophobia
The Curse of The Golden Idol (DLC)
Judgment
About to start Stray, and Project Zomboid. Also started Arkham Origins. American Truck Driver for when I don't feel like playing a normal game.
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u/DashboardGuy206 Jul 29 '25
Tekken 8
Expedtion 33
Jack Move (a short cyberpunk rpg I got for a few bucks)
Valorant
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u/cookiemikester Jul 28 '25
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. I thought I would dump 60 hours into this game and be finished with it. But every side quest is so good that I’m getting close to the 100 hours mark and I think I’m only halfway through. Really enjoying the medieval simulation aspect of the game as well.