Grow home, it surprisingly gives me Death Stranding vibes

The Spirit and The Mouse is free on Epic Games right now. I’ve been enjoying it - gentle, cute game where you play as a little electric mouse in a french village trying to help it’s citizens. Rough around the edges with a lot of heart.

Can I ask for recommendations here?

I mainly play on PS and Switch, and have a long list of games that I want to play, so am fully covered there, but recently updated my laptop, and this one has a nice Nvidia card in it, so was thinking about catching up on the PC only games I missed.

I am currently playing Trails in the Sky series, and plan to get Age of Empires and other Xbox / MS games like Halo, Gears of Wars, Fable etc.

Any other PC-only, must-play recommendations from last 10-15 years?

Unlock The King: Cheap, simple puzzler that uses chess pieces and how they‘re allowed to move, but otherwise has nothing in common with actuall chess. Recommended.

Orcs Must Die! 3: Comic-y 3rd person tower defense game (here: traps) that doesn’t take itself too seriously. I was a big fan of OMD2 and thought 3 was their weird pvp game called Unchained or whatever, so this one went completely past me and now I get to play a complete and new (to me) OMD for cheap! Recommended.

Potion Permit: Harvest Moon but you’re making potions instead. The pixel art is absolutely amazing. The game feels a bit too small and has weird technical issues (stutter, sudden increase in CPU load or controller input crapping itself until you restart), but it‘s still fun af. Recommended.

Fields of Mistria: Early Access Harvest Moon clone in Gameboy Color style. It may be Early Access, but it runs smooth, I‘ve experienced zero bugs and after ten hours I‘m not even in my first fall. It‘s already well worth a buy. Recommended.

I’ve had it for a while but finally it dug it’s claws in - Tunic!

Apparently this is a devisive little game. I absolutely adore it and think the combat difficulty is just about perfect while the puzzle solving and the exploration is masterclass levels of design. The show, don’t tell approach is used so perfectly here. Ah I love it

I’ve just finished replaying Killzone 3 on PlayStation 3 and it’s still really impressive.

I might start Little Nightmares 2 tonight or tomorrow on my PlayStation 5.

Destroy and Humans. I just started playing 2 days ago, it is enjoyable for what it is.

Kunitsu-Gami! I played the demo for 7 hours and then bought it officially. I enjoyed it way more than I expected.

Still finishing Yakuza 3, and looking for something spooky to play.

I’ll probably go back to Alan Wake and the Metro series, but if anyone has some great indie suggestions that work well on Steam Deck, I might pick some up.

Currently spending my time revisiting Fallen London and Sunless Sea. It’s really nice to be able to engage with the setting from multiple games that share the same universe and has some limited crossover. During the day I check in on my adventures in Fallen London on my phone, while I roam the Zee in the evenings at home.

Very much recommended if you’re into story based games and deep world building!