It's important to relax, Commander.

A plan is just a list of stuff to go wrong.

Hah, you can try to stay on top of it. But no matter how hard you try, there's always a chance of that one little mistake that turns into a cock-up cascade and leaves most of your squad dead and one remaining soldier trying to crawl to evac.

I love that game, but I'm probably a masochist.

I might be biased, since I've been playing the XCOM games since they first came out 30 years ago. But yes, they are really, really good for turn-based combat. I am also a sucker for games with research trees.

Honestly I enjoy the crap out of them. It's definitely less story than BG3 and you WILL lose people you're attached too. It goes on sale fairly often I think, though it's worth it at full price.

Well, 95% is not 100%

Sometimes you gotta play XCOM on Ironman Mode just to punish yourself.

It's also isometric and you can move units around the map to attack enemies.

I got into this recently playing with my brother and friend. it's the perfect mix of tower defence and factory builder. Also trying to optimize a ammunition belts mid-wave is a kind of addictive thrill of panic I didn't know I needed in my life.

I have Mindustry for android. I play it on a galaxy note with a stylus, do recommend.

I like the music in Mindustry also. It makes you want to take over the world by building conveyor belts at it.

OMG yes. I'd sit down and be like "I'll play for a couple hours" of Factorio, then check the clock and it's 4AM lmao. Seriously dangerous game haha.

It's midnight and I just went to bed after playing god help me

You just never quit, do you? Took out Ghaul, woke up the Traveller...

You used me... For land development!

Reportin’ for duty!

I say it to my wife all the time. Was watching Friends with her last night and Chandler gets mad at Joey for telling Rachel he owns lotion. I looked at her and said, “Fellas, is it gay to moisturize?” It’s just so silly how many things aren’t MANLY™

FELLAS, is it gay to like the Fellas is it gay meme? You're literally repeating another man's words in your head for your pleasure.

Fired up

Turns out it's just the man's equivalent of a coloring book

Definitely.

RA2/YR is/are my gold standard(s) for any rts games, i always find myself going back and playing them whether it be solo campaign, skirmish, or logging into CnCNet and doing some online matches.

RA3 was OK. While RA2 was my favorite, The third one was fun, especially any mission where I could send Tanya to a horrible end.

Shapez.io is great when I want to just kill 15 minutes. It doesn't take over my whole day like Factorio.

Played Civ 5 drunk with a friend once and it was amazing. At some point I ended up at war and realized a good few turns in that I forgot to make military units

Ever try drugs and VR?

Holy hell

I always liked C&C 3. JK Simmon, George Takei, and Tim Curry as the faction leaders. What more could you want?

I will always have fond memories of cheesing the hell out of the original C&C. My friend had it for DOS. I later got C&C Gold and could run it in Windows at 640x480! IIRC none of the cheeky bugs were fixed in the Windows port. You are a Command and Conquer veteran if you remember:

• Late game, deciding the hell with it and just swarming the enemy with ~500 bazooka dudes, because money was technically infinite on most maps, limited only by your patience. Every time the Tiberium tree "puffed" it would generate a little more green stuff you could harvest for cash.

• Penning the computer enemy into their base with walls, because their pathfinding was not smart enough to destroy objects in their way and they would never attack a wall (although sandbags would be crushed by tanks).

• Cherry-tapping your opponent by running over his last infantry dudes with your harvester, just to be an ass.

• Running a line of sandbags up to the enemy base, hovering the "sell" cursor one pixel off the edge of your own sandbags, but selling their building and keeping the cash. And preferably then parking a queued up defense tower at the end of the sandbag chain immediately afterwards.

• Baiting the computer into perpetually wasting their nukes or ion cannons by positioning one machine gun guy closer to their base than your own base or main forces, whereupon it would pathologically blow up just that one soldier because he was the "closest threat."

• "Yeah?" "Okay." "Yeah?" "Okay." "Yeah?" "Okay."

• Smuggling an engineer into the enemy's base under cover of some crazy diversion or another, inevitably aiming to nick his construction yard, undeploy it into an MCV, and bugger off with it. Or building MCV's with your friends in multiplayer and deliberately deploying them in each other's bases so you can build stuff from both sides and gang up on the computer with Obelisks and missile towers.

• Leaving the computer opponent with one useless building like a power plant left, so you don't technically "win" and can go on forever uncontested to see how many units you can build before your computer crashes.

I still play the hell out of it

Let the juice flow!

Absolutely true

Of all time? Furi

You can get it dirt cheap during a sale and it was designed to be mastered like an instrument. No cruft, just you, the boss, and some bomb ass music.

The game has a TON of little ways you can optimize your playstyle and power down the bosses while still being incredibly fair with it's mechanics. I go back every year and beat it again

Enter the Gungeon is pretty good if you like rogelikes

Returnal is great.

Yah boi I've been cranking the Darktide. I've been meaning to go back and try siennas new class in vermintide tho

Warhammer III is best. All worship the changer.

Palia has been out on the switch for a month already. It's pretty fun!

I opened this thread to suggest this one as well. It's a nice come home from work and burn off steam for an hour game.

I played like 2 levels and it was sooo boring.

It’s more of a puzzle game under the stylization of a city builder. Very little difficulty and no real opportunity for creative city building on small maps you dont spend long on before moving to the next.

There’s far better roguelites and city builders out there.

I’d suggest checking out the demo for Metropolis 1998, it’s kinda Sims 1 style building with Sim City 2000 graphics, but you’re building a whole town/city.

I'll try it!

Well, the original Hell March eventually led me into a rabbit hole that is the German industrial rock/metal scene. So I can kinda see where she's coming from..