What are you all playing right now?

[T.J.]

I just recently finished a playthrough of Spyro the Dragon for a review I'm doing on my channel. I plan to play Armored Core starting on Monday.

[Angrboda]

Installed the game Hard West last night and played the tutorial. Good game, but rather grim. The tutorial ended with me finding my mother's head in a box.

[Angrboda]

Played some Farm Simulator 2019 tonight. To heck with Stardew Valley, this is my speed.

[T.J.]

I've been playing Super Mario Bros and Sonic the Hedgehog lately. Both are hard and fun games, but I dare say Sonic gets a tad bit harder earlier on than Mario does.

[vulcanlogician]

I've been playing Super Mario Bros and Sonic the Hedgehog lately. Both are hard and fun games, but I dare say Sonic gets a tad bit harder earlier on than Mario does.

Super Mario Bros. 1? Or another title?

[T.J.]

I've been playing Super Mario Bros and Sonic the Hedgehog lately. Both are hard and fun games, but I dare say Sonic gets a tad bit harder earlier on than Mario does.

Super Mario Bros. 1? Or another title?

Super Mario Bros 1. I got as far as the seventh world. Beat it once a long time ago, but haven't been able to repeat that luck in recent years.

[vulcanlogician]

Super Mario Bros. 1? Or another title?

Super Mario Bros 1. I got as far as the seventh world. Beat it once a long time ago, but haven't been able to repeat that luck in recent years.

As an 8 year old, I beat it using warp zones. But I suppose you are going for a full playthrough. I did that too. Again, as a kid. But I used the infinite 1-up thingie from koopas on the stairs.

I think Mario Bros. 3 is one of the best video games ever made. I've beaten that one multiple times, in every way possible.

[T.J.]

I for the longest time did not know about the infinite 1-ups from the koopas on the stairs.

And I used warps too to get to world seven in my last playthrough. I have the Game Boy Color Super Mario Bros Deluxe version of the first game so I did one playthrough as Mario and one as Luigi. As Luigi I used no warps and only got to world four.

[emjay]

Just started playing "Grow: Song of the Evertree", which came out on all the major platforms a couple of days ago. It's what's generally known as a 'cozy game'... ie relaxing with no pressure, just a kind of pottering around, go at your own speed type game.

It's made by the same dev that made a game called "Yonder: The Cloudcatcher Chronicles" which was a very beautiful, open world RPG. This one, though it has a similar, and equally beautiful art style (and music), I wouldn't really call a sequel as they're different types of games... this is more potter around doing various odd jobs (gardening, fishing, bug-catching etc, pets, as well as building and managing a village and presumably relationships etc... more Stardew Valley type stuff) while exploring a very large and vibrant world.

At the end of the day though I tried it I didn't really get into Yonder because I'm not really into exploration games, however immersive and beautiful they may be... and that was the main focus of that game, but this new one, as I said, seems more like Stardew Valley, which is what I was looking for, though it's a tough act to follow... I sunk over 1000 hours into Stardew, and I'd say it's the best game I've ever played, but it came time to move on, and I have been trying to find its replacement for a while now (without much success... the market's now flooded with Stardew-esque clones, but I haven't found one yet with the X Factor for me... here's hoping this will be it) Granted this is not strictly a farming game like Stardew, but it still looks like it will still tick a lot of the same boxes, if not all of them.

[Angrboda]

Fanatical.com has a Torchlight 1&2 combo pack as a Star Deal for $2 today. I've got both already, but they're excellent games.