September 2026

I like to keep a running tally of my GOTY so far. This isn’t everything I’ve played, but it is everything I’ve played enough to properly judge. Here’s where I’m at. Any glaring omissions I need to correct? (Image credit: Backloggd)

(Image credit: Something We Made) I just redid my best cozy games list, but Toem 2 comes out this month, sequel to one of my favorites. Actually, there are several more anticipated cozy games right at the end of this month (Nivalis Nights and Songs of Glimmerwick) so I’m going to have to reassess the…

Four games I wishlisted on Steam out of last weekend’s PC Gaming Show: Tenebris Somnia – Genre-mixed horror that alternates between 2D retro art and live action, out next month. Wane – My favorite from the show, a roguelike tactics game with an art style that somehow all at once looks like Dishonored, a Remedy…

Lotta discourse going on about Wolverine lately, and I’ll be frank: The problem isn’t that they made a merely adequate Wolverine game. The problem is that they aren’t greenlighting a Xavier Institute for Higher Learning management sim. Someone ring the Two Point Museum people, they’d be perfect.

I’ll often shoot at enemy helicopters in Wardogs to let them know I don’t approve of their behavior, but I didn’t know this was possible. Gottem.

Lauren has a really nice “to-play” queue in her Steam library. Does anyone else have a running notes app checklist on their phone that they’ve carried across at least one upgrade? How do you keep track of upcoming games you want to play? (Image credit: Future)

I love it when Xalavier Nelson’s Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator sims me a baby whose life is just the experience of the average 40-year-old Battlefield player: GET GUN, LOSE GIRLFRIEND, BE REVIVED THROUGH SCIENTIFICALLY QUESTIONABLE MEANS, PROMOTED TO GENERAL, GET HEADSHOTTED FROM RANGE (Image credit: Strange Scaffold)

Still thinking about that StarCraft trailer from BlizzCon earlier this month. – Starship Troopers-adjacent, self-aware action, with the possibility of Themes?– ”Welp, guess that wasn‘t the protagonist” rug pull– Overlords are scary– At least two (2) confirmed colors of goop

(Image credit: Valve) Steam still doesn’t have all the hobby tracking features I want so I made myself a custom “to play” library shelf to queue up what I want to put time into soon without falling back on the standard “recent games” shelf.