Finished my Dark Urge Baldur’s Gate 3 run. The duel with Orin was surprisingly troublesome, and it took me a few tries to defeat her, but otherwise it was a pretty smooth run. Since I resisted the urge, it was mostly the same as my other “good” playthroughs, apart from the couple of additional scenes and dialogue.

For now, I’ll take a couple of months break from the game, and wait a bit for the next playthroughs.

Then I tried Vampire Crawlers, the deck building dungeon crawler spin-off of Vampire Survivors. I’m not really into these genres, but gave it a shot because of the Vampire Survivors connection.

I think the way the different items, mechanics, enemies, levels, etc. got translated into a completely different kind of game is pretty neat, but the chest opening animation is seriously lacking. It’s the best in Vampire Survivors, and I have it as my Steam Deck boot up video, but it’s just completely missing here. A massive oversight.

Otherwise, the game is fine, the combo mechanic is fun, but it did get kinda boring and samey after about 10 hours.

Right now I’m in between games, waiting for my Steam Controller to arrive and Forza Horizon 6 to launch, so I’m just playing a bunch of Overwatch. My biggest gripe with the game is as always the matchmaking. It got better since the recent re-launch, but it’s still pretty bad.