I played badminton yesterday. Now I’m in incredible pain all over. I realized that perhaps more than anything else you could say about them, weekends hurt. Sleeping, waking up covered in pain, making noises like someone three times your age when you get out of bed, and then pretending to be a third your current age and doing nothing but playing games for the next 48 hours. Here’s how we spend them!
Brandy
I want to play something with big robots. I’m in the mood of a big robot. Mechwarrior 5? Too samey. Into The Breach? Too small. Armored Core VI? Thirty-five pounds too much. Maybe I’ll pick a ridiculous anime to watch instead.
Ed
I’m heading to the Lake District for a week with a couple of mates so I’ll be walking around the lush grass and heavy mud rather than staring at a screen and twiddling my thumbs. However, I will bring my deck and maybe play it in the evenings before i hit the sack. I’m still thinking until then, a visual novel game I’ve been meaning to write about properly but need a bit more time. It’s good people.
Edwin
Ever since I’ve been undecided, I’ll be splitting my time this weekend between Zenless Zone Zero and a review game that, shhh, I can’t screw up. I also belatedly got into Void Stranger, which is a “fun Sokoban-inspired dungeon crawler” in much the same way that a fishing fish is a “soothing underwater light source”.
Graham
Fall Guys, Minecraft and Dune Imperium. As always.
James
Readers, I’m forced to accept that I might actually like the Elden Ring. Don’t say any of that though, I’ve already written too many stupid Slack comments about it.
[Editor’s note: fuckin’ knew it.]
Jeremy
I should probably try to beat more Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree bosses this weekend, although it doesn’t look like there will be much time to play since my mother-in-law is visiting. You will also spend one of your weekend days playing the best game of all: life admin! Can my wife and I be successful in booking a cheap Air B&B for our upcoming trip to the States? Let’s roll the dice and see what happens…
Kiera
I have some time off to rest and recover from the madness of the Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree release. To celebrate, I think I’ll play more Shadow Of The Erdtree. I know it sounds a little silly, but I’m so close to being done and it would be rude not to, really.
Nothing
Strange, Hades. Not even Hades 2. I thought I’d go back and finally spend some decent time with the first one. I think it’s probably more charming than fun. Hate me! The characters and art, music and other elements are….well, they’re Supergiant. There is no shortage with these things. But I find that some encounters just don’t work for certain types of builds, which makes me worry about rounding out the toolkits rather than experimenting as much as I’d like. Also some weapons feel like they need a little more love. I’m looking at you, take a bow. Otherwise, I have a game on my list to review. I hope it’s not a secret because otherwise I just put my foot in my mouth.
Ollie
My Saturday is reserved for meeting my girlfriend’s parents for the first time. After something so stressful, I think I’ll relax on Sunday and play a bit of Civ 6, which I’ve recently returned to after bouncing between Humankind, Old World and Age Of Wonders IV for a few years. I realized that I don’t really care about being good at 4X games. I just want the journey, the discovery, the miracle. Which is also why I tend not to play long Civ games because all those miracles disappear in the late game. Who knows, maybe this time it will be different. It will not be. But it can.
But you, dear reader, what do you play on the weekend?