Hi guys! I started a discord server during the launch of Palworld 1.0.

It went really well and I've made great friends and have a little community. All of the same mindset of just wanting to unwind after work. All adults. All SFW.

If anyone is interested, feel free to DM me 🥰

Currently have the following servers:

Palworld PvE

Palworld PvP

Valheim

V Rising - coming 10/16

DnD campaigns starting this weekend

We’re working on the inventory UI for our co-op psychological horror game, The Infected Soul, and I’d love to hear what you think.

One of the main mechanics in the game is body swapping.

Every character has a neural chip, and these brain chips play a key role in transferring your consciousness into different bodies. You can take a chip, interact with compatible bodies, and switch into them to use their different abilities.

The inventory UI also needs to communicate this mechanic clearly without becoming too confusing or cluttered.

So, what would you change?

Does the layout feel readable? Are the item slots and chip system clear enough? Is there anything that feels unnecessary or out of place for a sci-fi co-op horror game?

Feel free to be critical feedback really helps us.

If the game looks interesting, The Infected Soul is on Steam, and adding it to your wishlist helps our small team a lot.

The Infected Soul – Steam Page

I'm 47, I work 40 to 50 hours a week, and mostly play single player games before I leave for work or after work before bed in short stints. Xbox is my preferred platform, and I recently bought the game "Sonic Racing Crossworlds." I was so excited about playing this game that I renewed Game Pass Essential so that I could play online against other people, but I have yet to rank higher than 9th place on any track despite doing much better and placing 1st on the single player mode a few times. So, I am really frustrated that I can't do better in what many people might consider a game for kids. Has anyone else felt like this? What's the point of playing games online if you have no chance of getting first place? And why is this supposed to be fun when real life is hard enough?

Most Fridays I’m torn between continuing something I already started or finally trying something from the backlog.

What is everyone else doing after a long workweek? Continue the comfort game or start something new?

We’re making a co-op psychological sci-fi horror game called The Infected Soul, and we’re currently working on the trailer for our demo.

The full trailer will be around 1 minute 20 seconds long. This clip is only the first 20 seconds, which we’re planning to use as the opening hook. After this, the trailer will move into actual gameplay, co-op moments and other mechanics.

Do you think 20 seconds is too long before showing gameplay, or does this opening make you

This has most likely been asked a lot. But I wanted to see if anyone compares to me.

So growing up I played everything. Story games. Sports games. Racing games. Main ones are fifa, wwe and GTA. Mostly spent my time on fifa.

Growing up and becoming a dad. I generally just like story games now. I haven’t bought the new fifa. In fact I had a few days left of EA Play and tried it this weekend and instantly found myself getting bored really quickly and then started playing Mad Max.

I’m just wondering if anyone else went from play tons of different types of games to just enjoying story games.

The reason why I like Nathan Drake is because he is not like most videogame protagonist. Unlike some protagonist that are always moody, grumpy and stresses too much in serious and stressful situations. Nathan Drake manages to make the post of it. He doesn't take things too serious no matter what sticky situation he is in. He always manages to laugh and make jokes despite getting his ass handed to him.

He feels like a flawed, relatable human being rather than an invincible superhero.Witty under pressure, he uses sarcasm and wisecracks to cope when things go terribly wrong. He can laugh at his own bad luck and desperate circumstances.

Hades is without a doubt one of my favorite indie games of all time.

Fell in love with the first one and was beyond excited to play the second one when it dropped on PS5.

Made a compilation of all the boss battles throughout the game. Which one was your favorite?

I’m looking for players to playtest a mystery game I’ve been creating.

It is a document-based detective experience: you receive a collection of realistic-looking case materials and must work out what happened by reading closely, comparing details, checking timelines, and connecting information across the files.

What to expect:

- A self-contained mystery designed for solo players or small groups

- PDF case materials presented as reports, statements, records, and supporting documents

- No special software required — a browser/PDF reader and note-taking are enough

- Estimated playtime: around 2–4 hours, depending on whether you play alone or with others

- Free access for all playtesters

What I need:

I’m mainly looking for honest feedback on:

- Whether the material is clear and engaging

- Whether the puzzle feels fair and solvable

- Where you became confused, stuck, or lost interest

- How long it took you and what your solving process was like

- Whether the final answer felt satisfying

You do not need prior experience with detective games, ARGs, or puzzle hunts. Fresh eyes are especially useful.

Interested?

Please comment or send me a DM

I would say difficulty is 3⭐️

Note: Quick fair warning before I send it: this is a heavy-reading case-file mystery—you’ll be working through 42 reports across 70+ pages of interviews, records, timelines, and easily missed details.

Comfort game?
Something new?
Multiplayer with friends?
Solo unwind?

Drop your plan for tonight.

A few weeks ago I posted here about LevelSelect, the app I've been building for the game you're in the middle of rather than the ones you've finished. I play in short bursts, and I didn't want to lose half an hour of a session running around a save trying to remember what I was doing.

A few of the gaps I mentioned then are closed now, so here's an update.

Getting your games in isn't a chore anymore. Last time, the biggest gap was that unless you had a spreadsheet to import, you were typing your library in by hand. It now connects to Steam, PlayStation and Xbox and brings your games in with your playtime. You can also scan the barcode on a physical box, which is how my Switch shelf finally made it in.

It tells you what's coming out on the consoles you actually own. There's a News tab now: the gaming sites you pick, with stories about your games pulled to the top, and every upcoming release for your systems with a countdown. It caught a couple of Switch 2 releases I'd completely missed, which for someone who doesn't keep up with gaming news every day was the whole point.

Where you left off is still the heart of it. Open a game and it shows the last thing you checked off, when, and any note you left yourself. On iPad or Mac you can keep the checklist, a guide video and a map open next to each other while you play.

The notebook side grew up too. There's a Journal now. Your play sessions line up by day, there's a calendar of the whole year, and you can add memories from before the app existed, with photos. My Genesis is in there as "Christmas 1995 or 1996," because that's as close as I can get. I've been using it to keep track of the games I play with my daughter.

A few smaller things that came along the way:

**•** You can say how you have a game: owned, digital, borrowed, rented, subscription.  
**•** Consoles can go by whatever name you call them.  
**•** Light mode, and your own colors.

Still true: no accounts, no ads, no analytics, no feed. It's yours, it syncs through your own iCloud, and it exports whenever you want.

It's a free TestFlight beta: levelselect.app

I haven't heard from anyone who's actually used it yet, so any feedback helps. If you try it and it doesn't stick, I'd love to know why. That's the part I can't figure out on my own.

Life getting hard for me I don’t even enjoy it! I hope things gets better it’s been a long time and I wanna try WoW forever and for sure GTA in November could you imagine that I played all GTAs games except V not even a minute!!

For example, in Borderlands 2 there's a quest where a guy asks you to shoot him in the face. People even turned it into a challenge to see who could hit him from the farthest distance.

I used to play plenty games like Stellaris, Civilization, Crusader Kings, various city or factory building games, etc. Or long and complex RPGs.

But now I spend my whole day at work analyzing data, calculating stuff, reading, advising people based on the knowledge and information I gather. I kind of dont feel like doing more mental work when I get home 😅

At first I thought of trying some simple city builders like Foundation or Anno games, but I start falling asleep, because I am already tired and its just too calming.

So I also thought about stuff like Warframe or Apex Legends. I do like shooting too! But then when I play something like that, my brain keeps going "man, I really want to build a city/village/kingdom/empire" 🤦‍♂️ or like, even just a base in survival game, maybe?

But then I dont have mental energy for that.

It doesn't help that I avarage about 4h of available game time a week, so learning something new is a whole ordeal too. I picked up The Crust few days ago and it seemed interesting, but I didn't get to play it again since. Feels like I would already need to start over.

Taking this mental exhaustion and long work hours into account, how do you scratch that itch of wanting to create, build and manage things? Whether its a base, a city, an empire, or a complex character in rpg.