Question of the Week: 2025 Games
It’s time for Question of the Week, which is intended to inspire enjoyable discussions of interesting topics.
This week’s question: what game are you playing in 2025 so far? No wrong answers, including not playing games at all.
For myself, I have been playing IRATUS: LORD OF THE DEAD, and enjoying it. It’s a roguelike, and it’s basically Reverse Darkest Dungeon. In Darkest Dungeon, you need to send your adventurers deeper and deeper into the dungeon until you get to the final dungeon and fight the evil boss. Iratus is the opposite – you play as the sinister necromancer at the bottom of the dungeon, and you send your minions higher and higher into the dungeon, fighting heroes and harvesting their remains to build your undead minions.
I enjoy it, partly because it’s easy to play it in bite-sized pieces, which works well with my schedule. Darkest Dungeon was a great game, but the save structure wasn’t all that great, and you could lose a lot of progress on a run. By contrast, you can do like one battle in IRATUS, save your game, and get on with your day.
This inspiration for this question was, of course, the fact that 2025 is a new year. 🙂
-JM
I’ve never been much of a gamer myself. The farthest I got was playing Subway Surfers on phone, but apart from that, I don’t really get an appeal to play.
Some video games are more complex and thoughtful, and they can even prompt new writing ideas. It’s something that’s been on my mind for a while, as an aspiring author, and I think I’d give some games a try just in case they give me plot or vibe ideas. Wondering what you think about that.
That is an interesting question that will inspire a future blog post.
Classic World of Warcraft, which I play with family in other states. More chatting than playing most of the time. For a single player game, I fire up my GOG copy of Dungeon Keeper.