Mount and Blade Warband! Base game is just ok, but mods like Diplomacy make it way better. Then you look at Prophecy of Pendor or Perisno and you've got basically an entirely new game with the same engine and it's awesome. I have hundreds of hours of Mount and Blade, and probably only like 25 of them are vanilla.

I know the whole "Open world survival craft" genre is super overdone, and has way too many games now, but Valheim is honestly awesome. The fun scales with more people, me and my friends (3-4 usually) have been having a blast.

The Guild 2 and 3. They are so janky and absurd. Half the mechanics barely work, the dialogue is ridiculous, but the game just has charm. It's got just enough economy mechanics to keep my math brain engaged while mostly playing it like The Sims.

XCOM?

I was super in to Dominions 3 back in the day, played it online a ton, won a few big games. It's got a brutal learning curve though. Late game when the turns were on a 96 hour timer and that still felt too short..

That's awesome! I have a 6 year old I'm trying to build up to playing better games. That type of game definitely is better with friends/kids. Just the time savings from gathering resources makes a big difference, plus being able to share the epic moments.

There is a pretty decent scripted tabletop simulator for Kingdom Death. Me and a couple buddies player five or six session and we were able to pick up and play pretty quickly.

NFL game threads and Fantasy Football updates are the two things i really want to be able to have here, I'd love to get those

Fantasy football is a big one for me too

I am fully aware we are in the golden age of GamePass. It's such a ridiculously good value right now it is almost inevitably going to go downhill eventually. I have ultimate and use it on Xbox, PC, and mobile a ton. It's like the golden years of Netflix 10 years ago before everyone pulled their catalog and launched their own service. I know eventually it will be bad, but I'm enjoying it right now. And extra $2/month doesn't bother me, but I know it isn't the first increase we'll see.

Also, the view source button on comment replies doesn't seem to work

Pulsar is the game that I feel like was so close to being a great game but they gave up on it before it got there. Working together to run the ship is awesome but the world is SOOO empty. Like at least add mod support so folks can help or something. I want to love the game but that always stops me.

Most mobile games through the app store are ad filled garbage. The two big exceptions ive found are Game Pass on mobile, and Netflix games. Netflix games are basically the mobile games with all the bullshit taken out.

Slay the Spire and Monster Train have been my favorites lately

Oh for sure, Stardew is a masterpiece, we've played that too exhaustion

Story of Seasons is coming to Game Pass! I need a new game to play with my 6 year old, that's perfect.

My six year old and I are playing Planet of Lana. It's a cute 2d puzzle/adventure game. We just finished Ravenlok.

Me and my buddies are on a hard Valheim kick right now

Place stacks button woohoo! Anything to make chest management easier. Difficulty setting is good too. With four players the game is to easy right now for me and my friends.