Already there.
Wasn’t it HL2 that forced Steam activitation upon us? Remember some controversy around that, back then.
Last played in 2020, propably for the last time.
Still got Black Mesa in my small pile of shame.
Alyx is on the wishlist in case I get one one of VR headsets (which are not yet on the wishlist) 
Yes, I call it my Gaming Pile of Shame™
Every sale, I bought games on PSN, and the list of unplayed titles grew and grew.
I have now since deleted that list 
Played 5 mins of the HL training and remembered I don’t play FPS due to nausea. $5 down the drain! 
Since Divinity Original Shit 2 I always get a pirate copy first, and if I like it I buy it.
I saw the CD Project Red, of Witcher fame and Cyberpunk 2077 infamy is developing a Witcher 4, currently called project Polaris. I’ll be suspicious because I, like others, had insane expectations for Cyberpunk 2077, not only because I’m an old cyberpunk, William Gibson, Philip K. Dick geek, but also because of how mind-blowingly good Witcher 3 was.
Currently playing Sekiro, after two failed attempts to start (clearly wasn’t up to the task).
Shit?! I had a lot of fun with Boni-Wan Kenobi 
I almost finished this game (gave up in the last city) but really didn’t like it. I knew about barrelmancy
My Chromebook died so in searching for a substitute I pulled the trigger on a steam deck oled.
I use the desktop Linux with a docking station (the same I already had for the Chromebook) and use the deck to game here and there, when commuting etc.
700 chf so not cheap but I can do all that I need and can game on top of it. And can finally try to play all games from my steam library 
should we do a discord server for swiss gamers that speak english?
I am currently playing Zelda Echos of Wisdom. It’s very cute.
Also sometimes burning minutes in Balatro. This game is so highly adictive. It makes 1h commuting a breeze.
Been playing Sekiro these past few weeks, took me three times to get into it but now would put it up there among the best fighting games ever made.
Done with Sekiro, possibly the best combat system I’ve ever played.
Now picked up Dark Souls 2, the black sheep of the family. The janky, clunky and SLOW combat is rough coming from Sekiro’s razor sharp katana, I meant combat, and the game is borderline unfair very often, but I am getting into it.
45 years playing rogue, later nethack, ASCII Version of course with a DEC console, just tried again after a little pause of like 20 years… can’t remember even the commands. 
But it is still in the distribution: sudo apt install nethack-console
Well, nowadays even US presidents play rogue. Not the game, but real life. 
Or maybe that’s always been the case, and I just have not noticed till this century.
So, this is slightly off topic, but still related to the topic.
TL;DR: is there a correlation between types of games you play (or watch) and your investment style?
Background:
I just watched – zapping into the last 3rd of so of the game; linear TV is still a thing for some gen Xers like me – the Swiss ice hockey team beat Denmark 7:0 in the semifinals. I normally don’t even watch ice hockey. Or any sports. But I enjoyed watching this last third of the game even though – objectively speaking – it was just … boring? They were already at 5:0 when I tuned in and finished with another two goals by the time the game ended.
Maybe I am slightly risk adverse?
In fact, when I root for someone (in sports), I simply almost cannot watch a game. When Federer still played tennis, I had to turn off the TV when he played. My personal feeling was that I would jinx his game if I continued watching.
When Switzerland’s soccer team plays, I’ll instead spend time on FASTgraphs analyzing my portfolio and other random shit’cos.
When my son’s favorite soccer team – FCZ – plays (and he tries to always attend live) I cannot watch it if it is broadcast on TV, I occasionally look at the score during play time via a Google search, but often I don’t, especially when I kind of know FCZ might lose. I don’t even root for FCZ (frankly, I don’t really care), I just shadow suffer the pain I think my son might go through if they lose. For the record, my son would absolutely laugh at this: of course he likes FCZ winning, but he attends/watches because he likes the show and the experience … at least that’s what I believe …
At any rate, even though I haven’t played compouter games in probably a year now, I today caught myself thinking that I’ve been liking strategy games for at least the past decade if not longer. Games where – once I think I understand what “the winning strategy” is – I believe I can win. Or, dominate. Or, maybe not get crushed or so.
Which is kind of how I feel I have constructed my portfolio.
(Whereas earlier, maybe up to two decades ago, I would favor the “surprise” factor in a game even if it might mean that I lose this round and have to start over again for the current level).
Sure, you can just start over with a game (but only with paper portfolios), but I still found it interesting that I’m just no longer attracted to “high risk” games (or even low risk games with high risk parameters – think Civilization in “God mode” or so).
So, show me your current games list played and I’ll tell you your beta?
Among the first games that I really liked (after the ASCII ones mentioned by @cubanpete_the_swiss) was Doom, an FPS … (the ones in the early nineties) though in hindsight that’s also not really a risk taking game, as you could always just start over. Although, IIRC, there was some death mode or so (or maybe that only came with later iterations or successor games) where being killed meant actually “being killed” (aka starting the game again from scratch as a freshman).
I spent untold months of my life on Civilization and then Civ 2.
Also Warhammer and Warhammer II.
I think I played some Red Alert and maybe the original Starcraft.
So I play mainly strategy and RTS.
Out of my usual genre, I also played Hotline Miami.
If you want to get addicted to lighter games, try:
Played through Dark Souls 2, much maligned for no good reason in my opinion. Many good ideas, some bad ideas and lacking of Miyazaki’s magic wand, but still good.
Also played through Lies of P, another Soulslike, more like a homage to Souls out of Korea. Not bad for a first try of a new studio…
…what was an out of this world new studio making a game is Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, out of Paris. Mind-blowing. Amazing. Work-of-art. Played it three times in a a row to take as much in as I could.
Now playing a game that I hearkens back to my teenage years, but was a total clustercoitus when released: Cyberpunk 2077. The levels of anticipation for this game by the gaming community were off the charts. The developer, CD Project Red (out of Poland) has of course made Witcher 3, one of the best games of all time, and they spend 6-7 years and ~$400mn working on Cyberpunk 2077…only to deliver an unfinished, broken mess due to stakeholder pressure.
I am sure another developer wouldn’t have survived such a botched launch. It’s only because their last game was so out of this world good that the community gave them a grudging pass. The game released in 2022 in its broken state but I only got it on a -50% Steam sale 2 weeks ago (I am cheap too, after all), in a largely “ok” state. It’s fine, has some bugs and problems but nothing game-breaking like when it launched. I can’t tell how much I expected this game: I LOVE the setting, I’d read William Gibson’s books as a teenager and as an adult, watched Johnny Mnemonic and overall have a massive thing for the genre - the studio even paid Keanu Reeves to be in the game! First impressions: CD Project Red know how to make worlds, and how to make stories. They’ve absolutely NAILED the cyberpunk setting. Combat, not so great. They need a hand from FROM Software (of Souls fame) to learn a thing or two about how to make great gaming combat.
Now there’re three games in development that I have my eye on for the future, and will likely need to splash on a new PC to play (or PS6?!): The Blood of Dawnwalker (from Witcher 3 developers calling themselves Rebel Wolves), Witcher 4, and Cyberpunk 2077 sequel.
I only played the Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) this year on the NYSE, the LSE and the TSE.
It is bloody and gory as hell, but lots of fun. Many unexpected turns – when was the last time you heard of tariffs introduced into a game?! – and you can only play it in God mode (i.e. you cannot save game positions and go back to them if your team runs into an ambush and gets slain).
You can also only check in on your players’ health and stamina points about every three months or so (but you can upgrade the players by making them bigger or smaller or sell them off at almost anytime [on weekdays]).
My team changes in 2025:
AMGN - Wounded[-]
ARE - Player got bigger[+]
CBU - New Player
CHCT - New Player
CME - Slightly wounded
CTBI - Player got bigger
EIX - New Player
ES - Player got bigger
GIS - Player got bigger
GLW - Player is dead.[†]
GPN - Player got bigger
LON:IMB - Player got automatically bigger[DRIP]
LON:LGEN - see above
LTC - Player died.
MAIN - Player got automatically bigger
MET - Player got bigger
O - PLayer got bigger
OGN - Player died[*]
ONL - Player died[*]
OXSQ - Player got bigger (but is now in court and could face the death penalty)
PEP - New Player
PPL - Player died
PRU - Player got bigger
SJM - Player got bigger
SOLV - Player died
STT - Player got bigger
TSE:BNS - Player got automatically bigger
VTRS - Player died[*]
WBA - Player died
- Sold some.
+ Added some.
† No longer in portfolio.
[DRIP] Player is on auto and for every payment she produces she automatically buys upgrades and invests in herself.
* Player wasn’t actively added to the team, some other existing player gave birth to it into the team.
Uh, yes, sure, I’ll see myself out.
That’s called Death March or Hardcore in some games, if your character dies you have to start from scratch, no reload allowed, please use appropriate gaming terminology.
Other than that GGWP 
Sir, I sincerly have to apologize.
It’s of course called a Deathmatch as you say.
I was probably confused by the gameplay as it also contains an unpredictable God King – with an orange avatar, of all colors! – that randomly issues executive orders lets natural catastophies occur in the game, like nuclear reactors blowing up (requiring clean-up for months!) or Godzilla appearing and stepping out of the sea, just like in the original SimCity game and its sequels.
Or 39% tariffs, as mentioned in my previous post.
Anyone played the BF6 beta?