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What Are You Playing? - Stellar September 2026

It's already freaking September.

I'm still playing Clickbait Tycoon. Pretty fun incremental clicker game. I wonder who made it, hint hint.

My Steam backlog continues to grow, and it's going to keep growing forever and ever. But I am slowly working my way through all of the motorcycle racing games I own before I inevitably need to buy others.

RollerCoaster Tycoon Wonderworks was announced. It looks shit. This video from Marcel Vos basically explains it all, and it looks like a pile of crap.

Every attempt at bringing the series back, minus RCT Classic, has been a shitstorm.

If you want to play a game that's "RCT, but modern", just play Parkitect instead. That game perfectly captures the vibe of being like the old RCT games but with some little modernizations. It's great.

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  • Staff

    The video isn't showing up for some reason. Maybe this will fix it?
    EDIT: No it did not.
    EDIT 2: Bug fixed!

  • Staff Pro

    August was not filled with a lot of gaming for myself, though not mad about that!

    I finished Path of Exile 2, or at least, what I wanted to do with POE2. I'm looking forward to the 0.5.5 drop this week which is adding in some great changes and I can climb right back up. I never did finish my mega essay on 0.5.0, I should really push to get it out before Friday.

    I logged into World of Warcraft and then logged out of World of Warcraft. I'm very curious whats going to go down at BlizzCon for it with it having 2 what's next panels on day 1; It's definitely Classic+ (Camelot) and I'm kinda so down for that.

    I redownloaded GTA5 and started a fresh run through the campaign. The GTA6 trailer got me so hyped for November I had to jump in to GTA5 again. It's amazing how good that game still is to this day and the improvements in the enhanced edition are nice.

    Played some Runescape Dragonwilds and I am looking forward to the Sept 15th 1.0 drop for it.

    --

    Now, my actual plans for September? Too many.

    • Path of Exile 2 on September 4 is where my heart is.

    • Valheim 1.0 is dropping September 9... I'd love to play but I don't think I'll have a chance.

    • Dragonwilds on September 15 is hopefully going to be played this month. My duo has been quite busy though so I have no idea if he'll have time immediately. He said he was going to crossplay with me so he could sit on his couch with game pass. We'll see how that one goes lol.

    • I'd like to continue my GTA5 campaign.

    • I know Blizzard is going to get me to login to WoW for some reason after BlizzCon or during BlizzCon. So that's probably on the list too.

    • Minecraft Dungeons II at the end of the month is a maybe. The first one was a ton of fun!

    I also want to dive into Mario Kart 8 with the new update to go and get some online play in. It's been a while. I haven't really had a solid play session since a break-up so not sure if I want to hit that yet.

    This month is going to be absolutely mental though and I don't expect to play half the games on this list. I'll be lucky to complete the Path of Exile 2 campaign and run some maps. There is just way too much going on and while I love being busy, sometimes you just want to be a potato and play some games.

  • Staff

    Here's a fun little question for you. Go through your Steam library and see what games you have every achievement for. Do you have one for every letter of the alphabet?

    Here's a fun project I worked on to give that answer a bit of flair. In my library, I have the following:

    As any Steam user does, this also comes with a shitload of games in my backlog, and maybe I'll be able to clear (almost) all of the letters this way.

    • Creator

      Oh, you did 100% Haste; nice! I think that was a good recommendation by me, if you enjoyed it as much as I am currently assuming :)

  • Staff Pro

    WARDOGS has been enjoyable. I've played a handful of matches and it's very well designed. The games are so long, not a bad thing, it just sucks that if you want to play more than 1 its a huge time commitment haha.

  • Staff

    As part of the Crash 30th anniversary deal, I picked up the Lucky 7 bundle on Steam, which contained the Crash N Sane Trilogy, Crash 4, and the Spyro Reignited Trilogy.

    I already own all 4 games on PS4, but I don't have my PS4 with me. I also have Crash 4 on BattleNet, but that version also lacks achievements.

    It feels really nice to be playing the N Sane Trilogy again (or even just any version of the original Crash games). They are games that truly stick with you forever and have meant a lot to me for nearly my entire life.

    I also downloaded a thing that made it so that the N. Sane Trilogy also uses the original PS1 soundtrack. It's really dumb that I need to install a mod for a feature that has no excuse to not be in the base game, but at least it's possible to do it though. Feels so great to be hearing the original music (especially since some songs like the sewer levels in Crash 2 were utterly eviscerated in the new soundtrack), and as someone with not much modding knowledge, at least it was easy to get going. Now, the real kick in the nuts is the fact that the Spyro trilogy and CTR Nitro Fueled does have the ability to change soundtracks by default, and Crash 4 also has the original PS1 music in the flashback tapes, so it's not like licensing got in the way of it. There's really no reason that the N. Sane Trilogy shouldn't have had that feature.

    Rant over. I'm extremely happy to be playing Crash again. It's a fantastic remaster of three of the best platformers ever made, and you should buy it if you don't have it already.

  • Hey! I am back from the dead. Had some stuff happening IRL so I was not around.

    This month I have started Sleeping Dogs Definitive edition and Finished Triangle Strategy. All amazing games. I started Librarian too and really enjoy getting those books on their shelf little by little

    Also Black Flag Resync is still there waiting for a bug to be fixed, so I can finish the quest I am stuck at. loved the game.

    I just saw Clickbait tycoon is a thing! I will probably check it out next month as I entered a Mortage for an apartment and this month will be hard with some extra expenses... Edit. Trying the demo today

  • Staff

    There's Crash 1 done! All platinum relics to boot. For some reason, the PC leaderboard seems to be broken, but here are all of my relic times if you want to challenge them yourself.

    Level

    Time

    N. Sanity Beach

    0:25.08

    Jungle Rollers

    0:44.19

    The Great Gate

    0:42.73

    Boulders

    0:46.58

    Upstream

    0:44.37

    Rolling Stones

    0:44.85

    Hog Wild

    0:40.73

    Native Fortress

    1:44.75

    Up The Creek

    1:13.31

    The Lost City

    1:25.01

    Temple Ruins

    1:01.68

    Road to Nowhere

    0:51.27

    Boulder Dash

    1:15.41

    Whole Hog

    0:24.52

    Sunset Vista

    3:04.18

    Heavy Machinery

    1:25.69

    Cortex Power

    0:36.18

    Generator Room

    0:55.98

    Toxic Waste

    0:53.22

    The High Road

    0:55.06

    Slippery Climb

    2:12.26

    Lights Out

    1:02.50

    Fumbling In The Dark

    1:29.74

    Jaws of Darkness

    1:27.97

    Castle Machinery

    2:02.94

    The Lab

    0:44.45

    Stormy Ascent

    2:36.21

    Crash 1 NST relics are not really too intensive due to the lack of any powerups and there's no sliding. As long as you keep holding forward and break all of the time crates, you're going to be just fine.

    Next up, Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back

  • Creator

    This month has mostly been about me jumping from game-to-game and grabbing the last few achievements for them on Steam. I am a "recovering completionist", and I'm sticking to my guns when it comes to grindy or extremely difficult achievements I don't care enough to acquire. That's why I put down DragonSword: Awakening for the time being: the only remaining achievements are doing everything at the hardest difficulty, and I don't feel like beating my head against that particular set of walls right now.

    At any rate, I beelined through my Elden Ring NG+ playthrough to reach a second of the three ending achievements - Frenzied Flame - and that leaves me with one to go (Elden Lord). I have a "start from scratch" playthrough in the works right now that will get that one for me, and I'll be at 100% having defeated the game three times.

    I also went back into Okami HD and finished my Fish Tome and Treasure Tome for the last couple achievements there; didn't realize I was so close to being 100%, but 97 minutes later that's another perfect game in the bag.

    Lastly, I'm working on New Game + playthroughs for Battlechasers: Nightwar, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, and some DLC achievements for Guacamelee 2 and Marvel's Midnight Suns. I had these games in my Perfect section before they added new achievements, so now I have an excuse to play through them again to really reach 100%. Started with Battlechasers, and I didn't remember the game being so....deliberately slow. You trudge forward at a meandering pace, the turn-based gameplay has slow animations and down times, and you don't get as much back from entering NG+ as I thought you did, meaning I actually have to "try" lol. Still, I'm just gonna blow through the story and not finish the side-content, so I'll get there eventually. Spider-Man 2 should be a breeze, though, because you DO get everything back and I can just dominate any enemy that comes across my path lol. I'll focus on the story for that one, too.

  • Staff

    Crash Bandicoot 2 done with all platinums.

    Once again, here are my times.

    Level

    Time

    Turtle Woods

    0:42.91

    Snow Go

    0:41.73

    Hang Eight

    0:50.88

    The Pits

    0:55.67

    Crash Dash

    0:56.25

    Snow Biz

    0:44.63

    Air Crash

    0:48.27

    Bear It

    0:38.02

    Crash Crush

    1:06.18

    The Eel Deal

    0:51.41

    Plant Food

    0:51.82

    Sewer or Later

    0:32.46

    Bear Down

    0:37.28

    Road to Ruin

    0:29.21

    Un-Bearable

    1:16.93

    Hangin' Out

    0:53.47

    Diggin' It

    1:14.25

    Cold Hard Crash

    1:18.15

    Ruination

    0:50.25

    Bee-Having

    1:10.50

    Piston It Away

    1:06.25

    Rock It

    0:48.28

    Night Fight

    1:02.86

    Pack Attack

    0:54.75

    Spaced Out

    0:47.61

    Totally Bear

    0:35.70

    Totally Fly

    0:52.85

    Most of my times for this game are really not that good because I'm not so sure if running or slide-jumping is faster. I still slide-jump a lot, but maybe doing so even more is faster.

    My Spaced Out in particular is not great because I ended up fumbling a jump or two (which would normally be bad enough for me to restart my time trial), and because the strategy I used for timing the start isn't perfect. If you have a perfect-start strategy, you could get a sub-40. I might try to go back for a better time at some point.

    Next up, it's Crash Bandicoot: WARPED!!!

  • Staff

    Iv returned to Farthest Frontier.

    Im making a screenshot of each year every season, if i keep it up and dont forget to make one, maybe i can make a montage after a while to showcase my progress :) Thats the idea anyway, i wanted to see how it would look.

    Year 12 so far, so very early :)

  • Creator

    Elden Lord achievement is done and dusted, so Elden Ring is now 100% complete :D Still working on the others; cleaning up my backlog should soften the blow of having no money for the Autumn Steam Sale on October 1st.

    The other day I felt this sudden desire to review all the games I've played on Steam: I rarely leave a review - it feels like just a cough in the wind - but maybe my review is the one that helps someone make their purchase. Who knows? Plus one's profile tracks your review numbers, and, like with the achievements, it doesn't hurt for the number to be higher hehe

    Maybe I'll do that tomorrow, while watching some American Football.

  • Staff

    And there's Crash Bandicoot: Warped done. There's all three games of the N. Sane Trilogy done. I had an absolute blast playing them. Even though there's a few gameplay differences that trip me up as a veteran of the PS1 games, it's truly an amazing collection to play with all of the fancy graphics.

    As always, here are my relic times.

    Level

    Time

    Toad Village

    0:39.65

    Under Pressure

    0:52.68

    Orient Express

    0:12.55

    Bone Yard

    1:14.07

    Makin' Waves

    0:55.56

    Gee Wiz

    0:59.88

    Hang'em High

    0:37.88

    Hog Ride

    0:37.07

    Tomb Time

    0:52.59

    Midnight Run

    0:12.61

    Dino Might!

    0:58.06

    Deep Trouble

    0:52.52

    High Time

    0:44.88

    Road Crash

    1:19.59

    Double Header

    0:54.05

    Sphynxinator

    0:51.90

    Bye Bye Blimps

    0:30.99

    Tell No Tales

    1:12.08

    Future Frenzy

    1:14.07

    Tomb Wader

    1:09.88

    Gone Tomorrow

    1:02.10

    Orange Asphalt

    1:17.27

    Flaming Passion

    0:48.52

    Mad Bombers

    0:55.31

    Bug Lite

    1:11.12

    Ski Crazed

    0:32.30

    Area 51?

    1:44.27

    Rings of Power

    0:58.62

    Future Tense

    0:43.04

    Eggipus Rex

    0:43.66

    Hot Coco

    0:18.62

    A lot of my Warped times in particular are not super great. For some reason, I was willing to accept more mistakes during these level runs than I was for the other two games, resulting in quite a few times that I'm not particularly satisfied with. Namely, my Under Pressure, Midnight Run, High Time, and Area 51? times are ones that I know I can do better on. I don't really feel like trying to go for them now though.