What are we all playing this weekend?

Well? Do tell!

Saturdays are for waking up early, stretching out, and realising with horror that you left it very late to ask people what they would be playing over the weekend. Then, when you are just about recovered from the first shock, realising with even bigger horror that you didn't ask them what they would be playing over Christmas.

Oh dear. Oh my. Oh criminy!

Nope, it's no good. I've walked around the treehouse knocking on doors and calling out plaintively like a holdover child left at a boarding school for the Christmas holidays. They've all gone. At least Mark, Edwin, and Jeremy left notes on their pillows.

James
There is no answer when I knock on James's door. I turn the handle and ease it open. 'James?' I whisper. 'Are you there?'. The room is empty. I look through his drawers and find only processors, CPU fans, and a handwritten ode to a dwarf called Karl.

Mark:
It’s quissmoise holiday time, so I’m probably going to kick off by spending at least two days paralysed by the sheer wealth of choice presented in suddenly having more time to play the things. In all seriousness, Euro Truck Sim 2 and American Truck Sim’s latest DLCs - Nordic Horizons and Louisiana - will probably end up being shoved in my gob over the break. A bit more Crusader Kings 3 as I keep trying to get to grips with it is probably a good shout, and I feel another attempt to finally get all the way through a Morrowind enriched by copious mods brewing.

Ollie
The door to Ollie's room is wide open. It looks as though he left in a hurry, no doubt worried there would be a new big game to cover. Framed on his desk are pictures of cats from his local cat cafe. They're signed with paw prints. I am wracked by jealousy.

Edwin:
This week I had my annual pre-Xmas travel wrangle of whether I should buy a new laptop that can run games like Zephon and Hell Is Us, thereby contributing to RAMnarök and the general downfall of civilisation, or whether I should soldier on with my trusty Dell Thinkpad. The Thinkpad won the argument when I discovered I could run Terra Invicta on it, to say nothing of Hollow Knight: Silksong (which, yes, I’m still completing), Death in Abyss, Angeline Era, and Labyrinth of the Demon King. Readers, my yuletide playlist is stacked. Still, if you know of any other recent games that play comfortably on an integrated graphics card, I’m all ears.

Callum
The door to Callum's room is splintered outward, clearly kicked from the inside. It's well-known within the Treehouse that when our newest guides writer gels with a game, he will kick his legs (and the door) with excitement. Wherever he is spending his Christmas, know that he left his room thrilled.

Jeremy
Guess what, everyone who's been following the long saga of our new abode in these entries over the last few weeks. Our kitchen is done, our bathroom is tiled, the leaks are fixed, the custom furniture installed, and the house is finally in an okay state since the first time we moved in. Thus ends Phase One of the Jeremy's House cinematic universe. So, this weekend I will probably not be playing any games - I'll be wrapping my wife's Xmas presents and enjoying a state of relative tranquility before we prepare to go and visit my parents in the US, a process that is sure to shatter all illusions of peace. It never ends!

Julian
I'm spending the next ten days or so with family and far away from my computer, but my Dad has been playing Age of Empires 2 diligently since 1999, so I look forward to watching over his shoulder as he destroys the Teutons for the thousandth time. I will also be seeing my nieces and nephews and coaxing them through puzzles in Unpacking and maybe helping with a boss fight or two in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.

And you, reader dear, what are you playing this weekend...?