{"id":1950824,"date":"2026-05-23T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1950824"},"modified":"2026-05-23T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:00:00","slug":"what-weve-been-playing-id-like-to-shout-out-a-fun-game-you-can-only-really-do-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1950824","title":{"rendered":"What we&#8217;ve been playing &#8211; &#8220;I&#8217;d like to shout out a fun game you can only really do on the road&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article \" data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"features\" data-article-group=\"feature\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article_header\" data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<nav class=\"nav_breadcrumbs\" data-component=\"nav-breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<ul class=\"nav-links\">\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Home<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/features\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Features<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_details\" id=\"main-content\">\n<h1 class=\"title\">What we&#8217;ve been playing &#8211; &#8220;I&#8217;d like to shout out a fun game you can only really do on the road&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p class=\"strapline\">A few of the things that have us hooked this week.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_asset\">\n<figure class=\"headline_image_wrapper\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"headline_image\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/wwb-dog-roadtrip-AdobeStock_115557929.jpg?width=690&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;dpr=3&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"A dog - a golden retriever - shoves its head out of a car window and its tongue out its mouth as it enjoys the drive along flat and deserted arid landscape.\" loading=\"eager\" data-uri=\"wwb-dog-roadtrip-AdobeStock_115557929.jpg\" data-lightbox width=\"690\" height=\"388\"><figcaption>\n          <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Adobe Stock \/ Mat Hayward<\/cite><\/span><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"avatar\">\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Robert Purchese avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/user-9946-originalxoriginal-14-03-23.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1017\"><\/p>\n<p>  <img alt=\"Robert Purchese avatar\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"user-9946-originalxoriginal-14-03-23.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1017\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"byline\">\n                  <span class=\"article_type\" data-slug=\"features\"><br \/>\n                    Feature<br \/>\n                  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/authors\/robert-purchese\">Robert Purchese<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"job_title\"><br \/>\n                      Associate Editor<br \/>\n                    <\/span>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"published_at\">\nPublished on <time datetime=\"2026-05-23T07:00:00+00:00\">May 23, 2026<\/time>              <\/div>\n<div class=\"comments\">\n      <a class=\"comments__link comments-bubble\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/what-weve-been-playing-road-trip?view=comments\" rel=\"nofollow\"><br \/>\n          33 comments<br \/>\n      <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mypop-header-wrapper\">\n<p><button class=\"mypop-button button wide\" data-state=\"follow\" data-type=\"tag\" data-uuid=\"1f7364a3-5278-45be-99d4-9b4d68aa321d\" data-name=\"Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred\" data-follow-text=\"Follow Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred\" data-unfollow-text=\"Following Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred\" data-aria-follow-text=\"Follow Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred\" data-aria-unfollow-text=\"Following Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred\" data-popup=\"true\" data-force-login=\"true\" aria-label=\"Follow Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred\" title=\"Follow Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred\"><br \/>\n  Follow Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred<br \/>\n<\/button>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<h2>23rd May<\/h2>\n<p>Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we&#8217;ve been playing. This week, Bertie enjoys digital characters&#8217; musculature; Connor goes on a trip and discovers he&#8217;s possibly the nosiest person around; and Kelsey goes diving.<\/p>\n<p>What have you been playing this week?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another question: do you remember what you were playing last week? You don&#8217;t have to! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/topics\/what-weve-been-playing\">The What We&#8217;ve Been Playing archive<\/a> has you covered.<\/p>\n<h2>Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred, PS5<\/h2>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred \u2013 Official Opening Cinematic\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9OLC-l3-uy8?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/9OLC-l3-uy8\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred \u2013 Official Opening Cinematic<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Cor, Blizzard cinematics. Cor.<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9OLC-l3-uy8\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been holding off playing this because I wanted to make it a &#8216;together thing&#8217; and play it with my partner &#8211; aren&#8217;t I nice? &#8211; but since she never seems to be in the mood to play, I&#8217;ve apparently made a spiky bed for myself to sleep in. I can&#8217;t play the game alone now because that would be extra mean of me. Oh dear me, what have I done?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, we did manage to start <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/diablo-iv\">Diablo 4<\/a>&#8216;s new expansion the other day, and something that always strikes me about this game &#8211; something I always harp on about to my partner &#8211; is how visually impressive I find character creation to be. What I especially like is the character&#8217;s musculature. I have a slight obsession where musculature is concerned; I was into bodybuilding once and I think it comes from that. And what I love about Diablo 4&#8217;s depiction of bodies is how believable they are.<\/p>\n<p>They alternate from character class to character class. The Barbarian, for instance, is large and bulky and hench, as you would expect them to be, given the raw-power style of fighting they epitomise, and the heavy weapons they wield. Whereas the Necromancer, on the other end of the scale, is borderline emaciated, almost skeletal, albeit still in a lithe, taught, wiry way. The body shape of every different character fits their class. They look like people who live those lives.<\/p>\n<p>Someone at Blizzard &#8211; probably a few people at Blizzard &#8211; has clearly spent a great deal of effort researching and realising this, and I want to say to those people, on the off chance they&#8217;re reading What We&#8217;ve Been Playing, because why wouldn&#8217;t they be: your work is appreciated. Thank you!<\/p>\n<p><em>-Bertie<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Secret stuff and airport RuneScape, PC<\/h2>\n<p>I am in the USA this week, for a very secretive work trip. As such, I&#8217;ve left the comforts of my home office (bedroom) behind. This, as you may imagine, makes playing games very difficult. Not only because I have work to do and deadlines to meet, but also because all my save files are an ocean away.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"2\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not impossible though. I have, while waiting for a plane &#8211; delayed of course &#8211; done some light Old School <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/runescape\">RuneScape<\/a> playing. I have trained my agility a bit, and bought a battlestaff at a steep discount. Not a lot to report here aside from my feelings that games with lax hardware requirements seem to be the way forward for the working age adult without access to a beefy PC and a life to live.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d also like to shout out a fun game you can only really do on the road: being nosy and looking at what games other people are playing! I&#8217;ve seen one very smartly dressed business man playing Balatro, another older lady booting up Monopoly Go. I&#8217;ve even seen one gentleman in LAX airport tinker away at a Warhammer 40,000 mobile game in baggage collection, a sign that British fiction and mobile dark patterns together have the power to infect the minds of international travellers, even now.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Connor<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Subnautica 2, PC<\/h2>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"Subnautica 2 - Official Early Access Gameplay Trailer\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5sU66p6w2P0?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/5sU66p6w2P0\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">Subnautica 2 &#8211; Official Early Access Gameplay Trailer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"button video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5sU66p6w2P0\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been moving house so I haven&#8217;t had much opportunity for gaming outside of work as of late, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped me from trying to squeeze in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/subnautica-2\">Subnautica 2<\/a> session with friends where I can.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being in Early Access and content being quite limited, I have been having lots of fun exploring the underwater world of Proteus with friends and getting to know all the strange creatures it&#8217;s home to. Our first adventure in our Tadpole Divers might&#8217;ve ended in us all becoming Leviathan food, but we&#8217;re well on our way with establishing an impressive base and finding ways to communicate with &#8211; and directly counter &#8211; fishy aliens.<\/p>\n<p>With a long weekend ahead, we&#8217;ll hopefully find some time to go on another Tadpole Diving expedition without being reprinted in the process. Fingers crossed.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Kelsey<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"poll_wrapper\" data-fixed=\"true\" data-hashid data-init=\"false\" data-poll-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<h2>23rd May<\/h2>\n<p>Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we&#8217;ve been playing. This week, Bertie enjoys digital characters&#8217; musculature; Connor goes on a trip and discovers he&#8217;s possibly the nosiest person around; and Kelsey goes diving.<\/p>\n<p>What have you been playing this week?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another question: do you remember what you were playing last week? You don&#8217;t have to! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/topics\/what-weve-been-playing\">The What We&#8217;ve Been Playing archive<\/a> has you covered.<\/p>\n<h2>Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred, PS5<\/h2>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred \u2013 Official Opening Cinematic\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9OLC-l3-uy8?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/9OLC-l3-uy8\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred \u2013 Official Opening Cinematic<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Cor, Blizzard cinematics. Cor.<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9OLC-l3-uy8\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been holding off playing this because I wanted to make it a &#8216;together thing&#8217; and play it with my partner &#8211; aren&#8217;t I nice? &#8211; but since she never seems to be in the mood to play, I&#8217;ve apparently made a spiky bed for myself to sleep in. I can&#8217;t play the game alone now because that would be extra mean of me. Oh dear me, what have I done?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, we did manage to start <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/diablo-iv\">Diablo 4<\/a>&#8216;s new expansion the other day, and something that always strikes me about this game &#8211; something I always harp on about to my partner &#8211; is how visually impressive I find character creation to be. What I especially like is the character&#8217;s musculature. I have a slight obsession where musculature is concerned; I was into bodybuilding once and I think it comes from that. And what I love about Diablo 4&#8217;s depiction of bodies is how believable they are.<\/p>\n<p>They alternate from character class to character class. The Barbarian, for instance, is large and bulky and hench, as you would expect them to be, given the raw-power style of fighting they epitomise, and the heavy weapons they wield. Whereas the Necromancer, on the other end of the scale, is borderline emaciated, almost skeletal, albeit still in a lithe, taught, wiry way. The body shape of every different character fits their class. They look like people who live those lives.<\/p>\n<p>Someone at Blizzard &#8211; probably a few people at Blizzard &#8211; has clearly spent a great deal of effort researching and realising this, and I want to say to those people, on the off chance they&#8217;re reading What We&#8217;ve Been Playing, because why wouldn&#8217;t they be: your work is appreciated. Thank you!<\/p>\n<p><em>-Bertie<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Secret stuff and airport RuneScape, PC<\/h2>\n<p>I am in the USA this week, for a very secretive work trip. As such, I&#8217;ve left the comforts of my home office (bedroom) behind. This, as you may imagine, makes playing games very difficult. Not only because I have work to do and deadlines to meet, but also because all my save files are an ocean away.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"2\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not impossible though. I have, while waiting for a plane &#8211; delayed of course &#8211; done some light Old School <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/runescape\">RuneScape<\/a> playing. I have trained my agility a bit, and bought a battlestaff at a steep discount. Not a lot to report here aside from my feelings that games with lax hardware requirements seem to be the way forward for the working age adult without access to a beefy PC and a life to live.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d also like to shout out a fun game you can only really do on the road: being nosy and looking at what games other people are playing! I&#8217;ve seen one very smartly dressed business man playing Balatro, another older lady booting up Monopoly Go. I&#8217;ve even seen one gentleman in LAX airport tinker away at a Warhammer 40,000 mobile game in baggage collection, a sign that British fiction and mobile dark patterns together have the power to infect the minds of international travellers, even now.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Connor<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Subnautica 2, PC<\/h2>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"Subnautica 2 - Official Early Access Gameplay Trailer\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5sU66p6w2P0?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/5sU66p6w2P0\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">Subnautica 2 &#8211; Official Early Access Gameplay Trailer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"button video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5sU66p6w2P0\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been moving house so I haven&#8217;t had much opportunity for gaming outside of work as of late, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped me from trying to squeeze in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/subnautica-2\">Subnautica 2<\/a> session with friends where I can.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being in Early Access and content being quite limited, I have been having lots of fun exploring the underwater world of Proteus with friends and getting to know all the strange creatures it&#8217;s home to. Our first adventure in our Tadpole Divers might&#8217;ve ended in us all becoming Leviathan food, but we&#8217;re well on our way with establishing an impressive base and finding ways to communicate with &#8211; and directly counter &#8211; fishy aliens.<\/p>\n<p>With a long weekend ahead, we&#8217;ll hopefully find some time to go on another Tadpole Diving expedition without being reprinted in the process. Fingers crossed.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Kelsey<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"poll_wrapper\" data-fixed=\"true\" data-hashid data-init=\"false\" data-poll-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home Features What we&#8217;ve been playing &#8211; &#8220;I&#8217;d like to shout out a fun game you can only really do on the road&#8221; A few of the things that have us hooked this week. 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