Getting home from the summer house Almost ten days of August gone, time tends to fly really fast when I’m home and I hate it, but what can you do, at least there’s a lot of stuff going on all the time. Need to optimize the time usage and manage it better, because a lot of it just disappears somewhere completely and while maybe I shouldn’t keep productivity close to 100% I should spend it working out at least. Pretty loaded streaming week, just had one day off, but still streamed for around 3 hours on my Kick channel, grinding SpiritVale to skip some time until dad arrived to go to the summer house. Didn’t get any updates on the plans, so that trip was a bit of a surprise and I did miss some blogposts, but here I am catching up a little now with second post today. Watching THQ Showcase together with chat also meant extra stream on Kick, got some nice grinding in SpiritVale this week, even though I’d love to play it even more on stream. Some chanterelles that my parents gathered On top of SpiritVale grinding I continued my Gothic Remake playthrough and it’s already getting close to the finale, feels like it’s about time, I did spend way more time than during my first playthrough of the OG game. I guess it’s to be expected, because I didn’t level lockpicking and opened crazy amount of locks doing that nice little puzzle fair and square every time plus playing on Hard difficulty does make it a little trickier. Still need to write a dedicated post about Gothic Remake. First Look Friday had Prelude Dark Pain and Liquidation this week, on Saturday I also tried ReStory: Prelude Dark Pain is a tactical turn-based RPG with a nice art style that feels a bit Darkest Dungeon inspired. Grid based battlefield with edge tiles being lethal if you (or your enemy) have attacks that push. Seems like some decision making is involved, so maybe even a bit of non-linear progression or impact of your decisions on the story Liquidation is a love letter to Warcraft 3. RTS with heroes that you level and gear up with loot obtained from Neutral monsters and quests, something I really did love in WC3 back in a day and something I barely saw in games since then (except Godsworn). Early Access, but already got some story campaign going – great choice, usually it’s just skirmish and multiplayer first, leaving proper campaign missions enjoyers starving. ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs is a cozy Lo-Fi simulator of early 2000s Japanese repair shop, where you need to fix a whole range of different recognizable (well for my generation it should be) electronic devices. Meditative experience, a little stories evolving in the background while you are buying parts and donor devices, farming money for another license that will allow you to fix more stuff and earn more to afford rent. Will need to catch up with my VOD backlog and then I will be able to link my VODs archived on YT here, for readers to check those new games I tried for example. Catching up with the backlog is hard, due to some of the Twitch changes they implemented for Highlighting and because backlog became quite massive during travels. I’m always falling behind on the backlog, but maybe now I’ll get better at it with extra motivation. Outside of streaming related things I did spend a bit of time at my mom’s place sitting with their cat and then went to my brother’s birthday. Mom decided to take us to a pretty fancy restaurant for it, so that was a nice culinary adventure that I thankfully didn’t need to pay for, because boy it was expensive. Spent some time home alone before grandma returned from the summer house, do miss that time just being alone since past years it’s either me travelling with my friend or returning to grandma’s place and living with her. Can’t really kick my brother out of my apartment, because he’s paying me rent (discounted of course) that I rely on a little – such is hobo streamer life. Crispy eggplant with sweet chili sauce and lychee Schedule updates for the next week coming tomorrow morning, might try to go for two posts tomorrow too, but might also try to go get some workout in the morning if weather allows. Living with grandma ruins my already bad shape even more, without some physical activity these four months will destroy the progress of past eight easily. The post First Full Week of Blaugust 2026 Recap appeared first on ComradeNerdy.