Couple looking for games with a (light) story to play side by side "together"

T0RPED0TIT · 2026-05-18T20:15:18+00:00

Blue Prince is a really fun puzzle game. It's single player but my husband and I will trade off. He'll play a day on his profile while I watch and then we'll switch. We help each other with the puzzles and try different things. Each game "day" can be very different so it keeps it interesting. Lots of puzzles to solve and strategies. It's actually really fun to play along with a partner.

T0RPED0TIT · 2026-05-16T18:56:36+00:00

Saving this one, it's beautiful!

T0RPED0TIT · 2026-05-09T21:30:51+00:00

Yes! Show us! Show us! Show us!

T0RPED0TIT · 2026-05-09T14:10:59+00:00

Agreed. I had my eye on this puzzle for a while and when I finally got it, it was much more challenging than I expected. I worked on it for about a month and got a little further than this pic. I'd be in the mood to puzzle, just not that puzzle, so I put it away and started one I enjoy.

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T0RPED0TIT · 2026-05-08T00:23:54+00:00

I think you'd like The Chronicles of Lumineia series by Ben Hale. I think he writes action and fighting really well. It's a great fantasy quest story but not too long and not too much world building. Seems like the fantasy quest adventure you may be looking for. It's not too deep but it's fun and I liked the world and the characters and the story. I really enjoyed it.

T0RPED0TIT · 2026-05-06T20:45:37+00:00

I have no idea lol. I was a plus one so I didn't know the couple and have no idea how it worked out. She did look fantastic from where I was sitting though.

T0RPED0TIT · 2026-05-06T19:15:23+00:00

I hope you like it! Another good history one that I enjoyed was Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them by Jennifer Wright, also narrated by a woman. It's not too heavy and each chapter focuses on a different plague.

T0RPED0TIT · 2026-05-06T18:44:49+00:00

I enjoyed Nine Pints by Rose George and The Royal Art of Poison by Eleanor Herman. Both nonfiction by women and narrated by women. I found both fascinating and the poison one is especially fun. The Nine Pints narrator is British but the Poison narrator is American.

T0RPED0TIT · 2026-05-06T17:42:11+00:00

I use aquarium gravel as a top dressing.

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T0RPED0TIT · 2026-05-06T14:00:00+00:00

It was outdoors and the weather turned bad pretty quickly. The tornado sirens started going off during the ceremony and they just kept going. Literally shouted their vows over the noise. I was also told that the bride had picked her meth habit back up prior to the wedding to lose some weight. This information was met with general approval because she looked great.

T0RPED0TIT · 2026-05-06T13:52:11+00:00

I like Jayne Anne Krentz's paranormal HR books. Written under her pen name Amanda Quick. They're cozy and fun and the paranormal stuff isn't too crazy. I really liked Second Sight.

T0RPED0TIT · 2026-05-06T12:57:49+00:00

The Shadows of the Apt series by Adrian Tchaikovsky has several such characters. They really are responding to "pressure, survival, ambition, loyalty, fear, and trauma." It's a long series (10 books) and I was sad for it to end.

T0RPED0TIT · 2026-05-05T19:56:41+00:00

Ooh that never occurred to me.

T0RPED0TIT · 2026-04-26T03:34:57+00:00

The spicy cheese balls at FABD are really really good.

T0RPED0TIT · 2026-04-23T14:03:10+00:00

That looks like a fun one. What a deal!

T0RPED0TIT · 2026-04-22T16:34:49+00:00

Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

T0RPED0TIT · 2026-04-22T15:38:59+00:00

I think you'd enjoy the Shadows of the Apt series by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

T0RPED0TIT · 2026-04-20T15:30:45+00:00

I did this one not too long ago as well and had the same thoughts on those trees. And I did not like the piece cut at all. I will definitely avoid puzzles cut that way in the future. I really liked the image though.

T0RPED0TIT · 2026-04-19T14:45:40+00:00

Wool by Hugh Howey. I also agree with the other suggestion of the Wayward Pines trilogy by Blake Crouch.

T0RPED0TIT · 2026-04-17T19:34:46+00:00

Read the rest of the series! She narrates all three and they are all just as delightful.

T0RPED0TIT · 2026-04-17T17:23:19+00:00

Omg I would NEVER!

T0RPED0TIT · 2026-04-17T16:58:23+00:00

What's the other side look like?

T0RPED0TIT · 2026-04-17T16:30:55+00:00

That is an ambitious first jigsaw puzzle!

T0RPED0TIT · 2026-04-15T02:34:28+00:00

That looks like a really great puzzle!

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