The Queue: Put some vines on it

One thing I’m very much enjoying as I play with Player Housing is how many things you really hate can be obscured with relative ease. Put a tree here, a boulder there, and vines literally everywhere, and there you have it! Whatever “it” is in this context — even a jump puzzle.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and we cover the answer with foliage so you can’t really see how bad it is.

I’m not expecting them until after Early Access, honestly. I figure if I set my expectations relatively low, then I won’t be as disappointed if it doesn’t come to pass, anyway.

Outside, the stuff I want to add for my garden won’t change too much. You can do so much with dyes and other various elements that anything I add can be coordinated to the exterior immediately, and my taste in exteriors won’t change much based on the type of house I have. There isn’t a ton to plan beyond getting foliage, a campfire, some lawn chairs, lots of florals. The exact styling may change, but most of them will work. I think the plot I manage to snag will likely be a bigger deal, just in terms of tree positions and fencing and such. I like my outside to be very leafy, and less about building and structures.

Though, yeah, if I have to have one of those utterly uggo Orc huts I’m gonna barf. But that’s a problem for “Player Housing Early Access has begun”-era Anna. I’ll probably just cover it with vines until I can get my Blood Elf exterior.

This might be a weird answer but I think everything that could count for something should. I’m at a very much ‘rule of cool’ point in my gaming career.

Nine times out of ten, if there’s something I don’t remember buying and it’s a mystery as to why I would even purchase it, it’s because I have a Steam Family with my husband and his taste in games is, let’s say, somewhat divergent from my own. And as many times as he bought various Civ entries, I’m sure he’s flummoxed by my plethora of weird cozy titles and Amnesias.

Funnily enough, the ones that really bug me are the ones we bought twice, and I’m like… bro, why. I purchased Vein during the last Steam sale and then like 5 hours later, he also purchased it. Our friend Brian also purchased it, so I think that either they were planning on it, or Brian saw me purchase it and goaded my husband into it, or they thought all three of us could play together — you need multiple licenses in that case. But also it’s a rough early access survival sandbox. Just ping me on Signal if I’m already playing, and you two weirdos can go trick out a camper van or whatever.

Though I will admit there are some smaller cute indies I bought and promptly forgot about. I bought Wobbledogs during some Steam sale sometime, and completely forgot about it. Sorry, Wobbledogs.