For me it was minesweeper clones. I got frustrated one day and decided to learn how to be good at minesweeper. After beating the medium and large boards a couple times I looked on Steam for minesweeper versions, and turns out there’s a whole genre of clones. Some of them are direct clones of the game, while others are very heavily inspired by minesweeper. The two best I played were Hexcells and Tametsi. Hexcells is stylish and is only hexagons (as opposed to the minesweeper squares), while Tametsi has squares, rectangles, and hexagons and is a lot more barebones. However I found Tametsi to be much harder. There were some levels on there that took me an entire day, and I think there’s like 500 levels. 150 levels
Damn Paradox strategy games. I still had CK2 laying around on my disk, back from when they gave it away for free, and one day I decided to learn the game. Fast forward a handful of games and I just bought CK3 and am playing every evening.
Really enjoying roguelikes right now; picked up Hades and Cult of the Lamb when they were on sale and really enjoyed the gameplay. Nothing’s the same every time, which definitely keeps me from getting bored.
Looking into branching out into horror/horror-adjacent games, but I have to pick ones without frequent jumpscares. I’m very, well, jumpy, so I’m leaning towards something more heavy on dread than shock factor. Already looking at getting The Stanley Parable during the summer sale.
My last few adventures have been: J-RPG > Farm sim > City Builder.
It’s been really fun to explore genres and games that I had not really touched before, both new and old games. It made gaming a lot more fun again
After many years I’ve gone back to Assassin’s Creed games. Got some of the classic ones on sale and whoops…several hours gone again.
On the topic of minesweepers, you’ve probably already seen Hexceed on Steam. That one has gobble up a chunk of my time in the past as well.
Apparently ‘peggle-like rouge-likes’ are a thing. So thats been a fun time for me
