So I started playing Silksong [no opinions on it yet beyond "I suck" and "its good" since I'm only a few hours in], but the problem I end up having is that i...its not that I get stressed, it's more i just tense up a lot trying to focus. In any case, its good to have something relaxing. Sometimes this is a book but I also picked up a game called "Shadows of the Forbidden Gods" which is a small indie title that's currently like $3 on steam.
I haven't played too much so far, but it's just so cute and neat that i wanted to share.
Premise: Basically, you play an occult eldritch god [a la Cuthulu], and you act through your disciples to spread your shadow [aka influence] over the world. There are about 10 different gods to choose from, and they all have really different mechanics, which is really cool.
Overall I'd say it has a 2020's design philosophy while having a 1990s astetic. Also the art is Gorgeous. The only major things that I dislike so far are that sometimes you'll get random events that are just...well, so random. While simultaneously you'll get the same random events a couple times in a row. Additionally, setting my pace is a bit confusing. You get 500 turns to win on any size map [although you can disable this] and world panic (a soft timer basically indicating how much the world knows its ending) increases every time a seal breaks [basically, giving your god more powers to work with. Personally i would've made it so your disciples had to perform actions or rituals to break seals. But obviously that probably would have balance issues, especially for some of them]. Beyond these things, it's pretty good.
Big big thing I want to shout out: THE UI IS GOOD. Sorry, whenever I play games that either we're or look like they were made a few decades ago, the ui always has a chance of being really bad. Luckily, for the most part, the ui is actually pretty good and intuitive.
Anyway, just wanted to reccomend it. It's not completely unknown [unlike say, Emporer of the Fading Suns], but still pretty niche.
Speaking of pretty, here's some of the art i was talking about:
