I was trying for the second time to enjoy animal well. I kind of see how it's a great game, but playing it feels like torture to me. I'm constantly second-guessing myself whenever I'm stuck, I don't know if I haven't figured out the puzzle, suck at platforming, or missing a tool.

Thinking about playing Hades again next week.

Lonely Mountains: Downhill. A voxel indie mountain bike riding game that basically has you trying to ride down various mountain trails in shorter times and with less crashes. Very chill game, good for parents who don't have a lot of time to game anymore.

Everquest. Can't believe it was easy to get back into after 20+ years away.

HOLE: A simple extraction shooter-roguelite where you shoot masked d00ds in liminal spaces. Each run is a quick bite and the game can be completed sub 10 hours. Perfect grownup roguelite.

vintage story: windows has minecraft, linux has vintage story.

Played Splatoon 3. The different modes are really fun, except for Turf War which kinda sucks. It's the first time I'm trying to learn how to play a team game and I'm confused on how to improve, but I'm having fun with it.

For some reason tho Nintendo thought it was a good idea to do two day events ("Splatfests") periodically which lock you out of any mode beside Turf War for their entire duration, so I went looking for other competitive games:

I went back to Guilty Gear Strive after dropping it for more than a year, but after playing it for a few hours, I still don't like how sluggish the game feels and I'm not too happy with the modern design trends in fighting games (or in general the curent state of them). The biggest issue that stops me from playing tho is the terrible online experience which still hasn't been fixed after 4 years.

Im almost 200h in my divide and conquer campaign for medieval 2 total war. Playing dorwinion and fighting endless hordes of mordors orc.

For the Frog, the Bell Tolls

An adventure puzzle/platformer for the Game Boy. The mechanics are fun, and has you transforming between a human, frog, and snake to get through various areas. I'm about an hour in and the puzzles are fairly simple, but the charming writing and art design carry the game for me. I'd recommend it if you're looking for something somewhat casual. I have laughed out loud a few times while playing it.

If you want to check it out, you'll need to run it on an emulator.

• The game is a Japan-only release, but there's an English fan patch you can find on here
• You'll need the base ROM for the game, which you can find here
• Once you download both of those, use this to mash them together and you're good to go.

Minecraft via LabyMod launcher

Avowed and X4 depending on the mood. X4 started slow but I think I've started the process of getting the hang of the basics after 30 hours.