Okami_No_Rei

Tossup between how much caffeine I drink and not working out.

Void Stranger is a relatively recent one. It's a Sokoban style puzzle game with layers of puzzles and a ton of hidden depth.

It took me 50 hours to feel like I beat the base game and I haven't even touched the post-game content they added after release. I have a folder full of text files with notes and clues and puzzle attempts and one of the best puzzles involved taking several screenshots and stitching them together in an image editor.

La Mulana is another one to check out. It's a metroidvania heavy on puzzles and exploration that's actively hostile toward the player. It's an exercise in frustration and every inch of progress is measured in blood. Every bit of information is important, and there's a lot of information to untangle. I haven't come close to beating it yet and my notes from just the first few floors are extensive.

About 42 hours. I start getting hallucinatory sparkles at roughly 40 hours and usually go to bed then.

Only done it a few times in my life, but the most memorable one was while in the middle of a 5-day LARP. We were going hard, I was NPCing, and I started seeing shadows in the middle of a fight. I took that as my cue to dip out and crash.

There's a moose loose in the hoose.

Path of Exile. Hands down.

I just broke 1400 hours and still going strong. There's so much to do and so much to learn, and it's so good at rewarding grinding and keeping you chasing those incremental improvements. It's 100% replaced RuneScape for me.

I have broken 1000 hours with Cookie Clicker, Guild Wars 2, RuneScape, and Eve Online. I don't recommend the latter two anymore, but CC and GW2 still hold up.

Honorable mention to Factorio. I'm still in the hundreds but it's climbing.

I've been playing Hollow Knight this week. Working on Pantheon 5 for the last achievement. Made it to Traitor Lord last night. Best run yet!

I played it on 360 and again on the Steam release.

It's a better Skyrim, and shares a lot of Skyrim's flaws. Good combat, fun builds, and way too much to do. It was supposed to be an MMO but got cut down to a single player game, so there's boatloads of content stretched over a massive map.

I still go back and play it every now and then. It's fun.

I have the remaster, but haven't touched it yet.

I, too, will still be playing Factorio.

Also playing Factorio.

I think the joke is that it's a rating rather than a sample.

So this doctor gets 1* reviews vs the 4.5* doctors.

Swordcane.

I like light, fast weapons with dex builds, and it's the coolest transform out of the starter weapons.

Definitely Corruption of Champions. I still have a copy I fire up every now and then.

The sequel is alright as well, but doesn't quite scratch the same itch.