Gaming

SpiderHeck is super easy to just jump in and play. It has been mine lately. I'm still playing Ultima Online and City of Heroes regularly.

The Way of the Hunter and theHunter: Call of the Wild. Starting a podcast and then slowly walk through beautiful nature and taking in the ambience. Or free roam in Firewatch. Next best to actually going outside 🙃.

Then Sailwind (sailing around delivering cargo with navigation as challenge). Also, Call of the Wild: The Angler and Fishing: North Atlantic.

Lake is also a beautiful game — delivering packages and enjoying the story.

I think you get the theme 🙃.

The good old Flight Simulators (MSFS 2020, X-Plane, DCS World) — problem here is to first get use to the many keys again after a longer break.

Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage. Sometimes the other two in the trilogy but this is the one I've especially loved since childhood. One of the only games I've 100%ed and I've done so twice.

Lately, Battle Brothers. It's god damn brutal but I love min maxing my bros and carefully playing essentially battle-chess with them before dying horribly and restarting my save.

Pokemon Emerald is a nice comfort game for me. Replaying it can feel like a summer vacation for my mind. It's like a vacation spot you frequently go to so it feels like a home away from home. There's adventure, cute creatures, and just a general sense of fun.

Stardew Valley is great and I love playing it online with friends when there's time and schedules line up. I honestly just fish all day in that game. That and spend time with my sad sad emo boy Sebastian.

I'm probably the only one left still obsessed with Nidgogg 1.

Waves/Waves 2! Fantastic twin stick shooters, now free as well. Both have great chip tune soundtracks.