Gaming

@Friend I always like getting better PB on my Minesweeper games.

Tears of the Kingdom - Spoiler Below, recommends that you finish the game first, so click at your own risk.

For a smaller indie game: The Big Con (recently added to Gamepass) made me smile almost the whole playthrough. It's a puzzle-adventure-like game with a cute style and the goofiest humor that resonated so well with my own, I couldn't help but laugh the whole time. :D

Connecting two defualt levels together with one line in mindustry

Many absurd deaths in Spelunky 2. As a game, it has a tendency to kill you in ways that are very over the top, and unfair. It used to frustrate me, but I've evolved past that, and now I just smile.

Recently it has to be the penultimate stage of Hi-Fi Rush. I was absolutely grinning from ear to ear while playing it, just perfect use of a licensed song

I’m sure there are plenty but the ones that stick with me are :

The ending of Disco Elysium, and the friends you made along the way of a murder investigation. The writing is so good that it set a very high bar for future games.

Potential spoilers for Forgotten City

Finding out how and why the loop in Forgotten City is happening (the whole objective of the game is finding out why you’re stuck in a loop).

Similar to Groundhog Day, you start to get familiar with everyone’s routines and get to know them better each time the loop resets.

And then realising

Metal Gear Solid 3, the ladder scene with the awesome soundtrack.

Walking out of The Embrace in Horizon Zero Dawn and seeing this enormous beautiful landscape in front of you.

There were two in Control for me, both involving killer music: the ashtray maze and the altered movie camera. Absolutely grinning the entire time for both of those!