edit: it double posted

Burning out with familiar stuff is why I began to experiment with playing series and genres I never thought I would get into. I got into other RPGs.Shmups. FPS games and TPS games. More fighting games. Many other genres and series nor me or my friends thought I would ever get into. 2010, I barely knew what a Shmup was barely. A few years later it became one of my fave genres. 2022. I had zero interest in Gears. 2023 I played them all in 1 month and now a big fan of the series. Point is. Experiment with series and genres you never really have before or give some stuff a second chance. You might be surprised.

Thanks for the advice. I actually do have a game called Habroxia on my XMB, it looks simple enough, might give that another go. It's hard to find genres I haven't played cause I've dipped into everything, even the genre bending stuff but yeah, it may be time to pull out a bullet hell, visual novel Luke Ace Attorney or a puzzle game like Blue price, genres that I have not touched in a few years. It might work. Cheers. 

Nah, I thought so too. Turns out I'm pretty average. Most people's end of year results sees them log in or around 1000 hours in the year. I've seen FIFA players who main that and nothing else log a few hundred hours more that my 1200ish and people call them the casuals. I'd say I game more than 50% of people, maybe 60 but definitely not much more than that. 

Finished X-COM 2. I have tried a few months ago but have raged-quit after doing a DLC mission that deleted almost all my main units

A must play for anyone into tactical/strategy RPGs. Pretty hard, even on moderate difficulty settings, sometimes I need to save-scum to avoid absolute failure. I think they needed to tone-down difficulty a bit here, the fact your enemies can immeditely regroup and find cover when they spot you is really unfair since this is a game with permanent fog of war

Also, very RNG-dependent to a point sometimes I felt punished even when I was playing optimally

Nice experience, but I don't want to play it again

I'm probably starting Hades 2 today

Dropped Silksong, simply not well designed at all, and not fun compared to original Hollow Knight

Will try it again in few months if my urge to play metroidvanias comes back

Islets

After Silksong I checked my list of games and I still have + 50 metroidvania games that I haven't played.

I also did not wanted to play something hard so I chose Islets, it is an easy metroidvania game that is honestly wholesome.

I can only criticize it for one thing and that it is short(can find the game under a tenner tho during deals). 

If you want something you can finish under 10 hours that doesn't challenge you but is still good or even great then give Islets a try.

Feel the urge to play hollowknight again....

Xcom 2 is top teir, easily the best tactical game of it's kind and it was my best turn based game too until Expedition 33. I enjoyed the RNG until the last story section and while I enjoed the expansion more overall I hated some aspects of how uncontrolled and out of habd it got, it was just a bit to much and that's where I felt more punished for playing, perhaps you need to turn off War of the Chosen and you'd enjoy it more your first time round. 

Started Hades 2 and I'm already 12 hours in lol

Crazy good rogue-lite and the finest action game in the market right now. The progress seems to be much slowler and less streamlined compared to Hades 1, I'm feeling this one will take 30 hours+ to beat

The art is very charming, and the soundtrack is atmospheric. Build variety is insane here, allows for so much customization. The controls and abilities are extremely intuitive, and allows you to easily learn how to properly play as you progress in your missions (here called "nights")

Instead of the simple and direct upgrades from Hades 1, here they opted for a more complex strategy of picking upgrades and equip them

The pantheon boons always feel fair and useful, I'm yet to find a run that I felt I was RNG screwed (I did 31 runs so far). My favorite gods are Zeus, Hepahetus, Apollo and Hestia, but Afrodite, Poseidon and Demeter are great too so... everyone is good really lol, excepet maybe Hermes but his more of a side-god like Selene, Artemis and Chaos


I need to try more weapons, they have different versions and upgrades. I have unlocked at least 11 so far, but only tried 5

Finished INSIDE, what a great little indie game. It came out a few years ago. Makers of Limbo. Ill be playing cocoon next, as its made by the same game designer.