Brain Full of Games

I’m a simple girl: I see a good cosplay at Comic Con, I cannot stop thinking about the game those characters are from. The cosplay (plays, actually) in question? Baldur’s Gate 3 characters. A Gale, a girl Astarion, and someone who I think was supposed to be an OC but maybe I just don’t know every niche character from that game that people are insane about, despite having completed the game last year. I think that might be the worst culprit for ‘game where every single character has a cult-like following around them of insatiably horny gamers’. All love and no judgement whatsoever.

Alas, when I returned home, I immediately booted up RimWorld because that is actually the only thing that has been on my mind recently.

I think everyone has certain games that are their repeat offenders; you pick it up, you literally CANNOT STOP PLAYING IT NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO for 2 months, and then you put it down and don’t pick it up again for 2 years. For me, this is The Sims (1-4, to be honest, though I have to admit the older ones are my favorite and I still play the original from time to time!), Skyrim (yes I know), Animal Crossing (WW because I don’t have my Game Cube here in the UK), one of the early gen Pokemon games or ROM hacks, The Long Dark, and RimWorld. I guess with the exception of Pokemon, these are all pretty self-explanatory: they are open-ended, resource management or colony building games. I don’t think it’s that strange that when I return to these games, the way I play them takes up a lot of time and brain space, because I think that full immersion is how you are supposed to play those games. But when the itch is scratched, it’s easy to put them down for a long time and only pick up where you left off when you are ready. But is this just a ‘me’ thing? Do other people have completely different relationships with Skyrim or the Sims or RimWorld? Do you have a different go-to short term addiction game?