Contraband Police is kind of like a first person bureaucracy simulator of a vaguely eastern European checkpoint.

The Beholder series also kind of has that endless bureaucracy vibe where you can either play along with the regime, or fight against it at your own risk.

Andy Weir’s The Martian and Project Hail Mary make me feel like I can build a rocket with a box of scraps. Something about the process of Problem -> Plan -> Execution -> Repeat plot structure he uses just turns on all the lights in my brain.

I’ve only found myself enjoying Dota when I’m in a full party with friends. We can shit talk each other when we lose, and celebrate when we win, but playing solo with 4 other mute idiots on my team is my definition of hell.