Ⅲ
01 / COSMIC LORE
Honkai: Star Rail
My favourite kind of rabbit hole: mythology, cosmic stakes, clues that reframe what you thought the story was doing.
PERSONAL PLAY HISTORY / NOT A TIER LIST
Games I keep
thinking about.
I like playing games. I also like opening the hood: tracing a quest system, tuning a build, asking why a boss works, or following a story until the whole universe starts looping back on itself.
Browse the shelf01THE CURRENTLY-UNSORTED SHELF
Pick a lens.
7 games / filter by what I notice
THE QUESTION-MARK MACHINE
Need a nudge? Let the shelf pick a rabbit hole.
✦
02 / ACCOUNT TINKERING
Genshin Impact
Character builds, team choices, and making a free-to-play account stretch its resources as far as possible.
▦
03 / THE SANDBOX
Minecraft
A game that keeps making room for the next experiment: a world, a build, a server, one more “what if?”
⚒
04 / PROGRESSION
Terraria
Difficulty ramps, strange item paths, boss patterns, and the good feeling of finally making a build click.
◌
05 / QUIET EXPLORATION
Hollow Knight
A world that lets its map, movement, silence, and difficulty do a lot of the storytelling.
◉
06 / TINY IMPROVEMENTS
osu!
A very honest feedback loop. Rhythm, aim, clicking, consistency — every weak link gets a chance to announce itself.
⌁
07 / TECHNICAL FIDELITY
ARK: Survival Evolved
Survival systems on one screen, graphics settings on the other. I care about the actual look, not just the biggest frame-rate number.
02WHAT I LOOK FOR
Play first.
Then start asking why.
What are the real rules?
Progression, combat, economies, hidden dependencies. The machinery under the experience.
What does it ask of me?
Timing, patience, optimization, exploration, or letting go of the plan I walked in with.
How do the pieces remember?
Consequences, repeated images, and moments that feel different once you know what came before.
THE GAME I WANT TO MAKE