elbren

i enjoy games that aren't too stressful and don't require precise timing of controls.

i'm currently playing

- the last campfire (wander around, solve easy puzzles)
- tetris (on easy mode, solve easy puzzles)
- islanders (put things places)
- child of light (wander around, assemble things)
- stardew valley (wander around, assemble things)

i've tried but abandoned (at least for now)
- spirit of the north (wander around)
- gris (wander around, solve puzzles that require timing jumps)
- spiritfarer (assemble things, timing jumps)
- yoshis crafted world
- abzü
- outer wilds
- turnip boy commits tax evasion
- koloro
mostly due to difficulties working the controls. (for the same reason i've avoided fishing in stardew valley.)

i've finished
- kentucky route zero (an interactive story - pretty but boring)
- unpacking (put things places - good but could've used two more stages)
- wytchwood (wander around, assemble things - so good i played it through twice)

on my wishlist (waiting to go on sale or finish or give up on some i'm currently playing)
- ooblets
- chants of sennaar
- firewatch
- i was a teenage exocolonist
- starman

comments and recommendations welcome

read:
l. rowyn: sorcery and desire
e. malcohn: deviations

watched:
barbie
the boy and the heron

i enjoyed apothecaria so much i went looking for more solo rpgs. next up is be like a crow. i'm playing a fish crow in baltimore

instead of reading, i've been doing a solo journalling rpg, apothecaria. recommended for appropriate audiences.

read:
mca hogarth: dreamhealers, princes game 1-4

watched:
across the spiderverse

read:
r.f. kuang: babel
t.k. hareven and r. langenbach: amoskeag
m.c.a. hogarth: her instruments

watched:
avatar: the way of water
gentleman jack season 1
his dark materials season 1

read:
t. muir: nona the ninth
t. kingfisher: a house with good bones
n. stephenson et al.: mongoliad 3
r. aaron: the spirit thief
e. struzik: swamplands
m. gladstone: dead country
j. brassey et al.: katabasis (mongoliad 4)
e.d. debirmingham: siege perilous (mongoliad 5)
z. weinersmith and boulet: bea wolf

watched:
guardians of the galaxy
temple grandin

read:
mca hogarth: haley and nana 1-6; from poisoned tree; old dog, new tricks;
t. pierce: the immortals
b. erik et al.: mongoliad 1
t. muir: gideon the ninth

watched:
you people
black adam

hey! what is more good, more pleasant
than cohabitating kindred?

like a cone of perfumed oil
on the leader's head,
anointing crown to hem;

like mountain dew on thirsty land;
because Allah grants blessing:
perpetual life

read:
j. voss: hilma af klint
s. feldman: saturnalia
e. chatagnier: singer distance

watched:
hilda and the mountain king
don't worry, darling
tales from earthsea
black panther: wakanda forever
hocus pocus 2
willow (1988)
wednesday
enola holmes 2