Satisfactory!

Too many times I only started Super Hexagon for a quick fix and then became determined to do better than before in all levels. I can hear the soundtrack just thinking about it.

Stardew Valley, just one more day.

No Man's Sky, I always say, a quick game and that's it, then I see that I've been playing for 3 hours straight... lol.

I have a lot of casual games that I play beside whatever MMO I am curently playing. Most of them took me by surprise and I ended up playing until the small hours.
Currently it is Winkeltje. I shouldn't like it as much as I do, yet here we are and it is already loading in the background.

I am so thankful to Indie Devs for creating affordable, innovative games. Some games are even created by just one dev!
Incredible.
And then there is GOG making many classic games available. Some I re-visit, some I discover for the first time.
I really couldn't ask for more.

Balrum If you look up how long it takes to finish this game, the internet says 30 hours and up to 70 if you're a completionist. Well, not me. I'm up to 250 hours.

Blame the house. You're giving an item right away in the game that teleports you to a spot where you can build a house for yourself.

Every time I decide to spend a "just few minutes" working on the house, it ends up becoming hours. The worst part is that I'm still not done. While I have finished some rooms like the kitchen, outhouse room, and alchemy studio, I still don't have a bedroom. Yep. My guy has a designated place to do his optional private toilet business when you never actually need to use an outhouse for anything as far as I can tell, but he's still sleeping in a tent when sleeping isn't optional.

I also still need to build a barn because you can have crops and livestock. You don't really need to build a side building that functions as a barn but why not?

However before I can work on the house anymore, I need to go chop down trees because I'm low on wood.

Civilization IV (One... More... Turn...)

The Dark Mod (A game that I've started only recently, but I've been spending a lot of my time playing it ever since I downloaded it.)

Wait, what?! You can do that?!! Nobody told me!!!

Naaah, you're just pulling my leg, don't you?
Right, I'm going back to my interrupted Heroes of Might & Magic III session.

Quick game every day? GOG, please.
Just bring Kyodai Mahjongg to me here.
Now ;)

Project Zomboid has been doing that for me lately. I don't normally go in for the survival genre, but there's something about Zomboid that's so compelling, even though I die after a few minutes in every run. I keep saying to myself, "I'm just going to do one more run", and then that run leads to another and another and it's just a fun time playing these short sessions and seeing the unique emergent story of how I handled the first few days of the zombie apocalypse.

I think one of the things that makes Zomboid compelling is the way the game is framed. It starts out with the words "This is how you died", which immediately lets me know that this isn't a game about "winning." I'm going to die and that's the intended ending to every run. That really takes the sting out of dying in the game, because dying is not "losing," it's just the way the story ends, each and every time.

I also like how that's realistic to real life, because if a real world zombie apocalypse happened, I would most definitely die right away, because I'm not the surviving type. I'm fat and slow and don't know anything about living off the land or without the comforts of modern living like fast food, running water, and always-available electricity. I'm most certainly going to get eaten by a zombie or die of exposure/starvation within days of the apocalypse happening. Having Project Zomboid constantly reinforce that (currently I always play as an overweight unfit character that matches my real-world skill set and physicality), is kind of reassuring in a weird way. I'm going to die when the zombies come, and that's okay.

And maybe, if I'm lucky, I'll live on as a zombie and get to feast on some yummy, yummy brains. That part's not in Zomboid, but maybe it should be!

Telltale Texas Hold'em because there isn't a proper skip button between the other characters in the game when they start talking when it's their turn and the game sometimes jams when you turn off talking even though they still have a long pause between turns.

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Heroes of Might and Magic V. Love the creatures, graphics aren't very important to me, so this doesn't phase me and the Hero abilities, while complicated for me to figure out, give the scenarios massive replayability. This game has just about everything another favorite of mine, Heroes of Might and Magic 3 has, with some improvements.

All of them?

I mean, if a game pulls me in, it pulls me in.
And usually I don't start up a game with the intention of "well, I have 15 minutes to kill, so let's load this game, sit through the intro, create a character...and then stop "playing" it again".

Tales of Maj'Eyal easily comes to my mind. I find it to be so comfortable to get into and play, it just invites me to spend more time on it than I had planned.

Short-session games, or as I like to call them, "lunch break games" are among my favorites. Monster Train is the one I've been playing the most lately. And it always encourages me, "finish the run, don't wait to come back later..." However, I do think that Dorfromantik enter this rotation after today's "I'll just try it out" turned into break ending and I hadn't eaten yet.