And to add on to that, let crafting access your stash with everything in it. Don’t make me carry 10k iron to the blacksmith to craft the sword then 20 gems to the magician to enchant it or some nonsense, especially when there are inventory limits. I have it, it’s in my storage, let me use it.

I don’t think I’ve seen these two mentioned so throwing them in.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/322450/FRAMED_Collection/ Framed has an amazing and creative use of comic panels that you rearrange to try and get to the right set that lets you move to the next page. However, putting them in the ‘wrong’ order gives very entertaining sequences and sometimes that’s exactly what you need to do to progress. I highly recommend the entire collection. I think it’s a near masterpiece of visual gameplay, with no dialogue at all (if I recall rightly) and even instructions all being visual indicators.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/224460/Contrast/ Contrast has an interesting puzzle mechanic where you have to transition between the 3D world of colours and 2D world of shadows to platform to the next location. It’s interesting to see how the shadows and lights can be used and the way the story unfolded through the game made good use of the medium.

I’ve also seen certain games here that I’ll be sure to add to my list.

I love fast travel, warp gates, teleporting and anything that makes it easier and faster for me to get from Point A to Point B.

“Scenery is pretty.” Don’t care.

“Look at the extra content.” I’ll look if I want to. Don’t force it.

While I enjoy casual and relaxed games, taking forever to walk to where I want to go is neither casual nor relaxed. I wanna be where I wanna be in game and don’t pad on the gameplay hours with slow transport options.

They do say if when you flip a coin, you realise that you really want one side to win, pick that choice.*