Omigod I could rant about this for ages. Like, full-on infodump mode. I will... restrain myself.
I'll follow
@Raggamuffin 's example and just sorta show a list kinda, this being from the Steam Replay, which shows most of the games I've been into over the past year. A couple of screenshots from that:
Lots of stuff.
Some got played more than others of course... the one in the upper left of that first image is the one that got the most playtime, making up a full 18% of gaming time spent last year just by itself. That one is still getting played a lot, and lately Dead Cells is also getting a ton of time. The fact that Dead Cells has a Castlevania expansion coming out soon just enhances that even more.
Some of these games are also special to me for various reasons:
Binding of Isaac, as it got me into indie games and led to a series of events that allowed me to finally achieve a childhood dream (also it's just my favorite game of all time)
Sumotori Dreams, as it helped me get through the absolute nightmare that was the Prednesone incident
Sentinels of the Multiverse, which introduced me to the board game hobby (I now have a physical copy of it with most of the expansions, it is very heavy) and that has been a very positive thing for me
Bloody Rally Show, because I'm literally in the game as a selectable avatar when making a new character, I'm still not 100% sure just how that happened
There's one though that I've omitted from both this list and the screenshots though, which is the most important one of all and which had a *major* effect on me, but I'm trying really hard to NOT think about it right now. I dont want to talk about that right now (and if you know what it is, please dont say anything, seriously). Let's just move on...
Also not pictured here is Factorio, as I'm playing the Switch version of that, since it has actual controller support (FINALLY), while the PC version hasnt received that upgrade just yet. Factorio is really amazing (it's one of the highest rated games on Steam) and inspired a whole new factory/management genre. You can see Satisfactory in my screenshots up there, that's one of them. It's been really interesting to dive into a whole new type of game, and I'm loving it. I'm not very good at it, but still.
Minecraft also, that's not on Steam but it's easily one of my top 5 games of all time.
There's also many small horror games, but I usually get those from Itch instead of Steam.
Lastly: Retro games! I play a lot of Atari 2600 games in particular and NES stuff. Too many of those to list, and I'm not going to talk about favorites of any of those because that's like 10 pages of ranting.
I dont touch AAA games. Not that any of them hold any interest for me in any case, I dont like FPS games and open-world stuff (in the style of either Ubisoft or Bethesda) is a cure for insomnia as far as I'm concerned, and that seems to be the only two things that the AAA space cares about. Well, they also care about stealing everyone's money, but that's another story... What few people I know offline sure are into them though. I'm so tired of being shown clips or other things related to freaking Fallout 4. I seriously cant figure out why they keep doing that. I've developed an irrational hatred of that one after way too much of that, but I do my best to stay polite and not let that show.
So.... yeah! Fun stuff, mostly.