1. CrossCode (banger jazz fusion+prog OST, zelda-like dungeons, decent story about self-acceptance, great combat and bosses)
2. Katamari Damacy (cozy, banger OST, wacky gameplay)
3. ZeroRanger (GOATed OST, great aesthetic and story-gameplay integration)
4. OFF (disturbing atmosphere and a story that's up to interpretation, artistically brilliant imo)
5. Xanadu Next (japanese isometric dungeon crawler similar to Diablo but without the random loot and with a different build system, the music and atmosphere is pretty good, I also thought the story was pretty decent, make sure you collect all the records if you play it)
6. Trails in the Sky trilogy (JRPGs with a great positional battle system, banger music and very charming and well written characters. Also, the world building is great. The next game in the series lost the charm imo, but most people like it as much)

7. Ys: The Oath in Felghana (isometric action JRPG with gameplay that is a mixture of hack&slash, bullet hell and platformer, it's pretty unique. Also yhe music is good)

CrossCode ZeroRanger Hades Rabbit & Steel

It has ZeroRanger which is a 10/10 videogame for cheaper than the Steam price so try that as well

X4 is really good. If you play buster only and don't abuse weapon weaknesses, the bosses are some of the best in 2D platformers if that's your thing

I feel like that about my partner of almost 2 years too sometimes and it's horrifyingly anxiety inducing (I have that as an OCD theme). I think it's natural though (and common), it is a big commitment so your brain tries to protect you from possible harm. In the end, we will never know how it will go before we try (with our respective relationships) and this sort of future prediction attempts only prevents us from enjoying these changes in our lives to the fullest. Do you have some anxiety disorder by any chance?

Thanks for the kind words

It's been 5 months and I still haven't found a job, and it's getting to me to the point that I am having a depression relapse. I have done some interviews and even received an offer (which I rejected because the guy wanted me to pass an one month probation period and wouldn't wait for me to relocate + bad vibes after an 100 question personality test that outed me as "unsociable" and "not kind enough"), but I am still holed in my home all day. If I didn't have my girlfriend I would be completely fucked mood-wise now.

I am doing something wrong for sure, I can't lie easily, I probably take the job requirements at face value and I am very bad at self-learning (without a structured environment like school), but what I can do when I have autism, ADHD and OCD, it's too much sometimes. I can't network or write a ton of cover letters or fish for referals in LinkedIn as easily as a neurotypical could.

I want to work and contribute to society. I am actually pretty decent at what I do, and I graduated with an insane GPA. Just hire me already AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

The only game released in 2023 that I played is Void Stranger, and it was very good but I didn't like the meta-puzzle part of the game (I am too impulsive / inattentive to catch that stuff) so that soured my experience a bit. The actual sokoban puzzles I liked a lot though, as well as the music and story (the ending was meh though).

Of those that I played this year, my favorite games were:

Planescape Torment

Very good narrative and a unique setting AND the party felt like something out of a JRPG instead of something out of a western game which I really liked

FFXIV: Shadowbringers

The 5.0 MSQ is a good story about overcoming loss and despair, our near future climate change troubles and class consciousness. The dungeons and trials were really good this time. So far the post-launch patches (I have played 5.1-5.3) were a bit redundant / fanservicey but I enjoyed them.

Hollow Knight

Nothing to say that hasn't been said a million times here.

Xanadu Next

Japanese Diablo / Zelda fusion RPG with a good story and a great world which is revealed little-by-little as you progress. This isn't a well known game but I wholeheartedly recommend it.

Astlibra Revision

The dev is very horny and the game features many instances of problematic sexualization but I can't help but adore the game for the batshit insane time-travel story which somehow makes sense and holds up, the unique combat system and the amazing soundtrack compiled from various royalty free tracks (I discovered Shimajiro through it, who is a great artist). Also, I admire the dev's dedication, he worked on the game for 15 years before releasing it.

For multiplayer games, I enjoyed playing Guild Wars 2 and Final Fantasy XIV with my girlfriend, and also Deep Rock Galactic and the Calamity mod for Terraria. We also tried Rabbit & Steel's demo, which is a co-op bullet hell roguelike with MMO mechanics (similar to FFXIV) and it was pretty good, so I am looking forward to its release in 2024.

Thanks for the answers, I guess I will make another question. Do non-binary people have those mismatches as well, or it's pretty much neurodivergent people who can't fit the gender roles that are asked from them and express themselves differently? I am a ND cis male and I don't fit with most men (too aggressive for no reason, and I am not really masculine in personality) so I can kind of understand why someone wouldn't want to conform to their gender, but I wonder if there is a biological component to it

She's European but that probably applies to the whole core

Yeah meat is pretty expensive where I am from, yet my mother still cooks it 5/7 days a week (probably due to my pickiness as a kid, but we have pretty bad eating habits in general)

If you are neurodivergent you might legit not be able to handle some foods, it's not just pickiness if you puke if you eat tomatoes for example.

You can circumvent that with different copking approaches like making sauces or purees out of things but depending on your culture you might have to think a but out of the box to startdoing that (in mine veggies are mostly eaten raw which I find disgusting).