@kaiserkiwi Hey, go with what you know and what brings you joy, friendo! I still play Cyberpunk2077 fairly often, even after multiple playthroughs and no new content because I love the world so much.
Never really understood competitive games, for a mixture of reasons, and among those reasons is:
if you excel at a game, you kinda narrow down who you can enjoyably play against, and doesn't that kinda suck?
Personally I've never found it much fun to wipe the floor with opponents, AI or otherwise, so I don't get wanting to excel at a competitive game. In my mind you're undermining your own enjoyment of it somewhat.
This was brought to mind again as I played several rounds of Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition online for the first time, despite having played the original off and on for a long time, and as I expected, I got wrecked each time.
I let my opponents smash up what little I'd managed to build since that's some of the fun, but I can't imagine steamrolling me was much fun otherwise.
I played the opening section of Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty last night, it impressed me! Dogtown is a fascinating place to explore so far, the in-game lore has intrigued me.
I'm going to explore Dogtown quite a bit later today, right now cleaning up after breakfast is a higher priority.
Mirthwood is looking fantastic, the developers are truly making a potential banger! Farm customization and medieval based seasonal farming truly intrigues me. I can't wait for Q3 to arrive as this game is going to be an instant buy! It's not just a cozy game, there is also adventure, mystery, and a whole ass main quest. I will share a link of Customization and Farming though.
Something that's been cool to see over the past few years is the emergence of more non-combat focused building/strategy(?) games like Islanders and Autonauts.
I think maybe Dorfromantik fits into that category too? Not played it but that's the gist I've gotten about it.
Should look into more of'em tbh. They manage a nice slow-burn pace without as much tedium as games that try to explicitly slow you down (i.e. many RPGs).