"I'm writing things I'm proud of, I'm enjoying games like I've regained my sense of taste, and every now and again I get riled up about something happening in the industry with a passion that once felt like it had been siphoned out of me. In a roundabout way, my anger at an industry that keeps finding new ways to treat the people in it like they're disposable is probably a good thing."
"There are days when I still feel like I'm getting back on my feet, and like my legs are shaking underneath me as I try to stand tall again. Well, as tall as a 5'3" man can, at least. But if I'm feeling something about the games I'm playing and writing about, that's an improvement over this time last year, when I wondered if I'd ever feel that again. Here are the 10 games that helped me get my spark back."
A renewed enthusiasm for games returns in 2025, accompanied by a regained sense of taste and pride in writing. Frustration with industry mistreatment becomes a motivating anger that fuels renewed engagement. The period follows a disruptive move across the country and turmoil at a previous site, leaving lingering instability but growing hope. Ten games are credited with restoring creative spark, with honorable mentions including Battle Suit Aces, Absolum, and After Love EP. Dead Take, at number ten, is an escape-room horror from Surgent Studio that leans heavily on jump scares yet captures anxieties of working in a competitive creative field.
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