DATE OF RECOMMENDATION: 7 January 2026

GAME: Touhou Eiyashou: Imperishable Night

PLATFORM AVAILABILITY: Windows PC

GENRE(S): Bullet Hell

DESCRIPTORS: Fantasy, Top-down, Doujin soft, Arcade, Real-time, Multiple endings, Japanese mythology

NOTE FROM ME: "kind of obvious pick from me but this is my favorite touhou game ever yeah favorite characters (shoutout reisen) favorite music and .... honestly there's truly something to see in the atmosphere of this like it's kinda really exceptionally moody and beautiful also ... there's a lot of replayability here too i think .. as with other mainline touhou entries and , really a lot of bullet hells out there ... this one's really 'You Have To See It To Feel It' tho ok my explanation of this game will not really do it any justice"

DATE OF RECOMMENDATION: 7 January 2026

GAME: Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition

PLATFORM AVAILABILITY: Windows PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X

GENRE(S): Real-time strategy

DESCRIPTORS: Isometric, Medieval, Historical, War

NOTE FROM ME: "okay so like. i've been on and off with this game since late 2023 or whatever so like i really really kinda just suck at this, but like it's still kind of super enthralling tbh and if you're into games that enforce active real-time multitasking then you should get into it. i recommend you play the tutorial before you actually get into the rest of the game,.... there's a sort of a learning curve to it and you do kinda really feeeeeel this inevitable sort of skill difference past standard difficulty at first imo .. but it's kind of awesome once u get into it more and more ..... there's a lot of real-time micromanaging involved so it makes sense to find this game stressful here and there, but u know ... there's a lot to be done here still"