What we've been playing – penny drops, obsessions, and recuperation

5th July

Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve been playing. This week, Bertie puts his feet up and ponders the effect our changing mindsets have on the games we play; Ed finally Death Stranding, and finds himself falling for it; and Tom O struggles to pull himself away from Rematch.

What have you been playing?

Catch up with the older editions of this column in our What We’ve Been Playing archive.

Fantasy Life i, Switch 2

I was wiped out last Sunday. I can’t remember what the contributing factors were but I got midway through the afternoon and just slumped. I struggle doing nothing so I struggle with these moments, but my sandbag body was adamantly not moving so I stretched out on the sofa and reached for something to do. Something to occupy my mind with. So I reached for Fantasy Life i.