What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Ani Idle (Lenovo Legion Go)

December 18th, 2025

I'm feeling a little better today, but am still very sleepy. I played a lot of low-impact games while I was dozing on and off yesterday, though. I took being half asleep as a chance to clear Ani Idle, hitting the max level, beating all the enemies, and clearing all the dungeons. This was in a weird space between an RPG and a clicker, but I didn't hate it. It was ok to play when I wasn't very focused, and I felt really satisfied when I finished it. It just existed in a strange space where I didn't have enough to do to feel like I was actively playing, but there was a little too much to do to really zone out to it.

I finished Hidden Cats: Christmas, too. I have this full series of games and am considering binging them so I have them over with.

On the subject of festive hidden object games, I finished the free stage in Find All: Christmas. The DLC has 200 objects to find, and I'm excited to get started on it! This is a good time.

I did a couple of runs in Unfair Flips and still didn't get the good ending. It was excellent for zoning out and half watching Youtube, though, so I'm not sorry I gave so much time to it.

Right before bed, I did some grinding away at numbers in Baking Time, too. I didn't get anywhere, but it helped me get to sleep pretty early, which was excellent!

December 16th, 2025

I have been having extremely long, vivid nightmares for the last couple of nights, so I'm really wiped out today. I was getting there yesterday, so I did some immensely casual gaming. I played Unfair Flips for a couple hours and still do not have my 10 heads in a row. I fell asleep playing it, though, and that was kind of excellent. Waking up to remember I was zoning out to a coin flipping sim was less great.

I got really close to the end of Ani Idle, which was driving me a bit crazy in that it's not an idle game at all. I had to be really on top of things to avoid dying and losing stacks of HP, so I need to do the last bit of this while I'm mildly alert.

I did some cat finding, too. Hidden Cats: Winter was kind of a "well, I've got this whole series, so I might as well play it" few minutes. It was definitely just there.

I started Find All: Christmas, but didn't finish it. I feel like the Find All games are kind of the gold standard for this kind of thing, and this is no exception. There's a nice variety of stuff to find, it puts some effort into actually hiding the objects, and it's cute and charming. I'm not even done with the main game yet, but I already dropped nearly 3 quarters on the DLC. It's really lovely!

November 22nd, 2025

I played as many games yesterday as on Thursday, but it feels much less egregious to write about. I played through a full non-bootleg game on one of my cute Famicom-on-a-chip systems, called Angel. It was only 10 or so minutes long, so I don't feel very accomplished, but it was amusing. It was the classic story of an angel throwing candy, booze, and drugs that speed you up at a mummy, who then must catch all this while avoiding the angel's lightning bolts. The angel seems super rude, honestly, but this did make me wonder more about what madness lies in the "original" games on these systems.

I was back at Paper Apps: Labyrinth again, and hit the game's halfway point! My dice rolls were super unlucky yesterday, so I'm having trouble saving up the gold for a weapons upgrade. I keep dying and losing piles of gold! I'm still having fun, but the final boss might be a bit tedious for me.

I tried a free idle game on Steam called Ani Idle, which is not much of an idle game so far. I don't want my character to die, so I have to be somewhat on top of getting her out of fight loops to rest. It's maybe somewhere between a clicker and a normal RPG.

Past that, I was just doing some driving on my Switch 2. I started Road Trip mode in Kirby Air Riders, which was really fast moving and fantastic! I had a great time zipping through the first set of challenges.

I kept going in Mario Kart World, too, and also had a lovely time there. Right now, I'm focusing in on unlocking all the character outfits, so my updates in this might be a bit uneventful for a while.