What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Neko Pang (Android)

December 10th, 2024

I felt really tired and down last night, so I just played casual cat games. I ran through Cats Hidden in Christmas on Steam, which was pretty satisfying for a free find-the-cats game. The cats were actually hidden in a lot of cases, and it had a color mode that unlocked after finding all of the cats in the standard lineart mode. It was still fairly easy, but I'm fine with that.

I played some more of Neko Pang, too, feeling like the difficulty between stages is wildly uneven. It's another free game, so again, that's fine, but it did make the balance feel strange.

December 9th, 2024

I had another utility gaming Sunday yesterday. My weekly upkeep in Spirit City: Lofi Sessions was pretty minimal, but I didn't do well at this last week! I felt too burnt out to turn it on for most of the week, which is kind of pathetic. It also led to my missing some of the smaller, less "weekly" tasks I needed to do that I would have seen on a paper to-do list, leading to my rushing to finish stuff on Friday and Saturday. Overall, it was fine, but I'm going to try to check in on my lists for at least five minutes a night this week. This isn't a cure-all, but I still think I can make it work.

I did a daily workout in Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku, too, which was uneventful. I just felt like I needed to get up and move around a little.

As far as less purposeful gaming goes, I played another free hidden cats game, Hidden Winter Cats. It was the hidden object equivalent of the Waldo standing on the beach by himself, "Waldo's not even trying anymore!" joke from the Simpsons, so I found all 100 cats in less than 5 minutes. It wasn't a bad five minutes, but it was excessively slight.

I did some more cat themed casual gaming with Neko Pang, one of the Samsung instant play mobile games, before bed. I actually liked this one. It's just an obstacle-clearing match-3 game, but a very cute one. I did hit a difficulty spike before falling asleep, but I'm going to try and beat the stage that stopped me again today. This was definitely the better of my two throwaway game experiences yesterday.