My Afterthoughts:

This was a fun game to re-visit. Well, both of them were. More-so Societies. That one will be getting some more off screen play time from me in the near future. Given the choice between SimCity and Cities: Skylines, I would play Cities Skylines every time. But if you’re looking for a simpler simulation, SimCity is definitely it. I didn’t do any play of the DLC content on stream, but that really does change the entire game, and is fun to mess with. On the topic of Societies, though… that really is a fun game. I managed to get it digitally on Origin the weekend before the stream, and couldn’t resist. It’s a super fun building game that really does change everything (even the UI and the music) when you build a city to a different core value or theme. I once did a spooky city with just the spooky items, and it got all foggy and creepy looking. Was lots of fun. I had equally as much fun getting the trophy I got on my Tuesday playthrough, and I look forward to trying to get some more. It may be an old game, but it was easy to install, and not too hard to pick up the idea of the game – highly recommend. Both days are now uploaded to youtube, and are linked below.

SimCity has been a “thing” for a very long time. Pretty sure I got pulled in on the second game – SimCity 2000. And that was all she wrote. I’ve been hooked on this genre ever since. Even though the newest iteration wasn’t received all that positively, and was buggy as all heck on release, I still loved it. Being that the latest SimCity game was 2013, this borders on being “nostalgic”, but somehow still ended up being a “current” game, simply because it’s the latest game. This is also the one I’ll be playing on stream, because, somehow, it’s still my favorite of the series. (Although SimCity 4 is a close second.)

Because I play a LOT of different games, I obviously have a lot of favorites. These are the games that have really caught my attention in the last decade or so, and that have “stolen” a chunk of my life while I’ve played them. Some things that should be on this list (like Sims 4) are not included, for different reasons. Check the honorable mentions for information about those. I will be adding a game to this list every other week, finishing the last week of December 2022. 

As I noted on the main introduction page, I do have some current games that I will be playing as a “one-off” on a Sunday – either it didn’t  quite make this list and I still want to play it, or it’s better as multiplayer and I will be dragging Bruj (my husband) into my stream to play it with me. For the list of the Sunday games I have played, check the Honorable Mentions page, where I will note whether it was a current game or a nostalgic game.