Hi, my name is Yanny (She/Her). My all time favorite games, because I cannot pick one between the two, are Disco Elysium and Yuppie Psycho. Disco Elysium doesn’t pretend to be uplifting. It leans into contradiction, self-destruction, and the weight of memory. The characters are sharp and flawed, and the world gives them room to be both ridiculous and real. Kim remains my favorite character in all games I’ve played: What makes him unforgettable isn’t that he forgives Harrier, but that he treats Harrier with clarity. He sees through him, and stays anyway. His restraint is never cold—it’s a kind of kindness that doesn’t ask for recognition. Yuppie Psycho is loud, strange, uncomfortable. But even in its chaos, it’s about surviving systems that don’t care about you, and finding people who do, even briefly.
My recent favorites are the DLC of Eastward (very Stardew-Valley-like) —it captures that soft, post-apocalyptic stillness I like— and The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa. The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa is not a game that tries to impress you—it just exists, quietly, in that space between adolescence and adulthood where time feels heavy and undefined. It understands that drifting is also a kind of story—that waiting, wasting time, missing chances…
Well, I guess I just like the games that allow me to be a little lost.
