Random things I've played or am playing instead of FF14. Mostly to delay the eventual return.

Ori's Sequel was okay. But a lot of its concepts (regarding story, approach to exploration, progression, combat etc) felt pretty half-baked.

Late Shift (an interactive b movie) was an okay time sink, I guess. But I got a pretty poor anti-climax for an ending. And it's one of those games that really pushes the "your choices matter" shtick, which was hilarious, because the first two choices that I selected proved to be pointless right away. Since it was clear that the opposite choice was what it wanted out of the player. Not sure if I'd recommend, even to people that like this kind of schlock like I do.

Now, I'm playing Blacksad. But I don't know how much I care for it, on first impressions. Since it's basically a Telltale game. But as a general mystery fan, the "investigation" elements are really not engaging. (Though unsurprisingly, there's a lot of references to the comics its based off of. So maybe I'd appreciate it more, if I just hadn't looked at them after the fact. And yeah, art work in the comic is great.)

Though whether or not it holds my interest to reach its conclusion, I'll probably play Hades next. (Unless friends get me roped into another game first.)