Recently Playing.

I have been up to some facebook and Iphone games. PC wise there is my go to Diablo 3. I have also been playing some X-Com 2 and bouncing into The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut or Grim Dawn to cleans my Diablo palate.

For me, lots of Star Wars...

Was playing mobile Star Wars commander and star wars galaxies of heroes, both pay to win so I eventually got bored. Now playing Star Wars KOTOR on phone, had it on PC years ago.

PC - kerbal, farcry 2 and mean to play farcry 3 at some point. Keep meaning to pickup assassin creed black flag and shadow of mordor, but not sure how they will run on my aging system.

You're making it sound like a job rather than a fun pastime.

Is Lifeline the one that even sends you notifications to sort of make it a little more authentic? I think I read a review from a friend about that, and it sounded pretty cool! As to Fallout 4...Eh, I've kind of been developing the opinion that it's almost better to focus through on the main plot of Bethesda's games, do a couple stray side quests here and there, then once through with the plot, look up the actual, good quests to bother with, because so much else of it is just utter filler.

As to focusing through your games, I definitely recommend going through the small games and focusing through the plots of the longer/bigger games. Last year I made it through more games than probably any past one in a few years by doing that. Not an exact science, but How Long to Beat helps narrow it down, and then using that to sort of organize your games on Steam via categories (or folders if GOG games) to Small/Moderate/Big/Neverending helps a fair amount.

I'd made it through almost all of my small Steam games before getting sidetracked with small GOG games, then small DS games. Lately I haven't really found the time to focus through some of them as I'd like, so I've been kinda bouncing between less plot-intense games to dabble with systems-based games (hence my OP).

Then again, I think also sorting them by how exactly they work might be wise too, because what stumped on Steam was trying to run through a game that requires a little more...Skill, of sorts, I guess? That burnt me out to jump into Blocks That Matter instead, then other games. (In case you're wondering, it was McDroid, which I still can't decide how much of it is skill-challenge or sheer imbalance.)

Another game I want to call out that I recently completed is Life is Strange. I've never played anything like it, and it's a bit hard to describe but there's something very compelling and original about the story and the characters. I'm hoping to see more from that developer.

I also had another crack at Plague Inc. after hearing it had come out of Early Access. This is one of the very few Early Access games I've taken a punt on (along with Don't Starve) and I love it. 

On a friend's recommendation, I recently tried Pony Island. Extremely bizarre game. I'm going to revisit it once I'm done with Dying Light: The Following (which is set to take up most of my gaming time for the near future, I think). 

Have you had a go at Plague Inc's multiplayer yet? I remember reading about that and thinking it might be fun, but as I don't have it yet, haven't gotten to see how it works. Seems like it could lead to some pretty amusing rounds.

As to Life is Strange, it's not much like it, but the same dev made Remember Me, which I thought was a flawed yet stunning game in terms of art direction and trying something new. It's the main reason I'm even aware of Life is Strange, in fact, as I thought it might be cool to see where they go with that (and I still need to dive into it at some point, having gotten it recently).