THE ROOM / REAL INPUTSSTEAM SNAPSHOT · 2026-09-20

WHAT GETS FED BACK

Taste is part of the system.

Measured playtime where it exists. Authored preferences everywhere else. No recommendation algorithm and no provisional list presented as fact.

Games.

15 TITLES · HOURS READ LOCALLY

Spirit City: Lofi Sessions cover art

409.8 HOURS

Spirit City: Lofi Sessions

Not a game. A room with a cat and a rain slider, open on the second monitor for four hundred hours of work.
Red Dead Redemption 2 cover art

117.0 HOURS

Red Dead Redemption 2

The slowest fast travel in games. Worth it every time.
Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered cover art

105.5 HOURS

Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered

Swinging is a physics argument, and the argument wins.
HELLDIVERS 2 cover art

100.1 HOURS

HELLDIVERS 2

Democracy, delivered by four people who cannot aim.
ACE COMBAT 7: Skies Unknown cover art

59.0 HOURS

ACE COMBAT 7: Skies Unknown

Radio chatter as a narrative device. Also, planes.
Cyberpunk 2077 cover art

51.6 HOURS

Cyberpunk 2077

A city dense enough to get lost in on purpose.
Just Cause 3 cover art

51.0 HOURS

Just Cause 3

A grappling hook, a parachute, and a government that keeps rebuilding fuel tanks.
Valheim cover art

50.4 HOURS

Valheim

Built a longhouse. Then a bigger one. Then stopped, because the trolls had opinions.
Fall Guys cover art

49.7 HOURS

Fall Guys

Fifty-nine strangers and one crown. Statistically, that was the likely outcome.
R.E.P.O. cover art

49.1 HOURS

R.E.P.O.

Carry the vase. Do not drop the vase. The vase is worth more than you.
Assassin's Creed Odyssey cover art

45.4 HOURS

Assassin's Creed Odyssey

Greece, rendered at a scale that makes the history plausible.
Stardew Valley cover art

44.9 HOURS

Stardew Valley

Crop rotation as a personality trait.
ARK: Survival Evolved cover art

42.4 HOURS

ARK: Survival Evolved

Tamed a raptor. Named it. Lost it to a tree. Dinosaurs, again.
Horizon Zero Dawn cover art

42.2 HOURS

Horizon Zero Dawn

Robot dinosaurs, and a better argument about them than it needed.
Jurassic World Evolution cover art

41.8 HOURS

Jurassic World Evolution

The fences are the whole game. See also: everything on this site.

Other signals.

CONFIRMED FAVOURITES + MUSIC IN ROTATION

BOOK · Tui T. Sutherland

Wings of Fire

All-time favourite series. Dragons with politics, prophecies that go wrong, and a map worth memorising.

FILM · 1993

Jurassic Park

All-time favourite. Spared no expense, except on the fences.

EDM

Alan Walker

The masked one. Faded is the wallpaper of a whole decade.

EDM

Lost Sky

Dreams pt. II on repeat while builds fail.

EDM

Gryffin

Guitar in an EDM set, which should not work, and does.

VOCALOID

Hatsune Miku

A voice that is nobody's. HALO's is too.

ROCK

Starset

A band with a fictional space agency and better lore than most games.

ROCK

Skillet

Monster, at volume, at 2 a.m., debugging.

COUNTRY

Thomas Rhett

Die a Happy Man. No notes.

ANIME

AmaLee

English covers of anime openings, better than they have any right to be.