What should I play next
Ask for the shape of the challenge.
Not “something hard” — something that leans on the axes you want leant on and stays out of the way everywhere else. Demanding on strategy, forgiving on execution, under twenty hours. Everything below is scored through your own calibration, so “demanding” means demanding for you.
You have not calibrated, so this is matching against an average player. It still works; it is just not about you yet.
CalibrateSign in and this can read the ask out of a game you have already beaten.
Read out of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
The same shape, one rung harder. The next thing, not the hardest thing.
I Wanna Be the Guy
2007 · Kayin · ~6h
Built on traps that cannot be seen coming the first time, so progress is memorising your own deaths. The save points are the only concession it makes.
Noita
2020 · Nolla Games · ~30h
Every pixel is simulated, so every run is one wand mistake away from killing you instantly. Wand editing is a programming language the game never teaches.
Rain World
2017 · Videocult · ~40h
A simulated ecosystem that has no interest in being fair. Movement takes twenty hours to feel deliberate, the rain cycle takes back anything you did not bank, and nothing is explained at any point.
League of Legends
2009 · Riot Games · ~100h
A hundred and seventy champions, each with four abilities you are expected to know the cooldowns of, and the tutorial covers none of it.
Dota 2
2013 · Valve · ~100h
Every hero is free and every one of them can do something no other game would let a hero do, which is why the learning curve is measured in years rather than hours.