i'm really glad to have piqued your curiosity! i think hypno is a very fun kink and i love the way it interacts with other kinks. there's few i can think of that aren't made hotter with a lil bit of mind control :3c

Outer Wilds already has that reputation so my obsession with it wasn't necessarily unexpected, but i definitely didn't expect to still be thinking about it this long after playing it. honestly though i think my most recent mind-blower was Nine Sols. i fucking hated it most of my first playthrough and it made me so angry and frustrated, but i was determined to beat it almost out of spite. as i started getting to the end my attitude started to shift and i was approaching bosses methodically and calmly. i just accepted i was going to die repeatedly and took every opportunity to learn more so my next attempt would be better, and when that started paying off, i realised the problem was with me and not the game. it taught me patience, and i approach difficulty in games with a completely different mindset now. i played Silksong right after and i breezed through it, and i actually enjoyed the frustrating parts which i saw other people complain about, which i don't think would have been true if i didn't play Nine Sols right before it. it honestly caught me off guard how much it changed my viewpoint and attitude and how it pushed me to my absolute limit, would recommend!