A friend nagged me into trying it even though I figured idle stuff like this would just sit there doing nothing. Loaded up [WoG] War of Genesis: Idle Loot anyway and sent my party into another round of fights against those same creatures.

Left the thing running while I stepped away for a bit and came back to fresh loot and a couple levels higher. Felt like the game was moving without me.

Still ends up lonely as hell though, just watching numbers climb with no one else around to trade tips or laugh about the dumb armor drops.
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Picked up the game again after letting it sit since launch and the first thing that stood out was how the formation adjustments actually stick between halves instead of resetting like I thought they did. Spent a whole match against some mid-table side just tweaking the midfield press triggers on the fly and watching the AI respond without the usual lag spikes.

The scouting filters still bury anything below a certain rating unless you manually expand every tab, which gets old fast when you're trying to fill out a youth intake on a budget. Ended up missing two decent prospects because the default view hides their training growth curves until you dig into the individual report.

Career mode tracks the simulated results across leagues better than I gave it credit for, especially how a single injury in the schedule ripples into fixture congestion later. EA SPORTS FC™ 27 makes the squad building side feel like actual management instead of just menu grinding once you notice those carryover effects.

I booted up Hearts of Iron IV and spent the first hour just staring at production queues and wondering why nothing felt like it was moving. Nearly closed it twice.

Then my infantry divisions crossed into Belgium and the front lines actually started to tell their own story on the map. Watching those units inch forward while the supply lines stretched behind them pulled me in deeper than I expected.

The national focus tree still lost me though, too many branches that never seemed to connect to what was happening on the ground. In the end it was the slow grind of keeping armies supplied that stuck with me more than any big victory.