I usually just catch something from one of the youtubers I watch in bed and go "hey, that looks fun!". That's how I lost two weeks of my life trying to see how far I could push my score on a random Balatro seed (personal best: 1.7e47! Look on my Mime, ye mighty, and despair).
I tend to like games with simple core mechanics and lots of ways to mess with them. Give me complex systems to play with (most roguelikes), Rube Goldberg machines to build (Balatro, Loop Hero, Minecraft), weird hipster builds to create (Path of Exile). Either that, or a tight (usually tragic) story that really gets to me (Hollow Knight, American Arcadia, Bastion).
I tend to like games with simple core mechanics and lots of ways to mess with them. Give me complex systems to play with (most roguelikes), Rube Goldberg machines to build (Balatro, Loop Hero, Minecraft), weird hipster builds to create (Path of Exile). Either that, or a tight (usually tragic) story that really gets to me (Hollow Knight, American Arcadia, Bastion).