My corporate overlords decided I get some vacation during this time of year, it being the holidays and all that. With some free days on my hands I'm planning to mess around with a couple games.
First up is Millennia a 4X game kinda like Civ. The twist is there are different ages that go off the rails from real history—so you can get a steampunk age or one where aliens invade and stuff like that. I barely touched it when it came out but now, after 7 updates, I figure I will give it a proper try.
Then theres Songs of Conquest, an indie game with amazing pixel art that’s sorta like the old Heroes of Might and Magic games- I might play this with a friend early next year as well.
EDIT: OK im feeling a bit tired so Im just gonna play my current Crusader Kings 3 save till I go 2 bed. Happy Holidays everyone
What are the fine folks on Hexbear playing 
Fractal Block world is sick as hell
fractal based world geometry with the main mechanic being growing or shrinking by a factor of 16x
you start in the tutorial rooms and then shortly after it has you grow a couple times and it turns out the whole tutorial area was a few tiny boxes in this other tutorial room.
Then you realize the corner of your screen says level 28 now when it used to say level 30, which means the box you're in NOW is ALSO a tiny little room inside another tiny little room on an insignificant speck inside an insignificant speck on the edge of a mote of dust in the middle of nothing, and you can keep going deeper yet! (or you can also get BIGGER and see what's that way (its wild))
Most areas are recursive and interlinked between eachother in a fascinating way that feels like getting sucked down into infinity (there are also amazing areas like the Menger Sponge fractal you can just explore around and have fun!
I recommend everyone who sees this post buy it and play it if you have the means, it could run on a potato and is currently on sale for like 4 bucks on steam
amazing, fascinating game that I can't get enough of conceptually.
Its rough around the edges combat wise, so I recommend you just play on tranquility mode so you don't have to fight or grind mazes to level up(unless you like that kind of thing like I do in which case watch out this could eat your life lol), you can just explore this amazing and bizarre world
give it a look