Now, I am playing a lot of Noita (but I feel the controls are getting in the way, especially on lower levels…) and Transport Fever 2 (I do love me some Transport Tycoon nostalgia :P ).
I have played a lot of Civ6 which plays surprisingly well on Steam Deck.
Tons of great games on Steam Deck!
Go is the most amazing game I know. I often regret not sticking with it as a kid. And IRL games are wonderful. The feeling of the stones on fingertips, the rattle of prisoners, the clicks and clacks when placing stones on the goban…
We have a wider circle of friends who are boardgame enthusiasts, so we go through a rather lot of them. Some stick, some don’t. These we play regularly and have a lot of fun:
There are more that made an impression on me, I remember playing them a few times, but do not want to play them again (Do you know that feeling? :D ), eg. Eclipse (the galaxy-wide battle 4X preparation-takes-as-long-as-playing-and-playing-takes-a-whole-day strategy), Agricola, Mice and Mystics…
I second the audiobook idea. I have tried to read it several times, but just could not get over first few chapters. Heavy prose, I guess? (And I DO love sci-fi and read not-so-light-prose novels as well, eg. Greg Egan.) The audiobook (more like audioplay) is phenomenal!