I've recently noticed that roguelikes, more than any other kind of game I play, give me the most satisfaction and pleasure. In particular, games like FTL and Ne

I've recently noticed that roguelikes, more than any other kind of game I play, give me the most satisfaction and pleasure. In particular, games like FTL and Nethack promote decision-making and improvisation - making the most out of what the game throws at you, taking stock of what's available and trying to prepare for future encounters in creative ways. I find this parallels quite well with my day-to-day software development job, although playing these games remove a lot of the mundane tasks of actual employment (meetings, repetitive tasks, reliance on others, communication issues etc). Both of these involve solving varied problems in different ways, though. I concluded that I was simply doing what I enjoy, creative problem solving, and that I was just lucky enough to do what I intrinsically enjoyed for a living. I didn't think that my choice of leisure-activity was influenced by society's apparent changing view of free-time as "potential work time".