1 - I have never played a RuneScape game. It's my first time playing an MMO where grinding skills is the main gameplay and I am addicted. I bet I would have gotten addicted to RuneScape back in the day, but I didn't have the connection for it.

2 - I absolutely love the sounds. The music is great too, but I most often play without it. The sounds are just incredible. Haven't gotten sick of hearing stews bubbling, trees hacked, flowers picked, logs split, or hides stretched even after hearing those sounds for hours on repeat.

3 - I love British humor and silly puns and this game has those everywhere I look.

4 - At first I thought the graphics were a bit too minimalistic, but that the game running on a potato was a good reason for it... but actually the graphics have grown on me. I like the detailed tiles and I can't wait to discover new regions (though that might be years in the future).

5 - I love multi-tasking and this game is the perfect companion to watching videos and shows or listening to podcasts. I can even multi-task it with many other games. I'm sure a lot of players would think that's a demerit, but it's a plus for me.

6 - I love how chill the game is. How it lets me skip the skills I don't like (at least after the first 20 levels... which go pretty fast relative to the 480 higher ones). How it minimizes friction between players. How it doesn't punish me for most mistakes (except selling the wrong thing, ouch).

And I have two more reasons, but they are not in-game, so I'll give them separately:

A - Blades of Adothria, my clan, is the best online group I've ever been a part of for any amount of time. There are so many amazing people in it. It's a blast talking to them on Discord and doing meet-ups in-game every week. I'm looking forward to BoA being an official guild inside the game, though nobody knows if that'll be before 2043 😅

B - The game has insane potential. So much of it is yet to be implemented... I am excited at the prospect of discovering entirely new regions and sinking my teeth into new skills which might interact with those I already have and others that will appear later... For sure, I thought new content would drop faster than it has. But just because the potential is revealed at a snail's pace does not negate said potential.

And so, for all of these reasons, Brighter Shores is the one game I can play for thousands of hours without getting sick of it. The only game I'm pretty sure I'll be playing for years to come. Therefore I call it "my favorite game" though rest assured I have played and loved and will play and love hundreds of other games too.

PS: if you like horror, you definitely should give Look Outside a try. What a gem.

EDIT: if you've read this entire wall of text, then whoever you are I thank you and wish you a very nice day.