What are you all playing right now?

[emjay]

I've never been able to get into building or management games.  I like to kill.  Kill!  Kill!  Kill!

I see what you're saying, and that sort of game has its time and place for me too (though generally I suck at it ), but nothing burrows into my head and takes up residence quite as much as these 'life sim'/do-whatever-you-want type games (like NMS, Stardew Valley, or Astroneer). Just in case you're interested though, NMS has plenty of combat if that's the path you want to take, both in terms of epic space battles and land battles on foot... so if you want to spend your game fighting pirates or indeed even becoming a pirate, or fighting sentinel (robot/drone) armies, or exploring strange and creepy planets and structures, with traps, hazards, and aliens... you can do that too... there are just so many different ways to play this game. My aim on controller is terrible so I suck at those aspects of the game, so prefer to stick to my mining and base building etc, but for those who do enjoy combat, there's more than enough in this game and they're always adding more. Like one the latest things they've added is Star Wars-like 'trenches' that you can fly through, attacking turrets and stuff on these massive freighters that you can fight... so you tactically work on taking out different aspects of the ship... its shields, its engines etc, to disable it, before destroying it. I haven't tried that yet meself but it looks very impressive on YouTube.