Most of my Chinese time has been taken up recently playing a game called Murders on the Yangtze Rivers (山河旅探). It is basically an ace attorney detective style game but with the setting being in historic China. I’ve really enjoyed it and it has voice acting which is always a plus.
I’d say to play fully in Chinese it’s something HSK5+ would enjoy, but someone could also play in English with the audio in Mandarin and get some benefit from it.
These were the best graded readers I ever came across. I liked that they were a continuous series that gradually expanded the vocabulary as you went along.
Have finally put attempt no. 3 out there.
I can make another post this coming weekend, see if it fares a little better!
As for me I have been watching:
Blades of the Guardians (镖人)- this is a new animated series, which I have been very impressed by. Probably the best animated series I have seen so far coming out of China, accessible to intermediate plus learners and available for free on YT:
Wave Makers (人选之人—造浪者) - a Taiwanese series on Netflix that has been getting a lot of attention, about campaign staff. It hasn’t really captured me yet, but I’ll probably finish it as its only 8 episodes.
The problem I encountered when I started switching the in-game language to Chinese was that descriptions of game mechanics and systems can be quite hard to read, whereas it’s relatively straightforward to keep up with the narrative.
I did the same as you initially and just set audio to Chinese for games like Cyberpunk, and I think it did help my listening. Now I’ve played through a few games with text and audio set to Chinese and it has gotten a bit smoother.
Truly life being stranger than fiction, in that he was recently in the news after being acquitted in the US.
He had this to say on the American legal system at the time: “the reason I’m sitting here, let’s be honest, is not only because I was innocent… but because I had enough money not to be swept away by a process that’s set up to sweep you away”.