For my vim journey it was the draw of being able to quickly navigate and manipulate text without ever needing my hands to move away from the home row on the keyboard, and being willing to put in the time and effort to push past the learning curve.

Star Control 2 is the one I still come back to every now and then.

“You didn’t specify that you wanted to animate live skeletons. I only gave you the ability to magic up some nice animated skeleton drawings.”

Probably good for the earlier puzzles. Some of the later ones can get mind bending.