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That would be the Collector Box. It includes only the physical stuff without the game or any of the digital rewards I'm getting with the Digital Collector's Edition. It basically exists for Steam players that can't buy the regular physical Collector's Edition. I tried getting one for Endwalker but that one sold out insanely fast. I'm really surprised this one is still available only 2 months from launch. I guess there might be less hype for this expansion than there was for Endwalker, since that was the big climax of an almost decade long story arc. Either that or there's more stock available this time. Anyway, yeah, I've been continuing the main story where I had left off two years ago and I very quickly remembered that this game is really fucking good. I don't know if I'll be able to catch up in time for Dawntrail but I'm almost at the start of Shadowbringers, so it's definitely doable as long as I don't get burned out and stop. That would probably require playing almost nothing else for the next two months, though. And in that two months there's Ghost of Tsushima, Shin Megami Tensei V Vengeance and Akuma coming out... Shadow of the Erdtree as well but I've already given up on playing that at launch. Ideally, I'd like to at least catch up in time to play SMTV before Dawntrail. So many games, so little time.

Warhammer 40000: Gladius Kinda, completed the Space Marine story quests, there's no real story mode, you just set up a game, pick your faction and then complete the quests that pop up as you play through the skirmish. A simplified Civ style game with no diplomacy because THERE IS ONLY WAR. Getting familiar with the mechanics, specially resource management was a pain, really frustrating since it's super easy to fall into a doom spiral of: "Don't have enough loyalty so everything is slowing down but I also can't build the stuff that gives me loyalty because I need more of this other stuff that I can't get because of the penalty for not having enough loyalty" Given how long it takes to build stuff, gather resources and how much it cost to create units plus upkeep costs, you kinda have to think several turns ahead when deciding what to build and what units to make. It also doesn't help that the game doesn't tell you certain things, like how units heal faster when in your city, combine this with a UI that can get extremely confusing if you're new to the genre and it was quite a trip lol. That said, once you get into a nice rhythm it's pretty fun, and you can easily find yourself going "One more turn, just one more turn, OK next turn will be the last" for hours lol. The story was cool, in that 40K kind of way. Grade: B-